The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-13 00:00:00

THE CURRENCY QUESTION, SOMETHING AKIN TO A•.LAMENTATION OF GOLD TO TILE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN TIMES. i), I al- N , f 4 , oh ! my friend ! lend me thy helping hand 1 for Bpi r i t ten in my own estimation, and cannot rise; my fo r inerged i n sorrow , an d l am lik e one woe b egone ; uerev ever I am now, there is commotion and uo peace ; with ra 'n's hearts fail them for fear, and are filled th ol ,rY.Y, hatred, and malice; there may be seen a tr ea j, u l 3 of strife, whose constitnt parts are falsehood, Y. and wrath, compounded together with the y of fawning hypocrisy. ay friend! lend me thy helping hand ! „ ek to propitiate that hateful thing money, 1 . ,„ . which, unfortunately, lam so intimately allied Oh ! g a Z,,siek of my great titles, and weary of being tossed to Du Ire, as one branded with infamy, for such trickstering li4 l) „Zes as truly make me seem what, in my native di sh l .s', l am not ! 1 My nominal honours and greatness tiptilrage my sterling qualities, deform my mQ s , C over the face of my be au ty —* tak4ir i t.into a guiph of stip p., Icophan for P° ! oh ! m,t e wer Rill T livie a talin nfl decrepitud unapparent dotag., .: 4 „ fi a -- u to ht„,, me, and en( tV i el, . t)b• t 814) JCL an.![ My b thing dwindling in friend bea Id my wrougs I my f ith irnpot Oh! th y and that men coald 1 1 I am ver every tBlll4ntifssr,!, _fettered to their Monev-gods o s safr(. s which, ble in all theii parts, and propor- r a while I lered void paid they rich I am 3mmerc c ues s:71(los of of unchanging colour and richness, tarni l l, "me would not corrode—l o cality wou ld no t 4 over, the dew of heaven would not r us t. More— ,,wQllid grace their fair necks with gorgeous chains th e i r of chastity and truth, and would overlay the vr a ltars in dedication to God, who made them what Vitt' ar P - ti of feminine modesty, loveliness, and to the wide, wide world. else oh my friend! lend me thy ,helping hand !or b ur g ell me with obscurity—shroud me in oblivion, and fa,p b rae in u n f a th oma bl e d e pth s —d ar k, d ar k, an d d r e ar y, mortal gazes ; where the miser could not hoard Opt ru 'r the trader misuse me ; where the greedy could il lt 7avet, an 1 the envious no more would hate for me. th l ,,e,r far to be hoarded up in the bowels of the earth, lo t i la the hearts of men, and the strong boxes of money ha bank lords, and trade lords. Better far to be out 4 t ,P 11 ,, %ray, than remain an instrument of mischief for oetzii"nal, captious, and wicked purposes. Better far to ti alie' s ,Z re ll up, harmless and untouched, than thus con ph ;u0 foster -father, as it were, of wrong and robbery, that Yes I let th e ear th a l one p ossess an d m i ser me ! itti er 111 wretchedness and misery I may vent forth my hotl l a ,l l Bay to you—caverns of darkness, thou art my ktAlot,:r: and to you impenetrable, inaccessible rocks thou father ! that I may claim affinity with the unex tlerl re gions of the globe ; and where Stromboli forges r i ',. cl . lll (l fire, say to the haunts of men—this is my place and murefuge, here will I bide! Oh I take me from mutilating man, and let the crucibles of Etna and hp a; l as be the fining pot of friendship, to free me from trti ol O ss ; there to await for better times ; there to await You e Propitious hour and a more enlightened age Li;„' 4 a , PULLE GOLD. 41:4)1, Nov. 10, 1856. S LAVERY. WHAT IS SLAVERY? T O THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. iNsirCie hthinis question has often occurred akeable wo:k Ms . , Cabin, written so ably by Mrs. H. B. Stowe, at, taest revolting, heartrending, demoralising system ha,Well, now, simply, let me ask what is slavery? ae9tian object in view in putting this searching lt• ,"' ll . and, if you will allow me, I will offer an answer 4 el t r A lsaaded, as I am, that I shall be enabled, without . „"'t 4 ; I MEtlity to prove to your numerous readers, with -1.43 rrubt tha ' t there is as much slavery going on at the fi Nr c e ",iirne in this great community—our own land—as • a - h' i lB ted in any other part of the world. It will be }L' , Perhaps, if I confine myself to this locality alone j: 0 11 e ",a v a we live in—and think, from my own concep. a ""ieh has been formed, clearly to show how A"%ib,,Pl'etised. Permit me to argue the question ;tav n - „ sat elY and dispassionately, and I will steno • fir to convince you that lam right. Let us, in 72 4;T place, for argument's sake, imagine that i r es 'king a stroll through any of the leading thorough this great emporium of trade, and what, I ask, do th'4.l tiger attracts the . admiration and attention of t.' 4 cl3? g e t ?—what oftentimes strikes wonder to our 11 , 4 te q r , Yize those gigantic fabrics, displayin2; the elabo ,,'"N ,s ll . n and skill ot the architect ? And, again, during '4? F r anibulations, what else will frequently occur to t i k nSwer—the multifarious ways which people have , -10 p3 'ne a li v i ng . When we gaze upon thole immense "e et.' e w eir w ith th imposing fronts of glass ; when, I say, b," pt a •USlllayed in those windows and establishments "Qtec -ir gebus attire, suited to the tastes of the ~,Ihia'aslidious of both sexes; w' ;;ittat. e bt articles of vertu of .Ith ,leture too numerous to mention, are .... ?ee,ll4„,azeriient ? But while we are contemplating to ka ' ll o3;`," array of goods, does it never occur to us from 1., 11 1 f la nds they emanate ? Let ns, first of all, after 1.-tI R that beautiful embroidery those chaste mantles, 11,„ et t d ) ,_ " rn i variety of attire, take ' a glimpse behind the h y ?s c e -- „ needlewomen, for instance—where are they ii m , o lD - ( 7` 41 ,? The poor, half-starved creatures, doomed I t - "t'a,„,, w eb employ them to sit in foul atmosphere for IA; 4 1 ~ges, often not exceeding the utmast, t i „;i . ,ay, chained to their seam by the constantly - Li% like galley slaves to the oar 1 "In poverty, hunger, and dirt, • Sewing at once, with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt." ti, l , / it, may I ask, that many of our shopkeepers— • sech enormous rents, and have such immense 4), °ltl d Dart with such large sums, year by year, for h ' 1 4.,,, 1 ng in the columns of a newspaper, and various a what they vend—how is it they accumulate I L a ith, unless by that loathsome system of grinding b iA ttai.V victims down to the very uttermost? k '''eaq i I exaggerated this picture ? Capiditus veri for those who doubt what I have asserted ilor themselves. Let them ascend the narrow 4 ; 1 21 . ,v 1 0 - f %ejl stairs which lead to the obscure garret in 1 4 , W1 1 ,4.. e back streets of our town,. and there they:will 4 have depicted in all its misery and squalid L '`ev e - ,.', S,: rely such a state of things ought not to be Le exist Christian country like this hAtit Pat evil, and there is great scope for some werful hae t ° o ".ear upon it. We are too prone to go away . from abuses. We are too apt to assist foreigner :,'qed r ; - ! 8 befo Y re alleviating the sufferings of those more ‘4t.-.•aEelY under our notice. We are, again, I say, too ih * „ 41 10 1 1 , 11 Tatters of ' this kind " to gape at a gnat and till re ao . , Camel." It is an established . saying, that "we unto others as we desire to be done unto ;" and t i oi - "se an old proverb, " every labourer is worthy of tZ i s re r '' „ While looks t the one, we should not lose othe ' r " r, you well know that our Otr r t :s ▪ 1 have spoken . volumes upon the subject of ,; that our eminent divines have nounced it in `,lterasleible eloquence from their pulpits; that talented tih4S2 have treated upon the subject in the most heart. r,„ and soul-stiring language. Cannot these com l . ti l ,,ltV'eats be brought to bear upon our home slavery ? 