The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-16 00:00:00

.°.OREIGN INTELLIGENCE FRAN CE. PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. A grand review of about 12,000 troops. of diffe rent p ar ms, was pass e d b y th e E mperor to d ay i n e court of the Tuilleries, in honour of the T r i, tise isn Prin ce . Th e weather was unfavoura bl e. Ti te Em peror was a good deal cheered by the vo l ul ers, and so was th e littl e Imperial Prince, was paraded among s t them. to Emperor pays the most marked attention b a i the Prussi an P r i nce, and means to g i ve a grand ball the his honour. he w System of making bread has just been uns,eicvered, and is now being experimented on ti le et the auspices of the public authorities. By ~h a ris of it bread can be made considerably 50, the loaf, for example, which now costs e onid be s o ld f or 32c. or 35 , 3. The e x . e quantity of cotton sold at Havre this week eds 10 000 bales,Prices advanced 21r. ' g ovur e n „,-c eounts from Berlin s ay ' that the Prussian client talks strongly of taking coercive ilAeetzlures against S w i tzer l an d , an d i s a b out to l. 'are that it no l onger considers itself bound b y fln ire of London, and that it will not receive explanations from Switzerland unless pre -elated by one of the great powers. b , Th e r ) PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. trl2l a . " I n'Slan party are spreading reports that the me 1 3 doin g all f,lie can to delay or prevent ~ewop Ling. of he Conferences. lam informed, thf.Vi. it is not true that she is doing any te,• the kind, and that, most likely, the Con ce will meet on the 20th. I have already 14 8 -a,uicted one of the Russian inventions, which tuat she was anxious to secure the pres.i rio.:Y of the Conference for Lord Cowley. It ttn%•:, ai l , amongst other things, that she is still ,_flia l t - ‘ lB to attain that end, and, moreover, Wale he is actually attempting to have Count exeli, -W , s ki. the French Minister of Foreign Afters, „" from the Conference altogether, on Xl; :„cl e 11 t of his su p pose d strong l ean i ng t o Russia. kitsri a t t attiments are perfectly unfounded The Daly faction knew them to be so, and their °Pir l i„ ° "Ject in h ea di ng t h em i s to i rr it a t e public 1 ' 1 4 1 0,, in France a ga i ns t E ng l an d—an end a " l eY do not alt oget h er f a il i n a t ta i n i n g. talti:nl informed that n e g oc i a ti ons are taking Ns tr a Place between France and England, with 11 W ity to the American proposition for doing bf ii rt , lv lth the right of capturing the merchandise the Fte i ndivitivals on the high seas during war F . ll ‘'l government not unnaturally is A" o Y l e favour o f th e Am er i ca n project. h • -,equ t „,, rili ng to T ur i n l e t ters , t h e r e moval of the 44""ra f ien on the property of Lombards by _ dimo", will l ea d to the i mme di ate rene w a l o f Nrdi•ll:l;tic relati ons b e t ween th e Austrian and of fri c t a ll courts, and if not to the establishment " Rati o , - iIY feeling between them, at least to a miti - I ,'t ,„ their p resent h ost ili ty. B aron Joctease 45aroa„-"e " d as th e S ar di n i an m i n i ster to A ustr i a , a nd finicle Kube c k, or B aron P ear , as th e Austrian t,,.strer to S ard i nia. frorther accounts have reached the government is st7 z c ilY, and they all, a s I am informed, concur reeti-ng that a new an d more f o rmidable insur e • . is I mminent. , 01 3 "ct fete is, I h ear , t o b e g i ve n at the English is Th 55 5 in honour of the Prince of Prussia, who _ e uere. 0 15 0 , c° flatnercial situation has undergone no t 51 th"e• Transactions are difficult, both on account of ob e t .learness of raw materials and the difficulty t , llO ",: b rl ifig credit. The same remarks apply to the 7'"°n The question of transatlantic steam Lae E 7 '"°n is again on the tapir, and it is said that fo everement is about to settle it, and intends ..d from'nand the subvention which will be requite th -0 Chamber in its next session. C°MMITT A L OF A MOTHER FOR THE MURDER OF HER CHILD. },IA mos td revolting instance of unnatural and cold :ithe" cruelty on the part of a mother. resulting in the lo w al her child, Las just been discovered at the little tb 'Nuntyglo in Glainorg,anshire, and has led too the -,ltt a i ,of the murderess to take her trial yon name apical charge at the next county assizes. The Flin ch e 13 f en ,the wretched woman, who is married, is '4'4 Be th Oram, and the deceased, George Williams,V N)p e ler illegitimate son, about ten years of age. It il lat l a i r " from the evidence i adduced before the coroner I`)likrble little fellow ha een for a long time subjecte d d itt s4ft arous treatment, beng kept on unwholesome an }leveriteieat food, and at times beaten with dreadfulthe bei Y. The poor boy had often been seen by . h LiB V l°lirs Pickino- upgarban - e and eating it to satisfy tl evr,, un ger, and t7ven going ° to the pigs' trough and Si,l,;:e_ing eagerly such refuse as the pigs had not eaten. atri„,_" the neighbours at times had been inducc . d t to d botrytvolve child and examine his erson, when his emacia e e e Nri„ 4B .found to present a shucking spectacle, from th d. lihi li ir l lna and bruises with which it was covere h. bo,irs erating the child's unhappy condition, the n . eig _ 'bea t, "ed occasionally to give him pieces of bread and t tile 01 411 ,1 would gladly - have continued to do so, but tha , O ,at or r'; er .ne r, whose desire seemed to be to get the . 1.9 , r vva„, began a few months since to keep him in , % 'llen se ashy lto gether, excusing his non appearance abroad, .d respecting him by saying that he was not 1 43 4 w his death beeoming known, a communi:a• 01 r % a y ! Made to the coroner, and the deputy coroner I. Brewer) commenced an inquest at the ,11111_(biliPaslietn: Bride . nce was soon adduced to justify a e ""ge against the mother, who was arrested as ~I;',°,l)pleting her toilet to attend the funeral of the ~- 4, 4 i alit- L , "" jury returned a verdict of wilful murder It e --.lzabeth Oram, the mother, and the coroner a BUed hiS warrant for her committal to prison. Des RN DUTY. —The duty on corn imported, at Is. tt Acc i 4tt t e N % the year ended March last, was £353 O . last an accident, Ar 1-I ALIFAx.—On Saturday 'ir ned With loss of life, occurred at Halifax. _ A man . 011,111`7_?°rge Taylor, a plasterer, went to the yard of I M o . laNeate"rnith, Shaw Syke, to prepare for the remova f V I R th e T ee, which was slit from the - top s-veral yards dur- : '? th e n reeent gale. The first sten he took was to ascend 1., t4 e Part' of the trunk, and whilst there sawing 0 "retikinr:" Portion, O e npar of it fell upon the ladder, the kto ttm g efl: one side of it, and precicitating. at 4 distance of about t.,n yards He alighhitmedtoupoi: vi ' e d tt "e st ePa, and was so seriously injured that he sur t xt le accident but about three quarters of an hour. _ a 'uso, l'ionoiNßT SUICIDE IN A. WATER-BuTT.--- . o n 6 _- V: te:Y " 41 ,Z 111 ,, in g a determined . act of self-destruction took hat --, Y street East Waterloo town, Bethnal-green, t h e ' under the 111 . ng circumstances appears r9 name Mary Ann Ilicksin, aged . o leg week was a maiden lady, lady and was rcsi:_ing kith her r g' e Z t °;eek .u 4 e a r nind had been somewhat . impaired for the last b lot ! 