Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-12 00:00:00

THE HEALTH COMMITTEE. The usual weekly meeting of this Committee was held yesterday, at the Town Hall. Mr Alderman Dover pre sided. The other Committeemen present were—Messrs. Shoji, Beckwith, Anthony, and Haydock. The Deputy Town-Cletk, Mr. M'Gowan, read the minutes of the last meeting, after which the following weekly returns were submitted to the Committee. TOE HEA.LTII OP THE TOWN. The Medical Officer of Health reported that the mot- taiity of the Borough is much below the average of the season, the total deaths registered during the week ending the 6.h inst., having been 173; a smaller number than in any week of the previous eight months, and 47 less than the mean of the correspow3ing week or the reviotta nine years. In the parish the deaths were 117, in the out town&,ios 56. Diseases of the lungs caused 51 deaths, being 15 less than the average. From zymotic diseases the deaths were 41, the corrected average for the same week of former years being 60. Nearly one-third of the number, 13, were from hooping cough ; 7 from typhus ; 5 from scarletina ; 4 small-pox; 4 diarrhce; and 2 from measles. The death of a merchant's clerk was recorded, from stupor, caused by intoxication. The borough engineer, building surveyor, and inspector of nuisances, reported various particulars of the operations in the several departments, daring the week; from which it appeared that 187 inspections were made of dilapidated privies and ashpits ; 1,072 cesspools had been discharged ; 100 nuisances complaine i of by inhabitants had been inspected, and means taken to remedy them ; 835 houses in the unhealthiest districts, containing 2,794 apartments, and 643 cellars had been put under examination, with the view of improving their sanitary condition ; and 107 lodging-la uses had also been examined and reported upon. The T, , vr - s CLIERK : Sir, I have to inform you, that the complaint against Mr. Shelton, for a nuisance, the removal of which was ordered by this committee, was yesterday heard before the magistrates, and was ordered to be im mediately supressed. Mr. Susie : Was there no fine imposed ? The Tows Cexau : There is no p)wer to impose fines for the first offence. A letter was read from the Toxteth-park Local Board of Health, relative to the widening of Smithdown-lane, and referred to the engineer to report thereon. The Toyer( CLERK announced, that he had received a copy of the bill, then before Parliament, for the exemption of public institutions for the promotion of science and art from parochial rates. The bill was promoted by Lord Stan ley and Mr Wm Ewart. The Town Clerk briefly explained the several clauses in the act, from which it appeared that there was some difference between it anal the present act, as buildings for educational purposes were also included. The subject dropped without any discussion. After transacting some routine business, the board ad journed. DOCK COMMITTEE. The weekly meeting of this committee was held at one ~'clock yesterday, Mr. Rankin in the chair. The other members present were—Messrs. Robinson, Rounthwaite, Barber, Mondell, Anderson, Chilton, and lia,lhead. The Sub-Committee of Works produced a plan of an office far the waterguard of customs, upon the north pier of the George's basin, at a cost of about £245, in lieu of the present offize at the south-west corner of the Prince's dock wall, which is required to be removed for the com pletion of the new landing-stage. The sub-committee, having again considered the subject with reference to shed accommodation for emigrants, renewed their recommenda tion that the plan mentioned be carried out, in order to obtain possession of the present office from the Customs at an earlier date than it could be obtained by regular notice, namely fifteen months. The plan was agreed to. The Harbour Master's Sub-Committee produced a report of the work-irg of the permanent berths in the dock- for the six months ending 31st May last, being 164 working days. Mr. Moen= said the working was very satisfactory. The berths we r e nearly all occupied considerably under the time which would have been allowed, with one or two small exce:Jtior, s in the Canning Dock. He believed the greater number of the berths were not occupied for more than half the time which would have been allowed. The Custamte : It would be strange indeed if they ware, with the accommodation afforded. Mr. MONDELL : Bum the time allowed had Coat in view, and the facilities in view. Mr. ROBINSON : Perhaps you include in your observa tion the ntearners. Mr. MONDELL : Tha report has reference generally to sailing ships. Mr. -11outzgsox : It seems to me that steamers ought to be excluded from the calculation of the time of occupying berths. The rep 'rt was laid upon the table. A letter was read from Mr. Joh❑ 3, Gisboine, who ten dered last year for the construction of a line of communica tion by electric telegraph along the coast from Birkenhead to Holyhead, making the following offers in addition to - the contents of his former tender : —To construct for £lOO a line of submarine cable from Birken head to Liverpool, to keep the whole line, indading the cable, in working order for five or seven years, for £4OO per annum ; for £l,OOO per annum to keep seven stations on the line, for five or seven years, and to provide efficient staffs of clerks, &c., the present buildings to be used as offices. The letter was referred to the special cub-committee ap pointed lat - ft Thursday. Mr. MONDELL stated that the Messrs. Newell, who had lately completed a por ion of the Atlantic cable, called upon him on Wednesday, and, alluding to what transpired at the Dock Committee last Thursday, stated that they were prepared at present to tender for the construction of the Holyhoad line at a much lower rate than t hey had done last year. The CIIAIIIMAN said the sub-committee would, no doubt, receive the offer. Thin closed the general business. THE ULSTER OF A. VESSEL NOT A SEAMAN. Messrs. Holderness and Chilton, shipowners, of Fen wick-strest, were yesterday summoned before Messrs. R. Gladstone and Shiel, under the following circumstances. Die Campbell, who appeared for the complaining party, called Mrs Ann Sarah Core, who stated she was the wife of Captain Care, of the ship Percena, belonging to the defendants. She claimed £l9, under an allotment note, which had been given to her by her husband before he left this country in January, 1833, when he sailed. She was to receive £6 per month, and did do so up to January last, when the money was stopped. The last time she head from her husband was on the 13th April last, when he was wi , h his ship at Sr. Helena. She had since applied for the money, arid was told by the owners that they could not pay any more until they had heard from her husband. They had, however, sent her £3 when she was ill, and could not get out. Mr. Campbell said that was his ease, but he would direct their Worships' attention to the 169th section of the act of parliament under which the claim was made. The gentleman who appeared for the parties summoned, but whose name did not transpire, said they did not dispute the facts as stated, but he thought he should be able to prove that they had behaved with the greatest kindness and attention to Mrs. Core, and that they were also per fectly justified in stopping Lather payments. He would prove from their agent at Calcutta, that the captain was always drunk—that he was drawing large sums of money for improper purposes, and that he had sent in large sums of money for articles for the ship, which had never been sent to the ship, and that he was doing them an immense amount of injury. He was proceeding to read the agent's letter, when Mr. Campbell objected, as it was not an "authenticated document," which the act required. The ship had since been taken by him to St. Helena, where she had been condemned, and yet he persisted in sailing her to some port, against all orders from Lloyd's agent. He appears to be acting like a madman, and we are entirely at his mercy. Mr. Campbell: But the man is in the ship. Mr. Gladstone : That may be true, but of course they would not keep him if they could help it. The Gentleman : He is robbing us of hundreds and we cannot help it. We have sent out a man to supersede him, but it appears that he had left St. Helena with the ship before the man arrived. But it is not a legal allotment note (the note was handed up to the bench), but we would not take that objection if we did not feel compelled, to prevent our being robbed any huger. We have already paid £750 for the ship's repairs. Mr. Campbell : But the wife must not be left nnprovided for. Mr. Garnett : These proceed ings are , aken under the 169th section of the act, "The wife, or father or mother, or the grandfather or grandmother, or any child or grandchild, or any b rot h er or s i ster, o f any Erissieee, in whose favour an allotment note, etc." Now, the interpretation clause of the act states the meaning of the word seaman, ae "shall include every p erson (except masters, pilots, and apprentices duly indentured and regie. tered) employed or engaged in any capacity on board any ship," so that the master is exemp 4 . Mr. Campbell: can't get over these objections. Mr. Gladstone : The case te CASU AND USGD BOXES.