Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-24 00:00:00

CAUSE LIST FIRST LIST:—S ALFORD HUNDRED. Plaintiffs' Attorneys. Plaintiffs. Defendants. 2 QB„Slater and Co Hampson and ano . • • • (sJ) v Hampson.. g Nx..Same .. • • .. If oorhouse.. • • • • (LT) v Alcoa • • • . • • • • • • • • Sims is Ql6,..Seme ..The Queen • • • • • • (sJ; v Spence .. Cooper and Sons 96 Ea.. Efol ten and flamer • • • • • • • • (s.r) v Knowles and ors .. • . SO QS F Andrew .. .. Mackay and ors.. ... ter) v Stephenson .. . Halme and J II QS.. Worthington and E .. Nowell.. .. (s3)_v The Mayor, Sce of Wigan .. • • Lord and A SECOND LIST.—WEST DERBY HUNDRED. 3 qa..Lowndes and Co ... ..Smith • •(al) v Pile Young and Co 4QB ifie .. -Brown and ano (s.r, v Leicester:.. . ..Stone s 3z.. t 01,y .. Peet _ ..v Ha lam .. .. Henry QB..Binney Yeomana v Gray and ors.. .. Chambers and W pi Fa_ it W e ns ..L Bof Health King upon Hull (es) vT. inity House of Hull.. .. E S Wilson 31 Powson and Co .. ..Hoghton . (sr) v Bsattie 13 CP.. GT inamer • • • • .. ..Same v Brown _ •..Francis and It - 14 CPL.J Yates jun.. biaManus v Lan. and York. Railway Co ~1-ligharn anl C t 7 CP., Same •_Sirs (ss) v Barber .. .. Fletcher and 26Ex... stamp and J Bark warth and ano (as) v Mason .. . 19 Ex.- Fell and S Holmes v Kidd and ano . .. Evans and Son • QB.. Statham and Co Salomon ..v Ra a irns'ey Brierley 2111 1x... Barrow .. Manley admix ...v St alons Canal and Rail Co .. Whitley BB EX... same Hawksey v Carter .. 24 QB.. Holden and Son ... Woelscroft v Watson .. _Bell and S 16 T Eastham ...Eastham . v WhaPey Coltan and B 0 Ex.-Fletcher and H .. Taylor .. (sr) v McCalman -Neal and M CP..J P Murryugh Hargrcaves . • • .. ..v Thomas .. Chester and Co Ex,..Thackerah Fitzpatrick.. v Lan. and York. Railvray Co .. Levis aril Co 31 CP.. J Yates Jun .. Raven .. ..v Bell Pemberton 32 CP..Same -Callan v Jameson .. -Ward 211 QB..R Stevenson • • .. (ss) v Lon. and N. West Rail. Co.. ..Swift and Co 24 F x... Rowe .. .• ..Warirr jun.. v Everth .. Woodcock and CO 24 Ex. .Heald.. (a' Nail v Acton .. Leigh 76 CPL.IIIc, lihurst Wright ..v C owes .. 27 QB..Carson and E Brooks and ors exore q c.. ..v Bainbridge -Gregory and Co 39 QB.. Mom and L.. .. • • .. Samuelson and ors .. (as) v H--ins and ors.. .. Preston CP..Goodwin and A. . . Ccoke (as; v Wilscn and ano ..1 owndes and Co 41 CPL Fenwiaa ..Vose admix ... ..v Lan. and York. Railway Co.. ..T Aas d J Gandy 41 CP..3 Yates, Jun.. .. Wright and aao ..v Kirby.. .. • •• .. • • ..Hincla • *.x- It Moore .. .. Scott and ano ..v Hernaman 44 C?.. Evans and Son Stevens and ano v Clementson .• 4.2 0.8.. C and H. Frost .. Wadsworth .. v Wells.. .. • • .. and S 47 Ex... Fletcher and H.. Higgin ..v Robins .. Chilcott 11 Ex. -Booker.. .. Hatton and ano ..v Roils . Shackle on and Co • Ex... Con way.. ..Nelssn (as) v Seddon .. Holden and Son 30 CPL.Tnrner and Son.. .. Waddingtoa admor ..v Lan. and. York. Railway Co. ..R and W Ascroft ii CP L.! , ame .. ••a:a:re ..v Same.. .. (demurrer) Same QB..Littlodale and B Pemberton ..v Arkle and ano.. 0 CP.. Eoga le Buxton . ..v Venn and ano.. _Era- cis and A 64 Ez...T s Smith .. - -Collins Murphie ..Swift and Co • CPL.Barkhonse ..Faittr and ano ..v Brennand and ano -Sale and Co 34 CPL.Same -Same v Same.. (demurrer) Same al CPL.rame ..Sager ..v Ssme.. Same CPI -Snowball .. • • .. Woodheed v Plackharst W Blaol:hurst is CPL.Brethet ton Assop ..v Yates . ..Ward $1 Ex... Cobb ..Grant , . ..v Denham 12 co.. Littlelile and. Co .. Pay es ..v Critchley ..Holden and Son ga Ex... Barber _Weisman ..v Taymr Higham and C 64 Ex... Conwa- •• • • .. Nelsan . v Brownel and ano -Miler and P Ex.- T S Smith .. •. •. ..Muirt.ead v Moore and ano. B Lloyd CPL.R and W Ascrott ..T..Blackburn and ano ..v Adams. Pale and Co ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH LANCASHIRE—LIVERPOOL, AuGusr 22. CROWN COU Rr. Mr. BARON WATsorr entered Court at nine o'clock on 3Wurday morning, and proceeded with the hearing of the criminal bußiness. UTTERING BASE COlN.—Williana Hatfield, convicted of passing three counterfeit half-crowns, at Royden, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. with hard labour. MANSLAUGHTER IN LIVERPOOL.—WiIIiam ewiff, aged 31, antewner, was charged upon a coroner's warrant, with laving, at Liverpool, on the 21st of July, 1857, killed his wife, Mary Swift. Mr. Blair stated the case for the prose anion, from which it appeared that on Monday, July the 21h, the prisoner came home to his dinner about five erelock. He found his wife at dinner, and from some cause be appeared to be in considerable agitation, although it would be seen that he and his wife were both quite sober at the tim-. Some time before he bad been very much irritated about his wife going to the races without his knowledge, or some such cause, and this 'appeared to have zemained upon his mind. He turned the whole family out of doors, and locked up the house. Shortly after, how ever, he gave the key of the house to the youngest child, and the children and servant went back into the house. The deceased did not go back -until about nine o'clock, when she went upstairs and lay down upon the servant's bed. Some time after the prisoner came home. He asked for his wife, and the meant told him she was not in. He said that was a good job. He then went into his own room. The servant went up stairs to her room, and locked the door. This appeared to have excited his suspicion, for he came to the door and demanded to be let in. The servant refused to do - so, upon which he burst the door open. He went up to the bed where his wife was lying, and struck her several times upon the head. Wne•her he had anything in his band or not, was not shown, but the deceased was covered with blood from the effects of the blows. These blows, it was alleged on the part of the prosecution, produced erysipelas, which resulted in her death a few days after wards. Mary Ann Gorman, servant of the deceased, was examined by Mr. Conway, who, with Mr. Blair, appeared for the prosecution. She described the circumstances preceding the assault, as sta ed by counsel. Witness went fora police-officer, and when she came back the deceased was looting out of the window of her bedroom, crying cut That she was nearly murdered, and begging to be taken eat. Witness and the dicer helped her out. There was a dog-kennel under the window, on which she stepped in get flag out. Her dress became entangled in some way, and she fell to the grounl. She did not appear to have been hart t the fall. She was taken to St. Anne's Dispensary, where she was attended by Dr. Thomas. The following flay deceased went to the house of a neighbour, (Mrs. Prit chard) while she was there the prisoner came in, she went j eat, and therefore did not see anything occur; but when she came back deceased had a black eye. Witness took bar again to the St. Anne's Dispensary. On the following Friday she died. Witness deposed that she had heard him on former occasions make use of threats towards the de epened. Deceased appeared a quiet woman, and not given to intemperate habits. Witness also deposed that some srisegreement took place between prisoner and deceased a few days before about deceased having gone to the races after prisoner had gone there, without his consent. Witness stated that the heard the prisoner talking to a policeman au the Tuesday, the day following the assault, she over beard the prisoner say "here is £5 for you if you won't go against me." And she saw him take out his pocket. book at the same time. The policeman said "It was not I who helped her out of the window." Does not know the policeman's name, but his number was 131. The policeman wke helped the oeceased from the window, coroborated the evidence of the last witness. He stated that the de ceased fell from the