The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-16 00:00:00

M• Rossum,s teach the world that the interests of Hungarian freedom f t r i e le edo in m . and civilisation are connectedinternally e -- terests of European freedom and civilisation. (Cheers.) ,__ . M. Kossuth delivered his second lecture in the Concert- 2 And yet as . if the conscience of m 11411 l ast night. A • that of ! An audience, at least fully equal to an expiring lamp —as if his death—as if the light of their countries were nothing more the ii than the flickering flame of Preceding night in point of numbers, and enthusiasm gaits the battle-field again, and is i tory with all its instruction were a blank leaf, dedicated is as rapturous and overwhelming, greeted M. Kossuth's to oblivion, B ec , ond allowed s tand Hungary alone in the struggle. She, always the appearance in Liverpool. The, body, galleries, ,alla Platform of the crowded densely as champion, te ofte f n r t h he victim of Christian Europe, and even Delo hall, were as the bulwark o 1 eity, mu a st ti a a g n a l in th b a e u ar st t a h n e de b s r t u f n o t re o a f k t e h a e e, he platform, indeed, being perhaps more closely battle. Again, Oh !my ailed, . , sae eight o'clock M. Kossuth made his appearance and alone; yet stand. There is a h Go t d. fl in t tazi i : n e l v e e n t i l . 131 1 the platform,• •reception of the dew is falling —in the and was greeted with a the stars—in the law by which to us, not only in the Scriptures, u 1 , s ""Whel rahlg applause. The chair was then taken,. , on ale motion germination of the flower seed, and in those eternal moral Air II of Mr. C. E. Rawlins, by Mr. James A. Pieta's. laws of justice which h a istory witnesses can as little be s the external immovable laws of • G• Holt, Mr. Commissioner Perry, the Rev. Mr. Ch • violated with impunity arming, and a number tl were among of other gen emen P Istand, though thou standest alone. Rely on Him the . physical world. (Applause.) Therefore, oh, my thos e nation andef Hiso f justice. on the platform. T he Ch • - above—He is the God of merey retribution, H e a e willd 4 reW airman introduced the subject of the evening in weich thy tears . in the balance b. elo quent observations, glancing at the history of the upon thy Bible alone rely. (Applause.) Sir, I have snlngarian struggle, • WS and presenting the lecturer as one , done; and in bidding adieu and most •hearty farewell, I bee to be allowed to hope,. that though I may not have - h ° o was really :hero—not such a hero, however, as one come up to your expectations, still you will allow me to your kind remembrances, side by neit `vas , a police-constable one year and a monarch the hold a . small 'place in (Cheers, and cries of Vive rs, and some interruption, WaPo l eo(The distinguished exile resumed his seat amid the most n-) The Chairman disclaimed all idea of intro- d ottin tic enthusias applause, which was again and again eh g anY Subject to create a difference of opinion, and renewed.) ell tits IT efiy concluded b introducing n Kossuth. On the motion of Mr. Holt, the thanks of the meeting -*" l oss y • dwith were voted by acclamation to him, and he withdrew from ro ost _ • uth on coming forward was receive a te, ehthusiastic and general , awe' the hall amid another outburst of applause. n 3:111$ his lecture, he said the su' not a L ' t , , a 111 . 1 i ntended to conclude th at e us e mg• . But his heart c tbo he had not misunderstood nis po ~,, neht that h eLatiet, -Is was not wanton amu' for th ,on foreign matters whie! ' , urn I air k• ' - . indeed oldness, to such an intelbgetie _ eiy. And, l oos , , he thought the object was well deserving of their eooBl.olaoXious consideration. It was both a delight and a ineit t a tion to think that an onward course toware hum a n Perfection was the destiny It ~„, race. would ee. For :men `oe is ee - he difficult, indee ~ to neat swas.,7 the ee prevailing and impious men possessing th at ' ,yea, earth, if they were,not cheered by the thought exertruattver might be their personal reverses, every is ad: a ll n in the cause of humanity would ultimately result ,aake tiZ e e l og snanleind on their onward course. (Cheers.) 1311bile-,"at conviction away, and nothing would be left to !le. - s' eee toe, unsupported by success, but to despair and of time b men there were who, measuring the eternity beep l e el the small yard of minutes called centuries, had ise kan n to imagine that the apparent onwardness of aS a ee.Progress was but relative and partial, and that, tontrulful type of the restless Ahasuerus, mankind kept 14 Wa s g e uP the steep, and rushing down the precipice, Setati l - ° ,_ ll the march, but never nearer to the goal, pre- Ike t h g e tb their course but phases of recurrent . motion, peodtt rotation of the stars, or the vibration of the t o bep e lli n• It certainly was something like a consolation Ilpp e ,:ve. that although the boasted nineteenth century lip toi sled to Pass through the ordeal of losing one by one oit e ~,,1e to shade glorious moral acquisitions, eaerg i llt at least been gained by the gigantic triestg l , f , 3 „°f past centuries—emancipation from ambitious "hole •.'"• (Cheers.) That emancipation for which precto generations had bled, constituted one of the most er ootlB,,aesluisitions of humanity; and now, let them pon mat „e'lle Concordat, and say, was it not sad to think, fitted O n ce that consolation th e y s h ou ld b e per %kew ' u enjoy ? (L ou d c h eers. ) B ut, b efore p sis nat e ; • 4 t his branch of his subje c t, th e di s ti ngu i s h e d hi th e e. co ntrasted the conduct of Maximili an th e Fi rs t , the ti...7 l2tee nth century, in his oppositi on t o th e P ope o f Zieg e ! with that of his descendant, in the present day, tie i l - o Ling into th e recen t concordat with the Papacy. atpsh,,ed that from the earliest time the House of gorge, though tyrants to its people, had always main ultoreee‘ue national rights against foreign and Papal coatis nee, but it was reserved for Francis Joseph to ,lacriCe , not only to oppress his people, but also to , he oa _e the national independence, He then explained to th e `gre, of the stringent power given by the Concordat e eele sthe • "Pe, and contrasting it with the exercise of ebjoyeTtical rights, which the Church of Hungary had ,eite ot " p as long as Hunary herself existed, showed the ea es eee °l the priestly depotism which Francis Joseph, by ale 10,71.e s ubmission to the Pope of Rome, has placed over eelthienguote, It was well known, ho said, that the It °ne o f °f the Roman Catholic clergy was the corner th e f ._ ;Ilse power of the Papacy; for by thus dissolving l els e 7 u "Y tie, the popes contributed to create for them ,tottoe lies and nations of their own, in the midst of as ppm' ° ! l , l s e i F nations. That this was a potent fact in L ironeirulle7, he argued that the exertions of the popes elerza aUccessive reigns, to enforce the celibacy of the Nth e 54,proved it, but though other nations submitted to %4, 1 ' 4 110 48 on the subject, the Hungarian clergy con- N I V° Marry for many a year afterwards, thus again tit egs' to deed, as they had before denied in word, the re en — l oe popes to their newly arrogated and oppres '-alte,V W rs. They at length, however, too succumbed, We s eatever remnant of national rights they preserved I t. era sn , e a tehed from them by the Concordat, which, in a k v ecie s :"acie the civil power merely the beadle of tilt ..,j.astical power. Passing `•--- ProW•ouolith proceeded to ti ail!be it s! of Protestantism in Hue el'aortnation, he said, penetratett all e " I .unreara ay s b e , and " civil and religi, se_ eeemscribed on the banners of I 'lose.. eagainst Austrian tyranny and oppression. sio,u_ht, however, the house of Hapsburg obtained posses tke",,;,. the throne of Austria, it commenced to war against p ee se: otestantisrn and liberty of Hungary, and so long as t h: ,b4a Pshorg was allowed to have es e i a !inholy e a power, so long would ae, I e r e - the onpressive struggle be coatinued, and, I,,,'4eis iri p