The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-24 00:00:00

THE RAILWAY STRIKE 'knitting of the clerks, porters, &c., on strike, in con tri semeetion With the London and North - western - Rail wa y e -- PanY, met in Hope-hall, at two o'clock yesterday, for te 1, e Purpose of affording an explanation of the cause of t he : l ike to the shareholders, merchants, and others interested k the traffic and prosperity of the company, wh o w ere i tstitee -by public advertisement to attend. No sha reholder o it r Merchant respon d e d to the invitation, and, eventually , : e r waiting f or half-an-hour, and no one other than the ' an ise on strike appearing, the chair was taken amid Deeral applause by Mr. G. Wharrie, and Mr: Skaife t PPointed to act as secretary. Th de he Chairman opened the proceedings by reading a Di a "ed statement of the cause of, and all that has yet taken s h e ,, e ,' jet connection with the strike, and concluded by k ing that they appoint some one merchant or gentleman, ills " they had the fullest confidence, to arbitrate the tel'lte with the directors, and the.' they would be bound by '3 (lecision Th e • ei , Proposition was received with general dissent from env cart of the room. Bicett e A ,Y : Why should we do so, when the fact is, that lal Lancashire nzen are ready to come out to assist . (Applause ) tlirrlother Voiere: The dock labourers are coming to -I'er? morning to assist us. (Renewed applause.) T he Chairman repeated that he considered his proposition 41 Y fairt and just, It would be far better for them thus to Nle matter, than to continue a dispute by which the e was deranged, and the property of the company lost b2n---enermous amount. That the directors were the e Oreesors he had not the slightest moral doubt , but ‘ree time he co' pros' was proper he adopting pac ed. (Crie - s of " en N ttas 4 Voice • e• ) / Th e Chairman : I think you are acting very wrong, Wand j( l . 4 not stand by you if you do not adopt this resolution. j id it is not adopted I shall act upon my own opinion and gment after this meeting. . 4 Voice.: Y ou agre ed to come out with us. - sei t i t l e Chairman : I agreed to come out with you., , 4 not tura recreant, but I am not warranted in adopting t et Y°er views if lam not satisfied with them. If you do -- htt a et. With me, you have no right to cause me to actewith - On Sunday last a meeting of delegates from the north-western districts of the Spinners' General Associa- Th e Proposition, not being seconded, fell to the ground. 'ion . was held at the Farmer's Arms, Orchard-street, e Af t_er e some time the Chairman again came ft h , refard, and r Preston, for the arranging and providing for the support soZT ,d that a subscriplioh. list, in aid of t err poore k": 4 orls should be placed in the Exchange and Lyceum of the spinners and minders now on strike. It was eetil m " as - He urged that the men who had large families resolved—" That a levy be made . upon the whole of the P ere „ 4 _,et long stand out, and that their wives would soon members at present employed in th north-western dis restane fneni to return to work. In proof of this he trict of the Spinners' Association; and that a depute- Wit , nr -' , ed the ease of Mr. Spicer, who, he had no doubt, was. ' 41 them in heartwho had been . , but persuaded by his o ti ri. from the above association attend at the me e ting - A lt o ~, 1 , to go t o wor k. house e ver y Saturday evening.to pay over the weekly etal h ' s Proposition was also received with general dissent, allowance to the hands now strike." It was also stated i ll , called forth from Mr. Sail- n and indignant denunciation, that the association was trying t o bring about a - general to Its being supposed that they - were so depressed as to be organisation throughout the district. The " turn outs " 4:elled to have recourse to public charity to supply their s eem sanguine of obtaining employment in some of the ) 304 1 , wauts. If driven to extremity, they ,would receive the th ev ut Y of the public with thankfulness; but, thank God, other mills in Preston, where .they . will receive the extra rate demanded from Mr. Bushall, and paid by the greater lil t i l , k w ,ere net driven to that point yet, and could hold out th e . "' longer. (Hear, hear, and applause.) The speaker part of the other Freston manufacturers. of n referred to an article which appeared in the Daily Post - _ _ _ • eo _ t hat morning, and, in eloquent and indignant terms, tatted the statements contained in,it. He denied that , . - 11,,,, n 'en- Were in this instance, wrong: (Hear, hear.) f ar - Lcondennie ' d strikes as much as any person did ; but, so On Saturday evening, a special meeting of this board n ot :: the present strike was concerned, the directors, and was held in the public-ofilees, Hamilton-square, for the e rg t he men, had been the aggressors. (Applause,) It was purpose of laying the township rates for the ensuing year. p o e e that they had not the philosophy of the editor of the 1 „„'t to wait until their wages were reduced, perhaps, to 12s Mr. John Laird occupied the chair. The other members eek te r. s t and then - express gratitude for the treat. (Laugh- present were, Mesers. Willoughby, Heins, Meakin, 4 1 4, They had not done that, but he did not think that Golborne, and Park. le a ', Were blameable in not havingedone it. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Golborne, in the absence of the chairman of the _ 'ePeated that the men were willing to work for 3s 6d finance committee, moved that an improvement rate The c a n'lie from six o'clock to six &dock, and 4s a day until es. 6d. in the pound be laid for the ensuing year. . week,', and that, if that " fair day's wages for a fair day's motion was seconded by Mr. Park and carried unane the, Were secured to them, they were willing to return to o_u_ ly. ear ns eroployment and discharge their cluths as they had m M . s r. Golborne proposed a lighting and watching rate of siery discharged them, like zealous, faithful, honest ls. in the pound. The . proposition was seconded by Mr. aL l ats. (Applause.) Willoughby, and carried. ' . Mr. Golborne moved that the sewerage rate be 6d in I te - t e r ckley and Mr. Tapscott endorsed the views of the the pound, which was seconded by Mr. Meakin, and lai e b ul ng speaker, the latter gentleman observing that be carried unanimously. fo e . " 11 informed that the dock labourers would come th - 7 a ► ere' to take part in the matter. ,He also said he heard Mr. Golborne next moved that the public . library and museum rate be ld in the pound ; Dr: Baylis seconded to he several of the parties on strike had individually applied the proposition, which . was carried.. I _taken back, and had been refused. • (Hear, hear.) tle e la:ttSlaer'eant also defended the strike, which was in fact statement, the assessment for 1856 of Birkenhead. was of right against might, and - of labour against £102 , 340,_ and of Claughton £9,097, the total being Capital,i a :,, and declared that if any man asked . m e X 111,43 . n , , 7 I 1t355 the assessment of Birkenhead was ) 313 and of Claughton .eB, 115, the total being etee wite Poole, who was - a man of ability and experi- -t ! e -z7O - ) 4 . 