Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-17 00:00:00

Commerzia a—erbfii ate. At , twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, York-buildings, Dale-street, 1,400 bags Rice.—PATTINSON & CLARK. M Twelve o'clock. at the Broker's Office, Vict ria-buildings, liackin's-hey, 457 , boxes American Starch.—T. W. & J. C. Basaor & Co. At twelve c'c'ock, at the Brokers' Office, Exchange-street East, 70 casks fine picked Pam cestone.-11eNa7 GLYNN. At Twelve .'clock, at the Broker's Office, 18, Chapel-street, lio barrels Flour Sulphur.—W. 0. WOODS. At twelve o'cloc at the brokers' office, Oldhall-street, 2,900 bags ce, and to tons loose Rotten.—BUCHANAN, BROVINN & Co. At twelve o'clock,loo tons Palm Oil.—Cox BR , ,TEIER3. At twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, 10, Water-street, 2,000 bags P.angoon Rice.—HALL & JONEs. At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, 4, York-buildings, 23 tons littrate of Soda.—W. SINGLELIURST & CO. AIIUSEAENTS, PUBLIC MEErINGS, &e. THIS DAY. THRATEE ROTAL.—Dramatic Performance-7 p.m. Qualm's HALL, BOLD-STREET—Bosco-3 p.m. lINGLIR'S CIRQUE VARIETE, Dale-street--7 p.m. LrrirarooL ACADEMY'S EXHIBITION, Post-office-place. ABIAL COLOSSEux—General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. rgr For advertisements see second page. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Persons seeking Employment, parties requiring Servants, Assistants or Clerks, and these in search of Apartments, OT having Lodgings to Let, can best bring their wants under the notice of Me public, by advertising in the Norman' Timms, and which, from its large circulation, is the most efficient medium of publicity in this district. 77e cash price for this special class of advertisements is now reduces to THREEPENCE FOR TWENTY WORDS, and for every additional five words one ,penny TO CORRESPONDENTS. '• One who likes to be treated with civility," should have made his complaint to Mr. Rime. The publication of his note wouid serve no good purpose. trit iitatOrn titzeo THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1857. THE DAY'S NEWS. It will be found, by reference to another column, that H. S. Bright, of Hull, indicted for forgery has been tried at the Yorkshire Assizes, and that he has been found guilty and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. At the Police Court yesterday, the case of the merchant who had lost some £750, was again before the magistrate. A gentleman, named Doyle, found a pocket-book in the street containing a cheque for 5700, and bank notes value £4O. He at once took the same to the police office, and yesterday the loser identified the property. It was handed to him, but he st tamed somewhat cherry in rewarding the finder, ultimately the sum of two pounds was given to him. We are given to understand that the grant of a pension by the East India Company of £l,OOO a year to General Wilson, and of pensions of £5OO each to the widow of General Neill and the mother of General Nicholson was confirmed yes terday by a special general Court of Proprietors. Yesterday Settler, the foreigner, who shot Thain, the detective officer, on board the Caledonia steamer, was arraigned on the charge of murder, at the Central Criminal Court. The trial, however, was postponed until the next session, on the ground that the accused was only committed last Friday, and that he had not had time sufficient to prepare his defence. It would seem that a clue has been got to the identity of the woman who, together with a foreign man with whom she cohabited, was found on Sunday night with her throat cut in a coffee-house in London. She appears to have been an English woman. The inquest on the body was opened pro forma yesterday morning, and adjourned for further inquiry. In another column will be found the particulars of an application to the Recorder of the Central Criminal Court, by Mr. Bodkin. The former gentleman has issued a warrant for the apprehen sion of Mr. E. A. Glover, the late member for Beverley, on a charge of having made a false decla tation to the House of Commons as to his qualifi cation to sit in that House. It would be a curious subject of inquiry to ascertain how many hon. gentlemen now sitting and voting in the House might be placed in a similar position. The inquest on the victims of the double murder and suicide at Croydon, near London, has con eluded. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against W. H. Sinither ; and also testified that he committed suicide while in a state of mental derangement. The iragedy should be a warning to all young men of limited means who are disposed to employ their stockbroker and to dabble in the funds. Another attempt was made to launch the Leviathan yesterday. She w.is moved 10 inches forward, and 6 inches aft. The total progress is now 106 feet. Later attempts resulted in the breakage of a ram and cylender chains. At high water yesterday, there was between 4 and go . feet Of water under the vessel. The Times of yesterday says :—" In order that a proper hold may be ob tained, a regular series of large piles has been driven on the opposite bank of the river, one on the wharf of Messrs. Humphrey's yard, and the second a little below high water-mark, between the water-gate Ferry and Deptford Dockyard. Each of these clumps of piling are almost similar in strength and arrangement, to the piles which serve as a basis for the hydraulic rams in the yard itself, and, like them, too, they have not been resorted to till the eleventh hour, and in fact, until the failure of all other methods has literally forced their adoption upon the engineers." Our foreign news is of some interest to-day. The Bank of Spain has resolved to coin 25,000,000 