0,; / ; Dot suppress, in some . way or other that tyranny, rr eaching spirit, which pervade so many of our ti t , t4 ili tl e t a in exacting those lengthened hours of toil which from the health of the young, and which is, '4,'„ v ,?"",! the means of consigning them to a premature ask, again, what is slavery ? I might go on and Cli, tlll l4 , 11 hateful , —w list of ' industrial crimes—for they are I less —which would occupy a much greater space • Qi o h otild be permitted in your columns; but I have matter' upon this head for wille. n . o distant - 'll allow me, I write again on this „THU WI iOllrS, &e, VERITAS. vOOl , Nov. 10, 1856. 141 P-. LIVERPOOL WELLINGTON THE CORN TRADE E TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,— The concurring testimony of the several agricultural reports of the United Kingdom lead to the mclusion that the harvest of this year has been an average crop. South of the Humber it appears to have been well and safely gathered north of that estuary, the rains of the late autumn fell at reaping -time, and caused - considerable inju y, much of the grim vegetated in the sheaf, and, both in quantity and quality, waste and deterioration was the consequence, not, however, to such an extent as to invalidate the opinion entertained of an average produce. Indeed, it has been affirmed by Mr. 11. J. Turner, of Richmond, in Yorkshire, a singularly accurate authority on agriculture! affairs, that, although injury and logs have occurred to individual farmers from the wet weather at harvest, no national loss has been caused; that the crop, on the whole, is a good one, and exceeds that of the previous year by two millions of quarters of bread corn. Some inductions have been deduced from the short quantity reported in the zette, as it is rendered in connection with the of prices which govern the fixed duty of per quarter, campared with the car res2onding months of oo'er years, and that decrease ;a rin 'Dom ' one shy' an sixty thousand gin months of September and October, 1 It by no means follows, however, f, per rr ent to till, ,t este rqtn the damp, unmarketa • - both of 1854 and 1835. 'rpm such facts, that th( well as It may be accounted for rain until the frosts and drying winds of have;ran iered it fit for grinding. W it h t h e exception otFiance and SpA I—no mean exc. , ption—the crops are generally good Europe; whilst, in America, they are said to only last year, but all other years, fully ten per cent. And when we are informed that the vantity in the United States of America is almost illimitable—that their exportation of breadstuffi is only restricted by price —and hroughou exceed, ere remunerative, reserving to theme- !yes little more than maize to meet their consumption—it will be app aren t th a t we not on )e pre3erv6 'rom any wan', but be prepared with ulenty. Already the imp . mration of grain is es'ea;sive, and fir a head of late years, eel wh itriver in iv hav> b sen the destruction of grain on the shores of the Sea of Azoff, or of the neglected agriculture of the Russian dominions, during the late war, the present large exportations from thence proves that there have been serfs to cultivate the lands and reap the harvest. To this brief general view may be added (with the clearest apprehension of our healthy large manu facturers, and increasing exportation of them) another most important reason against any advance in the prices of the food of the people, but for their decline, and that is the peculiar precuniary position of the B ►nk of England, in the financial history of the country unparalleled and embarras ing, and pregnant with danger so great. as to point for relief only in the repeal of the Bank Restriction Act of 1844.—Yours, &c. A CORN MERCHANT. ' Nov. 10, 1856. TESTIMONIAL ';'lveove, by (From de Builder of November 8 ) 4,4041 1 2 e advertisements, that the committee of the wellington Testimonial propose to erect a gtb k „ a column to commemorate our hero. Since :tr="4,clt-iTB,impalement of our celebrities seems likely, luil t Ose 4 nence, to disgrace us, in spite of . all that ig‘ th4 . e and common taste can urge against it, I have 1:11 e am Our sculptors might save themselves much Vti t :asid er lPense by associating in the production of a 'loll 6tt tl i nt ln e _d and properly conventiaTalised model for ei a whic , i, as any figure will answer as well wi th '' as none, when so stylated,.miFht, when d ly V i ll ik ; be 1 9e name of the worthy it is proposed to 4iNtaspetillp hoisted to its nest out of sight, and there to fo r ' 0 duty in his behalf. The terms on which e 4 by th e occasions might be had could be easily e combining artists. ECONOMIST. 1( )It r AR ITHMETICAL CAI :.CU LATION ~. +lit ZOITOR OF THE that O.IY l'ittl ri ki 411 13 . e D 3 , to " Calculator," ' Hoiti.TlimErta; observeTlMaS.h 011Y4,1 131 M ;11 °Ote did not convey the i , dea ro ti v ia i i t ig t m e ultitu.ispslisiacenaas " origin of the method e' P. iitltitla, h..eatieening the nines ; nor does , lis hiTthod is fentid in Francce h ar t , he is the 14ti'Ml th u eil abb to meet with, that ,itAfoiglleob,Aret, I :a ec w a o u rk I tioll3, „-,,,..t Inay be so. I have trie s 41.,. -,•=q consult' d • Several kl ttl N id all(l , We finde thernethOd invar the 1 , ,t, ' tieret-or. e• e 44 ex , rlchtlnl°ll a .11, Itly raultiptication inae,.. 'tit,' 41xtv, eraler note two errors 11 9 Onat,":„iiristead pr oc ure , read proceed. Last line n.. 8 = 10 '':' l%:: 1 - e „ s q o r 2,t s°t 10, read 2 x (that is p l u s ) .—yours, 4 r -"44inder, :s stated in the explanation.—Yours, R..,C. (:It . ln „, 1856. ventor, of calcu. , rsant with •rest ; and or" would feel o Pie i n w.f. bs?urE ARAB COURTSHIP IN ALGERIA The candidate for matrimony makes his enquiries for a woman who has the particular talent wherein his household is wanting, and, having obtained the desired information, presents himself at the tent of the father. After a Thug conversation upon indifferent matters the lover remarks, " Sidi, I am in clined to marry your daughter." '• With all my heart. How much will you give for her ?" I don't thick, from all I hear, that she is worth more titan five and twenty douros (£5.)" "Sidi Ab-Alla! Twenty-five douros ! You must he joking with me. I refused fifty only yesterday." "I wonder very much at that, for .I am told that she has been divorced twice, and they say she has only one eye." " Well, what if that should be so ? Did not your informants tell you that there is not a woman in the tribe who is her equal in making the quobela balks?" "That is true, or you would not have s-en me here." Twenty-five douros, Sidi Abd-el-fader!" (Not the warrior, be it observed, but a certain prophet of B igdad.) " Twenty-five douros for a woman who cooks and works like Fathma !" It may be little, but I cannot afford any more for her, and I can have Ayesha for half the money." " Well, well, give me the twenty-five douros down, and you shall give me an obligation befora the Kadi for thirty more. (Apart ) With this obligation I'll bold you in hand, my man, and loaner or later make you pay?' " God be praised ! Between men like us such small matters are soon settled. The bargain is made. (Aside.) You old Jew, if ever you see the shadow of those thirty douros call me a Christian." " When shall the marriage take place?" "To morrow. My three wives have prepared everything for the feast, and I have gunpowder enough for the fantasia." " Agreed " " Agreed—go in peace." "Rest in prosperity." On the morrow Fathma is conducted to her happy home, with shouts and frequent dis charges of firearms. There she cooks, and izpins, and fetches water from the distant well, fights with her sister wives, and, when her lord and master is disturbed in his sublime contem plations by the distant sound of strife, receives her share of the heavy thrashing which he distritwes all round. It' is not surprising that Fathma plays her husband false when she has an opportunity, or that her lord has no great faith in her affection.—Letter from Algiers. TwE MURDER IN PARLIAMENT-sTuetT.