—The next imP , " 'l','.ll' thin,' to the posses sion of cash is, Low (when you. have got itj to keep it safely, either fu the coiriiing.ih,h, or at home. The same remarks apply to dead , and other va'.r.,,ie documents. We 11,1V0 seen a large and vaned stock of both these desirable articles, manufactured expressly fur Mr. E. T. Hall, ut South John-street, :hat ch a llenge attention. These boxes are mado on new and admired principles, and posses+ patent locks, which defy the ingenuity of any " pick-lock" in the world to open except with the legitimate i, —eY• To merchants, solicitors, and others. these nvw safe`, on 8 small scale, frinst prove vfainable bathed. —lforthern Dail, Times, ',1144 Nay, 1347, POLICE COURT,--YrATTADAY. - LIVBEPOOL. BEFOUN ML MANIFIZLD. A Po OSPECr OF DEC 4 PITATION.—A young woman, named Mary Anne Smith, was charged with having stolen a watch and chain, value 4:11, and £8 in money, from James Burke, of Cleveland-street, Birkenhead. The cam plainant (who was accompanied by his wife) told a ludi ercus tale about how he had been employed for twenty-five years at Mr. Laird's, at Birken-lead, and how the pri soner, and several other ladies, threatened to cut off' his head in Charles-street, ant how he was a teetotaller for the last three years, and how he got drunk on Tuesday night, after such a long fast, and several other equally interesting things ; but his better hall did not seem to appreciate, the narrative, for, ever and anon, as he related the tale, she either groaned in spirit, or ejaculated something by no means complimentary either to her spouse or the prisoner. Tee end of the "strange eventful history" told by Mr. Burke, ended in the abstraction of his watch and money. The prisoner was sent for trial. LIZ COMET Is COMING— " SING ROWDY DOW, DOW." William Gee!, an old man with a wooden leg, was brought up by police-officer 303, on the charge of creating disorder in Lime-street, at the big lamp post. He said the prisoner was making.a loud harrangue about the comet, and selling broad sheets, with the full, true and particular account of the visit of the comet. He told when it would—or would not strike the earth, and where it would not—what it would do, and what it would not do, and a variety of other astounding things, too numerous to mentiin, about the capers of the illuminator. A crowd of over 200 persons collected, and followed him about Roe-street, and John's market, and commenced singing "the Comets are coming gag Rowdy, (low, dow," and as the prisoner refused to go on, he was taken into custody. The prisoner said he was merely selling his papers and did not think it was any harm. He Ways discharged wile a caution not to create a disturbance or obstruct the thoroughfares any more, not even in consequence of the coming luminary. STREET POCKET-PICKING --Mary Mackin and Ellen Leonard, were brought up by detective officer ISUCulloch, charged for picking pockets in Bola-street and Church street. He watched them for a long time and saw them make sev-eel attempts at ladies' pekes, and at last they got a sixpence out of one lady's pocket, and a purse con taining over 365. from another. The prisoners were remanded until the ladies came forward. A sseruriN a THE POLICE.—James Tooley, described as a tanner or skinner, in Pump-fields, was brought up on warrant, charged with having assaulted police-officer, 310. Mr. Aspinall, barrister, instructed by Mr. Goodere, appeared for the prisoner. The officer said he was on duty in Pamp-fields, on Tuesday morning about two o'clock, when he saw the prisoner, whom he alleged struck him without any provocation, and a fight then followeJ, when the prisoner tore his caat and ill-used him. He got a warrant to arrest him next day, when he was attacked with a poker. Mr. Aspinall produced two witnesses, who laid all the bleme.on the officer, and the prisoner was discharged. The wife of the prisoner was then put forward, on a cha-ge of being drunk and dis orderly whilet the police were arresting her husband, the preview' day. The evidence in this case was conclusive, and his worship fined her ss. and costs for being drunk. DANGZROUS ASSAULT.—John Lacy, who resides in Tatlock-street, charged Peter Traynor with having com mitted a desperate assault on him on the sth May, in a public-honse in Vauxhall-road. The parties met in a public-house in the road, when the prisoner had a knife of the complainant's cutting tobacco, and when he asked for it, he struck him a violent blow on the forehead which knocked him into a state of insensibility. Mr. Bluck cross-examined the complainant at great length, but his testimony was not shaken. Surgeon Davis, from the Northern IL apital, said he examined the injured man, and found a wound two inches long on the forehead, and a fracture of the orbit which quite en:milted the bone, and he removed six pieces of bone from it, and two small pieces of leather also. The man was lying in a dangerous state for five weeks, and at one time he imagined he would have died. His sight would be impaired, but not lost ; but he would be permanently injured for life. The prisoner was sent for trial at the assizes. _ _ . A Mai% SHOT BY ANOTHER. —Benjamin Burdett, the first mate of the American ship Frank Peirce, was brought np by officer 138, on a charge of having shot John Ward, the second mate of the same ship. Mr. Snowball appeared for the prisoner. The facts of the case appeared to be as follows. The c:mplainant was formerly chief mate of the ship, and, according to his statement, the prisoner was jealous of him. He was ashore the previous evening, and went on board about one o'clock. He slept in the same room with the prisoner, and, on entering, he took off hit coat, in order to go into bed, when ► e heard a shot, and then he saw the blood run from his hand, and found a ball had gore through it. The prisoner had threatened several times to kill him. He gave him no provoca tion for having shot him. In reply to Mr. Snowball, he said he did not threaten to kill the prisoner. The prisoner used to have dreams. The statement of police-officer 138, was, that after one o'clock in the morning, he heard a man had been shot on board the vessel, and he went there, when tin prisoner gave himself up to him, saying he had shot the second mate. He gave him the pistol (a revolver), and he found four barrels of it loaded and capped. In reply to Mr. Snowball the officer said the prisoner told him the reason why he shot the mate was because he was asleep ; and the man ewe in and stood over him in the bed, threatening to kill him, and he jumped up and shot him. Mr. Snowball addressed the court for the prisoner, at the conclusion of which, Mr. Wall,. surgeon, of the Northern Hospital, was examined, and he said the ball had gone obliquely through the complainant's hand. His w., - ;rfhip said, in American language, such transactions as this were called " diffi culties," but the English language called them grievious bodily harm. He sent the prisoner for trial- "BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD, AND lIIS ASSESSOR, CAPTAIN SCHO3IBIRG. CLAIM OF SALvAcE ON TUE PATRIOT QUEEN.