reals in silver. In Holland another Minister of War has been found in the person of Colonel Bleurs, hitherto Commander of the Artillery. The States Gentral, immediately after voting the budget, adjourned to the 9th of February. From Constantinople we have an important anneance went, that the French Ambassador is to follow the example of his English colleague, and take leave of absence for some time. The official text of the decree by which 'the Porte dissolved the Roumau Divans has not yet reached us, and we are informed that it will be purposely kept secret for some days more. They Sultan, by conferring the order which bears his name on the Saxon representatives in Paris, the gentleman whose efforts contributed so much to prepare the way for the peace of Paris, seems to have wished to express just now his contentment with the conclusion of that peace. A notice has been issued at Constantinople, by which Russia has attempt e d p u bli c ly to justify her behaviour in closing certain ports on the coast of Circassia, and to show that the proceeding is quite in accordance with the treaty of Paris. That treaty, establishing freedom of commerce in the ports of the Black Sea, contains, nevertheless, a limitation of that freedom in so far as measures of quarantine and police require it. Thus, argues the Russian document, those ports must be neces I sarily exempted in which no quarantine has yet been established. According to this argument, nothing more is required to close every port in the Black Sea than to omit erecting in them quarantine establishments. The fault, however, is in the treaty, which should have named the ports de slared free. That was avoided by the plenipoten taries on all sides for reasons best known to themselves. • A gratifying festival has taken place at Riga, the THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LINERPOOL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 7, 1857 capital of Livonia, and an emporium of considerable trade. The occasion was the demolition of the the fortifications, these having been given up by the Emperor. It was a work which the citizens joyfully set about, as these fortifications proved a serious check upon the growth of their town. The Atlantic arrived here yesterday with three days later news from the United States, and about £:350,000 sterling in specie. The news to hand is not of the least interest to European readers. Commercial matters were quiet. Cotton was selling in New York on the basis of 111), per lb. for middling upland. Breadetufis were rather more buoyant. THE Liberty of the Press and the liberty of the Bar are the palladiums of our political and personal freedom. Having said this, we may offer a few remarks on the uses which we made of these high privileges without incurring the risk of being called despotic or reckless of the inherent rights of Freemen. In dealing with public topics, we claim 'for our brotherhood and ourselves perfect freedom of discussion; and and when the utmost limits of the Constitution have been exhausted or passed, we would claim the unbridled use of that experience and discre tion which a life devoted to the study of political and national affairs generally secures to the pub lic journalist. The Bar are permanently entitled to all the Press can claim. They are not only entitled to the fullest freedom of speech the law allows, but they are positively required to exer cise the utmost ingenuity to pervert truth, warp facts, and defeat the law. A very few such triumphs of forensic skill and ability leads to fortune, and no man has a right to place himself in the way of his neighbour's promotion. But all the immunities bestowed upon the subject— whether political or civil—are based upon the supposition that society, taken individually and collectively, is sufficiently refined and well informed to know how to use the liberties the law gives them, without violating the universal sense of justice and the ordinary outlines of good breeding. The newspaper writer may be as reproachful, bitter, and satirical as he pleases, without resorting to the vituperative vocabulary of Billingsgate, or the low vice of slander. The liberty of the Press gives us the power of pub lishing the truth, and not falsehood or malicious attacks on private character. The Bar may be equally eloquent, surpassingly witty, immensely shrewd, frightfully grim under responsibility, profoundly dignified in moments of triumph, artificially or naturally apesarado when defeated, look d'un air abattu when bags are briefless, but there should be no vulgar ribaldry or low slang allowed from the British Bar, such as that used by Mr. SOWLER, in his defence in the cause of GLADSTONE V. OUSELEY. That the defendent did slander the plaintiff in the grasses: manner, is proved by the fact, that an apology was made to Mr. GLADSTONE in open court. Had this been done at the onset of the pro ceedings, which ended in a trial and apology, Mr. GLADSTONE would have at once shown his usual liberality, and have abandoned the criminal suit against maligners, and it is much to be regretted on all hands, that the matter was not settled before it went into court. It would have saved Mr. GLADSTONE—in the absence of good taste on the part of the Bench, and becoming respect for the character of a fellow-town's-man and a man of honour on the part of a jury— from insults and insinuations, quite as bad as those for which he was prosecuting a news paper editor. These insults and insinu ations came from the Bar clothed in what the gentleman with the swinish name, Mr. SOWLER, would call wit and humour." But comparing a prosecutor in a court of justice to "an ass," following a gentleman into his butcher's and cheesemonger's shops, and repeating