The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-26 00:00:00

THE LATE COLLISION JN THE RIVER. ADJOURNED INQUEST -YESTERDAY. The adjourned inquest was resumed before Mr. Statham, deputy-corone r , a t ten o ' clock yesterday, in the Nisi.-Prius Court, St. George's-hall. William Brewer, the pilot of the Excelsior, was the first witness examined. He said : lam a pilot of tae port of Liverpool. lam an apprentice, belonging to No. 6 pilot boat. I have served six years and two monties. I have got an authority to pilot vessels (produced). By virtue of that license I went on board the Excelsior steremer on the nigb' of the sth July. She was lying in the Collingwood do' ek. I was requested to go by one of the roasters of No. 6 % llot _ boat. I went on board about elevnn o'clock. She r 't hot out of dock at 1.30 on Sunday morning, the 6th: , wan t e d about nine minutes of high water. I was then P . ,anding on the gallant forecastle_ I continued there until •she got clear of th pierhead. I then went aft on the fr aloon deck, or deckhouse. Her hood might be a little tr, the southward of west when she men, Mit of dock. It vias a dark cloudy morning.. One er able distance on the Aid see a consider Water, for there t e as no fog, and the wind was west-north west, rather st enne. When we tr,ot into the river, I gave the order to put 'the helm h tv.d-a-port. That order was obeyed. v are continued in that direction three or four minutes feefore I gave Ev.iy other order. We had got about rreidway in the channel when I gave the next order, which 'was to steady. Her head was then about north to tiorSie-half-east, right down the river. We so continued from three to four minutes, when I gave orders to star:heart', I gave that order because there was a light etarboard b ow , w hi c h appeared to b e in a vessel at cumber, and I also saw a light a-head, which was not reported. The latter light was also on the starboard bow, and about a cable's length to the northward of the first light. The vessel obeyed the order to starboard. We continued :so about a minute, when I gave orders to steady, which was done. Very shortly after that order, there was a light reported a-head, by some one forward. I think the the words were " another light a-head." I looked at it to see if f could make out what it was. I was then using the captain's glasses. I could not make out what it was, but took it to be a vessel at anchor. I gave orders to starboard the helm. The light was then about half a point on the starboard bow. The order was obeyed, and the helm continued a-starboard until her head was brought out about a point or a point and a half. I then gave orders to steady, unich was done. In a moment after that the collision took place. She was reported as a steamer to me just as we were in the act of going into her. I had seen that she was a steamer before the collision, but scarcely a second bef ore . I could not have spoken in time. I just caught a glimpse of her red light, Which satisfied me that she was a steamer. We were entan gled for about an hour. Before the collision I ordered the helm to be put hard-a-port. The vessel obeyed that helm, as far as she had time to do so. I also gave the order '" stop her" and "reverse" almost together. The collision took place about quarter of a mile south of the New Brighton pier, We could not take to the eastward of th e mid-channel, as there was two ships a'ad a light which saw there. I meant to take the Rock channel. Ido not think we were more west than vesse,,'.B usually are in going out at such a time of tide. The red 'light I saw on board the Mail was a very indifferent, light for a steamer. The masthead light was the first, o f her lights I saw; it was a very dim light. I saw 0 1,e gg er the collisio n , it reen liht aft was a v ery bad light indeed. Ido not k now t h e exact brig.positio n i n which t!e lights were pl ace d . Seeing only a ht light in smith a position, nearly stem on, I could not judge whethea the vessel was in motion or not; but if her starboard and port light MO. been good, I ought to have seen them, supposing these lights to have been placed in the position steamers' lights usually are. I have plied in steamers for the last twelve months. The glasses I used Were good owes. I am accustomed to use such glasses occasionally. consider I can see better with them than nvith the n eked eye. Standing as I was on the deck house, I eked that I could have seen steamers' lights u nder oer b ow a vessel's length off pp to a nswer h er helm completely. The E xcelsior To Mr. Blair : If the helm had been kept haad-a-rt, the verse, still could not h ave come round with her bead to the thward before she got to mid-channel, on going out of Car e deck. When the vessel came round with her head forth-half-east, she might have been a mile from Coiling. awool dock. The tide might have been running half a knot .in mid-river. I did not go to the eastward of the vessel • first reported, because I did not see any necessity for doing go. The witness further stated, that he drunk nothing when on board but half a tumbler of ale. To Mr. Aepinall : If the Mail had starboarded when they say they did, they would have passed us. From the time I first saw the bright light, which turned out to be that of the Mail, I kept steadily looking at it through the glass, and saw nothing whatever which indicated it to be :changing its po s iti on. All my orders were obeyed on board Excelsior. By Air. Bremner: There were no grounds whatever for stating that I was anything else than perfectly sober. I exercised my best judgment in the management of the ves s 21 throughout. To Mr. Rawle (juror): We have regulations to keep to the east side of the river going out. We deviated from the /regulation in this instance, because there were obstructions in the way, caused by vessels on the starboard. Captain Hamlet William Geary examined : Is captain of 'the Trafalgar steamer, belonging to the City of Dublin Stearn Packet Company. Was going out with her on the night of the sth of July. Left Liverpool about a quarter to eleven o'clock that night, for Dublin. Went through the Rock Channel. Remembers meeting the Mail steamer that night. Met her at the outer end of the Rock Channel. When he first saw her she was right a-head. Did not know when be saw her masthead light she was a steamer. Saw Ina. light first when better than two miles off. Saw no other light then but her masthead light. Passed her on the port side. On passing her just faintly saw the red light. It was not a good light. Saw no ether light. When he first saw her he looked without glasses, and afterwards With glasses. Looked when she was nearly abreast of him. The masthead light was a pretty good light. By Mr. Blair : Could not tell whether there was a steamer shortly behind him. Had not a pilot on board. The light was reported before be saw the Mail. They might be a mile off the Spencer's buoy about that time. Was heading at the time about west half north. A vessel coming tip outside Spencer's buoy would be heading about south east half east. While in that position her port bow ought to be well open to him. On some time after being reported, judged she was approaching. Should say she was a mile off when he became satisfied that she was approaching. Would then be approaching eaele other stem on. Thinks the Mail ported a little "when very near each other. Witness ported a little ene first seeing her. On going down the Rock Channel,. keeps on the starboard side of the fair-way. The Mail passed at about six times her own length. Was never More than a point and a half off her bow', until passing teretty close to her. When parallel, were about eight Poir.ts off her port bow. Can't say