—A few hours before the unfortunate man, Cope, died he henarne perfectly eoiscions, and aware that his end was drawing near. He coaversed as well as he was able with those around his bed. he him hoped to be forgiven, and shortly afterward st. Since his death a post onortent examina befn made: This was effecter Mr. Barnard Holt, of Parlia .eet, the surgeon of 0 Westminst. h~s ; ntal, care since the coin- .ho perform he scalp has beea removel, the skull .has mencement, an( Now that ,eration , f trephining vely fracture i fu two other piaceg, me fractures branching off from the original wound in different The injuries have been ascertained to. be of the most serious nature, causing surprise that he survival the attack one hour. Mawley has been made acquainted with the death of his victim, but it has produced no impression or feeling of remorse. He is still as callous as ever. directions; AN EX-ZOIJA.VE IN Lovs.---A. pretty little married woman, named Bordier, and a younrman, named Robi. quet, were lately tried by the Tribunal of Correctional Police for adultery. The husband of the woman, a small tradesman, stated that she was lazy, gluttonous, and full of all manner of vice, and that repeated thrashings had had no effect in reforming her. He therefore had separated from her, but had generously made over to her all the furniture they had possessed. Shortly after their separation he learned that she had formed an adulterous connection with Robiquet, and he caused a commissary of police to 'olrain proof of their guilt. In her defence the woman said—" All he states is true; but why did be leave me without Monet ? No husband ought to leave his wife without money. If I had had money I should not have gone to M Robiquet." The male prisoner, being called on for his defence, said-- 6 s I am an ex Zonave, •and have served in Africa and the Crimea. On being discharged I was obliged to do some thing to earn my living, and on the recommendation of a Need I applied for work to M. Bordier, who makes ladies' collars, and he took me into his service. The friend who reconimended me said—' Take care, Robiquet, what you are about. Bordier is old and ugly, his wife is young and pretty, and he is very jealous.' I resolved to act with prudence. A few days after the wife told me that her husband beat her, and I remonstrated with him. A week later he again beat her, and in my presence, too; this give me so much pain that I wanted to leave, but he would not let me. I stayed, and I admit that I then fell in love with his wife. lam told that I did wrong—it may be 69. I came from Africa and the Crimea, and am a Z may°, and do not understand much about what is right and what is wrong. Well, I fell in love with the woman, and after her separation from her husband we went to live together. If th it requires punishment, give me a fortnight's imprison. ment, and make no more fuss about the matter !" The Tribunal sentenced the woman to two months' imprisonment, and the man to a fortnight of the same punishment and 16f. fine. INSURANCE OF WORKMEN'S TOOLS AGAINST Loss I3Y FIRE.—The newspapers make us aware that a subscription was opened for such of Messrs. Broadwood's workmen as have lost their toils by the late fire ; a measure of relief that of late has be: n usually adopted after the destruction by fire of manufactories where the implements of labour are costly. Why should not the workmen insure their tools ? A man with seventy pounders worth—it is st ited some of Messrs. Broadwood's men had that amount—certainly earns enough to enable him to afford the necessary outlay; to lack forethought enough for the purpose, is not a little discreditable to an intelligent artisan; and we see no reason why the public should pay the price of his heedless ness. With misfortune that could not have been foreseen or provided against, we have the utmost sympathy,, and would help the sufferers to the extent of our power: But that which a little thought and a trifling expense might have prevented, we regard with very different feelings; and in this latter class we feel compelled to place the, uncom pensated, loss of these costly tools. F rom ti me to time we are told of the " dignity of labour;" and the phrase, though a high-sounding ope, is a very good one in its way. But, to our apprehension, never does " labour" look more un dignified than when calling upon capital to help it ou t o f a diffleulty, to obviate wh i ch by its own self it h a d on l y l ‘c c a k p e i d ta i l h ,, e ex tt e 4 r / c / i . se itner9r'fir this once, let much abus e d ordinary practical kindliness towards distress, without stopping to empire too closely into the merits of the case. Let the men have their tools bought for them again. But for the future let it be understood, that wh ere i m pl em e n t s of labour are costly, it is the duty of the workman to insure them ; and the duty of the ern. ployer to see th a t hi s servan t fulfils his duty in this parp cular. Let us not bo construed as dealing harshly with those of whom we have been writing : nothing is further from our thou g ht s . O ur o bj ect i s to ra i s e the working classes, and beneficially help them, by teaching them to help themselves. They posses many virtues. If they would only add to them somethi ng o f t h e h a bit s o f f or ethought and prudence exercised by those above them in the social scale, not only would their pecuniary circumstances he bettered by it, but they would gain a lik e i n se lf- respec t a nd the respect of their neighbours,—Chambers's -Edinburgh Journal, NORTHERN ROYAL MARRIAGES The German papers have- been lately. informing us of mar riages, either solemnised or in' preparation, between princes and princesses of the sovereign houses of Europe. Lately, at Madrid, the Infanta Amelia was wedded to Prince Adalbert of Bavaria; somewhat later, the Grand Duke Frederick of Baden married, at Berlin, the Princess Louisa of Prussia ; a few days since the Archduke Charles Lewis Of Austria espoused, at • Dresdan, the Princess Margaret of .Saxony. .Next, the King of Sweden, Oscar I , communicated to the re presentatives of the nation the approaching union of the Duke of Ostrogothland with a princess of Nassau. We have further announced to us the contemplated marriages of the Prince Frederick of Prussia with the Princess Victoria of England ; of the Prince Frederick of Tuscany with the PiinceiS Anne of Saxony; and of the Grand Duke Michael of Russia - with the Princess Cecilia of Baden.. Thus, within the spaco of two months,we have a total of seven marriages solemnised or on the vo of solemnisation, and officially announced, between person ages, ten of whom appertain to German dynasties, one to the royal house of England, ono to the imperial family of Russia, one to the new royal family of Sweden, lastly, one to a Spanish branch of the house of Boni-bon. There has never, Ample measures so short an interval of time among the families of princes. The marriage of Prince Adalbert of Bavaria with the Infanta Amelia of Spain took place on the 26th of August This prince is the third brother of King Maximilian IL The King is married, and his two sons; it is not likely, therefore, that Prince Adalbert will ever be called upon to wear the crown of navaria, out it is possto become the King of Greece, the throne of which is occupied at may on present by King Otho, a prince of Bavaria, younger brother of the King Maximilian, and the eldest of this King's three brothers. King Oho of- Greece, now forty-one years of age, has been married for twenty years to a Princess of Oldenburg, by whom he has had no children. This contingency was pro vided for in the convention of May 7, 1832, which regulates the succession to the throne of Greece, arid which provides that, in the event of the King dying without issue, the crown of Greece should pass to Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, the younger brother of King Otho, and to Prince Adalbert himself, were Prince Luitpold to die without offspring. Prince Luitpold is married and has two sons. It is not then the want of posterity on the part of this prince that could open the eventual rights of Prince Adalbert. But Greece is a constitutional monarchy, and the constitution requires the successor of King Otho to profess the Greek faith. Now, the princes of the