dog-kennel on her back, and did not appear to receive any injury from it. The wounds on her Ewe and head he saw before the fall. The daughter of the prisoner confirmed the account given of the assault of the prisoner upon deceased. Several medical gentlemen deposed that the wounds of the deceased were the cause of the erysipelas which produced her death, and that these wounds might heirs been inflicted by blows from a clenched bazd. It appeared, however, from the evidence of Dr. O'Donnell and Dr. Gill, both of whom attended the deceased, that for some days before her death, they con sidered her to be suffering from delirium tremens, and treated her accordingly. Mr. James, Q C., addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, contending that the fall she received had prodaced some of the wounds in her head, and that her death had been accelerated by delirium tremens. The jury retired, and after a short deliberation returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Several of the prisoner's friends raised a loud cheer. His Lordship instantly gommanded that any one making any such noise should be brought up before him, adding that h e wou ld comm it an y verb person to pr ison. The prisoner was then discharged. BIANSLAhOHTER —James Coyne, aged 17, carter, was eharged with having at Warrington, killed John Rowland. XL Raffles prosecuted. The deceased was a child who, with some others was playing in a street in Warrington. Deceased was in a barrow which the other children were drawing. The prisoner came down the street with his me, and through want of caution upset the barrow. Deceased was thrown out and killed. Mr. Cross defended the prisoner. The jury found the prisoner guilty. His Lordship sentenced him to one week's imprisonment. ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE AT MANCEUerrEit.—John Thompson, 27, blacksmith, pleaded guilty to a charge of robbery with violence at Manchester, on the 4th of this meteth. Sentence deferred. _ _ _ The court adjourned to 9 o'clock this (Monday) corning. -- NISI 2RIUi COURT. 2E70E2 Mit 11tR0; CII;;;VLCAND A SPECIAL JURY. Tint QUERN v. SPENCE.— On the sitting of the court at vine o'clock, the eau% of the Queen v. Spence was resum ed. The case for the prosecution closed after the exami ostizn of Dr. Frankland. Sir Frederick Thesiger then woesetied to state the case for th e d e f ence. H e o b serve d has the question of a nuisance, as he apprehended, was stwsys one which must be considered with reference to the rrextica'ar neighbourhood. They could nst expect in the rar‘ity of a great manufacturing town that they should lam the air as pure and as free from corruption as if they rant to a retired and sequestered part cf the country. Trade necessarily had an expansive power. It would Ilad sway naturally beyond the manufacturing town in which it eight first b 3 established to the outskirts, and greatly Iltaud itself over the country. This particular valley in stisasdon, according to the opinion of Dr. Frankland him will, bras one which was peculiarly adapted for the pur poses of factories, and therefore it was not to be wondered st that they had sprung up and abounded very considera bly in that particular neighbourhood. His learned friend ad spoken of the capital which the gentlemen engaged in Ms prosecution had expended on their residences : but ihosa gentlemen who chose to build their villas on the outskirts of a manufacturing town, where, if they had the al ghtest foresight, they limit have taken for granted that susantactaree would extend, now wished to impose an lespezetrable barrier against the intrusion of any but a Deendints' Attorneys. selected and choice number of manufactories, and to say to trades of other descriptions, " Hitherto thou shalt come, but no further." In establishing a nuisance as a public nuisance, he quite agreed with his learned friend in the definition which he had given—that there should be something which was detrimental either to the health or to the comfort of a large number of her Mejesty'a Subjects. If what was called a nuisance was confined only to a small number and to a limited range, then, although each person who suffered from it might have his private action for his private and particular injury, yet that would not be what the law esteemed a public nuisance; and though in the indictment which was pre ferred many of those particular persons in the immediate neighbourhood might state and show their particular grievances, yet that would not constitute such a public offence as would render the defendant liable to be found guilty. There was a case tried in that very court not many years ago, which some of them perhaps remembered—the case of an iron Shipbuilder's yard, which had found its way along the Mersey into the neighbourhood of a place where a number of villas were standing. Nothing could be more distracting or annoying than the continual batter of the hammers upon the iron surface of the vessels ; but upon that occasion it was said that where persons fixed them selves in the immediate neighbourhood of a flourishing manufacturing town, he had no right, and had no power, fortunately, to prevent trade extending itself, and that that was a circumstance which they must or ought to have anticipated in the selection of their resi dences, and that if by reason of a want of precaution they exposed themselves to consequences of that kind, although perhaps they might have a ground of private complaint, still the criminal law could not be put in force against the person who had so intruded upon their residences to make it a criminal offence. In this case he was at a loss to understand whether it was alleged that the nuisance which was comp'ained of, arose from the escape or dis charge of sulphurated acid gas. The distinction would be found most important to b 9 borne in mind, because they had heard that sulphurous acid gas was prejudicial to vegetation, and that sulphurated hydrogen, except in large quantities was not. They were, therefore, enabled to have a test by which they could ascertain the quantity either of sulphurous acid gee, or sulphurated hydrogen at any time, which might be extracted from the works and discharged into the atmosphere; and he thatight it would reader the question plain to their understanding, if he took the case on the part of the - prosecution, and ranged it under three distinct heads, namely, injury to vegetation, injury to health, and personal and domestic discomfort. lie would first take the question of injury to vegetation, and, as it appeared to him, that head would present circumstances of great importance in the consi deration of the whole of the case ; because, in the first place, they would be enabled to appreciate from all the evidence which they would have on the subject, whether the quantity of sulphurous acid gas which proceeded from the chimney of the alum works was so great as to produce any deliterious effect upon vegetation ; and, in the next place, to test the truth and accuracy of the evidence which had been given by the different witnesses with respect to the effect produced upon themselves by the works. With regard to the injury which it was said arose to vegetation, they had the evidence of Mr. Williams, a dyer ; of Mr George Smith, an attorney, whose nose was of such peculiar construction, that he smelt the gas even when the wind was blowing in an opposite direction—(laughter)—of Mr. Davenport, gardener; of Mr. Tattier ; Mrs. Ellis, the lady who described the nuisance as a "pig styey, lucifer match smell " (laughter)---and of Mr. Faller, er, nursery gardener—all of whom spoke of injury to their trees and shrubs. But how was it that several other gardens in the vicinity were not affected? lie would produce Mr. Cooke, who would say that his