Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Yzarzaper. SEDUCTION AND ATrEhIPrED MURDER. LIVERPOOL. BZFORR MR. R. GLADSTONZ. BAD Housza.,7—Thomas Horrocks, and his wife Mar garet, were brought up by Inspector Hough, on a eharge of keeping an improper house, at 31, Norman-street The Rev. Mr. Green, of St. Sila:: Church. Mr George Rake, a Scripitre reader, and John Irving, a working man, were exam;ned, and they proved to the disorderly conduct carried on in the house. The evidence being sufficient, the prisoners were sent for trial. Subsequently, Mr. Black applied to the Bench to allow the prisoners out on bail, aml the application was granted. His Worship agreeing to accept two sureties in £lO each, for their appearance at sessions. PREPARING FOR OURISTIIA3 —John Brown was charged by police cffi?er 277, on sutpicion of stealing a dead sheep. The constable e - as on duty in Scotland-road, on Thursday night, when he saw a spring cart pees, loaded with dead sheep. Scene time after he saw the prisoner going up Ben 4 - oneon-street, with a dead sheep on his back, and, knowing him to be a thief, he followed him. When the prisoner sate that he was observed, he ran into a passage, followed by the officer, who got the body of the sheep in a yard, but the prisoner had got into a house, out of which the officer " abstracted " him. He had not time to look after the owner of the sheep. The prisoner was remanded. ROGUISH WO EK3lEN.—Thomas Pritchard, a night watch man at Mr. Green's brewery, Soho-street, George Boeth, foreman baker at Mr. Allison's bakery establishment, 170, Richmond-row, Samael Millar, and Thomas Daffy, two bakers in the same employment, were brought up by detective officers Scaife and Thompson, on the following charge :—lt appeared Mr. Allison called at the Pollee office, Dale street, and, stated that he suspected his men were robbing him, at an early hour in the morning. 'The officer went to the place, in Richmond-row, for two or three mornings, but found nothing. About five o'clock that morning the constables went again, and saw the man Pritchard leave the b ewery and go to a side window that looked in the prosecutor's premises, where he gave a signal, and then a door adjoin ing was opened, and Pritchard admitted. Some time after he came out, and in a coat belonging to one of the other prisoners, they got six loaves of bread lapped up and he said the other prisoners gave the broad to him. The officers then went into the bike-house, where they got the other prisoners, but they denied having given the bread to Pritchard. In reply to his Worship, Pritchard said the other men had given him the bread, saying it was broken bread, and that he might take it home to his children. The other prisoners denied this, when his Worship said, these mutt be enchanted loaves ! The officers said they got a quantity of bread in the bake-house which the pro secutor said had no right to be there. The prisoners, with the exception of Duffy, were sent to jail for three months each, and Duffy for one month. PAT MULLIGAN'S ESCAPADE.—Patrick Mulligan, a person from whose appearance one mtght judge that he did not care much whether he went to work in a chain gang or faced a couple thousand Sepoys, was charged under the following circumstances. It appeared that the prisoner and some comrades of his wont into the public-house of Mr. Simon Graham, Flint-street, the previous day, and called for some ale. It was supplied, but instead of payment, the parties commenced fighting with each other, and when the bat...girl interfered to prevent them, they knocked her about, ran inside the bar, took all the money that was in the till, and also a coat. The latter was subsequently fonni on the prisoner. He was remanded. A FORGED TEN Poulin NOTE —A person described as a dealer (in the street) in nuts, who gave the name of John Walker, but whose real name was state :l to be Charles Kendall, was charged with .having pissed a bad note, pur porting to be a good one of the Bank of England, for £lO. The note is marked H. P., No. 49,037, dated April 28th, 1857," and it was said that many notes of this plate, are at present in circulation, so that the public should be on their guard against these. as the bast judges are almost deceived in them, the imitation is so good. It appeared that on the 20. h November, the prisoner went to the public-house of Mrs. Leggett, Leeds street, and purchased a pig from her for £7 10t., giving the note in question in payment, leaving £2 103. bahinee. Subsequently the lady paid the note to the brewer, and it turned out to be a forgery. The prisoner said he got the note from a dealer, but who the dealer was he could not tel. He was remanded for further inquiry. A "GREASY" DISPUTE.—John Roger!, the cook of the ship Prince of the Seas, was charged by Captain Wilson, the master of that ship, with having stolen £35 worth of grease, or " fat," belonging to the ship Mr. Snowball appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. J. B. Aspinall (barrister) for the pr ironer. The case occupied a long time, and sever 1 witnesses were examined. The following contains the whole case :—The ship sailed from London, for Melbourne, with passengers. The prisoner was the ship's cook at £5 lOs. a month wages. Thin, the captain said, was nearly three pounds a month more than any other sailor had. The vessel sailed from London to Australia, from that to South America, and then home to Liverpool On arrival here, the prisoner sold the grease and fat" for £35, the mate passing the casks from the ship that contained the fat. A dispute arose between the captain and the prisoner, about the wages of the latter. and it was stated that the captain wseited to abduct the £35 from the balance due to the prisoner. The latter refused to allow this, claiming the fat as his due as well as his wages. The captain refusing to pay, the cook got his attorney to put the ship under arrest for the wages due him, and she is at present under arrest for that claim. The captain then gave the cook into custody on the charge of felony. There were two points at issue—whether the cook had a right to claim the fat as his perquisite, and whether the captain had a right to stop the amount of the fat from his wages. It did appear that theta was no mention whatever on the articles, or verbally, that the cook was not to have the fat, nor was there any deduction to be made if he talk it. On this his counsel argued that he was entitled by custom to the fat. His Worship was of the same opinion, and after administering a few sharp words to the captain for his neglect of duty discharged the prisoner, saying there was no case made out against him. BEFORE MESSRS. SIIBIL AND ROMILLY. PUBLICANS' AND RZERSELLERS' CASPS. —Richard Rey. nolds, Westmoreland-street, was fined 203. and costs for Sunday trading. Anne Theywood, beerseller, Prussia street, was brought up, charged with selling after hours. She was acquitted, the evidence not being clear against her. William Guy, Oak-street, and James Dein, Gay street, were charged with like offences, and acquitted on similar grounds. Mary Sutton, beerseller, Charters-street, was charged with Sunday trading This case was ad journed. Margaret Forrester, beerseller, Prince Edward street, was fined 20s and costs for Sunday trading. John Patterson, beerseller, Dryden-street, was charged with Sunday trading. Find 10 8 and costs. John Evans, beer seller, Peteastreete was fined lOs and