what was the cause of h:e not seeing the red light sooner than he did. ' The Mail 'eras on the Dublin station about two years. Could see a v easel without a light that night, half a mile without tlae the glasses, and three-quarters or a mite with glavdes Could see whether she had sails set or not about a quarter of a mile. TBy Mr. Raffles : Took the mid-channel down the river. Met a great many vessels at anchor in the river. Some times ported and sometimes starboarded, to pass them. By Mr. Aspinall : It is more difficult to see a vessel in the river than at sea, in consequence of the number of lights. Refused to appear on either side without a zstea subpeena. H as b een sixteen years in command of a mer, with the City of Dublin Company. Richard Pritchard examined : Is a licensed pilot of No. 9 boat. Was at the North West Lightship on the night of the sth, Saw the Mail steamer coming in. Showed the usual lights —a fixed white light forward, a green light on the port-quarter, and two flash lights ma the starboard bow. The green and flash lights are the signals of a pilot boat. It is very usual for steamers to go in and out without pilots. By Mr. Blair : The lights were 'shown before the Mail was within a mile of them. Did not know at first that sb e eves a steamer. She passed at a quarter of a mile's distance. Knew she was the Mail by the white stripe round the funnel. Could see it distinctly. By Mr. Bremner : Could not discern the Mail's port light until she was a-breast of them. It was very dim. John P epper, another pilot, confirmed the testimony of the previous witness. The inquest was adjourned at a quarter past four o'clock, to nine o'clock this morning. on the -- --- MODERN DRUIDS AND THE ROYAL OAK BURIAL SOCIETY. TO THE EDITOR Or TRH NoRTRERN TIMES. Sir,—Noticing an article which appeared in the Mercury of Tuesday, the 22nd inst., which we have no hesitation in Saying is only another specimen of trickery resorted to by the officers of the Royal Oak Society in attempting to divert the public mind, by the base assertion that Mr. Sheppard had robbed the Druids. We, the undersigned, Officers of Modern Druids, consider it only just on our part to contradict such base and foul aspersions. That Mr. Sheppard is and has been our justly respected trustee upward s of e i g h teen years, and has never forfeited that coowevenfidence he so j ustly holds in that body b y any act, h trifling, on his part ; but, with the cordial appro bation of the Druids, has hitherto successfully resisted the attempts of those men in their designs on that body at much personal inconvenience and pecuniary sacrifices to hiinself.—Signed on behalf of the Liverpool District, EtzfirtY PrEnporwr, District Master, London load. Jourt REDDINGTON, Deputy, Crosshall-street. ROBERT CARLISLE, Chairman, London -road. ROBERT RoBSON, Vice, London -road. J. P. RioNTON, Secretary, Great Crosshall-street. Liverpool, July 25, 1856. THE NORTHERN' TIMES.---LIVF,EPOOL, SATURDAY. I BREACH OF PBroMISE OF COOPER V. TRADER. MARRIAGE. This was r,n action for breach of promise of marriage, tried on iednesday last, at the Exeter assizes, before Mr. Baro- Martin and a special jury. Mr; 'Jollier , Q.C., and Mr. Coleridg e were counse l f or the ; and Mr. Serjeant Kinglake and Mr. Karslake counsel for the defendant. Mr. Collier, in his opening statement, said that the plaintiff, Miss Mary Ann Cooper, was the daughter of a silk mercer, at Plymouth, who had a family of five chil dren—two sons and three daughters. The plaintiff was 25 years of age, and of great personal beauty. The defendant was a person of very respectable position in life, and of respectable family, who had considerable landed property, and who bad for a long period been resident in Plymouth. Indeed, the two families appeared to have been on intimate terms from the early youth of both the parties to this action, and there was little doubt that in early years a tender attachment rose up between them. However, there was no distinct engagement entered into until November, 1854, and that was the time to which the learned counsel called attention. The defendant was the captain of a merchant vessel, of some 1,100 or 1,200 tons burthen, called the Constitution, belonging to Messrs. Walton, of London, and the defendant was also part owner of that vessel. The defendant also seemed to have engaged in certain mercantile business with advantage to himself, and from the general tenor of his letters appeared to move in a state of society beyond the ordinary rank of captains in the merchant service. In November, 1854, he was in command of this vessel, part owner of it, receiving a salary of £25 a month, also in receipt of some other income, and being in Plymouth he paid his court to this young lady, and was accepted by her. The match was considered by the young lady and her friends as a very eligible one, for the defendant was 29 or 30 years of age ; the plaintiff was only 25 years of age, and therefore there was just that difference of age that there should be between a man and a woman for contracting marrie: g e. Under these circumstances the match went on ; dek o d an t treated plaintiff subsequently as hi s w if e, and in Novem ber, 1854, the defendant was about to start for a l ong voyage, and contemplated a return from nis voyage in about twelve months, when the marriage was to take place on his return. Previous t 5 his departure, the defendant consulted the young la.ay's father, and wished that she might discontinue se: vine; in her father's shop, and, at the defendant's re'iuest, she was removed from the father's shop counter, sent to reside with her uncle, to be educated as a lad:, ; and at defendant's request she was placed under a. music toaster, in order that she might be accomplishQ'a in that branch of education, for which the defendant had a natural taste. All this being arranged, the 'defendant went to London with his vessel, the Con stitution, to make arrangements for his voyage, but several circumstances occurred to prevent his going as early as he expected. He was detained in the Thames for some time, and during this period a correspo n d e n ce took place between them, and several of which letters the learned counsel read in open court, as the documents P.lways spoke more conclusively iu these cases than any argements of counsel. The first was as follows : " Tulse-bill, Wednesday. "Dearest Mary,—l just manage to steal a moment, before any one comes down, to say I am well, and that I was all day in the court house." This was the style of one of these letters. Another, also directed from Tulse-hill, was addressed " My dearest Mary," in which occurred the loving, but rather strange passage:— "I am busy getting ready to go on board. Miss Walton will go most likely, but, dear Mary, your sweet smile is always before me, and my heart is fixed for ever. I hope you will go very much to our house, and keep dear Susan's company as much as possible. By loving her, your love for me will increase, as a natural consequence.