2 ti, showing an increase of 11,009 in the assess= the he would tell them that if the company had all ment ' of this yearover that of last. tfrect eapital in the world, the work could not be tii, rl ua llY carried forward until the present discarded S,Netere taken back. (Hear, hear, and applause.) The aid lse r then dwelt on the confusion now prevailing, he it that at the goods stations, and mentioned in illustration of p (1 1 ~, (C l us to London which were intended for Carlisle. ' °One/. ) Art • la" er some observations from Mr. Skaife, Mr. Row to ~,‘ 8 ' hlr- Holt, and Mr. Moulsdale, who gave utterance tel' T _eviously expressed o:Anions on the strike by them, teTereting adjourned to eleven o'clock this day. Drin t i„ re separating , the chairman mentioned that the etno u "g el the new bills had cost £2 12s, and that the that nt that d , th, 4 . a collected was onlyHe trusted euei_enc e y would be promptly made up idered that ey wo at the be only doing he resolittion which he. hal How could one stand against so many. (Hear, 4 ' 4 STRIKE and I OF RAILWAY CLERKS AND PORTERS TO WILLIAM RATHBONE, ESQ. • , Esteemed Sir,—My long residence in town, and close and BIRKENHEAD DOCKS Mr. Laird tendered his thanks to the board for having re-elected him chairman for the ensuing year. He would have attended 'the last meeting of the board after the election, but the township bi'l was then in committee, and as it was strongly opposed, it required the atten dance and attention of all the persons on the depu tation, and he therefore did not think it right to leave London. The bill had passed the committee unanimously, and had gone through the third reading in the House of Commons. The ktanding order in the House of Lords was fixed for the 27th instant ; the second reading would take place on the 3rd July, and any peti tions against the bill would have to be presented within seven days after that date. The dock bill,hati been thrown out by the committee. The corporation, he thought, had gone a long • way to meet the views and wishes of their Liverpool opponents. They had agreed to the erection of a large landing stage, besides the building of a dock on the south reserve, to meet the interests ( f the railway companies, both of which would have been hi g hly beneficial to the trade on that side of the water; but notwithstanding these concessions the bill was thrown out. He hoped, however, that the corporation, who were empowered by the act of last session to expend 500 000 on the docks, would proceed with the deepen ing of the great float, the building of the walls, and the erection of the outer works, so far as they could consistently with the works afterwards to be con structed, and that they. .would endeavour to get the railway people and other parties interested to join together to adopt a plan that m;ght be carried out. He did not think that the people of Birkenhead, providing they saw the corpnration were earnestly endeavouring to carry out a plan that would be advantageous to the town ship, would enforce any plan that would be detrimental to the interests of the board; but they were entitled to see, and Birkenhead had a right to expect, that the cor poration would take some steps to go on with that part of the works which would be common to any plan that must hereafter be adopted. After what had occurred in Parliament, and from the opinions expressed by many members of the corporation, he had no doubt the works would go on. So far as the Commissioners of Birkenhead and the people were concerned, they would render every assistance in carrying out some practical plan which would be beneficial to the trade and interests of the port of the Mersey. ex, e _ "an e intercourse with the working classes,impresses mi " l th th e b elief that, of all the gent l emen o f our large com• bi Iln itY, no one is more qualified to arrange the presen ; fort unate differences existing between the L ondon and °4ll- %estern R a il w ay Board, and their late staff of clerks 4ttm porters. 1 : no flattery to say that you enjoy more of the reg ard 4 4 , tucfidenee of the working people of Liverpool than any i ue r citiz en o f our l arge popu l a ti o n ; and, therefore, I am )e ratied th a t, possessing in an equal measure the esteem tl g en re gard of your compeers in wealth and station , no e•nah could undertake the office of mediator with equal than 7 cf s of a h appy term i na ti on . u t ,, ° in duce you to undertake this mission of mercy , it is 4 4 -eees eary to recount the numerous public acts which endeared you to the inhabitants of Liverpool, and /ou r 048 interpo s iti on on the present occasion will be clawed amongst the most meritorious of your life. h under th e conv i c ti on that those hard working men, ending out for some distinct pledge of security, would d th • -t41.411 Y submit to y o ur award. Their unlimited cond -ee in your honour and friendly feeling towards them, • °llld be a material guarantee for their immediate acquies cence _ la any arrangemen t you may enter into, on their behalf, With the London Board. I fear very much that bride h as much to do, on both sides, to prevent a reconci atioh. Pants, Sunday.—The ifoniteur hastens to inform the alarmed protectionists that their fears are groundless. The government in deciding that the rescinded prohibitions shall be proposed to the Corps Legislatif has assumed that they will be replaced by duties largely protective to national industry. The new tariffs, it says, have all been framed with this view. To this end the government Welt will propose to increase the duties-on certain articles. FIRE AND Loss or THREE LIVES.-011 Sunday MOM• ing, at about two o'clock, a fire broke out on, the premises occupied by Mr. Solomons, clothier and dealer; No. 2. Leman•street, Whitechapel, London. The flames spread so rapidly that though the Royal Society's fire escape arrived in a few minutes, three children (Priscilla Solomons, aged ten ; Sarah Solomons, ~aged seven; and Benjamin .Solomons,' aged four), were burnt to death: Mrs. Solomons sustained severe injuries in jumping from the first floor window. A girl, eight years old, a daughter of Mrs. Solomons, also jumped from the same window, and having been caught by a woman named Sadler, escaped unhurt. Charlotte Trustee, the servant maid, had a narrow escape. About a quarter of an • hour previous to the outbreak she was awoke by the barking of the house do g , and got out of bed . to go down stairs, but the noise ha vin g ceased, sherett d to rest again, and having fallen as lee p , was only awakened by the scalding water whic h fell from the burning rooms above, after the engines had been some time at work. She managed to get down into the kitchen, and called to the firemen, who tore up the window grating and rescued the girl from a depth of two feet of water. The s . r, To THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. property was insured in the West of England and Sun den . --- a. ° wing to the strike of the clerks, porters, breaks- offices. The cause of the fire is unknown. Cean n 'ts‘ e . , of the Leaden and North-Western Railway FORGERY AND Escape OF THE Par,ONER.—On Monday, ha tst trY, the merchants, shareholders, tradesmen, &c.. Richard Moore, clerk to Mr. Walker, town clerk of liiar 3 , l3 4 : i e n ,euffered greatly both in a mercantile and pecu- Wolverhampton, was charged before the local magis ‘o hl arn t. of view. I would, therefore, ask who are most (rates with forgery, in a security granted to the Rev. arks_ e in this case —the directors or the men ? The Thomas Edwards, Wesleyan minister of Walsall, by the That Whatever be th e men , a nd th e reason given as follows : W o lverham p ton Local Board of Health, signing the rear e „.atever were their grievances, if they were not recei p t at the back of such security. The magistrates andnietu, they should have further memorialised the Baard committed the prisoner for trial, but admitted him to the gym h ave struck work, as that was not the way to gain hail. 'The prisoner promised that substantial bail would No. nen t ) , a till of the merchants or the public. This is good be obtained, and was permitted to remark in the cus. n „'„, an one side of the question, but let us have both torly of the police during the day, and at night was t ae 'sad a; ;;`" then draw the conclusion. The grievances of the under the care of Joseph Sparrow, a parish constable. the iota e t that the directors in July, 1853, agreed that all As the cells contained no sleeping accommodation, the the Introduction , e illPloyed should have 245. per week. But since prisoner was allowed to spend his nights at the Garrick's n() ° ,retlon of Mr. Carter, three men had received the H ea d, Sparrow remaining with him in the room all the ea t ,i;?7 , and dismissed accordingly, but were told at Di m. .On Friday morning, about five o'clock, a police- Per Nsel i tt "on of that notice that they could remain at 21s. man w a s entering the station, when Sparrow, who was gr'e 1 n „,• Now, these men were considered competent and in his shirt sleeves at the window of the room were week. at 21s per week, but'not good men at 245. per Moore slept, called out to him that the prisoner lead the enti N ow these grievances could have been redressed , to escaped One end of a towel was tied to the two sash of £r9 tir e satisfaCticia of the men, for a pecuniaiy difference cords, and a piece of cord was attached to the other, with t20. 