s . ,e en- Kossuth, " Woe the moment, woe the day "oe - " -u garY first trusted the oath of a Hapsburg it ee _ pt it see Pt ~1 '" 8 ; woe the improvident magnanimity that teri or ea a new oath as security against the repetition of N l _ sh p when a victorious nation had it in its hands to ~,'I IR ort'e of lecturer then traced the vary oat of Protestantism in his 'law, ...,... mat tiow q . aY, but the details, though sad, were, unhappily l o l Levery, They were the repetition of the experience p-.p er - 8 c ountry in the world which has suffered religi asete,seention, and has steadfastly fought for liberty of gat th e ",, e e• In the case of Hungary, however, he shoved _hadiii:cl)(lthaie been one redeeming feature in the struggle, te th the e steadfastness and unanimity with which getk er , -Ikonlan Catholics and Protestants stood banded 1 - el ti calal'il," fought and bled in defence of their common tedle deoloerty against the tyranny of Austria. For, k a Paey, Al tu e _eing the Concordat and the ambition of the 0 le eto •-• re.ossuth lost no opportunity in the course of t i.tta n , r e, to Pay a tribute to the patriotism of his tree ti,`Atholie fellow-countrymen, and to exonerate th °t hing, hehe vices of the Roman ecclesiastical system. v an th e ~,, declared, was more dangerous to priestcraft of.- nhle, and, therefore, not in vain had the Council * "res to trohibited the promiscuous selection of the scrip- Ohl e vernacular language. (Cheers.) The Bible se so t ero :: ( t ) .4 . be .9. forbidden book in Hungary . —they might . Stie l4 Well fie then quoted the prophetic remarks m tb,larc in as to the effect of the suppression of Protest tesNed e___;s e ollgary by the House of Austria, and thus con lie 8 4p - n;f.ere are two alternatives. The first rests on a .aY so;• o 'lgols that a favourable change of circumstances f li s . e , rst og hPres.ene Hungary with an opportunity for re twat der Tdependance. (Hear, hear, and chesrs.) to e ,"ers w e , -1 - do not fear the Concordat, though the rope 41 ed s o —l ,,self that Hungary will by and by get accus teefeer „'see new order of things. (Laughter.) I have noooetuat the rising generation will be prevented by the Iqothersif the Concordat. (Cheers.) The Hunarian vlltiso a i x ,o ne are sufficient to neutralise it. Their g very hi l age t a bZthe social fireside—their traditions, and the %tor esters melancholy songs, shall teach them its lit eo Y. t'a 'tile C - APlause ) In the emergency of an early Pother ploy ar e • . • el , Inclined to think that the Concordat wo ild , etti` u 've an instrument for good than an instrument with .4 ; be ea sip b e ue,.on the one hand, you Protest well ima e me het p t oe _ , ueterrnination the Hungarian nt will 17 a Ztl!W ord-- (cheers)—and, on the other hand, you can 1 1 44 011 74 e that not less unanimous will be the deter. t s o'e tte __e , the Hungarian Catholic. (Cheers.) He is • t ia tuvacTi. religious, and inclined to respect even t o so . luularY regulations of his church if left to k arty hi but that the priests have the power ' 14 ., ve m e aby force to the confessional—that he should 'Ns s' g e Power to tr ike e :r meat in is.... e i t Y his dish to see whether there is /11 4 1. tO dip let s no a '!ghter)—that he should have the , t o _ , to . se into what he may read, or what he ~bloa pOIC_ . 1013 par ttO hit Children at his fireside, are ti 8171,,,10: part him to rage and resistance. (Hear, hear.) ea t . ,7:o,think what effect it havo on the army to Neiq bligatory fasting on• h days of the e Such and sue t 7 :,, „ 4 131, tary order of the monk Emperor I (Hear, n...t ha g istaughter.) Remember, also, the dreadful change e'hli ono brought about in the condition of the entire tote et P clergy resulting in absolute servitude, with no add::;4l either in the laws a or civil government. Let '''' s'a of them be e eel ke • nything but obedient th gia.,.. will be dragged before the secret I C 14,4' cal tribunal, there judged according to laws not : 4 1 of h s utr mured m the dungeon of a hs.B to . i co ri tole Z i .: eraterY,:with nobody rotect him —nobody to corn lesßldish h url, —nobody to listen to the groans of his 'atil t -- noood to • e off the tears of his sufferings. t , e ' l lele: ; l all these together, wiP and you must come to the t latia o e . .a that in case of a Hungarian struggle the Hun. ~ileyotitholies in general will be amongst the foremost Caot, Pu to their native land. (Cheers.) Of course I el l 'a, e . 4 !ell you that in any such case the Concordat has I,,ee ek , s Is to be no more than a re' —se for the iegeseooLliger. (Hear, hear.) Thai hadaueDie is, that . the Concordat v dr ead s , niaehmery, and that 14 t e " dog R' the regul i s ,Wo o , e _ but that if this syst o:echo, S;',7nerations, the least of the loss that must follow ' 111 1 •01 , s o 'C a , the present, but the next, generation will be h t° Pe cl - by a century behind the general standard of s ne 41 1 civil' • h_ to e, Isation. On this supposition rests the only to 'eso b i ;ee, that the Hengarian parent will prefer not to taias a ndchildren instructed at all, than to have their s 4 tt fe t t ofea_ouls corrupted by bad instruction. (Cheers.) th o Y t o iia°2! dreadful to think that we should look for Ish i ' allow ,l d etermination. Now, if this Concordat is Is4eeh was „_ to work, all I can say is, that Hungary, le to lt oecivir bulwark of Christendom—always the bul top erae ee, I s eaplon against barbarism, of tolerance against s ni pe; of 2:n.ereedom against spiritud and temporal des 114js A e, v e 11 ,.a_t,1. a nal right? again3t Pontificia! ambition— littp;,n st ee ",(°_o n addition to the Papal power, will form se o ",ntiott,' a l - s 'fig-stone to the onward course of Pontificial ),army o r .... so ,give irresistible strength to the common b it ir iti ie st cLotnuctn civil freedom, and religious liberty. The 144 4 4 al rightluded is the result of the violation of inter d_ _,.. ain ou sufferinghi 1848. The war just con ' wan.all its and precarious issues, shall DND LECTURE ammation. In pre he had treated last lat evening, was certainly ce more convinced him COUNTY COURT v - -ESTERDAY (BEFORE J. POLLOCK, ESQ.. THE JUDGE.) FRAUD SUMMONS.—GILLOW V. EDWARDS.—The defend ant in this case was called upon to show cause why be had not complied with a former order of the court. It came out in evidence that the plaintiff had taken out an execution against the defendant's goods, but it could not be carried into effect in the I CODSCOUCO but infor had to off _ of of noble aspirations s it wasalleged, of the property having been handed over to the daughter, who had since carried on the business— that of a painter, it, Dale-street. The plaintiff, in consequence of that fraud, requested the court to commit the defendant. This allegation was denied, and it was stated that the daughter had purchased the property. His Honour adjourned the case until the ➢iay court, when the daughter was to bo produced in order that the truth might be elicited. Several applications' for commitment in fraud summons cases were made, and some commitments also made. None of the cases possessed the slightest public interest. ROWE v. FOOKE AND OTHERS.