costs for Sun :ay trading. John levies, beerseller, Greek-street, was charged with Sunday trading. Acquitted. Anne Jones, beerseller, Norfolk st, and John Warburton, St. Andrew street, were acquitted of the same charge. David Arley, publican, Gill-street, was fined 20s. and coste for permitting drunkenness. Robert Lamb, beerseller, 18 Desker-street, was charged with selling after hours. Dismissed. Cathe rine Verner, beerseller, Newton-street, was charged with selling after hours. Fined 10s. and costs. CLAM FOR WAGES. —R bete Roberts, a sailor, made a claim of oEt32 103 for wages against Mr. W. Craig, master of the vessel Elizabeth Martin. Mr. Bremner, who rap peered for the pla nail', stated the facts of the Case as fo'lows : The plaintiff shipped on baud the Elizabeth Martin on the 7th Nov , 1856. at Liverpool. Shortly after the vessel left this port for Singapore, she was obliged to put in for repairs at Milford, where the plaintiff, in the discharge of his duty, met with an accident from which his leg was broken. He was consequently unable to per form duty for a length of time. The vessel, when her repairs were finished, left Milford for her destination, leavieg the plaintiff behind without any discharge, in con sequence of which he was unable to get another ship since. The captain ommitted to take the proper an d l ega l pre caution of discharging the plaintiffin presence of a ship ping master. £ 2 10.1 per month was the rate of wages agreed on, and the claim for wages running from the 7th Nov., 1856, the day the plaintiff shipped, until Friday last, when the ship returned to Liverpool. In cross examination by Me. Alm md, whe appeared for the defen dant, it appeared that the plaintiff had got £4 6s for maintenance while siet. It vras proved also that £8 had been paid for medical attendance. The defendant had offered to send him over to Liverpool while ill, but "the doctor would not allow it. Mr. Sheil, in giving the decision of the bench, stated that the plaintiff was entitled to wages up till the time he mot with the accident, that was on the 2nd Dec., 1856, and for one month after. He had no power to go further, but he did not intend to say that the plaintiff had no further claims, which might be taken into another court The amount of the verdict for the plaintiff was and costs, having got a month's advance when shipped. The papers announce the death of Admiral Sir F. Beaufort. The Daily News reports, what it terms a rara oceu trence, the settlement o f the- debt of a Spanish American S tate, upon terms recognized as satisfactory by the creditors-- the state is _Buenos Acres. DOVER Dec. 17.—The ship Hannah, from Callao, laden with 1500 tons of guano, foundered on the sth instant, off the Azores. The cap - ain and crew, thirty in number, tcok to their boats, and were picked up by the brig Edmund Thomson, of Leith, and landed at Dover. THE N ORTHERN TIME S.-LIVERPOOL, SAT UR DAY, DECEMBER 19, 1857. A FRENCHMAN ON INDIA. A Paris correspondent writes : Within the last few days a pamphlet on the Indian question has appeared in Paris—l can hardly say has been published, because it is all but unknown to the public. An attempt has been made to force it into publicity, but as yet without avail. It comes forth anonymously, and is entitled " Des Sentiments de justice et d' Humanite de l'Angle terre dans la Question Indienne." Some peculiar circumstances mark this brochure. The publisher, whose name appears on the title page, is not, I believe, a publisher in the strict sense of the word ; he is merely a bookseller, and deals principally, if not entirely, in rare editions of old works, which he buys up at sales and disposes of to amateurs who have a taste for some things, and are rich enough to in dulge it. The object of the author of the pamphlet is to show that the British are quite as bad, if not worse, titan the Hindooe, who, he states, are all in insurrection against the English; and that, bad as are the acts of the Sepoys, we have, during our occupation of the country, done no less to the inhabitants. The 180 pages of the book display a most malignant feeling, while in ignorance and misrepresentation they can hardly be surpassed. Among the few persons who have as yet seen it, it has been stated that this diatribe is the production of a soldier. It is impossible to give credit to such a fact. That individual stands too high for such an imputation to reach him; and even had he not been known to have always kept aloof from politics, his position in the Crimea, his rank, and his know ledge of our army and of the English, of whose character he is known to have frequently expressed admiration, would utterly forbid such a suspicion. One would rather attribute it to Russian agency, with a view to excite a bad feeling among the superficial and the ignorant classes of the people. There are persons, and these not among the obscurer tools of Russia, who, for reasons bee known to themselves, cherish intense hatred to alt and everything English—such hatred as is feundl only among the base—and who would willingly lend a hand in the work. To show the animus with which the anonymous writer performs his task I give the following extracts. The writer says:— We give to the French press neither a chronological history of India nor a political discussion on the confisca tion of India by England. Others abler than we are will do this duty, but we address to the press a brief defence of the Indians, whom it appears to condemn too lightly on the interested assertions of England. We mean to be brief in or3er to be read; we have cited but few facts, but their value will sufficienly establish the truth of our assers tions. lie who wishes to enter more deeply into the subject will find accumulated in such number the accusing proofs against England that their impaling mass may be designated a pyramid of English iniquity. The press has for its noblest mission to defend every where, and at all tinnee the rights of humanity. England, so tumultuously philanthropic in her relations with Europe, must be recalled by the unanimous cry of the press to the sentiments of the moderation which she incessantly preaches to the Governments of Earope. It is not enough to say that India is now the resort of brigands to giie her the rights of extermination ; the press will demand of her an account, hour by hour, of the manner in which she employs her sword of justice. One is already but too well disposed to take the part of Indite to understand the terrible explosion of the Indian Vespers, and to agree with the last Nabob of Bengal, who, in 1750, left as instructions to his successor these remarkable words : " The hearts of the English are given up to the love of gold and of dominion, and their acts have proved to the entire East how little they regard the precepts they have received from God. Their policy and their power are in opposition to their faith. I repeat it to you, my son, crush the English. If you allow them to have among you factories and soldiers, the land on which you reign will soon be theirs," At page 11, the writer says : India has never, properly speaking, been conquered by England. She at first presented herself there under pretext of trade, and by little and little, and by means of corrup tion, and by fermenting wars between the different native Princes, she ended by appropriating to herself the sove reignty of this vast country It ill becomes the English to talk of the proverbial