the sound practical lessons read by a Town Council man to the tenants of a corporate market, and that with all the consummate swagger and impudence imaginable, are positive outrages on the liberty of the Bar, and the tolerant spirit of the age. Mr. SOWLER is not aware evidently, that the Plebeian was never so severely handled as he was by CHESTERFIELD, when pouring forth the affection of a father, in his advice to his son. The impression Mr. SOWLER'S address has left on the public mind of Liverpool must be, that its author is just one of those men who would pick his teeth with a fork, eat peas with a knife, and make his breeches pockets both his summer and winter gloves. We can only :form our opinion of public characters by their speeches. They are not always before us, we are happy to say, and therefore we must read them at a distance, and we certainly must say that we think Mr. SOWLER will never be half so refined as the late Serjeant WILKINS, or one jot more profound than Sir CHARLES SURFACE. If Mr. SOWLER had been addressing a Billingsgate jury and Chief Baron NICHOLSON, the " Cole Hole'' world would have been highly delighted with the richness of his slang, and his unmistakeable contempt for the feelings of good society. Mr. SOWLER travelled away from his subject when he followed Mr. GLADSTONE into his private, and even household, affairs, in his efforts to make the extenuation of the crime complained of greater than the offence itself. This was the course resorted to by an Eastern jester to escape the punishment of death, and Mr. SOWLER'S wit most assuredly dates from the same school, and it is time for the Bench or juries to protect prosecutors in courts of law from such scandalous vituperations and insults as those offered to Mr. GLADSTONE while actually claiming protection from his slanderers. But before we take leave of Mr. SOWLER we would whisper in the ear Of the Bar the Spanish proverb—Juego de manos, se , juego de villanos—which means, when generously translated—" Rude handling, even in jest, is only fit for clowns." A FEW days ago we called attention to a case of the most unwanton cruelty, perpe tated upon a poor and defenceress young lady, which it has ever been the lot of the jour nalist to notice. We have termed this a case of " unwanton cruelty." It is, indeed, the habit of many people to deny the truth of any great crime unless they were eye witnesses of its perpetration, or to palliate enormous offences, no matter how repugnant to christian feeling, civilisation, and humanity. Thus it is, that we blush to say, NANA SAHIB has his apologists and defenders, and, to the present day, both PALMER and DOTE are, by some, considered to be victims to public prejudice and the indefensi ble character of circumstantial evidence. The victims of workhouse tyranny are, also, little cared for, and their tormentors acquitted of all intention to do grievous bodily harm. Principles, such as we are now adverting to, have induced the Pro-Slavery party in America to deny the accuracy of the scenes despicted in " Uncle Tom's Cabin," and to characterise the wcrk a tissue of well got up, but gross and transpar ent falsehoods. We have all heard of the atrocities committed in the Birmingham gaol, the abominations committed on board Irish emigrant ships, not to speak of the notorious case of Mrs. BROWNRIGG And her unfortunate apprentice girl, whom she whipped to death. Nevertheless, the cruelty of each of these has been stoutly denied, or an attempt made to palliate them. The matter of the French Lady, who breathed her last at Boulogne, under the most painful circumstances ever known, and marked by a want of feeling, second only to the inhumanity of an Indian Sepoy, is the latest case of the kind which has come under our notice. When that case has been published in all the papers of the United tKingdom, we should like to ask, how many respectable and' reasonable people will venture to assert that there is nothing to complain of in the professional position of governesses ? nay, on the contrary, will assert that the great majority of female instructors of youth, are kindly and properly treated. There may be sceptics of this kind, for their benefit we shall give further publicity to the shocking details of the illness and death of the young French lady, who was blessed with holding an appointment, as governess, in the family of an English gentlewoman, but who ended her miserable life at an hotel, in Boulogne, some eight days' since. This unfortunate young lady, interesting in appearance, but labouring under such acute and painful indisposition, was landed from the Folkestone steamer, on her arrival at Boulogne, on the sth inst., at the time that she was utterly powerless and speechless. Being carried to her hotel, the aid and advice of an English practitioner was obtained. He, seeing the desperate character of the case, sought the assistance of another medical practitioner. A French gentleman soon joined him. All that humanity and science could do, to relieve the unfortunate suffering stranger, was instantly resorted to, but the hand of death was upon their patient. From the first, she gradually sank, and the King of Terrors put an end to her sufferings on Sunday, the Gth inst. Thus, alone, unheeded and unattended, save by the hands of total strangers, she sank into her last rest, a melancholy example of the want of care and attention. But the most painful part of the case remains to be told, because it shows that when she left England, she was in the last stage of her disease. On opening her dress, " a largo label was found on her bosom, as if she were ribale of merchandise," stating that she was going to her brother-in-law, at Amiens. His name was given. She