1 - 1 ( 1 irlot 'Lt at the usual time on Friday she retired to •nitig hen more was seen or heard of her until the e;' at , r wae n the female servant went into the yard she or the house , and on opening the back door s 171.40tdhineretliethweadteerc.ebaes'ed in a st l o lr o m ping po , ition, with her was raised, when the t ti o: r d " , t he deeea ul d t. came down from his bedroom and 1 1 :;d t taepiectieero,f vi ,_hen s' he e d a isc e overed that the deceased had nis round her legs. A surgeon was called, W as bit e d e s a were of no avail, for the unfortunate lady ‘‘ uead, T a "AT —Baron ors s/ITUTEs AN OFFENCE IN FRANcE. °Fe O , l : a i l n ail led Proprietor, appeared before the Tribunal is t no "tre e s et—na ' Police t o answer the charges - Ist of exciting th and eonte of the ;randgovenment; 2dly, of we . ak due I ra n to the laws 1 ) , 14 e1Zi "), 'ue minister of State, by circulating a lithographic s]-I,24oo;lon(4.tincinz the sale, at 25 per cent. loss, of a taa. ,TPer ot un the Ministry of the Household of the .;) a tm by publishing at Brussels a pamphlet entitled, 1.--4()lt'lrstfrt°lllllß.u . 'o . n Dunon against the Minister of State t o een e Minister of Finance." Atter the charges stated, I3aron Darien demanded that the portion Pll v e to th . . ' 1 1) publica•ion of the pamphlet at Brussels sh , ould . ;t.'intated from the rest, but the Tribunal rei-cted ap ilo.,n,.°Ti re which M, Dudon said he would make default and the Tribunal, after hearing the public prose. ere'di:eeided that by publishing a placard offering to sell ou the Ministry of State at 25 per cent. loss, the of a t ti h t h ad " cast insulting doubts on the solvency of suiub4 great administrations of the State, and that such fnterninfevidently malevolent, were of a nature to excite "'ey a gainst the Government, whilst at the same time eti,e4t"lastitute an outrage on the Minister charged to pi : tthe O bligations of his Ministry ;" and that the t „',R4 e o tt - :"'" Printed at Brussels contained " the most out ' th e - a „"ertions both against the highest functionaries t,grid m e and against Magistrates." it therefore 0 0P — i p tie d Baron Dudon to two months imprisonment and uno.— Galignant's Messenger. . THE NORTHERN TIMES. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH LANCASHIRE WINTER ASSIZES Mr. Sergeant Channel entered court at half-past ten o'clock yesterday. SENTENCES.—The following prisoners were sentenced. Joseph Thorpe, who pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with stealing a post-letter while in the employment of the Manchester Post_ juice, fifteen years transportation. James Ward, who pleaded guilty to a charge of housebreaking. and against whom there was a former conviction for burglary, eight years penal servi tude. John Fos'er, who pleaded guilty to two indict• me.nts, one for burglary and another for breaking into a warehouse, after a previous conviction for felony, transported for life. Francis Dannelly, convicted of feloniously receiving stolen goods, after a previous con viction for felony, four years penal servitude. George Johnston, convicted of feloniously receiving stolen goof's, having been previously convicted of felony (a ticket of leave man), fifteen years transportation. Ellen Cagan, unlawfully wounding Ellen Devon, thr:e months imprisonment, with hard labour. Robert Ogden, un lawfully wounding Jane Overend at Preston, three months imprisonment, with hard labour. John Henry Wilson, stabbing Thomas Henderson, twelve months imprisonment, with hard labour. George Unsworth, who pleaded guilty of housebreaking, three years imprisonment, with hard labour. John Molyneux, Thomas Lunt, and John Lunt, wh o pleaded guilty to a charge of night poaching, two months imprisonment each, with hard labour ; John Yates, who pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy, two months impri onment with hard labour. Eliza Johnson, who pleaded guilty of bigamy, two months imprisonment with hard labour. FEL , NIOUS ASSAULT.—James Tu.ley, aged 27, brick set ters' lab.mrer, was indicted for having, at Pemberton, on the 27th of Nov. lust, feloniously assaulted Alice Gaskell. The prosecutrix was a factory girl, and the indecent at: tempt was alleged to have been made in a field where the prisoner met the prosecutrix, wh• with another girl, was going to work early in the morning. The jury found the prisoner guilty of an indecent assault. His lordship sen• tenced him to four months imprisonment, with hard labour. BURGLARY. —Patrick Reilly and Michael Minough were charged with having burglariouslybroken into and entered the dwelling house of George Buichell, at St. He'ens, on the 9th of Nor. last, and stolen therefrom a considera ble quantity of property, including nine ir gold watches, several gold rings, some watch guards, £2 in copper money, some wearing apparel, and other articles. The prosecutor keeps a pawnshop in Market street, St. Helens, and on the night in question it appeared that an entrance was effected through a door in a neighbour's yard which happened to be left open, after which a wall dividing that place from the prosecutor's yard was scaled, and one of the cellar windows then taken out. The prisoners were seen looking into the windows, and lurking about the house on the day preceding the rob• bery. On the 15th of November, Reilly was arrested by a Dublin detective officer in a pawn office in Dublin, offering a gold watch for sale, and several other watches and rings were found in his possession. The other prisoner was arrested in the north of Tipperary, having other articles of the property in his possession. Both prisoners were found guilty, and sentenced each to six years' penal servitude. BURGLARY AT SALFORD.— Joseph Keightley, fruit. seller, Eliza Keightley, housekeeper, and Sarah Varley, were charged with having at Salford, on the 6th of Sep_ tember last, feloniously entered the dwelling house of Thomas Bull Holland, and stolen therefrom two coats, one hat, one pair of boots, and other articles. Mr Higgins prosecuted, and Mr. Sowler and Mr. Aspinall defended the prisoners. The entrance into the house appeared to have been effected through a back cellar window. The prisoners were all acquitted. HIGHWAY ROI BERY.—William Neville, and Thomas Nolan, were charged with having on the 6th of December, at Manchester, assaulted and put in bodily fear Bridget Murphy, and stolen from her 7s in money. Mr. Sowler prosecuted, and Mr. Higgins defended Neville. The case for the prosecution was that about one o'clock, on the morning of Saturday, the 6th December. the prosecutrix, who was going home' from the Smithfirld market, where she kept an oyster stall, was attacked in Gunn street, by the prisoner, whom she knew before perfectly w,ll. Neville struck her a violent blow in the face and knocked her down. She had previous to leaving the market tied up is in a handk rchief round her neck. After she had been knocked down Nolan opened the handkerchief and took away the mone)t. As soon as the prosecutrix got up she followed the men into a cellar in Oldham road, where they had gone, and demanded her money, saying, if they gave her the money she would not take any steps to punish them for the ill treatment. Instead, however, of giving her the money, they again beat her and turned her out of the cellar. The statement of the prosecutrix was confirmed by her daughter, who accom panied her, and a woman named Mather. Sentence deferred. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Joseph Judge and John Smith were charged with having, on the 9th of December, at Manchester, assaulted Michael Hillinge. and robbed him of2d. Mr. Kaye prosecuted. The prosecutor stated that he was passing homeward through Deansgate on the night in question, when the the prisoner Judge came up and asked him for a treat, 't he prosecutor refused, upon which Jndge knockod him down, throttled him, and robbed him of 21, which was all he bad. The prisoner Smith, who was in company of Judge, stood near during the assault, calling out, "Go on Joe." A police. man hearing the struggle, darkened his lantern, and coming unheard on them captured the prisoners. The prisoner Smith was acquitted ; Judge was convicted. Sentence deferred. The court rose at six o'clock. BOROUGH SESSIONS.