garden wss not affected. at all, and Mr. Ruse Jones, who would state that his garden had not been in the slightest degree injured by the alum works. If sulphurous acid gas was prejudicial to vegetation, and if it issued from the works in the large quantities alleged by the witnesses for the prosecution, there was no rea son why its effects should not have exhibited themselves, not merely partially and locally, but generally over the whole of the surrounding country districts; and especially in those portions which were similiary situated to those which were affected. He would call before him a body of gardeners and farmers, who would give the most conclusive and con tradictory evidence to that which had been furnished on the part of the prosecution He would call Mr. Shaw, secretary to the proprietors of the Botanical Gardens at Old Trafford, who had examined into the state of vegeta.. tion within the radius of a mile, and who would say that so far from vegetation having been injured in the neighbour hood, asit mast have been if the quantity of sulphurous acid gas were sent out as alleged from the defendants works, the vegetation was infinitely more flourishing than it appeared to be within the same distance of Manchester or of any other manufacturing town. The learned gentleman then proceeded to the consideration of the question of health, upon which he said they had the most trifling and insigni ficant evidence that could possibly be produced upon an important question of the kind. One gentleman said that it set h's teeth on eige ; another that it gave him sore throat and cough, and another that it affected his breathing and pained his eyes. But why were not some of the 300 men employed in Mr. NiMMO'd factory, which adjoined the works produced ? He would produce persons who were residents in the neighbourhood for years, who would say that neither they nor their families had ever experienced the slightest discomfort or loss of health from anything arising from the works He would produce the foreman, who lived on the premises, and whose children were born there, and he would produce a medical gentleman, who, having visited the works and being satisfied of the health of the workmen, was now actually building houses in the neighbourhood. In regard to the question of personal discomfort, it was impossible to ascertain what the parties complained of. He would give . them the evidence of p ersons w h o h a d li ve d i n t h e immediate neighbourhood for years, and who would tell them that they had perceived no nuisance at all. He would prove to them that in 1855, when an endeavour was made I ) induce the Town Council of Salford to prosecute Mr. Spence for a nuisance, the Inspector of Health inspected the premises, and reported there was no ground of complaint ; and that brought him to the consideration of the works themselves. Th ey had a very clear description of them given by Dr. Frankland. At an expense of £1,500, Mr. Spence carried pipes from the gas-works to the River Irwell ; through those pipes the ammoniscal liquor flowed, and was received into a closely covered barge, and out of the barge, it was pumped through gutta percha into the receiving cisterns at the works. No escape of sulphur etted hydrogen was ever round, and the question, there fore, was as to the discharge of suphurous acid gas. It was ascertained that a gallon of ammonical liquor contained only one per cent. of sulphur —29 lbs. in 1,000 gallons. The whole consumption daring the year at the works was 900,000 gallons, and the quantity of sulphur i ssue d would therefore b t e h? l se l,tr 830, a quantity which 13 curt., or 83 lbs. in the I working day; taking even Dr. Frankland admitte i l wan w?oldd. thditereeelearintedlfeilspedr oeptibly in the air. In oa dwelt on the rain which Wi 1 / 601 .0 Vied* would bring THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, AUGUST 24„ 1857. on the defendant, who were ready to do every possible thing to remove the unfounded alarm and prejudice against their works, and regretted that the matter had not been arranged as it might and should have been between neighbours. Some manifestation of applause took place in the body of the court at the conclusion of the learned gentleman's address, which occupied two hours and twenty minutes in its delivery. Several witnesses for the defence were then called, and on the rising of the court the further hearing of the case was adjourned to this (Monday) morning. From the state of the cause list, and the number of prisoners still for trial, it is probable that the assizes will not conclude before this day week. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-SATURDAY. LIVERPOOL. BEFORE Mkt. MAYSFIELD. ASSAULT.— Mary Edwards and Robert Makin were charged with having assaulted Mrs. Jones, of 44, Bruns wick-road. Mr. Bluek defended. The complainant said the male prisoner and his wife took lodgings for themselves and four children for a few days as they were going to Canada. Their condact was described as very bad, and she gave them notice to leave. The male prisoner's wife went to Carnarvon to get money, when Makin brought in the female prisoner as a friend of his ; but this was objected to by complainant, and then both prisoners attacked her, the man striking, and the woman biting and tearing her arm. The man was fined 5s and costs, and the woman £5, or to be imprisoned for two months. Peter was charged by Edward Bowen, with having broken his nose by a violent blow. The parties were at work at the Albert Dock Warehouse, and it ap peared the attack was without any provocation. Mr. Cowan, the superintendent of the warehouses gave the complainant a good character. The nose was quite broken across the bridge. The prisoner was sent for trial. DIFORN MESSRS. AIKIN AND TIMMER. Amongst a number of affiliation cases tried before these gentlemen, were two that attracted considerable attention. One was a summons by a young woman named Alice Smith, against John Newby, a respectable-loLking and very well-dressed young man, described as an assistant to his father, a naturalist residing, in Manchester-street. The complainant lived as servant with defendant's father, and the details disclosed some very curious facts not fit t) meet the public eye in a newspaper. Mr. Block was for the defendant and proved such a case for his client, that the bench dismissed the summons The next case was that of a handsome artle3s•looking girl, named Catherine Foley, a native of the celebrated town of Killala, (the place where the French landed in Ireland when about to aid that country in separaiiog from Eng land), against a person named John Bethel), a native of Hoylake. Mr. Black was for the defendant in this case, but was not able to show as good cause for his client as in the last instance, and an order for 2s. 6d. a week and costs was made against him. A little romance was con nected with this cise, but so mixed up with unprintable matter that we cannot give it. A small "scene" that created much amusement took place at the 'termination of the case. BEFORE MESSRS SHE'D AND HARVEY. PERMITTING DRUNRENESS.