0 , 3 V week, or for forty years it would only amount to a knot at the end. A descent effected by such means thes e land, I Presume, the loss already sustained during must be exceedingly perilous. Sparrow says he locked las tveald , t few days will amount to double that amount. You the room door on the previous night, and put the key their that all this would not justify the men leaving into his pocket, where he found it on a wakin g in the 0194 'g ' l l; but how long did the men wait after presenting morning, when the prisoner was gone , the door of the o orial before they received a hearing P why, from room remained locked.—A raj:fords/tire 4,dvertistr. ea Ir, of , I r, station, and unlimited command, with the hab it a — o puoit obedience to their simplest orders, restrain the ta etn " Perhaps justly so—from making any, overtures to di sini ,! l _7. , Real, or supposed danger of reduced wages, and th e 0 7 1 in detail, after retiring from their . work, th e b `mer party from making the concessions expected . by le ac i",ailway Board. One word from you might possibly th en '' a pacific settlement of the entire question. Pray, 'lift er : l : e Your good offices to restore order —to reconcile their - "eas—to reinstate the men in the good opinions of floo r ern PloYers—to restore the families of many of those th e i r '''ell to the enjoyment of those scanty comforts which and ; emplo atioyment secured them—to allay the excitement and trlitn which the " turn out" has already produced, tow:lea-establish that peace and tranquility for which our at i d „ as been remarkable, even in seasons of pinching trials res,°evere privations.—Esteemed sir. I remain yours, most "etfull J 4 A PORTER's FRIEND. June 23 , 1856, remanded. TILE FORTUNE TELLER AND THE PETTICOAT. — Kennedy, charged Bridget Grirson, with haVing stolen £l6 lOs in gold f r om .her. The story told by the coni plainant, caused considerable " fun "in court. She said her husband is a rich old pensioner, (she is a young looking woman, of 'rather handsome face,) and that by dint of good management she had saved up about 25 sovereigns. Some time ago, she and her husband had a " few words," and during the discussion that took place, a fair haired young man was mentioned. Her husband then took out £5 lOs of her savings, and spent it.. When he had no more, he came home and repented, beg ing her pardon, and vowing, if she forgave him, never to do the like again. She did forgive him. After this, the prisoner, who knew of the occurrence, advised her tosew up the remainder of the money in the folds of her petti coat,-which advice she obeyed, bat the end of that pro ceeding was, the prisoner cot triVed to make away with the under garment, which contained the golden treasure in its folds. The prisoner, when asked what she had to sty, told a curious story about a visit which Mrs. Kennedy (the complainant) paid to a gentleman, who told fortunes, for the small charge of is Od. That cele bratedintlividnal, after an awful smell of brimstone bad been perceived, spoke about a fair haired man. Mr, Kennedy, at that (continued the prisoner) became out rageous, and swore that the lady must have lost the money whilst under the effects of drink, and he prayed most sincerely that some poor man or woman, who wanted the: money, bid got it, instead .of the fair haired man. After a laughable scene about the fortune teller and the petticoat; the prisoper•wasidiseharged, as the evidence against her was "not deemed suf f icient. IMPORTANT TO PAWNBRORERS.—A well dressed girl, about 17 years of age, named Ellen M'Cartney, late a servant in the house of Mr. Smith, Faulkner-street, was charged with having stolen a quantity of valuable wear• ing apparel belonging to Mrs. Smith and another lady. Thegirl, who had been only a 'short time in the service, on Thursday tilorning last, at an early hour, deft the house, taking the property with her. Mr. Smith com plained of the conduct of three pawnbrokers, viz., Mr. Mason, of AfarybOne„ Mr. • MeadoWS, of Fontenoy.streeti and Mr. Fishwiek, Tithebarri-street, and he trusted the bench would ,take the conduct of those persons into con- Sideratien. Mr. Smith observed that the robbery had taken place on Thursday, morning, that he had got bills printed, fully describing the property, and the appearance and name of the girl who had committed it ; that oil Friday, all the pawnbrokers in Liverpool were served with the notices, cautioning • them on the subject, and that after this, (on the Saturday) the three pawnbrokers, now before the court, had taken in the property in pledge from the girl herself, and in her own name, although the notice was before them at the time, with a full description of the property, of the girl, and her name. Mr. Mason admitted the fact, but excused his conduct, by saying he was not at home when the notice was left at his shop. Mr. Meadows also admitted the fact, but said he overlooked it, as the girl was so apparently respect. able. Mr. Smith (the owner of the property) said there ere three persons taking in the very goods described in the notice, and from the girl described in it also, and whose name was set forth, and who gave her name when pledging the property she had stolen ; he thought the conduct of the pawnbrokers something more than reprehensible. Mr. Aiken said this is a very serious matter as affecting the pa*nbrokers. I am bound to say, that there would be very few robberies committed in Liverpool, if the pawnbrokers were more careful. Instead of being careful, however, they assist robberies, by the facilities they give to thieves in the disposal of stolen property, and in this way a great deal of crime is committed. (Mr. Meadows, interrupting—she looked so respectable, sir.) Here is a robbery that takes place on Thursday morning, the notices are served on the Pawnbrokers on Friday, and on Saturday, the third day after the robbery, the property is received in pledge, although the pawnbrokers had due notice of Lis a very bad case indeed on their part, and if I had the power of inflicting a greater punishment on them, than ordinary, the restoration of the property without any payment, I certainly would do so. I regret I have not that power. In such cases, the pawnbrokers are more culpable than the actual robbers, and I hope my obser vations will go forth to the public, by means of the press, so as to deter pawnbrokers from such practices. I order the property, in this case, to be restored without Lny payment, and I remand the girl for seven days, with ,he view of getting her into a reformatory. EXTRAORDINARY CASE, OF ROBBERY AT SE A.—Detec ;lye Officer Carlyle, brougbt up a young man of very Y,entlemanly appearance, whose name appeared on the charge sheet as John Kemp Lucy, on a charge of having ;Olen nearly 500 dollars in gold and silver, the property of Captain M‘Burley, master of the British ship Admiral, under the following strange circumstances. From the evidence of the captain, it appeared that the ship was at New Orleans, where the prisoner came to him, and wanted a passage to Liverpool for himself and wife, eying he had no money, but that if he gave him a pas age, he would pay after half an hour of his arrival in Liverpool, as he would get the money from his father mere. The captain refused the application, and then he : prisoner paid 75 dollars for his wife's passage, and he witness agreed to take him. 