-YESTERDAY. The Borough Sessions owned in the Crown Court, St. George's Hall, before his Worship the Recorder, Gilbert Hen derson, Esq., at ten o'clock yesterday. The following gentle men were sworn as a Grand Jury ; James Brebner, merchant, Water street. foreman ; Tyndall Bright, merchant, North John street ; Ellis Martin Brodie, sharebroker, Tithebarn street ; Michael Bricker, broker, Ex, change Buildings; Henry Barnes, merchant, Rumford Place; Henry Case, insurance broker, Exchange Botldi! - .gs ; Wm. Kay Cowbrough, merchant, North John street; Wm. Henry Dixon, merchant, Rumford Place ; Alex. Morrison, merchant, Tower Buildings; John Murray Gladstone, sailmaker, Everton Road ; John Gouldie, broker, Exchange street, east ; Edward Hatton, merchant, Mersey street ; Richard Johnson, coal merchant. South John street ; Win. Kilgotr, balker, Sweeting street ; Wm. James Lampert, merchant, Water street ; Wm. James Paton, sharebroker, Castle street ; James Rape, shares broker, Dale street ; L. Rayner, broker, Exchange buildings ; M. Strai n s, merchant, Sandon Terrace; F. Thornley, cotton broker, Harper street ; R. 11. Wilson, merchant, Old Hall street. The Recorder said : Gentlemen of the grand jury, the calendar on this occasion contains the number of 55 persons charged with felony, and 20 persons charged with misdemen our. Of that number, there is not one who is at large before the expiration of a sentence under a license, or what is com menly called a ticket of leave. You will find no charges for breaking into warehouses, or stealing merchandize, or other offences seriously affecting the commerce of the town. There is a case in which a watchmaker's shop in Parker street was broken into and plundered, the thieves having entered by removing part of the wall of an adjoining building which was unoccupied. There are several charges of embezzlement, only one, however, of a serious character, in which the alleged deficiencies amount to about £l4O. There are several cases in which houses at the outskirts of the town appear to have been entered during the absence of the family. There are several chafges of picking pocket', the scene being the pit door of the Amphitheatre. In one of those cases, it is stated that the hand of the thief was seized in the pocket, and that some tnoney fell back from the hand into the pocket. If you should think that there is a seasonable evidence for enquiry on the subject, you will do right in finding a bill for the f e lony, and then if upon further investigation here the jury should think that it is doubtful whe— whether the off . ..nee was completed the accused may be found omilty of the attempt on the same indicts/rust. Tire misde meanours are rather numerous. The offence of passing had money seems to be on the increase, but the list is chiefly swelled again, I regret to state, by acts of violence, and in several instances the police have been the sufferers. In one case, a policeman's hand was wounded by a stone or some hard substance thrown at him. In another case, a policeman was wounded in the attempt to secure a prisoner, and in a third ins'ance a policeman's leg was broken. The jurisdiction of this court has been consid e r a bly exten d e d by o ne of the user chant stripping acts which passed in the last' session, enabling this court to deal with offences committed on the high seas, so that every ship sailing under British register not only carries with her the protection of British law, bnt those who navigate that ship may appeal to this court to enforce those laws, on th e ir arrival here. In two instances, at the last sessions ' this cou rt was appealad to , and in both cases the offenders were made responsible to justice. In one case, a sailor had been cut and wounded by a shipmate. In the other case, the mate of a vessel, presuming, probably, upon his authority, and hoping on that account for impunity, had broken open and plundered the chest of another seaman. He was, however, brought to justice here on his arrival, and is now suffering the penalty due to his offence. I trust that this act will be useful by checking, in the course of navigation, acts of fraud and violence. Gentlemen, I take this oppor tunity of stating that I have received and examined an enlarged and revised edition of the police regulations, which have lately been pu'alished by the watch committee. It is ❑ot only a complete manual of the policeman's duty, but it is extremely interesting to any person who wishes to become acquainted with the working of the constabulary in this own, and with the general provisions of the local acts. The I►w has been brought down here to the most recent period, for I fled, among other things, that the enactments of a statute passed in the present year, are annexed, by which a policeman is prohibited from voting or interfering in any way in a municipal or parliamentary election. It is impos sible to read any of the recent regulations without being struck by the great zeal and care of the watch committee and the gallant officer at the head of the pike for the security and protection of the public; and, I may also add, for the character and efficiency of the police force, They are also not inattentive to the due encouragement and welfare of the force, for I find, among other things, that by the recent edition, every well conducted policeman will be entitled to three days leave of absence in the course of the year, and every person who considers how fatiguing the incessant routine of a policeman's duties must be, will, I think, hardly grudge to any well conducted man snch a degree of indulence. With these observations, gentlemen, I shall dismiss you to commence your business. the grand jury then retired and proceeded . to consider the bills. POLICE INTELLIGENCE LIVERPOOL. BEFME MR. MANSFIELD. A DESPERATE RIIFFIAN.—A ruffian, named William Cunningham, a carter, who resides in Peter street, was charged with having violently assaulted his step daughter, a child about ten years of age, named Anne Rose Boyd. The fac's of the case appeared in our paper of yesterday. The following are the details. It appeared that early in the morning of Sunday the police were called to the house where the prisoner resided, and on officer 467 approaching he heard geeat screaming ; he rushed into the room, where he found the prisoner with a large whip (whip produced), and he beating the little girl most furiously. She was bruised all over in a frightful manner, and he took her to the Northern Hospital. The little girl was brought from the hospital in charge of a nurse. She said the prisoner beat her with a.vvhip without any provocation. She was greatly hurt. Mr. Mansfield : Did he ever beat you before ? Yes, sir, when he gets drunk he beats me. A surgeon from the Northern Hospital gave evidence of the inju ies sustained by the little girl, which were of a most serious description. In reply to his Worship the prisoner said, the reason he beat the girl was that she was out all night, and was in the habit of stopping out at night. Mr. Mansfield : She was not out that night. she was in bed. To the girl, Were you out that night ? Girl No, sir, nor any other night. The mother of the child (the wife of the prisoner) said the prisoner was in the habit of beating her and the child when he got drunk, and that was as often as he could. The girl did not go out at night, except she ran out to avoid the violence of the prisoner. Mr. Mansfield said nothing could justify such shocking and wicked cruelty as the prisoner had been guilty of, and as described by the surgeon, The child was delicate and mild looking, and such ruffianism should not be tolerated. He sentenced him to three months imprisonment, with hard labour. The child was taken back to the hospital, where every attention will be paid to her serious case. EIGHTY TIMES !