The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-28 00:00:00

THE CURRENCY QUESTION , gi„ ..70 THE EDITOR OE THE NORTHERN TIMES. w.1,14.,"--t observe that the columns of the NORTHERN rit e r have, lately, been very much occupied by anzi e r „ B ?t1 have , matters, who appear rearkbl the v ' S '0 persuade their readers that gold and silver w are NioerY worst articles that any government or people Tb; 4 have adopted as representatives of other property. 162' also talk in very obscure language of the necessity 0r, e1 . 1 Ellast SOOrl be felt of resorting to an extensive issue to !nconvertible" legal tender p a p e r, Whi c h they seem tb e " l n_lc will prove the desired p anacea . In other words, 1) 0 4, are advocating the wild visionary notion which has anTer„ 19efore the public for many years, viz., That the it‘. _,. ~i , ,.7 of parliament is quite su f f i cient to make money, a:th o "",e it all the requisites of a medium of exchange, see, l ,l l ,ga it shall neither possess nor give any promise or le ß i si 4 7 for value ! They would, therefore, call upon the sb nni l'are to create an abundant supply of paper, which Dre se "t be guaranteed to exchange for bullion (as at c ot , nt), but should, nevertheless, be made by law the DropPu„l,s°rY equivalent to be received in exchange for all to b e Vi,Y , and in discharge for every debt ! I This seems 1 ,.f0r0.,,L e Plain unvarnished meaning of these monetary . 'allt kst :'N; and surely a more ruinous, revolutionary, leevtl:e scheme of currency has never been dreamed of 4 1'st 6 e leather money of Lycurgus, the Spartan, was I Drti n — "nted I It seems very much like folly and waste ri4p he _ to argue against it, and yet, insane as the proposal k4r3 to ordinary minds, it has its advocates in the ;fin in s t °Dru saga who flatter themselves that they possess hes e ,., -- " superior to the common herd of mankind. ur ev:,: v alis are persevering, and will fill the broadside n>, It pod natured editor who will open his columns to °coa , 11 0 „ 4 1 may, therefore, be right, and even necessary, nahi s ,,,"'' , Y, to put the public on their guard against such to exhi bit 97 At thepresent moment it may, perhaps, shffice Oa, don,, their plan in a few plain words, as I have I,risio.n t o persons will read it without a smile of Pveset t 11 it cannot any longer be doubted that our ~e g sentlis , t e 'n of currency is very defective, and does t_'', n ionetai,„ yr ° e (ince most disastrous results ; consequently, q olivi o ' reL arin is daily becoming more imperative. It I ttld ev . I ls that the time Is fully come when the character P 4tt ellti; rl th e details of that reform should occupy the y e ton sideration of men of business. We ought not elzi o ,;lier to be subject to the pernicious influence of Bi)° -,,1 , 4'Y eXp di nts But, let us be careful to secure a kb a c4 ,V,' Currei e icy e , that shall carry on its face, not only a bari,7') but a Well-secured value I Let us insist upona ttsci ~,,1r',37 medium that everybody will know to be sound, ~otili.) : 4 , q, 'h will not require the strons arm of power to 'or ;,,)%rnen to accept it without hesitat rlar,'Z' or any other property. This n' orni;,'„ requires, and ought to possess, l uliW" n d of bullion, in order to main and retain an ‘ oil T)4ted supremacy. Her currency should be of such k l tiliTh at ,_eter that it should - command the confidence and '144;14;4 respect, not only of her own subjects, but of all Itgh t 8 ,.! The people of England will not, and never 4 ive th: ° be, satisfied with a - ny currency that does not Nio u ,',, r P an undefeasable security for gold, or any other 4 e r h : u ltY, for which they may please to exchange it. Such ,! i 'll i3 Clv aua ntl of bullion we may possess, of . a currency suffi 111444feltensive to avert all fear of panics and monetary rPti ll i r °r the time to come —sufficient for every national I.lBDer7Gent I down then, should we be asked to sanction vrep, -l es of sh substitute, which, so far as it has Rho" et ben attempted , has been met by the world with 1 At of i , t ka,.. eprobation and contempt I Z 4 ve 1,/. Perhaps, be asked how such a currency as I yObligi!ealnmended may be obtained ? A pamphlet, lately ' '' l titl r i"' gives a full and satisfactory reply. It is h '' I h a e ;) '' A. Solution of the Currency Question." k '', l. 'si t e 1)1'4 oPace left to enter further into the subject at ' ° the l l .,, et, if you will permit me, I may return to it on veeDsinl am, &c., A CURRENCY REFORMER. . on, in exchange ghty commercial n almost u •' 8. To •r ii -• 10. Ir, ate E EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TI3 . IES. ' ,, ,rth see there is another Richmond in . t h e field, ler h ' tit.,•,lTB further communications under the signature tit e att a e ue!? to warn him off ray territory, as those Attoltttert; alreadv devoted to the advocacy of Govern- gold. e,cluer Bills for one pound, and inconvertible --1 - THE ORIGINAL J. H. daterBll. To Tu R ......, -- P.DITOII OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. . The hi, 'taw Currency l'' a dry subject say some ! .Why. trit e the h ar t n ll be said to be dry in a northern latitude, re lii tad, • Th e f ,.. flint Is liquid enough, under the influence hot e k1 ,, :... -get is, there is no subject so crude as to be ,t.: 32 ..;11 tt, u 2 (l of beauty; but as every beauteous thing floats t„i") tr," surface of a translucent stream, so there are ap p u i s t'e ati e o a n sure s which can only be obtained by deep th t tcle. 11 -B ,' bY skilful is manipulation, and experice , ti e 'ell) e 'tie same idea equally applicable to the mind; til t 44 1 , let us not call that dry and crude which has lle.N thdenclunced by all, though we should find but few ' 'dee e aPtnes to discern the inestimable jewel that il .pb, , s It t ;(°P , 'lnbeclded 'neth the coarse, crusty, sterilerock, thal%vary i r r i , e d is the or g angisation of the mind of man 1 titrplit'llly-,,,,%the ruminations even of one individual! So ''ittl l 4 10 th Wake good the saying, " There . is but one ehilagltier "..e r idiculous to the sublime." Hilarity mingles hi "en " 44 the stern philosopher with frolicsome tCu • Al d• 0 rtl ➢ e 'Wing on this subject (the currency) last a lle Y the 4 Re h e whi, h ughts ran thus—it might have been a mental 'lli Z, at,'," o rearne me—and it was as though some NZ: l ,e, i, - ,,,` , from myself, was inditing the following 14 e " ' q - t - 1 1 ", so h sa Yit ' lg—Tcre , is a fire concealed in the aa • esse at . nation, intense, that Its chemcal agency 14 tii - f,. tt ished i °l. ganie in its constitution, it can never be e Zito h„ - `°oo, -;volcanic in its character, it can never 7111,7:ell fora ll:lo ßlderitig, smouldering, smouldering, it Zeii e `` toai t ..,g,es, and yet the invigorating combus ion I"ti (1-1. 1' t '' no throbbings so disturbing, remains a te e rl .tare' l La i ll ,. but a few - indefatigable philosophers ‘tel'7 Up e „ - "A'or the ridicule and scorn which would ,_• 11 4,,,(0 in-r",,,'fle truth), or who are not allowed deliber ,444let,;ii that mystery—yet there is the fire—burn. d lat aa ,. e its intermittent rumblings an gurglings I,4st atin w e with its threatenings and symptoms ot a for tied, an d outbreak, no one knows how soon to be for -" th ough some may have a faint unintelligent 'l4 eo oti. 1:31 theisaster and of overwhelming confla tt4ir' I:most Part, men are insensible to the tiee t „; 'lle a Work —they play—they sleep at th? very cen r!iitivekationunrot crater, absorbed in their more immediate l 'ela" b "t for - t , t heY seem , unconsciou . s of danger, and care Ivent,ed. Th`le foreboded evil which has been so long Ne , or ee , - eY devise gigantic schemes, execute . mighty gte ee • ' stately tiiiidings, search deep into every loc. liatl to tb , fi e ,,,,, lout making any provision for the fatal devas- NO 1 4 11° ° (1 that may, from day to day burst, forth 4,lllatieostruetion of their fairest fabrics, and to the th4 . ,t, wh e n of heirt most brilliant schemes ! %till gets hen is fire ? Peace ! Hear you not its distant l'ioD? t her e le " t hj . , I have already ' told you where it is. But l e ek es ? , ms fire ? What ! is your understanding void eq 4 bo v '4ook for %l ore e...... 10 k ward—look . behind—look around— I 0 beneath for it is above, below, behind, 1 8 1 y eari ti t • ----• h. , e b ,et I, ° tell you in so many words what it is, I ,N 1.73'04 . t .'ave told you what it is—it is what it ;44„-,ead I°'n'oelf know what it is, just as some know k ltip or „8 bread, and yet know not its constituent ?itle,to ei',"° Manner of its constitution. It would be t o ne ' t cl -ee k its increasing intensity or to attempt to t toti a4 o °Wn, or to I 44 vv u ,,, ~_ confine it to its present boundaries, or 1 4 4(1 t hat"b. i ." Present expanding locale—for in . propor tt - --it s ' done will its virulence increase—its course II ter • detonations Oti f ',etia r ,onations reverberate the deeper and , - 4.