'The cabin clock stop )ed about ten or twelve days after the ship sailed, and he prisoner hung up his watch in the cabin to keep the Lime. One morning the watch was missed, and it was alleged by the prisoner, that some of the men who had access to the cabin had stolen it. In one of the drawers of the captain's cabin, the sum of money already men tioned had been placed, and when the captain's-wife heard of the watch being stolen, she examined the drawer, and discovered the money was gone. The men were all searched, and every part of the ship, but the money was not found. The captain did not Suspect the prisoner, as he represented himself as respectable, and said he had been a ship captain himself; and of course (added the captain) as he sat at my table I had every confidence in him. He offered to be searched, but I refused, as I could not imagine he would do it.. Other persons suspected him, but I did not. Detective officer Carlyle salt' he had searched • all the men belonging to the ship, and the ship itself, but could not get the money. He was at the vessel on - Sunday, when the prisoner came with £l6 lOs in gold to pay the captain for his passage. He told Carlyle that his father, who resided at No. 22, Christian-street, Everton, had given him the money. Carlyle went there, -when the father denied having given him any more than £l. Carlyle then arrested the prisoner, who, after some time, took him to his father's house, and putting his hand up the chimney, pulled down the bag and the money belonging t o the captain, and also the prisoner's own watch, which he had alleged during the voyage had been stolen. The money corresponded exactly with the amount; and was of the same coin as that belonging to the captain, and the latter swore positively to the bag which contained it. .The prisoner refused to say anything, and he was remanded to this day, previous to his committal for The life and death of William Palmer furnished too obvious and easy a thenie for the painting of a moral, to be neglected by the Press or the pulpit. Superfluous as it may seem to many minds to waste any time in striving to give additional warning effect to a career which, of all others in our age, most plainly carries its moral along with it, there was still much in the life of Palmer, from 'which lessons as important may be sought out, which do not lie so open to the day. The crimes which closed that career, need no further notice than a simple and general expression of abhorrence, such as that which, in past generations, was embodied is the custom requiring every passing hand to fling a stone upon the grave of the murderer. But the writer and the preacher can do much by tracing out the remote causes of that result, which all have witnessed. A public meeting was held on Saturday at the London Tavern, under the presidency of Mr. Roebuck, rit.pi, the new chairman of the Administrative Reform Association, for the purpose of inaugurating that gentleman into office. Mr. Roebuck, in addressing the meeting, said: We have called and together in the hope of obtaining your co-ee ration and sympathy, for we are about a public w' and in performing a public work It is absolutely resume e that the peblic shorild ceetipera , e. (Hear, hear.) 'We have stood byand have seep the interests of .the empire sacrificed because we have not had the magnanimity, industry, or courage to interfere. (Cheers.) We are chiefly to blame for this—men, if you place them in an irresponsible position; will act as irresponsible men always do—for their own interests, and not for the public good. You have stood by, you have seen then things happen, and you have cried aloud, but have not acted. It behoves the people of this country to take an active part in the management of their own national concerns , asleep, (Cheers.) This can only be done by showing fully alive to what is happening, and by showing your selves ready at all times to 'visit with punishment any dereliction of duty on the nart ef those who represent you. (Cheers.) It is idle to talk of administrative reform, unless you are ready to have Parliamentary re form. (Loud cheers.) You have a House of Commons which is in effect the sovereign power. In that house you ha.ve by your apathy allowed the government of the country to lie in the hands of some half a dozen families of the land. (Cheers.) I see theth night by night oneshalf ranged on one side of a green table, and the ether half upon the other side. I find among them party fights am' individual feelings, but I do not see the interests.of En , land predominant. Then, I ask, who is to blame for tie , I unhesitatingly reply—you are to me the representatives You are unworthy the name of freem Op to the obliesetioes which it lift , r' cat you do so ? I think we , it. You are to try to affect the noose of Commons cannot awakenin the present state of the public mine recognition of the ireportance of Parliamentary reform Now, in that house, Which is alter' the people, what occurs when a reform is proposed? They say, has got his crotchet Well, poor man, let him he crotchet. The thing passes over, they put him it, minority, and there is an end of him. Though they do not love Parliamenty reform, they are very keenly alive td their own seats, and if you can affect them through that reale yOu will affect theni very vitally. (a laugh), and you wilt Create ail that enthusiasm which you now see has so utterly departed' froni theiii. Now how Can this be done? I have seen in the House of Commons this phenomenon. I have seen the Government Of the country maintaining itself in power by a- very small majority, and at that time I have always found that there was a set of gentlemen who stood apart and made much of theMselves. They had not made up their minds, and did not know how tee* were going to vote. They wanted to be courted. I recolleCt one of these waiters upon Providence was suddenly seized with' a large amount of virtue, and hose was that overcome ? flow was the yielding _goodness of the man made to follow his own private interests ? Sim ply by giving him an invitation to the Queen's ball. (A. laugh.) Now what is often done for bad purposes can be sometimes used for good. In every constituency there are two.great parties, but in Many there is a third, like the waiters upon Providence, whom haVe seen; a body of really intelligent, well-intentioned, thoroughly horteSt men, who, if they have not the power of returning a member to Parliament, have sometimes the power of turning one out. Now if these men would combine—if they could say "We will not support either side. Mr. So-and-so, who has called himself a Liberal, is a sham—he has not done his duty, and we do not intend to return him," the Mr. So-and so would discover the consequences ; he would be turned out of his seat, and his successor would understand that he might be in exactly the same predicament at the next time of election. By this means you create in the minds of the re p res entatives a feeling of responsib ilit y . If you had in every town in the country a small knot of men such as these, you would he able through them to influence the House 01 Commons. It is to this that I have directed . the atten tion of the Administrative Reform Association. We intende--we hope to be able to reform the administration of this country through the •influence of the House of Commons ; and in that House we intend to attempt to obtain-influence. (Hear, hear.) 'Not the influence of cor ruption, but the influence of mind—(hear, hear) —the Arrival for the week ending July 2, last year, 633 casks, and de influence of an organisation starting from a centre livery, 2,059 casks. The arrivals last week cordarised 2,034 casks here in London, and radiating in every part of from Russia, 687 from South America, and 63 front other places.— Great Britain and Ireland, and by which We hope to act Total, 2,789 casks. °Lsoes speak P .—The accounts from Worcester, and parts of Kent u pon the constituencies of the kin g dom, who are of fly and lice bein% on the increase . , The market , e ventually the governors of this countr y . ( Hear; hear, a erro for coloury samples, hilt there is not much doing in low sorts• and cheers.) We have called you together to see whether Duty, :€160,000. we have your co-operation, sympathy , and support, in this Coax.