—A woman named Pritchard, was brought up, charged with having committed an im moral offence in the street. In reply to his worship, Mr. Hepworth, the clerk of the Bridewell, said the woman had been eighty times in gaol. She was com- INi ;or one month. CURIOUS ThAI*POSITION NAMES.—George Robinson was charged with having stolen a quantity of wearing apparel. The most curious portion of the affair was, that the prosecutor's name is Richard Cook, and he is cook on board the ship Richard, and this strange trans position of names caused some merriment. The property was stolen from on board the vessel, and a portion having been found on the prisoner he was sent for trial. WHAT THE BIRTH OF A CHILD GAVE BIRTII TO !—A person of respectable appearance, named Mrs. Ellis, who resides in Vauxhall road, and a genteel-looking young matt named John Ellis, her son, were charged by officer M'Donnell, 112, with being drunk and disorderly, and also with having assaulted him. Mr. Godfrey appeared for the defendants, who were ont on bail. The cow complainant said, at twenty minutes to one on Saturday night, or Sunday morning, he heard a great noise in Vauxhall road at a public house door, and on going to ascertain the cause, he saw the female kicking at it Curiously. He told her to go away, but she refused, saying she wanted a glass of brandy for a sick woman He said it was too late to get anything, without the certificate of a doctor, but she kicked the more furiously at the door. He advised her to go away, which she did for about a hundred yards or so, when she came back and began abusing him furiously. He again advised her to go home, and she went away, hut returned a third time with her son. She caught hold of him by the coat, and used bad language, and at the same time the son and three women, caught, knocked him down, and kicked him. This was the amount of the charge, which was partly corroborated by two officers, Nos. 457, and 608, and the bridewell keeper stated that the defen dants were drunk when brought to the station. Mr. Godfrey cross examined the officer at some length, in order to elicit that the officer had taken the woman by the arm, and nearly twisted it out of the socket ; but. of course, the officer denied that he had so acted. The young man gut a black eye, and had his arm in a sling, but the officers denied that they had inflicted the inju. ries on him, but said he might have got them when they were all down in the scuffle. Mr. Godfrey said he would not disguise the facts of the case, which were these. The female was ill for a long time past, and on Saturday night her son called on her to bring the glad tidings that his wife had given birth to their first child. Now he (Mr. G.) would contend that it was excusable in any man, under such circumstances, to indulge in a glass of grog—he had done it, and he would like to see any man in Liverpool who had not done the same, under such glad tidings. He denied that the female was drunk, but said she went out to get the brandy for a sick woman who was in the house, and as she was roughly handled by the policeman, she told her son, who was excited, and he went to take his number, when the scuffle ensued. He contended that the defendants had been sufficiently punished. He called a daughter of Mrs. Ellis, who gave the same version of the affair as he did. Mr. Mansfield said whatever ',treatment the parties had received they had brought on themselves, but he imagined they had been punished enough, and he, therefore, discharged them. SOPHIA OR SOFA—WHICH ?—A fellow, named Chas. M'Entyre, was charged with having assaulted a Mrs. Margaret Spellman, who keeps a broker's shop in Great Homer Street. It appeared that on Saturday evening the prisoner entered the shop, and asked a servant girl, who was there at the time, if they had got any sofies in the house ? (A. laugh). She replied no, hut that there were a couple of Mary's. (Renewed laughter.) Whereon he gave her a welt across the shoulder, that tumbled her over. She screamed, and the mistress came and told her to go for a policeman. She went, and whilst away, the fellow caught hold of complainant, and dragged her into the street. Some women came to her assistance, when the prisoner cried out she was his wife, and that he . had a right to beat her if he liked. She never saw him before. At this time the police came up, and took him into custody. In reply to the charge, the ruffian said he was drunk, and merely thaught he was " licking" his own wife, who, he ,said, deserved it. He was sent to gaol for two months. DESERTING A WIFE.-111r. \Villiams, one of the reliev ing officers, brought up a person named John Nesdale on a charge of having deserted his wife, who was made chargeable to the parish for £2 12s fid. It appeared that in April he went away, and his wife got relief to the above extent, and on Saturday Mr. Wil liams found the prisonet, whom he understood to have money. The prisoner said he had in the Crimea, and got his hand hurt ; he had to come home through France, and was not able to do any thing since he returned, and what money he had was spent in his support. The parish had relieved his wife once before, during his absence in Australia, and he paid when he came home, and he would do so in this instance when he got work. He was remanded, as he said he ima gined he could get the money. GAROTTING A WOMAN. —A nice looking, but unfortu nate young woman, named Elizabeth Peggin, charged a young fellow, named Thomas Butler, with having stolen a purse, 7s 6d, and fifteen pawnbrokers' dupli cates from her. Mr. Blink. defended. It appeared, from the statement of the girl, that on Saturday night four weeks past she was going home along Everton roan, when the prisoner stopped her, and, after a moment's conversation, he put his arms round her neck, and nearly choked her, at the same time taking from her breast a purse containing the money and tickets, with other documents. He got off, and she did not see him until Saturday night, when he was given into custody, and on his person the purse and some documents that it contained, were found. After an able defence by Mr. B luck, the girl agreed to withdraw the charge, if she got back the tickets, and this being agreed to, the prisoner was remanded until she got her property back. ASSAULT ON THE POLlCE.—Edward Ormshaw, a large LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. man, of rough appearance, was charged with having ►iolently assaulted officers 68 and 117, in Mill street. This Was an unprovoked assault. and most wantonly com mitted by the prisoner, who refused to say anything. He was sent to jail for six months. BEFdRE ➢LR. CROPPER. TuErr BY A SEBNANT.—Elizabeth Harrison, servant at Mr. O'Donnell's, Sussex street, was charged with having stolen a quantity of wearing apparel belonging to her mistress. The prisoner went out on Friday, and took the property with her, but did not return. She was sent for trial. BIRK ENHEAD. BEFORE I. S. JACKSON AND R. BRYANA, ESQRS. NIGHT POACHING AT HO 9TON.