• Dy , Wither, and its effects be the more universal. 'setta'AlierCen:wise philosophical scientific application of 4 Nti ( tf (le st e ° , we give free course to this undreaded tth 0 0, y ruction, then, instead of a scorching contla -111,4et,6:11 Will have a beauteous flame, pure as the light tp et ro th , gi brilliant as the sun, giving forth a genial t he wiih °, w ing with health and exuberant in its influ .tliAte4t•th wiillsoious fruits, and lovely flowers, perfuming ~_''t 011 w ould roma, and so transcendingly illuminating ' ! 4'l a et , , , Wonder how it could have remained uL t leh ' 4 t e u• from mortal eye, and from mortal Ih e ' of a )11 Would have an efflorescent limpid stream itoty'llgall'er.Y no teeming with fcetid caloric, and Oh u on tkwithin its noxious influence. . ,' , ii ttoii ahrse figures bear upon this question, I leave loelo' --. YO • it is, that they it • Ur readers ; b ut, certain t tiL e e , or b .. °,) met,. •blo thereto for while I contemplated t : he %r t eet r leted i " . ib, e tt ,, or ay , , , never lost sight of this intrusive bildehtiOd„:l Instant. Perhas some of your learned 'll eri t et t it - a - t Y draw some salutary lesson therefrom, L" ••••T Oct ' than I can venture to do for the ei• %Il i I ' o ol, n I. 24 NEPOS. "Ct. 24, 1856. I_ n i 5A ll :: t n $E ROYAL BRITISH -BANIi of the legal ‘41i1411 I: t e w ss Made towards the Courts settlementof Bankruptcy a nd '(:llt.t:tfiet):lll44 float b t r h e a n very ri great of late . ao hearing t il e ft p er ar the e4ti:to and the arguments ' N41.6(1104,13(1 sh areholders of f th n e et b a a s n e k against the adjudi kljtiig toturnissioners Goulburn aenod_a'llt,oloroonyfidr,,:oweitahtohuot !l'iipt,leati: Partie s in support of th r tizia h i lt No messenger from the Court of a ß t a a n o k ; •or orab Possession, either at the hI-rti oFehes; nor can any entry be obtained by the .tt of ,fhe court so long as the injunction of t e The first step Ntlll 14a:eery remains in force. • N0 t , 0 14 t l , .t taken will, it is understood, be presen ß ti a n n g k a - N-e 4002 ot, t h e directors either to the Court of {, di ,„ Le the Lords' Justices for annulling the ,o,o,:tortin- in bankruptcy • while on the . p art of the ' l li theV° support the ' fiat a motion . wll n'u l netion, an • 4 1101t1 0, lee-Chancellor to dissolve thte_iej be made 41 tu a l au; the assets and books of h bank to the is l ittfo l lees of the" Court of Bankruptcy. - There . bp :.t4 atiSrobabilty that t, Vice-Chancellor will he no additional facts to optilitl;gtilithteYclstitch.h theret hi e m "e l r p l ey a o s ncl those laid before him in Vvi ii t •-e e winding -up order ; neither is ttheereparnoyeeeldiaczs le, h th,",tt of Bankruptcy annulling h attp t here, nave taken. An appeal to th House of Lords l, t,tletere., inevitable, if the arties b e e iwerested are bi l i!'e 141151hed that the estate shall swallowed up kri tad of one court of law. _ r So far as the t it) ``lerue3,B concerned it will . b . e a d y bankruptcy, I ll v i i sZvion.,..; ll .he no assets to di o v le ide o , f apd consequently the funds b N ei o nf . 4tiltaFBesZenlarce)i.l, the . h p p 1 8 ( Il lg the u t t h .. t Courtwhole i o h o f has a n i2 c e e e r o. y ~._ aoub,_ ncer am y . koVesvi,, mode of proceeding, t created 4:hauAn„eeY rapidly. Up to the close of last week, win . ding up r e n' ll llt ~nlO proofs of debts had been received by Mr. elk°4fitu'ZlT. theY will be sent into the court on Tuesday pth he Ilue will be de is also made ,rt ~A , . ion. 1.1i,,:r Nitnobfycohtributarie3. Mr. liarding in the course 14.48t)ctrv;f,e..ke, and .a call will_ be made shortly after. N:_sethe dividend 'wig be declared before Christmas, Il vici l - ettiev g in bankruptcyeo should, however, 4 4" in delay wn . inh is not ?._ pr s rd. foreseen. The 4 the pouricist.onetenCe will, we understand, be one nit NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, 'TUESDAY. RAILWAY MANAGEMENT. The Eastern Counties' Company reckons many sharehol ders in Liverpool and the Lancashire district. Well, then, let them understand that, again are its affairs in a state reflect% ing the highest disgrace on Englishmen. The price is down again to £8 or £9 per share ! The directory in that confusion expres- sively denoted by the phrase " sixes and sevens," which (of caurse) the employes feel less the onerous nature of control. Month after month a host of petty shareholders will raise themselves into importance by raising a dust," and then subsiding► into their proper obscurity ! The victims are the shareholders and the public. Will no Liverpool man arise, as once was done on the " South Eastern" directorship some years since, although a change to "speculation" was not then foreseen P Wilt no one clean out the Augean stable of mis management, and, by a clean sweep of masters and men, give the victims some hope of the fair and just results which the lines really would produce ? The bugbears of" Melina and C 0.," " Box and Cox," and all the other farces, enacted year after year, meeting after meeting, have produced no practical good. Committees after committees have been appointed—board after board re-modelled —meeting after meeting held, with the attendant guineas and dinners—yet nothing results. Counsels are so closely kept, that not only is nothing allowed to transpire legitimately, but even the officials are pronounced inaccessible, and it is difficult to obtain audi ence of a secretary as it is of the Queen of Oude, unless a clean breast be made to some " all rounder" clerk or youth, who, "like master, like man," has swollen into the fabled lion's skin size ! The press is affected to bo despised, and it is forgotten that the service it renders is often more valuable in withholding "grumbles" and personal matters than inhestow ing praise, which no one believes a railway to deserve. Despite, however, of all this caution, no action has yet been resolved upon by the Board as to the change of their members, nor as to a change (so loudly called for) of the management. Mr. Malin's requisition has not yet been " kicked out of the room," although its legal status is doubtful. The shares keep down—traffic is ill-conducted—the public growl, not loud, but deep ; and, besides actual conveyances by road competing with the railway, and the placarding throughout London of the count mongers challenge, to run his donkey against the Eastern Counties Railway train, to a twelve mile station, there is now "looming in tho distance" a competing route to Colchester, via Peto's Tilbury line. Such are some of the results of management which twenty years' experience finds in 1856, as infantile (we will not say as fraudulent, on railways) as ever. To the press the public look for guidance, and for the ventila• tion of railway matters. That is the " rod" which is now feared. The Great Western felt it when, in 1845, Mr. Russell said (in reference to the railway prosecutions, and a compromise of them), " It will get into the press, and what will the public think ?" It was the press which laid low Peter Clarke and his " management," which excited so much ire from the great railway banking Lombard street, towards the prosecutor.of the railway gang of desperate plunderers. It was the press which, by directing public execration or applause, and opening the minds of shareholders and applauding and cheering on the men in prosecuting gangs, in spite of the employers; proved the terror of " misruanagers," and the deterer ofa greater amount of dishonesty than is yearly returned, while the secrecy observed at head quarters tends less to the stoppage of crimes than any other event—the arbitrary, austere, or domineering " manager" of a railway, finds that he cannot act the tyrant with impunity, even though he have a titled name, and the terrors of the press of publicity have more influence on reform, and in good conduct, than most people imagine. Yet some " railwaymen" affect to despise the press, and to withhold the courtesies of information or assistance. Whenever that is the cast ,e, the shareholders may believe there is " something rotten in