—Tbe arrivals of foreign wheat and flour during the past great undertaking in which we are now engaged. (Cheers.) week have been only moderate, and the supply of English wheat In this manner we will rid the country of imbecile from Essex and Kent this morning was vet) , short.MAnreadys suat government—of government formed on the principles of was experienced at 21 to 3s per qr advar:.ce :it h t p a on ilianstrovo,:oa,yit' of( s pursuing the interests of the governing parties, and not t t a o ti 2 7s, or and . fo r q r i e Xbe w s li t e t a :w w n as madea; t ny : an •n p held for 68s per seek; that of the people at large. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The Norfolk flour, r 52s to 53a ; American bane's, from 404 to 445. Bar. Administaative Reform Association will hold you up as ley continues scarce, and must be noted is per qr dearer. Oats were what you have often been said to be—the envy of sur- taken freely by dealers and con.umers at is more money. Beans rounding nations. They will seek for you that which, as and peas were firm at late rives. Arrivals into London frons luxe is the inhabitants of a great and civilised state, you are ell- to June l 21 4 - 2 C s3 oasrviseo,stEsngl i l i B sh q77; be e :11% 3 2 0 5 8 7 9 (IT I tio ar u l r e , Y, l,7% titled to—theright to take in your own hands your own qrs ; malt, a S t Cotee.-1 1 .1a g rine 17 , qrs, malt, g 70 qr ' s ; oats , r 48 qrs. Irish• great national concerns, so as to conduct those concerns to —Harley, 334 qrs ; malt, qrs ; oats, 840 qrs. Fo rei g n.—Wheat, the greatest happiness of the g reatest number of p eo p le. 4,002 qs ; bailey, 1.600 qrs; oats, 9, 6 / 9 qrs; beans, 1 830 gra; (Loudcheers.) flour, 4,411 brls, '1,252 sacks. Eastern Counties Railway.—Wheat , Mr. Morley moved the following resolution:—" The 4,472 qrs ; barley, 592 qrs ; malt ,5 079 qrs ; oats, 127 qr n s; beans, 167 exigencies oe the present time, and the singular incapacity ir h ,J t ea r. s 4o 2l qr.s barley, is Gr o r l eat i.; N o o m r t t . h , e i r 27,l ll . lately shown by the various departments of the Govern- 12 gm: flour, 2.244 sacks. 7:xp'or,ed.—Wheat, 1,270 qrs; oats, a lO ineut render it the imperative duty of the people ,to take qrs; peas. 10 qrs ;fl mr, 179 eets. an active part in the management of the national affairs, (e t - r ms.—l he number o f beasts Is much smaller than on Monday in the hope of introducing therein the energy, honesty, and last, consequently althaugh trade is not very brisk, r t ices have o intelligence that ought to distinguish the administration of again advanrdoffrooreeFridonavd. ;I:heerenirsoatirhaercofnosrldoelrlaidoeonarllplntron7. a great and civilised people." Having read the resolution, in ratliteeissurinsVer heavy for lam p bs ic at s id calves g at about Friday's quota- I am anxious that it should be understood what are the eons. From Germany and Holland there are 84 beasts, 450 sheep, grounds upon which we are goi n g to p roceed. We allege and 176 calves. Scale , 29 beasts ; Scotland, 250 ; No,folk and that last year—mind 1 use the words advisedly— Suffolk, 2,1 , 00; and 200 from the Northern and Midland counties. many thousands of our countrymen were sacrificed oas Bts at market, 3,357 ; she e p and lambs, 19,270 calves, 253; pip, through the miserable—the abominab le inca p acit y of men 425. who utterly failed us in the hour of need. (Hear, hear.) We allege that every department of the State is abomina bly mismanaged in _business affairs; and we believe that money and family interests have worked ruinous effects. (Hear, hear.) In fact, this system of nepotism is ruining the country ; and to rid us of it we want men in the House of Commons who will take the course suggested by the chairman. (Hear, hear.) Then, coming. to . our military system, of which recent events enable us to speak, take the case of such men as the Earl of Lucan and Lord Car digan, and compare it with that of General Williams of Kars. (Cheers.) Had Lords Lucan and Cardigan, and the son of the Earl of Aberdeen, been the sons of any common persons, does any man suppose we should have ever heard anything of the Chelsea Inquiry. (Cheers, and hear, hear.) What we administrative reformers insist upon is that, justice should be done to all parties. The mode of action will be this :—We shall keep a ledger account of the doings of every member of the House of Commons, and we shall " post up ' every vote and every incident that will betoken the motive of each vote. An abstract of a mem ber's account will be sent to any party who may require it for the purpose of information. (Laughter.) We shall get into correspondence with constituents, and furnish them them with facts that will enable them to decide whether their representatives has done his duty. How ever, I may assure the meeting that it' is not our intention to dictate, but we intend _ to thwart the Coppocks, the Parkes, the Bereefords, and gentle men like them, and to give the great mass of the People information ou the parliamentary conduct of their representatives. We will give information to all, and not confine it to the doings of those on the opposition benches. (Hear, hear.) It might, indeed, be better that many of our liberal members were for a year or so on the opposi tion benches ; for there are men on the ministerial benches who, if the people respond to our call, will, before long, cease to be on them. (Hear, hear.) This, sir, shall be our course and proceeding, and, if assisted by the people, I have no doubt we shall succeed in achieving the greats object which the Administrative Reform Association has in view. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Gassiot seconded the resolution, and said : Sir, I am one of those who took an early part in this movement; which, I think, was called fer, if only from the fact that one third of the persons who presented themselves for appointment in the civil service could not write, and were destitute of the ordinary information that would make them eligible for a junior position in a merchant's office. (Hear, hear.) Yet, sir, such persons had influence to procure them such situations in the public departments. (Hear, hear.) When first this aseociation was established some hirelings of the Government went round the City to enquire into the private affairs of Mr. Morley, Mr. Tra vers, and myself, I have no apprehension as to the result of any enquiry of the kind. If my character would not bear examination should I have had the impudence to stand here before you as I have done ? What I complain of is, the smallness, the paltriness of the conduct on the part of the Government. Whether it was done for the purpose of driving us away from the association or nottel do not know, but if i t be so, it had precisely the opposi effect, and it was the cause of my remainine ss ith the association, because I felt that if a merchant of London thinks proper to go out of his ordinary duties, and stand forward in a public assembly, he must do it, because his character will bear examination. Ido not intend to leave the association, and especially when I find that we have now with us a gentleman who is a statesman by education. (Cheers.) I know that one of the newspapers stated that our honourable chairman was sent among us by Lord Palmerston in order to smother the association. (A. laugh.) That is not my opinion, and all I can say is that if it was my duty before to connect myself with the association, I feel still more bound to remain with it now that we have the assistance of our honourable chairman. No one has ever ventured to say one word against his' honeety. Mr. Roebuck is'that rare avis, an honest 'politician ; I give to himnay most , cordial adherence, and my only regret is that I cannot render him a more able and efficient sup port. (Cheers.) Mr. Travers, in supporting the resolution, said that under the newly modified arrangements of the association he had cheerfully consented to act as finance secretary. He had received already offers Of 100 guineas each from the twelve gentlemen who gave the same amount last year, and he should he glad to receive. the names of any other gentlemen who were disposed to follow their excellent example. There were two features in connection with the new arrangements with which he was greatly pleased, and that was their permanence and elasticity they could go on with' an income of .