Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-11 00:00:00

POLICE COURT. V - _ KSTERDAT. LIVERPOOL. BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD. STABBING BT A FESIALB.—Emma Watson, a servant in a took shop in Park-lane, was charged with having vio lently assaulted and stabbed another servant named Mary McLean. From the evidence it appeared that the pri soner imagined that she had been insulted by the com plainant ; she was rather the worse for drink at the time, and she took an earthenware pot, with which she struck her a violent blow on the head, and ihsn seized a knife and wounded her in two places on the forearm. She would have done further injury to the woman, but was prevented by a man who secured her. She was seat to jail for two months with hard labour. STEALING CORN.—William White and Patrick O'Brien, were brought up on remand, charged with stealing six sacks of corn from the warehouse of Messrs. W. Deane and Co., Upper William -street. It appeared that the prisoners, whd-t the other man were at dinner, took the torn, and this being clearly proved, they were sent for trial. DISCOVERY OF STOLEN MONEY.-officer Astic, 450, brought up Margaret Doyle and John Gardiner on the following charge. He said he saw the prisoners gs into a public-h)use in Dale-street, and hearing that they had changed a ten pound note, he fiilowed them ; the man denied baring more than 3s Gd about him, but on searching he found seven sovereigns and some silver on him. There was also some money found on the female. He ascertained that they had changed a ten pound note in the shoe shop of Mr Dix, Byr , ltn-street, where they had purchased two pairs of boots. The officer also found a report of a robbery of a ten puind note and two sovereigns from a man named Thomas Headley, who lives in Blackburn, and this took place in the neighbourhood of the Exchange, where the female prisoner said she found the note. He had no doubt the note would turn out to be that lost by Headley. The prisoners were remanded. THE SORROWS OF BUSY BARLOW ! —Betsey Barlow, an uninteresting female, was charged by Mr. Emmanuel O'Donnell, of 33, Hatton-garden, under the following circumstances :—lt appeared that some time the peevius night the prisoner was seen about the house, and when the complainant went up to his bedroom he found her under the bed covered with clothes. She could not give any account of herself, and he then gave her into eusto - y. She was sober at the time. Seat to gaol for a month as a "rogue and vagabetd." HOUSE ROBBERY.—John Farrell, and Mary his wife, were charged with robbing furnished lod g ' ngs , w hi c h th ey had at th house of Thomas Stewart, 29, Wolfe stree . . The prisoners completely stripped the apartments which they occupied, and pledged all the property. Mr. Mansfield said robberies of this sort were becoming very comm-m, and he was resolved to put an end to such. The prisoners were remanded for further evidence Carnorr TO KEEPERS OF B. D frOCSES —Mary Morri., the keeper of an infamous house at 15, Eldon-street, was charged by the police, under the act of p3xliament. Mr. Block was far the prisoner, and Mr. Kehoe conducted the prosecution, and called some witnesses who proved the ease. Mr Mansfield said he was resolved to put a atop to such houses, and designated the keepers as bloodsucking vampires, and he would, so far as he could, punish them, as he said they were the most abominable nuisances that could disgrace a Christian country. The prisoLer was ant for trial Jeremiah, and Mary Anne Kelly his wife, who keep a similar house at 11, Fbion-street, were charged with aTike offence, and proof being given of the fact, the pri soners were also committed. Ours tos BY SAILORS.--Two fellows name] George Allen, and John M`Kenzy, sailors, belonging to an American ship, caned the Sot King, were charged with having stabbed Joseph Martin, an emigrant. The pri soners took the prosecutor into the cabin of the ship, ►hen they nearly killed him, and at the same time robbed him of 15s. The prisoners were sent for trial at the assizes DETAINING SAILOR'S CLoTprEs —Mr Tyndall appeared on behalf of a sailor, named Francis who charged 2fsry Britton, a lodging-house keeper in Ball's-place, Frederick street, for detaining his clothes &c., contrary to the Act of Parliament. The complainant said ho gave the defen dant £2 10s., but subsequently got 30s. out of it, and he left lls. to his brother-in-law, and he left also a chest of elothee, value to him Li, but she refused to nive up the latter, the defendant alleged that the complainant owed her money, but failing to prove so, an order was made to have the chest given up, but his Worship did not inflict any fine. BEFORE MR. CROSTRWATTE Tames Scarsbrick, publican, of Castle-street, Kirktlale was summoned for selling .4pirits on the Sunday. The ease having been proved, the defendant was fined £5 and costs, great complaints having been made against the house James Handeock, publican, of Standish-street, was aummonedfor a alike offence. Fined 2a. 6d. and cots. Amelia Cropper, publican, of St. Andrew's street, was also summoned for a similar ()fiance, but was acquitted. Several beer- house keepers were summoned for Sunday trading, and fined in various penalties. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT.-juLy 9, (BEFORE VICE-CHINCELLOR SIR J. STUART.) SCOTT THE CORPORATION OF LIVERPOOL.- . Thii SUR was instituted for the purpose of obtaining an account of works done by the plaintiffs for the defendants, the Cor poration of Liverpool, in relation to the construction of certain water-works authorised by Acts of Parliament, passed in 1847 and 1850, to be made by the Corporation for the purpoge cf supplying Liverpool with water, and for payment to the plaintiffs of the money to them in right thereof. Shortly after Mr. :Waimea (with :whom were Mr. Collier, of the common law bar, and Mr. Barslake), fur the plaintiffs, had c immenced the opening of the case : The Vice-Mulct:llor said that the case was of that nature that be should direct it to staA over, in order that he might have the assistance of a common law judge in hear i2g it. He should at once put hims.-If is communication on the suject with the 1.07 d Chaneellor, in order that one of the common law judges might hear the case with him as soon as it was practicable to do so. Mr. Bacon and Mr. Bawkins were for the defendants. MAL-APROPOS CA:qTASSINO.—On?SuneIIy afternoon last, a respectably dressed man occupied one of the pews in 2he parish church, and at the conclusion of the service made his way towards the vestry, and requested to see the officiating minister. The clergyman was for the mo ment engaged, but on his being at liberty the stranger accosted him, and a dialogue ensued somewhat after the following fashion :—Stranger : " You are the clergyman, I believe?" Clergyman : " I am, sir; may I inquire your business with me ?" Stranger : "lam a gentleman, sir, and a master of stag bounds. lam about to hunt the Cheltenham country, and shall be most happy to put down your Fame on my list of subscribers !' The aston ishment of the clergyman at this extraordinary application may be easily imagined. Shade of the Dan of Carlisle, that such a request should be made in the church where ,be had preached against sporting for so many years ! It is almost unnecessary to say that the rev. gentleman's name is not to be found on the subscription list to the Cheltenham Stag Hounds. The author of this strange re quest w , ,uld certainly appear to have " taken nothing by his motion."— Cheltenham Eraminer. A STRoNG GOITEILNAENT.