—Yours, ever affectionately, GEORGE F. TRADER." In another strange epistle, the defendant wrote : " Tell dear Susan that Emma Sniith and all the Smiths had made up their minds that she had only to whistle, and I would run to her ; they are dreadfully disappointed—l hardly notice her." In another he says :—" Everything goes well with me in a mercantile view." The next epistle was as follows : " Dearest Mary,—l leave for Carlisle, and then I go, of course, to Tulse-hill. My darling, how much my love has increased for you since my last note, you cannot imagine. At times there is such a thrill passes through me when thinking of you, that I am sure can only be caused by pure love, and I never felt it before, although I have as you know, heard what the world calls courting, but that, dear, is too cold a name wherewith to express the growth of my love towards you. And now may God above protect you and spiritually instruct you, is the sincere prayer of, dearest Mary, with kindest love, your ever affectionate, " GEORGE•" The learned counsel, as a proof that the defendant moved in a position above that of a mere captain of a merchant vessel, read the following "My darling Girl,—l am every evening in gay circles midst beauty and accomplishments of various shapes and forms; but your dear imago dwells with me, and to think that you love me is my greatest treat. Write your thoughts ; they are all I could wish. Your last note was one of the most ladylike and pretty that I ever read." The next letter was a lively specimen of amatory impul- sivenes "I wish we were married. Cheer girl, cheer. I have managed to do away with kissing Ali , s Walton at night now, and have told the younger brother of our engagement. He is extremely pleased. I cannot write more, my darling for want of time. It is quite possible we might be married in 84- months from this date. Cheer girl, cheer. Write girl, write, and maintain your womanly rights, and loving your parents. We all have our w ea k ness. (R oars of laughter.) —Believe me, darling, your ever affectionate, " GEORGE." As a proof that defendant was well to do in the world, and was able to pay sufficient damages, the learned counsel read the following : " I shall be nothing out of pocket by the speculation. My 125 a month is going on." The defendant had professed to be religious, and he (the learned counsel) could not help contrasting the following with these pious professions : " The fact is I did not go to church; it's not a part of my creed, but rather a day of rejoicing. We had a large dinner party at the Lodge and ball in the evening. I foolishly danced, and made my now much better leg (he had hurt his ancle) seriously bad. I took Mrs. Charles and Emma out in a phaeton, and we all enjoyed ourselves. I trust you had a jolly day, and will have a happy new year. That we may be an united happy couple for the remainder of our days is my sincere prayer, and may we both pass through it with increasing love and fear to God." The latter then said, " Why don't you marry Emma Walton; your friends wish it, and it would be an advantageous match ?" Defendant replied, " I never can love her." Witness then said, " If you won't have Miss Walton I have no objection to your having Mary." Oa this understanding witness said the engagement went on, and in conversation dafendaat represented his circumstances to be equal to £5OO a year; that beyond this he had a share in the vessel, and other advantages from passengers, and speculations in goods for the Australian market on his own account. The plaintiff was removed from behind her father's counter at Plymouth, and placed with her uncle, a retired captain in the army ; and as the defendant wished her to learn music, a music master was engaged for her. In the outset the defendant's family received plaintiff in all respects as their relative's intended wife. But in time, after the defendant had gone to London, and made himself familiar with the Walton's, they treated her with coldness and insult, and ultimately ridiculed the idea of the defendant having any. thing more than a friendly regard for the plaintiff. Defendant did not support his parents, but allowed them about £2O a year. The plaintiff's father was angry with her for leaving home, as she was very useful to him in his draper's shop. This witness was cross-examined by Serjeant Kinglake, but the above facts were not shaken. This was the only witness called for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant Kinglake, for defendant, admitted that there had been a promise made, but contended that the £6O paid into court was ample damages to meet the jusice of the breach. The fact was the plaintiff was so annoyingly jealous that they would never have been happy in married life, and it was fortunate for both parties that the marriage had not taken place. The learned sergeant then called two witnesses—Mrs. Castle, the defendant's sister, and the cash clerk of Messrs. Walton, the owners of the vessel of which the defendant is captain, who said his income from all sources was not more the.rt £l5O a-year. This being the case the learned ser geant submitted that his client had paid into court ample damages. Mr - . Collier replied upon the whole case in an able speech, and The learned judge having left the amount of damages to the jury, the latter, after more than an hour's consultation returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £2OO damages, less the £6O paid into court. MANAGEMENT OF THE DOCKS TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,—l am glad to see from your report of the proceed ings of the Dock Committee, that the working of the Albert and Stanley docks is being forced on the attention of the general committee. You may readily imagine that something is radically wrong when the members of the general committee, and even those of the sub-committee, can speak as they are reported to have done yesterday. The corn and the cotton trades are, I may say, unanimous in condemning the whole system, and sooner or later ships with these articles must be excluded from those docks. The charges both against the ships and the cargoes are heavier there than at any of the other docks, and the delays are shameful. Complaints are of no use whatever, as the committee refer to the sub-committee, they to the secretary, he again to the superintendent at the dock, who obtains a report from the very parties who have done wrong, and so it goes round again to the committee, who say they can do nothing. Public opinion may, by-and-bye. —Yours, &c., A SUFFERER. 25th July, 1856. THE ROYAL INFIRMARY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,—A. writer in the Albion of last Monday has strung together some few sentences, intended, I presume, to be excruciatingly satirical, relative to the present contest for the office of Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary. The pertinence of his remarks, to the merits of the candidates, do not, in the least degree, make themselves apparent to my obtuse mind,—the relation of Mr. E. R. Bickersteth's undoubted abilities as a surgeon with "white ties," "albums," and " circular dances," does not appear to me at all made out; neither what connection "the saints," who, as he says, "can hang over an album," and after wards " play an excellent knife and fork at supper," will have with the election or non-election of Mr. E. Bicker steth, I profess myself utterly unable to conceive,— unless, indeed, the writer in the Albion has unwittingly committed himself, by speaking from:experience, of the clerical circle in which he, perchance, mingles. I think, however, that the remarks in the 'Albion, evidently indicted by an admirer of Mr. Minshull, will be regarded by the governors of the Infirmary, as an unworthy attempt to introduce an uncalled-for religious element, into a purely professional and secular matter, and that they will be looked upon as written in exceedingly bad tsste, and but a poor attempt to damage Mr. Bicker steth's prospect of success. The same writer alludes to the age of Dr. Minshull's opponent, in which to begin with, he is wrong nearly four years, and states that Mr. Minshull is " old enough to be his father." Well, if this be intended as an argument in Mr. Minshull's favour, I will improve it, by saying that Mr. 51. is old enough to be his grandfather; but, surely, talent and efficiency will be sought for by the governors without reference