house of Bavaria belong to the Roman Catholic faith, and it does not appear that Prince Luitpold is disposed to submit, on this point, to what is prescribed by the constitution of Greece. Prince Adalbert, born in 1823, is twenty-eight years old. The Infanta Amelia, born in 1834, has just entered her 23rd year. She is the youngest daughter of the Infant Don Fran-. cisco di Pablo, the second bro.her of the late King Fer dinand VII. The eldest son of the Infant Don Francisco di Pablo married in 1846, his cousin, Q seen Isabella. By his marriage with the Infanta Amelia, Prince Ad.dbert has become brother-in-law to the King and Queen of Spain. It was on the 9th of September that the Grand Duke Frederick of Beden married the Princess Louisa of Prussia. This princess, eighteen years oil, is the daughter of Prince William, the Prince Royal of Prussia, brother of the reigning King and heir presumptive to the crown, since the King has no children. It is a great alliance for the Grand Duke Frederick. His youngest sister the Princess Cecilia, who is hardly sevenven years of age, is going to be married to the Grand Duck Michael, brother to the Emperor of Russia, Alexander 11., and she has been already betrothed to him. The Grand Duke Michael is the youngest son of the Emperor Nicholas, and the only one not married. L'ke his brothers, he takes his wife from a German house ; these sorts of alliances have become habitual with the imperial Russian family, which is already united by strict bonds with the house of Prussia, the royal house of Wurtemberg, an old and illustrious house, with different branches of the house of Saxony, with the houses of Hessia, Oldenburg, Mecklenburg, and Nassau. It is well known that the princes and princessess who marry into the imperial house of Russsia, and are destined to reside at St. Petersburg, have to learn the Russian language and adopt the Greek catholic religion. 'This condition obliges these princes and princesses to submit to a supplementary education. This is what the young Princess Cecilia of Baden is doing at this moment, and it is what retards her marriage. They wait until she has been sufficiently instructed to speak to the Russians in their national language and profess the national religion with a safe conscience. The Grand Duke Michael is 24 years old. The Duke of Ostrogothland, born on the 21st of January, 1829,, is the second son of the reigning King of Sweden, the grandson accordingly of King John Bernadotte, a marshal of the French empire by the promotion of 1804. The ]puke of Ostrogothland is about to marry the Princess Sophia of Nassau, who was horn on the 9th of Jnly, 1836. This princess is the youngest sister of Adolphe! , ' the reigning Duko of Nassau, but Duke Adolphus and the Princess Sophia are not born of the same mother. By her mother, the Princess Sophia is descended from the royal house of Wurtemberg, and related to the imperial family of Russia. It is not the first time th t the young dynasty of King Bernadotte has formed an alliance with the ancient house of Nassau. Prince Charles of Sweden, eldest son of King Oscar, Prince Royal, heir presumptive to the crowns of Sweden and Norway, married in 1850 the Princess Wilhelmina of Orange-Nassau, the daughter of Prince Frederick. uncle to William 111., the reigning King of the Netherlands, By these alliances the royal family of Sweden draws nearer to the sovereign houses of Northern Europa, and lie two Princesses Anne and Margaret of Saxony, I►ters_ of King John, were betrothed almost at the same time—the former to the Archduke Ferdinand, Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany, and son of the reigning Grand Duke Leopold II.; tha latter to the Archduke Charles Lewis of Austria, second brother of tlio reigning Emperor Francis Joseph. The Princess Anne is 20, the Princess Margaret, 16 ; the hereditary Prince of Tuscany, 21; the Archduke Charles Lewis of Austria, 23_ The eldest sister of the two Princesses Anne and Margaret was married first to the Duke of Genoa, bra her of the King of Sardinia, by whom she had two children. Having become a widow in the month of February, 1855, she has just been married again to the Chevalier Rapallo, a captain of infantry in the Sardinian army. The Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany, the future husband of the Princess Anne, is, by his mother, Marie Antoinette of Bourbon, the grandson of the late Francis 1., King of the Two Sicilies, nephew of the reigning King Ferdi nand 11. of Naples, and grand-nephew of the Queen Marie A melie, widow of Louis Philippe. The Duchess of Berry and the Queen Maria Christina of Spain are his aunts. This young prince arrived at Paris, from London, in the latter part of October. We learn, by the Moniteur of October 33, that he repaired to the Palace of Compeigne, where he arrived on Tuesday, the 28th. The Archduke Charles Lewis of Austria is also a very near relative of the royal house of Naples ; his father, the Archduke Francis Charles, who should have been Emperor of Austria in 1848, after the abdication of his elder brother, the Emperor Ferdinand, if he had not preferred re nouncing the crown in favour of his eldest son Francis Joseph —his father, we say, was the son of the Princess Maria Theresa of Naples, sister to the Q teen Made Aatelie.— Debats. TIMES. -LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. MORE DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF THE BRITISH GERMAN LEGION This body of foreign martinets has been again manifesting those mefarious and riotous principles which heretofore caused so much annoyance. Last week the windows of private houses were wantonly. broken at Gosport, and several civilians and British'soldiers ill used. In Portsea the state of matters was almost worse. A quarrel ensued between some men of the legion who were drinking together at a beerhouse in a street called White's row, and a scuffle and fight was the result. Knives were used, and finally one man of the legion was so severely stabbed that he died almost instantaneously. The embarkation of 1,200 men of the legion was fixed for Monday, but the proceedings of Saturday evening were of so riotous a character so as to render it a matter of the greatest danger to allow the men to remain on shore another night. The civil portion of the community looked forward, indeed, to Sunday night with alarm. Happily the authorities determined to embark the men on Sunday of crnoon, and accord ingly marched them from Browndown at half p as t t wo , . . Ad at half past four they arrived at the dockyard for embarkation on hoard the Sultana and Culloden. Not a moment was lost in getting them on board; they all b&ng embarked in about a quarter of an hour. The men on this occasion,.indeed, were very peaceable and well—conducted . . They numbered about 800, probably the steadier men of the dt tachtnent for embarkation on that day, as the others neces sary to make up the total of 1,200. were straggling about the had, however, been taken to preserve order and the safety of the dockyard. The ordinary military guar,' had been doubled or trebled The jetties from which the Germans embarked were guarded by thirty or forty men of the line each, with fixed bayonets, &c., whilst, in addition to the ordinary guard around the dockyard, there was a strong reserve of upwards of 100 men, who had strict orders to quell the slightest disturbance. So good were the arrangements that in a minute or two there could have been brought to bear a trernenduous .forCe of troops, marines, 847, irrespective of tnose wno were ininteutatiy charged with the preservation of peace, and who themselves would have been more than equal to the task. The embarkation of tho men being completed, the ships were immediately lashed on to steam tugs that had steam up on purpose, and they were at once taken out to Spithead. The ships left the dockyard wit Lin half an hour of the troops arriving there. In the evening strong picquets were sent from every regiment and depot and branch of the service, and was despatched