-Fre , h exhibitions of the weakness of our strong government are daily given in Parliament. How the Jew Bill will fare in the Lords is a question of the liveliest speculation ; and whether every cabinet minister will fulfil his mission, and vote in its favour, is a point for delicate discrimination. It is worthy of note than, though moved by Lord Palmerston as the great government measure, bath Lord Castierosse and Mr, Monsell absented themselves on the division. This laxity of Treasury discipline is a singular feature in Lord I: ) %lmerston's administration. What Glargantua said to the monks of Theleme, Faz que vous voudra—" Do what thou wilt"—appears to be Lord Palmerston's motto. - Upon the Ballot division this week. we find some members of the government voting in the minority, and some in the majority, and some staying away, while upon the Medical Profession Bill, the government sustained an wadeniable defeat, and this not upon a point of opinion in which a government tray be divided without weakness, but upon a matter of administrative fact, when the sup porters of the government are supposed to act together. —Press THE NEW PALACE OF WrantrigsTEß.!—Unfortuca`ely tor the immediate reputation of the New Parliamentary palace, the worst parts of the design were executed firs'. it was difficult to believe that anything beautiful could tome of a plan of which the river frout and the lower stages of the clock tower were considerable parts. I t was evident that no development of architectural proportiuu, no unforeseen contrast of members, could excuse, in a building destined to endure as long as the British Empire, a mass of superficial decoration so minute and delicate that the rains Of a century, at most, must wash it all away ; no ungrown forest of towers, spires, ana louvres, could redeem a façade nine hundred feet in length from the meanness of an elevation no greater than that of the surrounding houses; two faults which, in the eyes of a reflecting spectator, magnified each other, shaft it w as impossible that the consideration should fail to occur to bum that the enormous cost at which the first was being Perpetrated would have more than sufficel for the preven lion of the last. It was at once clear that the building would have been nobler for the mere absence of the miles of effeminate mouldings, the Saadi's garden of ill-cut roses , the "damnable ite ra ti on " of the Queen's Arms, &co &C., the cost of which would have easily placed the entire edifice upon a basement from which it could have looked down upon, instead of being looked down upon by, the contiguous bridge and neighbouring chimney pots.— National Review. LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY C URT.-YKSTERDAY. OEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER STEVENSON.) IMPORTANT QMISTION OF PRACTICR.—ht re WvLSll. The bankrupt, who carried on the business of a baker in Liverpool, came before the court in June last, on his own petition, praying to be adjudicated a bankrupt ; but the court, being of opinion that he had not " available assets to the amount of £150," as required by the act, refused to adjudic.te on it. Under these circumstances, Mr. C. Pemberton appeared before the court yesterday on behalf of the petitioner. and applied to be allowed to t-ke the petition off the file. His Honour would remember, he said, that the petition was presented by the petitioner last month, but that the court was not satisfied that the peti tioner had the " requisites " to support it ; namely, that he had not available assets to the amount of £l5O. On behalf of the petitioner he (Mr. Pemberton) had now to apply to the court-2nd, he believed, it was the first atplication of the kind that had been made to his Honour in such a case—for the return of the petition itself, in order that the return of the stamp night be obtained from the Commis sioners of Stamps and Excise. He did not see that he had any occasion to address the court further on the matter, unless his Honour saw some objection to allowing the application. His Honour expressed a wish to hear Mr. Pemberton further in the matter. Mr. Pemberton con • tinned to say that the petition hed not answered the pur pose for which it was intended, and was, therefore, use less. If there was any difficulty in the mind of the court as to allowing it to be removed off the file, he rifght observe that it was aealogous to the petition to an Insolvent Commissioner, who either did not adjudicate or allowed the petition to be adjourned sine die, and which petition was removed when the petitioner chose to go before some other tribunal. Take for instance the case of a person petition. log the County Court Judge The judge from some circumstance did not adjudicate or adjourned the petition sine die. The petitioner taken into custody went to Lancaster, and desired to go before the court there ; but as there was a rule that a petitioner could not have two petitions upon the file at once, the custom was for the petitioner to apply to the Judge who had hecbal 11;3 (.734.30 and adjudicated on it in some way, for leave to remove the petition off the file in order that he might present another petition at Lancaster. And that leave was always granted. His Honour observed that that might arise from the ne cessity of the case in consequence of the rule, but the question was whether such a rule applied in the Bank ruptcy Court. Mr. Pemberton urged that as his Honour was of opinion that the petitioner had not the " requsites" to support the petition—though the petitioner himself believed that he had —the petition had answered no pur pose, and that clearly the intention of the legislature was this—that if a party put on a stamp which either from non-signature or other circumstance was rendered useless, the stamp should be remitted. There could bo nothing in this case to prevent that being done. It was important that the question should be decided, because the doubt might prevent many a man fr.,m petitioning the court when it would be proper for hint to do so, through !he fear that in so doing he would be only throwing away £lO. His H meat. observed that he was aware of cases where the stamp was remitted, the petition having never been filed. Mr Pemberton : In other words, it was rendered useless, and served no pur pose; and sue 4 is the case here. His Honour said that he remembered having declined to make the order, in a case where the petition was presented by a creditor. Mr. Ems remarked that the case of a petitioning creditor was very different frem that of a person petitioning himself to be adjudicated a bankrupt. The creditor petitioned for himself and all creditors, and, when presented, any creditor might come and support it; but in the other case, nobody but the bankrupt could deal with the petition. His H - mow replied that that certainly made a difference. Mr. Pemberton reminded his Honour that, in a case which was before him not long since, he had declined to allow a petition so presented to be dealt with, " upon the appli cation of a creditor." He also reminded his Honour that, in this case also, the question of what were " available assets" was involved; a question nYch there was a hope would soon be determined. His Honour said that he did not think that it would be anything extraordinary, or that ho would be violating any general rule to allow the petition un ler the circumstances to b 3 taken off the file He would, however, take a few days to consider the question. Me. Pemberton observed that it would be for the petitioner afterwards to satisfy the Comm'ssionera of Excise that he should have the stamp allowed. in re J. a SPLATT —The bankrupt was a ship chandler of Liverpool. Yesterday was fixed for his last examina tion, but it was adjourned to the 23rd July. He was supported by Mr. John Yates, and Mr. Martin appeared for the assignees. In re M. NEVILLE —The bankrupt's last examination Was adjourned to the 7.h of August, for exacninaliou of accounts. Mr. Evans appeared on behalf of Mr. W Jones, accountant, to prove for a large amount - , but the full ex tent of the claim being disputed, he said he would not press ]. 