— Newton v. Brocklebank —This was a claim for salvage brought by the United Steam Tag Company against the owners of the Patriot Queen, Messrs. S. and T. Brocklebaok. Mr. Aspinall, instructed by Messrs. Lowndes, Bateson and Co , appeared for the plaintiffs ; and Mr. Blair, instructed by Messrs. Duncan, Squarey and Co., appeared for the de tendants. From the statement of Mr. Aepinall, it appeared that in the month of April last, the Patriot Queen was being towed cut of the river, on a voyage to Calcutta, by the Steam Tug Company's tug, Liver. The ship and cargo taken together wore worth about £60,000. When down the river some distance, it was discovered that all the crew were not on board, and accordingly the ship was put about, and towed up the river. When nearly abreast of Sea combe, it was attempted to cross the bows of the James Foster, junr , a large American vessel, which lay anchored off that point. At this moment the Liver, from some cause or ether, stopped towing. and the tide being about three quarters of an hour ebb, the Patriot Queen rapidly drifted down right athwart the hawse of the James Foster, the jib-boom of the latter vessel striking the maintopmast of the Patriot Queen, which immediately fell. The Patriot Queen then fell over on the James Foster, and the jib-boom of the latter vessel getting between the masts, their fall was. apprehended. The parties on board the Liver, as the plaintiff alleged, seemed paralysed, and rendered no assistance. The Queen then came up, and being hailed lay some one on board the vessels, cams along side and got a hawser on board the Patriot Queen She then attempted to tow free the Patriot Queen, but not having sufficient power, she called to her assistance the United States tug, which was passing at the time, and by their joint eirerte, the Patriot Queen was got clear. The river was full of ships at the time. For this service the owners of the Queen and United States claimed £2OO as salvage. The defendants alleged that there had been no danger and that the plaintiff's vessels had forced their services on the Patriot Queen. They accordingly offered £lO 10s. as compensation for the services of the Queen, but this offer the plaintiff refused and brought the present claim for the adjudication of the court. Mr. Blair then addressed the court, and repudiated the charge on principle, and said it was an outrageous claim. He then entered into a history of salvage. and contended that the present was not a case of salvage, but one of mere work and labour, and the question was, what was a fair wage for the work and labour done ? He contended that the vessel was not in danger, and that was one ingredient (danger) in case of salvage He quoted some cases in point to sustain hie case. Mr. Mansfield, after consulting with Captain Schomberg, said they need not proceed fury her, as the court was of opinion that the case did not cone within the meaning of salvage, and they therefore decided it was not a salvage case. No doubt, very great services had been rendered, and £lO was quite inadequate for that service—fifteen or twenty pounds at least should have been offered—but that was not a decision, but an opinion. The decision of the court was, that it was not a case of salvage, and therefore the case must be dismissed. EMBSZZLEMENT.—John Linden, who stood remanded on a charge of having embezzled £3 Os 4d, belon4ing ti Mr. Fox, cotton broker, was brought up, in conjunction with another youth, named George Kennedy, in the same em ployment, and the warehouseman of Mr. For, whose name is Thomas Gibson, the latter charged with embezzlement, and Kennedy fur having absconded with some money belor ging t o hi s emp l oyer Th e d eta il s o f the case against Linden having been proved (as appeared in yesterday's paper), he was sent fo r t r i a l, an d th e ware h ous eman was remanded, in order to procure further evidence, as it was stated that he induced the two youths to commit the offence, and as Mr. Fox did not wish to press the charge against Kennedy he was discharged. COUNTY COURT.-YESTERDAY. d 0 O! BEFORE JOHN CONWAY, ESQ. MARTIN v. ASIAN AND OTHNRS.—The plaintiff in this case was J. Ville Martin, master mariner, and the defendants were Messrs. Amen, Van Ewyek and Co.; ofßarned-build-. ings Sweeting-street, merchants. Mr. Almond appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hime for the defence. The amount claimed was £35 for damage' occasioned by the detention of the ship Jumelles, chartered by the plaintiff to the de fendants for St. Louis. The amount of damage was esti mated at £5 each day for seven days. Is appeared that the vessel in question was to bs loaded with coals for the use of the French steam marine, and was to proceed to St. Louis. A clause in the charter stated that the loading - was to take place immediately. The vessel had been lying in a quay berth in the Huskisson dock, but was ordered - away by the harbour master as she was not then loading. She was afterwards restored to the quay berth. Evidence, however, was wanting on the part of the plaintiff, to show that the vessel was restored to the berth as soon as the coal was ready to be placed on board. - His Honour, there fore, nonanited the plaintiff CORONER'S COURT. Yesterday, inquests were held upon the bodies of the under-mentioned parsons who had died under the follow ing circumatanes : :Ea ,I"•^ , r - kir;CT:LI _ _ Michael Mangay, who was killed •in Strand-street,, by being run over by a curt. Au apprentice to a shipwright said, as he stun going home on Monday last, he saw a man driving a cart, and the deceased was sitting in front of the cart. The deceased suddenly fell off the cart, and the wheel passed over his body. The deceased Was taken to the hospatal. where he has since died. Verdict, " Acci dental death." Ellen Williams, who died suddenly. The deceased was forty-five years of age. She was the widow of a labonver. On Wednesday evening, the deceased went borne at about half-past eleven o'clock, and commenced getting the supper ready; at that time she was joking and laughing, but a moment after she dropped down and died. Verdict, " Die! from apoplexy." On the body of Michael Conolly, aged 21, a labourer in the employ of Mr. J. Hampson, a coctractor. The de ceased was employed in carting soil, on Wednesday, at Broad Greea, when he jumped off the waggon into the buffer, but in doing so he fell. and the wheels passed over him, and he died from the injuries he had received. The inquest in this case was opened, but adjourned until Saturday next. LONDON COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—JuNa 10. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1857. BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER GOULBURN. in re MORRIS ROBERTS STERS, JAMES WALKER, AND DANIEL BACKHOUSE SYERS.—The bankrupts were merchants trading in copartnership at Ball-alley, Lombard street; London, as Syers, Walker, and Co., and at Liverpool as Byers, Walker, and Byers. Their accounts, as prepared by Messrs. Hart, were now filed. They extend from . January 1, 1854, to December 13, 1856, and contain the following, items :—Dr.—Unsecured creditors, £165,066 ; creditors holding security, £199,010; profits, £67,065; surplus, January 1, 1854, £8,557. Cr.—Good debtors, • £21,706 ; cash, £6,121 ; goods, £3,226 ; trade expenses, £34,744 ; losses on ships, trading, and bad debts, £180,205; drawings by M. R. Byers, £4,228; by D. B. Byers, £1,920; by Walker, £2,854 ; property held- by creditors, • £lBO 241. Upon these amounts the official assignee reports that £18,769 will be the deficiency accruing from the security creditors' accounts, which, with £68,195 of liabilities, will make the total liabilities of the bankrupts £252,032. to meet which there are assets £35,506. Of these assets £10,500 have been realised, and from £lO,OOO to £15,000 more may perhaps be realised. The bankrupts' transac tions, the official assignee states, appear to have been recorded in their books, and the cashbaok• has,:lbeen kept with remarkable clearness, and been balanced regularly every month. This was the examination mebting. Mr. Lawrence, for the creditors, asked for ash - •rt adjournment. The bankrupts had presented a petition for private arrange ment on the 29th of May, 1856, and no balance-sheet had been filed under the bankruptcy until the 29th of May, 1857. Under such circumstances it was only reasonable that the creditors should be allowed a short timeto investi gate the accounts. Mr. Linklater, for the assignees, felt that no good could result from an adjournment : they were anxious, however, that every creditor should be satisfied. The Commissioner remarked that a long time had , been occupied in preparing the accounts—twelve