had, also, in her purse, the sum of seven pounds, and a scrap of paper announcing that her salary, as governess, had been paid up to the 6th of December—the very day she died ! There was, also, a letter found upon her, which stated that she was a French lady, and had been governess in the family of a lady, whose name is now before the public. This letter caused further inquiries, and it has transpired that she left London on the sth inst., by the four-o'clock train, for Folkestone, and at that time was in a state of complete prostration, so much so that the person, who abandoned her at the Folkstone station, gave the railway guard a sovereign to procure her any refreshment she might stand in need of. The next scene occurs at Folkstone. When she arrived there, she was helpless and speechless, and after getting a little tea, the friendy offices of a policeman were called into requisition, and she was carried on board the steamer. In that state she crossed the Channel, and neither spoke nor stirred during the passage. Her complaint was fever, of a typhus character, accompanied by suffusion on the brain. Such are the facts of this truly deplorable case. Can it be an English family of position and education, is it to be presumed, could have deliberately abandoned their unfortunate victim at the London-bridge terminus, when they must have known that her remoyal was certain and speedy death ? Be that as it may, they, who labelled her bosom, knew she could not give an account of herself, and, therefore, placarded her breast, as though she were a bale of goods or a beast of burden sent for exhibition at a cattle show ; and be the parties who they may, that d the cruel deed, notlaing that we could say in exprening our reprehension of conduct, so barbarous and scandalous, would be too severe• London abounds with hospitals for such diseases as those 'under which this young lady suffered. It wa■ then the duty of her friends in London to have had her carefully removed to one or other of these institutions, not cast into a railway carriage totally unconscious, and shot out like a lump of rubbish at the end of her journey' bandied about from guards to railway porters — from station-masters to dock-policemen—from steam-boat stewards to hotel waiters, until, in the end, her unconscious wanderings were terminated by the merciful hand of death. The law may not take cognisance of the case. We hope, however, that the matter will be so thoroughly; investigated as: to leave no doubt respecting the persons who really perpetrated a deed of such hardened cruelty, and thereby justly expose them to the odium, contempt, and indignation of the public at large. MERSEY DOCKS AND HARDIER BOARD.—The Mersey Docks and Harbour Act, which passed threngk Parliament last session, will come into operation on the Ist of January, The new Board will consist of twenty-one members, of whom eighteen are to be elected by the Dock Ratepayers, and three aoastaated by the Conservancy Commissioners. A notice, signed by Sir Charles Wood, Hon. M. S. Baines , and Mr. C. Gore, stating that the election of eighteen members will take place on the above day, between the boars of 10 a.m., and 4 pan., at the Dock 0 ces—is no w Posted at the Town-hall. The returning officer will be his Worship the Rev. Gilbert Henderson, Esq., and th e voting will be conducted in the usual manner. SEPOY ATROCITIES.—THE THIRST FOR RETRIBUTION.-- I saw a letter yesterday from an officer of Col. Greathead's column—(writes the Calcutta correspondent of the Express, under date Nov. 1) —who had been present at the storming of Delhi, and had thence followed in pursuit of the enemy. He gives a vivid description of the manner in which the movements of the colu mn h a d b een hampered by the civi lians. He mentions one village especially, inhabited by Goojurs, the class who of all others have been most noto rious for their cruelty. This, too, was a noted village— noted for the bad _feeling manif e st e d by it s i n h a bi tants. In it they found the skeleton of a woman : the head severed from the body, and the bones bearing the marks of the most cruel treatment. The skeleton was examined by a doctor, and pronounced to have belonged to a European or half-caste woman. Yet because the village was a large one, and paid a large revenue to government, the magistrate made it a personal favour that it should not be touched. Neither officers nor men could understand this leniency, for they had seen the bodies of their countrywomen at Delhi, their breasts cut off, and every enormity inflicted ; they had heard also the speech of one of the sons of the King of Delhi as he was being lel to execution. " I die happy," said he, " since I have defiled English women, and seen them walking naked about the streets." The mur mur; were therefore load and deep. But when they came to Cawnpore, and entered the charnel-house, there perused the writing on the wall, and saw the still clotted blood, their grief, their rage, their desire for vengeance knew no bounds. One officer was met coming out, with a small article of female dress dabbled with blood in his hand. "I have spared many men in fight," he said, " bat I will never spare another. I shall carry this with me in my holsters, and whenever I am inclined for mercy the sight of it and the recollection of this house will be sufficient to incite me to revenge." Stalwart, bearded men, the stern soldiers of the ranks, have been seen coming out of that house of murder perfectly unmanned, utterly unable to repress their emotions. From them there will hn no mercy for tnese villanous assassins. THE JEWISH RELIEF Brat has been published (prepared and brought in by Mr. Fitzroy, Lord John Rassell, and Mr. John Abel Smith), for the