the state" of affairs ; and though 'he remark may not apply to the Eastern Counties, it is one of almost universal applica tion to those corporate bodies which were truly said to have no consciences, "no souls to be saved," and who treat talented and zealous business servants with a neglect which has doomed the railway establishments, and other corporate bodies of this country, to the soubriquet of tiospitals of Incapables." Let but the shareholders rouse themselves a Utile, and, with the aid of the press, the wrong men will give way to the " right men in the right places," and " merit" alone secure the appointments, with the general confidence of the public, over influence, cliqueism, and in- capacity ! MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH OMISSIONS TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir, —Knowing the interest which you take i❑ all matters of a rely commercial character, I, through you, beg to call the attention of the Committee of the Exchange News Rooms to the very meagre and inefficent supply of market intelligence which the Magnetic Telegraph Company furnish to these rooms. When they contrived to obtain the contract of acting as telegraph news purveyors to the Exchange Rooms, in place of the old company, there were many bland and '• bright" promises, that every species of information—political, mari- . . time, and commrrcial—would be supplied with regularity, accuracy, and despatch. "Bright" and encouraging as these promises were, they have not been_parfornaed. In vain cla I look, ' although _ deepliji ior - siiita - 4. in the grain trade, for report; of the leading earn markets in the United Kingdom. Wakefield, a most impor— tant one, has lately disappeared from the pillars. Glasgow and Dublin are also unfurnished ; or, if they are cecasionally posted, their inaccurate and meagre character render them a laughing-stock. Limerick and Newcastle corn markets are also important: why are they not posted? and, why should the Glasgow pig iron and Cork butter markets be a mere array of figures, as often wrong as right ? If subscribers pay three guineas a year for obtaining such intelligence as I have'alluded to, they are justly entitled to obtain it " full," " true," and " particu lar ;" and if the Magnetic Telegraph Company undertake and covenant to supply, for a certain " Consideration," the committee of the Exchange news rooms are bound to compel its proper supply, or declare the contract null and void. I sincerely hope that the keen and eagle eye of the active and intelligent master, Mr. Warburton, will not let the matter pass further unn,ticed. It requires instant reformation, without which all trading members of the room cannot be satisfied. Apo logising for thus trespassing upon your valuable space, I am, sir, your obedient servant, A CORN BROM. Brunswick-street, Oct. 25, 1856. PIRACY AND MURDERS ON BOARD THE ENGLISH BARQUE, GLOBE. PORTSMOUTH, Saturday.—Guiseppe Lagarva and Giovanno Barsa/ano, Italians, and Motto Pettrich, an Austrian—three determined-looking young men--were brought before the Mayor and other magistrates, sitting at the Court-house this day, charged with committing piracy on board the barque Globe, and murdering Joseph Pattineon and Evan Evans, English. seamen on board the ship. They were further charged with wounding two more of the crew, Daniel Cullen and Daniel Thomas, with intent to murder. Mr. William Scotland, the chief mate of the Globe, was examined at considerable length. Ho deposed th a t on th e 4th lying in the Bosph orus , c l ose t o consisting of the th ree pr i soners, two Globe c w was other foreigners, and six Englishmen and a b o y, i nc l u di ng Constantinople,of July last,the crew himself 'and the master. The foreigners had formed part of the crew about three or four weeks. On the day named the Globe got under weigh, and left the Bosphorus for Balaklava. At half-past three o'clock on the morning of the sth of July, witness, who had just gone below, having finished his watch, heard the report of three pistols, he instantly ran 'on deck, and called to, the master to turn out. When he got on 'deck" he found Evans and Cullen, two of the crew, lying on the deck, crying out that they were shot, While witness and the master were standing by . the wounded men, Lagarva and a man not in custody, called Angelo, came up and snapped a pistel, one at witness, the other'at the master, The caps went off, but the pistols missed fire.' Witness and the master assisted tho men Wounded into the cabin, and fastened the door. The wounded men could he of no nee, but the master found a musket barrel, which he contrived to splice on a stick. Witness and the master then loaded it with powder and ball, and kept guard at the cabin door, intending if necessary to discharge it by striking the cap with a hammer. The witness entered into a long statemet of the prisoner's movements a b ou t th e s hi p, w hil e witness' and the master were for some hours in the cabin. Ultimately, he said, the prisoners demanded money, and pro. niSsed to leave the ship, if the master promised to give them what money he had. Witness fotened eight or nine sovereigns in a piece of paper to the end of a ramrod, and held it up through the comptnien. Afterwards, by agreement with the prisoners, witness and those in the cabin, retired to another cabin, while the prisoners went down and ransacked the master's chest, &c. Some time afterwards the prisoners and the other foreigners left the vessel in a boat. 'Witness and the master want on deck, and discovered Pattinson dead, with his throat cut, in the forecastle. His head was merely hanging by a piece of skin. David Thomas, another of the crew, came up on deck out of the hold, with a cut in his throat and a wound in his breast. Witness and the master stood for the Bosphorus, and having anchored in Beudley Bay, informed Admiral Grey of the murder, &c. The Recruit gunboat was sent in search of the murderers. The Turkish authorities acted very promptly in the !natter, and the prisoners were captured a few miles inland from the coast, and handed over to the British admiral, who forwarded them to England for trial, according to the law of this country. An interpreter, duly sworn, read over the 'above evidence to the prisoners, and they were asked whether they had any questions to put to the witness. Lagarva said he had nothing to say or ask. All that was written on that paper, (Mr. Scot land's deposition) was untrue. Baraalano said that what had been stated was untrue. He had nothing more to say, Pettrich gave a similar answer. Mr. Swanson, in answer to the bench, said the other evidence must necessarily take some time to take. The Mayor said, under these circumstances, be would remand the prisoners until Tuesday. Tfie prisoners were then remanded to the Borough Gaol. They appeared to treat the proceedings very lightly. Pettrich and Barsalano frequently smiled at various points of the mate's evidence as the interpreter read it over. THE EARL OF HARROWBY AND Slit ROBERT PEEL AT STAFFORD. A banquet has recently been given at Stafford to the officers of the Staffordshire Militia. In the absence of the Lord Lieutenant, the chair was taken by the Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowby. Near the chairman were the Hon. Colonel Talbot, the Easl of Dart mou th , Vi scount Sandon, Lieutenant- Colonel Dyott, the Hon. A. W rottes l ey, S i r Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., Rear-Admiral Mainwaring. General Sir Harry Smith, Bart., G.C.8., Viscount St. Vincent; . the Earl of Lichfield, the Right Hon. Viscount Newport, Viscount In gestre, and the Bishop of the Diocese. Lord Harrowby, in proposing " The Army and Navy," remarked that he hoped Englishmen would not be ungrateful—indeed, that was a sin not common to our countrymen—(cheers)—and that they would never forget the services the army had rendered them. And while they remembered the services of their gallant army, and with what anxiety they looked for intelligence during the late struggle, he trusted that it would fill them with the deter mination to b prepared for another war, it unhappily they should be compelled again to enter into hostilities. (Hear, and cheers.) No false feeling of security, nor a feeling that peace.would be lasting, should lead them to an unwise economy its the measures necessary f o r t h e protect i on o f t h e i r country 7-risliststre'cor4fiich at one time were in some degree lost sight of 'bitt which be. hopel. would nee r- be the case