£5OO a year, and they could expend most advantageously 250,000. (Ch eers. ) Mr. Lyne • wished - to know whether the association would turn its attention to the necessity which existed for the establishment of a chamber of 'commerce in the city of Loudon.. (A laugh ) Mr. Roebuck : We shall find fault with everybody who deserves censure. (te laugh.) -The resolution was then unanimously agreed to. Mr. lamb Bell then moved a tote of thanks to the SPORTING INTELLIGENCE --.0.--- TAT LATEST BETTING N(JUTHUMEMRLAND PLATE. 7 to 2 agst Kinz of Scotland 5 .. 1 Cannobie toffered) 6.. 1 .. Puck (taken! 10 .. 1 Warlock (taken) 10 1.. Zeta (offered) GOODWOOD STAKES. 14 to 1 apt Swyndal llyhhia (taken) _ ...... GOODWOOD CUP 8 to 1 agat Cannotne (taken) DERBY 15 to 1 apt Goldfinch 25 .. 1 .. Blink Bonny 30 .. l .. Tournament 33 1 Zuyder Zee 33 1.. Sprm of Shillelagh 50 .. 1 .. Western Puwer SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE LIVERPOOL, JUNE 24 WIND YESTKRDAY—North West, ...- - HIGH WATER—Morn., 3 13 —Eveg. 3 40 —Height, 14 ft. 1 in ARRIVED. June 22.—Afrin (R.M.S.), Richard Robinson, and Wells, New York —Janet ritblado, Pernambuco—Laurel, Cadiz—Nabob, Jane, Juventa, and Carlyle, New Orleans— Eliida, Kal un borg—Patrarch. Bombay—SJphiana, Rio llache—Phnix, Cuba —Vm .oly. Calcutta 23. —Pelican (s.s.), R •tterdain—Corinth,cean (s.s.), Trieste. June Caravan, New York Veteran, Quebec Gui hermina, Lisbon Garland, Jamaica. OUTPOSTS. Belfast', June 23.—Arrived —Ma garet, Itiga. Greenock, June 21.—Arrived —Glasgow (s.s.), Marseilles. June 22 —Ursula (s.s.), Malta and Gibraltar—Armand, New York. June 23.—Cora, Ph lad Iph a—Stirling, New York. Silted, June 21. Hebe, Newfoundland —Emily (s.e.), Gibraltar and Malta. 11IARITIME EXTRACTS. L'verpool. June 23.—The Africa (R.AI .S.), Shannon, arrived from New York, left on the 11 , h inst. She has 993,920 dots and £230 in English silver, of which 364,0)0 dols are for Havre. Belfast, June 23.—The Port, of Maryport, reported as being off Mill island, after discharging part of cargo under the direction of Mr. Fitzsimons, and having rudder temporarily secured, has been brought u o to this port. Courant, Gray, hence at Plymouth for New York, leaky. Two rocks were se,n about four feet above water in lat. 31 N., lon. 35 W. by the NevA, arrived at Flush in g Roads. Halifax, 10.—The Pallas, Spillman, from Cork to Quebefromc, w as wrecked at St. Paul's , M a y 30 ; 72 lives lost.—The Nereus Malaga to Boston, went on shore at White Bead, Jun e 3, and g ot off next day, leaking badl,r. New York, June 11.—The cargo (corn in bags) landed from the Vermont, which put into Newport leaky, on her passage from Bald more to Cork, has been surveyed and found to be entire.y ruined. 'the assaa leas been abandoned.—Te British schooner Le Met- chant p , dism g asted and w...terlogged, was boarded, May 25, in lat. 42, by the Azov, arrived at Boston. FOREIGN PORTS lueonia, Bodiker, from Moulmein ; and Mary Ann, Harrison, from Akyab—both at St. Helena. Abbots Reading, Walsh, from Chinchas at Havre. Saline, Petit. hence at Antwerp. Union, Schooten, hence at Ostend. Ariel sailed from Flushing Roads for Liverpool June 18. Fairy Queen, Sims, hence; and Meteor, Hite, from Hong Kong— both at Adel lide. Albert ELward sailed from Adelaide for Newcastle, N.S.W.. March 7. James Foster, jun., Porter ; Oceitt Rover, Pickering; and Emerald Isle, Cornish—all hence at New York. L a dy pew, Moon, from Bermuda at Savana Tory, Livin ;t.too, sailel from Sydney f , r Guam, March 11. _ William Prowse, Williams, fro n Au c kland at,tiewca stie, N.s .W. Barnes,Ttong did, hence at New Orleans. E. Bulk-ley,' hence IA Charleston. City of Toronto, hence at Montreal. Adelaide, Bowden, f rom Q ue bec at Gaspe, for London, towed in dismasted. BIRTH. On the 17th inst., at Warrenside, New Brighton, the wife of William Hughes llaui.t. Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. . _ On the 18th lost at St. Peter's Church, by the Mr. Duncan. Alice, eldest daughter of Mr. A, M'Conkbe, of this town, to Mr. Charles H Clayton, of Liverpool. On the Igth hist., at the Parish Church, Preston, by the 'Rev. Canon Parr, AI A., Mr. it. W. Dobson, of Preston, to El zabe'h. daughter of the late Mr. W. BulcJck, of Ribbleton House, near Preston. o,a Wright,the 22:n1 inst., at Christ Church, Evertcn. by the Rev. W. H. Mr. John Day, to Miss Ann Allerton, both of EVelrtoll. DEATHS. On the 20th iost , zt the East Cuff, Preston, Martin, the wife of Captain German, 3rd Royal lat.eash , re Afil,tia,and the only daughter of the late Henry Parser, Whittingham Hou.e, near Preston. On th , 3 21st inst., Barbara 111sriii, aged 21 yea a, wite of Robert W. Preston, of Newbie-terrace, Liverpool. 03 HirthS* MftrattgeS, and Deaths, are only inserted when sent $4 bor OPlce duly autbsnticatod, THE NORTHERN TIMES.---Li VERPOOL I _TUESDAY. the 6th J une to the 17th June. This surely gave the directors sufficient time for consideration, and it is my firm opinion that the serious consideration they gave, was how they could best be prepared for all emergencies that might follow—such as a strike—for they obtained all the clerks and men that could possibly be spared from all the various stations on their own and other lines, to supply the Liver pool stations with a staff, in order that they would be able to do without all the old hands, and not to consider our just grievance at all. Now, during those ten days we were waiting, not only with anxious expectation that we should receive that redress to our grievances set forth in the memo rial, but it required all the moral influence of the delegates in preventing a strike long• before the time appointed for the directors coming down to Liverpool, in which theywere success ful. I would like an answer to the following questions . Is 245. per week too large a remuneration for 13 hours laborious work ? Is 21s. per week too large a remuneration for i 2 hourb' laborious work ? POLICE COURT .-YESTERDAY BEFORE MR. AIKEN. THE ROBBERY AT THE DUBLIN Housn.—Matthew Carroll and John Boland, were brought up on remand, charged with haying robbed Thomas Gibney, in the publichouse of Mr. Henderson, Chisenhale-street: The frets of this case were published in yesterday's Paper. Tile charge was grine into again, but as there was some doubt about the Matter, the prisoners got the benefit of it, and were discharged. SOME OF THE GERMAN LEGION IN TROIJBLE.--TWO men, belonging to the 3rd Jagars, German Legion, named Adam Sindle and Joseph Roberts, charged two females, named Elizabeth Simpson and Elizabeth Rigliy„ with habiog•robbed them of about £37 in a house- No. 77,,Frederick-street. It appeared that -on Sunday night, the men (who are on their way to Canada, being a portion of the German Legion,) went into the house in question, and called for some wine, and after some time they lost their money, which chiefly consisted of bank notes, and in order to Ore the police an oppor tunity tit looking after the notes, the' prisoners were With either of these conditions the men are perfectly satis fied,"blit they were told there could be no agreement ou behalf of the directors to either of these proposals. Now, with regard to the grievances of the clerks that the Beale of-salaries, as agreed to, arid prepared utter a mature consideration of tho directors in 1853, should not be stopped, as vice ',were inforroed such would be the case upon the arrival of Mr. Carter or, is it fair that the cm• pany should require written testimonials from all clerks previous to their appointment, and upon retiring from their service a written testimonial should be withheld, it being their important passport to obtain other No doubt, a reduction of Sarah tuations ? acaff was intended upon Mr. Carter's appointment, and he may have been more hasty than cautious in that reduction, and more stringent in the eiercise :Jul, than his predecessor. Was this good policy it the commencement of his career ? for, look at the large —.sent, and cost to de company by the work not of his cent lyexecuted, which must entail Very serious in claims for compensation, &e., and let it be understood that a majority of the outgoing e:erke duties are now being done by, high-salaried clerks from various stations. With these few remarks, I will leave the conclusion to be drawn by the mercantile community and the public.