bad faith of the Indians, of their dissimulation and their ingratitude; the Indians may, on far better grounds, fling them the charge. THE COMIIIAIiDER-1N CHIEF ON COURTS-ITA_RTIAL. The writer refuses to give credit to the accounts published to the world of all the atrocities com mitted on helpless woman and children by the Sepoys : We do not doubt that there have been massacres of Europeans, bat what we do doubt is the number of the victims, the kind of death they endured, and the part taken in these crimes by the native chiefs. We do not accept without examination the letter addressed to The Times on the 19th September last by a person named Shepherd, a spy in the English service- His account is full of improbabilities—but, suppose it to be exact, we ask, have the English never given to the Indians the example of the atrocities which have again spread dismay among man kind ? G. A.. WErlEßtri, Adjutant•Ganeral. DR. DUFF ON THE CAPTURE OF DELHI. people, and she has done nothing for their morality, their instruction, or their well being. We do not preach to the Indians revolt against England, we do not establish committees to encourage insurrection against the Briti,h nation, though England has twenty times set us the example by her committees in favour of Poland, Italy, and Hungary. We do not cry out to any people to take up arms and break the yoke that oppresses them ; we speak only in the name of humanity and civilisation. We do not in a spirit of low jealousy exult at the evils which strike England, but we do not wish that she should have the right to preach to other people the principles which she does not apply at home. We do not wish that she shall make a virtue of the abolition of the slave trade proclaimed by her when America won her independence, while she herself keeps in the most abject slavery 140,000,000 of human czeatuee, and arrogates the right to dispose of their existence al she would not dare to do with animals. We do not wish that the philanthropic England shell any longer deck herself with that usurped title, and it is for this that we have lifted up a corner of the veil which covers from Europe the sight of India We have not sought to inquire whether England was guided by the general interest of the civilised world in uniting Europe against the ambitious designs of Russia, and the 'Projects of conq sect of Persia. Wo have not demanded of her an account of the support. at least the moral support, she gives to the CadleaSU4. We have not the pretension to touch on great political questions Europe will some day be brought on this ground by force of facts. tog before Sebastop o l, t o w hi c h we d o n:t hesitate to col the contest which has j us t now been brought to an 01 MR. ROEBUCK ON INDIAN REFORrif, ld On Thursday evening a public meeting was "e s tiles 4 Martin's Hall. for the purpose of considering the ° ° "ee of India and the wer'sing of the double tPre re Viscount Bury, M P, presided. ted the The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, ete oaf object for which the meeting had been convenedemiiis; were met there to discuss the doubl e govern ment efl_ u ene a resoultion would also be submitted t o them esi?ree°,7.. uti o an opinion that that double gover nmen t oujit to e liahed. The hon. viscount conclud e d by giving area ed of the history of our Indian empi re , a nd exP a opinion that the days of the E as t I n li a numbered, and that its newer must be swept a erob e rot a , Mr. J. ' lye to A. Roebuck, M.P., th en rose , an d s 3l w ale lotion which had been pieced in his h an ds to I °: to nt 0 1 followa :--" That the eeatem of th e double gov er '. 110 India, as tested by the res u lt o f it s a d m inietrat lo jo g proved alike incompatible with the welfare and 118 e lefeti of our fellow subjects in that c oun t ry , an d t , c e, e nd, and commercial prosperity of th e British En l P. i wre sts, therefore, that, with a view to se cure our na tione lls o f the and also to raise the moral and social co n dir o sire people of Inrlia, to developo th e i r resourc es, an floe them protection for person an d p roperty , it is !t i t. foro that there be established f or I n di a a re spen'ahicl i of government, in the name of th e C rown . under f the all abuses may be checked by the contro l e l tice o people of England, exercised th roug h t h e i r represcn' said in tho House of Commons. The hoe. member 00n 00 they had met there for a very impotent purpose. =tee the were other countries that has b een pl ease d to le' l b ,eiO government of their affairs to one man, or a fe w I ,lle this country Englishmen appeared to think fit tots leg goverment into their own !made, and although , b oted some part of oar government to those in that to° s House down in Westminster—(laughter) —the ne°E r ubli s , on themselves to assemble together in 'lO l to f meeting, and to warn their representatives astbst they wanted. This meeting was one instance e ori ea feeling, for they were now about to tell the g ° :1 0 41 0 classes of this country what the people i , fa l of the manner in whi c h the government of 111— t test' conducted. This, he thought, was a most imporolln and therefore he felt it to be his dire , to come d° , l „e ele lg attend this meeting. He thought there now oi e ne eiLl a feeling with regard to India as never was experi e ; : i any period before. We have acquired a O n g .: 0 111 7 India, the extent or greatness of which was TleT e t n cdt —not even Rome, in her palmy days, had such a i ,";`e 1 1 : As to the population of that empire, ho beil e 'eitalll last return showed there were 200,000,000 of inLiS t - i i that were under our rule. To the wel" - bseill o o that empire he would not now refer ; b ut f 113 e ' acquired that dominion—of the juetice ° o idP acquisition he would not now speak—they mus t Voel . 1 4 1 how it could b e b es t governe d . Havin r act - 0174 e they must so govern it th a t th e mo d e of g°'-ree must be considered ri g ht an d proper i n ;the e , g ae jw / God and of man. Since they had first had It? d° ;e great faults hid !been committed, and groat itel ne , -6 01 11 ,,° been inflicted on the people of India. As to the g c ?,' D 0 7 4 classes of England, he expressed a strong oPi ni s" 0 1 . they must not be left to themselves, for th e y 00 til° then do no good for the people. Then he cante wh ifot question as to how we had act , d towards India ? many a long year the East India Company wl e ,,F r , mere than a trading body, b u t i t t h en please" 'lOll to who it would he remem b ere d was a l ways i n o pp°l l 1 PI the g eat Mr. Fox, to bring in his India mesel brought in the bill w hi c h gave t h e governme nt °. n the to the British Parliament. At that time was:reig° lll l 7per worthy monarch, George 111 , w h o , to su i t hie ist I pose, joined with Pitt, and Fox was turned O a ',l t 9 manner too well known. Th en i t was t h at P i tt er 0 0 0' power. Pitt was an acute man and having gc tt i lite 1 / 3 of Directors o f th e E ast I n di a Company to 8 ,1 / 4 4 ,, 00 ah destroying Fo x , h e t urne d roun d aga i nst all t' c i e t ll °' had previously supp or t e d him Fitt then In e— reg Y double government c f t h e I n di an empire to w hi c h th e c or lotion referred. The C our t o f Directors were to b tbO s trolled By the Board of Control, is Cannon-ro W , a , 0 4 0, board has for its head a president, and that official fact the King of I n di a; h e could do whatever be Pe' for the Board of Di rec t ors were b oun d to do we'pere chose to tell them. If anything ever happened the o ttet of Directors said they w ere no t answera bl e ; the, 011! went to the President of the roard of Cent-rota - 0 do said he was not answerable ; and th en , if it wen' slg Governor-General in Council in India, th a t personl it Do said the same thing—that he was n ot answera ble, 1 , 0 110 (the hon. member) conte n d e d t h a t th e a b so l u t e co tc .n t iv el l , l with the president of th e b oar d i n Cannon-row. "eeed, , said was this—that if was to be well go,v e eo6 ,4 o ' must be known wh o was t o b e held responsible. to propose, firstly, th a t t h e B oard of Directors o f Bpd with, East India Company b e entirely done away -nee ste p i if that object was accomp li s h e d , they must go further, and aboli s h th e B oar d o f C ontro l . In t he'rell'l these, ho would el ec t cue man, and call him the sec t for of State for India, and ma k e hi m t h e respon sible P i `Teere the good government cf that empire. (Hear, heer.)