-John Bell, dressed in the garb of a poacher, was charged with night poaching in the game preserves of Mr. Robert Morris, at Hooton. William Robinson stated that he was game keeper to Mr. Morris, and had charge of the game preserves, and about a quarter to eleven o'clock on Saturday night last, he and two others went on duty, and while out they heard the report of an air gun from the direction of a cover called Brickley Gorse, and, upon getting there, they heard four or five other shots ; that he and his corn■ pinion concealed themselves behind an old railway carriage, from which they could s.e the cover, and in about half an hour they saw two men came out of the rover to near to where they were concealed, and that ono of the men stooped down as if looking under the railway carriage, when he (Robinson) immediately sprang up and called to his companions Now, then, come on," to which one of the poachers made answer, " Come on, blast you, come on," and then both of them ran away, pursued by the keepers The prisoner on the way fell into a ditch, and Robinson on the top of him ; he, however, recovered himself, and pulled the prisoner out, at the same time seizing hold of a large stick he had in his hand, and afterwards searched him and 'found a., pheasant quite warm in one of his pockets which had been killed by an air gun, the ball having entered the breast and gone out at the b3ck. The stick and bird were produced. They afterwards took the prisoner and gave him into the custody of one of the county constables stationed at Sutton. The keepers said that the poachers frequented the preserves so ♦ery frequently that they (the keepers) had found it necessary. to take assistance with them for the purpose of detecting the parties who were in the habit of coming there. The prisoner being asked what he had to say replied, " I never had the stick." He was then committed for trial at the next Cheshire quarter sessions, with liberty to put in bail. LIVERPOOL B kNKRUPTCY COURT. YESTERDAY. (BEFORE MR. COMMISSIONER PERRY.) IN RE LEICESTER AND CO.—The bankrupts Came up this day on their adjourned last examination. Mr. Bernie, of the Northern Circuit, appeared on behalf of the ass signees, and Mr. Atherton for the bankrupts. Mr. Chatn ney Leicester, one of the bankrupts, was examined at some length by Mr. Bernie. After referring to some not very extensive transactions in railway shares which the banks rupt had with Mr. Wagstaff, of West Derby, and other persons, the examination was directed to transactions in iron, in which he had alsr; engaged. He said—The original contracts in the iron transactions commenced in October, 1855. The first purchase was 1000 tons. We pai I £250 deposit. The tran. sactmns were closed on the llth February, 1856 The whole extent of the transactions was 7000 tons in all. Of these 2000 taus were on joint account with Mr. Wagstaff. The amount in round numbers would be £28,000. The loss was £3176. 4000 tons were sold on the Bth February, and 3000 tons on the 11th February. Mr. Daunt, our broker, found all the funds, except £2900, which came out of the firm. On the 11th of February we determined to stop, and sent notices on the 12th February. I do not consider that we were utterly insolvent when we commenced the iron transactions, though on the day we stopped we were not in a position to pay Is. in the pouad on the whole of our liabilities. The loss on the iron was £3OOO, and the loss on produce about £5OOO or 4;6000. A large amount of debts turned out bad which in October 1855 we considered good. Wo had bills on Mr. Wagstaff, of upwards of 44000, for which he had value in the shape of Indian corn against a bill of £2340. The date of the transaction was the 8:h November, and the bill was due on the 10th February. We lost £7OOO odd by Mr. Cook, of Shrewsbury. We owed Mr. Wagstaff £OOO when we stopped if he had taken up his bills then running, but he did not do so, and became our debtor to the extent of £575 4s. 7d. The date of the invoice of the Indian coin was the Bth November, 18.55. It was handed to the Union Bank against a bill about the middle of February, after we stopped payment. It came to be delivered to the Union Bank as it was hypothecated against Mr. Wagstalf's bill of £2918 17s. Bd. Of the whole iron transactions £lO,OOO were my own. I paid deposit, cash ! £.2110, and two bills for £3OOO and £lOOO. Joseph Cook accepted the bill for £3OOO, and the firm of P. Leicester and 00. the £lOOO bill. Peter Leicester and Co. drew on Joseph Cook without the knowledge of my partner, and the acceptance also was without his knowledge. I had some rice transactions. The result, on the whole, was a loss to the extent of £l4OO Two of the last transactions were open when we stopped. There is an entry on the 19. h Dec., amounting to about £lOOO, with Thomas Leicester. Ho is my uncle. The writing is dated 19th December, 1855, the invoice is dated the 12th February, 1856. It was so entered because the amounts were not ascer tained before the 12th of February. He came to our office almost every day. On the 18th of December he gave us his acceptance for £2,300, dated the 19th December, against which we hypothecated 391 fucks of flour, and 500 barrels of flour, at the assumed value of £2,330. The flour was at that time in our possession. There were in hand 119 sacks (Spanish), and 165 barrels of flour. Notwithstanding the hypothecation of the flour we afterwards sold it, with Mr. Leicester's autho rity. Thomas Leicester did not know the state of our affairs. He did not know that were insolvent in January. He was not in the habit of allowing us to draw for our accommodation on him. The amount of Thomas Leicester's accommodation piper amounted during the last year to not more than £6,000 or £7,000, but with an equivalent. At the time we bought the flour from Peter Brown and Co, on the 24th January, I expected to pay for it when it became due. We sold it to Thomas Leicester on the 31st January. He did not pay us for it. • He afterwards took it on account of our debt to him. The liabilities that were coming due within a month of the 24th January, and also the acceptances, were—on the 29th I n tar) , a bill of Nicho ,on and Whittle, of £1,674; on the 251, a bill for £440 11s, due to Michael Walsh ; on the 27th January a bill for £925, due J. and M. Marton; on the 30th, a bill for £1,179 Os sd, due Radford and Sons ; on the 3rd February, a draft of £2OO of John Townley, of Dundalk, all of which retired on the 9th February. Of Mr. Cook's for £l,OOO, a draft—it was not retired. On the 12th February another bill for £lOOO due Mr. Cook. These were all the bills due within a month of the 24th of January. Mr. Cook was to retire the two bills. He had received the produce himself We accepted for his accommodation. The £12,384 9s were all accommodation bills, of which he received the whole proceeds. I had also my own liabilities on account for iron to meet, one bill of £3,000. I expected Mr. Daunt to renew it. I had no other bills on my own account coming due. The amount of bills remaining at our stoppage would be something , over £30,000. I dare say we have had bill transactions with Thomas Leicester since 1850, to the extent of £lBO,OOO. The bankrupt was then briefly examined by Mr. Lowndes, touching a mine and quarry in Cornwall, with the working of which he was connected. Mr. John Ellis Littleboy, the other bankrupt, was also examined very briefly by Mr. Bernie. Touching a purchase of corn from Messrs. Maxwell and Co., he said that be did not think his firm was insolvent at that time, and that though he attempted to cancel the transaction with Messrs. Peter Brown and Co.; it was not because he believed it would not be paid for, but because he did not want the flour. He was concerned in some of the iron transactions, but