—l aro, sir, your obedient servant. A CLERK, Liverpool, Jun 23,1856 I THE STRIKE Off' I'ACTORY OPERATIVES AT PRESTON. BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS Bold-street, stated that the " Captain" called at that shop, and ordered goods to the amount of £3 12s. These were to be sent 'to the hotel, but the result was the same as in the last. Mr. Davis, of Castle street, stated the " Captain " honoured him with a visit, and ordered two shirts for himself and four for his ' father, whom be said was " Captain Francis ;" that they were going to dinner, and occupied about an hour a , that Meal. He oider it the goods to be gent to the hotel at four o'clock Witness went to the hotel, and on asking for the " Captain," the people laughed at him, and asked him, " If he had been done, too ?" but lie replied, " Not yet:" In reply to Mr. Block, the witnesses said they had nit_ list anything. The pro prietor of the Commercial Hotel was examined, and proved his utter, ignoranee of the " Captain." The prisoner. was remanded for seven days, in order to give the police an opportunity of making an enquiry about him. yourselves for upon this occasion you of the people of England. (Cheers.) now ou a mode of doing represeTitations - of "There is ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM ASSOCIATION. c he meetinhairman for g the ability with which he had presided over t. Mr. Mechi seconded the vote most cordially. (Hear, hear.) He would not occupy the time of the meeting by any lengthened remarks ; but he thought that no merchant would like his private affairs conducted in the way the affairs of this country were administered, and that the work of the Administrative Reform Association was a mlst useful one. (Hear.) Mr T. Wall (seer , Testimonial) - expressk tare to the Working Men's Hume his concurrence_ in the vote opinion of Mr. Roebuck's services in -6x pressingilis our of the PeolY resolution, which was carried amid loud and long. Mr. Roebuck this as the first day of the second year of the Administrative Reform Association. I think we set out with favouring gales—With your approbation ; and I believe we shall carry the good ship safely into port. (Loud cheers) Do not you be inactive ;do not you be - because you think we are awwie. (Cheers.) Keep your eyes upon us ; keep yonr eyes upon the. House of Commons ;.and depend upon it, the moment the people exert themselves, tliEir representatives will be worthy of them: Illear, hear, and loud - cheers.) The meeting then separated. TRADE REPORT I ONDAT LIVERPOOL. COTTON.—The market continues very steldy, the thout transaction* hsime been fair, and wi th an am p le supply. prices are wi change; The sales—including 80 Pernambuens iifd to 6id, 130 Bahias 6idi 6 0 Eg .pti ins did to Bd, 7i 0 Surats 40 to 4.3 d —are reported 9,000 ba'es, of which 3.500 are on speculation and tor export. SUGAR —There has been more enquiry, and full prices have been realised ; the business comprises 130 bhds Barbed.). a at 46s to 47s 6d 80 hhds Jamaica at 44s to 480, besides a large cargo Antigua, consisting of 800 hhds now lancbng at an average of 453, 500 bags Bengal at 40s to 424..400 mats Mauritius at 415 64 to 464. WO tore! unclayed Mani'la at 2;s 6d, and AO c .ses, 1,150 bags Bahia to arrive at 27s 9d per cwt in bond f,om the quay. • MoLasses.-270 puncheons dated Cuba (wrecked , and tragr shipped), so , d with a I faults by auction, realised 20s 3d to 20$ 6d per cwt for first-c ass damson: Rust.—About 60 puncheons Demerara are reported at previous prices. CoPFEß.—Nothing has occurred. Coco,i.-200 bags 'Fria .ad have brought 50s per cwt. Taa.—The Market is firm ; common col gots has been sold at gd per lb. Rtes.—We have to notice 1,200 bags yellow car go at Ss gd, 300 bass broken Bengral at 94 6d, and 1,i)00 bags Arra. an, last }ear's import, at los 6d prr cwt. SALTPETIII4.-500 bags Madras have been disposed of at 203. 6d per cat for 23 per cent refrzetion. JUTS.—We have a'so to repot 1,90 HEMP.-40 bales R" y £l2 nt 193. Jel2 tO .€l7 59 d pe ton SAGO FLOUR.-370 bag SOSLL nAC.-40 bags at 335. RAPESSNO.-3,w bags Calcutta at 50s to 52s per quarter. CATTLE.— We had an excellent demand for stock to-day, with little or no change in prices from those of last week, although the supply was considerably increased Of all kinds. The numbers at market were 1,352 beasts, 1 , 1,147 sheep and lambs. LONDON. The following sales are advertised for to-morrow:-=Sugar? 6OO hhds Wein India, 5,0")0 bags Mauritius, 2,000 bags Madras. and NO bags Bengal. Cocoa: 400 bags Trinidad. Rice; 2,500 bags. SUGAR.—There has been a fair amount of business &me sines Friday, including 2 :0 boxes of Havana afloat, Nos. 13 and 14, at 31. 64 to 329 for near c intinental portS. Mos. —A large business has been done since Friday, at paces which fully supported the advance of 3 d to 6d quoted ls t week. TSA.—Large public sales are declared for Wednesday, which SUS panda transactions by private contract. COTTON. eriCeS are supported with a limited business. Ot Ls—Seal, pale, .e4S; yellow, ae44 to £46; sperm. £lO4 to ..eli 6; cod, '&43 1 03 ; South Sea, pale, ; olive, Gallipoli, .e4£4 to .e5l ; Spanish and Sicily, to .e 45 lOs ; cocoa nut, 385 64 to 415 ; palm, 34a to 38; 6d; linseed, 3.3.4 63 to 345; rape, pale, SO; to 494 ; brown, 469. TALLOW.—Tho market is without animation at the subjoined quotations ; —Town tallow, 46s nett cash; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 46; 3d; June, 465; October to December, 475. PARTICULARS QF TALLO'W 1855. 1856. Stock on hand.-- . Delivery last week . Do. from Ist June. Arrival last week... Do. from Ist June Price Y.C. per cwt. Do/Kovrn.. .... 31,079 1 47,523 18,00 1,083 1 795 :2,122 3.f. , 36 , 4,993 4,829 2 401 2,789 4,805 5,200 52s 9cl 4gs Sd 52s 9d 48s 6d 1,615 644 3d 65s 6d BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD A CAUTION To ART7ltEßS.—deorge Morley, a watch case spring maker, was placed in the dock on a charge of having entered into a contract to do certain work, and had refused to do it. Mr. Bremner appeared for the plaintiffond Mr. Raffles, barrister, for the defendant. Mr. George Smith, of, the firm of Messrs. Smith, the -nsive Watch manufacturers,. of Hope-street, stated the defendant had entered into a contract on the of June, to complete 72 watch cases ; on the 14th r s ix of them were 'done. He then, after having ived his money, agreed to do 25 more by the follow - ' .g week. It appeared that instead of fulfilling his contract, he went to London, and entered into the employment of another person, where he was appre hended, and brought t') this town. By an act passed in the reign of George IV., it is provided that any person having entered into the service, and absented himself before the termination of his. contract, is liable to three months' imprisondient. Mr. Raffles raised a legal objection, but betore the worthy magistrate had decided the point, the defendant agreed to go back to his employ ment, if he was forgiven ; consequently, the Messrs. Smith withdrew the charge. Mr. Mansfield, however, observed that there was no doubt but that the defendant had rendered himself liable to punishment for not having finished the first six watches. 7th c only rece REV. J. B. LOWE AS A. REVIEWER " Verax" observes that Mr. Lowe does not question the correctness of his quotation from vol. i. p. 95 of Michaelis's Introduetion to, the New Testament. Indeed Mr. Lowe could.not well. cavil at this quotation. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,- If Mr. Lowe did not quote Michaelis as in M. Lowe's favour, and proportionately against Macnaught on Inspira tion, then must Mr. Lowe's quotation have been, like SOIR3 other things of Mr. Lowe's, irrelevant. " Verax" observes that his letters and Mr. Lowe's are crossing one another. He will therefore give Mr. Lowe time to reply to that of " Verax" in this, morning's paper. " Verse notices that Mr. Lowe challenges for the name but " Verax' i has to do with things, and not with nanass only. If " Verax" needed the support of an authoritative name like that of ST. JUDES, there might be some sense in his gratifying Mr. Lowe's cariosity.—lloping for a reply, I remain, &C., VERAX. LITERATURE The Turf and lice Scaffold. A. Sermon delivered in St. Mark's Church, Liverpool, on the history of William Palmer, by the Rev. Wm. POLLOCK, M.A., Incumbent. Not where the crimes of Palmer culminated, but where they were first engenderer is tha point on which the moralist should fix his eye. The discourse before us seeks to ac complish something of this object. It is eloquent, earnest, and impressive—in some respects painfully and morbidly impressive. If one would criticise it closely, he must think its ppeals sometimes too obvionsly designed to startle and to horrify, and may feel some doubt whether exhortations produc ing only a sudden shock, a state of mind which cannot possibly be long sustained, and must gradually settle down and collapse, are precisely the best means by which the end they desire is to be attained. The mind has too great a facility for becoming used to these galvanic shocks, and the first horror, too, after subsiding into indifference, and even by a natural reaction, is metamorphised into a spirit of mocking levity. There is much, however, in the sermon before u 8 which will secure to it better fruits. A plain and direct earnestness is one of its principal and most valuable charac • The preacher, too, addresses his hearers as an teristics ordinary speaker naturally addresses those whom he designs to impress and animate—he does not follow the example of too many of his brethren, whose idea of a sermon appears to be a rhapsodical dissertation, couched in a peculiar language, which no speaker out of a pulpit, no writer, except what is usually termed a religious writer, ever dreams of adopting, and of which the principal characteristic is a pervading monotonous inflation. This sermon is the embodi ment of the genuine feelings as they came forth from a heart filled to pain with its subject. The preacher has wisely dwelt less upon those characteristics which made Palmer unlike any other man, than on those early tendencies is which he resembled, at least in some degree, all other men. He has applied himself to discover the point at which the path of the criminal. began to tend downwards, in order• that other men shall watch their own steps, and see that they be firmly fixed and rightly guided Mr. Pollock has not spared some of the social habits which custom pronounces respectable, and the higher moral feelings must declare dangerous and degrading. He might have gon e much farther. He might have shown that the whole ..complicated wages of vice which surround the race course, are but some symptoms of the moral disease which are every day breaking out, to some degree, in every pursuit and business of life where natural ambition and the inevitable desire for progress are directed with the very earliest training into the making of money and social position as the great end—where the development of many human affections is made secondary to every other object —where even religion only presents herself usually as a kind of controversial science, teaching little more than repulsion and antagonism, it is not easy to see how any path of life is to be kept free from those temptations which too often make men into criminals. The little, however, which can be done by mere repreSsion, may, no doubt, be aided by such warnings as this drawn from the fate of such a felon as William , Palmer. trial. THE PEREGRINATIONS OF CAPTAIN FRANCIS.—A young man dressed in the first style, whose name was given on the charge sheet Bettina Carne, alias Captain Francis, was brought up by constable 650 on a charge of having attempted to obtain goads from several tradesmen by The papers announce the death of General Ellice, colonel means of false representations. Mr. Block defended of the 24th regiment. the prisoner. The pfficer said, the prisoner was given The Washington Cabinet has consented to postpone, for to him in charge on Saturday, in Scotland-place, by Mr. one year, the question of the Sound Dues. Eastdale, draper, for attempting to obtain goods from MARSEILLES, Sunday. —There are yet, of all arms, 12,000 hi m by false pretences, but Mr. Eastdale was not now troops in the Crimea. Marshal Pelissier has fixed the sth prese nt ; there were in attendance, however, several July as the last nay for the evacuation. From that day all tradesmen whom he attempted to swindle out goods. military protection, of natives or foreigners, will be with- Mr. Block : Bat I want to know what the specific drawn. charge against him is ? Mr. Clough F or attempt i ng to The Vienna correspondent of the Times states that the obtain goods by false pretences. Mr- Bluak : It is not stagnation of trade in that capital is greater than ever. The for -actually obtaining goods, then 1 Mr. Cl oug h No. accounts from the provinces are also unfavourable, and a Mr. Plummer, of the Crescent, stated that about three serious commercial crisis is predicted. At Brunn, in Mora o'clock on Saturday, the prisoner ca ll e d a t hi s s h o p, and via, which is the Manchester of Austria, many of the ordered two bundles of cigars of 100 eac h, and two manufacturers are in serious difficulties. In other manufac bundles of 12 each, to be sent to the Commercial Inn, luring towns many spinning and weaving establishments, Dale.street ; lie said he was going to dinner, but had no sugar refiners and factories, have ceased working. It is money at the time, but to have the cigars sent to the inn explained that, since the improvement of Austrian paper, at half-past three o'clock, and he would pay for them. the foreign purchaser has left the Austrian market, as he Mr. Plaminer sent a boy with the cigars, and gave him can no longer realize a profit of 25 per cent. on the diffe special directions not to leave them without money. The rence between a good and a deteriorated currency. boy went on his errand, but the captain was not known SUPPOSED MURDER OF AN UNFORTUNATE FEMALE.- - lit the hotel, and the boy accordingly brought back the Some time between oue and two o'clock on Sunday cigars. In reply to Mr. Black, the witness said t h e morning, police-constable 393 found an unfortunate female, prisoner had a top coat on at the time ;he did not speak named Elizabeth Jones, lying dead in Alfred-street, and it very bad English, nor did he'appear tipsy. M r . m uc k was supposed that foul play had been used. On inquiry by You actually lost nothing ? Witness : No. He directed Mr. Blake, the coroner's beadle, he ascertained that the them - to be sent to Captain Francis, 15 room, Commer- deceased was a woman of the town, aged about 30 years, cial Inn, Dale-street. Mr. Woods, o f C as tle-street, said that she resided in Ben Jonison-street, and that she went out the prisoner ordered goods, shirts, and other things, to on Saturday evening as usual, but never returned. A the amount of £5 Ils, and required to have some of them companion of the deceased states that the girl was ill-used altered. The witness said he dirt not like his customer, and knocked down by a man in the garb of a navvy, and that who stated he was Captain Frauds, of the Commercial when the informant went to look for a policeman, .the man Hotel ; he thought it right to make enquiry.at the hotel, got away, and upon her return s he L und the woman dead and iem he found they were not aware of the in the street. The body was taken to the dead house, and captain's existence. A ! wenn from Mr. lll , Taggart's, an inquest will be held on the rereibis this day.