to age, h has been pretty well proved lately in the public affairs of the country, not to be the great desideratum ; while the apology for the crime of youth, once de livered in the House of Commons by a tolerably talented Prime Minister, ought to have prevented that subject being broached. But, considering the question of hospital appointments upon broader grounds, upon the question of public utility—and be it remembered that the Infirmary is the basis of a school of medicine, where future surgeons are to obtain from the lips and practice of its medical officers, and the extended field of observation it presents, that knowledge, which is to benefit the more limited circle of their future private practice—and then see in what way one of the arguments so prominently advanced in favour of Mr. Minshull, tells upon the propriety of electing him. In his own address he claims support upon the ground of pre vious services, and as his canvassers sneers at, and mis take Mr. Bickersteth's age, may it not fairly be asked, has it been in advanced years that the greatest discoveries in medicine have been made? no, on the contrary ; it is patent to the world that, as a rule, the more advanced a surgeon becomes in years, so much the more does he become wedded to the routine and red tapeism of his ideas, and less capable of entertaining the doctrines of progress every where springing up. So that I contend that Mr. Bickersteth's comparative youth is in his favour, rather than otherwise. I would also remind Mr. Minshull's supporters, that though age may give the presumption of experience, it does not prove its possession, and with due respect to Mr. Min shull's long and honourable life, I think I may venture to assert that Mr. E. Bickersteth has performed more important surgical operations, in the face of the medical profession, and with the most remarkable success, in a few years, than Mr. Minshull has had opportunities of doing during his lifetime. I must conclude, for the present, but would remind Mr. Minshull's supporters, that should they hear unwelcome truths, they must blame their own mis-statements, and remember that they first took up the pen.—Yours obediently, CHIELURGUS. July 25, 1856. LONDON GAZETTE. BANICRUPTS.—JoriN DURHAM, New Orford-street, Bloomsbury, boot and shoe manufacturer. DAVID MAR SHALL, Bristol, tailor. JAMES BILOBARROW, Coventry, haberdasher. THOMAS MATTHEWS SHEPPEARD, Cambridge, corn and coal merchant. WILLIAM CLARK, Tipton, Staffordshire, miller. ROPERT NEWENS, Richmond, Surrey, baker. ISAAC BLANCKRNSEE, Birmingham, merchant and dealer in watches. Louts hoonEFORT, Broad street buildings, City, importer of foreign goods, RICHARD ADAMS, Dudley, Worcestershire, grocer and provision merchant. JoHN Lowe, :Manchester,' merchant and commission agent. PETER HALL, Manchester, sm a ll waro manufacturer. EDWARD WILLIAMS, Birmingham, commission agent. DAVID STEVENS, /siontague-plaeo, IViillwall, Poplar, cattle dealer and hay compres3or. CHAntrs DOUGLAS Hors, Great Marlborough-street, and Regent-street, nod of L'ms downe-road North, Notting-hill, publisher and botikeelier. sErn PORTER, Salford, Lancashire, screw bolt manufacturer and engineer, FREDERICK JAMES ITT TING, IV isbeach, Cambridgeshire, sawyer and agricultural implement maker. JAMES JOHN LONG, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, printer, stationer, and bookseller. GMAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—We are officially informed that the directors of this company have resolved to recom mend to the proprietors, at the general meeting on the 7th August next, that the dividend for the half year ending 30th June, 1856, be at the rate of £5 lOs per cent per annum on the capital. THE CONVICT WILLIAM DovE.—Thb prisoner has ex pressed a desire to see the Rev. W. M. Punshon, 'Wesleyan minister, of Leeds. I n c om pli ance with this wish, the Rev. gentleman proceeded to York yesterday, and—in company with a minister of that city, who has visited the prisoner every week since he was placed in York Castle—spent an hour with Min.—Leeds Mercury. THE BRUSSELS FREE TRADT, INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. —A circular has been published by the President and Secretary of the International Congress which is to assemble at Brussels, towards the end of September, to discuss the subject of Universal Customs' Reform and Free Trade in general. In this circular they prescribe the order of their proceedings. The object of the Congress is comprehensively stated as " to collect from every country, and every branch of human industry, all f a cts, l aws , regu l at i ons , or other information which may, for good or evil, affect the labour of each country, either by hindering or facilitating the exchange of the results of that labour for foreign pro ductions." FRAUDS ON EMIGRANTS, At the Thames Police Court, yesterday, Captain Lean, R.N., the government emigration officer of the port of Lon don, came before Mr. Yardley, with several emigrants, for the purpose of obtaining a warrant to apprehend a German, named Zitchsky, an emigration agent, lately- residing and carrying on business on Tower lain, in the the county of Middlesex, and within the district of this court, for a breach of the Passengers' Act, Captain Lean said it was not an ordinary thin g f or a pas. senger agent to abscond, but in this case the party of whom he complained had not only obtained money cf many poor individuals, under pretence of shipping them at Liverpool for New York, but had absconded. It was, however, neces sary that the culprit should be held up to public indignation, and the law set in motion. The passenger agent of whom he complained, bad engaged to convey several persons to Liverpool, and ship them to New York, and had received various sums, amounting in the aggregate to a large amount. One man had paid Zitchsky £l3 as a deposit for a passage for himself and family, another £lO, and many others £6 and £5 each. The fellow appointed to meet the emigrants at Euston-square station on Monday morning, and send them by an early train to Liverpool. They waited several hours, and the fellow never came. On Tuesday the defrauded passengers went to the agent's place of business, and discovered that the bird had flown. Captain Lean then put in the contracts, and said the Christian names of the parties were not annexed to them, and the agent was liable to a penalty on each contract for the omission. Mr. Yardley said that was clearly a breach of the law, and asked if the agent's security had been applied to on the subject. Captain Lean said Mr. Douglas, a shipowner, the surety of the fraudulent agent, and who would be a great sufferer by the defalcations and flight of Zitchsky, was now present. Mr. Yardley had no doubt Mr. Douglas would do all in his power to see justice done to the poor people who had been defrauded. Mr. John Beckwith Towse, an attorney, said he was watching the case for Mr. Douglas, and would do what was right. A man named Farrow was then sworn, and said he paid Zitchsky £5 15s. He was to m ee t the agent at seven o'clock on Monday morning, at the Euston-square station. Ile was there at the appointed time, and the agent never came. Several other emigrants made similar complaints. Mr. Yardley said he was afraid the law did not authorise him to issue a warrant, and ultimately granted a summons. THE APPELLATE JURISDICTION BILL We subjoin a copy of the petition of the Liverpool Finan cial Reform Association, against this bill, presented to the House of Commons, by Mr. J. C. Ewart, on Thursday, the 3rd inst. We understand that, subsequent to its presenta tion, objections to the petition were started, both by the Speaker and the petition