substitution of one oath in lieu of those now operating, to the exclusion from Parliament of her Majesty's Jewish subjects. The pro posed oath runs as follows :—" I, A.B. do swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and will defend her to the utmost of my power ageinst all conspiracies and attempts whatever which shall be made. against her person, crown, or dignity, and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to her Majesty, her heirs and successors, all treasons and traitorous cuespiracies which may be formed against her or them ; and I do faithfully promise to maintain, sup port, and defend, to the utmost if my power, the succes sion of the crown, which succession, by an act, intituled An act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject,' is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia,Electress of Hanover, aid the heirs of her body, being Protestants, hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other parson claiming or pretending a right to the crown of this realm ; and Ido declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, bath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, directly or indirectly, within this realm; and I make this declara tion upon the true faith of a Christian. So help me God." The bill then enacts that the concluding words, " and I make this declaration on the true faith of a Christian," shall in the case of those professing the Jewish religion, and also those who are of the persuasion called Quakers, be omitted, and the latter being allowed to make their affirmation instead of an oath. The bill provides that no Jew shall, by virtue of its enactments, be enabled to hold the office of Lord Chancellor, either of England or Ireland, or Regent of the United Kingdom, or Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Asturio,, to which town it belonged. The Prince was also made a Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of San Juan de Jertmilem, and of the Orders of Charles 111. and Isabella the Cats: olio. The Prince received the names of Alfonso, Francisco Assis, Juan, Mariano de la Concep • cion, Fernando, Pio, 3 ime, Malay°. For some weeks pre vious a serious differenca of opinion existed as to the first name to be given to the 'Prince." The Queen of Spain has presented Dr. Corraloy Ous.:, who attended her in her confinement, with 1,000 onzas (otm'ess) of gold in a richly chased silver box, also with a magni.N:ent set of lorilliants, and has beside s con f erre d on hi m the b.: l ie of Mar qu i s d e l Re al Acierto. PROPERTY QUALIFICATION.-110P41: OF COMMONS PROSECUTION. lAA the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, Mr. gadko applied to the Recorder for an order that the usual praeegs might issue for the apprehension of a person named Edward Auchmuty Glover, against whom the grand jury had returned a true bill for misdemeanour in having made a false declaration to the House of Commons as to his qualification to sit as a member of that House. The Recorder said it was contrary to the usual course for the Court to issue process in cases where there had been no inquiry by a' magistrate, without notice being given ; but the proceedings that had taken place in the House of Commons in reference to this matter were quite sufficient notice to the defendant, and therefore the application might be granted. Mr. Bodkin said that the prosecution was instituted by order of the House of Commons, and the matter was fully discussed before that decision was come to. The Recorder asked the position of life of the defendant. Mr. Bodkin said that all that was known of him was, that he was elected member for Beverley, and that he had made a false statement as to his qualification• The Recorder then made an order that a warrant should to issued for the apprehension of the defendant, and fixed the amount of bail at a personal recognizance of .500, with two sureties in £250 each. A SEB iSTOPOL CANNON.—One of the guns taken at Sebastopol from the Russians, has just arrived at George's Hall, and is to be " mounted," or in some other way shown there, as one of our trophies of the Crimean war. The Daily News says, that the ships James Baines and Champion of the Seas, which sailed from Portsmouth on the Bth of August, fo! Calcutta, had not arrived at the latter port on the Bth of November, the date of the last advices. Each had, consequently, been ninety-two days at sea. CORONER'S INQUESTS —Yesterday,' the Coroner held the following inquests :—On the body of Margaret Gallagher, who died in consequence of injuries inflicted by a bale of cotton falling on her in Brook -street, as reported in our paper of yesterday—verdict accordingly. On the body of a female, name unknown, that was found in the Canal at Rake-lane There was no evidence, except as to the find ing of the body, and the jury returned a verdict of found drowned. TtiE FRENCH LANGITIGIT.-It will be observed by ad vertisement in aaother colum❑ that, at the request of many of the leading families of Liverpool, Mons. Rigo not has been induced to form a juvenile class for the French Language. We have already stated that the simplicity of kis plan is calculated to bring the acquirement of the language within the reach of the young, whilst its practi cal soundness makes it equally acceptable to adults, We hope the author will meet with the patronage ho so well ta~r:ts. A BIGGER SHIP TITAN TILE L .VIATITAN.