't until the examination into the accounts had first taken place. Mr. Dodge appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Ewer for the bankrupt. EIfIGIUTION TO TaZ NORTH AIIZRICA.N COLONIES. The annual copies of despatches relative to emigration to America supply the following particulars :—During the season of 1856 (last year) 22,439 emigrants landed at Quebec, against 21,274 in 1855, of whom 10,353 came from England, 1,688 from Ireland. 2,794 from Scotland, 4.537 from Germany, 2,806 from Norway, and 261 from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Of the e nigration from England, 7,262 sailed from Liverpool—viz , 1,052 cabin, and 6.210 steerage passengers. The foreign emigration shows an increase of 3,047, and that from the United Kingdom a decrease of 1,452 persons. The expenditure of the Emigration Department, including the quarantine eatahliehments, &c., amounted to £8,815. and the amount of emigrant tax, realised in the season, was £4.874 (at Quebec and Montreal). A review of the emigration of 1856 gives very satisfactory results. The emigrants were uniformly healthy, and landed free from complaint. A large propertion of the English and Scotch were farmers and mechanics, the former generally in comfortable circumstances. The amount of capital introduced into the aolony has been large, but the exact amount is un known. '['he demand and inqairy for labour in Western Canada throughout the season have been far in ad vance of the supply, and continued applications were received from almost every section of the province com plaining of the scarcity of labour and the difficulty as well as impossibility of procuring domestic servants, and re questing that emigrants might he Pent to them. This it was found impossible to do. With reference to the pro spects of the season of 1857, the reports from all quarters indicate a general growing prosperity and active business employment both as regards commerce and agriculture. The efficient and speedy direct steam communication between Canada and England. and the completion of the Grand Trunk Railway from Quebec to Stratford, are ad vantages which, combined with a healthful climate, pro ductive soil, cheap laud, unsurpassed means of internal communication, and ample security for life and property, cannot assuredly fail to exercise a most important infi ience upon future emigration ; and it is the opinion of the emigration agent at Quebec, that dur ing the current season Canada will receive a large addi• thin to its population, and with it a share of the wealth, intelligence, and industry of the mother country. The prospects for the working classes, especially in West Canada, are very favourable. Of 8,781 emigrants to Canada in 1856 65 were bakers, 35 butchers, 18 braziers, s and p'umbers, 14 printers and bookbinders, 115 bricklayers and stonemasons, 10 cabinetmakers and turners, 308 carpenters and joiners, 30 cart and wheelwrights, 7 coach makers, 27 coopers. 4 curriers and tanners, 10 dyers, 35 eneineers, 49 gardeners, 12 hatters, 83 millers and mill wrights, 61 miners, 104 merchants and clerks, 9 moulders and foundrymen, 20 painters and glaziers, 2 papernaakers, 13 plasterers, 5 ropemakers, 11 saddlers; 2 sailmakers, 9 sawyers, 11 shipbuilders, 227 shoemakers, 216 smiths, 13 stonecutters, 266 tailors, 31 watch and elockmakers, 4 wool an 1 flaxdreseers, 65 weavers, 32 " servants " 2,342 farm labourers, and 4,338 common labourers. 868,908 emigrants havelanded at Quebec since the year 1829. The emigration to New Brunswick has fallen off greatly; it was only 712 last year; but there will be a great demand for all kinds of labour, skilled and unskilled, this year. Female servants are greatly in request, and will readily obtain employment. Tun SpoNoE.—lt may not be generally known that the Turnpike Trusts Arrangement Bid, introduced by Mr. Mersey and Sir G. Grey, proposes to reduce the interest on the debts owing on some roads. Thus money advanced at four percent. is to be reduced to two-and-a-half, and in some instances two per cent. The plan seems a very extraordinary one. There was a gentleman on the road a fev days ago ; he was going to Natchez. He overtook a runnaway, and he says to him, "Bad company's bettet'n none, boy, an d I reckon I'll keep you along with me into Natchez." The nigger appeared to be pleased to hove company, and went along talking with him very well till they came to a thicket place about six miles from Natchez, and then be told him he reckofled he would not go any farther with him. " What ! you black rascal," says be, " you mean you won't go in with me ; you step out and go straight ahead, and if you tura your face one side till you get into Na.tchtst I'll shoot you." " Aha mesas," says the nigger, ."_upghty good-natured; I reckon you haint got no ahootia' irons," and he bolted off into the thicket, and got away from hitn. through Western --) """ 11 of 4 Northern Traver HERTFORD ABSIZ URSDAY. Mr. Justice Willes, in his address to the grand jury, took occasion to make some observations in reference to the bill at present before Parliament for the abolition of that body within the metropolitan district. He said it was his opinion that grand juries were mcst useful, and he hoped they would not be abolished. AN OUTRAGE.—David Gibson, 32, was indicted for a felonious assault upon a girl, fifteen years old, named Mary Revell. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Mr. Justice Willes sentenced him to bs kept in penal servitude for twenty years. ALUGZD CHILD MURDER.—Elizabeth Croft, 28, was indicted for the wilful murder of her illegitimate child. Mr. Justice Wiles said, at the close of the case for the prosecution, that it appeared to him that there was not sufficient evidence to support a charge of wilful murder, but there was ample evidence to go to the jury upon the minor charge of &ncealing the birth. The jury conse quently returned a verdict of guilty of concealiug the birth, and the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for eighteen calendar months. STREET BANDS AT NIGHT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,—At a time when drunkenness is the crying sin of the day, and good people are discussing the Maine Liquor Law, and the propriety of establishing a similar regulation here, a number of harmless young men amuse themselves in learning to play on musical instruments and practising in the open air in the country and so avoiding the tempta tion of sotting in public houses—a rational amusement calculated to effect great good and far less objectionable than the Maine Liquor Law. " Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast" of all, save that of a policeman. Be "is most anxious to stop this sort of thing" Be " does not know anything more likely to lead to a riot than a bard of music going through the streets at this hour." Poor sensitive fellow ! And will it be credited that a magistrate could be found to sanc tion such a proceeding on the part of the police, and to inflict a fine upon the unoffending amateur musicians ? Even so, and yet these young men are Englishmen ! Is the policeman most anxious to put a stop to tippling and that sort of thing? Not he. Does he ever take a peep into the grog shops and caution the publican ? Not he. Is he anxious to stop the commission of the various breaches of the law, hourly practised on the footwalks of this town ? No. Does he put a stop to the winding of many a vile barrel organ ? No; these men ars Italians ! A good member of society holds forth a few words in,se a son, under the gas lamp, ten yards from any footwalk, and out of the way of carts, carriages, and horses ; and because he has numerous hearers is hauled up before the magistrate, who is foolish enough to back the policeman in his " anxiety to put down this sort of thing." Verily we have more than one of Shaltspere's justices among us. Pray is the Sunday assemblage drawn together in Clayton square, by Mr. Hugh Stowell Brown, beneath the notice of these most anxious policemen ? I presume these men find no fault with this reverend gentleman because they are rather amused to hear him tell them the mode of " dancing on a jig to Heaven." No doubt they are amused by hearing moral lectures on " Begone dull care," " Turn the ready penny," " Give me a glass of rosy wine," " Tap me a cask of ancient date," " Tom a.id Jerry," and " that sort of thing," and so the lecturer goes free. There decisions are wrong and savour moreover of partiality.