again. (Loud, clears.) When he spoke of an unwise economy, 'he "did not mean that care was not to be exercised in the expenditure connected with the protection of the country, hut what he would have rem em b ere d was t h at t h at which was cheapest was not always the best, and that that which was required to he done must be done, whatever the cost might be. (Hear.) At a subsequent stage of the proceedings Lord Harrowby, proposing as a toast " The health of the officers, non commis sioned officers, and privates of the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd Regiments of Staffordshire Militia," said—lndependently of the direct services they had rendered the country, the three regiments of Staffordshire Militia had contributed upwards of 1,500 men to the regular army. Ile might say further, that the militia had been the means of infusing a martial spirit amongst the people of the country ; and for himself—he spoke as a civilian—he should like to see the militia used more as a means of recruit.. ing the regular army. For some considerable time this im portant element of the national defences had been allowed to rust in its scabbard, and after forty years' peace it was thought, by some that this weapon, belonging to other days, would no longer he fit to be called into use. It was thought that the people had become so immersed in trade and manufactures that it w ou ld b e i mposs ibl e to man t h e m ili t i a as wo did in former times. But lie was happy to say that when the neces sity arrived it was found that the ordinary occupations of the people did not detr ac t i n t h e least from their high public spirit and devotion to their country. but men of every class in life and of occupation abandoned their ordinary pursuits and placed their time and their service at the disposal of the country in her hour of need. (Great cheering). Sir Robert Peel, M.P., in acknowledging a toast drunk to him, said he did not know that he could with propriety refuse compliance with the request which had been made, and he would endeavour to make a 'few observations on what he had witnessed in Russia. He need not say, then, that the noble representative of Eng land'at the Court of Russia * discharged the duty imposed upon him in the manner that was expected of him and in a manner, too, which far exceeded the way in which other embassies discharged their duties, and that he clearly enhanced in the ey es o f t h e R uss i an C o urt, carrying courtesy to its utmo s t li m i ts, was not anx i ous to the ße s idecharacter in Granville, country government had one who, though impress the Russian Court, as another ambassador did, that a different feeling prevailed towards Russia to what was really the case. He had had th e opportunity of conversing with Totleben, the distinguished engineer, and a highly honourable man; and he had seen Gortsch a k off, M enchikoff, and a num personages, w h ose names were almostbr o funpronounceable. had seen assem bl e d i n R uss i a 120,000 of the finest infantry i n t h e wor l d. Those troops in s t a t ur e and appea rance exceeded anything he ever before witnessed, and he had b een over the who7e of Europ e , y e t h e e other had no doubt that the pluck of the English army would be a match foi them. (Cheers). He had visited the fortress of Cronstadt, and there was but one opinion, from the Grand Duko Constantine down to tire youngest " middy" on board the Vladimir, that had the energy of the commander equalled the pluck of the British navy, that tortress at the present moment would be crumbled in the dust. (Hear, hear.) Sir Charles Napier had been through the whole of the fleet and fortress, and lie gave it as his opinion that it was impossible to destroy the fortress. It was certainly very den' at this moment that it was impossible to attack Cranstadt with success now, but when the war commenced the case was very different, and if the man who commanded the fleet at Copenhagen had commanded the Baltic fleet, or if a man possessed of the spirit and capacity of a Nelson had commanded that fleet, he had not the slightest doubt that as the fortress at Copenhagen yielded so would Cronstadt have fallen. (Hear, hear.) As he was most unjustly on his logs, they would perhaps allow him to say that although peace had been concluded, there was much to prevent them from relying on a continuance of peace. They were on the edge of a volcano, which might break forth at any time ; and among the causes for disquietude were Naples and the Danubian Principalities. Had the war continued, there was no doubt that the resources of Russia would have been. inadequate to cope with the resources of France and England, and that a most effectual blow would have been dealt that power, from which it would have taken her a long time to recover. But peace had been made, and it was 'to be hoped that it would continue. lie must add that there never was a contest in which the people of a country were more justly engaged than were the people of this country in the late war, or in which the people had come out of it with greater honour and distinction. 14Th nortATDIN.—W e regret to be compelled to record an increase in the tide of emigration this season. Numerous batches pass every day through this town, on their way to port!, of embarkation. from Mayo and the north-western portions of Galway. The emigrants of this year, are all, for the most part, the sons and daughters of apparently com • fortable parents. — Team Herald. BURSTING OF A CANNON.—A letter from Christiania, of the 17th , says, that as a few days before, the crew o f the Norw eg i an steam corvette N oreen were firing from a vessel at i a mark on a wall on the beach of the of Osteroen, one of the guns, a 30-pounder, burst, and the splinters killed on the spot the captain, M. Bonnevie, and the first lieutenant Baron de Finn-Wedeljarlsberg ; they . . also wou n d ed five sailors, one mortally, and t h e other four very saw) ured,seriously. The man who fired the gun escaped I ATTEMPTED" MURDER_AT BERMONDSEY. APPREHENSION OF THREE MEN On Sunday Mr. Burcharn, the magistrate of Southwark Police -court, was summoned from Cheam to Guy's Hospital, to take the depo ition of a man who was supposed to be dying in co'neequence of wounds ho bad received in a murderous attack which was made upon )aim on the pretious evening. It avears that on Siturday night, about half•past nine o'clock, Sergeant James Coldman, No. 23 M, having heard that a man had been stabbe 1, proceeded to the shop of Mr. Moore, a surgeon, residing in Grange road, Bermondsey, where he found 'a man, named Patrick Griffin, a labourer, aged thirty. five years, who resided at No. 6, Black Jack alley, near the Lon lon (loch, in a state, which seemed to leave no hope of Ho had been conveyed there by Mr. Barratt, the master of Marlborough-house School, G range roa d. Th e police recovery Officer having made himself acquainted with the circumstance of the case, proceeded to a house in St. "Thomas's place, am apprehended Richard Burchell, the landlord, with two of hi lodgers, named Patrick Ryan and Abraham Burchell, am conveyed them to the station. Afterwards he searched tin house, and found a large black-handled knife, covered witl blood, of which he took possession. The three prisoners, wit Patrick and John Griffin, had been drinking at a public. house in the neighbourhood, when some differences arose be. tween them ; but before they parted the quarrel between them seemed to have been made up, and Griffin had no idea that he was the object of malice on the part of any of them. Johi Griffin west home with the • three prisoners to Burchell' house, and shortly afterwards Patrick Gliffia went there, witl a view, if possible, of inducing his brother to return horn he quarrel as renewed, when one of which felled him to the ground Lud while - in th Richard Barchell plunged the knife into his 8' By M Moore's direction the wounded man was conveyed to Guy' When Mr. Burnham, the mazistrate. attended 01 Hospital Sunday morning, he was me t by Mr. Edwin, the chief clert Southwark Police -court, Superintendent Blandford, Inspector Reid, Mr. Valentine, the house surgeon, Mr. Callaway, Mr, Hill, and Mr. Archer. The 'prisoners were placed by the wounded man's bedside, and he immediately pointed to Rierard Burchell as the assassin. Mr. Burcham then took the ma•l's depositions, which were as follow :—" My name is Patrick Griffin. lam 35 years of age, and reside at 6, Black Jack alley, Loadon Docks. Yesterday evening I called on my