/0; the were two things necessary to be done by the P eeP ne ibili t i first was to make machinery, and concentrate resP°e felt here, and make th e p eo pl e h ere l et t h e i r pow er be r oe, India. They mus t d o away w i t h t h e Ccurt o f Direet°,oe°' the Board of Control ser e , and make a responsible e , fedi* State for India. Having got the Secretary of State f or c aste' they should have a governmen t in In , lia, and in Li oft Madras, and Bombay, there should be ago ; • :Knot ' l l Cc' but there shculd b e i n eac h pres id ency a mun-°,- be ee 0 vernment, so that every E ng li s h man th ere should pes t voice in the government of themselves. EegliFl' me ig isag e 4 out of this country with all the feelings, the k° o OP and the disposition of Englishmen, and therefore t co he, wee to he allowed to gov ern th emse l ves. Wh en a l°%4' made by Britons they carried out with them the le r ! li c Of t ', the feelings, th e l aws , t h e religion, the literature -4 o they carried out a little England—they planted p ot de wilds, and t it grew u p ; t h ey cou ld t h ere fore . cor/ bettor than let it go vern it se lf. But the cssa li c o cert l ; different with India. If they were capable of t' eli Tetet i e % ment, he would advocate their having a rere e e fo re . m, government, but they were not, and could not air; tefj entrusted with the privileges. The first thing weile establish was perfect liberty as regarded religtena ;ce e sn not mean that they were to f oster the Fein"; etive i ; abominations of th e Hinclooe, bat they mne's sh e tr ay ample, and make th e Government of India,"4lo;; Christian Government. The people of England PL I g e u '. upon themselves the government of India, and t a ' e e 'of e l e Y e answerable for all that happened there in the 11 , 4 ,7, - , 1 0 11 ",, - , people of England. Tee time was fast approae" l 7.oo; 6 every man would have a direct interest in the go v :.; pr°, of India, and it would then remain fur them 'worec,"; whether they would thew themselves as good to t , i ; wise as sagacious, and whether they could condL e re o f happiness of mankind as they had been the fettnu— -05 greatness of India ; R ive d . Mr. Ottway sec o nd e d th e reso l ut i on, an d, in T, fit a e commented upon the gallant conduct of Ganer 3 Z, e lock, Outrun, and others; and trusted in God to tb would yet outlive . these dangers, and return; earnedAi country to enjoy the honours they had so we l t but if tre band of gallant heroes at L ue kuow It i ees, t l into the hands of the enemy, and that it shoul d °lt as he believed it would, that succour could %dr sent to thorn in time if it had b een se nt ovee we goce• ,go would bring home the cr i me to t h e d oor of ment. °f th e Mr Mead then addressed the meeting in stIPP rg of resolution, during w hi c h h e entere d i nto a his- and commencement and progress of the rebellion.. g , 01 1 0 mented severely on th e con d uc t o f L or d Can nj f ie on t ee e e indecision and i m p o liti c con d uct h a d draw" ' O lO .- English people in I n di a th e greater port i on of the be they had suffered. Wh ich the A Mr. Murray moved th e nex t amendrrief, if t ' et 1 , 1 1 e , t the wished to be add e d t o th e reso l ut i on, to the 6 . 9 0 . j ot° only way to o bt a i n t ranqu illi ty f or I n dia `* - te eed ey Government to recog n i se th e anc i ent trea ties 8 7 0 relig; by with the native princes, an d a respec t for tl a eon tio opinions of the people; and this could only, a way giving universal manhood suffrage, and takinie property qualification of members. e rne Mr Lockhart eeccncled the amendment d A fter - The resolution was t h en p u t an d carr ied, an r i e d. og esi further discussion, the add en d um was also e ar s e uete c ,a Mr. Ernest Jones th en move d t h e a d o ption a n y, en' to Parliament to ab o li s h t h e E ast I. di a Co P r° , having been second e d b y M r . B e ll , an d carrl te d tee p A. vote of thanks to the ch a i r man termi ni ' ceeJings. He allud©s to the proceedings in Parliament against Warren Hastings, and says :—" India wAs again sacrificed to its executioners in spite of the coalition of Pitt, Fox, Burke, and all the great orators of the Chamber. Hastings was acquitted —not only acquitted but rewarded," and, with an admirable acquaintance with the history of the acts, concludes—'4 Hastings received a peerage very soon after !" The author is of course of opinion that though England may suppress the insurrection, she will, sooner or later, lose not only India, but the whole of her colonies. The following important communication from his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the General Comnalndingdn-Chief, having reference to recent courts-martial, has been received by Major- General Sir W. F. Williams, Commandant of the Royal Artillery, and Colonel Brky.vn, Commandant of the Royal Marine;, at Woolwich, and was this day read over to the officers of the corps at their respective mess-rooms. Horse Guards, December 14th, 1837. Up-n two occasions, officers have been convicted, upon the clearest evidence, of most serious offences against the military discipline, have been recommeadod, by general courts-martial, to her Majesty's merciful consideration. In one case the prisoner was found guilty of having absented himself from his corps, without leave, for a considerable period, setting at defiance due military. subordination. In the other case, the prisoner was con victed of habitual contempt of the orders of his command ing, officer, and was, moreover, convicted of scandalous conduct, unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. In both instances there were no mitigating circumstances, but the courts-martial having adjudged the prisoners the punish ment due to their crimes, accompanied the sentence by a recommendation to mercy. The General Coramandiog-in-Chief, in the exercise of his judgment, did not feel justified in supporting such recommendations, based upon the youth and inexperience of the prisoners, There have been, and there may be hereafter, occurrences where you'll and inexperience may be urged in mitigation of punishment ; but persevering and systematic disobedience cf orders, and deliberate falsehood, can admit of no palliation ; ald his' Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge most earnestly desires that when officers