committee, on account of the strong terms of reprehension applied to the hereditary legislators and judges. It seems, however, to have been thought more judicious, on the whole, to allow the petition to pass without comment, than to provoke discussion by insisting on its withdrawal, or by any formal protest against it, however contrary to parliamentary etiquette it may be to allow one House to be spoken of otherwise than most respectfully, by petitioners in the other. The allusion to the Macedonian monarch has been objected to, as if it conveyed an insinua tion that the keeper of the Queen Victoria's conscience occasionally exceeds in his potations; but the only meaning clearly is that, whereas an appeal from Piilip drunk to Philip sober, was a real and substantial appeal —an appeal from the Lord Chancellor sitting in Chancery to the same individual sitting in the House of Lords is none at all. As to the rest, these are times for plain speaking, and it is not unlikely that this very petition may have had its share in shelving an abortive and most objectionable measure : ._. To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, the petition of the under signed members of the Liverpool Financial Reform Associa tion humbly she wetb,— That a Supreme Court of Appeal, properly constituted, for the revision of proceedings in the various courts of law in the United Kingdom, is essential to the due administration of justice. That the House of Lords is, on the confession of its own select committee, quite inadequate to discharge the important functions of such a court of appeal ; and that the manner in which that body exercises an appellate jurisdiction alleged, by high constitutional authorities, to have been originally usurped, is discreditable to the Legislature and prejudicial to the country. That this jurisdiction is vested, theoretically, in the whole body of the peers, lay, clerical, and legal, but is practically exercised only by the Lord tibance,llor, and one, two, or more law lords, who may choose to sit for or with him, excepting in the revision of p rocee di ngs i nvo l v i ng pol i tical considerations or personal interests, when the lay lords may, if they please, attend, and outvote the judges of the land. That an appeal from a decision of the Lord Chancellor, in the Court of Chancery, to the same Lord Chancellor sitting on the woolsack lacks even the merit of the classical appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober; whilst, to submit matters involving the nicest points of law and equity to the adjudication of lay lords, many of whom have none but the hereditary qualification for either making or interpreting laws, is a manifest absurdity. That the attempt of her Majesty's Ministers to improve the existing Court of Appeal, by conferring life peerages on eminent lawyers, rind so increasing the number of qualified judges, though falling far short of the reform required, was, nevertheless, a move in the right direction ; and that the Lords, in ref using to allow so distinguished a judge as Lord Wensleydale to take his seat amongst them, arrogantly pre sumed to set limits to that very authority from which all their honours are derived. That since the Clown may, undoubtedly, with the assent of its responsible advisers, create as many hereditary peers as it pleases, to allege that the Crown cannot create peers for life is only to deny the logical axiom that the greater includes the less; and also to maintain the privilege of the creature to decide how the right of creation shall be exercised. That the Lords, in the bill which they have passed, per mitting the Crown to confer life peerages on four lawyers, two of whom are to receive salaries of £6,000 per annum each, with pensions in reversion (fir performing functions which they themselves are either incompetent or unwilling to discharge, though determined to retain), and all of whom are to have the right of sitting and voting as peers of Par liament, after they have ceased to act as judges of appeal , have assumed the anomalous authority af or esaid, and have taken upon themselves to allow the Crown to do that which they have declared to be illeg a l and unconst i tut i ona l . That, admitting the right of th e P eers t h us t o li m it th e royal prerogative in the first i ns t ance , an d to exten d it i n the second, a bill establishing new salaried officers, with pensions attached to them, the expenses of which are to be defrayed out of the taxes, is essentially a money bill, and, as such, ought to have originated in your honourable House, not in the House of Peers. That the expedients provided by this Bill, even if they were otherwise unobjectionable, are quite inadequate to remedy defects so numerous, and so vital as those which exist in the Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords, accord ing to the Report of its own Select Committee. • Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, That your honourable House will be pleased to reject the bill which has been sent down to it by the House of Lords, as an invasion both of the Prerogative of the Crown, and the privileges of the Commons, and, further, that your honourable house will, in its wisdom, adopt such measures as may be necessary for the establishment, as economically as possible, of a Supreme Court of Appeal competent to the discharge of its importint,duties, and free from the objec tions now attaching to the inocke. y of such a court, exhibited in the Appellate Jurisdiction of Pcers of Parliament. And your Petitioners will ever pray. There is a rumour that Sir Benjamin Hall will be raised to the peerage. Lord John Russell has taken his departure for the CGiithient by Way (4' Ostend. The Aciveitis.er supposes that the Duke of Cambridge will 'be shortly elevated to the rank of Field-marshal, an elevation which will carry with it a large addition of pay. The steamer Edinburgh arrived at Greenock, yesterday morning, from New York, after a passage of twelve days and fifteen hours, bringing dates to the 9th instant, which are four days later than those received by the last arrival at this port. DEATH OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC BIE4IIOF.—The Cork Examiner announces the death of the titular Bishop of Kerry, the Right Rev. Dr. Egan, an unobtrusive and tole rant prelate. He had presided over the diocese for nearly 3.5 years, but for the last few years he had, owing to his great age and infi,mitie3, the assistance of a coadjutor. ROBBIN G THE PATRIOTIC FTND.-011 removing the box placed in the booking office of the Great Northern railway station at Doncaster, for the reception of penny subscriptions on behalf of the Patriettc Fund, it was found -that some mean thief had riled the receptacle of its contents, by slitting a hole in the back of the box, which ig made of tin, and forcing his hand into the aperture. It is believed that a considerable surri of money has been thus stolen, for it was dis— covered that two pieces of paper (tile Great Northern Company ho 's way-bills) had been successively I pasted over the le just mentioned, indicating at least two visits to the box by the depredator, and it was known that a good deal of silver had been put into it. The box had been sent to Mr. Williams, the superintending constable of the Great Northern line ; and, as the officials at Doncaster are not without some clue to the identification of the thief, it is hoped he may yet be discovered and punished for this flagitious offence, COLLEGIATE SCHOOL OF ART Examinations were lately held of all the branches of this School of Art, by Henry Cole, Esq., C. 8,, Inspector General, and Richard Redgrave, Esq., R.A., Art Superintendant, when the following honours and