brother, John Griffir who resides walk, Bermondsey We went to at , cershop, and bad a pot or two of porter. Some other persons were prose"... John, afterwards went to Richard Burchell's house went to.fetch him away, as he meant to have a quarrel, and to persuade him to come away. He would not leave. I went a second time to fetch him away, when I was struck over the head with a piece of poker, a brickbat, or a stone, and was knocked down. While I was on the ground there were three persons over me beating me. My brother was present. I put up my arms to defend my head, and when I was lying on the ground I felt a knife enter my loft side. It was a long black handled knife, with a sharp point. I seized hold of the leg of the man that stabbed me." At this stage of the proceedings the man fainted, and restoratives were applied. When he had sufficiently recovered, Richard Burchell was placed separately at his bedside, and identified as the assassin. The magistrate asked Burchell whether he wished to say anything to the charge ? Richard Borchelt' (to Griffin)—Did you not say, " I will be the death of you ?" Griffin : I might have said,. " I will take your life." It, Borchelt : You had a handker. chief tied round your waist .when you were in the public house—what was that for ? Griffin : I took it off my neck and tied it round my waist to prevent my losing it. Hr. Edwin then read over the depositions to Griffin, who attested them by his mark. The prisoners, who were thoroughly callous, where then handcuffed, and sent back to prison in charge of the police. Up to a late hour on Sunday night Griffin was not dead, but he is in the last stage, and the hospital surgeons state that it is utterly impossible that he can live beyond a few hours. 1 nig PASSPORT SYS TE kr IN FRANCE. A Paris correspondent says:--" About a fortnight since, a gentleman and his wife were staying at a friend's chateau in the west of Prance. One day they took their walk together, and alone, to the nearest market town, about a league and a half olf. After lounging through the place, and going into one er two shops, they took their course back to the place whence they had conic, and were quietly wending their way through a muddy country lane, when suddenly up da s h es a gendarme on horse • back, who puts himself across their path, and orders them peremptorily to stop. Much surprised, the gentle man asks what such a proceeding means, on which he is sharply told he is not known in the country, and is required to present his papers. He replies that he does not usually take a morning's walk with what the police call " papers" in his po c k e t, b u t t h at at the house where he is staying (naming o n e o f t h e first names of the province) he has his passport. Unsatisfied, the gend'arme went on with a formal interrogatory, particularly based upon the extraordinary fact of the person interrogated wearing the cross of the Legion d'Honour! At last, my friend and his wife were obliged to turn back and walk before the gend'arme to the market town, where, after an hour and a•half's delay and annoyance, it was at length discovered that the sous-prefet knew the name of the persons thus inconvenienced, and they were allowed to return home unmolested, with a few awkward excuses on the pin of the sous-prefet, who repeated several times that " the vigilance of the authorities was absolutely required upon all points to preserve order and ensure the peace of well-intentioned citizens," &c. " You were unknown here, sir," said he to my friend, "and it was therefore the duty of the town magistrates to enquire into the position of a stranger, whose presence in the place was unaccounted for." I had written this letter thus far, when I was interrupted by the visit of a person high in office under the present Government, whom I led in conversation to the subject I have just treated. He bitterly deplored the excessive zeal I complained of, and he assures me that the Minister of the Interior has addremed elrentar to thw rrpfpts of all the departments to advise them to force their agents, such as commissaries of police, &c.. to more circumspection in their behaviour towards the individuals about whom they wished to be informed, and to recom mend greater care in the manner of conducting research generally. My informant adds that the Government is growing aware,of the hatred it excites by these constant and petty vexations. and will try to modify them. DEATH OF RICHARD COPE On Saturday evening the police authorities in Scotland yard received the announcement of the death of Bichard Cope, the unfortunate victim of the murderous attack in Parliament-street, on Monday night. The man in custody for the crime, who gave the assumed name of Jenkins, was the holder of a ticket-of-leave, which he received , in April last.. He had been sentenced to seven years' transportation in 1853, and having served the period of imprisonment to which such sentences are commuted under the regulation in force, he received the ticket of leave as a matter of course. For some time after his release he was in the employment of a stable keeper near the Waterloo-road. He had no excuse of destitution or inability to earn a maintenance honestly, therefore, for relapsing in`o crime. But in all probability be fell into the hands of his old associates, for he left 'his employment, and soon afterwards passed a number of forged £5 Bank of England notes to different publicans in the neighbourhood where he had been employed. In these attemptshe succeeded by using his late master's name, and being known to have been so employed. The signature of Mr. Kemp was pretty well imitated upon the notes,' which were themselves skilful imitations as to the engraving. The lad who disturbed the assassin at his deadly work and prevented his escape, displayed great courage and presence of mind. At the time his attention was attracted by the moan be heard in the shop as he was passing, the door was surrounded by some confede rates, who in vain triad to put him off, by saying it was a man and woman quarrelling, and then endeavouring to prevent his entering. By a very singular coincidence the man who, hearing the cries of" Stop thief!" raised by the lad Lerigo, after the prisoner, stopped him in Palace Yard and took him to the station house, happens to be the brother-in-law of the murdered man Cope. This case will increase the great dislike with which the adoption of the ticket of leave system has been viewed by the public. There is no doubt that desperate crimes are on the increase ; and, whatever statistics may say the worst of them are mostly committed by men of this class. In the present case, but for the accident of the lad Lerigo passing at a fortunate moment, Cope would have been murdered on the spot, and the assassin in all probability would have remained undiscovered THE POLICE AND THEIR NUMBER TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMEI v a cra Sir,--I was very glad to read your remarks on the dis graceful conduct of the police. Ido not see why the watch committee should deal at all with such cases. They ought to be openly investigated before the magistrate. The police, from inspector and superior tenders down. ward, are, I fancy, very naturally inclined to give the most favourable testimony for their own order, and the watch committee may frequently perhaps, be led in this way to pass leniently over faults, which, if investigated before the sitting magistrate, would be more severely dealt with.' A few weeks ago, I saw a man taken into custody. He was charged with being drunk and disorderly. The man had been having some liquor, but he was not drunk, and, as I believed, he was pushed and jostled, and irritated by a policeman, he resisted, he asked for the number of the policeman—a not very polite expression was made use of towards him at this request, and he was then fol lowed and taken into custody. I requested the number of the policeman, who, as I imagined, grossly exceeded his duty, and really " picked a quarrel" with the man, so as to have an excuse for locking him up. I endeavoured to ascertain the policeman's number, but could not see it. I asked him for it ; he wanted to know what I wanted it for—refused to give it me, and told me if I wanted it, he would be in court the next morning. Now, in my simplicity, I thought first that the number was put on the coat to be easily seen ; and, secondly, that a policeman was bound to give his number when civilly requested to do so, but I am mistaken in both. Let any