throughout the garrison to pick up sten glers. Every public-house and beer shop was visited and searched, and one, two, or three of the corps were found in most of them and marched off to the dockyard, where they were confined in the guard room, there to wait till ten o'clock at night, at which hour a steam tug was ordered to take them out to the Sultana and Culloden at Spithead. The marching and counter marching of these numberless picquets kept the town, in a state cf the greatest excitement, and the inhabitants, in returning home from their places of worship, meeting with bodies of armed troops, with ono or two prisoners in their midst, the prisoners dressed in Russian looking greatcoats, were led to believe that the garrison was beleaguered by a desperate enemy, rather than that it was the locality in which were quartered wan who were being fed, clothed, and paid for services that had never been required of them to perform. At a little past ten the tug took those who had been picked up, but still there remained a number not captured, and yesterday (Monday) the picquets were again sent out and picked up some more. Others, however, we aro glad to say, voluntarily returned in the morning, their knapsacks on their backs, &c. The arms of the legion had been taken from them, and when they get to the Cape the patent Enfield rifle will be served out to them. The wives of the married men are to go out together in the sailing-ship Stamboul: THE TALBOT DIVORCE CASE Our readers may perhaps remember that at the close of the session, when the " Matrimonial Cause and Divorce Bill," which had been carried unanimously through the House of Lords was, by a scandalous manoeuvre, thrown over in the House of Commons, we promised to return to the Talbot case, which we have no doubt forced upon the Upper House of Parliament a conviction of the necessity of a change in the law of divorce. As the law stood, and as unfortunately it still remains, the House of Lords, the most incompetent tribunal for the trial of facts that can possibly be conceived, felt its insufficiency to do justice in the matter of fact, and therefore justly and patriotically adopted a bill which would leave the trial of facts to a jury of intelligent men promiscuously chosen—the most perfect tribunal that the wisdom of man ever devised for such a purpose. We feel, therefore, that we arc acting in strict conformity with the will of the house in exposing the monstrous system of conspiracy, fraud, and perjury, by which that house was, in a manner, compelled to convict of a foul crime a lady as free from guilt as the mother, sister, wife, or daughter of any of their lordships. The witnesses, it is to be remembered, were taken from that part of Ireland where everything has its price. We say that part of Ireland, for in the more intelligent districts, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, crime of every kind is as rare as in England ; but the scene of the. con spiracy against the honour of Mrs. Talbot was concocted in that district where assassins can be had to murder a defenceless and unoffending woman at the moderate charge 0140 s a head for each assassin (we speak of what has, within the year, been proved in a court of justice), and where still more recently another defenceless and unoffending woman, Mrs. Kelly, wasimurdered in the same manner, and doubtless for a price as moderate. Where the murder tariff is so low, doubtless perjury, which does not hold the gallows in perspective, may be had at a cheap rate. Doubtless, indeed, Mrs. Talbot's alleged confes sions remain. But an insanity, which, unhappily, still continues to afflict the unhappy victim, shows the utter worthlessness of these coafessions, which, even when made, were so unsatisfactory, as to leave the Reveeend Mr. 11I`Clelland, one of Talbot's principal witnesses, in doubt whether the whole charge against Mrs. Talbot was not the result of" a conspiracy of the servants," as, no doub, it was, but not of the servants only. We have been relieved from great part of the task which our promise imposed upon us, by the assistance of a most able corres pondent, a gentleman of high eminence at the bar, but wholly unconnected with any of the parties, and one who was not engaged in the law proceedings, or, as far as we know, ever set foot in Ireland. Before. however, taking leave of the subject for even a day or two, let us, in illustration of the benefit of the glorious trial by jury, remind our readers of a recent case bearing some resem blance to the case of Mrs. Talbot. We allude to the case in which Lord Melbourne was defendant. There was previous frequent intercourse, but innocent intercourse, such as might be, and was, consistent with the most perfect purity ; it was, moreover, a perfectly voluntary intercourse, not such as must necessarily subsist between a/mistress and her servants: There was evidence of long sittings together between Lord Melbourne and the lady, whom we reverence too much to name, and, as we remember, with closed doors. Finally, miscreants were found to swear to the act of adultery in terms as filthily particular as any that proceeded from Talbot's witnesses; the most acute and eloquent lawyer that cur generation has seen did his best to insure the effect of this evidence in a powerful speech ; and how did an honest Middlesex jury act ? They found a verdict for the noble defendant without leaving their box. The event would probably have been different in the mock trial for which the House of Lords gives opportunity.—Standard. PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK. Last week a meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Institutution was held at its house, John -street, Adolphi, Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair. Mr. Lewis, the secretary, having read the minutes of the previous meeting, a reward of £6 was voted to the crew of the life-boat of the institution stationed at Berwick, for puttiug off in her and rescuing the crew of six men of the Norwegian galliot Pro vence, which during a heavy gale of wind was recently stranded near Berwick. The service was well performed, and the life-boat was reported to have behaved exceedingly well. The vessel fortunately got off after the gale had moderated. The poor foreigners manifested their gratitude to the boat's crew for saving their lives by presenting them with a sum of £6. The life-boats of this institution are always in readiness to succour the distressed mariner ofany country, be that in peace or in war. But Norwegians shipwrecked on our shores have peculiar claims to our sympathies, for it is well known that the residents on that coast always vie with each other as to who shall be the foremost to succour and help the unfortunate shipwrecked stranger. The life-bolt of the institution placed at Cullercoats, on the Northumberland coast, has also recently rendered valuable assistance to two fishing vessels, which, during a heavy gale of wind, bad got foul of each other. Nineteen fihermen put off in the life-1)0a , , and volunteered their services in her to rescue their fellow fishermen's lives 1 1 and property. A reward of £1 was also voted to a boat's crew, for their prompitude is putting off and rescuing two men from a boat which was upset near Rothroullen, Co. D.megal. The silver medal of the institution was voted to Donald Thomson, for his gallant services in a boat manned by himself and four others, and in rescuing at considerable risk of life, two out of six persons from the Russian brig Ahti, which was observed. off Ham, near Thurso, dismasted and waterlogged. Thomson, seeing the perilous position of those on board, hastened to a ne'ghbouring village to got a boat. The same having been launched and manned by himself and four men, had only proceeded a short distance when the courage of the four men failed them, owing to the terrific sea that was running, and Thomson could not persuade them to proceed further. They accordingly returned to shore, and hauled tip the boat. He, however, entreated a second time