months. Linklater : They relate to transactions to the amount of a million of money. His Honour ordered an adjournment for three weeks ; in the meantime the bankrupts' allowance isJuld be continued. A t LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Racelagh street, BOYS are CLOTHED from the Aees of 6 to 20 Years, IMPORTANT TO SEAMEN. In rise Court or Queen's Bench, an acticn was brought by a seaman against the defendant, master of the ship Mobile, to recover the sum of 4'40, due upon a promissory note given by the defendant, under these circumstances : —The plaintiff shipped at Liverpool as an able seaman, and signed ship's articles at per month, from Liver. pool to Port Phillip ; from there, if required, to any port and places in the Pacific Ocean, or China Seas, &c. ; and then to England. The ship sailed from England to Port Phillip with emigrants and a crew of 36 hands on board, and on arriving there a number of the crew deserted, and were sent to prison. The vessel was then required to go to Bombay, bw as t here were only 19 men left, only four of whom were able seamen, an arrangement was made between the master arid the four.ahle seamen, that if they would go with the ship to Bombay he would pay each of them £4O. A note in this form was then signed by the master:—" Port Philip, October 8, 1851.-1 promise to pay, in Liverpool, to Robert Hartley, the suns of ..e4O sterling, provided he assist in taking the ship Mobile from this port to Bombay, with a crew of 19 hands.—As wit ness my hand, Henry Ponsonby. Witnessed by John Dowries." The ship accordingly sailed to Bombay, and thence to England ; but as the defendant refused to pay the money this action was brought. The action has been twice tried, and on both occasions the plaintiff obtained a verdict. When the case had been argued, Lord Camp bell said he was of opinion that the verdict should stand. The other judges were of the same opinion. Mr. Justice Erie added that he was strongly impressed with the con viction that sailors ought not to be encouraged in a mo ment of difficulty to insist on higher wages; but, on the other hand, he also thought that there was a point where it was unreasonable for the roaster to require the crew to go on. He (Mr. Justice Erie) had, therefore, taken care to explain these matters to the jury, who found that it would have been unreasonable in the master to require the erew to go to sea. The men were, therefore, free sailors, and in the same position as other sailors at Port Phillip. Rule discharged. Exclusively for CLOTHING BOYS from 6 to 20 Year 4 LEWIS & COMPANY, Ranelagh street. THE 'WIZARD" HARRISON, 01.71:DONE. MORE LEEDS FORTUNE TELLERS. On Wednesday, at the Wakefield Court House, two cases were heard which might almost be considered of a fabulous nature in this matter-of-fact age. A young lady of East Ardsley, named Ritty Littlewood, of prepos sessing appearance, and who is in independent circum stanceN, brought a charge against a woman named Caroline Rarnsdeu, of Leeds, of having obtained money from her on false pretences Miss Littlewood having found herself in a bad state of health sent for Ramsdell. When the latter came, and saw Miss Littlewood, she at once pronounced her bewitched, and undertook to cure her upon being paid a sovereign. This Miss Littlewood agreed to give. Ramsden then prepared same cakes, which she told the young lady he was to burn, and that they, in conjunction with some medicine which she also gave her, would act as a charm against the influence of a man who was " witching' her. She subsequently received various sums of money from Miss Littlewood, £2 at one time, and other sums. The last time Miss Littlewood sent for Ramsden was on the 16th May. She came on the 17th, and remained till the 18th, during which time she professed to cure her by " charms." The prisoner was committed to the house of correct ion for two months.— A. cadaverous, revolting looking, elderly man, who appeared to be almost blind, and who gave the name of Isaac Rushworth, was then charged with having administered " grainsof paradise"to Ritty Littlewood, to procure abortion. Miss Littlewood stated that she had seen the defendant about a year ago in her father's house at Sheffield. He then proposed to tell her her fortune, but said he must consult her planet. He afterwards came over to East Ardsley, when site consulted him as to the state of her health and the probability of obtaining a husband. Rushworth undertook to cure her, and also to get her a husband, in 'return for which he asked her to comply with the most infamous proposals, and to give him £5. These propositions the poor, weak-minded creature complied with. She found herself enceinte in process of time, and Rushworth gave her grains of paradise. Detec tive Cavanagh, of the rural police, stated that when he went over to Leeds, to apprehend the prisoner, he found him surrounded with a number of books covered with sham hieroglyphics, and pretended works on astrology. The atrocious villian, who admitted his guilt, was com mitted to take his trial at the nest York assizes, ATISMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. At the Southwark Police-court, Lendon, on Tuesday, William Fogg, a dejeeted-loOking, middle-aged man, deseribed is a shoemaker, wag charged before Mr. D'Eyncentrt with having 'attempted to destroy his life with oxalic acid, and also with having feloniously endeavoured to induce his daughter to partake of the poison. Pollee-constable Evans, 475, stated that while on drity,in Hackney-road, at nine o'clock on fifitterdarmorning; hews, aceosted by the prisoner's daughter, who re quested aen, in shunted manner, to proceed at cinee to No. 9, Orchards ~ place, where her father had taken poison, which he had also attempted to administer to .her. On reaching the home be found the - prisoner sitting upon abed in the backeoorn, and having acquainted him with what he had heard, he carelessly remarked, " Yes, I have swallowed oxalic acid," at the same time pointing to the fireplace, where witness found a piece of paper with some white powder adhering to it. " The prisoner made no complaint of pain or sickness, but as he looked ghastly pale and was trembling all over, witness speedily procured the attendance of a surgeon, who applied a powerful antidote and directed his removal to the London Hospital. he prisonerhad since accounted for hie desperate conduct by stating that it had resulted from some angry words which had passed between him and woman to whom he was attached. Sarah Elizabeth Vyse, a young married a oman, of rather attractive appea-ance, said she had been employed by the prisoner for some time past to superintend his household affairs, and take charge of his children. He had recently made im proper advances to her, which she refused to comely with, and a few days ago he showed her a packet of poison, which lie told her he had ' procured for the purpose of destroying himself and his two children, unless she consented to cohabit with Wm and abandon her husband. She was greatly alarmed at his threats, and purposely avoided him until the forowing day, when she wa' compelled to interfere for the proesction of his daughter, whom he "vs beating unmercifully with a strapewithout the slightest provocation. After rescuing her, from hie violence, witness left the room, but returned in a few minutes, on hearing the renewed cries of the child, who told 'her, as soon as she entered, that her father • hut attempted to poison her. Observing that the prisoner had a small packet containing some white powder in his hand, she asked him what he was about to do, and he answered. "Nothing," bat at - the same moment, he hastily raised the paper to his mouth, into which he dropped the contents, and washed them down with a glass of water. Witness instantly hastened down stairs with the two children, and communicated what had occurred to the police- Janet Elizabeth Fogg, an interesting little girl, 10 years old, said that she was in the room with her father on Saturday morning, when he illledn glass with water, and told . her that- he had something in his pocket which he intended to give her before he took it himself, , The ; prisoner then . palled'out a small packet of white powder, a nd was` abouteto mix it up, when she raised the alarm, which attracted the' notice of the last witness. Mary Ann Fry, a married woman, living in