—Jane Wilkinson, the keeper of a spirit vaults on Copper Shill, was summoned for per- mitting drunkenness in her house about half-past four o'clock on the morning of the 11th inst. The aff,ir was proved by Inspector Hough and police constable No. 70, who visited the house, and therein found several parties, some of whom were drunk. Mr. Roby appeared for the defendant. As the case was clearly established, and the house had been frequently before fine i for similar com plaints, the Bench inflicted a fine of 40s. and costs. On the previous day the same parties were mulcted of a similar penalty. John Putford, the keeper of a spirit vault in Bilton street, Copperas-hill, was summoned - for a like offence, which was clearly proved by Inspectors Tobin and Wilson. Mr. Snowball appeared for the defendant, hut failed to shake the evidence of the constables, and the defendant was fined 20s. and costs. THE MOORS. In all our experience we have never known a shooting season open with so varied and chequered a result, and this has arisen not from the scarcity of grouse, but from their strength and conscq.ent wild ness, this being increased by the state of the weather. Wherever a fair breeding stock existed the birds are plentiful, a: :c1 bags have been small, not from the:searcity of game, but from their wiliness. Not withstanding, sone:good bags have been made. In this county, and in•the shires of Renfrew, Lanerk, Dumbarton, Stirling, and Argyle, the sport has boon quite np to the average. On the 12th, on the Kilkerran moo s, in Stream pariah, two parties k lied 28 brace and 181 ; in Barr parish. one gun killed 18 braze. On the 13th, one party in Straiton killed 12, and one in Daley parish 8 brace. Oa the 15th, in Cohnonel, one party killed 191 brace and two snipes, and one in Ballantrae 19.1 and 1 snipe. A. Buchanan, Esq. of Barskimmiog, killed 27 brare to his own gun on Dalblair. On the same moor, Mr. Barnett and two friends, on the same day, killed 24 brace. Geo. Cunningham, Esq. of Skeldan, killed on Boghead moor 22 brace. Lord Eglinton and the Duke of Montrose tiled 20 brace on a small moor of about 100 acres in West Kilbricle. n Blairquhan moors, E. H. Blair, Esq. of Dunakey, and R. Vans Agnew, Esq. of Bsrnbarrow, killed 23 brace and 4 hares. Oa Knockshinnock, In Ayr county, Mr. Peter Buchanan killed 16 race on 12th and 13th, shooting only a few hours inch day. Mr. D. Lade killed 22 brace and 2 hares on Mr. Crawford of drosble Castle's moor. This is far above an average. On a small mar near Barba!, one gun, on the 12th, killed exactly double the number of any previous bag known on that day. On Kingswells, Mr. J. C. Foulds killed 12, and, on Glenowther, three guns 29 brace; on Eaglesham, the best bag was 17 brace. Mr. A. Grah tm, of Capellie, killed 10i braze in a few hours on the small moor of Fereneze. • In Argyllshire, the sport has been unequal. The ranges round Inverary are fairly stocked on the lower ground?. Mr. Edmiston, the Duke's head gemekeeper, killed 9 brace before nine o'clock in the morning, in time for dispatch to London by the steamer leaving at ten. Mr. John Reid, o: Port Glasgow, on Achnagoll, killed respec tively 27,} and 12 bran on the 12th and 13th. On Mr. J. D. Dongall's crack moor of Ardchylline opposite to levorary, the grouse are wen iarly abundant, and Count Plater, of Wi:na, a young Ru than noble man, and Mr. Pottsr, had excellent sport. But we have heard nothing from this coantry to equal the doings of Mr. Joseph R. Fisher, who, on a moor near Campbelltowa, killed in two hours 12 brace on the 12th, and In the same time o the 14th, 13 brace and 5 snipe. Black game shooting opens on Thursday, and all reports agree as to their abundance.—Ayr Observer. BANFFSHIRL—Wednesday last opened :the grouse shootings. Sportsmen had for the most part arrived previously at their season's quarters, and many of them were on tiptoe to get out at dawn on the 12th. The day was fine, and generally speaking fair sport was got. The weather since, however, has beets vary wet, and little has been done since the opening day. Birds have in every case been found healthy and strong, but In many instances they we scarce—some gentlemen'a success being so small that they are unwilling it should be published; while as regards tie bags on one or two important ranges of hills, thsy are reported as the worst for many years. In order to prevent fu'ure scarcity from tha stock of game being too much shot down, as was the case last year, v .rlons more have been let under restrictions that only a certain quantity of game will be killed—some conditioning that not more than so many brace shall be taken daily, others that only a specified number shall be sly t in the whole.—Banff Journal. Lo c inn.— Grouse shooting had a high:y auspicious commencement in this district on " the twelfth "—the result. so far as they have reached us, being as under : —invermark—Lsri Panmnre barged 60 brace of grouse, 1 hare, 1 rabbit, and 1 duck, being the highest in this quarter. Oleneffo,k—Col. Dandas and the Earl of Scarborough bagged 44 brace of grouse between them. Ilauthill—The Earl of Sef • ton and party, having thres guns, bagged 61& brace of grouse. Milden —Henry Magnaic, Esq., and party, being only out for an hour or two, bagged 11 brace. Gannochy—Captain Peareth killed 40 brace of grouse and 5 hares with his own gun, and Captain Briscoe and C. Pack, Esq.. 29 brace of grouse 4 hares, 1 snipe, the other gentlemen not gong out till one o'clock. On the 13th Capt. Peareth bagged 20 brace of grouse In four hours, and the other two g entlemen 17i brace of grouse and 5 hares in the same time. Captaiu Young, who arrived at Invermark on Thursday last, bagged 41 brace of grouse on St tur day. Colonel Dandas and the Earl of Sc arborough had 32 brace of grouse on the 13th, and the Earl of Sefton and Mr. Granfoil hod about 40 brace on Saturday. Mr. Da'ziell, Edzell Lodge, bagged 9f brace of grouse on the 12th. Trn ROBBZRY OP BANK NOTIM—At the Manchester City Police Court, on Friday, John Smethurst, William H , Avard, and Ann Malloy who had been remanded on charges of being concerned in the robbery of Bir.k of &- gland notes to the amount of £l,OOO from Mr. Thomas Taylor, were brought up again to:: further examination. Mr. A. D. Fawkes appeared for the male prisoners, and called witnesses to chancter. There being no further evi dence against them, they were discharged. The case against, the woman was of a much more suspicions charac ter. Two of the mis,ing n,ltes were traced to her possession on the very day of the robbery, and she was proved to have changed both of them in the neighbourhood of Shudehill on the same day. The only explanation she could give of the matter was, that the notes came into her possession, she could not tell how, when she was in a state o`.. - intex cation. In opposition to this statement it was tatown that the woman was in full possessioa of her senses when she changed the notes. She was remanded. - until 'tuesday. It was stated in court that a man was in 'custody in London on a charge of passing one of the stole', notses, and that the metropolitan authorities refused to IV And the prisoner over to the Manchester police. POPULAR EDUCATION. TO TUB EDITOR OF TIM NoRTHIERI TIMES. Each might his servi'e province wall command. Would a 1 bat stoop to what they understand." Sir,—Like your esteemed correspondent J. 0. N., who in early youth fell deeply in love with the moral conveyed in the following couplet— r et all the foreign tongues alone, 'Tilly ou can spell and write y our own ; " and, according to his own assertion—which I have no cause to dispute—upon w:lich he has hitherto most scrupulously acted. I also, at an early age, happened to read the couplet heading this epistle. It made an impression —a lasting one in the store-house of memory. I became an easy proselyte to the doctrine which is so laconically, but forcibly conveyed. Ido not mean to say that I have not, in common with others, frequently transgressed against, not only the letter, but against the very essence of the couplet. With this frankly honest avowal at your bar, as an impartial judge, you will allow me to plead precedence at least, as an- apology. But, perhaps, the writers of epistles, not intended for the information or edification of private friends, but for the public weal, do not generally fall into greater error, in naturally expecting that all their:readers should behold their darling