others to accompany him in the boat and try to rescue the people. His appeal was irresistible, and four gallant fellows stepped into the boat with him, and pushed off amidst the acclamations of the spectators. After a hard pull through a heavy sea and strong tide, they succeeded in reaching the wreck, and in taking the only two of the crew on board, the captain's wife and three others having unfortunately perished. The Board of Trade had also made a reward to the gallant men for their noble conduct. The thanks of the institution were voted to Mr. Arthur James, chief officer of Coast-guard, and a reward of £3 lOs to six coast-guardsmen of Five Mile Point Station, Arklow, in consideration of their laudable services in rescuing at come risk of life the crew of five men of the brig Pelican, of Drogheda, which, during a gale of wind, was wrecked near that statio❑ on the night of the Ist ult. A very heavy sea was running at the time, but, owing to the great exertions of the officer and men of the station, succeeded in getting a lead and line on hoard the brig. The crew, five in number, were subsequently brought o❑ shore by being drawn through the surf. The performance of the service occupied nearly two hours during a dark and tern. pestuous night, and the rescued men were afterwards kindly entertained by the coast-guardsmen at their homes. A reward of £2 lOs was also granted to five pilots, in consideration of their prompt and laudable conduct in putting off in their gig to the rescue of two men and two women who were upset from their boat, near Ilfracombe, last week. An interesting report was read by Captain Ward, R N., the inspector of life boats to the institutton, of the several life boats of the institution which he bad recently inspected on the English and Irish coasts, and on the Isle of Man The quarterly reports of the exercising of the life boats of the institution, were said to be of a very favourable character, the crews having expressed their entire satisfaction with the qualities of the boats. 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SERVICES OF LIFEBOATS At Ramsgate, on the 4th instant, at 10 15 p.m., the light vessels fired alarm signals, and the steamer Aid, and the Northumberland lifeboat, belonging to the Ramsgate Royal Harbour Trust, were out at sea in exactly eleven minutes afterwards. They proceeded to the Gull light vessel for instructions, and thence con tinued to cruise till 2 a.m. on the sth, returning to the harbour at 2 40 a.m., having seen neither signals of dis tress nor vessels. At daybreak on the sth, south-east, Captain Martin, the able harbour master, observed a large brig at anchor with her sails adrift driving, under an increasing gale, towards the shore. He advised the Ramsgate boatmen to go to her, and offered them assist ance. Five men promptly left in a rowing boat, and as soon as they had boarded the vessel, which was timber laden, made the signal for " Help, in distress." The crew had abandoned her on the sand water-logged The tide flowing rapidly, she must have drifted off immediately, and with a south-east gale have been driven over the shoals. Sbe was now striking heavily on the Sandwich flats. The Royal Harbour steamer, however, with additional help, was soon alongside of her, and having draged her off into a proper roadstead, anchored her in safety. Meanwhile the Gull light vessel made the signal that they had the crew on board, the poor fellows having reached the light vessel in the' brig's boat. The haze having cleared away, the har bour master discerned a schooner on shore upon the off part of the Goodwin, and at 7 20 a m , the lifeboat was manned a second time, and in tow of the steamer on its way to the sand. Oa reaching the wreck they had the satisfaction to find that the lugger Charlotte Ann had taken out the crew and had also the schooners boat in tow. This vessel was the Tartar, of Yarmouth, laden with grain, hound to Waterford. She had gone on shore upon the shoal at about 3 30 a.m. unobserved, in the dark haze, and on being discovered was fast becom ing a total wreck. The crews of both vessels were landed here, and at high water the harbour master had the satisfaction of m o oring the waterlogged vessel in a berth to discharge a valuable cargo of 300 tons of Danzic pip e staves. She i s a new b r ig, the Leopoldine, t o rhe f se cOuiei officers o . rto, l a sha n e Lwas thus saved solely by the exertions of harbourmensecnotmfmroimssiotnhec the harbour ar i b if o e t b tr oa t t o s their and steamer are now again in readiness for another start. Much credit is due to the Ramsgate Harbour Trust for their liberality in allowing their steamer to tow ont boats, without distinction as to owners, to vessels in distress ; but what the case urgently demands is a steamer with her fires banked up kept constantly afloat in the docks, and devoted exclusively to the preservation of life and property, PORTSMOUTH POLICE COURT.-MONDAY. The borough bench has been occupied all the afternoon— the magistrates being Major Travers, Mr. Pratt, and Mr. Carter—in hearing the case of manslaughter committed on Saturday night. The man who met his death on this occasion was a private, named Richard Duhr, and the man charged with the crime is Auguste 'Winkler, both being about 24 years of age. A knife, with which the stab was supposed to have been perpetrated, was produced. It is a large clasp knife, and had, it appeared, belonged to the deceased, and was taken away from him in the scuffle. The wound which was the cause of death was on the inside of the left thigh, just below the groin. The prisoner, through an interpreter, denied his guilt. He was committed to take his trial for manslaughter at the ensuing assizes for Hants, at Winchester. The cause of the quarrel appears to have been a rival as to the honours of a female, in consequence of the encouragements held out by Government to the men to marry, MYSTERIOUS DROWNING At Glasgow, on Sunday, a case of drowning occurred i❑ the harbour of a very dis ressing character. Between twelve and one o'clock, while it was moonlight, two harbour police con stables, named George Cunningham and John Rose, accom. pulled by David Cunningham, an engineer, the brother of the former, pushed off in a ferry boat from the steps near the middle of the harbour, for the purpose, of aecertr , ining-tho names of three or four vessels which were lying in the stream, and which had contravened the harbour regulations, by not exhibit ing a light, and not by closing their hatches. A few minutes afterwards, the sergeant and officer at the Liverpool shed heard a shriek, and a voice exclaiming, "Three of us in the water !" and then all was still. The two officers immediately took a small boat and rowed in the direction whence the voice had come. They found the ferry beat drifting past the stern of the schooner Ballot, of Belfast, but no sign of the three men who had so recently been in her. Drags were procured, and in a short period the bodies of the three men named above, were found close to the vessel, and so little apart as almost to touch each other. Life was quite extinct. How three vigorous men, all perfectly sober, could fall out of a large boat licensed to carry twenty-four persons, is quite mysterious. Patrick Blaney, the master of the schooner Ballot, was called up, and be stated that, some time before, while in bed, he felt some thing striking against the bow of his vessel, which was light or unloaded, upon which he came upon deck with his mate, and, looking over the side, they saw two or three men struggling in the water. They threw over two ropes, but the men did not catch them, and sunk ; upon which, as they themselves state, they went to bed again without giving the alarm, or thinking any more of the matter. Such are all the particulars which have been learnt regarding this distressing and extraordinary case. Whether the men had been repulsed in trying to board the vessel (which, by the way, they had no occasion to do,) and fallen into the water, or - whether one of them had