—Yours, &c., J. C. G. FATAL OCCURRENCE AT THE KILLARNEY FAlR.—About the hoar of ten o'clock on yes , erony, some trifling dis pute a-ose between a former named Keane, and same men of J. C. O'Ra trdon's Esq., coacernin4 same sheep of the former, who placed them near the Custom Gap, at azid to which loca' e the latter considered they had the best claim, at their master is entitled to the tolls of the fair. " From words they c one to blows ;" in the melee John Kane, son of the farmer, a young, able, handsome, quiet man, who has been but a few moktba married, received a blew from nee of the opposite p..iry, named John Moriarty, behind the ear. The police having taken them both into custody, tooi; them before a magistrate, who ord, red mu tual summonses. While getting these at Mr. O'Halloran's offies , , Keane got a retching and was abliv.d to go to his house in High-street, where he became speechle.s3, and, melancholy to relate, died in about an hour after:—Cor respondent of Tralee Chronicle. THE PAUL VIIRONBiE.—Mr. Ruskin writes :—Duriag long residence in Venice I have carefully exaltined the Paul Veronese lately purchased by the government. When I last saw it it was simply the best Veronese in Itlly, if not in Europe (the Marriage in Cana," of the Louvre, is larger and more magnificent, but not so perfect in finish), anti, fur nay own part, I should think no price too large for it ; but, putting my own deep reverence for the painter wholly out of the question, and considering the matter as it will appear to most persons at all acquainted with the real character and range of Venetian work, I believe the market value of the picture ought to be estimated at per hap one-third more than the government have paid for it. Without doubt the price of the Murillo, lately purchased at Paris, was much enhanced by accidental competition ; airier ordinary circumstances, and putting both the pictures to a fair trial of market value, I believe the Veronese to be at least worth double the Murillo ; in an artistical point of view the latter picture could not be put is any kind of comparison whatever with the Veronese. DR. DAVIDSON AND THE LANCASHIRE INDEPENDENT COLLEGE.—The lliancheseer Examiner publishes the following letter, addressed by Dr. Davidson to the com mittee of the Lancashire Independent College:—" Gentle nin,—Llaving patiently waited to witness your exempli fieition of that Christian truth and liberty which I once thought you advocated and allowed ; having been refused in curia, g the definite grounds on which a vague resolu tion of want of confidence in me may be supposed to have been based; and having long ago resolved to remain in no situation where I could not fatly express, without annoy ance from such as have a little brief authority over me in this world, opinions at variance neither with expressed formularies of Independents nor with the recognised doctrinal formularies of the Established Church ; I now respectfully resign into your hands the office- which I have held for the last fourteen years in the Lancashire Inde pendent College. Samuel Davidson. Manchester, June 29th, 1857." In a previous letter Dr. Davidson made the following aemand, which was refused:—" I have been informed that one of the committee made an assertion in my absence, to the effat that my influence over the students was such as to make them reluctant to take a text from the Old Testament for the basis of a sermon ; and, also, ;hat my teaching generally has been of an injurious character for some time past. As I believe that these statements are incorrect. and that they must have had a prejudicial afect on the mind of the committee, I request pia, in ,fairness to me, to examine frilly into their truth. The evidence is at hand—for the students are still here ; and the most searching examination will be to me the most satisfactory." RuNistrici A-IlucK.—An Englishman (st Batavia) asked ms, abruptly, it' I had ever seen native ander the ioflu ence of the muck." "The what ?" I asked. "The muck ! the running muck." I replied in the negative, adding that I had never before heard the expression. He expressed great surprise at this, and proceeded to tell us that the running muck was often productive of many deaths. I lhought this a rather singular piece of informa tion to come by itself, but consented himself with observ ing, " You don't say so 1" The Englishman cleared his throat, swelled very large, called for a glass of " 'arf-and 'arf," and continued as follows Some few of the natives here consume quantities of opium in various forms ; arid the result is, that, in due course of time, their features become sharp, the skin is drawn over them like parch ment, and, losing their minds, the become more ferocious and bloodthirsty than the tigers themselves. Armed with the long and flexible kreiss (a sharp dirk knife, whose edges ti!e wavy and of heaptiful temper), they rush franti cally' from their houses, and run as swiftly as their limbs will carry them—sometimes naked, sometimes clothed, always mad. Rushing through the crowded streets in this - way, their only aim seems to be to destroy life—stabbing, biting, cursing, kicking every one whom chance throws across their path. As seem as ho is seen in this state, terror proclaims the news far and wide. ' Amoak ! amoak is screamed by the whole population, just as fire ! !' is in our own cities. Every man grasps the first weapon that comes to hand, and follows the flying path of the common enemy. Very long spears are, however, preferred to the shorter kreiss; and with these they pen him up in a corner, and lance him to death with as much or more gusto than they would a tiger. As many as forty persons were once killed by one of these maniacs before he could be cornered ;' and yet there is no law against, the use of opium." The word " muck" is a corruption of the Java nese " amosk," to kill ; and this latter is seldom heard, except when some poor wretch is ranging the frightened town with strained muscles and starting eyes, and with death closing around his path at every stride.—Gleanings from a Yankee Diary. CASII AND DEED Boxits.