are called upon to adjudicate upon charges involving such serious offences, they will pause and seriously reflect before they rec:mrnend to her Mjesty's clemency individuals who have boon found guilty of them, and who thereby have been proved un worthy of serving the Queen and country in a profession which must be upheld by the principles of honour and discipline. By command of his Royal Highness the Gonsral Com minding in-Chief. A tenth letter from Dr. Duff appears in the Edinburgh Witness, from which we make the following extract :—All the accounts which now have reached us conspire in proving that, among the most signal evidences of a favouring Providence ought to bo ranked the uninterrupted siege and final capture of Delhi. There, humanely speaking, every . thing was against us. The odds indeed were far more tremendous than any, at the outset, whether rulers or ruled, could wall have conceived. The season of the year itself presented a most formidable difficulty. It was at the very height of our Indian summer, when the atmo sphere glowed with a furnace heat, that the tornado of rebellion burst upon us. Hitherto it has been assumed as a matter of course fact, that during such a season it is impossible for British troops to keep the field; or, if attempted, that inevitable destruction must follow. Doubtless, this had entered into the calculations of the conspirators. Then, again, the Government was quite unprepared ; it had been taken utterly by surprise. By a coup de main the enemy got possession of the largest and strongest fortified ci - y in India—a city with perhaps the largest, and at one time the most gorgeous, palace in the world, and a titular emperor for its tenant—around whose person clustered the most brilliant memories of pest mag nificence and triumph. The inhabitants of the city within, and of the neighbouring ceuntries all round, were, almost to a man, enthusiastically in favour of the cause of the rebel mutineers. Provisions they had in abundance, though their numbers increased to thirty or forty thousand. Money, too, was plentiful, as the contents of scores of provincial treasuries were conveyed to the imperial exchequer. Nor did they lack guns or ammunition ; for, after the siege, the number of guns taken exceeded 200, many of them of large calibre, eighteen and twenty four pounders ; while lass, or hundred of thousands of percussion; caps, barrels of gunpowder without end, shot and shell enough to last a two years' siege, fell into the hands of the victors. And though their ranks were constantly mown, the loss was instantly more than replenished by thousands flushed with the spoils of their former masters, reeking with their blood, and all but delirious with the intoxication of a tem pory triumph, and with the bright visions of future glory. On the other side, what had wet A few thousands at the utmost, of whom a minority wore only British—the rest, a miscellany cf S:khs, Ghoorkas, and other nondescript natives from the Punjeub hills. The British, poor fellows! —alike officers and mon, obliged to make forced marches, such as British soldiers were never called upon continu ously to make before in an Indian summer—often without any tents, and in many cases almost without carriage of any description. But, though decimated by sun-stroke and cholera, they never fainted nor flagged. Then fol lowed the drenching rains of a tropical wet season, with their endless train of dysentories and fevers. But, as in the Crimea, the spirit of officers and men seemed impervious to the most noxious an :d depressing influences. Taey proved that at the call of duty—the call of their country, they could dare to march and fight under the fiercest rays of a horrid sun, or amid the gales and waterspouts of an Indian rainy season. On reaching their campaign ground before Delhi, they found themselves amid the ashes of the conflagration which had laid waste the bungalows an I property of the former British residents. There their diffiulties were enormous. Unable to watch but a small part of a walled city of seven or eight miles iu circumference—obliged to keep open their com munications with the rear, which swarmed with a hostile population—for months provided only with guns of com paratively small calibre, which would make no impression on the walls of the imperial city—watched and reported on by native traitors that overran the camp—kept on the alert bhh day and night by a vigilant and persevering enemy which almost incessantly attacked them from one quarter or another, they still maintained their ground—repulsing every assault with the most determined energy. At last, on the 14th of September, when it became their turn to act on the aggressive, it has been declared on authority that, owing to losses from sun-stroke, disease, and wounds, the besiegers had not two thousand British infantry fit for duty, and not more than fo ir thousand five hundred infantry altogether." And yet, with this handful, after six days of hard fighting with myriads of armed despera does, who knew that their lives were forfeited, the imperial city was taken, and not a rebel left alive in it. "History," remarks one of our public journalists, "history, perhaps, will do justice to the unsurpessabie devotion and energy of our brave countrymen, and will admit that the courage, the exertions, and the endurance of the British army before Delhi, has a parallel only in the heroic struggle REV. J. MACNAUGHT IN REPLY TO Or. I. GLAZEBROOK. I wh m ic y h kW+ 1 you t I P e u tt b Sir,—l shall not reply apolomisreg y shed this oir t e : . . I' u lr s . morning,fGoriezt 11(1)1:113;:nioeItat'llib$0100V NORTIMRS TIMES. . n presentations to which I drew his at' o toit ° oUt r T i h es i restoring s po d n e d la e y n t the alternation m y y o and continuity of co u p r a ,s rt t w ru i l l y l ,have the l! tivil -r Jour; DifAcsAvallr. Everton, Deo. 18, 1857. ELOPEXENT AND ROBBERY EX TRIORDINARY. At the Thames Police-court on Wednesday, James Milner, aged 21, painter ; William Horton Pring, 27, agent; Maria Caldwell, described as a married woman, 25 ; and Harriet Underwood, the wife of the prosecutor in the case, 25, were brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing a watch, money, bedding, furniture, and other articles, value £5O, the property of James Under wood, landlord of the beer-house called the Railway Inn, Chancery-lane, Manchester. Mr. Charles Young, solicitor; stated the case for the prosecution, and said the woman Underwood had absconded from Manchester with her paramour, Milner, with whom it was believed she had long carried on an illicit intercourse, and assisted by him and the prisoners Caldwell and Pring, stripped her hnsband's house of every valuable article it contained. There was also a charge of assault agsinst the woman Underwood, who struck her husband with a candlestick, and threw his watch at his head. The prosecutor a resprcteble looking man, superior, both in personal appearance and address to either of the male prisoners, said he kept a beer-house in the parish of Hardeeck, Manchester. On Friday the sth init., he was iu company with Milner, who was in the practice of using his housn Milner said he had two tickets for the theatre, and invited him to go there, to which he consented, and left his house all safe, and his wife in it. Milner made an excuse for quitt ng the theatre before the performances terminated, and left him at ten o'clock. Witness returned to the house at ten minutes after eleven, and found it closed. Tne back part of it was exposed and the doors open, and anybody could have get in. He found upon entering the house, that it had been nearly stripped of its cotrents, and his wife was missing. Mr. Charles Youcg here read a long list of the stolen articles, including the prosecutor's linen and wearing apparel, and on mentioning three counterpanes, the prosecutor's wife,.a most noisy and impudent woman, who frequently interrupted the proceedings, called out, " it's a he ; there was only one counterpane ; I only took one away." Mr. Yardley : You had better conduct your self with propriety woman. The prosecutor continued : Maria Caldwell was a servant of mine ; Milner and Pring used my house. Pring is a sort of agent, or lawyer's clerk. I found all the prisoners in the same room yester day in Bromley. I found my property in the room, and begs.is to remove it, on which my wife began smashing the things, knocked m y h at ove r my head, th , ew a candle stick at me, and abused me. 