pezes were adjudged : Another letter was to the following effect " Friday evening, Tulse Hill. " Dearest Mary,—l am much better. I hope, dearest Polly, that Susan will write and thank the Miss Waltons for their unremitting personal attendance on me, for when I tell you that they have put me on at least a dozen poultices and fifty fomentations, you will think they have been kind to me. (Laughter.) Recollect you will always be in my thoughts as ever, "GEORGE.' "P.S. Our engagement is known to all but the governor. Now, all right. I did it capitally." The learned counsel remarked that it was not the way to please a girl to tell her that another girl had applied fifty fomentations to his ancle. (Laughter.) All the while he was writing like this to Miss Cooper, he was flirting with another lady. He then proceeded to read several other letters, in which expressions of this kind abounded : "My sleeping thoughts are yours, and so are my first when waking." As a proof of his vanity, the learned counsel read the following: "We spend pleasant evenings at Mrs. Elliott's. She is one of the best singers I ever heard in my life in private. She quite labours to please me." In another letter were these words : " I hope, dearest, you will not slave for me. Will you, dearest, kindly get a little book called James's Anxious Enquirer.' lam sure you will like it. (Laughter.) God bless you. Pray for me, as I for you." In another he says : " I shall send you your portrait. Rejoiced am I that I am going to have a good one—too pretty it cannot be. Mary, you know you are pretty. Girls always know. Oh, you little rogue. I want a kiss very badly. I send you one inside the portrait. You won't see it of course, but send one back the same way." The defendant wrote several similar letters from Australia, and then, after a short time, came this extraordinary effusion : "March 8, 1856. " Miss Cooper,—lfy long silence is s-lely attributed to the tenor of your letters to me. They contain the most ex. treme jealousy without any cause in the world ; not one of my relations but what you would set me against, and I thought you had such a kind, affectionate heart, but you actually mention with the greatest levity the sickness and death of your ever to be respected uncle. Therefore, such being your disposition, I have made a mistake, and I feel assured I never could make you happy, or y ou me . 'Ti s a pity we ever met, or having met, did not know each other's disposition better than we did before we parted. The music you have learnt on my account will never be any injury to you, but perhaps it has been expensive—if you will let me know what it cost I will forward the money most willingly. —I am your true friend, " GEORGE S. TRADER." " P.S.—When I have more leisure I will send your portraits and letters, but business is extremely urgent." The learned counsel, in conclusion, said there was no reason whatever for breaking off the engagement on account of jeal ousy , and that that was a pretest to get rid of the girl of beauty to marry the girl with money. The learned counsel then called Mrs. Cooper, mother of the plainCff, who said her daughter was now a b out 26 years of age. Witness had known defen dant and hi s f amily for more than 28 years, and during that period the two families h a d a l ways b een i n ti mate . The defendant's family formerly lived at Plymouth, but his parents now resid e at t h e Cape. In November, 1854, the defendant visited i P -- ..Ymouth, and was f re q ue ntly a guest at the house of plaintiff ' s fath er . Ile soon paid great attent i on to the platutaff, and one day he came to witness and said he had asked the consent of plaintiff's father to marry her and Mr. Cooper referred defendant to his wife (the witness). tOWGfIATE INSTIVUTION SCHOOL, Master, Mr. Bishop. Honourable mention : Jas. Oldham, for Figure Drawing; L. Witham, for Perspective View of the Upper Hall in Collegiate Institution. Outline of Ornament : E. H. McNeile, Henry Holmes, John Anton. 1. UPPER COLLEGIATE SCHOOL.—Prize for Drawing from .Memory : James Pelham, Reginald Hughes. Prize for Model Drawing: James Pelham, F. J. Jeffery, W. H. Kirkby, W. G. Killick, F. A. Lobley, B. G. Moore, J. C. Peel, John White, E. H. Webster. Prize for Geometry : W. H. liirkby. Prize for Free-hand Drawing : Douglas J. M. Jones, J. G. Jones, Frederick J. Miehod, P. H. Michod, H. J. Peel, Edmund Tarbct, W. G. Killick, Francis Archer, J. C. Blown, J. Rounthwaite, W. H. Sta'ham, G. Ooherley, C. J. Bushel, Henry Gough, Andrew Kurtz, Sidney Shanncn, A. Triphook, G: H. Webster, W. H. Connor. Joseph Cooper, J. B. Crane, 11. Glynn ; Reginald Hodgson, W. B. Irving, and J. M. 9 ADDLE ScttooL--Prize for Perspective Drawing : Francis Shaw, F. V. Mills, llamas It. Wagden. Prize for Free-hand Drawing: X. \V. Andrew, Thom beorge Carlyle, John Clapham, E. J. Dickens, Alfred D John Dicken, Samtol Gath, Charles Garratt, David Holmes C. Harrison, its 6. Jones, Jobu Parry, Robert Black, J Pelham, Francis Shaw, L. W. Stafford; Charles Woc A. B. Bingham, S. Brookfield, J. G. Darlington, ... . ' .- J. C. Grocott, W. Hetnmingway, A. Hervey, J. G. Kitchen James Smith, W. Turner, and G. Turner. 3. Lowntt Scuocii. —Prize for Perspective Drawing Frederick Pelham, Michael Todd, W. P. Green, W. Buckley and R. Shaw. Prize for Free-hand Drawing. Thomas Fell; Charles Willis, Thomas Angus, John Anton, John Bishop, W. Buckley, M. H. Burton, John Bootle, Henry Day, Richard Eyton, W. P. Green, J. Laby, Edwin Lewis, R. J. McDowell, Frederick Pelham, James Sal sbuiy, Richard Shaw, Joseph Stafford, `Francis S. Smith, Frederick Wildintr, John Witham, and J. R. Warden. 4. CENTRAL EVENING CLASSES.—Masters : Mr. Bishop and Mr. Burkinshaw. Medals have been obtained by the following : Henry J. Charlton, f)r a Painting of a Group ; JohnHulse, for a Perspective View of a Furnished Schoolroom ; William Parslow, for a Perspective Drawing of Greenock Acadettly. Honourable Mention : John Fletcher, for Landscape Painting; Henry Newby, for Painting Figure in oil mono chrome; Richard Owens, for Architectural Drawing ; Charles Tanner, for Ornamental Drawing. Prize for Drawing from Memory : H. Gordon Jonei. Prize for Model Drawing Edward Whineray, Richard H. Turner, Sidney Wood. Prize for Perspective Drawing : Thomas Unsworth. Prize for Geometrical Drawing : R. Hudson Turner, and John Hulce. Prize for Free-hand Drawing : R. H. Turner, T. P. Wood house, H. G. Jones, Sidney Wood, James Rimmer, Richard Winstanley, Edward Cohen, and John Phillips. 6. LADIES' CLASS.—Master : Mr. Burkinshaw. Hon- Ourable Mention for Free-hand Drawing : Miss M. Parr. Ditto Outline of Hands and Feet : Miss Sane E 4 Jones. Prize for Model Drawing and Practical Geometry : Miss M. Parr. Prize for Practical Geometry : Miss Jane Brown. Prize for Free-hand Drawing : Miss Jane E. Jones, and Miss Ellen C. Adamson. 6 and 7. PUPIL TEACHERS' CLASSES, COLLEGIATE INSTI. TIIIION.—Master : Mr. Bishop. The following have obtained prizes for Free-hand Drawing : Anne Nelson, Martha Rout ledge, Lydia W. 'Purvey, M. H. Reynolds, Marian Maclean, Catherine Norris, Eliza Auwyl, M. A. Lee, M. E. Swindley, Catherine A. Norris, Mary S, Kynaston, Lucy Mercer, Sarah Ann Rummens, C. Smeatham, Mary Hewitt, Emma Thomas, Elizabeth Bennett, Mary Willis, Cecilia Noble, M. A. Looney, Margaret Christian, Jane Herbert, Isabella Craig, Ann Gordon, Mary Higgiuson, Ann Jones, Mary Jones, Ann Laing, Elizabeth M'Minn, Mary J. Reed, Rachel Reed, Sarah Smith, and Sarah Wilkinson. 8. PUPIL TEACHERS' CLASS, ST. JAMES'• ROAD.— Master : Mr. Burkinshaw. The following have obtained pr!z-s for Free hand Drawing: Helen A. Mittleton, Jane Kenyon, Margaret Woodhouse, E. A. Riley, Margaret J. Riley, Elizabeth Smith, Ann J. Derbyshire, Mary J. Ralph, Isabella Farquhar, Jane Harris, Isabella Taylor, M. J. Johnston, Margery Lyons, Louisa Giles, Rosina Robinson, Mary Ann Booler, and Sarah J. Trumbell. 