creature " child " with the same affectionate fondling eye as they themselves behold and admire it, than do their readers in vainly imagining that authors write expressly for the purpose of pandering to the peculiar taste, appetite, or caprice of any individual, or individual class of readers. Thus, in a country, free as the air we breathe, with a press legitimately unfettered as the wings of the morning lark, I cannot see any reason why an interchange of ideas and sentiments bearing upon any subject should not be tolerated, not only so but encouraged, without entailing upon the devoted head of the hapless adventurer the relentless vengeance and anathemas of a well-trained squad, whose field of action is papyrus, and whose offensive weapons are quills saturated with the poison of galls and oxides. Slavish timidity, however, ill becomes the chief of a formidable clan inured to toil and penury, therefore the puerile attacks of your educational correspondent, J. 0. N , fall as callously and innocuously upon myself as a ml.dge disporting itself on a rhinoceros. Your enrrespondent is pleased to stela mo a learned critic." I beg to assure him that I feel highly compli. mented, for he generously concedes a deal more than I bargained for in this respect, but in other respects con siderably less than I contend for. Concession, however, is not conq test ; consequently, I treat this gratuitous compliment much in the same spirit as did the Trojan of old, the votive Wooden Horse—" I hate the Greeks and the offerings they bring." But pardon me, Mr. Editor, I have almost forgot that "Popular Education" is the theme. The term is fraught with meaning; the interests of my clan are as much involved as those of-the proudest peer in the realm. hence the cause of my tackling "Tyros," not " heroes," in the arena of discussion. I opine that the term education may, without extraordi nary sketching, be resolved into its component elements for the sake of affording greater facility in discussing the subject calmly and rationally. My subdivisions of the subject stand thus, subject, of course, to the approval or rejectio❑ of your great normal educationalist, J.O.N. :—Physical, mental, and moral training. Some, I admit, perhaps more sanguine than discreet, insist upon the element of religious creed being included. These, I have no hestitation in saying, have done more of late years to mar the cause of a really sound and useful education ; and, I believe I may add, of Christianity, than all the machinations and combinations of the enemies of the latter together. It requires only a small amount of reflection to readily perceive that the first natural wants of a child, the fit subject of the educationalist, are entirely of a physical character. T: - ,e tender frame must be carefully nourished, protected in its helplessness, and watched over with all the solicitude of maternal sympathy and loving care, until in process of time glimmerings of intelligence and mind are seen to radiate on the infant brow. Nor here does the fond parent's anxious care terminate ; every opportu nity is eagerly watched and embraced to minister in aiding to cherish and strengthen the tender mental aspirations of the yet but budding child. A few more years having rolled over the round little cheek, due pains are taken to instil into the mind the desirability of respect to whom due, whether from age or position—moral rectitude in all future transactions of life, with a good understanding as to the law, or golden rule. relating to melon et teem, &c. It is now mete that this darling promising boy should associate and mingle with his own equals, coevals, and with those with whom he may be naturally expected to come in freqnent contact, in a business point of view, during the remaining portion of his earthly pilgrimage. He must now quit the nursery, and forget indulgent Old Betty and her nursery rhymes. He must be further educated— the where becomes to the solicitous parents a subject of deep consideratien. Institution after institution is named, and an unfavour able decision arrived at in reference thereto, in consequence of the religious tenets inculcated therein. Here rests the bone of contention, the guestio vexata, which has puzzled, puzzle, and will puzzle, not only my impotent, though loyal clan, but statesmen, clergymen, and bishops themselves. That such be the ease is cause of regret to all; but what use to lament what we cannot prevent. Our duty is clearly to succumb to circum stances which we can neither alter, subvert, nor direct. how much, solver, we may feel aggrieved by the oppressive burdens imposed upon us, or obstrnctive barriers placed in our desired path by our superiors. The importance of the subject, however, admonishes me of my incapacity to grapple with it, but in this dilemma, I regret to say that I stand not singular. I except, of course, our doctissimus omnium friend J. 0. N., whose sole aim appears to be occupied in endeavouring to devise and then divulge a national scheme of education, which, like the long predicted, but as long waited for millennium, shduld embrace within its pale all sects and creeds with a simultaneous burst of universal accepta bility, In the present day, and state of mind, such a scheme might legitimately be styled the philosopher's true gem. But your correspondent not having endeavoured to propound any suel► scheme, I cannot see any reason wherefore I ought to permit him, lion-like, to pounce, in the fury of forest rage, upon my humb!e, and, I hope, modestly expressed, ideas as to education whetier, national, sectional, or popular. In reference to my letter of the 13th ult. in your columns, I regret that your correspondent "J 0. N." should wil fully, for otherwise impossible, misconstrue my meaning for some, to me unknown, sinster end. if his desire has been to reader me obnoxious in the sight or estimation of the members of the Corporation of Liverpool, he might have adopted some other more panly straightforward means to accomplish his end, than indi rect misrepresentation or construction of my ideas indelibly expressed as to education generally, and, with special reference to his ideas, to the Corporation Schools of Liverpool particularly. I have never received a favour nor a fi^own from any member of the corporate representatives'of Liverpool, and for a good reason—l have never asked the one, nor, to my knowledge, merited the other. And in proof of this latter assertion, I beg to request any member of that intelligent body who may have read J. 0. N.'s stric tures on my reply to him, to refer to that reply, and that member will soon be satisfied that my object was not to impugn the admirable management and disection of the Corporation Schools. The amount of benefit they are cal. culated to confer, and undeniably do confer, upon the large portion of the youth of this town. Neither have I attempted to disrate the talented teachers of those schools ; and, further, I deny having in said letter, called the praise worthy exertions of the Liverpool Corporation in the cause of education, " doubtful or questionable experi ments." But what I did say in import, I here again assert, that I did then, and now do. question the propriety of his officious intermeddling with institutions, which he himself, in common with all others, admits to be admirably conducted. Were it not as prudent to let well alone? _ _ _ J. 0. N. tries to hit me very hard, when he tells myself, and your other irtelligent readers, that I know nothing of what has led to the greatness of my native country. I beg his pardon; it is not only possible, but very probable, that my knowledge is more circumscribed than his. Nevertheless, be may allow me to have a faint glimmer ing notion at least of what have, ex magma parte, if not entirely