one attempt to make out a policeman's number in Liverpool, about or after dusk, and his eyesight must be re markably good if he succeeds. The metallic flourish that is put about the figures is, I presume,to aid policemen in keep ing people in ignorance of what their number is. They have this effect, whether this is their object or not. You will remember that the dastardly attack of a London policeman on a young lady some months ago, caused a suggestion to be made in the House of Commons, that only the plain figures and letter should be worked in the collar of the coat of the London police, minus all the flourishing and artistic design. I was then living in London, and the change was effected, and a very advan tageous one it was. I beg to suggest that all this metallic disguising number ornament be removed from the collars of the coats of the Liverpool police, and the plain unadorned and readable figures, worked in worsted, placed thereon in all their naked simplicity. The number then will be of some avail. At present it is an elaborate piece of mystification, and an aid to impertinence and concealment on the part of the police. I write this not in opposition to the force, for whatever tends to check the evil disposed among the , police, tends to raise the body in the estimation of the community at large, and is to the manifest advantage of the police , _ force.—l am, your obedient servant, ALPHA. THE MURDER NEAR BRADFORD Last week we alluded to this melancholy and bar— barous occurrence. Since then, the adjourned inquest on the body of Jeremiah Milnes has taken place, when Mr. J. N. Terry, surgeon, who was appointed to make a post mortem examination of the body of the murdered man, re-described the frightful nature of the injuries received by the deceased. The wounds, he thought, might have been produced by an oyster knife, or the knife used by a glazier, but it had been both broad and sharp. This concluded the evidence of the surgeon. The coroner then called the man Henry Ellis, who had been alarmed by the ycung man Jowett, but all that ho could advance was only confirmatory of Jowett's own statement. The coroner, in summing up, obcrved that he could not see that any good would result from the re-examination of any of the witnesses. Some suSisi clan, but nothing more, rested upon the man John Gambles, who had been before the magistrates, Had Jowett assisted the deceased when the attack was made, they might have successfully resisted him. The assail ant, it was clear, had either been • bent on mischief or intended to commit a robbery,. but, he thought, there could scarcely have been any premeditated intention , to murder. `When, however, a person went into the high way resolved to commit a felony and was resisted, and the death of the party assaulted ensued, wilful murder had been committed, as much as if the felon had gone out to do malice prepense. In the present case, the jury could do nothing but return an open verdict. The verdict accordingly was recorded, " Wilful murder against a man unknown." ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF BALAKLAVA. The second anniversary of the memorable charge of 13alaklava, was celebrated on Saturday night, at the Lon don Tav ern, b y a b anquet at w hi c h thirty of the officers who were engaged in the charge took part. The banquet was of a most recherche character, and was presided over by Lord Lucan. The officers present were—Lord George Paget, C.B. ; Hon. Sir James Scarlett, K.C.B. ; Colonel Hodge, C.B. ; Lieut.-Colonel Mayon, Lieut. - Colonel Forest, Lieut.-Colonel Low, Lieut.-Colonel Douglas, C.B. ; Lieut.-Colonel Shute, Lieut.-Colonel Sullivan ; Lieut. Muttlebury, Lieutenant Hunt ; Lieut. Yates, Lieut. Wilkins, Lieut. Rawlinson, Lieut. HartoPlN Major Brown, Major Fellowes, Major Cook, Major Portal, Major Hutton, Major Elliott, Major Connolly, Major- General Beatson, Captain George, Capt. Travelyan, Capt. King, Captain Martin, Lord Bingham, Sir G. Wombwell, Bart. ; Hedworth Joliffe, Esq., M.P. NOVEL ARITHMETICAL CALCULATION The RUSSIAN method of proving multiplication, obtained by an English gentleman, during his stay at Cronstadt, last summer : EXAMPLE. 56743852 k 53623042 60 53 4424. Take the - sumOFthe digits in the multiplicand, and divide by 9, setting down the remainder. Procure, in the same manner with the multiplier, setting down the remainder. Then multiply these two remainders together, and add the digits of the product togethe-, and divide the sum by 9, setting down the remainder. Divide the sum of the digits in the product by 9, and the remainder should agree with remainder stated above, which proves the calculation: EXEMPLIFICATION. The sum of the digits in the Multiplicand is4o 4. by 9=4 remainder The sum of the digits In the Multiplier is 16 4. by 9=4 remainder Then 4kt 7=29, then 2k s=lo S- 9 ........... ...... —1 remainder, The surn of the digits in the product is 37 remainder (proof). PRIZE ESSAY ON THE NATIONAL DEBT The council of the Society of Arts have received the following letter : "To the Chairaaan of the Council of the Society of Arts. " Sir,—The financial position of this country, and the enormous national debt, must always be subjects of great commercial importance, and of grave interest to English men, even during the times of peace and prosperity. Recent events of great importance, such as the influx of gold from Australia and California, the drain of silver to the East Indies and to China, the establishment of free trade, and the vast extension of our commerce, have materially altered the financial position, and will cause a revision of the subject to be very useful and interest-, ing. The important results that might be obtained by the renewed application to the reducti )n of the debt of the principle of compound accumulation, the essential principle of the sinking fund, which has unfortunately been abandoned, appear also to merit a further examina tion, and I am convinced that the interests of arts, manufactures, and commerce would be promoted if the society would encourage the investigation of these subjects, and elicit the mature opinions of those who have studied financial science. As, however, the funds of the society are devoted to objects of great national interest and importance, I shall have pleasure in offering a prize for the discussion, should the council approve of the proposal. That is to say—a prize of 200 guineas for the best essay on the present financial position of the ,pountry, as affected by recent events, in which the igiiteiple of a sinking fund should he discussed, and also an investigation made as to the best mode of gradually liquidating the national debt.—l am, sir, your very humble servant, " HENRY JOHNSON. " London, 39, Crotched-friars, Oct. 14, 1856." The council have resolved that the best thanks of the society be conveyed to Mr. Johnson for his very liberal offer of a prize of 200 guineas, and that the same be accepted on the conditions stated in Mr. Johnson's letter. THE G ,, LD DISCOVERY IN TASMANIA,—The reports fir , :m the gold fields are still encouraging. Mr. Clarke, who, at the request of the authorities, inspected them, was surpri se d at t h e prom i s i ng i n di ca tion of gold which his short visit to Fingal showed him. Unfortunately he stop at each field but one dav, and had, there fore, time but to make the most superficial observations. Those observations will shortly be published ; and as Mr. Clarke has expressed a wish to be allowed to present them to the gold committee himself, I will not as yet detail the various remarks which the reveren d gent l eman h as made from time to time during his visit. Gold has lately been found in the neighbourhood of Deloraine, and twenty miles from Launceston. The northern p a p ers speak hi g hly o f the prospect of a paying gold field being found in the locality specified. ---Australian and New Zealand Gazette, SABBATH DESECRATON AT WATERLOO A correspondent, who signs himself " C. D.," writes to us, under yesterday's date, to complain of the violation of decency, and the respect due to' the Sabbath, in the following terms :—Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, a con siderable number of foreigners visited Waterloo, where, on the green in front of the Crescent, they amused themselves with various games, at times very noisy, Under direction of officers refreshments were provided. I cannot but think that it should have been courteously in'imatecl to them by the authorities of the place, that such exhibitions, however much they may amuse a cer tain class, are very contrary to the feelings of most Englishmen, and contrary to the spirit of the Law. SomE of the proceedings were very offensive to common decency. It certainly might have been difficult to find any one who could converse in the language of the people, so as to convey a kindly remonstrance; possibly, some one of the officers could have understood French or English. The police, if there, could scarcely be expected to - go beyond .