—This was an application made to have a case replaced which had, been withdrawn .as settled. Mr. Hime appeared for the plaintiff', and Mr. Campbell for the defendants, who were members of a society called the Householders' Association. The action had been brought to recover an amount for professional services rendered to defendants, and when about to come on for trial it was withdrawn. The plaintiff now contended that he had not given a final consent to the withdrawal. His Honour, however, having heard affidavits on both sides, declined to replace the case, remarking that it would be a very had example to other suitors, if he were to do so for a professional man who did not attend sufficiently to his own case. He also atatod that he saw no reason why he should not give Rooke his costs of preparing for the trial, 'om the Concordat s very dawn ous liberty" had lungarian resist- The 1 up to th calternative. be allowed to ,t I m wed to work INSOLVENT CASES. Peter Harvey, grocer, applied for his certificate, and was supported by Mr. Statham. He was opposed by one of his creditors, who elicited from him admissions that on the day when he applied to that court first, he made promises to the creditors of payment ; and that he had, since becoming insol vent, attended the Liverpool races, betted there, and won and lost several sums of money, winning on one day £6, and losing it the next: His Honour said lie did not think he would be . doing his duty if he did not at once discountenance such pro ceedings as had been elicited on that occasion. _Here Was a man insolvent, and hopelessly insolvent, who not only had neglected his business, and gave no account of the payments he made to some of his creditors (lilting .the two months. before his insol vency, but on tjte . very'day when he petitione&the court went to one of the creditors and held out a prospect of payment, Which he knew could never be realised—got thin an allowance of 15s. a week from the court as being a person in want, and then attended the steeple-chase, and other races, where he won and lost £6 a day. He should mark his sense of such conduct by adjourning the case sine die without any protection. The application of James Henry Potter, insolvent,' was adjourned, in consequence of insolvent's absence, to the 6th of May. The application of John Parke was supported by Mr, Camp bell. This case has been adjourned in order that the insolvent might furnish an accouat of some property. This was done to the satisfaction of the court. His Honour said the insol vent appeared in no better position now than at first: It was a case which he looked on with suspicion at first, and he did so still. Ile, therefore, adjourned the application sine die without protection. The application of Isaac Lazarus, insolvent, was adjDurned until the 20th of May. August us II 17, insolvent, was supported by Mr. Grocott, I opposed by Mr. dEme on the part of a creditor named Hunter. The insolvent and the opposing creditor were both artists. The debt was for a drawing executed by Mr Hunter for Mr. Harding. His Honour directed that Mr. Harding should come up for his final order up on th e 3 r d o f June. Richard John Champion, insolvent, was supported .- by Mr. Hughes. The insolvent was a chemist and druggist. He was opposed on behalf of one of the creditors. The 20th of May was appointed for the final order. John Robinson, Brunswick-road, commission agent, in solvent, was supported by Mr. Gray, and was not opposed. His final order was fixed for the second court in June. James Robinson, tailor, was ordered to come up for a final order at the same time, Gilliam Cubbin was ordered to receive a final order on the 20th of May. Henry Gibbson, of Canning street, was opposed by Mr. Almond. Mr. Bremner supported the insolvent. His Honour stated that the insolvent had been guilty of impropriety in incurring a variety of debts to every kind of creditors by extravagant living with narrow means. He postponed a final order until the first court in July, and withdrew protection, as regarded the opposing creditors Nos. 3 and 20, until the first of June. The applirafion of Patrick Dolan, insolvent, was adjourned to the 6th of May, for the purpose of amending the schedule. William Hyde, insolvent, was supported by Mr. lime, and opposed by Mr. Grocott. The case was also adjourned to the 6th of May to amend the schedule, notice to be given to certain creditors. The court then adjourned. THE MURDER OF MISS HINDS The jury in the case . ; of Thomas Dunn, charged at the Cavan Special Commission, with conspiaing to procure the murder of Miss Hinds, having returned a verdict of " guilty," the prisoner, together with James Murphy, convicted of the actual murder of that unfortunate lady, was put forward in the course of Saturday afternoon to receive the final sentence of the law. Chief Justice Monaghan addressed the nrisoners at some length, com menting, in terms calculated to produce an impression on the peasantry of th , ‘ country, not only of the atrocity of the crime, but upon the. open way in which the conspiracy for its commission was carried on, and the insane confi dence which the several accomplices placed in one another—confidence which was invariably and most surely betrayed in all such cases. The prisoners were each of them sentenced to be hanged on the 16th of May, the body of Murphy to be buried within the precints of the gaol, and that of Donn, at the wretched man's own entreaty, to be given up to his friends. Dunn protested his innocence with great firmness, and asserted that the approvers were the real perpetrators of the crime. Red A.-'at Bannon, the other person engaged with Murphy in the actual commission of the murder, has, it is supposed, escaped to America. Some prisoners charged with a riot were discharged on bail, and the special commission was declared to be closed. THE MURDER OF MRS. KELLY DUBLIN, Tuesday.—The coroner's jury have returned a verdict of " wilful murder" against two persons unknown. It was not deemed, at present, expedient to examine many of the witnesses who were in attendance, as the police have foun l, in some of the houses on the lands belonging to the unfortunate lady, various articles sup posed to have been worn as disguises by the assassins, whom, they imagine, they have probable means of dis covering and tringing to justice. At the present moment the magistrates are engaged, in private, receiving infor mations. There are at present five persons in custody— Mr. Strevens, the nephew of the deceased, and four of her tenants. DEFENCE OF SEE ISTOPOL. —ACCOrdthg to statistic returns published in the St. Petersburg newspapers, the besieged in Sebast o p o l discharged from the 17th of October, 1854, to the Bth o f September, 1855, projectiles to the number of 1.386,608, an,l weighing 1,405,249 pounds (each equal to 401bs). in addition to the above, 205,810 ponds of powder, and 25,000,000 cartridges were consumed. IMPROVEMENTS IN SUGAR. MACHINERY.—There was a considerable gathering of West India and Demerara propreitors at the Crystal Palace on Saturday to see the sugar mill invented and patented by Messrs. De Morney at work on fresh canes imported from Madeira fot the purpose of affording ocular proof of its simplicity and efficiency. Both its resisting and its crushing powers were fully tested, and the manner in which it took in the canes and delivered the megass at the other end was most satisfactory. It left no refuse, and the juice was particularly free from the minute particles which com monly accompany it. The megass, after receiving the last squeeze, was deprived of nearly every appreciable amount of juice, and the residue afforded unmistakeable evidence of the expressing power of the mill. So little juice remained that the fibre felt barely damp. We can easily conceive this mill producing from 10 to 15 per cent. more sugar than the ordinary three-roller mill. Its most prominent features are its simplicity and the substitu don of a crushing roller of great power for the fixed dump I turner. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16 SELECT VESTRY -YE STE RDAY. death on board the steamboats had taken place, and there tore it was but proper that if they were to be remove, they should be removed with due regard to the interests of humanity. They should endeavour, then, to preserve the good and remedy the evil in the bill. Re should say, however, that there never had been on the part of their officers one single instance of inhumanity towards Irish paupers, and he believed scarcely an instance of accidental inhumanity. Mr. Denton said that it was in corning from Ireland that the deaths took place on board the steamers, when the Irish landowners exported their paupers at threepence a head. The first meeting of the new _board was held at ten o'clock, yesterday, in the public offices, B rown l ow -hill, the Rev. Rector Campbell in the chair. Other members present—Messrs Woodruff, Shaw, SAtchell, Nixon, Taylor, Whitty, Bold, Crellin, Denton, Critchley, Mellor, J. Jones, J. Hastings, C. Wise, H. J. Cooke, S. B. Jackson, Syred, Gardner, Whitby, Bristow, W. Jones, and Luff. WORKITOUSE COMMITTEE. From the proce'dings of this committee it appeared that a short time since the Rev. Mr. Wilson, the chaplain of the hou-e, being ill, intimated to the officials that the Rev. Mr. Stafford would do his duty. While indisposed, a woman of the name of Agues Hanah, being on the point of death, earnestly wished for a clergyman. The Rev. Mr. StPfford was immediately sent for, but could not come, in conse quence of the alarming illness of his wife, and before another clergyman could attend, the woman died. The committee referred the matter for enquiry to the Rev. Rector Campbell. The number of vagrants who visited the sheds during the past week, were 107 males, 107 females, and 27 children—in all, 304. The number of sick cases in the house on the 5,h instant, were 714, in cluding 40 fever, and 65 itch cases. The number of inmates in the house on the 10th instant, were 2,479. The Chairman said that, in reference to the question of the poor woman, Agnes Hanah, who died in the lying-in ward, but who was not attended in her last moments, as she wished, by a clergyman, he bad to express his deep regret and sorrow th , tt any such event should have occurred. He had deeply to lament that any poor woman, under such circumstances, should not have had that religious conso lation which she was entitled to have from the ministrations of the chaplain—and in the event of his illness or indispo sition, of some other clergyman—but he trusted that when he made them acquainted with the circumstances, they wouid see that there was more <f misfortune or mismanage ment, than misconduct in the case. At the same time, they had the consolation of thinking, that though she had not had the ministrations of a clergyman, yet she had been attended to by the wardmistress of the department, who read and prayed at her bedside, an.l gave her all the con solation of which she was capable. He thought there had been some error or mismanagern-nt in the affair. He thought that the Rev. Mr. Wilson should not have applied to the Rev. Mr. Stafford, and that if he was not able to attend himself, the proper person to attend would have been the parish clergyman, or one of his curates. When the chaplain was unable, from indisposition, to perform his duties, the parish clergymen were those who should supply his place, and to them, in this instance, application should have been made. Three of them lived in the close neigh boarheod of the workhouse, and it was therefore the more unfortunate that application had not been made to them. The moment the matter was referred to him (the chairman) he sent to Mr. Stafford and asked for an explanation. He immediately received an explanation from Mr. Stafford, which he deemed satisfactory, and which he would then read to the vestry, trusting that they also would deem it satisfactory, and would consider that there had been more of misfortune than of misconduct in the business. The Chairman then read the follossing letter :- 18, St. Anne-street, April 12, 1856. Dear Sir,—l should have refused aid to Mr. Wilson had I known there was a probability of ray being called out at night, as under the present severe illness in my family I could not attend without serious inconvenience ; still, having promised assistance, no amount of mere inconvenience could have pre vented me attending to the governor's summons, and most willingly would I have been at the workhouse on the night stated, had it been within my power ; but such, I regret to say, was not the case. , I was already in attendance on a bed of illness and bitter suffering, and had taken my accustomed nightly watch by the side of the patient. Some very unfa vourab'e symptoms had developed themselves, and which, I am sorry to say, continued till Tuesday last; and had my wife at that time missed me from my post, in her then state, even fatal consequences might have been apprehended with too much reason. I wrote to Mr. Wilson that I am willing to help him in the daytime, hut cannot at night, It requires all my own wakefulness, and that of a nursetender to watch over the long endured and critical illness under which my wife is suffering, and on some occasions we require still further help. On the night in questio❑ she had lost all power of voluntary motion, and it required four of us to put her straight in bed. lam sorry to be obliged to tell you of domestic griefs, which I am unwilling to obtrude on any one, but without doing so, I could not give a satisfactory reply to the accompanying paper—Yours faithfully• J. H. STAFFORD. Rev. A. Campbell, Liverpool, The proceedings were confirmed, and the Chairman, the Vestry Clerk, the churchwardens, and the senior overseer were appointed a deputation to proceed to London in reference to the bill. On a motion to increase the salary of one of the officers named Power, from 12s. to 14s. per week, Mr. Satchel! expressed a wish that the matter should be referred back to the committee, in order that certain charges against Power, in a letter which he held in his hand, might be enquired into. The letter being an anonymous communication, the board refused to entertain it, but intimated that it was optional with Mr. Satchell to adopt the charges as his own, and lay them before the committee. The Chairman read the following letter :- 10, Oxford-street, April 15, 1856. Rev. Sir,—Having, through you, addressed - the board at its last meeting, in reference to a contemplated re-arrange ment of the medical staff of the workhouse hospital, Mr. Bradley took the opportunity of making some unjust state ments relative to the regularity of my attendance at the hospital, duration of my visits in the wards, &c. I beg to give those statements of Mr. Bradley an unqualified contra diction.—l am, rev. sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT GEE, M.D. The Rev. Aug. Campbell, M.A. The committees for the current year were then cast as follows : The medical relief committee has been merged in the workhouse committee. Finance : Messrs. Denton, Gardner, H. Jones, Luff, Mellor, Whitby, William Jones, Hind, and Brancker.— Industrial Schools : Messrs. Whitty, William Jones, Gardner, Luff, Taylor, Hastings, Cooke, B. B. Jackson, and Wise.—Workhouse : Messrs. Mellor, Whitby, H. Jones, J. Jones, Denton, Jardine, Bold, Crellin, Critcbley, and Syred. . - I would suggest that when illness or any other cause obliges the chaplain to require assistance, that he give the names of at least • two clergymen to whom application may be made, to avoid disappointment arising from circumstances over which there is no controul. Mr. Denton observed that it now appeared that the chap lain lived all the way at Kirkdale, and he thought that they should order him to remove his residence nearer to the workhouse. Mr. Shaw said that the committee would take care that for the future the chairman's suggestion should be acted on, and that in the event of the chaplain's illness, application would always be made to the parish curates. Mr. Woodruff concurred with Mr. Denton, th , t the chaplain should live as near the workhouse as possible. The proceedings were then confirmed. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS COMMITTEE. The proceedings rf this committee were read. They recommended that £6O be expended in repairing the ship. Mr. W. Jones observed that half of this expense should be charged on the Duke of Cambridge's visit, as much injury had been done to the ship by the firing of the guns from her deck. Mr. Shaw said that there were 120 boys above the age of fourteen, fit to be apprenticed t) several trades, and also a large number of girls of the same age, suited for situ ations, now in, the workhouse. He thought it only required the fact to be made known to the public to induca parties to make application for these boys and girls. Mr. Denton suggested that the fact should be advertised in the papers. The matter then dropped, and the proceedings were confirmed. FINANCE COMMITTEE.