—AIready a bigger ship than the Leviathen has been projected in England —a ship to which the monster will, herself, appear as a minnow. And this new monster is of special import ance to the citizens of New York, for, although it is pro posed to make her 8,000 tons larger than the Leviathan, she is to sail faster and draw less water. An engineer of Liverpool, named Clare, has cone forward with pro positions for building an iron screw and paddle steamship, by way of testing a principle, greatly the superior of the Leviathan. His experiment is to be tried on a scale of startling magnitude, and he has already exhibited his models, which are attracting the attention of scientific men in Eneland. He proposes to build a ship 1,000 feet in length, 70 feet beam, and only 30 feet from deck to keel, making her perfectly flat bottomed, and sides nearly square. In size she would be 30,0e0 tons, and yet so light would be her draught of water that she could easily enter our harbour by way of Sandy Hook. It is stated that Mr proposals Lao received encouraging con sideration from the tenglish government, and, if the first voyage of the Leviathan should prove successful, there will, doubtless, be an attempt made at once to build an other monster ship according to his plans.—New York Times. INTERESTING BABY AFEAIR.— Last Sunday evening gentleman, residing at Jamaica Plain, was sitting, with his wife and some frieuds, at the parlour fire, when the dcor bell was violently rung. The lady rose, but then suggested to her husband that, as the girl was out, he had better go to the front door. Accordingly he opened it, and found no one there ; but there was a nicely done-up basket, covered aiih white linen, at his feet, and he thought he heard the rustling of a female dress departing. After looking vainly up and down the street and around the portal, he took the basket into the parlour. On the covf4- ing being removed. a beautiful little child appeared, some five months old. The lady screamed, one of the lady visitors took up the baby, and found e note pinned to its dress, which charged the gentleman of the house with being the father, and irnplo:ed him to support it. A rich scene ensued between the injured wife and the indignant husband, the latter utterly denying all knowledge of the little one, and asserting his innocence. The friends interfered, and at last the wife was induced to forgive the husband, although lie still stood to it like a Tr jag that he had always been a faithful husband. Finally, the lady very roguishly told her husband that it was strange- that he should not know his own child, for it was their mutual offspring, which had just been taken from its cradle up stairs by the nurse for the very purpose of playing the joke, and the surprised kusband finally joined heartily in the laugh which was raised at his expen se .—Bostion Traveller. CLARICSIONT CITADEL, KIRKDALE. —CL ARE:IONT LITERARY ASSOCIATION.—The members of this sosiety, together with their friends, held a private soiree, on Tuesday evening, the 15th inst., in the School Room of the above named chape', and, though the weather was disagreeably showery, the attendance was good beyond expectation. After tea (commencing shortly after six o'clock), the Rev. Joshua unstall, president of the society, was elected chairman. He gave a short preliminary address, and then introduced Mr. M. W. Emery, secretary, who read an essay on " The Inequality of Riches." Mr. William Duckworth, jun., recited a selection from Milton's " Paradise Lost," and read the entertaining piece, " Philemon," both being rendered very effectively. An address, by Mr. Thomas Nicholson, on The Tune of Modern Bri . ish Literature," followed, and was well received. An interval of fifteen minutes was allowed for indulging in a social promenade and partaking of the refreshments provided. A hymn was sung, and Mr. J. Rowland read a paper on " Respect ability," which the assembly received with approbation. Mr. Robert Boyle gave an address on "Things good and bad," and was followed be Messrs. W. Luckman, G. Lingharn, J . Marshall, and J. Tuastall, jun., uniting (in character) in the humorous recitation, " Irish Assurance," which we s repturously encored. The night, ho wever, being fir advanced, Mr. Luckinan volunteered a short comic recitatien, which was also well received ; and the pro ceedings, after the usual votes of thanks, were teimhiated (at ten o'clock) by singing art appropriate hymn. It may be remarked the evening was passed pleasantly, and, it is hoped, profitably. Tin. MEETING—I:tope Hall.—At half-past 6 o'clock last night, a tea meeting in connection with St. David's Church, was held is the above hall. About 700 were refreshed with a good substantial tea. This portion of the proceed ing being concluded to the entire satisfaciton of ell present, the Roy. John James, B. D., took the chair for the evening, addressed the meeting iu a excellent speech, especially directed to the edification of the young in the pursuit of knowledge aiid Christian learning. The rev. gentleman, at the conclusion of his speech, was loudly applauded. The T 2sev. Mr. Butler next addressed the meeting, and urged upon them to do their best to procure the means for b eating their church, an objects for which they had met . Lie was in Hope-hall—and he would lope much of all- —he would take Hope for his test—Christian lsipe. This sule;ject the rev. gentleman dwelt upon at length, with great ability, and was highly applauded throughout. Dr. llu`eite was next called u p on , an d gave a history of his IP..oours in the church, in Liverpool, and congratulated himself on his success in the numbers which had been drawn to his—the (All Souls')—Ulaurc'n ; also the excellencies of his schools. The Rev. Mr. Roberts then addressed the meeting in Welsh: His remarks were upon the comparative inattendance of the church, the habits of drunkenness, &c„ &e. The Rev. Mr. Underwood also addressed the meeting, and eterwards Mr. Win. Thomas,. ou the subject of "Books and their makers." Mr. E. P. Jones mov e d a vote o f thanks to the ladies. The choir, connected with the church, accompanied by a harmonium, gave several pieces of excellent music throughout the evening. The party, after spending a very harmonious 1 evening, concluded by singing " God sare the Queen," THE COURT, &e. OsnoRNE, Dec. 15.