—The next Important thing to the posses sion of sash is, bow (when you have got it) to keep it safely, either in the counting-house or at home. The same remarks apply to deeds and other valuable documents. We have seen a large and varied stock of both these dreirable articles, manufactured expressly for Mr. E. T. Hall, of South John•etreet, that challenge attention. These boxes are made on new and admired principles, and possess patent loess, which deny the ingenuity of any "pick-lock" in the world to open, except with the legitimate key. To merchants, solicitors, and these new safes, on a small scale, must prove valubte qdecA _Nar i A'rn DailY Times, 3181 .Nay, 185 T; others, THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1857, A " LOADED " HORSE. At one of the London police•courts, on Thursday, a cab-driver, accompanied by a countryman from Hoddesdon, complained to Mr. Bingham that his country friend had been taken in by some dealers, who had sold him a horse. His friend yesterday went to the Repository, St. Martin's lane, to see if anything would suit him. He could not find anything inside the place, but outside he was met by a horse caper, who managed to persuade him to bay an animal for o£B Ws. When he got the horse home he found it was only fit for the knackers, for though outwardly good looking enough, it was broken winded and had no inside, although warranted sound. Mr Bingham said he supposed the animal was warranted sound, wind and limb, quiet to ride or drive in single and double harness ? The applicant said the warranty was not in writing, but was made in the presence of a witness. Mr. Bingham said it did not matter about the warranty being in writing if it could be established by credible witnesses. He did not see what he could do in such a very common case. The buyer ought to have exercised more caution. Applicant intimated that the horse had been " loaded," that is, gorged witb shot by some process, which ga ve th e an i ma l a tem porary appearance of soundness, but when it was taken home to the stable, and a little water given to it, the cheat was detected by the liquid running immediately through the body. After this a run of a dozen yards made the animal, to use the applicant's worth, " holler like a donkey." His country friend took the horse back to the Lane, and was offered £3 for his bargain by one of the same gang, who, no doubt, wished to load the animal again for another country purchaser. There was a regular "ring" of dealers, who stood in the Lane looking out for victims. Mr. Bingham said the only chance the country man had was the County Court, and then, possibly, after incurring £lO in law expenses, he might find that the seller was not worth a shilling. The applicants then left the court. FORTIFICATION OF CENTRAL AMERICA.—An European cfficer, apparently of a very superior military education, is now actively engaged in different States of the Union, in enlisting officers of artillery and engineers able to direct the construction of fortifications. These enlist ments are made with the ostensible design of forming a standing army in Central America, and putting that country in an efficient state of defence against any future attack of filibusters. It may be in connection with the movements of Santa Anna, though it would appear that the immediate destination of the officers to be enlisted is really Central America.—New York Tribune. SALMON FISHING EXTRAORDINARY.—OR one of the burning June days of last week, four ladies, residing at Nithsdale, went to bathe in the river Seaur ; the soot was a fine pool about fifty feet in length, close to the junction of the tributary stream with the Nith. While the ladies were actually inekiog their preparations on the green banks of the stream they were disturbed by the discovery that the pool in which they intended to bathe was occupied by a flue salmon, which was swimrninsa about and leaping above the water with all the vigour of a newly run fish. A con sultation was held, and it was resolved that as the pool had to be entered at any rate, an effort should be made to capture the intruder. After an immense amount of trouble and exertion, which only the watery element could have enabled them to accomplish in such hot weather, they succeeded in running the fish to one end of the pool, where the water became s t shallow that he could mike no further progress. Here he was closely surrounded, and the attack commenced ; at one time he was actually grasped by fair hands, but hi a size and strength were too much for de!icate fingers, and he managed to escape, returning to the pool. Brief, however, was tee liberty thue gained; so thoroughly frightened was the fish that he rushed through the pool at his utmost speed, reckless of where he went, and closely followed by his pursuers ; at the other end, where a bank of gravel projects into the water, h actually threw himself distance of five or eix feet from the pool upon the bank. There he was easily m ale prisoner, and the ladies not a little prated of their exploit, bore 'tine home in triumph. The fish weighed 121b5., and Wes remarkebly thick. Surely the descendants of the water kelpie are not extinct in bonny Nithsdale.—Deenfries Courier. Dtio3DERLY LACQUEYs.--At the Marlb ' , rough Police , Court, Lnndos, on Thursday, four livery servants, George Drumm, John Penn, 'James Miller, and Robert Gay, were brought before Mr. Bingham, the two former charged with an assault on the police in the execution of their duty. and the others with avernpting to rescue, by inciting the first two when taken into custody. The defendants were in attendance with their carriages, at a party given by Lady Jersey, in Berkeley-square. The police, from crowding and confusion, found it necessary to clear the steps, in order that the company might not be incommoded ; and, in furtherance of this duty, the police were obstructed and assaulted. There was great confusion, and it became necessary to take Drumm and Penn into custody, when hustling ensued, and the others called loudly, and in very low and intern pera-e language, for a rescue. The resu l t was, t h at the mob around - became greatly excited. and the police were followed to the station by a crowd cf coachmen and others, loudly callinz out to liberate the pris iners, or not to let the " Peelers have them." On the road to the station, Penn begged hard to be allowed to go, as he should loose his place if not with his carriage at one o'clock, having been ordered at that time. Penn and Drumm were said by the police to be the wo se for liquor. Drumm called James Keeley, hall—porter to the Earl of Jersey, and other servants to disprove the latter part of the statement, as to his state, and they declared that they considered him sober. Mr: Charles Leslie, of Bet kley-suare, who was at Lady Jersey's party, heard of the disturbance, and was called to bail his servant, Drumm ; he was also clearly of opinion that he was then sober. The Magistrate con ceived, from the evidence of the police, confirmed by the inspector, that Drumrn was really the worse for liquor a± the time of the disturbance, thoeg,h sobered on the appear ance of his master ; that if this was not the case, his conduct was the more inexcusable. Men in the position of the defendants, accustomed to obey authority, should have seen the necessity of obeying the orders of the police, instead of opposing and assaulting them. Uafortailately, when excited by liqaor, they chose to judge their own case ; and hence all the mischief. Deamm and Penu must be sent for ten days each ; a fine of 40a, on Gay, and 20s. on Miller. Tess Hsmrs ATEM'RIAL.-01 Teers'iay afternoon, a meeting of the subscribers to the Hume Memorial Fund to )1c place in the Court-house, Marylebene, London. to 4'etermine en the appropriation of the fund. The Earl Fortescue presided, and mentioned that a committee was appointed at a meeting held at Willis's Booms, on Feb. 16, 18:56, of which he was chairmen, to derise means for commemorating the public services and virtues of the late Joseph-Hume, and subscription lists were at once opened. Power was also given to the committee to devote any sum of money that might be collected, but it was the unanimous opinion of the committee that it would be more satisfactory to the public that a general meet ing should be called before the money was expended. 