-MR. BOURLAIE'S BILL FOR THE REMOVAL OP IRISH AND SC3TCII PAUPERS Mr. Woodruff, in moving the confirmation of the pro ceedings of this committee, called attention to the bill intro duced into parliament for the removal of Irish and Scotch paupers, and stated that if the bill passed in its present form, it would entail upon the ratepayers of Liverpool thousands of pounds expense, in keeping paupers here until the right to their removal had been established. He would therefore move that the Finance Committee be authorised to take such steps as they might deem best to oppose the bill. Mr. Whitty thought the Vestry should be supplied with further. informaion as to the character of the bill, before being called on to incur the expense of sending a deputation to London to oppose it. Mr. Woodruff replied, that at present they had the power of removing Irish paupers to the next place on the Irish coast they could have access to, but if this bill passed in its present form, they could not remove them under thirty days, and should also give notice of the particular parish they belonged to. Those paupers were sent over by the landowners in Ireland, in thousands, at a shilling a head, and, therefore, the ratepayers of this country should not permit such a bill to pass as would have the tendency of making that class of paupers cost them thousands of pounds. They did not wish to act harshly towards the Irish going from one place to another on their legitimate business, but they did object to the ratepayers of Liverpool being saddled with the coat of such paupers. The Chairman said that by this bill they should give notice before removal to the Union (if they could find it. which, he believed, in three-fourths of the cases they would find to be impossible), and when they had given the notice, then the Union might give notice to them that it was their intention to appeal, and thus additional delay would be created. In short, his imprtssien was, that if the bill passed as it row stood, the power of removal would be null, and, therefore, they should take some steps to procure a modification of it. Mr. Whitty observed that a large number of poor, who originally belonged to Ireland, but who had lived in Liver pool from twenty-five to forty years, lost their right of set tlement by removing, if only for a month, into a neighbour ing parish. After so long a residence, he thought it hard that such a removal, say, for instance, into West Derby, which was very often done for the purposes of employment, and which therefore contributed to the increase of the commerce of the town, should deprive them of all right of support on the community. If the bill removed that hardship he would consider it fair and just, but if it created an open ing for the landowners or others in Ireland to throw their poor on this country, he should heartily assist in opposing it. Mr. Bairstow said that, of the 5,000 poor removed to Ireland last year, the majority of them had gone voluntarily there, They came to the parish office, and begged to be passed to Ireland. The present bill, however, could only be eharacterised as a bill to manufacture paupers. The Clerk said that most of the Irish paupers passed from Liverpool left of their own accord. They came and begged for passes ; but, if this bill were passed, the board could not comply with their wishes in that respect. What was still worse, they would be required to establish by legal evidence the chargibility of those paupers to certain Irish unions, but when the paupers themselves did not know more than the name of the counties in which they were born, it would be seen that the effect of the bill would be to make them chargeable on the ratepayers of this country. The Chairman said that there were, no doubt, some good points and some very bad points in the bill. There were some good points tending to humanity, but he did not think it just that they should take a poor pauper And throw him on the Irish coast, not knowing what was to become of him. Mr. J. Jones : They throw them so on our coast. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) The Chairman replied that even if it were so they should return good for evil. They could not deny, however, that the existing system, in its operation towards Irish paupers ? bad sometimes been very inhuman. Some dreadful cases of MAILS BY STEAM TO AUSTRALIA, The columns of several of our cotemporaries have for a considerable time past teemed with most fallacious and erroneous statements regarding the quickest, the best, and most advantageous route to Australia, for the conveyance of mails and passengers. As this is a subject of great importance, both to those great colonies and the public, the writer of this, who has taken great pains with the subject, and is well acquainted with it, in all its details, considers it his duty to place the following correct statements and details before the public, in order that neither it nor the colonies may be any farther mis led on these important matters : The distance in geometrical miles from Southampton to Sydney, by Alexandria and Aden, &e., stands thus : les Southampton to Alexandria....... . . Alexandria to Suez. •• l7O Suez to Aden Aden to Diego Gracia .. .. . 2,180 Diego Gracia to Albany (St. George's Sound)... 3,118 Albany to Melbourne . .. ...... . ... Melbourne to Sydney 550 11,704 But the Isthmus is equal to 500 miles, sea distant?, therefore add 330 Total, this route. Now the post-office official list shows that the time— take, for example, the mail of the Bth Jan. last from Calcutta—from the post-office Aden to the post - office London, by overland route, is 21 days, and by the Mediterranean route 25 days (10 days in the one case, and 15 days in the other from Alexandria), varying at times a day more or less by each route. But let us take it at the rate of speed per day as fixed by the Australian association; then from Aden to Sydney the time will stand thus : London by overland route t o Ad en, and clearing it . Da2ly s. Aden to Sydney, by Diego Gracia, 7,223 miles, at 240, is.. 30* Stoppages. coals at Diego Gracia and Albany, and one day at Melbourne . London to Sydney, overland route [not 44 as stJted] s6} Stop at Sydney .. Sydney to London, return by same route..... Totßl out:, ards and inwards ll5l Or 5 days within 4 months for course of post. By sea route, Gibraltar, &c to Aden . Aden to Sydney, a s a bo ve gel Total sea route Stop at Sydney Sydney to London, same route Total outwards and inwards .... Or three days beyond four mouths as the course of post. The last Indian mail received was 20 days overland from Aden, and 21 days from that place by the Mediterranean. To perform and secure the speed stated would require ships (paddle-wheel) of 600 horse power. Their con sumption of coals would be, say, 58 tons daily. It is therefore clear they could not be coaled at either Diego Gracia or St. George's Sound (Albany) in less than two days at each place, and most probably more time would be necessary. Five ships at least would be necessary. Average expenditure for each, yearly, will be 40,000/. Moreover, while the mails from India and China are regulated as those at present are, and, as it is believed, cannot be altered, the mails from Sydney and Melbourne, &c., could never reach Aden in the rate and time men tioned to meet the India and China mails at that place. The latter would be gone three or four days before the former came up, and the mails, passengers, and cargo, whatever that is, be detained eleven or twelve days, till the next India mails came up. And admitting they could meet exactly at Aden, still on every occasion the passen. gers, or a great number of those from Australia, would not find accommodation in the steamers from India. The association unfairly take, and without any explana tion, direct lines when it suits their purpose, but throw them overboard, or misstate them in others, when it suits their purpose. Thus, they assert that the distance from England to Sydney, by the Cape, is 13,367 miles. Now this is not correct. Taking the direct sea lines by the