the neighbourhood, stated that on Friday last she called at the . house to seethe witness Vyse, and on inquiring forger, the letieener ;aid that she had gone out to seek another place, but that he was re solved to paten end to his life before he parted with her. The prisoner was greatly exeited at the time, and _produced .something from his pocket which he held out in a significant manner, to give force to his threat. Me. Donnel Burch, the resident medical officer at the London Hospital, deposed that the prisoner was suffering upon his admission from the effects of oxalic acid, but it was impossible to ascertain the quantity he - had taken, as a judicious and effective antidote had been previonsleeadminietered to him. In answer to the charge, the prisoner, in a'clesponding tone, declared that he never contemplated the slight• est mischief to either of his children, although he had certainly made up his mind - to terminate his own existence. A respectably-dressed person, who described hims'elf as the brother of the accused, here stepped forward, and intimated that, since the death of his wife, and from other calamities which had befallen him, the prisoner had recently exhibited decided symptoms of mental derangement. Mr. D'Eyncourt said that it was a very serious and melancholy case, and he should Order the prisoner to be remanded for the completion of the evidence. . • Ex;halve?) , for - CLOTHING BOYS from 6 to 20 Years, LEWIS & COMPANY I,flocotwli street. A Vienna letter says that the Princess Vogorides, who has just, been divorced from her husband, arrived there on Frelay, with her family, and will leave in a few days for Paris, where she Intends taking up her residence. Crete SERVIcE EsTlMATEg.—Yesterday morning were publishe I the estimates for the year endine March 31, 1858, relating to e ince- Lion, science, and art; and also the estimates during the same period for the colonial, consular, Red other foreign services. By the former document it appears that the sum required for the purposes therein stated is 1,000,3221, being an increase, as compared with 1856. of 123,3851. The chief of this increase are 9e,020/ for public education in Great Britain, and 8,180/. for science and art; 'teepee for the British Museum (establishment). 17,6711. for its buildilgs, and 6,9441. for purchases. There is also an excess of 5,5261. for the Nmici ial Gal lery (including purchases of pictures). By the latter document it is shown that for the serviess therin specified the sum of 382,2151, 13 required, exhibiting an increase over the estimates of 1855, of 61,9501. KING OF ROAIE AND TUE CITY OF PARIS.—On the 20th March, 1811, the Municipal Council of Paris voted an annual pension of 10, 000 fr. to the bearer of the happy intelligence of the King of Rome's birth. This pension was accordingly enjoyed by M. Van Heekteren, one of the Emperor's pages, until 1814, when he became a Dutch subject, and the pension was stopped. This gentleman, who is at present a member of the Sates-General, and the same who shot the Russian poet Puschkin in a duel, has, since the 3rd of epril, 1856, preferred a claim to the city of Paris tor the revival of his pension ; admitting the justice of the motives which may have prompted the city to interrupt the payment during the subsequent reign:, but con tending that, now that the French people have recalled the dynasty of Napoleon to the throne, and that Providence has sanctioned that act by the birth of a Prince, the city of Paris is bound to recognise his (11. Van Heekteren's) claims. It may be remembered that last year the Municipal Council voted an elegant silver service and a panoply of highly ornamented weapons, executed for the occasion, to Commandant Faye, who ennounced the birth of the Prince Im perial to that body. MDR3IONISM IN BRADFORD.—A case revealing disgraceful con duct was heard at the Bradford Borough Court on Tuesday. Eli zabeth Haigh summoned Hannah Murgatroyd for an assault com mitted on Whit-Tuesday, in the hou-e of Robert Clough Ackroyd, wool sorter, New Drop, Lewis Road. The complainant had, a few months ago, been in the service of Mr. Coates, Surgeon, when Ack royd, a widower, with iour children, paid his addresses to her, and they agreed to become one. The ring was bought, and she left her place. He took her to Leeds, the ring being then in his possession, and advised her to visit her relations at Goole for a few days before their marriage. She went, and on her return he met her at the railway station, got her irate a cab to drive home, and told her he ha' a young woman cleaning cut the house. All this the poor seduced young woman believed, and was taken to the trap which was thus open beneath her feet. The young woman to nod out to be no other than Hannah Murgatroyd, who was living in concubinage with him. There was of course no marriage. as Ackroyd had never intended it , and the poor girl, seduced, ruined, and at a aisteuee morn home. lived in the house with her termagant rival for fourteen weeks. When asked why sue had assaulted the girl, the defendant said she was de termined that Haigh should not divide the possession of sackroyd with I herself. The bench learning that Ackroyd had been present when the melee took place between his two wives, he was sent for. When ordered into the witness-box, the New Testament was offered to him, but he of jaded to tour h it, and declare l that if he ceuld not be believed without an oath ha could not bs believed with it. His fiippaenimpu dent manner disgusted the magistrates, who evidently regretted the want of power to award him a heavier punishment, and ordered him into the dock and committed him for seven days. The complaint of the girl Haigh was then dismissed, the court expressing disgust at the duplicity of Ackroyd, and the bold and unblushing impudence of the defendant. SUPERSTITION IN CAITHNESS.—In the west end of the county is a celebrated muddy pool, popularly known as Loch Monate. 'retie pool has, from time immemorial, been held to possess healing virtues of an extraordinary character,end to It, even within, the last ten years, hun- dreds have been known to resort. On Saturday of the week. before last, au invalid, accompanied by an attendant, set oat from Lybster for this charming lock. Oa arriving at the spot at the earliest dawn of Monday morning, they proceeded to go through the stipulated ceremonials for ensuring a cure ; which are, first, to walk three times round the leen, tilting a drink out of the well each time, and passing a small burn which flows from the loch, and which is believed to pos sess the virtue of carrying away the disease under which the pilgrim labours: After going through these evolutions, the patient was strip• ped, and his attendant went with him into the water, where the washing process was gone through, and some indigenous leaves of a powerful character were rubbed. Immersed thrice in the water, the patient had to throw a smali piece of silver, or a button heal if he had no silver, into the water ; and then had to run as fast as possible, so as to be out of sight before sunrise All this was accomplished, and the poor deluded votaries of this degrading superstition left the spot. Oa their way hemeward they visited Halkirk. where, drinking rather too deeply, they seem to have been mastered by the intoxicating fluid, and comported themselves in a rather questionable manner, tearing their clothes, and so besmearing themselves by tumbling amongst bogs and moors as to be almost unrecognisable, concluding the sad exhibition by challenging the whole inhabitants of Halkirk to single combat. Numerous instances of tide eupsrstnian still take place, and not many years ago hundreds of individuals of both sexes would be seen at the loch, going through the superstitious mammeries.