he was not aware that his partner was concerned in separate transactions, and took the funds of the partnership to pay them. The last examination was then further adjourned for a fort night. MIN BOAT ACCIDENT ON THE THAMES -THREE LIVES LOST. On Sunday evening, about seven o'clock, a very distressing accident, by which three young persons unfortunately lost their lives, took place on the Thames, at Blackfriars-bridge. The particulars of the sad occurrence detailed to our reporter by one of the sur vivors, are as follows :—A party of seven young people, three females and four youths, yesterday afternoon hired a boat belonging to Mr. Davis, at Blackfriars-bridge, and proceeded up the river as far as Battersea. They neared Blackfriars-bridge on their 'return about seven o'clock, the tide running very fast at the time. The evening was dark and misty and they were unable clearly to see the abutments of the bridge ; but suddenly the end of the boat struck against one of the arches, and the whole of the seven were thrown from their seats into the river, the boat floating from them bottom upwards. The shrieks of the unfortunate individuals attracted the attenti'o'n of some persons passing over the brid ge, gave an alar m , an d, ass i s t a nce promptly arriving, four were s who, p erce i v i ng w h a t i had happened, immedi a t e ly vied, but a y ou th na m e d Fitzpatrick, who resided with h his parents in Shoe lane, and two females were drowned. The names of the females could not be as certained, as they were strangers to the others, having been invited by some of the men to join in the excursion before the boat sailed. Drags were obtained and a search made for the bodies, but up to a late hour last night only one, that of a female, had been recovered, A druggist, named Gbio-Truelle, of Romilly-snr-Seine, near Paris, was some time ago condemned by the Tribunal of Correctional Police to 75t. fine for having illegally prac tised medicine by administering pills to a female servant who consulted him. THE LIVERPOOL SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF FOREIGNERS IN DISTRESS. The annual meeting of this Society was hold yesterday, at the Clarendon rooms, South John street. The Mayor of the borough presidel. Amongst the company presert were the nrincinal representatives of the foreign honors, and several_of . the philanthropic friends of such beneficial societies. The Mayor of the borough said he had been requested to take the chair on that occasion, and be felt great pleasure in doing so, because it was a society which bad for its ob• jects the benefit of a great class of people who came into this part of the country. There was one great point the society had in view, and that was, as would be seen by the report,• that before relief was given, the strictest enquiry was made. He had great faith in the society, and would, therefore, call upon the Honorary Secretary to read the annual REPORT. The committee, in submitting to their subscribers an account of the labours of the society for the year just ended, trust that the results obtained will be found such as to gratify those, whose kind support has enabled them to do the work they have undertaken, and to insure that continuation of good will on the part of the public, which is so essential to the very existence of the society. The total amount of subscriptions - and donations received this year hair been £514 14s. Id., being nearly £92 more than the preceeding one. Relief, not including loans, has been granted to the extent of £360 14s. 81., thus exhibit ing an increase of £32 as compared with the last. The aggregate number of applications has been 1085, 977 of which have been granted, against 1144 and 1044 in 1855. The average expense per case was about 7e. 3d. while it only amounted to 6s. 6(1. last year. Our society has now been established five years. During that time, it has spent £1,550 in affording relief in no fewer than 5,091 instances, besides granting loans to the extent of £277, one fourth of which has been repaid. Of the applicants comprised in the 5,091 cases above-mentioned, 840 have been assisted on their route to America, 583 have been enabled to return to their native country, and 457 have been provided with tools, clothing, and medical advice. The committee have much pleasure in noticing a new feature in the contributions made this year to the society. A sum of £2O has been handed to , us in the name of the Free City of Frankfort by its consul in this town ; and we have likewise received a donation of £5 from the Royal Saxon Government through the same channel. We venture to hope that this example of generosity may induce some other governments of Germany to support an institution which iucludes so many of their subjects among the objects of its charity. While rendering our thanks to whom they are due, we do not wish to omit to record the liberal manner in which several of our members have aided the society by increasing by private donations the amounts spent on special cases, when the sub-committee did not consider themselves at liberty to draw too heavily on the funds for the assistance of one individual, however deserving the person might be. The aggregate of these sums equals fully one fifth of our total income, though not forming any portion of it, or included in any way in the accounts. To the same causes as last year may be attributed the slight decrease perceptible in the figures relating to the applicants. These causes are principally the very great diminution in the number of emigrants passing through Liverpool on their way out; and the reduction in the arrivals of continental labourers who used to come over to find some employment in this country. One class of applicants, however, has been decidedly on the increase for some time past, and threatens to entail heavy expenses on our resources. We allude to the numerous instances of Polish women and children who arrive in Liverpool with the vague hope of finding, in some way or other, the means of crossing over to the United States whither the head of the family has gener ally preceded them. These sorts of cases are among the most expensive we have - to deal with. Another fact to which we wish to draw your attention, is the steadily increasing number of people returned from America, most frequently in a state of great destitution. In the first year of its existence, the society had only 36 such cases brought under its con sideration, but this number has since risen to 79 in 18:53, 135 in 1854, 172 in 1855, and 212 in 1356. The ill treatments and robberies to which foreign sailors are subjected on board American vessels, and which have already been noticed in these reports, continue, we regret to say, painfully frequent You will, however, be glad to hear that the guilty parties in one of these cases have met with the punishment they deserved at the police court of this town. The ship on board of which the offence was committed was the Tran Side, and the victims three German and two French sailors. The re-establishment of peace, which has been so beneficial to the world at large, has had rather a contrary effect with regard to this society, by putting an end to the enlistment of foreigners in the British service, which was so actively carried on in the United King dom, and by inducing a number of adventurers, who had been trying their luck in the east during the war, to come over to England, whe re part of them Wall found their way to the re lieving soc i et i es. As regards our internal organisation, we think it right to mention that the number of meetings of the sub-committee (for dispensing relief) has been reduced from three to two per week, it having been considered that a total number of 104 such meetings per annum was adequate to the work to be performed, and quite a sufficient claim on the time of the few officers of the society whose occupations allow them to attend personally on such occasions. Before closing their report, your committee are anxious to express the sincere regret they have felt at losing the valuable services of their late lion. secretary, A. Bossi, Esq., whose departure from Liverpool compelled him to resign the functions lie so z-alously and effectually discharged. In conclusion, your committee look upon the results of the past year with satisfaction, and appeal again to your tried benevolence to enable them further to carry on the work, and deserve the name of " The Friends of Foreigners in Distress." 