fallen in in fending off from the schooner, and the other two had perished in the attempt to save him, is mere matter of conjecture. The Procurator-Fiscal ;has instituted a bearching enquiry into the case. A GROWL FROM A NOR'-WEST PASSENGER. A correspondent, writing to a London cotemporary, says : I have been under the necessity of braving the perils of the North-Western line this evening, and I experienced some of the unpleasantnesses which are of too common occurrence to those who, like myself, are unfortunately obliged occasionally to face the dangers of that passage. Our train, which was duo at Huston.square at 8 30, got on tolerably well till we arrived at Leighton, and was to its time, or nearly so. From that station, however, to Watford we had to follow slowly in the wake of a luggage train, and were kept in a pleasing state of excitement by the frequent screaming of the railway whistle and by the train being at times brought to a stand. At Wat ford the train to which we were indebted for this amusement was shunted, and we had the pleasure of passing it, and a monster it was, being composed of an endless variety of luggage vans, empty trucks, and closely packed pens of cattle and sheep. To make up for the lost time, our pace from Watford was a "neck-or-nothing" one, which served to keep up the previous state of excitement, and we thought that if we were fortunate enough to keep on the line the end of our journey would soon be attained ; and if wo were not so fortunate, some of us would probably attain an end of another kind, These agreeable fancies were rudely cut short by another tearing lot of screams from the whistle, the rushing of steam, and the screwing on of breaks, the climax of all being two loud reports—bang ! bang ! —like the firing of a brace of blunderbusses. The train was brought to a dead stand in less time than I should have thought possible, and again a row of heads was projected from the carriages, the proprietors of which wished to learn, if possible, what the row was all about, Af. er some delay we crept slowly on to Har row, passing as we did so, one coal and two cattle trains which had been shunted to make way for us. Though we did eventually arrive in safety at Euston-square, and only half an hour behind time, I think you will agree with me, sir, that this is a stee of things that ought not to be put up with quietly. I The Leicester and Hitchin line will probably be open before Christmas, and 1 if so, will ease the traffic on the North Western, and do away with your suggestion of an extra line for luggage being attended to. If the Leicester and Hitehin line be not open by Christmas, God help those who will have I to try the North-west passsage at that festive season, when traffic is so much increased. In the meantime, if the present management will persist in dovetailing a number of coal, luggage, and cattle trains between each passenger train, they ought either to furnish those trains with engines capable of doing the work, or more shunting places ought to be provided beyond Watford. If they cannot attend to these matters, or, at all events, do something or other to nut an end to this undesirable state of things, it would be no bad job if they were to shunt themselves and make room for men who would do better. —I am, sir, A NOR'-WEST G ROWL . London, Nov, 8. TUE CALIFORNIAN PEN.—The everlasting question of " is this a good pen" has been answered by Mr. E. T. Hall, of South Jklan street, who has succeeded in producing a metallic pen, which he designates—not inaptly—as above. There is hardly anything more annoying than a bad pen— every one knows the misery. The pen made by Mr. Hall is fit for any hand to use—light or heavy—and, what is of the greatest value, it does not corrode, but will work with equal facility in any ink, From experience of metallic pens, we ast nearly as l ong, can say th a t t hi s one, which is polished as gold, and will is the best one we have evt r A S MANTLES and JACKETS are so very zenerally worn this Season, J. MAC LENNAN, 36, CHURCH-STREET, (OPPOSITE PAR KER. STREET), Has made arra gements to have a Lase of Paris MANTLES arid JACKETS, in Velvets, Reversible Clnths, and all the other Fashionable Materials, delivered Every Week for the next Two Months; therefore, these Ladies desirous o f having the Fashions as soon as they make their appear ance in Paris, combined with moderation in prices, are respect fully solicited to inspect the Stock. JUST RECEIVED, from London, Two Cases contain ing about 700 MANTLES, commencing at the extraord.n arily Low Price of 4s. Ild each. SHAWL AND MANTLE WAREHOUSE OPPOSITE PARKER STREET. , • T EACHER OF NAVIGATION AND NAuricAL ASTRONOMY, ABLY ASSISTED, P.IACTICALLY. BY • CAPTAIN A. MAONAUGHTAN, ACADEMY, and the LIVERPOOL MASTER MARINERS' ASSOCIATION'S ROOMS, 24. GREAT GEORGE-EQOARE. LIVERPOOL. *** Ingalretor full copy of prospectus at any of the Opticians, CD IA M I D POLICE INTELLIGENCE LIVERPOOL. BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD. HORRIBL E DEATHS ON PAPER A FIGHT ! riefl Marsh and James Burns, two very able looking men, were charged by police officer 702 with fighting in Great Howatd street. The officer said the prisoners are persons who go about at night crying " catch pennies." On Tuesday night they were bawling out " The awful death of twelve young fetual,s at V . .e Liverpool Infirmary, for a half-penny." (Laughter.) One was at one side and the other at the opposite side, each trying to out shout the other in the " horrible death" way. They at last met in deadly con flict, and, but for the interference of the officer, one or other might have formed a suhket for at other " horrible death" tale. They thumped each other for the bare life. The papers wl ich the prisoners were trying to "put off" were of the most abominable description, an d o f course void of truth. The prisoners were fined 103 each, or to be impri soned for one month. . A " SWELL" IN TROUBLE.—Charles Goff (supposed to be a fictitious name), who was dressed in the first style of ton, was brought up on remand by detective Carlyle on a charge of being concerned in robbiag Mrs. Newman, of Birkenhead, of a twenty dollar gold piece, in Bold•street, on the 4th inst. On the day in question the lady was robbed, and soon after the prisoner, in company of another person, changed a eeld piece at a bullion office, and this was identified as he one stolen from Mrs. Newman. The man who had actually changed the coin got off, but the prisoner, who was with him, was arrested, and Mr. Clough along with Carlyle, asked for a remand to this day, on the ground that the lady was not able to attend. Mr. Goodere, for the pr's mer, in the wildest language (he was labouring apparently under some peculiar excitement) and most fierce gestures, opposed the application. His manner caused much laughter. He shouted about the " Liberty of the subject," and discanted larzely on the great respectability of his client. Carlyle said, the respectability of the " client" consisted in his being the most notorious, and, probably, the most accomplished thief in the United King dom. (This produced another burst of laughter.) After an almost indescribable scene, which must have put the patience of the worthy magistrate to no ordinary test, the prisoner was remanded to this day, and Mr. Goodere left the court, tapping the crown of his hat a la drum majrr, oily rather more fiercely. BEFORE MESSRS BERN AND SANDS, LEGAL AND ILLEGAL FEACASI—Cii; - experience, and it is of some standing, cannot furnish our recollection with a richer scene than that which we witnessed in the police court yesterday. It would seem, from the number of a certain class of females that crowded the court, that they had agreed to have a " field da)" of it ; and certainly they succeeded tolerably well in the object they had in view. The parties were, however, the aristocratic tribe of their class, and their fine clothes, the profusion of jewellery, and the apparent plenty of bank notes produced, when they were fined, helped out this idea, Of