'I he prisoner Milner told the policeman his name was Jones. Mrs. Underwood : It's a lie. He sail his name was John. Mr. Yardley : You had better be quiet. The prosecutor: At tte station house, my wife lbw at me like a tigress. She threw my watch at me. and struck me. 'The watch nearly struck a policeman on the head, and fell upon a wall and rebounded and was shattered to atoms. Milner: I know nothing about the goods at all. I did not steal them. Mr. Young : It can be proved that the prisoner Milner assisted in the robbery, and he also stole the prosecutor's wife. Mr. Yardley asked the prosecutor hoer long hs had been married to his wife ? Mrs. Underwood : I can answer that: Six years on the 14th of March. The prosecutor : Milner and my wife have been intimate the last twelve mon he. Mr. Young said there were witnesses at Manches ter who saw all the prisoners go away with the prosecutor's boxes and property, and perhaps, to save expense, the magistraterwould send the prisoners beck to Manchester. Mr. 'Yardley sail, if a larceny had been committed, it was as much a larceny in London as in Manchester, and he thought it would be more convenient, and attended with less expense, to deal with the case here. Of course, the prosecutor's expenses would be paid. He should remand three of the prisoners on the charge of robbery, and the prisoner Underwood on the charge of assault, until Saturday, brit he would take bail for any of them Mrs. Underwood found one surety in £BO, and was liberated. Her paramour, Pring, and Caldwell, were sent to prison. EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS AT A NUBLEXA.N'S RESIDENCE. At the Marylebone Police -court, London, on We3nes day, the Hon. George Chichester, of 6, Upper Hyde Park street, was char ge d w i t h h av i ng committed an assault on Mr. Thomas Higgins, a fishmonger, carrying on business at 3, Albion-plece, Hyde Park-square. It.r. Broughton (addressing the defendant) : What are you, sir ? Defen dant :I am Clerk of the Peace for Balfest. Complainant having been sworn, said : Defendant lives in a furnished house where other persons also reside, and this house, I believe, is Lord Chichester's. I have supplied those parties with fi h, and yesterday, in consequence of several tradesmen telling me they could not get their money, I went to the house with my bill, which amounted to £5 Os. 21. I had an interview with defendant, who said he could not pay me then, but would do so to-day. I waited on him at ten o'clock this morning, and was told by the servant to call at eleven o'clock. My bill was made out in Lord Chichester's name, and the servant who had given me the orders had directed me to do so. I called again at eleven o'clock, and while talking to the servant, de'endant rushed down stairs, seized me by the collar, forced me to the door, and threw me outside. We had something like a struggle, and while it was going on a policeman came up. Mr. Broughton : Had defendant desired you to leave the house before this struggle took place ? Complainant : No, sir. I can further state that within a very short period there were between 30 and 40 tradesmen at the house for the purpose of endeavouring to obtain money for goods they had supplied, it having been represented that these were for Lord Chichester. Defen dant : My uncle, Lord Chichester, does not owe £2O in the neighbourhood. 272 D, after deposing to the facts of the alleged assault stated, further, that after the money had been paid to Higgins, the defendant might have gone away without any charge being preferred against him, but he insisted on going to the statioa-house. Here the defendant interposed, and said that the complainant had come to the house and made a great noise, and no violence more than was necessary was used in ejecting him from the premises after he had been desired to leave. He asserted that other tradesmen who came with bills had been paid. Defendant called, as witness, Mr. Henry Browning, who said : I live at Lord Chichester's, and occupy apartments up stairs. Defendant was trying to put complainant out, and I saw the whole struggle. Mr. Broughton : Did you hear defendant tell complainant to leave ? Witness : I did. Mr. Broughton : Have you heard any tradesmen clamouring for their bills today ? Witness : Yes, there was one. George IVl'Dermott stated that he was a servant of the Hon. George Chichester, and had given orders for the fish to be sent to the house of Lord Chichester. The complaivant called yesterday for his money, and he heard defendant say to him, that he would be paid if he applied for it properly. He did not remember the complainant being desired to call again at any particular time, and when he came that morning he was desired to leave, bnt he would not do so. Mr. Broughton said that when tradesmen gave credit and sent for their money, application for the same shauld be made with civility, and when parties who went to collect bills were desired to leave, is was their duty to do so quietly. The evidence was of a conflicting nature with regard to complainant's refusing to gait the premises when desired to do so. He then dismissed the charge. ANOTHER PLEA. FOR AN EXTRA HOLIDAY. TO MI BOUM; Or TLIE NOR'CIIERN TIMES. I Sir,—ehristrnas-day falling on - Frilay this year, perhaps you will allow me, through the medium of your j,;urnal,' to intimate to the Mercantile, Professional, and other gentlemen, the ad vantage that would occur to the employees, in their granting them the following day as a Holiday; it would, all rd t) such a class the opportunity of visiting their relatives and friends at a distance, and enable them to participate in the festivities of this joyous season upon their parental health. As Saturday is but a short day with the profession, and many of the tradesmen of. Liverpool, I am of opinion that there would be little lost by adopting such a liberal course, as the emyloyee would meet his occupation on the Monday mooning with more pathos, energy and action, after having availed himsel A f l o . f r. the kind consideration o f hi s employer. At the assizes held at Exeter, before Mr. Justice Willes, en Wednesday, Jonathan Reose was in licted fur having feloniously assaulted Jane Stone, with intent to kill and murder her, on the Ilth of November last, at Tormoham. A second count charged him with maliciously cutting and wounding, with intent to kill and murder her ; and a third