9. MALE PUPIL TEACHERS' CLASS, ST. JAMES'-ROAD— Master : Mr. Burkinshaw. Honourable mention for Set of Geometrical Drawings :W. Bromilow. The following were awarded prizes for Free-hand Drawing : Joseph Williams, Richard Perraton, William Freeston, Henry Coward, Henry Forshaw, William Ashton, Robert Unwin, Frederick Frier, James Davis, and Robert Davis. 10. MALE PUPIL TEACHERS' CLASS, BOND-STREET.-- Master : Mr. Burkinahaw. Prize for Free-hand Drawing : Isaac Chapell. 11. NATIONAL SCHOOLS. TAUGHT BY ➢La. BURKINSHAW. The following have received prizes for Free-hand Draw ST. JAMES'S SCHOOL.—Sarah A. Charles, M. J. Kelpoh, Charles Sanderson, and G. S. Dunbar. ST. PAUL'S ScnooL —Robert Seel, Thomas Stirlancl. A .T. White, and Sarah Tate. Sr. MARY'S ScnooL.—John J. Alston, and W. E. Hing - - stop. ST. BARNABAi' SCHOOLS.—Wm. Baxtington, W. Crowley, and David Edwards. ST. LURE's FcHooL.-11cnry Brown, William Jones, and George J. Williams. SOUTH CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL.—Thomas Adling ton, and Charles S. Lacey. NORTH CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL.—James Philip Bryan, and Michael Dyers. ST THOMAS'S SCHOOL.—Mary - Mullington, C. F. Forshaw, W. Getty, S. Hogan, H. J. ➢latkin, S. Lloyd Parry, William Parry, and E. Reynolds. ST. CllttysosToM'S ScHooL.— John Brooks, David Griffiths, J. Howarth, A. E. Johnson, Thomas Newton, Thomas Roberts, William Roberts, and Emily Warwick, CALEDONIAN SCHOOL.—Arabeila Gibney, Janet Smith, and John Meakin. ST. ANDREW'S ScHooL—Richard Caddick, Susan Edwards, and Thomas 11. Mann. ST. MARK'S SCHOOL.—Charles Booth, Fred. Booth, John Carr, William Hynes, Mary Renshaw, Ann Higginson, Margaret Farlane, and Alice Walker. Si. BRIDE'S Se Boote, Ann Dunbar, and John Grove. Examined at the Collegiate Institution, taught by a private gentleman of St. Silas's Association— William Collohan, awarded a prize for Free-hand Drawing. HOUSEOWNERS' INDIGNATION MEETING AT WEST DERBY, Last evening a meeting of the owners of house property, in the parish of West Derby, convened a public meeting, in a room in Goulden-street, for the purpose of taking into con sideration certain grievances, connected with the rating of property. About half an hour after the time appointed, when between twenty and thirty persons were present, Mr. Martin was called upon to take the chair. lie explained to the meeting that the overseers had, on a previous occasion) " dogged" the owners of property to compound for the rates, and this year (after the owners had made their contracts with the tenants) they had altered their plans—thus playing " fast and loose" with the owners of property. The object they had in view was, to appoint a deputation to wait upon the overseers, and ascertain what 'course was to be pursued in future. Mr. Browne read the order of the overseers, from which it appeared that the collectors had been authorised not to make arrangements for compaunding for the rates. If he under stood the matter, he thought the system would be a great injury to the owners of property, and would do them selves no good, as it would be the means of driving the tenants from the houses in the district. Ho wanted to know why the old system had been done away with, when only last year Mr. Whitty had praised the system ? Besides, he know that they had allowed one of the West Derby guardians to compound for some property for which lie was agent. lie advised the meeting to be united, and to let the tenants be summoned, and then to take up the cause, and go before the magistrates, and state the case to them. Mr. Owen Ellis thought the conduct of the overseers was downright dishonest, and that they had a right to be ashamed of themselves. lie complained that the overseers had not given the landlords notice before taking such a step. Mr. Cubbon concurred in the observations that bad been made. The Chairman considered it a downright " trick" on the part of the overseers, and should be resisted. Several other owners of property addressed the meeting, which resulted in the adoption of resolutions to the followin g effect :—That for several past years the overse ers h a d corn. pounded for the poor's rate fund ; that the rents of the pro perty compounded for and built since 1855, had been based on the faith that such a system was a settled principle, but that without any notice to the landlords, the tenants of property had been served with demands for the current rate, notifying that payment must be made in ten days, _and thatattack the adoption of su c h a course was an unjusti- fiable tenantry by the overseers, and would be the means ,of -driving them (tenants) out of theerseer hous s es, to the great lossi 'of the own ers , an d t h at the ov of West Pet by, by pursuing the course they had, had been guilty of a wanton and gross breach of faith, and perilled the honour of all public bodies ; and suggested that a deputa tion be appointed to wait upon the overseerkand ascertain the precise steps they intended to adopt on the subject. Several persons were ' selected to form the deputavon to wait upon the overseers, and it was decided that they should give their report at some future meeting. After disposing of the above subject, the meeting formed themselves into a Householders' Guardian Society for the protection of all property. This concluded the business of the meeting. tA.,2A../:iik,4.vsismonsvnisausesm POLICE COURT. . YESTERDAY (BEFORE MR. RATHBONE.) THE ADVENTtrItES OF SOME EIS. RINGS.—Johtz Joseph, an itinerant jeweller, charged a man named Lee,, with stealing some ear rings from him, and Mary Anne Rimmer and Catherine M'Cumastha, were charged with receiving the same. The complainant said he went to 20, Pe'er's lane, on Tuesday night, where the prisoner Lee was, and he alleged that whilst showing some of his wares for sale, the ear rings were stolen, and subse quently, a pair of the missing articles were found in the ears of the prisoner, Catherine lll`Cumastha. The case was a confused one, but as well as could be col lected from the evidence, it seemed that whilst Lee was handling the " wares," some of them disappeared, and the prisoner, in whose ears they were found, said she got them from the other female, and the allegation was, that she got them from Lee. How ever , it would win, that it was from a sailor the first girl had them, and from the confusion that surrounded the affair, and which was greatly augmented by the attempts made to en li g h ten it by a policeman, the three prisoners were disoharged; as the evidence was not considered sufficient. STEALING BY A Lonuna.