course they could not do without "legal assistance," to show forth each others "illegal acts ;" and, in a wonderful case that took place between K. el and Coil, Mr. Goodere was retained for the latter. The " learned advocate" was about making some observations in a loud and irregular manner, when Mr. Wybergh reminded him that it was not yet time for him to proceeded. Mr. Goodere (in an excited manner, with a thump of his fist on the table): Sir, I don't care a rap about you. Mr. Wybergh : You must conduct yourself properly before the bench. You must not import the manners and customs of the low tap-ro m into thin court. Such conduct mutt not be permitted in this court, and I must call on the magistrates to interfere, if yot; continue in such courses. Mr. Goodere : Magistrates— magistrates ! Who are the magistrates here? If you are the magistrate I shall be happy to address you (another thump of his fist on the table.) Mr. Wybergh : You must conduct yourself with propriety and decorum, and not ' interrupt the business after such fashion as you do—the public business must be proceeded with. Mr. Bluck : I hope so. Mr. Goodere : I don't care what you hope. Mr. Wybergh Sit down sir. (He sat down.) At a more advanced state of the great case of Keel and Coil, Mr. Goodere jumped up and said he would not proceed any further, as he observed the magistrates bad already prejudged it. Mr. pluck : tI hat is a most insolent and outrageous observation. Mr. Sands : I will not sit here and be insulted after this manner. lam here to dis charge the public business, and if you attempt such obsere vations again, I shall hand you over to the custody of an officer. Mr. Wybergh : I must say that the business of this court is carried on very irregularly when Mr. Goodere is engrge3. Mr. Sands . If he does not conduct himself pro perly, I will hand him over to an officer. Mr. Goodere : Sir, sir. The learned gentleman made several violent plunges, bet the end of the case woe, that his clients were fined £5; and as they were marched into the adj lining court, he made a furious rush after them, beating the bottom of his bat with extraordinary vigour. in a few seconds, there were loud cries heard from the next court, and Mr. Lloyd, the, usher, with Mr. Thomas, end " divers other," entered. There' were ab , ut 60 persons, chiefly females, collected at the far end of the court, and these appeared engaged in very illegal prat., tires, viz., beating each other in the most approved fashion} of pugilistic sk , ll. Lloyd shouted silence, with a voice that awed the combatants into quiet, and Mr. Goodere was seen making his way out of the crowd, amid a roar of laughter. He again appeared in a cross case arising out of the last disposed of, when, amongst several fl Ish females who were called, was one whose name did not transpire, except in the following way :—Mr. Goodere stood up to cross-examine her; the first question he asked was : " You are called Manx Anne, I believe ?" \Vitnes; : No matter what lam called, I wish you would pay me what yen owe me, Mr. Goodere 1 (An immense. burst o f l aug h ter f dlowed, and the le arne d gentleman did not- ask h er any more impertinent questions.) The uncle of the whole play was, that all the parties were fined £5 each, and so ended the performance of yesterday. BIRKENHEAD. BEFORE J S. JACKSON, Es Q , A DISHONEST SERVA NT. —1:110M , S M,Arttn, lately in }ho employ of Mr. Thomas 03tfi,ld, of Grang3 lane, bottle beer merchant, was charged with embEzzling the monies of his employer to the amount of £2O. Detective officer Hodgson applied for a remand, as he had only apprehended the prisoner at four o'clock this morning, on board the Samuel M. Fox, lying off New Brighton, preparing to proceed to, America, and had not had time to get the nece ssar y witnesses in attendance. The prisoner was ordered to be remanded until Friday next. _ HAWKING WITHOUT A LlCENSE.—Patrick Day and Michael Gannon, two ill-looking fellows, from Liverpool, were brought up c h arge d w i t h h aw ki ng b rushes for sale, in Tranmere, without a license. In this class of fellows who, under the pretence of selling their goods, manage to get into the kitchens of respectable houses, and if they find no one there, they lay their hands on anything that MI happen to be within their reach. The constable said, th: tt several complaints had lately been made of such ; o n o ; The magistrate cautioned them, and said if thkry were again: found on this side of the water, doing the same thing, hi should, mast assuredly, put the law in force, with that caution he, this time, discharged them. CORONER'S INQUEST. IMPORTANT TO SURGRONS.—The Deputy Coroner, Mr, Statham, held the following inquest yesterday :—On the body of Margtret Allen, of Blenheim_street, the wife of a sailor, who is at sea at present. The mother of the deceased said she (deceased) was in the habit of drinking, when she could procure it. On Monday evening the witness was called to see deceased, whom she found insensible. She ran to Vauxhall road dispensary and saw the porter there. She told him that her daughter was very bad. The porter brought the doctor. The gentleman (Surgeon Brown) now present is the doctor she saw. Told bin) her daughter bad been taken suddenly and dangerously ill. He asked her if she could speak ? and she said no. She asked would he come and see her? and he re-' plied " I will not." He told her to fetch a bottle, and she brought one. He asked her could the deceased sit up ? and, she replied no. SLe asked would he come and see her, as she was dangerously ill? and ho said he would, not, but gave her the bottle. She %bon said "You, will not come ?" and he said he would not. She said if anything takes place between this and morning, you will have to be answerable. She went back and found he r insensible, and she (lied in an hour afterwards. In reply t o /q r. Brown, the witness said you did Rot tell me at first the b ro reasonugiyou did not go and see her. I did not take notice w h et h er there t was a man standing in the shop or not, wh en bottle. Surgeon Brown was then sworn : The woman, he said, requested me to go immediately, and I said I could not, as I had two other cases to attend, but if s h e brought me a bottle I would give her some medici ne . Sh e went for a bottle without a word of complaint, and brought it. when she came back a case of supposed poisoning had been reported before she got there. I deemed this the more urgent case, and I told her I could not .go to h er case i n consequence of the poisoning case. My object w as t o g i ve her some medicine and to visit the case in the course of an Imur, if she would take the medicine I had given her. She snatched the bottle out of my hand, and threatened t o report me, and walked out, and I did not see her again. There was no one in the dispensary at the time who could have attended to the case. Mr. Grimes, another s I couldtlr trot gn'clrn have sent him crime just assh , e was going away the second time. because the woman had forfeited all claims to the charity in consequence of snatching the b o ttl e ou t o f myhands, and threat en i ng to report , and having me ['acme insolent. The commit tee' forbid us to attend any one who is insolent. Surgeon Kemp stated that he bad made a post modern exami nation of the body. There were no marks of violence on it. The cause of death was apoplexy, and excitement or natural causes might produce it. The excitement might have been reduced by other than natural causes. I doubt very much, from what I saw of the body, whether, if a surgeon had seen her an hour before her death, her life might have been saved; it might have been prolonged, but I question whether she Mil ill an hour before her death. 'fire jury at once found a verdict of '" died of apoplexy", but how brought on, there was no evidence to show; and, added the foreman, " The jury are unanimously of opinion that tire coroner should censure Mr. Brown." The coroner said he had no power to do that ; but, of course, Mr, Brown heard what the jury had stated.