Cape, the distance is only 12,350 miles, or only 300 miles more than their pet route. The correct distance from England to Sydney by Teneriffe, St. Helena, the Cape, Mauritius, Albany, &c., &c., is 13,530 geographical miles. The distance can be run, and is offered to be run, in 54 days, (53 to Melbourne,) including all stoppages, and in the same ship throughout, a convenience of great import ance. At the same time, and at the same expense, it gives a regular communication with all the important places last mentioned ; while the line by Diego Gracia cuts of the Cape and Mauritius, and con fers no benefit whatever .on any British commercial position from Australia to Egypt. With three days' stoppage at Sydney, the course of post between that place and London iviil be 111 days, or nearly 10 days within four months. The association's pet route, Diego Gracia and Overland, brings it to 1151- days, and this only for a small portion of the mails ; and 1231 for the heavy portion thereof and passengers, &c. This, alone, is considered conclusive against the plan proposed by the Australian association. Besides, the whole route by the Cape of Good Hope is worked under the British flag, while theirs may be interrupted and some day cut off, being under a foreign power. The bugbear started, of fearful tempests about Mauritius, is unworthy of notice. Every part of the ocean is more or less subject to storms ; but in no portions thereof does fierce tempests and heavy seas prevail so much as in the North Atlantic, and yet the whole mail vessels on that station do their work so as scarcely to vary above one day in a winter voyage.—Sun, April 14, 1856. BANKRUPTCY COURT.-YESTERDAY (BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER PERRY.) IMPORTANT COMMERCIAL CASE. RE DEANE, YOULE AND CO.—Thii was a dividend meet ing. Mr. Lewndes appeared for the assignees under the bankruptcy. The creditors were represented by the following professional gentlemen :—Mr. Upton and Mr. Freshfield, of London; Messrs. Hall, Rymer, Simpson, Bardeswell, Shackleton, Anderson, Duncan, and Haigh, each belonging to firms of, this town. The bankrupts were merchants in Liverpool, and also carried on business in conjunction with other partners at Pernambuco and Bahia. The question raised at this dividend meeting was one of the greatest importance to the mercantile com munity, not alone of Liverpool, but to the whole kingdom. In the preSent case a proof of debts was involved to the amount of no less than ,£25,000. Several of the creditors had proved their debts on the Pernambuco and Bahia branches of the trade on bills of exchange held by them, but drawn on the house at Liverpool. What the Liver pool creditors contended on the present occasion was that they were entitled to have double proof, inasmuch as that the trades, as they alleged, carried on at Pernambuco and Bahia were distinct and separate trades from that carried on in Liverpool. The case was argued at con siderable length by the legal gentlemen, and numerous authorities bearing on the point were cited, after which the case was adjourned for his Honour to give judgment. As this is a case of considerable importance to the com mercial community, we understand that whatever may be the judgment of the learned commissioner, the case will alternately be taken into a superior court, as it is thought to be most desirable that the law on so important a point should be clearly defined and settled. THE NE W IRISH JUDGE.-ThQ ,Right Hon. Wm. Keogh has been sworn in before the Lord Chancellor as one of her Majesty's Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland. It is stated that he is by several years the youngest judge who has ever sat on the bench in this country, R. C. M'Nevin, Esq., has been appointed his registrar. LORD JOHN RUSSELL SHELTED.—The Times urges the noble lord the member for the City of London to accept a peerage. " That assembly in which Lord Chatham and Sir Robert Walpole sought repose at 'the end of their stormy political career might surely perform the same good office for Lord John Russell, and in his person a title ever memorable in the political history of England might be revived, - • i 1866 POLICE COURT -YESTE RIMY (BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD, A PAM ot . ..l3l.AcKcivAßDs.—Tw o fellows, dressed as boatmen, whose names appeared on the charge sheet as William Lewis and . Yames Ellen, were charged by a poor woman, named Mary Foster, under the following circumstances. The com plainant said she resides in MarYbone, and makes out her living by selling coffee at the dock gates during the night time. On Monday night she was stationed at the Pinces-dock with her coffee standing when the prisoners accosted her, and, after offering her some personal insult's, which she resented, they overthrew her standing, and destroyed her whole stock, 'thus depriving her' of the means of support. In reply to Mr. Mansfield the poor woman said the value : of her stock was lOs 10d, and that was all she bad to, support her. Theprisoners said, in a careless manner, that they fell over the stand. Mr. Mansfieid said they were a couple of great blackguards. He would fine them 40a each, or to be ceinmit,ed for two months. As he saw they had money he supposed they would pay, and he would in that case order the poor woman the amount of damage done to her standing, and also costs. STABBDTG.--John Cattrell, a carter; residing in Clement. street. was brought up on a charge of stabbing a young woman; named Anne Burke. The complainant's face presented a fear ful appearance, being bruised and swollen in a shocking man ner; her eyes were scarcely, visible, and her forehead was covered with sticking plaster and bandages. Her story was as follows :=Her sister.had a baby, which she gave to the wife of' the prisooer to nurse at 4s. 6d. per week, as her sister had got a situation out. The child was badly treated by the prisoner's wife, and had . its leg broken. On Monday evening, witness went to take the child away, when the prisonet's wife attacked her with a key, with which she beat her about the face ; and, whilst so engaged, the prisoner stabbed her in three several places on the forehead with a sharp histi ument, which she sup , posed was a knife, although she did not .see it. Surgeon Brown, of the Vauxhall Dispensary, said he had examined the witness, and found three wounds—two on her forehead, and one over her left eye : the wounds were incised, but not, however, dangerous. The _ sister, of the complainant stated that while Cie prisoner's wife was beating the complainant, she heard the wife cry out to the prisoner, " Don't take the penknife, but take the carving knife to her." She did not, however, see a knife used, but she saw her sister cut and bleeding after the prisoner struck her. A man named Robert Patterson, a carter, was called for the prisoner, au he stated that the prisoner did not strike the young woman, but his wife did with a key. His Worship said, that as he had some doubt about the case, he would send it before a jury. The, prisoner was sent for trial at the Sessions. Mr. Bluck for the. prisoner, said he would reserve his defence. The prisoner was admitted to bail. -ANOTHER ASSAULT.—Mary Fetus, and a lad named •Thomas Jones, her bon, were charged with having broken the jaw, and otherwise injured a woman named Elizabeth Jackson. The parties reside in 16 Court, Ailey Sr ree t, an d it appeare d thPt on Monday night some quarrel took place between them, and, as stated, the female prisoner struck Jackson a blow on the forehead, which inflicted a severe wound, and the boy, it was alleged, struck her a blow with some weapon on the jaw, which was in consequence fractured. She was at present not able to attend. In reply to Mr. Mansfield, it was stated that the blow by the woman was struck with a tea-pot full of hot tea. The prisoners were remanded for seven days, ASSAULT ON THE PoLim—Police constable 23, charged a man, named William Woods, with .having assaulted him. The officer was on ditty at St. George's doek, at one o'clock the previous night, when the prisoner came up in a state of intoxication, and wanted to 'go into the dock, but the officer refused to let him, in consequence of his state. The prisoner then seized the witness and flung him over the chains be got up and whistled for assi s t ance , w h en t h e prisoner broke his whistle and tore his coat, and neatly knocked him into the dock. The prisoner said ho was drunk, and did not know what he was doing, He was fined £2 and costs. NOT THE REAL CHEPSE.