4,132 circular letters were sent out, and the total amount subscribed had been £1,658 7s. ; the expenditure had been £335 2s. Bd., leaving 41,313 4s. 6d. to be applied to the object proposed. He trusted that the decision arrived at by the committee would be satisfactory, but he west certainly say the amount collected was inadequate to the merits of the individual, and the expectations of the commit tee. Lord R. Grosvenor, 51. P., expressed his entire con currence with what the committee had done, and he thought they had acted wisely in closing the subscription lists, when it was considered they had been open for a considerable period, and the response had been so limited. He believed the public would be perfectly satisfied with the decision of the committee; for nothing in his opinion mid be more appropriate than the foundetion of a scholarship in a col lege, with which the shrewd stateewrin had been so inti mately connected. He had led a life of political economy, and that was another reason why the proposed scholarship was so appropriate. When he remembered how much the late Joseph Hume bail sacrificed for the public good, the great services he had rendered to his country, he felt some surprise that he had not received a gee der public acknowledgement. For hinyself, he could say that he always entertained the greatest respect for Mr. Hume, a - d his respect was still unabated. In conclusion, he proposed the following resolution :—" That the fund collected for the purpose of commemorating the public services and virtues of the late Joseph Hume be placed ire the hands of the Council of University College for the establishment of a scholarship to advance the sciences of jurisprndruce and political economy, and that such scholarship be in the name of the Joseph Hume Scholarship.'" Mr. W. Williams, 4.P., in seconding the resolution, said that he was one of the four or five Liberal members who started the memorial, and he expected much greater success than bad been obtained, for the public cervices of the late Joseph Hume had never been equalled. He trusted future generations would think better of the late Mr. Hume, than the people of the present day. He had endeavoured to obtain the erection of a statue in the House of Parliament, but Lord Palmerston had given a very ungracious answer, and while the present premier was in power, there was no hope ; but ho trusted there would be more premiers than Lord Palmerston. Mr. J. W. Hall supported the motion, and mentioned that £658 2a. had been collected in the City, and he handed over cheques for the amount remaining, after the deduction of the expenses. The resolution was then put and carried unanimously, as was also another, for the forwardiug of the resolution to the Council of University College. Mr. D'lffanger, in moving a vote of thanks to the chairman, remarked that he deeply regretted the small amount of subscriptions, which he thought was a reflection on the working Ouses of the country. The proceedings theft terminated, GUANO.- KOORIA MOORIA ISLANDS. TO THE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN TIMES. SIR,— a fter an absence of some years, I have just returned from Australia, and fled that the subject of the deposits on the above Islands have become a matter of public interest. As regards one of the Islands, (Jiblea,) I can speak from perhaps greater experience than any one that has yet visited that place, and therefore hasten to give all the information I possess, so as to get the affair in its true light. In the year 185:2, I accompanied Capt. Ord, on a voyage to the East Indies, as a chief officer of the Margaret; in November that year we made Kooria Mooria Bay, and Capt. 0:d, after landing, having dis covered there were deposits of Guano, suggested that I should remain on the Island of Jiblea to explutie it, and he would call for me on his return. I consented to do so, taking two ship's apprentices for company, also being well-armed and provisioned. I don't remember the exact dates, but in the month of November I landed, and re mained there, occasionally anxious about my return, until the latter end of February foll ow i ng , when I took my departure in a Budgero, despatched by Capt. Ord from Bombay. I remained at Bombay some two months, whilst Capt. Ord was endeavouring to organise an expe dition for the purpose of shipping the Guano ; but finding he was not likely to succeed, I returned to England in the Araminta, and after staying at home three months, made a voyage in the ship Persia to Melbourne, where I remained until my return home in the Donald M'Kay, about fire weeks ago. Accidentally, I saw a paragraph in the Times, of the 2nd inst., respecting these Islands, and it then struck me the information I possessed might be of some value. The weather during the three months and three days I remained there, was exceedingly warm, and one or two showers of rain occurrred, but of so slight a nature that there was no appearance of wet a few seconds after they had fallen. The wind varied from north to east north-east, generally very light, and in no case exe , eding a breeze in which a vessel could not ride with all security at an anchor. From half-a-mile to a mile, the anchorage is exceedingly safe, the bottom being composed of gravel with latee stones. Close in, it would not he advisable for vessels to lie, but in all cases stages for loading can be readily erected, and need not exceed at the most fifty feet; in many instances only ten feet would be required. At some places the Guano can lie shot from the rocks direct into the boats. The whole of my time wes occupied in ex ploring the Island, and from the result of a minute exa mination I am satisfied the quantity of Guano there will prove very large. A casual observer would pass unnoticed many spots which sound quite hollow, when the de posits are to a considerable extent covered by a crust (which I am told is composed of phosphate of lime) of the depth of four to eight inches, which in my opinion is sufficient to protect the Guano below from any rain that falls there. On turning this crust over, I found a deposit of dark brown Guano, varying from three to six feet, all full of amonia. under which there appeared a white deposit, the nature of which I do not know. Three places, one about 500 yards long by 200 or 300 yards wide, another 200 or 300 yards long, and the same in breadth ; the third, near the beach, about 400 yards long by 50 broad,. were all cov ere d w ith Guano which appeared to me of good quality. I also noticed that from seine cause, the reason of which I cannot explain, (whether from the heat of the sun or not I d ue't know,) but frequently about noon, the stones, many four to five tons weight, and pieces of rock on the hills were split and scattered to the extent of some fifty yards by smart explosions, and the smell pieces so di,3p”rsed fell upon the plains of guano, which were covered by them so as to resemble a Macadamized road, but do not extend materially beyond the surface. The hills, also, as well as the plains, are covered with deposits to a greater or less extent; but, as I had only my cutlass tosound with, ! could not estimate the depth at more than about four feet, but I have every reason to believe it is considerably deeper ; in fact, it would not surprise me if the greater portion of these hills are solid masses of guano : but I attach greater importance, as regards quality, at least to the deposits in the cares. These are very choice, being well protected from all weather ; but here, again, unless examined minutely, these eaves would be passed unnoticed ; I only discovered them by watching the birds, and it ma 3 be well to name that these birds resort in innumerable quantities, beingattracted by the abundance of fish round the island, remaining there undisturbed. I explored at least forty of these caves. I think the number exceeded this ; but I wish to be within the fact. Many of them open out from one to the other, and each will contain large quanti ties, being so full that I was compelled to creep in on hands and knees. I have no doubt there will be many more ; hot, without assistance, I could not explore further. The amonia is very strong, and there are no stones mixed with this. In concluaion, I have no doubt the other two islands have corresponding quantities, as there were many birds there; but this is only surmise. I with to speak only of what I saw, and I am sure the result will hear out the report I have here given. P. A. STANBURY. Liverpool, July 8, 1857. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN'. TIMM Sir,—Several extracts have appeared in various metro politan papers, relative to the ab3ve matter, taken from the Indian press, which are calculated to convey an erro neous impression amongst our friends, who have des patched their vessels to load at those Islands, otherwise we should not trouble you with further discussion on this matter. Ws must premise that it was not our wish to throw this matter open to the public ; our intention was to ins port the Guano on own accounts, taking all tits risks of the enterprise. This intention we relinquished, only, on finding that Government was resolved not to accord us the protec'ion of a ship of war, which was 4hsolutely requisite for the succ?seul prosecution of this business, unless we consented to throw the Trade open. The Secretary of the Colonies apprised us some weeks since, that the Corde!ia, (screw, corvette,) bad departed for the purpose of superintending operations at the Islands. The subordinate officers of the East India Co., have exhibited little disposition to aid 133 in this matter; on the contrary, there was a general feeling amongst them, that our Home Government had exceeded their province in obtaining cession of those Islands without the aid of their diplomacy ; hence, a feeling rather against than in favour of the. enterprise. As our terms to vessels loading there, do not exact payment until the cargo is on board, we cannot see that there is any ground for the alarm ex hibited by Commander Haines, of the Indian Navy, who, without wishing to impugn his motives, (we cannot help saying) writes rather in the spirit of a partizan ;, it cer tainly would bo mortifying should the result prove as favourable as we anticipate, that Commander Haines, while surveying, was in close proximity to a deposit of such great value, and at the same time remai❑ in happy ignorance of it. The Government having granted the protection re quired, dispose , : of Capt. Haines's anxieties as to the dis turbances likely to be experienced, from tho few wan dering piratical Arabs, who prowl about this coast. Now, as to the danger to shipping loading, from storms and un safe anchorage, we have statements from several ex perieoced shipmasters, that the water is perfectly smooth during the season, commencing in September and ending iu April. Landing and loading can be effected without the sliglitst danger or inconvenience, and some go so far as to assert, that operations can be carried on during the whole of the year. In corrobo ration of our views, we beg to direct atten'ion to the following extract from a report made by ,Captain Freensantle, of H.M.S. Juno : "It is only just to observe that, from the beginning of October until the latter end of May, the weather is uniformly serene, and ships may approach and anchor on either side of all the Islands in perfect security," It is also reported to us th a t i n th e i s l an d of Maki there are fine natural harbours, is which some seventy sail may lie at anchor, lard-locked, and in perfect safety. At the time commander Haines surveyed those islands, 1335 3C, the value of Guano was but imperfectly known, consequently, the deposits were then overlooked, as of no importance, but iu his statements he admits that the islands were the resort of "myriads of birds of the Gannet species, the excrement giving quite a white appearance." And again, he says, " the surfaces of several of the islands are certainly, in most palls, covered with Guano, particularly the western and eastern islands." If the birds then resorted in myriads, and had covered the surfaces of the Minds with Guano, giving thorn a white appearance, we presume th e d epos i t, t h en made, still remains, with that accumulated during the twenty years that have elapsed since that observation wag made. Did commander Haines calculate to what the deposit would amount, provided the birds had resorted to the islands for many centuries previous to his visit, as there is every reason to suppose they had ? Further, our own people, when they were driven off by the Arabs, had dug seven feet down, and still found the supply of Guano unexhausted. The captain and men con nected with the expedNon, all concurred in stating that the quantity, th oug h o f vary i ng qual i ty, was exceedingly large. It may b e we ll to state t h a t, i n sounding with a rod, the point of the staff frequently came in contact with large massesof a substance which, on an analysation, proved to contain 80 per cent. of phosphate of lime, and as these masses were dispersed throughout the deposit at greater o.ud less depths from the surface, it was i m p oss ibl e to arrive at even an approximate estimate of the quantity. As regards quail+ 7, the East Indian writers speak disparagingly of a Guano containing 5 to 7 per cent. of amnia. We have now before us a sample of Upper Peruvian, analysing less than 5 per cent, of amonia, with 63 per cent. of phosphate of lime, which sold a short tittle since at £ll 10s. per ton. We estimate the average quality, which will be imported from Ko)ria Mooria, to be now worth £lO 10s. to £ll. The phosphates alluded to as being dispersed throughout the deposit, were valued e few weeks &nee by a rnanufac , urer at £8 per ton. People unconnected with this business, forget that the growing scarcity of the article, renders samples that previously were comparatively neglected, now of high value. All the reports we have yet received, confirm us i n our opinion, that the quantity is considerably in excess of the general estimate, and that the quality will prove satisfac tory to both shipowner and agriculturist. 0-wain Ord will be at the islands in a steamer sent out by ourselves, to give all the a!d required, and he, with assistants, will supe-intend the loading of each vessel, 81 that no master will be allowed to take on hoard a cargo likely to p r ove other than satisfactory. ORB, HINDiON, AND 119 YE 9. Liverpool, July 7, 1857. NEAL DOW MEETING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,—The insertion of the accompanying letter, received this morning, will explain the absence of the Rev. William Reid, from the above meeting, at the Concert Hall, last night—Respectfully yours, 9th July, 1857. JOHN WILSON. Edinburgh, 7th July, 1857. Dear Sir,—lt is only this evening that I have received a note from Mr. Barker (Jr. Barker is the Secretary of the United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic), informing me that I am expected at Liverpool to-morrow evening. I much regret that I did not hear of this sooner, for in that case I would certainly have been present, but the time is now too late to make arrangements for getting away. I, however, we ll know' that iu Mr. Dow, an d th other friends of the cause who are to be with you, there will be no lack of argument and information. sympathy and best wishes are with yoII. The cause is good, and hence its success is sure. My per saa,qon is that the gaining of a prohibitory law will be the noblest triumph of right over wrong that this country has ever witnessed, and that its benefit will surpass a whole century of ordinary legislation. That the country has intelligence enough to seb the propriety of such a law, and principle enough to secure it, I firmly believe. Let us do our duty in teaching the nation our principles, and we have nothing to fear.