—The Prince of Wales crossed over to Alverbank yesterday, and visited Prince Alfred. Admiral Sir George Seymour arrived from Portsmouth on a visit to Her Majesty. The Duchess of Kent, with a view of encouraging the manufacture of English silks, has o:dered her robe and train for the occasion of the Princess Royal's wedding from ono of our leading Spitalfields manufacturers. The lion. Eleanor Alexandria Fraser, sister of Alexander, seventeenth Lord Saltoun, is about to be m%rriel to Mr. Henry Forester, first cousin of L )rd Forester, and nephew of the Duke of Cleveland. The marriage, already announced, of the Hon. Mr. Bast, eldest son of Lord Wynford, with Miss Baillie, daughter of Mr. and Lady Georgiana Baillie, will take place to-day, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. BAPTISM OF THE SPANISII PRINCE.—A letter from Madrid, under date of the Bth, gives the following interesting account of the Royal christening :—" During the ceremony his Royal Highness cried frequently ; and his cries, which were loud, sounded most agreeably in the ears of all pre sent, for they proved that he is a robust infant. After the baptism, the Royal child was conveyed by the King , accompanied by the Duke and Duchess de Mon tpensier, to the Queen, who had remained in her chamber. A. lit': te later, the Prince was made a Knight of the Order ^of the Golden Fleece, with all the ceremonies usual on such occasions. The King himself decorated him. with the collar and other insignia; among the latter `''as a crucifix of oak, ornamented with brilliants, oallr,d the Cross of Victory,' famous for having figured in battles against the Moors, which was presented to the - .ding by M. Mon and some other gentlemen 55 a deputktion from Oviedo, in the TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. By Submarine and British Telegraph. SWEDEN. Advices from Sweden report new fail lli n ' e n s o The Government proposes to borrow 1:20,000,vv thalers. HANOVER. The Cortes were opened on the 9th inst. AIJSTRIA. VARMA, DE C ' Tho Cireassians propose to demand the W ell° sition of the Great Powers. FRANCE. PARIS, WZDNESDAY ICl °llT ai : Th e :Course has been buoyant to-day, and Three per Cent. Renter have advanced to 67' THE BALTIC. MEMEL, De' itll A strong gale iiita i_lrevailed since the 10th' no appearance of its aoating. PILLAU, l ue We have had very stormy weather here for 13 ' days. l3 l ' Linvi,9 AND COMPANY'S NEW EsPim: ISHMENT ~2 dog Citmineo.—Number of boys clothed fon the week e v a te n Saturday, December 12th 765; cerrespneiding w ee k year, 436; increase, 329. Pli a EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALES IN MIEZE,--VVe 110- eall gt that the law is daily violated in regard t o the enaPl e q e ,- e e et of females in mine and coal levels in the neiglabonT ° " o3 ce Merthyr. It is bad enough to employ them at the tu r n est and on the tips, but it ie infinitely w o rse to empl°l ` 6 " tn in these dark recesses with persons of the opposite The No wonder that female virtue is at so low an ebb. lie , subject should be looked into by the proper aatht l oes and the guilty parties brought to jastee.-- - S' Herald. etif THE OLDHAM UNION EXTE , IDITURE —The been/ g old. balance sheet of the receipts and expenditure of the 3an ham Union has just been issued, from which it a r e P a e or that the average number of persons w h o reeeirel "neei relief weekly was £426 165., and the average cost pe r st d was about 3'. 21d.; in the imbecile ward, 3s. 1 0 e',' e ed in the asylums, 7s. 7d. ; the maintenanc e o f offieerl ri nn servants in the workhouse was 6s. 11,1. ; and in the i lat d o ot ward, ss. 10d. The average number receiving °a ra te' relief was 1,338, at a cost per head of l a , 21. Tbe',,no ment of the expenditure for the t owas hip of Onni tri showed that the amount expended by the g uardiaa: 1 o £9,653, and by the overseers £4,754 ; snaking a 10 rate, county£l4,4o7 ; but deducting £1,064 p a id t o th e col £221 for registration fees, and £lBO for vaccination.l the total amount expended en the poor in the towns 4 reduced to £8,186. LIST OF PASSENGERS per Atlantic, from New tn t- Mr. Hosker, Captain S. D. Simmonds, Mrs. Skint: l ° l ß O' children, and servant, Mr. Currey, S. M. D. Eyere e n . Knight, Mr. John Rogers, Mr. and M rs . Ch a rles JY/csin J. B. Cronnin, F. Sall, G. F. Adams, A. Evil er .' nett Bitts, H. McKim, Messrs. Flakier, Sevyen en .l t erso Mr. Garrett, W. H. Fitch, Joseph Haggett, S. If J. S. Monroe, Mrs. T. B. Hubbell, J. W. J. B. Westrup, F. H. Showbridge, George Pophata, c ob. Fay, W. Duff, Robert Smith, George Booth, A , e at bott, A. Gangloff, H. Betts, Thomas Rea, G. 11-,.7 a 1nt0 and son, J. Anson, Louis Straus, E. Ochse, C. " e ° ool 3, Miss J. Russell, D. M. Aitland, W. Atkinson anu n i r eiai Thomas Edwards and Lady, J. Lonson, F. B e 't, Mr. Ascher, J. R. Lawler, L Pirene, J. Edward , Riggs, C. de Foledo—total, 61. 01 P , SERIOUS CHARGE AG A INST A CLERGY3fAN.---.-k ° ° „ o .-t sion, appointed by the Bishop of Bath and Well° Or the Church Discipline Act, assembled at Yeovil en ; yes' day, and continued its sittings until Thursday lott' s b o e tigating certain grave charges preferred by the b.,.