—A nice looking young woman. (with a child in h , r arms) whose name was urged by Mary stolen a quantity The prisoner iven as Elizabeth Manning, was ch )scoe, of Pownell-square, with hay of wearing )dged in comphtinant's house, and it veared that she took about X`..i worth of property, and: pledged it for ss. The prisoner was identified as the person who pledzed the property. The unfortunate prisoner said and tcok the things, but intended to She was committed for one month, for illegally pledging. release tbein again STEALING IN AN HOTEL—Maria Davies, a kitchen maid in the United States Hotel, Waterloo-road, wait on siispicion of having stolen a variety of property ; belonging to other servants. It appeared that for some time past, the servants and other persona missed things, and on the previous evening a policeman searched the house, and under a safe in the pantry, ha found a paper parcel which contained some property, consisting of ribbons and other female ornaments; together with a gold ring and chain, and other articles; were found. It was stated that the ring had beeristoleri from a lady who formerly conducted the hotel i t Yrs: Corsuch, but 'the lady is now in London. Some of fie► other servants proved that the things found belonged to them, and had been stolen ,Nra them, but they could not tell by whom they were taken. it, Was shown that every servant in the house had access to the :ilsee, and there being a doubt about the prisoner's guilt, sue was dis charged. A SHAWL THAT WALKED AWAY. —Margitret Quint was charged with having stolen a shawl, value £l,Alki property cf Mrs. M. Davis, the owner of the Welsh Harp Public house, Highfield_street. The article was hung on the " snug" door, and in a short time after the prisoner was arrested in Pownell-square, with the shawl in her possession. She alleged that she purchased: t from a boy for a shilling, but thiS story not being credited, she was sent to jail for a month, for not being able to properly account for how she got it. A DODGE AT A BLACKAIAN..-Willi4m Roberts, a biaCti man, was charged with having Stolen a blanket from ti 4 house of John Wearing, a sailor's boarding establish 7L ment, in Pitt-street. Mr. Bl oc k a ppe ar ed f or this prisoner. The case was somewhat curious, the tollovilne being the facts, as elicited by Mr. Block from ilfe cony. plainant and his wife. The prisonerlodged at the hob. l id, of complainant, and some dispute having arose between them about an account, and the complainant having shipped the prisoner in a vessel for New Orleans obtained a note for £4 10s. The prisoner left complain— ant's horse, fearing he would be detained as a slave if he went to New Orleans. The complainant then alleged that the prisoner stole a blanket from him, but this was totalty negatived, and the prisoner was discharged. (BEFORE MR. GL A DSTONE.) THREATENING TO SHOOT.—A person of respectable exterior, named Denis Branagan, was brought up by constable 684, who stated that about eight o'clock the previous evening, he was called into the house, No. 3. Carbon-street, when he was told the prisoner had threatened to shoot a woman named Eliza Devine. It appeared that the prisoner was drunk, and , in this state he used the threats alluded to ; and it further appeared that, during the day, the prisoner said soma one in Mr. Sabel's office had insulted him, and that he got a pistol to protect himself. The policeman got a pistol in the prisoner's pocket, and this was loaded with powder and ball, and capped. He also got a quantity of powder and bails in his pockets. The people in the house were in a great state of alarm, in consequence of the threats used by the prisoner. The complainant did not wish to proceed in the case, and the prisoner was discharged with a caution. The pistol, &c., were ordered to be retained. PUBLICANS' AND BEERROUSE CASES, Martha Ibbs, publican, of Watkinson street, wail charged with doing business at illegal hours; iined 21 6d, and 2s 6d costs. Joseph Binchill, publican, Bevington hill, charged with a like offence ; fined 5s anl costs. Thomas Stathers, beerhouse keeper, Wolfe street, Park, sunday trading; fined 20s and costs. Da. 11PNEites CLOCK. Ellen Wright, beerhouse keeper, Tulford street, was charged with doing business at ten minutes before one on Sunday. The defendant pleaded that she went by Dr. M'Neile's clock at his church, which was near, and if that was not right, she was decidedly wrong , . This novel defence caused much laughter, but was effectual, as the case was dismissed. Richard Spruce, beerhouse keeper, Bronte street, was charged with Sunday trading ; fined 10s and costs. as charged with doing Mary Crofton business at illegal hours John Bushell, High street, Edge Hill, beerhouse keeper, was charged with selling ale at illegal hours on Sunday. The defence was, that the parties who got the ale were travellers ; fined 2s 6d and 2s 6d costs. Joseph Corry, of Fairelough lane, beerhouse keeper, was charged with selling ale at eleven o'clock on Sunday; dismissed. Hugh Gwilt, a beerhouse keeper at Mile End, was charged with selling ale at twelve o'clock on Sunday: The defence was, that the men found in the house were lodgers; fined 20s and costs. Charles Reed, Bond street, beerhouse keeper, wag summoned for Sunday trading; dismissed. Thomas W. Denny, beerhouse keeper, Upper Hill street, was charged for refusing to admit the police on Sunday. Defence in this case was, that the knocking was not heard ; dismissed. William Ilignett, Dingle lane, Kirkdale, was sum moned for refusing to admit the police on Sunday; fined 20s and costs. THE GREAT HOP\VOOD CAUSE. EQUITY COURTS,-JULY 24 BEFORE THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS Horwoon v. Horwoon.—The parties to this suit are the same as in the great will cause which was recently tided it Liverpool. The bill was filed to obtain a declaration that ai legacy of £5,000 bequeathed by the will of Mr. Georgo Hope wood was satisfied by a covenant to pay a sum of £5,000, which he the testator entered into in executing the marriage settle ment of Mr. Frank Hopwood. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Roupell, and Mr. Karslake, were heard for plaintiff yesterday. This morning, without calling on the counsel for the defence, His Honour gave judgment. He said the testator, on the 29th of April, 1829, gave a legacy of £5,000 to his sea Frank, and by his will he showed a disposition to make his younger children equal, to give them £5,000 a piece. Then his daughter, who was one of them, married the Earl of Sefton, and on that marriage £2,000 was paid, and thereupon the testator made a codicil in July, 1834, in which he stated that that was done, and that there only remained £3,000 to make good the £5,000. Then in the following year Frank married Lady Eleanor Stanley, and upon his marriage with that lady Mr. George Hopwood , to be ap pli ed entered into a covenant t o pay £5 000 according to the tr us t s of the settlement. Then, ill February, 1850, he made a codicil, and in April, 1851. aadvfauLtelidel£ cs°,ololl'teathldis itnonthHa v e latter re he stated th a t h e h a d y, and that was to be in satisfaction of the former legacy of £5,000. The question now was whether the legacy of £5,000 to Frank George Hopwood was adeemed by the covenant to pay £5,000 under the settlement, and if the matter stood there it would be impossible to say that the legacy was not a deemed by the estates covenant; but i n th e co di c il o f F e b rulr y, 1850, subsequent to the marr i a , e of h i s son Frank the e r r ew was this passagetom; " Wh ereas I h ave b y my w ill devised trustees therein mentioned, two sums; of £ 5 , 000 each for th e benefit of m y sons F ra nk . George Hopwood and Harvey Hopwood, I do, h ereby direct my t rustees to • £7,000 each, nlfor o ti n l e e raise by the ways and 'means mentioned i n my will, of which of sumsmy son of shall two furthersluuble held 8 o f £7,000 1, Harvey Hopwood , as in my will i s d ec l ared as to the legacy of £5,000, and the other sum of £7,000, to b e applied for the benefit of my s o u Frank Geor ge H opwood, as in my will is declared as to the legacy of £5,000." The plain meaning of these words was that the testator intended the legacies to go to his son Frink in addition to the amount he bad covenanted to pay. Thbre must be a declaration that the legacy of £5,000 to Mr. Frank George Hopwood was not adeemed by the id that he was entitled to both the legacies and to The costs of all parties to bo paid out of tiro e Mr. Layard addressed a meeting of his constituents at Aylesbury, on Thursday. There were not more than sixty persons present, many of whom. were not electors.