—A young woman, named Mary Anne Flints, was charged' with having committed a violent assault on Maria Robert's, Mr. Bluck was for the prisoner. The complainant said shp was in a house in Pall Mall, when the prisoner created a row, at the same time swearing she would "cut her up like Gloucester cheese," and, in pursuance of this promise, she . seized a glass tumbler, and with it inflicted two blows on the ' face, which cut her. In reply to Mr. Bluck, the complainan't admitted that there was a " spite" between them, and be produced wit nesses to prove this fact, and• Mr. Mansfield discharged the prisoner. CURIOUS CAS 3.—T HE VALUE OF AN ADVOCATE.—A youth named John Martin, dressed as a sailor, and who resides in Westmoreland-street, was charged with having stabbed a girl named Sarah Lucas, about fourteen years of age. In this case Mr, Bluck had been retained for the defenceof the prisoner, but during its investigation ho was engaged in another court, and on hearing the case, Mr. Mansfield ordered the boy to be sent for trial. When the depositions were being read, Mr. Bluck entered the court, and having apologised for his absence, begged to ask the girl some questions, and his worship having granted the request, the girl was asked by Mr. Bluck if she thought the affair happened by accident? and she replied she did Clink it was an accident. Mr. Muck : Do you think he intended to hurt you ,at all ? Witness : I do• not think he intended to hurt or injure me. Mr. Bluck said he would not ask another question, as that put an end to the 'case ; no jury on earth could convict the prisoner, after thetie answers. Mr. Mansfield said he was not aware of these facts before, nor would he have been now, had not the advo— cacy of Mr. Bluck elicited them. After the answers, certainly no jury could convict,,,and, therefore, he felt bound to grant Mr. Bluck's request, and had great pleasure in discharging the prisoner. The prisoner was then set at liberty. IMPORTANT TO THE POLICE AUTHORITIES. —There was a case which may prove of importance to the police authorities. It was this :—Two women, named Maria Carnes and Agnes Wilson, were imprisoned in the Hotham-street bridewell, on Monday night, on charges of being drunk and disorderly. It appeared that about four o'clock in the morning, Wilson made a furious attack on Carnes, and assaulted her so dread fully that she had to be sent forthwith to the hospital, where she at present lies, in a dangerous state. Mr. Mansfield addressed Mr. Quick, one of the chief superintendents of police, and said, this was not' the first, nor the twentieth case, of dangerous assaults committed, in Abe hridewels, -and such would continue to be the case, until the • authorities proVided separate cells for the prisoners. He trusted that' the gentlemen of the press would take notice of this subject, which was one of importance, so that it might come under the notice of the police authorities. The prisoner was remanded for a week, pending the state of the injured woman. IMPORTANT TO FERRY BOAT OWNERS.—Mr. Tyndall, appeared on behalf of the board of trade, to profer a complaint against Mr. Henry Nichols, the owner of the Loch Lomond,. Eastham ferry boat, for a breach of the act of parliament, by allowing 144 passengers more than the boat was registered to carry. She was registered according to the act, to carry 500 passengers, but on Good Friday she had 644 passengers, to the danger of life, &c. The penalty in this case does not exceed £2O, visd .e 5 for each passenger. Mr. Missiter appeared for ffre defendant, who pleaded . guilty. Mr. Tyndall said; it was right for boat owners to show that if the ' law punished them, it • also protected them, for the defendant had only to call on Major Greig, and he would have given a sufficient body of police to prevent an extra tnimber of. people from going into the boat, and the,defendant had.also another remedy by the new, act, and.that was,.he.had the power of sum moning 'any one who refused to go on shore, being re quested to do so, and fine him 40s, so that there was no excuse now for saying that boat owners could not help people running.on the . boats, and over-crowding them rn holidays. Mr. Missiter urged the time and circumstances in mitigation of punishment, and trusted that now the new law was known, it would he obeerved. After some discussion on the general question, his Worship fined the defendants Is each the number of passengers in excess, and also another fine of 42, and the ordinary costs. (BEFORE MR. YATES.) " Tuts Fztr.ow."--William 'Gavin, a lad aged 13, aid of rather diminutive appearance, was charged by police constable 440 on. suspicion of stealing coal. The _police constable, a_man about six feet in height, and rather strong built, stated that on the previous diy he; caught ,‘ this. fellow," with a piece of co al-i n hi s possession, near the canal, and as coals were so frequently Stolen, he,took him into custody. In answer to the magistrate, the defendant said he did not steal the coal, but dragged it out of the canal, and had a father and mother. The case was referred to Mr. Mansfield to dispose of. THE LATE FliouwaY ROBBERY.—John Dalziel, charged with robbing Mr. Kirkpatrick, on the Walton-road (the Particulars of which appeared in this journal of pester .day), was again brought up,,atid being fully identified, was committed to take - his trial at the next sessions: PROCEEDINGS, AGAINST TIE PARE N T S OF JUVENILE Ovrztinsits.—A. person named. William Wood was sum moned before the magistrates under the following circum stances :—ln the month of January, 1855, a son of the defendant was convicted before Mr. Mansfield as a rogue and vagabond, and o r d e red to be sent to a reformatory for five years, during which time the father of the lid was ordered to pay four shillings per week towards the expenses of maintaining the boy while thus confined. The act under that conviction and order was made has since been repealed,- but an order from the Secretary of State empowers the magistrates to fix a sum which they were then required to do. Mr. Morgan, of the Birming ham Reformatory, and acting agent under an order from the Secretary of State, attended to press the charge, when the identity of the young criminal was proved, and also that the parent, who was a shipwright, was well able to pay for the maintainance of his son, whilst thus con fined in Saitby Reformatory. It was proved that the father had been served with a previous order, but had not paid any amount towards it,although lie had been earning good wages, and:been repeatedly told that unless he did s o proceedings would be taken against him. The amount of arrears was reduced one-half, which was to be paid by instalments of 6s. per week, and that in future he was. to pay 4s. per week towards the maintenance of the boy, making in all 10s. per week. until the arrears were paid, and in default of payment he would be committed to prison for ten days each week's defalcation. The magis!. trates expressed their determination, after this notice, to press the charge against any parents of children who were in any reformatory. The money to be paid weekly at the Central Police Court, As this was the first pro secution under the act the defendant was forgiven the amount of the oosts incurred. THE SABBATH QUESTION TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir, —Will you permit me to offer a few words in reference to the passage quoted and commented on by your anti-Sabbatarian correspondent, in your Saturday's impression. I think it • quite - , competent for either early or modern Christians to