— iVerthern b:7231c111. Tge HANGING OF THREE NEGROES IN LOUISVILLE BY THE MOB. —The Louisville Journal (U. S.), of May 15, gives an account of the hanging by a mob of three negroes charged with the murder of the Joyce family. in that place, several months ago; after they had been tried and found net guilty on evidence which judge and lawyers say rendered a verdict of guilty impossible. On the night following the trial a mob attacked the gaol where the negroei were. A desperate onslaught was made, the prison fence was broken, arei the large crowd made to the door, they were resisted, but rushing to the artillery building they got a cannon, loaded it, and pointed it against the gaol door. Under these circumstances the offs dais in charge found them selvee forced to the painful measure of delivering up the negroes. Three of the prisoners being delivered up, a razor was given to the retitle, in the geed (Jack, the property of Mr. Samuels, of Bullitt county), and he cut his throat, severing the jugular vein and windpipe, and producing instant Beath. The wound was of the most horrible character, and a more ghastly spectacle was scare ly ever witnessed than the dead body when it was brought to the yard and exposed to the view of the crowd. Ropes were obtained and the other negroes marched off to the Court House-square. At the west end, George, the slave of Mr. Samuels, was hanging upon a tree, amid the hooting and execrations of te e multitude. Tne other two were than marched through the square, and near Fifttestreet were likewise executed. One of them, the slave of Mr. Brown, protested his innocence, and pleaded piteously to be released. His agony of mind and sufferings were very intense. Mr. Pendleton's Bill, the one who was the State's evidence ire the case, was the last one executed. Fires were kindled leader the suspended bodies, but they were not consumed. Large numbers of persons lingered about the scene of this awful tragedy until a late hour. The rioters having wreaked their vengeance upon the victims, appeared to be more awe striken than exultant. RACING IN Paats.—The cansegnences of the "military" are not yet effaced ; and, as little as transpired concerning the real canoe of the battle by which that great event was terminated, although the upper circles of the " sport" have been shaken to their very cere. and are, indeed, still quivering under the shock, we will endeavour to sot our readers right as to the real state of the case. After the race had been lost and won—the latter feat having been accomplished by the two English officers—a dispute arose, as might have bean antici pated, between the French and English grooms belonging to the gentlemen of the race, and high words ensued with regard to the res pective value of the winning worse`. On one side it was maintained that in both eases the winner was half-bred French ; and, on the other, teat they were both of pure, unmixed English blood. The gain rel rote so loud end furious that tile gentlemen looking on, who had encouraged it at first, out of sheer amusement at tee strange accent and uncouth gestures of John Bull, whose eager desire to ho nederstood of his French adversaries made him, for once, wholly fergetful of that Britannic phlegm for which he is so ea ebrated all over the Continent, grew seriously alarmed, the more so when, as if by one consent, the English grooms, doffing their coats, and turning me their shirt sleeves, called out in defiance to " elonslear Crapaud" to come on and be beaten, for there was no time to spare. Before the movement could be arrested, a general charge was mode, in which the British gentlemen, their meitere, with that love of danger, and l• a row," which distinguishes them in general, rushed forward, and the melee became universal. Some time elapsed before the police could be collected in sufficient numbers to disperse the combatants ; and when at last they arrived on the field, they stool aghast at the &wilt, so unusual to French eyes. of a general chahce-reedley game of . fistieuffs, which the Englishmen seemed to enjoy eeste as much relish as though it were tile most pleasant pastime in the world. Three or four of the most maltreated, and consequent most defence less, of tee Englishmen were secured—amongst them our old friend Sir John T--, who honestly declared, upon erimination before tee Cernmiesaire de Police. that, having only just arrived, ha bore no ill will to anyone, nor did he even kno.v the canoe of the dispute; but seeing a pock of Englishmen ire trouble, and thinking the French way of fighting unfair in the extreme, the latter having receursa to kicking in their mode of warfare, he had rushed to the rescue of his countrymen; bat that such was the confusion, that he honestly be lieved all the blows he got to have come from English fiats, as no French enes could have blackened his eyes in the awful and scientific manner in which that operation had been p.rformel. The simple tale, ae told in sir John's peculiar French, so worked upon the feelings of the honest commissaire, that he was set free with the j exclamation, re-echoe 1 by the attendants, of " 0 grand Dieu gaged. eriginaux qae cos Angkiis!" Paris correspondence of the Court journal. 'tfli - STARTL ING TRAGEDY. ELDER PRAT r, THE MORMON, KILLED. SEDUCTION OF A WIFE. The St Louis Democrat, of May 25, says : —We have to record to-day another painful narrative of Mormon iniquity, seduction, and vill&ny, followed up in this instance, however, as it will be seen, by a summary vengeance from the injured husband. The account which we publish below is taken from the Van Buren (Ark.) Intelligeneer, and gives in brief the facts of the case pretty much as they have occurred. From the Fort Smith Herald and the New Orleans Bulletin we have also confirmation of the whole story, up to the last act in the drama, the tragic death of Elder Pratt, the Mormon Apostle. Thus it will be .seen what utter ruin and devastation has been wrought in a virtuous family by the designing arts of a saintly scoundrel, and the lures of a false and licentious faith. Here is what the Van Buren Intelligeneer records of the termination of this affair : TRAGIC AL. thronicl, It is with regret that we have to c_ aatcte the homiciae, committed in our vicinity on Wednesday last, by Mr. Hector H. McLean, late of San Francisco, California, upon the person of a Mormon preacher. More than all do we deplore the melancholy affair that led to its com mission. The deceased, whose name was Parley Parker Pratt, was a man of note among the Mormons, and judg ing from his diary and his letter to Mrs. McLean, he was a man of more than ordinary intelligence and ability;' He hid been a preacher and missionary of the Mormonk: at San Francisco, California, where he made theil acquaintance of Mrs. McLean, -whom he induced to embrace the Mormon faith. She was at that time living with her husband, Hector H. McLean ; they were happy and prosperous until she made the acquaintance of Pratt, and embraced the Mormon faith. She is the mother of three children by McLean, two boys anda girl, and seems to be an intelligent and interesting lady ; converses fluently, and with more grace and ease than most ladies. About two years ago, and soon after she became a convert to Mormonism, she made an attempt to abduct two of her children to Utah, but was detected and prevented by her brother, who was then in California and residing with his brother-in-law, Mr McLean She soon after, however, found means to elope with said Pratt to Salt Lake, where, it is said, she became his ninth wife. After the elopement of Mrs McLean, her parents,who reside near New Orleans, wrote to Mr. McLean in California, to send the children to them. He did so. Several months after this McLean received news that his wife had been to her father in New Orleans, and eloped with the two youngest children. He immediately left San Francisco for New Orleans, and on arriving at the house of his father-in-law, he learned from them that Mrs McLean had been there, and after an ineffectual effort to convert her father and mother to Mormonism, she pretended to abandon it herself, and so far obtained the confidence of har parents as to induce them to entrust her in the City of New Orleans with the children ; but they soon found that she had betrayed their c aifidence, and eloped with the children. They then wrote to McLean in San Francisco, who, upon the receipt of their letter, went to New Orleans, and, learning from them the above facts in relation to the affair, immediately started in pursuit of his children. He went to New York and then to St. Louis. While in St. Louis he learned that the woman and children were in Houston, Texas. On his arrival in Houston, he found that his wife had lef - , some time before his arrival, to join a large party of Mormons en route for Utah. He then returned to New Orleans and from there to Fort Gibson, in the Cherokee Nation, with the expecta tion of intercepting his wife and children at that paint. On arriving