1856. To balance from last meeting.. . . Subscriptions received 405 13 0 Donation Loans returned Ditto from Manchester society. Ditto from E linburgh society Ditto from Glasgow society .. 2 0 0 Money kept back Interest as per bank book 1:637 1 2 C. --- 1856. By grants including passages to Hull.. £360 14 811 Loans, including £5 in the hands of the secretary A ssistant secretary's salary 9l 0 0 Rent, stationery, coals, and sundry ex penses Balance at the bank .. . . Ditto in band 7 7 7 £637 1 24 To balance at the bank . Ditto in hand CAI i❑ hands of the secretar♦ . 5 0 0 £B7 1 3 From the statistics furnished by the society, we learn that during the year ending Nov. 14, 1856, the number of applicants for aid was 1,085, of which 977 were granted and 108 refused, by a decrease, as compared with 1835, of 59 applicants and of 27 in the number granted. Of the applications granted 34 were assistance to America, 121 to the Cont;nent of Europe, 83 to various towns in England, 14 to Dublin and Glasgow, and 212 returned from America ; 30 were assisted with medical advice, and 83 with tools and clothing. During the last four years there were 5,819 applications, of which 3,091 were granted and 728 refused. The total amount spent in relief was £1,419 Ils nid e of which £354 15 , 4 8!;(1 was in 1836. The amount of loans granted from 1852 to 1856. inclusive, was £277 3s 6J, of which £6B 19s 5- 1 1 ,-d were paid, and the balance unpaid was £2BB Os Op. Ot these sums £57 lOs 3d were granted in 1856; of this £2O is 1,1 bad been repaid, leaving £37 9s I,ld unpaid. Mr. Prange, who kindly read the report, moved that it be both approved of, and adopted. Mr. C. Pickering said he had much pleasure in seconding the resolution. Iu the course of the remarks he made, he said that there had been a receipt from Frauk'ort for £2, in aid of the t inds of tha soc ety, but from the immense number of persons who were brought to thi s country, and who were thrown upon their resources, he did not believe that they would meet with relief. He vehe mends contended that there was a great amount of foreign pauper relief recorded, but that the relief that wa.. granted was only given by a few houses chiefly confined to the Greek and Swiss houses. The following resolution was, therefore, unanimously agreed to .—" That the report and abstract of the treasurer's accounts be approved and adopted, and that the same be printed and circulated." It was then maved by Mr. Mullens, and seconded by Mr. Sotkerfcth .—" That Mr. T. Prange be requested to con. tinue to act 36 vice president, Mr. Poencke, as treasurer, and Mr. Pictet as honorary secretary, asd that the following gentlemen be requested to serve on the committee : The Foreign Consuls in Liverpool, the Hon. Medical Officers, th Chaplains of Foreign Congregations, Messrs. E. Meugens, G. A. Mullens, A. Eyssen, A. Rabus, H . Arends, J. E. Barendt, W. Kunhardt, D. Wichelhaus, C. Stoess, 0. Burchardt, A. H. Lemonius, Edmund Pictet, E. Springman, George Behrend, E. De la Rne, H. Stotterfoht, N. Mahe, E. Engel, C. A ren d s, and T. Stotterfoht." The following complimentary vote of thanks was next past to the late officers : "That this meeti ng acknowledges with thanks the great services rendered to the society by Mr. Bossi, the late Honorary Secretary, and that it . bas heard with pleasure that Mr. Pictet has undertaken to succeed Mr. Bossi in this office—also, that the best thanks of the meeting be tendered to Mr. Bencke for his exertion• as treasurer." Then followed the following vote of thanks—" That the thanks of the meeting be given to the officers of the society, and to the gentlemen who have served on the committee." A vote of thanks having been acended to the chairman, the Mayor briefly returned thanks, and in the course of his observations expressed a hope that some means would be taken by the society for suppressing paupers from foreign countries being sent to this port. The meeting then concluded. - - EXECUTION OF ROBERT MARLEY, YESTERDAY, The execution of Robert Marley, who was convicted at the last session of the Central Criminal Court of the murder of a young man named Richard Cope, under very aggravating cir cumstances, took place yesterday morning at eight o'clock, in front of the gaol of Newzate. The facts of the crime for which the wretched man suffered are so fresh in the recollection of the public that it will be unnecessary to repeat them. The prisoner, it will be remembered, made a daring attempt a$ robbery in the shop of Mr. Berry, a jeweller, in Parliament street, and in the course of that attempt he inflicted deadly ins juries upon the deceased, who was Mr. Berry's shopman, with a life preserver. The prisoner, ever since his conviction, has ap• peared quite resigned to undergo the sentence, and evidently never for a moment anticipated that there was any chance of escaping the capital punishment. lie, therefore, evidently ap peared determined to endeavour to atone for his crime by a full admix+ion of his •guilt and an acknowledgment of the justice of his sentence. Mr. Under Sheriff CI osley and Mr. Ander ton, his colleague, have been at the gaol three or four times every week since the prisoner's conviction, and he has repeatedly expressed his gratitude for the kindness he has received at their hands. They have frequently inquired whether there was anything he desired to be done, consistent with their duty, but he has always declined, and also requested that no letter should be given to him, as he was desirous td divest his mind from all things connected with the world. The prisoner has paid great attention to the religious exhortas lions of the Rev. Mr. Davis, the Ordinary of Nevegate, and on Sunday in particular he paid the most earnest attention to the discourse of the reverend gentleman, and his firmness was most remarkable. The Reverend Mr. Davis, at the prisoner's request, remained with him the whole of Sunday night, and down to the period of his execution. Shortly after 7 o'clock Mr. Sheriff Mechi and Mr. Sheriff Keats, accompanied by their deputies, Messrs. Crossly and Anderton. arrived at the goal and very soon afterwards they proceeded to the condemned cell. The prisoner was standing up, and on Mr. Sheriff Mechi in quiring how he felt, he replied " Very well." He then said that he was quite prepared to die, and that he hoped he had made his peace with God. Mr. Sheriff Mechi said be hoped he had, and then inquired whether there was any thing that the prisoner wished to be done. He replied in a cool and firm tone, "No, sir ;" adding. "I am very thankful for the kindness I have received from everybody since I have been in the prison." Mr. Davis then said that the prisoner wished him so say that he deeply regretted the crime he had committed, and that lie fully acknow ledged the justice of his sentence, and