agree,._to call the first day of the week the "Christian Sabbath," " Sunday," " Lord's day," or any other name they may think proper, but I think it would be well to keep Chris tian people of our day informed, that (inch - titles had their origin in the habits of thought and expression of people who, however good, pious, and zealous, were-yet not a whit more competent or wiser than themselves. If the term " Christian Sabbath," be thought more decorous or comely than " Sunday,"or the",first day of the week," let it be adopted. Let the fathers, if you will, be ransacked for their venerable sanction for the change ; but, then, let credit be given in the proper quarter, either for its original invention or continued use; but let Christians be kept informed that the Scripture is silent on the subject, and that the term " Christian Sabbath," is as strange to the letter of the Christian book, as the ceremonial at present known by that name is f ore i gn to its spirit. - Any person-reafling the Scripture - With tolerable attention, will notice the very prominent. price given in all the enis hope and glorious appeari Lord '1 UNIP OF GOD .he night our Saviour Jesnt Cliris statement of P. to t kindred text For t descend from heitven with of the Arehanzel anti with ho dead in Christ shall ris ring . reference to" the day of hi s appearir *hich be is t :o COTllti as thif in t " the coming of the. Lord," "the great and terrible day of the Lord." "the day of the Lord," a subject seldom absent from the Mindi.of the sacred writers The passage referred to by your correspondent in the first chapter of . John's Revelatien, and which is the only instance in the whole of the Scriptures in which the expression " Lord's day" oecurs,is as follows—" I John, was in the Spi r it on the Lord's day. and hea r d behind me a great VOICE . . As OF A TRUMPET " He then describes the appearance of one like unto the Son of ,Man, with . all the accornpatiiinents . of the solemn vision. Now, if it be observed, that in the -two verses immediately preceding. this notice. of the. voice as of the sound of a trumpet, anl'the appearance of on the Son of Man, i 3 the statement—" k~ ~tn`o 8,101,1 he cometh with . clouds, and ever• eye shall see him, &c., surely i,he most natural inference is, that the Lord's day, into which the Spirit had eolveyed7tlie prophet, in order that he might " slieW unto. God's servants, things wi ieh rnngt shortly . comn'to pas- is none other than that day of the Lord so oft referred to as the cogent ground of so many warn itias, earnest exhortations, and 'solemn appeals, in other parts of Scripture; whilst to interpret Lord's day here, to mean the first day of the week, is an assumption as unnatural and improbable, as it is forced and unparalleled. That this gratuitous interpretation, hoivaver, is not used by clergymen, to give some thing like Scripture-like cOlour to their - Sabbath lain quite aware ; but I would charitably think of them, as a good, laborious,. old Wesleyan Minister once said to me of himself, that be was so very much ocounied With his ministerial duties and •engagements, as to have very little time for the study of the Scriptures. —I am, Yours &0.. A SCOT. RETURN' OF INQVESTS,'&c., 1855 A. Return of all Inquests held befrore the Borough Coroner, for the year 1855. Accidentally killed.. ..... f, Scalded , • • . Burnt. Excessive drinking. .. Injuries, how received no evidence .. Children found exposed, still b0rn..... Infanticide, by persons unknown..... . Natural causes. . Found drowned Accidentally drowned . 1.4 Suicide during temporary insanity... Felo de se . Children accidentally suffocated in bed Wilful murder . Manslaughter Other causes 159 29 51 QA VV Out of these 705 cases, 257 were found deal, and 91 died suddenly—the surgeon called being unable to give a certificate of the cause of death. The trials of the prisoners at the Assizes, charged with murder and manslaughter on the Coroner's inqui sition, was as follows : MARCH ASSIZES L January 6.—lnviest on William Murder" against-Giovanni 3farehett . Tried before Mr. Baron Parke, a vanni transported for life Antoin Verdict, 1 ' Wilful 4 and Antoine Armua the 30th March ; Gi Armua acquitted. January 4 23.—lnvest on Daniel O'Reiley. stabbing: Verdict, " Manslaughter's against Jto Roberts. Tried before Mr. Baron Parke, on the 27th March, and sea-. tenced to three months' imprisonment. March 7.—lnquest on a new -burn male child, found in a privy. - Verdict: Wilful . Murder". a4ainst Jane Clayton and Ellen Forsyth. Tried before Mr. B.iron Parke, on the 30th March ; Jane Clayton, mother of the child, transported for life ;, Ellen Forsyth, acquitted. AUGUST ASSIZES. April 21.—Inquest held oh a new-born female child. Verdict, " Wilful Murder'' against Elizabeth Wilson. Tried before Mr: Baron Platt; n the 18th - August, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. for concealing the birth. May 3.—lnquest on Mary Ingles, scalded with boiling water in a drunken broil. Verdict, "Manslaughter against Ann Cain, Tried before Mr. Baron Platt, on the 15th August, and acquitted. June 29 . — Inquest.on'Patrick`-M‘Daniel, 45 years old, killed in a drunken broil. Verdict, •' Manslaughter" against John Crosby and Timothy Crosby. John Crosby was tried before Mr. Baron. Platt, on the 20th August, and acquitted.. July 21.—Inquest on James Fleeson, : - aged 7 years. Verdict, "Wilful Murder." against John Breen, aged 9 years, and Allred Fitz, 7 years old They were tried before Mr. Baron Platt, on the 22nd Angust, and sen tenced to twelve months' imprisonment, each. August 4.-Inquest held on Ann Kelly, .53 years old. Verdict, " Manslaughter" against William Kelly. Tried before Mr. Baron Platt, 23rd August, and acquitted. DECEMBER ASSIZES. August 25 and 27.—Inquest op , Emma Aspinall, year and 10 months old,an4,Thoinas Ratcliffe Aspi na ll, 4 months old. Verdict, " Wilful Murder" against WU ! liam Aspinall and. Mary Aspinall, the Parents, who were tried before Mr. Justice ,Wirlitman, on 13th of Decem ber ; Aspinall acquitted ; Mary Aspinall guilty of mans! tughter, .two years' imprisonment. September 12.---loqtrtst held on William Appleton, aged 2[l years. Vediet, " Manslaughter" agiiust John Woods and'Jane Woods, who were tried on the 10th of December, before Mr. Jostice Wightman ; John Woods acquitted; Jane Woods guilty, threinionths' imprison, went. September 26. —lnquest held on Catherine Larkins, aged 31 wears. Verdict, " ManSlanghter" against Ed ward Larkins. He was tried, 14th December, before Mr. Justice Wightman, and acquitted. October 12.—Inquest held on Thomas Cahill. Stab bing :; Verdict, " Wilful Murder" against John O'Neil. He was tried, 12th December, before Mr. Justice Wightman ; found guilty, and sentenced to be trans ported for life. November 19:—Inquest held on Andrew. Ritchie, who died from ill-usage on hoard an American • ship. -Ver. diet, " Wilful Murder" against • William Wilson and John Hansom, not in custody. November 26.—Inquest held on John Keegan, 2j years old. Verdict, " Wilful Murder" against Thomas Keegan, the father. He was tried, 14th December. before Mr. Justice Wightman ; found guilty, and sentenced to 20 years' . transportation. November 30.—Inqueit held ,on John Craddock. Stabbing : Verdict, !‘ Manslaughter" against James Jeffers. He was •tried, -14th -December, before Mr. Justice Wightman found 'guilty, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude.:. •• December 6.—lnquest held on Ambrose Dunlevy, 35 years. St a bbi ng: V er di c t, '' Manslaughter,"'against Patrick Connelly. He was tried, December, before Mr. Justice Wi g htman ; found guilty, and sentenced to twenty years' transportation. Number of inquests Number of days on which inquests were 'held 196 Number of jurors who signed the inquisitions 2,362 Number of jurors who wrote their own n Number of jurors who sib Number of witnesses-exam Number . of witnesses who wrote their own names d with tla aed Number of witne mark .... :r mark ,es who signed with their l Expenses of Witnesses, and cab hire for juries in the year 1855, 5433 19 9