% „gin secretary, acting officially, against the Rev. Joseph ' ll oo ol' port Elliott, ineambent of Hendford, Yeovil, Tb ° missioners were the Venerable Archdeacon Law, th e a o ba, Edward P. A. Talbot, of Everereech • the Be'n et Southey, of Kingsbury; the Rev. J. Stratton Cel e ! of t sniernn Beauchamp; and the Rev. M. fla wt t e O';, Rimpton, rural dean. Mr. (Aeries Taddy, pron t ee Bristol, appeared for the defendant, but retired frer s o o case at the close of the first day's proceeding's. T h „ e re pec defendant was cha rge d w i t h d run k enness and ° br e cag e familiarity with his maid s erva nt. I n su pport of t rai ed , of the promoter a great n u m b er o f w i tnesses were els a nd At the close of the pr o c ee di ngs th e commissioner; de„,o, that there were sufficient g ronu d s f or f ur ther procee;;il A FUGITIVE BANKRUPT FROM ENGLAND.--LS WIO t 5 5 ' formerly a flourishing draper, doing busino s 3 0 etltg Exmouth-street, Londo n , suspended payment a fe w of bd ago and fled to this country to evade the grasp and s unfeeling creditors. He was declared a bi bankru pt, t he reward of £2O was offered for his areheneittfl n eit i° authorities in London. The creditors learning tu a .' t h had fled to New York, and that he had brought o n . pe tl t ° to this country a large amount of money, deterra'diaglf despatch a detective policeman after him. ei °oor i na ti : detective nugget was employed for that purpose- „one, arrival of the latter in this city, h e em pl o yed thn g ` nevi of ex-etficar Philip F a rl e y, an d th e p a i r laid the l c f ir eelg, iab accordingly. They pat a letter i n the post ofaea ao cl n bi j to Lewis, and waited ther e un til h e ca ll e d for i t, eeP, that means succeeded in tracing him to his lodnonn, 18, Greenwich-street. Th ere they seized aP°llpeil which Lewis had in his pinsession, and dee ut t of t same in the hands of the she r iff, to wa it the t e3 a oeig : :, civil suit, which will be im me di a t e ly commelle° u de tec t `ie Lewis, for the benefit of his creditors. The t' expects to recover about £l,OOO mo re , a nd will t,b Iv e for hi:se:nee of New York and its inhabitanta.—' 3e Gerald. SA I6 :3 FORTUNATE RECOVERY OF £940 Oenceentro a - a IP: e s err.—On Friday afternoon, bankrupt, a n -a tcj d Roberts, worsted spinn e r, o f S e db ur y M i lls, 1-laie- o ° " ii g brought up in custody, a t th e L ee d s B a nkrup tc y net'L'af before Mr. Commissioner West, on suspicion ° ltr pos ° l o concealed a large amount of his property for the P if of ' o f defrauding his credito r s. M r . C ar i ss , on beha'reseltrii assignees, closely questioned the bankrupt, t he d Be a 0t which was that h e m a d e a c l ean b reast o f it, a f t er g re e d £940 in gold and bank not e s w as r eco vered. l' ac elel e J hesitation and prev ar i ca ti on , th e b an k ru pt ae l “ l o ot gli t ee that moaey to the amount of above £9OO wag of 0 . inn gr in an empty house in Bradford, and that the PLY titY e dia t ` house was at Halifax. A messenger indal kre ptr a nd. ceeded to Bradford, accompanied by th-' b an- e olle e- o es' pointed out the house in which the money wants; t ee This The door having been forced, the bankrupt Pu t , Pa l os senger into the cellar kitchen, and directed hire from to hand up the chimney and t a k e some thi n g do's% e d it! flue. The messeeger did as h e was t o ld, and t e ) , ° l 4 ia g o ld large leathern pocketbook, in which were - .l * eleg wad and £825 in Bank of England and other noteg'. o g 0 11 Jea was sewn in a eiceh b e lt, censtructed so as lux ia the waist. There was no doubt that the banitr%ddr e 'nia to abscond with this money to America, as a '; n tei. a had the United States was found amongst the obis bankrupt acknowledged also that goods of set ae been sent by him in fictitious names to a h o y 01 ,d to ehester and elsewhere. The fortunate rece -r esa' • tha property will, it "is believe], s ec ure 20s. the creditors.—Leeds Mercury. 01,,ri0• 4. ,h0 NEGLECT OF FAMILY.—A STRANGE ,%ilissljoil of respectably-dressed person, named George " no o g e t ' e nneit tills the situation of station master at the ' . 9 a'oreP' - , g at the Barnsley line of the Lancashire and 10-t i f e s ,gift r i si f e neill was charged before the West Riding tr f n as u n ntld; Wakefield, on Monday, with allowing his t i ntinrC e erie ° to become chargeable to the township of Alo e been 7 1 s ong; Monies. Mrs. Atkinson stated that she bats ha: ie rtte; to the defendant about 17 years ; that ha e she ',.;,ebi°, where about £2,000 of her money. ,W il id e- et; £s2:res ben him she had an income of .£lOO ayear,O s- r' b ° etc t her father gave her on her marriage. I „ s t tlleed go husband bad gone to Australia, where he -land, a" fit' . n e e e of the money. He then came back to ee 10 9 nnin sOf the above situation. From July last she ab ou t tw e et the defendant at Darton. One afternae n t in nbevrege'l he turned her and her children—six ta ° doer t° a t" the house, and nailed up the windows a nd h the sl at e >o itP them getting in. They wandered about te let b l h b : oP ° „ f ri half-past eleven at night ; but he refunnAda-5, L' e ntP' l o She was all that night, and all the 11 31 t dr of a n o o ° a fields, will e baby in her arms. The nw t e einfl a9 r eein e e e house in the neighbourhood at length too rihey re a te e them, arid allowed them shelter in it. asiaepiog; there for some time, living on charity and nes') 3l .' qoj e , bare floor. She at lens le threatened IleY_ ri oale .oo 1 1 , legal nroceedings, but on her promising t,7, his pro t t li elo ge lo he said he would allow her £l, a we' k n r s rea ir t - 3 rtO £ lt had not kept, and she now sued him It ) __ o2 Y . % The defendant acknowledged havii?g n el aa nee lo P o it 07 enough to lose the money, but he said 1,7, sta te 0.0 L ie - in business. The other portion of his vi ..m eor eel denied. The bench made an order on bl towards the support of his will and taw' I