contributed to the present enviable position of England in the scale of nations. And I believe that I will get many seconders if I say in two significant words, its constitution and institutions moulding and regulating the habits and morals of its people, and nought else besides, further than we must acknowledge the resulting effect in shape of harvest produce upon which neither your valuable space nor my own valueless time would justify me in tracing through its varied and various ramifications from root to branch. Every person who pretends to have given even mediocre consideration to the subject will readily comprehend my idea, and if others there be I write not at present for them. Some of my former remarks roir correspondent denies in toto—this little W 0/. d advises me, in terms of his favou rite couplet, t hat he bas, at least, mastered the Orthography and Syntax of his mother's tongue, which feat, by insinua tion, he would hare your readers believe, I have not yet performed. What pains he may have taken to ascertain that I can neither spell nor write my native LANGUAGE, I have had no means of kniowing. Of one thing, I can honestly assure him that the tongue in which I now address him is as much foreign to, and borrowed by. me as any other quo tation whic - r. I may have used, and which may, to him, be " dead" languages. L do not assert this, but I state openly, and I defy your talented correspondent to contradict my statenter_lt—that the people, whose refined language I quoted, to the annoyance of your correspondent, called his gr andsires, as well as mine, " Barbarians ;" and, con sidex:ing that he could not " squeeze the ghost of an idea Out, of whole paragraphs" written by me in a tongue fc,reign to myself, and of which I do not pretend to be 'master, to suit his. convenience, I now regret that I did not more largely draw upon the refined sentiments and true philosophy of the ancients— instead of murdering the English tongue in my weak en deavours to mangle yogi correspondent's ideas of popular education, which, I am hopeful, are peculiar to himself, and I would fain believe that he courts popularity through singularity. But perhaps I had better draw it mild. Your paper of his morning is just put into my hands, by which I see that his lordship, Baron Watson, has come to town, and has, in his address to the grand jury, strongly expressed his sentiments upon the subject ; and had I known this earlier, I should not run the risk of being pulled up before him for murdering a subject which I do not pretend to know, and mangling a system of which I do not approve. Were it not, Mr. Editor, that I have already trespassed too far upon your space, and, I am certain, upon your patience, I would feel disposed to add a few more :paragraphs, to convince "J. 0. N." that there ' are rare spots in the United Kingdom where greater facilities are afforded to my clan to obtain a sound and liberal education than in Liverpool, although he asserts the contrary. And I still adhere to my reluctance to allow the Corno - ration Schools of Liverpool being converted into training seminaries for teachers, to educate the rest of the people of England, and simply for the reason assigned in my letter of the 13th ult., and which I need here again repeat ; and, finally, I deny having said that low education eminated from talented teachers—what I called low was the range of education there taught, but certainly the most suitable for the class attending. As to the fault found with my having said that not one in ten is qualified by tact and talent to teach, I repeat this again, but it will surely require much straining to make the assertion refer to the talented teacher, or to any teacher engaged in the responsible and arduous duty of training youth. As I started by a quotation, allow me to end by another— . "Tho e heals, like stomachs, are not sr.re the best, Whi 3h nansiate all, but nothing can digest." I are, &c., THE CHIEF OF THE FRIENDLRSS POOR. Liverpool. 11th August, 1857. THE SUPPLY OF COTTON. " A Planter" wi ites as follows to the " Royal Gazette, Georgetown, British Guiana:— Sir,—The Manchester manufacturers hold meetings by the hundred and make speeches by the thousand. They form committees and despatch delegates to the furthermost parts of the earth, to ascertain were cotton con be grown. Sea Island seed is shipped to islands in the Pacific, to the plains of India, to endeavour to secure a supply of this in dispensable article, and latterly it is in contemplation to farm the upper Niger, or some other equally delectable spot in the interior of Africa, where, if the superintendent survived the malaria, he would probably be devoured by his labourers within the year. Such are the practical plans of the most practical people under the sun, as the "Manches ter folks" delight to term themselves. Tne extraordinary part of the proceeding is, that while they are thus ransack ing creation, w4thin 20 days' steam of Liverpool there is at their command a vest continental British colony of un equallel fertility, conteining hundreds of thousands of acres of the finest cotton lands in the world ; a potent fact because fOit many years the staple of British Guiana was cotton, and the whole of its crop ranked next to that of Sea Island, produced only in a certain district of the United States, the average quality of the colonial crop far ex ceeding in value that of the Republic. From 1800 to 1820, the production of British Guiana ranged from 40,000 to 50,000 bales, when the cultivation. was gradually extin guished by Imperial legislation reducing and eventually equalising the duties on all cotton, while it highly pro tested British plantation coffee and sugar. As a matter of course the seanty'supply of available labour left the unpro tected for the protected articles. At this moment there are, at least, three hundred abandoned cotton plantations io the colons laid out in strips of about 500 acres, having facades on'the ocean or on a navigable river and bounded in the interior by available crown lands. If labour were pro curable, these estates could, within a year, be replaced in cotton and made to produce somewhere about five b Iles to each able hand. Nor is the labour question by any means hopeless ;—for the colony, during the last 15 years, has, from its own resources, in the face of the greatest obstacles, governmental, if not national, introduced some 30,000 im migrants, by which means it not only saved its existence as an exporting country, but increased its sugar crop from 40,000 to GO,OOO hhds. Lord John Russell, in one of his many perorations, said that cotton should' be brought to labour and not labour to cotton—but his lordship in his love of ant hesis forgot two most important but un manageble ingredients, namely—climate and soil, which even his lordship must leave where nature placed them. But, if the Manchester manufacturers are really as much in earnest about the supply of cotton as they pretend to be, if they are prepared to put their own shoulders to the wheel, let them send out a commission to verify what has bean so frequently told them about this colony. Let them force from Government the permission to obtain from the redun dant supplies of Africa, India, and China—labour suitable for tropical cultivation. Let them, in fact, do what prac tical men under the circumstances ought to do, go to work in earnest—and before ten years are over the beautiful cottons of Guiana would fill no contemptible place in the Manchester imports, and the manufacturers will have in their own hands what neither foreign policy nor revolution can interfere with.