• No bono Turco," which might have been worse than the "let alone" system. Shauld such an invasion again occur on the Lord's day, I trust that some one will be found to remonstrate, as ' certainly there are six days in cshich they might enjoy their games to their heart's content. BRIGANDS IN THE PAPAL STATES According to our recent advises from Rome the crime of brigandage is very rife, but we learn that the government is making rigorous attempts to repress brigandage on the road to Naples. Detachments of infantry are now stationed in huts between Gensano, Velletri, and the Pontine Marshes, and patrols of gendarmerie keep a sharp look out on all the hands of peasantry they fall in with. Numerous arrests have been made, and a circumstance has occurred which may lead to important revelations. This was the recent discovery of the body of a brigand tied to a tree in the forest of La Fajola, with two mortal gunshot wounds. It was calculated, from the state of the corpse, that the attackmN a u p rd l e e s r mo t il o a d o k se nb dy place ayt h fortnight. immediately To h a ne f t e t r lho cc t a h l id e. tvil i unsuccessful respond with th e su pp os i t i on, and the defunct' w g a e i n diligence wouldo b f a r c from one of the band, who, armed with a blunderbuss, was to have shot the postilion, b u t, recogn i sing an acquaintance ' in him, failed in his allotted task, and consequently fell a sacrifice to the vindictive rage of his companions. The corpse of the brigand was recognised and claimed by his wife, a woman of Velletri, who stated that on the day pre ceding the robbery, he had gone out, saying that he should be absent for some hours shooting, and requested to have something ready for him to eat on his return. His wife, who appears to have been ignorant of the peculiar nature of the game he was habitually in quest of, not seeing him come back for two days, became uneasy, and applied to the police for search to be made after him. By examining the persons with whom the deceased was in habitual intercourse, it is hoped that some clue will be afforded for the apprehen sion of the surviving members *of the band. A friend of mine, making an excursion to Velletri last week, was driven by the identical vetturino, who was assaulted three weeks ago between Albano and Porto D'Anzio, whilst conducting a carriage full of monks to the seaside. The vetturino gave a lively description of the attack, which was made at the usual solitary part of the forest of Nettuno, by three brigands with handkerchiefs over their faces like masks, with holes bat for their eyes. The friars being almost moneyless (in concordance with their vows of poverty) and the only other passenger being a poor man with a bundle of clothes, which was at once confiscated, the brigands laid their victims face downwards on the road and proceeded to rifle the driver, but were so indignant at finding only fifteen pauls about him that they beat him brutally, and one of the ruffians was about to stab him in the neck, had the others not prevented him for pity on the vetturino's wife and four children. The last accounts state the brigands of Velletri have just riven a proof of their not having all fallen into the hands of the gendarmerie, by showing themselves very unexpectedly, and forming, no doubt, very unwelcome guests amongst a pic-nic party who were dining in October fashion, in a vineyard between Gensano and Velletri. Elkington plate not being in general use as yet in this country, silver forks and spoons are carried out, even in such excursions as these, by substantial citizens. In the present instance, they served as a bait for the brigands, who, with their faces masked, pounced upon the silver, and left the astounded ruralisers to conclude their meal with their fingers, a la Turgue. SLAVERY IN THE DUTCH COLONIES.—.I letter from the Hague, of the 22nd, says:—" The commission nominated by the government to examine the question of the emancipation of slaves, has just published its second report, which refers to the Dutch islands in the West Indies, and the establish ments on the coast of Guinea. As to the islands, it presents a scheme of emancipation which is a good deal like that pz ()posed for Surinam ; and as to the establishments in Guinea, it advises that emancipation shall not be attempted in order not to endanger the security of them?! These narrow minded Clamourers—Professors who repro bateby the most respectable part of the Faculty, who do not improvement and pedsasst are o rne v t e r y omf a s teedn i i n c n i n o e v s ati ao counterfeited. D ar r e u j s g i os l e N n ou o n e ,l d y scruple to recommend such articles as have acquired celebrity by their intrinsic merit. But it is a subject of regret, with all wi E ll l a c s l s N e classes of mrt hAenil.community,WAßEHOUSE s that est a b t i b i s e he most d o n valuable tbe p r i Patent ncisplse lic of ships, officers in the army and others, Captainsao n f d selling P u b going to a distant Genuine MediMedicines n gentlemen, or navy part of the empire, or into the country, may at all times have a larce or small assort Medicines, safely packed, with ample'ent of these Approved directions for use, so as to go without risk to able resource of ladies and superior and well-tried remedies alway, at band. Perfumers, chemists, &c., will, on application receive a • Aholesale price list, affording opportunity , them an and of purchasing on the very lowest terms. English Foreign agency carefully conducted. F. G. J. receives almost daily, parcels from London, whence all articles of a new kind may b e p rocure d f ree of carriage. Jones's, 5, Paradise-street, third door from Church-street, and nearly Nang Lord-street, —Adv. COURT OF Y PASSAGE; YESTERDAY. (BEFORE E. JAMES, ESQ., Q C., ASSESSOR. ACTION FOR FALSE IMPRISONMENT. BRENNEN r: WILD E. —This was an action to recover compensation for false imprisonment. Mr. Aspinall appeared for the plaintiff, and the defendant pleaded his own case, having pleaded simply that lie was not - guilty. The plaintiff is a servant in the employ of the Health Committee, under Mr. Newlauds, and the defen dant is an eating house keeper and confectioner, living in Tuncliffe street. On the 25th of July the plaintiff was going up Bold street, for the purpose of meeting the Inspector at Windsor, when he was met by the defendant and the police man, the latter of whom had half-a-crown in his hand. The policeman said to him : You are in a great hurry—did you ever see this half-crown before ? The plaintiff replied that he did not, when the defendant said, that is the man, take him into custody. The policeman was then about to drag him to the Bridewell, when ho said, " You need not take hold of me, as I would not have any of the health committee see me in charge for a sovereign." He then walked by the side of the policeman down Bold street, when they met an inspector, who said to the policeman "Is that your prisoner?" The policeman replied that it was. The inspector then said, a Why don't you take hold of him, and take him properly?" upon which the policeman took him by the collar, and conveyed him to the bridewell, where he was kept for some time. After the defendant and the two females bad looked at him, and having #.11.-1 .- •- • - discharged. "- I Mr —Ast, of the health committee, gave the prisoner a good charac'er. Police constable 194 corroborated the statement made by the plaintiff, and in reference to the conduct of the inspector on the occasion. The Assessor said : uch conduc seems to t most extraordinar —it is uthority •operly din t exceedingly wrong mark my strone nd ter know what instruction and I shall' always conduct. I do not .e issued by the Witch Cowrnittce itt s to compel id drag persons aloug when they ate 'e given, willing to go quietly, I hope ihf;y will see the impropriety of it. De!ee'ive-officer Nitup!.y, and an inspector of police, stated that no such orders were issued, nor was an officer required to collar a man if he walked quietly. The defendant then stated that he gave the man in custody in consequence of what his 1 two female assistants had said to him. The two assistants ', and they stated that the man who hal entered the sscd the bad half•crown, was like the plaintiff•, hut were called. one of them, who had followed him' from and never lit of him, thought when she brideviell that his whiskers were Dt the isamt called, and stated that he had lived opposite' to the defendant's shop for years, but had never been in it in the course of his life: The, learned Assessor then sutnme, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaint This concluded the business of the court. up the evidence, tiff—Damages £l5 POLICE INTELLIGENCE LIVERPOOL. pirponn MR. ROBERTSON GLADETONE. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CASlllER.—Benjamin Roberts, a respectably attired youth, formerly employed as a cashier by Mr. Priest, accountant, Clarendon-buildings, was charged with having embezzled the surn.of £l9 ss, the property of his employer. Froth the evidence adduced, it appeared that the prisoner had, in the month of August, received the sum of £29 5s from Mr. Fry, £lO of which he had accounted for to his employer and he was now charged with embezzling th e balance. This cas 3 was clearly proved. It also appeared that he had embezzled various other sums, which Mr. Priest bad agreed to take by instalments, some portion of which bad already been paid. Mr. Campbell appeared for the defendant and asked for a remand, which was granted. STEALING INDIA RUBBER FROM THE POCKS. John Smith, a dealer in waterproof clothing, was charged with stealing upwards of 1 cwt. of India rubber from the Prince's dock quay. Detective-officers Gressen thwaite and Laycock sated that they received information h th o a w t ed he an hadi n v p oi ti o r : e of the robbery, and on Saturday n i g ht t h ey di scovered it in ethheaswedariethforonmse theof p M ri r s . on P e e r l , ls io w r, statedhwohiehhe s John Wilson, warehouseman to the prosecutors, was called to identify the property, but his evidence not being sufficient, the prisoner was discharged POCKET PICKING —William Smith, a led well known to the police, was charged with stealing 175.•61. from the pocket of a female, in Ranshaw-street, on Saturday night. rhe female stated that she was standing with her husband at a toffee stall, when she felt the prisoner's hand in her pocket. She instantly gave an alarm, and the prisoner tried to escape. He was followed into Newington, when he threw the money down, and was immediately after captured. Several witnesses spoke to the identity of the bly, and he was committed for three months. •••-4.••••--- BIRKENHEAD. BEFORE J. S. JACKSON, TECI FTEALING POTATOES BY WHOLESALE. —Mary 111‘9.ea, a young women, was brought u p i n cus t o d y of Williamson Davis, one of the Cheshire constabulary, on a charge of stealing potatoes. It appeared, from the constable's state ment, that be was on duty near the New Ferry Toll-bar, when he met with the prisoner, and perceiving that she had a larger quantity of potatoes and carrots than was usual for a person who had been marketing, questioned her how she became possessed of them ; in reply, she said she had got them from Mr. Ellis, of Bromborough, upon which he said he would accompany her there to see if her statement was correct ; and, having walked a short distance for that omb.she Re would tben telll locked ke himd her wh u e p re , she d n ad pur pose, she sudd en l y f e ll on her knees, and asked the olllcer R t o f n o k r i g n 7 .B e , herat Bbroeu, g and this rom time, really did get them f rom, and added, I got them f rom M r . afterwards ascertained they had been stolen from off the farm of the latter gentleman, where she had been employed in sorting potatoes. Mr. Rinkin's steward fully identified the potates, and produced samples. The prisoner did not deny the charge, and was fully committed for trial at the next Knu'sford sessions. Samuel Minshull, a joiner, residing at Great Neston, was summoned at the instance of the Birkenhead and Lancashire Cheshire Junction Railway Company for travelling on the line from Chester to Ilooton without having first obtained a ticket. The charge having been admitted by the defendant he was fined is and costs. EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY g S uf a e t pi t o r o r ni d ,y a y layingwna C m a o n L s , t a b t r e d i d a g rli n n . i s gh committed o m r e o Ft r a t n r e e l d y r . o s a t i t: n t S c h u e o n f ( C i a a y e 7 this m b r o b i (l u g: e l i d i a l h i g n i r g e: •Lunatio Asylum works, at Fulbourn, about three miles from on the 30th September last, a glass cylinder, containing one of each of the current coins of the realm, with a vellum scroll, on which was written the names of the commi:tee of visitors and officers, was placed in a receptacle hollowed out of a large stone, upon which the corner stone, bearing an appropriate inscription, and weighing at least half a ton, was placed ; this was also secured by the brickwork and masonry surrounding and built over it. The whole remained safe till Saturday last. On Sunday morning, however, it was discov.red that two courses of the brickwork above the corner-stone, had beers removed, and supports placed to shore up the remainder, sup porting, clear of the stone, at least seven or eight tone weight ; the corner-stone was forcibly lifted out of its place by some leverage. Brickwork was then placed under it, so that a man's hand and arm might be got into the receptacle of tho lower stone contain ing the coins ; and which, upon inspection J were found to h a v e b een a b s t racte d . F rom the skilful man ner in which this most extraordinary and impudent robbery was planned and executed, there is no doubt that the perpe trators were parties well acquainted, not only with the situa tion of the cylinder containing the coins, but also with brick work dttoadofihifflinaserddtaxtehipwia2wevitilooghsoiwfmriloneiilkhanrtadsvtmabtrcesaekiiimad,,sl marks watchman a iepibieo s lnaecelpn o ennooto n trwdfgintio r i esi y iavyet . ution, sbenusrxecaot T vo2olueli l o7y i ntn e hi9, , wonder o,ci o c Ic. is that the robbers we r 0 not crushed by the fall of the heavy mass of brickwork above the stone, as the shores put in by them as supports, to enable them to remove the courses of brick, wore not strong remaisinlitwtlaell dtooubwt enough to support the weight, and consequently the buttress h th e ici' i t o fwfeans parted from the portion of t t h h o e. labour and toil which the perpetrators of this daring robbery te ff h e ae r m e offered f nn o st r beingot' o booty n r l e y ti T e i n i apprehension ho Isn they f . expectheted t i e t s o , attached, teaunppt a cti n nlji c i 4u n tesh3 c :ei l o t c .. ea had Aaeeveduer done eia e irtt n dyo may be mentioned daywapremises vellum scroll 0 l Satur .nTdi.hte afterwards dependant found in a hedge lo ground.—Cambridge lis . on ti THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT HALE, k one la c n b e i . ld. H e to the above fatal accident : FURTHE R PAP TICULA. have collected the f0110w ingR5........w; It aPPilacil, adeeccoemaspeisiendamthee particulars (from one of our Reporters,) in reference was Thomas Byrnes, who was a shipwright by trade. He was titaakPenwiftrielmotiGierreat George's street stand. t: e b s o i u de t a 2s in yea a rs ocofuargte,oaffnd ow a il s b m er a t rri s e t d re , e h t a , v r in a g r went out with his wife and child, with some friends, on Sunday afternoon, to enjoy a drive. It seems that a publican in the it would be unfair to the man to inculpate him. Tli,! place where the melancholy affair happened, is about three-quarters of a mile from the village of Hale, on the Liverpool side; and, as nvijeenli'gtiliilte'a7furil:Fl°l°:l°4lvseelisnrtiwghaiastsion takes place, described to our reporter, is a place of a dangerous de scription. It is stated to he a hole of some sort on the side of the road, and not protected. It was also stated that the publican all u d e d to called out to th e carman to avoid the place ; b ut whether lie heard him, or through w an t o f caution, or by pure accident, it does not appear, hut he drove into it. The wife and child of deceased 'titnessed the terrible catastrophe, which deprives the one of a husband, and the other of a father. The body at present lies at the " Child of Halo" Hotel, and this day, at one o'clock, an inquest will be held, and whatever facts may not have transpired will, of course, be elicited on the enquiry, w I shop