count charged him with intent to do her „grievous bodily harm. The prisoner is a mild looking, intelligent young man. He is stated to be 21 years of age, bat he does not look more than 18. Mr. Carter having opened the case, and put in a plan of the premises where the offence was committed, proceeded to call the unfortunate young woman (who is more than seven months advanced in pregnancy by the prisoner) named Jane S one, whose person presented a fearfully mu tilated appearance, her forehead being strapped up, the bridge of her nese broken away, and pa t of the bone removed, while her upper lip had been cut through, and a Portion of It it teeth knocked out, by the brutal treat ment she received, and which will be found narrated in her evidence. She was accommodated with a chair near the judge, spoke in a low tone of voice, and was only kept from fainting during her examina tion by the nra of restoratives at frequent intervals. Tne poor creature, on being sworn, said : My name is Jane Stone ; I am 20 years of age to morrow. I lived at several places in Exeter previous to last Christmas. I have an aunt named Lake living at Torquay. I went down to her last December to seek a place at Torquay. I went to Mrs. Michelmore's, and I agreed j to go and live with her. It stem just before 1 ist Christmas that I commenced living with her as a ser vant. Mr. and Mrs. Michel:flora, myself, and the nephew, lived in the house, but the latter did not sleep there. His name is Jonathan Rouse. de March last he commenced certain freedoms with me; and about the end of the month I saw him in the cellar, where ha had inter esurse with ma which was afterwa r d s repeated. Several weeks after that I remember having seen Jonarhin Roma in the kitchen. I told him I was with child by him. He said he was sorry for it ; he then went upstairs and came down to me again. Hs then gave me four pills which he said I was to take. He did not tell me what I was to take them for. I took two of them in his presence, and the other two the day after. Some weeks after this, I recol lect his going from the kitchen into the bottle room. I told him again that I was with child, and that I was ill. He said that he storey for me, but he did not say what he could do. A few days after that I spoke to him again in the parlour. He asked me how I was, but I can't recol lect what he said. He told me to say the child was some other one's. I told him I could not, but I cannot recollect whether I told him the reason why. At another time he told mo to put it on his uncle, Mr. Michelmore. On the sth of August I left the service of Mrs. Michelmore. About a week before that, Jonathan came to me in the back court. He asked me what I was going to do. I told him I did not know what I was going to do ; I had not thought of it. He said he couldn't do anything for the child. On the 6th of August I engaged to enter Mrs. Will's service; bat I went away for a holiday for eight or nine days after the engage ment. The day after 1 went to Mrs. Wills's, Jonathan came with a bottle of wine, which I took from him. Nothing was slid on that occasion. About a week before the 11th of November, Jonathan again came to my mistress's house, and brought a half dozen bottles of ale. I took them from him, and desired him to go round to the back door. He did so; and I took some empty bottles to him there. I told him I wanted to speak to him one day, because I was with child. He made no answer then, as Mrs. Wills was coming to the door. That was thelaat time I saw him before the 11th of November. Oa that day I went to my aunt's at the Tor Abbey Gate. Isreinained there with her until nearly eight o'clock, and then went back to my place. On coming from my aunt's I met my uncle at the top of the road, above the gate. I stopped for a minute to speak to him, and then went home. When I got home I rang the bell, and just as I had done that I saw Jonathan, who appeared to come from the Laurels. He came to me and said, "Jane, I can speak to you now." I then heard some ore inside the house coaling to open the door, and I told Jonathan I would come out to him, He then went back again. Mrs. Wills opened the door and let me in, and I then went into the kitcherowhete I saw a man named Lam+s, who was repairing the stove. I then went up stairs to take my thiuge, and remained there about five or six minutes. I returned to the kitchen; Leaman was still there, and he told rue something about the stove. I let Leaman out through the front garden, and he went away. I then went down the front garden, bat Jonathan was not there. I then went to the steps leading to the back garden, where I saw him. He, said, "Jane," and I said, "I did not know where you were gone to." He said, "Come up the stern," but he turned and walked up the garden. He put his hand round my waist, and we walked about half-way up the gatelen. I asked him if he saw me go up over the stairs. (We were then opposite the staircase window.) Jonathan replied, " Yes." I then asked him whether he thought I was all right, and he said he did think so. I told him I had no money, and should be obliged to go into the union. He said, "It was a done-up job for him," upon which I said, "It would be worse for me." At that time I saw a light in the staircase: window, :which shone out upon us. He said, "Come further up ;" and we went to the back part of the garden. Whoa we came to the top, Jonathan (who still had his arm round my waist) told me to get down, and he then put me down. I asked him to let me get up ; but he did not make any answer to that. He then pressed his knee against my left side, pressed one head far into my mouth, and then the other on my nose, which stopped nay breathing. I struggled to get away, and said, "Lord have mercy upon me." I tried to make a noise, and did make a little. I bit his hand, upon which he pushed it further down my throat. I don't know what took place after that. I can's recollect any person coming to me when I lay in the garden some time afterwards., j The witness was cross-examined by the prisoner's counsel, with the view of chewing that a quarrel ensued between the parties on the night is question, which led to blows which, however, was not established. Evidence was then given as to the poor girl having been found in the garden insensible by the inmates of the house in which she resided, who went out at the back door ha consequence of hearing the dog bark loudly, and her groans directed them to the spot where she lay. The prosecutrix was lying near the path, with her legs drawn up and her clothes much disordered. There pas a stream of blood in each of the two walks in the garden ; a cap and apron, besmeared with blood, were lying in the walk. The prosecutrix was then removed into her mistress's hotrse, where she stated it was the prisoner who had assaulted her. She was then conveyehl to the Torquay Infirmary, where the prisoner soon afterwards presented himself, accompanied by his uncle, and in his presence the prosecutrix made a declaration before the magistrate, charging him with the offence. It was also proved that the prisoner was seen near the house on the night in question, and that a large• stone, mere than nine pounds' weight, found near the body, was covered with blood and hair, the surgeon giving it as his opinion that the wounds on the pro seentrix's head were caused .by that or a similar weapon. Mr. Stabb, house surgeon at the Torquay Infirmary, deposed to the fearful