-25th July, 1857. The following relates to the cotton producing capacity of Mexico. All the statements of the writer with regard to the qualities of the soil and climate coincide with the testimony of other correspondents, and are probably not overdrawn; but his assumption that nothing is wanting but British capital to cause the production to become ample and profitable cannot be assented to. Good laws, good roads, and efficient protection for life and property must precede the development of this or any other kind of industry. Perhaps the day is not distant when a resusci tation of Mexico may b 3 witnessed. The present Govern ment, although opposed at all points by the ecclesiastical power, have done much in that direction, and should their efforts fail the Republic is evidently destined to fall to the sway of its neighbours, who will perhaps produce an alteration with as much rapidity as in C ilifornia. Mean while it is unnecessary to say that our capitalists can hardly exercise too much caution, whatever may be the invitations given to them in this direction : " Sir,—The following is the transla'ion of an extract from the latter of a wealthy and influential gentleman of the city , of Puebla, who, with many of the gentlemen farm ing their own estates, is anxious to meet with the co-opera tion of the Cotton supply Association of Manchester, or of ()thus of the manufacturing interests for their assistance in the cultivation, export, and market'of cotton to be grown in Mexico : "'Do me the favour to interest yourself that the English people may turn their attention to the cultivation of the cotton plant in Mexico—a want so much felt by the manu facturing interest in England. In no other country of the world will they be able to obtain it so readily both in quality and abundance, and at so small a cost as can bo obtained here. " ' You well know the rescrarc.2s of this country and its extent of cultivated soil in the warmer temperatures near the cities of Mexico and Puebla ; from Atlixco (21 miles from Puebla to the coast) cotton can be cultivated at a high remuneration; the same in the counties of Oaxaca, Vallo dolid, Guadalajara, &c. What we require ase moneyed and intel igent men, to direet the operations, as the Mexicans are docile and laborious, so that one or two able men well acquainted with the management of the plant would suffice to the proper direction on each emote. I can offer many thou sand acres—land proper for the growth of the cotton plant in the counties of Mexico and Peubla. " Several fanners aro anxious to embark their money and land in the undertaking, but they desire- the co-operation of the English buydrs to insure the export and open a steady market for the produce. I assure you, I will remove any obstacle if you assist me , in effecting the arrangement of this matter with the manufacturing interests of England. " ' Not more than three years ago •I had an American cultivator, who began his experiments, and ho met with great success. I would urge upon you to lose no time in addressing the parties most interested in this undertaking, and I will guarantee heavy profits. The plant yields abundantly, is of a fine clean fibre, and of quicker growth than, under any other climate.' " The cotton plant grows wild in many parts of Mexico, and is of a glossy, clean fibre, to which the soil, the tem perature, and the aptness and docility of the native races cnr the greatest facility for its perfect cultivation, and the future supply of cotton for the English manufacturer. All that is required is able men to instruct and to direct o perations, and a finer field does not exist on the face of the earth. " C.'' BRITISH ASS( CIATION.—The above named association will commence to hold its twenty-seventh annual meeting in Dublin upon Wednesday, the 26th of August inst. In this age of scientific development the meetings of such a body, which includes all the m - ist learned men of these kingdoms in every department of human knowledge, must be regarded with the liveliest interest. The proceedings will be opened at the Rjtundo, upon the evening of the above day, by the President, the Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, delivering an address to the members. The business of the several sections will be carried on as usual upo❑ the succeeding days, and as a large attendance of the learned society will meet, the session, it is expected, will be one of more than ordi❑ary importance. Amongst the tames of the celebrated persons who it is expected will attend arc : Sir David Brewster, Major General Chesney, Professor Daubeny, the Earl of Ducie, William Fairbairu, Esq., Manchester; M. Faraday, Esq.; Sir J. F. Herschel!, Dr. Livingstone, Sir Charles Leyell, Sir Robert M‘Clure, Sir Roderick J Murchison, Professor Owen, Colonel Sir Henry Rawlinson, Major General Sabine, Rev. William Whewell, Csmbridge ; Wrettesley, President of the Royal Society, c. CAIRENE LADIES. CAIRO.—The romance of Eastern life has lofig singe ceased. The veiled women still haunt the streets„ and you nay dream as you please of the hidden beauties that no one may see ;:but some accident will expose the face of the woman whose dark eyes have enthralled you, and lo! she is hideous. Tut Cairene costume is unchanged in any respect, and men and women walk the streets or ride on horses and donkeys dressed as their forefathers and mothers dressed two, three, five hundred years ago. The ladies ride astride, usually oa a saddle elevated high upon the donkey's back. A min leads the donkey, and care fully watches the lady lest she fall. The face is never exposed. The immense mantle of silk, almost always black, is lifted over the forehead and held by the two hands, which are elevated, one cn each side, the elbow pro jecting as far as possible. Tne result is to give an appearance of enormous size to the lady, for the air fills the silk as she moves along and it bags out, making her look like an immense sack of silk. From the forehead to the ground falls the white veil, thick and impenetrable to any curious gaze, leaving an opening across the eyes, through which you see the flashing orbs of Egypt. or the softer glances of Circassian beauties. Not unfrequently the veil is drawn aside. I have passed many groups of ladies, who had met in the street or in the garden of the Ezbekieh and stopped to converse, and who were so earnestly engaged in their talk that they did not hear my footsteps until I was among them. The beauties (com paratively speaking, I mean the young and good-looking ones) usually stare complacently and smile. The older and less vain invariably drop the veil and spit on the ground to curse me. Sometimes you will see a veiled lady, wearing white from head to foot instead of black ; and when yon approach her you will be tolerable certain to find that she herself is inteusly black. I never saw such dark complex dons. They are shining ebony, these women from Nubia. The dress of the lower classes is simple in the extreme. The women wear but a single long loose gown, open at the neck and down to the waist. The breast is al ways exposed. and lit tle thought of modesty or decency troubles them. The scene around the opening of tha well on the east side of the Ezbekieh, on the most crowded thoroughfare in front of the door of the Oriental Hotel, is alwks amusing. The water is raised front the well by an endless chain of stone jars, the usual manner in Egypt. Two bullocks turn the rode cog-wheels, walking in a circle around the, well. and the water falls into an open trough, from which it runs into a little pool some six feet square, and thence across the street and into the gardens. There are always a dozen or more women washing clothes in this pool. They are half naked themselves, and are accompanied by their children, who are entirely naked, and who lie and roll in the water and the dry dust of the street alternately, chasing each other back and forth, heedless of their want