—yours very truly, WILLIAM REID. Mr. Wilson. EMIGRATION TO CANADA. The Oregon, of Liverpool, Captain Edward O'Flabertyr despatched by Messrs. Sabel and Cortis, with 346 pall' sengers, in connection with the Grand Trunk Bathyal Company, arrived at Quebec on Monday morning, June; 15th. Previous to leaving the vessel, the entire body the passengers assembled on the poop and on the ma' deck, when Mr. Staines, in a highly complimentary speed! , presented to the worthy captain the following address TO CAPTAIN 'EDWARD O ' FLAHERTY. On board the Oregon, off Quebec, 15th June, 1857. Sir,—We, the undersigned, on behalf of ourselves and fellow passengers, beg to offer you our warmest acknowledgment! for the kind consideration we have on all occasions experience': at your hands, and for your constant ca-o of, and unwearied attention to, our wants and comforts during the passage froo 3 Liverpool to Quebec. Yon have, sir, under Gol's blessings conducted us in safety to our destination ; we therefore ava il ourselves of this opportunity to express to you the great satie" faction we feel in thus being enabled to offer you this slight testimony in proof of the high respect we entertain for the sterling and seamanlike qualities by which you are distinguished , and which have placed you in the high position you so worthili; occupy in your honou r abl e p ro f ess i on . I t i s w i t h f ee li ng s ° plea;ure we compliment you on the termination of this yea r thirty-third voyage to Quebec; nor can we withhold the expression of our admiration of your perfect cmitrol of the excellent and well-disciplined officers and crew under year command. We now, sir, bid you farewell, heartily wishing you a safe and speedy passage to England, and that it mss please God long to spare ant long to prosper you in the nobl e calling in which your kind-he arte d ness i s so consp i cuous , and for which your high abilities have so eminently fitted you. (Signed) J. Staines, J. Hellewell, F. Green, A. Purslow, E. Atkinson, j, W. George, W. Blackater, F. Wrigmore. Captain O'Flaherty, in acknowledging the complimen t paid him with the true spirit of a sailor, disclaimed 00 merit for having endeavoured to do his duty, but "Wit pleased to find he had been so fortunate as to secure the' good opinion. Mr. Staines then presented to Captain O'Flaherty the gentlemen who had signed the address, and after a 11 204 lusty cheer from the passengers, the agreeable proceeding terminated. The passengers disembarked on Tuesday afternoon, a nd a large proportion of them at once p rocee d e d to t h e Gran. Trunk Railway Station at Point Levi, where a special was being got ready to convey them to their several dents' nations on the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. Mor a than fifty of the passengers dined at the Victoria Hotel; and having partaken of the hospitalities of that well' conducted establishment, the entire party proceeded oil their journey westward, in the best possible health auc i spirits. We learn from a, correspondent, that the train strived there in safety and in due course, at nine o'clock on Wed' nesday, the 17th. ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS GOLD ROBBERY 01% SHIPBOARD. Information has been received by the metropolitan police of another robbery of money from one of tte vessel° which lately left the port of London. It appears that the screw steam-ship Armenia has lately cleared out of the neli Victoria Docks, on a voyage to the Mauriias. On Wed nesday, the Ist instant, Mr. Robinson .merchant of Token: house-yard, City, pl ace d on b oar d, while the ship was still in dock, a small specie bog, containing 2,000 sovereiglt which was cansigned to a gentleman at the port to which the vessel was b oun d. Th e b ox , w hi c h was a b out e i g hk , inches by ten in size, was delivered into the care of Mr' Macneil, the chief officer, and a receipt duly taken. Th e Armenia was also engaged to take out the mails to the Mauritius, and had a considerable sum of governmen t money on board for the use of the authorities, amounting to something lile £52,000, The 2,000 sovereigns were taken on board in the middle of the day, and placed in the captain's cabin. The government money came d o wn on the Thursday, and Mr. Macneil having seen the other money on the same morning safe, when he left it the del before, went to the cabin to have it put away with the £52,000 in the ship's strong room, but, to his surprise , was usable to find it. A most rigid search all over the vessel immediately fllowed, bat without any satisfactori results. The police were speedily apprised of the cireany stances, and in the meantime the ship hauled out of (104 and proceeded to Woolwich. On Sunday mornin the chief mate went to one of the water-closets, and what via° most unusual at the time, he found it locked. On forcing open the doer, the first thing found was the empty see; reign box lying on the floor. The robbery is a perfeeb mystery, for which no one seems able to account, as there -was not an individual either of the ship's company or otherwise upon whom the slightest suspicion could legit': mately rest. The police are making what inquiry theY can, but with each limited ma t er i a l s th e i r l a b ours are n e t likely to he successful. The sovereigns are al! new, 311 "' had not been long out of the mint. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION IN THE QUEEN BENCH. On Tuesday afternoon, about half-past two o'clock, tw o individuals e,itered the Queen's Bench Prison as visitors to, a debtor named FZobertson, who is unde rgo i ng a t e rm (/` imprisonment in he remand ward. A short time after they entered agonizing cries were heard to p rocee d f rom R o bll 4 son's room, and, some of the officials and prisoners rnshl up the unfortunate man was discovered frightfully wound!: and covered -pith blood. It would appear that one of of; two men, a for igner, after some alterca ion between tu parties, had. drawn a poni ar d an d i n fli cte d severa l d espe rate wounds upcn Robertson in the neck and face, the WI being struck with such f orce th at t h e bl a d e o f t h e ponia.rl was broken. Both men were at once se i zed and earr i7 beforo the magstrate at the Southwark poli c e cour t, sr after a short examination, were remanded until this day (Thursday). The victim of this murderous outrage lies . t o a most preca r i ous sta t e , utter l y speec hl ess and p a rtt,Ar . paralysed. The occurrence has created a painful WO ment among the inmates of the, prison. MITRDSR TN CoNSTANTINOPLE.—Advices from Cons! ali ; tinople, of the 26 h u lt., s t a t e th a t on th e preceding nigh , Chefki Pacha , member of the council of police, was assa,, s ' b ' e nated oat of vengeance by one of his subordinates• latter penetrated into the harem of his superior, and W i l e him with repeated st a b s o f a dagger. Th e w ife of t o murdered man having sought to detain th e as sassin, f ug likewise killed by him. He subsequently ga ve hialsel' to the authorities and admitted his guilt.