at Fort Gibson. and while there, he found letters in the post-office to his wife from Pratt, some of which were mailed at St. Louie, and others at Flint post-office, Cherokee Nation. We are unable to give the contents of these letters with particularity, but they con tained the fact that McLean was on the look out for her and the children, and that they were betrayed by the apostates and gentiles, and advising her to be cautious in her move ments, and not to let herself be known only to a few of the saints and elders. McLean then, upon affidavit made by himself, obtained a writ from the United States Commis sioner at this place for their arrest, and succeeded in getting them arrested by the United State; Marshal. They were brought to this place for trial, and after an examina tion before the Commissioners, were discharged. Pratt, as soon as released, mounted his horse, and left the city. McLean soon after obtained a horse and started in pur suit, and overtook Pratt about eight miles from the city and shot him. Pratt died in about two hours after receiving the wound. This is a plain narrative of the facts, as we heard them from the most reliable resources, which we give to our readers without comment, and we feel we are unable to do so with justice to all parties. But deeply do we sympathize with McLean in the unfortunate condition in which Mormon viilany and fanaticism has placed him." FIVE DAYS WITITOLT r FOOD.—Thr: Journal Viennoisc contains the following recital little girl, about nine years of age, residing, at Chattounay (Vienne), was em ployed to take three young goats to browse in the neigh bouring wood. About ten days agoshe went out as usual with her little flock, 'but did not return in the evening, nor on the next two days, and considerable alarm was felt. Five days after her disappearance, a woodman belonging to the commune found the child lying among some brushvvood with her head supported on one arm, and' the goats stand ing round her as if mounting guard for her protection. The facc of the chill was livid, and at the first glance he supposed her to be dead. On lifting her ❑p, the man found that she still breathed, She wal conveyed to the house of a farmer near, where every attention was paid her, and she soon recovered. On the day cf her disanpearance, a severe thunder storm had comb on, and in alarm the poor child had wandered into the thickest part of the wood, and havinglost her way, had fallen down fcona fatigue, and remained there exposed to hunger and cold, for five days until found. THE TRIBUNAL OF COMMERCE Assomartoe(leas addressed the following circular note to some of its leading subscrib ers :—" 12, Mark-lane, 9th Jane, 1857.--Sir, on Thursday, the 11th instant. at two o'clock, a deputation will wait on Mr. Crawford, M.P., at 71, Old Broad-street, and we beg the favour of your joining it. Mr. Travers, Mr. Gassiot, and other gentlemen who take an interest in public matters, have intimated to us their intention to attend. The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce (in reply to our question) has informed us that ' if Mr. Crawford will move for a committee of inquiry, one of their members will second the motion.' We have, with a deputation, waited on Lord John Russell, when his lordship expressed the opinion that this course would be the proper course to take, and that if adopted, he would support it. Our object on Thursday is to beg of Mr. Crawford to make the motion ; and at the same time to present the petition of the metropolis, which will be supported by those of Liverpool, Bristol, Plymouth, Leith, Newcastle, Worcester, and other important places. —I am, sir, your most obedient servant, FRANCIS LINE, chairman." TRIAL AND Coervicrioie FOR FORGERY.—At the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Monday, Joseph Manning Wilson, lately a merchant in Leith, was charged with forgery and uttering six forged bills of exchange, to the amount in all of £2,345 18s. 4d., between October, 1855, and January, 1856. About the same time several other bill forgeries were committed in Leith, and a met.. chant there named Jacob Christiansen was apprehended, and convicted in connection with them in May, 1856, and sentenced to be transported for life. Wilson had, in February or March, 1856, been examined by the Pro curator-Fiscal in regard to the forgeries then creating so much uneasiness in Leith, but there was no evidence sufficient to detain him, and soon afterwards he absconded and took ship for Australia. In his absence he was indicted for trial, and on not appearing was outlawed by the High Court in ltlay, 1856. He was at length, how ever, apprehended at Folkestone in November last, by the superintendent of the Leith police, Mr. Grant, having just come ashore in a smell b )at from the vessel in the channel, and awaiting the opportunity to proceed to America or the continent. After the trial of eight hours the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to transportation for the period of his natural life. THE DIVORCE BILL.—In one particular only do we feel disposed to challenge the wisdom of the Lords' decision in the matter of divorce. They have refused to place the sexes on a level. They deny the outraged wife, except in rare instances of aggravation, the remedy which they extend to the injured husband. Thee are chargeable herein with that inveterate tyranny which the stronger sex has exer cised over the weaker from the beginning of time. No doubt, there is a considerable difference in the social con sequences which are entailed by transgression in the two cases respectively ; but not greater than is fairly balanced by the difference. likewise, in the feelings with which each party would resort to the remedy of divorce. If the hus band's infidelity do's not equally involve his whole family in misery as does that of the wife, equally guilty as he is in the sight of God, so neither is he so likely to be cast off by her as an offender whom it would be impossible to restore to her affections or even confidence. The means of redress, even if equally available for the wife as for the busbmd, would be sparingly and relectantly resorted to. But hhe ought to have it as a protection from habitual outrage. We may unfalteringly leave the use she would make of it to her o.v feminine and wifely instincts. Differ from man, neqnestionablv, she does ; but why should law treat that difference as inferiority ? We are sorry that Lord Lynd hurst's marvellous and unanswerable speech on this sub ject did not prevail upon the Howe of Peers to crown their good work. — Nonconformist. PARLIAMENTARY DOCUMENTS. ENCUMBERED EBTATES.—The sales in the Encumbered Estates Court last week realised 178,000. The amount of rental posted for sale in the month of June, is £18,263 per annum, the acreage being 83,000; The two largest properties are those of Sir Edmund Hayes, M.P., in the county of Donegal (.C6,000 a-year), on the 12th c f June ; and of George Lane Fox, in Waterford, on the 26th. After the 10th of July, and until the 2nd of November, there will be no farther sales in the present year. GIASGOW AND NON-INTERVENTION.—A petition to Par liament from Glasgow represents that the armed inter- ference of foreign powers with the internal policy of independent states does not tend to secure the happiness or advance the prosperity of such states, but has been, on the contrary, a fertile source of revolutions and general,.„, wars ; and that the existing condition of Italy, as affected lic:1 by the continuation of such interferences, is the cause of ficii serious alarm to Europe. TAMPERING WIT/I LOCAL ELECTIONS.—A memorial to the Commons, from Great Yarmouth, states that the petitioners have frequently had reason to believe that local elections were influenced unduly and illegally by the connivance, or through the instrumentality, of various persons, owing to the facilities afforded for tampering with voting papers during the delivering, collecting, and record ing the same. That your petitioners further believe, that the votes of great numbers of persons have from time to time been omitted, or disallowed, which ought to have been received and recorded at such elections, and that many votes which ought not to have been admitted or computed as valid, have been received and rnekoned as though the same had been good and legal. That your petition ers regard the system of election by way of voting papers as thoroughly vicious and corrupt. TIIE LICENSING QUESTION.