nature of the injuries the poor girl received. On - sponging her face, he found seven or eight lacerated wounds on the face and head, and four fractures, two on the forehead, over each eye. The bone of the nese was fractured, as well as that of the upper jaw. The teeth wore loose ; one ho removed with hia fingers, and he had akm out others since. The lip was cut, which corre sponded with the lacerated wound over the nose. Both ears were lacerated—the left being torn quite through. He assisted Mr. Jolly in removing a small piece of stone from her temple, which resembled in appearanco the large stone produced. The girl was in a very dangerous state, and he bad no hops of her recovery. She was not out of danger for a fortnight or three weeks after being brought to the infirmary, as erysipelas might have supervened. Mr. Coleridge made a powerful appeal to the jury on behalf of the prisoner. The jury, after half an hour's absence, found the prisoner guilty of an intent to do grievous bodily harm. The Judge said such conduct merited condign punish ment, and sentenced the prisoner (who wept bitterly) to penal servitude for life. The suspension has been announced of the Dartford and Gravesend Bank, of Messrs. Jonathan Hills and Sons, with liabilities probably not exceeding £20,000. It was not a bank of issue. :ilAlf LOST OVEBEOARD.—At half-past four o'clock on the afternoon of Monday last as the Gipsey Queen, Liverpool and Clyde tracer, was off the Isle of Mau, on her passage to Clyde, there being a very heavy sea run ning at the time, John Campbell, the mate, was out engaged iu clearing away the jib-sheet, which bad got foul of the whisker end, and while he was doing so the vessel gave a heavy lurch and he lost his footing and fell overboard. The vessel was put about, and every effort made to save him, but without success. Campbell was 26 years of age, belonging to Lochgilphead, and was unmar.iel. IER FATAL ATTEMPT OF A DEBTOR TO ESCAPE AT CARLISLE.—The search for the body of John Pattinsun vas coaticued daily without intermission till Tuesday eveuing, but no trace of it could be discovered, and the creditors began to imagine that the unfortunate man had made his escape unseen. On Wednesday morning, how ever, this idea was dissipated, the remains having been f and about a quarter of a mile below the 'me of his death. It seems he had no hope of relief from his friends, and intended, by crossing the river, to reaoh Scotland, and evade tho execution and the proceedings taken against I him. He then quotes six lines, which he attributes to Lord Chatham and Burke, on the erimea of the English in India. On the subject of torture the writer says : Daring forty-six years the East India Company ignores the facts. or rather allows them to be committed. The Company has its agents, who employ torture to wring their last farthing from poor peasants, and that money, wet with blood and tears, is not employed either in the material well-being of the people or in the improvement of their intelligence; it enters the coffers of the Company or those of the English Government, and gives great salaries to the employes and good dividends to the shareholders. Tne Indians,—these tigers with human feces, as The Times calls them,—at last revolt; these " capricious and violent animals," troatel with contempt, and oppresssd beyond measure, rise on their oppressors ; they desire to shake off the English yoke and English oppression, and to free themselves from English contempt; they desire to oppose the return of torture; they have forty-sixforty-six years of torture to pay back on England —and th -y take up arms . After describing the manner in which the Hin doos are tortured by the Company, he exclaims— Certainly, never did the imagination of the executioners of the middle ages, nor that of the most ferocious planters of America, devise more atrocious means to tortu e human creatures, and if any one, and the least cruel, of these means, had over haen applied by order of the Emperor of Austria or the Sing of Naples, Ea t: gland would have sent forth shouts of indignation, and the names of these two Sovereigns would be this day affixed to the pillory of public indignation. These tortures are infliezed in the 19. h century, on the unfortunate Indians, and their ob ject iathe collection of the imposts which are applied to pay the huge salaries of the English functionaries, younger sons of great English families, and the dividends of the Company's shareholders. English philanthropy does not think , necessary to stir itself. On the day of humiliation and general fast he observes:— One day, one day only, England, under the influence of a great panic, orders a general humiliation in her temples before the anger of the Lord. That day she confesses her crimes, and covers her head with ashes. The next day she flings off the ashes of this affected repentance, and, burning for revenge more fiercely than the day before, she calls for the extermination not only of those who had committed assassination, but of the whole of the Indians, near or from afar, who may have taken part in the revolt". The following is meaut by the writer as a home thrust:— We might ask of the English why, when they feel so much virtuous indignation against the Indians who preach up revolt and the destruction of their country's oppressors, they encourage and ferment everywhere in Europe the awakening of what they call nationalities—that is to say, the abrogation of the treaties in which their Government took part on the re-organization of Europe in 1815—why they find it so natural that Italians and Hungarians should revolt against Austria, Poland against Russia—while they refuse the same to Malta, to the lonian Islands, to Gib raltar, and to India ? We might ask why they who are so indignant against the Indians, keep in London the pre parers, the promoters of political assassination, and the convicted and condemned accomplices of these assassina tions, not to speak of the whole staff of Socialists who, from the depth of their retreat, and under English protec tion preach the extermination of the upper class of society by the lower classes ? The author touches on the history of Lord Clive. with the view of proving the English to be treacherous and perjured. He adds : We do not mean to excuse abominable murders, but we show by irrefragable proofs that England, less than any other nation, has the right to be pittiless, for she also has been as barbarous towards the Indians as the Indians are now to her—for she charged herself with a numerous THE EARLY CLOSING ,310 vim tur. TO MEC EDITOR OF THE NOIITIIURN TIM S. Sir,—Although not an inhabitant of Liverpool nevertheless, at nil times, glad to notice any movement that has a tendency to improve the social condition of young men engaged in the large retail Drapery Establishments in different parts of the Kingdom ; and I was much gratified the othm. evening, while strolling through the business portions of this town, to observe, that (with t 1 ,9 exception of ono large establishment) all the principal shops in a:hi-street, Church-street, and Lord -street, were closed at half-past six o'clock. Perhaps s9me of your correspondents will be able to inform me why this singularity exists—and trusting on my next visit to 1 iverpool, to find all unanimous hi closing early.—l am, sir, A FRIEND TO TES 310YEMENT. Stork Hotel, Friday Morning. 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