of clothes or their unpicturesque appearance. Beauty, if it exists at all in Egypt, is exceedingly short lived. I should not doubt is existence, for I have seen among the copper colored countenances of the native girls some whose mould was of the fineat, whose features were chiseled with great regularity ? but the downcast look—the worn and weary air—the sad eyes and heavy lips, indicate the early decay of all that is lovely. They are usually married at twelve or thirteen years of age, and life then, among the lower classes, becomes more a burden than.a joy. Among the wealthy who live in luxury and ease I am told it is not very different. The.form does not retain its roundness and elasticity even to the ordinary age of young beauty with us. Women are old here at twenty, vary old at thirty ; and yet they live to be much older, of course ; and at sixty or seventy they are not very different in appear- ance from thirty or forty. Married life is precarious. The wife is at the mercy of the husband. He has but to utter the wards, " I divorce you," and she ceases to be his wife. Hence she lives in constant terror and apprehension. Yet sometimes she tubes here, and I have found one man who would not make a bargain unless he could consult his wife first. But the old stories of the romance of the harem have long ceased to be worth the telling and new ones seldom replace them. You may hear one. You may perhaps be standing on the island of Rhola looking at the dark rush of the water, and some one will whisper to you the sad tale of the beautiful favourite of Abbas Pasha's younger days, who loved and was loved by a foreigner, a young Enelieh nobleman. You may hear, perhaps, how he swam the river, Lean.ler like, to meet her, how he sat by her side and spoke in low, soft words all the right long, while the slave who had admitted him watched at the door. How this was a passionate dream of jay in the life of the young and beautiful girl, in which her soul's perfect love for him grew up and flourished gloriously. How she was to have gone away with him, and all was arranged for their flight, and then—and then—no one knows what next ; but they tell of a Nile boat and a sack, and that the fair limbs of the beautiful Fatima were swept with mud and filth and all the abominations of Cairo, down to the unknown depths of the Delta. Here is the founds tion for a story, but it is only hinted at. You cannot get any one to relate it to you. It is one of those histories that no man is willing to know anything about. Women have no names in Cairo. They of course have their names at home, bet no man knows the name of his neighbour's wife or wives. A woman is spoken of as the wife of such a person, er the sister of such a person, but never by her own name. The daughter of Mehemet Ali, the sister of the present Viceroy, is the first lady is Egypt. Her history is almost a romance: This is not the place to speak of the private incidents in it which have long made her to be spoken of with contempt, even by the Egyptians, the vilest race of men on earth. But her husbaadrs name is still a terror in Cairo, and men will hardly believe that he is deal. The Defterdar, as he is always called, was the son-in-law of Mehemet Ali, and the realisation of all the stories of Turkish bratality and tyranny. His palace is in front of the Ezbekieh, but since his death has passed into other hands. He it was who heard the complaint of a poor woman that a man had drank milk from her measure 'and then refused to pay her. The man denied it entirely. " When was it ?" demanded the Defterdar. " This moment ?" " Well, now, woman —listen—l will rip this man open. If I find the milk in him, it is well —you shall be paid. If not, I will rip you open in the same way." It was done instantly on the fleor of his room by his men, he and the woman looking on complacently. The milk was found in the man's stomach, and the Defterdar ordered the value of the milk, tea pares, or about one cent, to be taken from the dead man's gown and paid to the woman. In another instance, a tax collector had levied on a poor man's cow, his sole possession, for one of the onerous taxes of Mehemet Ali. The saw was worth two hundred piastres. The tax was forty. The collector took the cow, sent for a butcher, made him kill the cow and cut it into ten pieces, and then sent for ten men and forced them to take and pay for the pieces six piastres each. It Wl3 cheap meat, but they would never have touched it except under force. Thip man complained to the Defterdar that his cow, worth two hundred, had been in this manner, sold for sixty, and by the oppression of the collector he was left destitute. The Defterdar sent a boat to the village, and brought all the parties and witnesses to his palace. It was a clear case of oppression. " How dared you kill this man's cow?" said he to the butcher. " I was afraid of the collector. He made Inc do it." "Do, then, what I tell you. Kill that main the collector, and cut him into ten pieces." It was done on the spot, and every than. who had the beef at six piastres,, was made to buy a piece of the collector at twenty, and so the poor man had the value of his cow. These instances are both on the side of justice—but others, countless stories of his cruelties are told, which are perfectly reliable. His horse was badly shod, so that a nail pricked his foot, not an uncommon occurence with the best of blacksmiths. But he went to the shop, and bad a hot shoe nailed on the foot of the smith. These and other similar accounts may be relied on. Every one in Cairo knows a hundred such. When Mehemet Ali and the Defterdar were both dead, Nazli, the princess, had reason to doubt the affection of her nephew, Abbas Pasha, the reigning Viceroy. She was afraid that she might die of some sudden disease. Coffee might disagree with her, or pantegranates might produce a worse and more severe complaint than cholera. So she went to. Constantinople, and has resided there until, by invitation of her brother,, the present Viceroy, she returned to live in Egypt. We i shall see how lon g sh e w ill rema i n . Th e Vi cero y s anxious to win favour front the people for his sister. But it is hardly probable he will succeed, when he is himself so thoroughly hated. Travellers are beginning to arrive in Cairo, but no Americans yet, beside ourselves, and we leave to-day. Our boat is ready for us, and the American ensign, and our private signal-flag, are flying. We hope to sleep to-night on the Nile. We have bean for a week surrounded with heaps of provisions, of one sort and another, !Or a two mouth's voyage. Everything imagina ble in the way of eatables has gone to make up our list, and it is only a subject of wonderment to me in what part of the boat the dragoman has succeeded in stowing barrels of flour, meal, potatoes, and all the ordinary necessities of housekeeping, to the extent that our pur chases have gone.—New York Daily Times. ELEctao.r LATE Goons.—There are few branches of art that snore perfection has been attained in than in this portion of our manufac ture, and the most beautiful specimens of spoons, forks, goblets, and other table articles of the sort, may be seen at Mr. E. T. Hall's, of South John-street, who, to his other branches of business, has added a department for the sale of these articles, having been appointed ag'nt to one of the first manufacturers in Birmingham. The desiffo o in these articles are beautiful, the quality very superior (nearly as good as silver), and the price, considering all these, moderate to a degree• An inspection of the goods will prove the above facts.—Northern Times. Tel Spoons • I Of , Dessert Do. .... Table Do. •••• .••• •••• 000000 •• •••• •••• 245. 00 Dessert Forks ...... Tabli D a ,14. s as, "II". •••49,11011•g•••• Kg/ GI