—A petition to Parliament J 4 from the Beckhampstead Guardians, says, that th e present'"i system of licensing beer-houses, does not afford that proL tection to the morality of the labouring classes . which is required from the hands of the legislature. That, whilit convictions for offences against the law in beer-houses are frequent, they are comparatively rare in houses the licenses of which are under the control of the magistracy. That by making the character of the applicant the necessary voucher for a license, a material guarantee for the more decent and orderly conduct of beer-houses is at once obtained : and your petitioners have not in their experience, any reason to believe that by placing the license of such houses in the hands of the magistrates, any more estraint than is necessary will be placed on the trade of the brewer, or the convenience of the consumer. Your petitioners therefore humbly pray your honourable house to enact a law by which the license of such houses may be transferred from the excise to the magistracy of the district. COMPLAINT AGAINST A Bisnor.—A petition presented to the Commons from Great Torrington, Devonshire, re presents that the bishop of the diocese has refused to consecrate or license that portion of the ground allotted for the use of members of the Church of England. That since the Ist of December, 1855, the churchyard of the said parish has been closed by Order in Council, and that there is now no ground in the parish where burial services can be performed by ministers of the Church of England, without becoming liable to ecclesiastical censures and penalties, and consequently the service had been performed in every instance by laymen. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. The 10th quarterly meeting of the members was held at the office, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, on Tuesday, the 9th instant, Viscount Ranelegh in the chair. The Chairman read the report of the executive committee, which con gratulated the members on the enceess of the achievement made in April last ; of allotting houses lease i and occupied, the villa residences on the St, Margaret's estate not only having been chosen with early rights of choice, but con siderable premiums were paid to secure these excellent investments. Before the end of_ the financial year, the committee hoped to submit for sale,-villasnow in the course of erection on the Enfield estate.' About one-third of the Taunton estate has been already sold, and the tenders for roads and drains having been called for, it is ex pected that the remainder will be speedily taken. The contract for the Kentish•tow.l estate, roads, and drains, will be carried out without delay. The Maidstone estate, in West Kent, and the Redhill estate, in Nutfield, close to the railway station, in East Surrey, will be allotted on the 18th inst. The committee have set apart a free site for a church on the Maidstone estate ; and it was stated that a handsome donation had been subscribed by a gentleman of Maidstone to secure the speedy erection of a church. Lord Alfred Churchill having retired, the executive committee had elected Lieut-Colonel Meyrick, as a member of the board ; Viscount Tevensey, M.P., Hon. Ralph Dutton, M.P., Air. Beach, MP., Mr. Archibald, M.P., and Mr. M. D. Li , ots, had been added to the general entrunittte. The receipts from Lady-day to June 0, amounted to £8,154 19s 10d, and the grand total to that date to £295,508 Os 10d. Total number of shares 13,343. The total sale of land was £205,375 14s. 2d. The report then adverted to the recent general elections :—" The executive committee had occasion in their last report, after the con tests in East Sussex, and West Kent had taken place, to record the good faith with which nearly all the allottees, who acquired the freehold franchise in those two counties, through the instrumentality of the society, had voted hip favour of the Conservative candidates. Since the; two struggles referred to, a general election has takerg place, the fourth parliament of Queen Victoria, having e been dissolved on the 20th of March, 1857. The coma mittee have again tke satisfaction of reporting to the members that the returns of the polling have been exceed ingly gratifying, and had the general body of Conservatives acted with the same consistency and fidelity as the allat tees of the society, some of the counties might have been saved to the caus e . Th e comm i ttee were we ll aware that in a society, the commercial advantages of which have been so eagerly sought after by all classes of the com munity, investors of various shades of political opinion would be found, many of whom, it may be stated honour ably abstained from voting, but so far as regards the mem bers placed on the register by the society, the proportion of Conservative voters is at least 00 per cent On the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Brownlow Knox, M.P, the report was unanimously adopted. A drawing afterwards took place for 100 rights of choice, and 50 were added by seniority. At LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh street, ROY'S are CLOTHED from the. A' es of 6 to 20 Years The sales in the Encumbered Estates Court last week realized £78.000. The arnounnt of rental posted for sale in the month of June is £18,263 per annum, the acreage being £83,000. The two largest properties are those of Sir Edmund Hayes, M.P., in the county of Donegal (£6,000 a year), on the 12th of June ; anther George Lane Fox, in Waterford, on the 26th. After the 10th of July, and until the 2nd of November, there will be no further sales in the present year. _REFUSAL OF A CLERGYMAN TO BURY A CORPSE.—A. deep sensation prevails in the parish of Frindsbury, near Roches ter, owing to a clergyman having refused the burial of an aged female, of the name of Stacy, who has lived in the ser vice of Mr. W. Manclark, mayor of Rochester. for upwards of 40 years. The friends of the deceased, who reside in the parish, had made the necessary arrangements for the: funeral. To his astonishment, however, he received a notice from the minister forbidding the interment. The friends also received a similar notice, aed the grave was filed up again. The remains were taken and deposited in the new cemetery of St Nicholas, in the parish of St. Margaret's, Rochester. Tee most numerous class of Russian travellers this year, appears to be young military men. Whoever has rank and pecuniary means applies now for leave of absence) to such an extent that it is difficult to provide for the per formance of the ordinary routine of service. Tnongh these gentlemen do not travel officieley, it is well known that their visiting foreign parts is agreeable to the Emperor, and that they h ive been invited to send in to their supe rior officers en their retain an account of ail they have seen on their travels. Tne route appears to be always G ermany, ij e l g i um , France, and sometitnes Switzerland and Sardinia, but hardly in any e ise, England or Alotria. This, however, does not appear to be the result of any p ro hibition or intimation from highe r clearers, h ut rather 6rtlahte political antip e t hi es engendered e war. dthuerincognasenaduseinnceee the THe MORMONS AND TEE UNITii:D STATES GOVERNMENT. —lt is stated that the government has determiced upon adopting vigorous measures as reeards the Mormons. A large force is to be despatcheil thither, probably il"ry command i of General Ha rne y. Th e movements o f under m Brigham Young had attracted some attention since the receipt of the report that he bad fled from Utah. Now that it has been ascertained that there is no truth in the report, his proposed expedition to the north forms the interesting fe a t ure of Mormon intelligence. It was stated, on reliable auth or i ty, that the Mormons are about corn.. mencing a settlement near Council Bluffs for an outpost or receiving station. The leading mot of the new settle ment ere to be Eastern men, who have not been initiated into the real mysteries of Mormonism, and who will, therefore, b e b etter fi tte d f or ta ki ng harge ot young di-41es and giving them their first lessons in the new faith. It is more than probable.that the foundingeif this settlement is the real cause of Brigham's " secret expe dition to somewhere in the North."