was perfectly satisfied with his trial and the verdict of the jury. Marley expressed his concurrence in the statement made by the Ordinary ; and his demeanour during these preceedings was most remarkable for firmness, without, however, the slightest show of bravado. A minute or two before eight o'clock, Calcraft, the executioner, was brought in, and he at once proceeded to pinion the unhappy man. Marley quietly resigned himself to his hands, and Calcraft inquired if the pinioning apparatus, which now consists of strong straps instead of cord as formerly, hurt him, and be replied," Oh, n 0.".... All the preparations were now complete, and precisely at eight o'clock the mournful procession passed from the condemned cell to the scaffold. The culprit walked with a firm step and ascended the steps leading to the scaffold in the same manner, The cap was then placed over his face, and the noose adjusted round his neck, the bolt was drawn, and the unhappy man apt peared to be dead almost in an instanp There was an unusally large concourse of persons to witness the execution, and their behaviour, with very few exceptions, was orderly and decorous. The body, after hanging an hour, was cut down and taken back to the gaol, and to-night it will be buried within the building, in conformity with the terms of the sentence. On Friday morning a gentleman came to the gaol who represented himself to be a Roman Catholic priest, and he expressed-a desire to have an interview with the prisoner. • The authori- • ties of the gaol invariably allow the utmost possible latitude to unhappy persons in the condition of the prisoner, and they are always allowed to see the ministers of any religious persuasion with which they may Le connected, if they desire to do so, but as Marley had not expressed any such wish, he was asked whether he bad a desire that this gentleman should be admitted to him. He replied that he could not understand why such an application should have been made, as neither himself nor any member of his family bele - lad to the Roman Catholic persuasion, and that he had no desire for any further spiritual advice than that of the worthy ordinary of Newgate, the Rev. Mr, Davis, which was all that could be wished for, and he therefore declined to see the gentleman who made the application. No one has visited the prisoner during the week, except Mr. Davis and the other authorities of the prison whose duty it is to do so, and he has expressed a wish that none of his relations should be admitted to him. None of them, however, have applied with that object, and he has seen no member of his family but the sister who was alluded to last week. Executions at Newgate are now happily much less frequent titan formerly, and nearly twelve months have elapsed since the last occurred. Tho sufferer upon that occasion was a man named Bousfield, who murdered his wife and three children, and it will be remembered that after he bad been turned off he made several attempts to get upon the scaffold, and succeeded in placing his feet three or four times upon the edge of the drop. The occurrence caused a good deal of excitement at the time, as it was thought that there was some neglect on the part of the executioner in the per formance of his duty, and in consequence of what then occurred a new mode has been adopted of pinioning criminals that effec tually precludes any chance of such an event recurring. TWO MEN BURIED ALIVE. A sad catastrophe, attended with the loss of two lives, and the destruction of much property, took place in a coalpit in course of sinking, the property of Messrs. Barnes, coalmasters, of Grassmore, near Chesterfield. Messrs. Barnes commenced tha erection of works in April last, for winnowing the coal.— An air shaft, 81t. 2in. in diameter when bricked, was being sunk as a trial shaft, to ascertain the depth of the coal, and three men were employed in the pit. These three men were Henry Berrisford, an experienced mason and bricklayer. Joseph Barker, and Wm. Fletcher, colliers, who were acting in the capacity of labourers to Berrisford. As the pit was being sunk, the sides were lined with oak corbs and sheeting, firmly bolted together by iron bolts, to prevent any slipping of the earth as they proceeded uownwarde.— After the pit had been thus sunk 17 yards deep, the sinking was ceased, and the men commenced at the bottom of the pit lining the shaft with three rings of brickwork set in barrow lime, and worked upwards towards the surface. 0,1 Friday they h ,d bricked up seven yards high, and were working on a scaffold in the pit, and about twenty minutes to six Berrisford went out of the pit to get his tea, leaving two men, Barker and Fletcher, clearing away some dirt which had fallen down the pit, and in a short time afterwards he came to the mouth of the pit and shouted to the men, " How are you going on there ?" One of the men replied, " Oh, all tight, we shall be ready for you in a few minutes." Berrisford went away, and be had not left the pit mouth above two minutes before there was a loud noise, occasioned by the breaking of the timber which lined the sides of the pit, and a great mass of earth fell in and buried both the men. They perceived the earth falling, and both rushed into the bucket, and called o u t t o b e d rawn up to t h e pit mouth. Th e winders commenced to remove the bucket, but the fallen earth had imbedded it so firmly in the soil that it could not be raised upwards. There was a 9in pump which ran down the side of the shaft to pump the water from several powerful springs, and it was worked by a 12-horse engine, which lifted water from the pit at the rate of about 130 gallons per minute. This pump was forced by the earth from the side to the centre of the pit, and being thus put out of its perpendicular, it stopped working, and the engine ceased. An alarm was immediately given, but it being dark, no steps could be taken to reach the unfortunate men over whom about twenty tons of earth had fallen. Fletcher, one of the buried_ men, called out several times " Holloa !" and he was answered. He cried out, " Can you get me out ?" his words being dis tinctly heard. The men answered they would do their best. He again called out, " Is the engine and pumps at work ?" The men told him they were not, an d t h at the Pump Was b ro k en. He then said, " If the pumps are not at work I shall be drowned." The manager, John Brailsfold, then forced a road through a portion of the earth and down underneath the ecaffording by a long pole, and he attached a lighted candle at the end and put it down the pit, and asked t Fie eh e r if be could see it. Fl e t c h er said " No," an d this was the last which they h a d h eard the poor fellow utter. Mr. Bromley, the chief m anager, was down the pit word pit on the morning of the accident, and h e saw no d e f ects in t h e earthwork or its supporters. The cause of the accident is attributed to the natural neehness or soft state of the ground, which had been increased by the heavy tains which succeeded the late frost and thaw. The 10S13 to Mews. Barnes, the proprietors of the works, will be very great. All the machinery employed at the works was new, and of the best construction. MR. STURGEON AT THE SURREY MUSIC H ALL ,— C U Sunday morning Mr. Spurgeon delivered the last of the four sermons he had been announced to preach in this hall. The congregation was greater than on any cf the previous occas i ons , probably exceeding 8,000. The greatest order and decorum were observed during the whole of the service. The rev. gentleman selected as his text, Hebrews 11 chap. 6 verse. " But without faith it is impossible to 'please God."