Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-10 00:00:00

sIIITHSON lAN HOTEL, B R OADVIMINCOTTIOT of lIONSTON-eraser, New Yoe K. Mined to honour of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITOTION, Eatablished at Wes la morom, by the U. S. CONGaECS, With Funds bequeathed by Jesus SMITHSON, of ENGLAND, W.fivieg the Friendship of the 0 FFICESI of the NATIONAL lesturvriox Is conducted en the System of Hotels in ENGLAND. CHAS. H. SMITH. AMUSEMENTS, PUBLIC MEI47.CINGS, &c. THIS VAT. MUNI' ROYAL —ProfB37ol* AlldarSoll-7 p.rn ROYAL A lIIPHITtIEATRE—Dramati: PerfOrDl9.llCD-7 p.m. PaELSAftmoNIC HALL —Phomas's Graad Concerts-8 p.m. Issratiza's CIPAUE VAAL tsTE, 1)3,13-street-7 p.m. LIVIS3POOL ACADEMY'S EXHIBIT .ON, Postoffice-place. flova. CoLossaust —General Entertainment-6.30 p.m. *ff' For particulars see advertisements. WANTED, Copies of the NORTHERN DAILY Trees at Tur.srair, jovember 3,'1357. —Apply at ke Northern Times office. CA r le Otthari a TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1857. THE DAYS NEWS. Mr. James Holme was yesterday elected Mayor of Liverpool for the ensuing municipal year, having defeated Mr. Alderman Preston by a majority of five votes, there being 32 votes recorded for the former, and 27 for the latter gentleman. Mr. Holme was proposed by Mr. Charles Turner, and Mr. Preston by Mr. Robertson GrTadstone. The proceedings, after the election of Mayor, included the confirmation of the recommendation of the -Back Committee granting a pension of £•?50 a year to Mr. Taunton, late Treaeurer to the Dock Estate. A great deel of opposition was shown to this piece of extravagance, but.it was of no avail. The annual officers were then appointed, and the Council proceeded to select gentlemen for the various committees for the ensuing-year. It will be seen that they are entirely remodelled, and that much new blood has been infused into the Water Committee, including Messrs. .J. R. Jeffery, Ryley, and Steains. The West Derby Guardians hell a special meeting yesterday, for the nut pose of inquiring into the affiliation case brought against Mr. Gough, the master of the Werkhouse. The Guar dians, after a very patient inquiry, came to the resolution that there was no truth in the allega tions made against Mr. G )ugh, and accordingly exculpated that gentleman. Mr. Gough was rather excited during the inquiry—in fact, he fainted. In the Court. of Queen's Beach yesterday Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Coldridge, Mr. Justine Weightman, and Mr. Justice Earle, discharged the rule obtained on behalf of Mr. .James Birch 'and the other Guardians of the West Darby Union, for a criminal information against Mr. James Goodwin, for having composed and published a certain scandalous libel. In giving judg ment, Lord Campbell said ." without pronouncing any opinion on the conduct of'James Birch and for his sake he (Lord Campbell) would not enter very minutely into the evidence on either side, he clearly came to the conclusion tin: Mr. Goodwin, the defendant, was actuated by laudable motives, if what he said in his affidavit was true, viz., that 1w was entirely free froin any personal spite, and believed that it was for the good of the paupers that he should bring forward the charges complained of, He must say there were very roe senable grounds for suspic:on—there were gross abuses in the conduct of the Guardians of this Union ; and, looking to the situation held by •Mr. Goodwin, he could not at all blame him for trying to expose them, and bring them to,justice." This opinion was concurred in •by .Justices Coleridge, Wightman, and Erie, and the rule was discharged with costs, the latter to be paid by Birch and the . - .other Guardians. We hope the ratepayers of the - Union will make the Guardians pay the expenses •-a • 11,-/ 1,1 , 1. uuLL a pu,p,,se• Yesterday the Bank of England raised their rate of discount to 10 per cent. it was only on Thurs day last it was raised from 8 to 0 per cent. :Consols closed in the evening at '83,1 to 881 „so that the rise had not so mush effect as might have been antici pated. The Western Bank of Scotland suspended payment yesterday, and its liabilities are stated at about seven millions sterling. Altogether com mercial affairs are in a most alarming position. The monetary and commercial crisis is increasing in intensity. The negociation of s3cond and third rate paper is attended with diffinilty. There is an absence of relief from gold arrivals, and failures of extraordinary magnitude are taking place. The difficulties of the trading community arc extending in manufactures, and produce business is curtailed —prices depreciated and profits diminished. Business .in every department is experiencing the paralysirw influence of impaired credit and dear money—it ie, in fact, stagnant—yet there is a • remarkable degree of confidence among merchants and othera„because they are under the impression that the crisie must be near its culminating point.' The commercial letters from Paris -state .that Lyons, B usieaux, and Paris are suffering more than any others from the American crisis, in conse quence of the return of protested bills Many houses are selling silk at a reduction of from 20 to 25 per cent., in order to get in money. Macv other kinds of merchandise are also lower. We are yet without any intelligence from India ; it may, however, arrive as we are going to press. The forthcoming news will certainly be morn im portant than any that has yet arrived, for it .may help us to decide the problem whether the turning point of the insurrection has really arrived, or whether we may anticipate field encounters for many months to core, over an extent of territory almost too : great for the purposes of war. Ministers are certainly of opinion, according to a London cotemporary, that India is again to be at our feet by Christmas, and all their arrangements and calculations for the future, are founded upon that belief. Haley should be disappointed in this expectation, they will be placed in a position wYch o politi3ians can envy, and which may possibly prevent Eng!and from recovering her lost ground in Hindostan. But if the Government are correct in thinking that the rebellion is drawing to a close, nothing will stand in the way of their Reform Bill bein:f placoci.on the table of the .House of Commons; and it is understood they .will encourage its dis cussion, ifonly for the sake of disLaating attention from Indian mismanagement, and .saving the Cabinet from breaking up. Mr.,Cobde..n will not stand ,for Reading. The gentlemen is Reading who have suggested his name for that borough, and rho promised him all the support in their power, have been informed thlt circumstances of a family :nature preclude Mt.. Cobden from.secking a seat in the Commons, and would prevent his acceptance .of a seat, even if elected without the necessity of :a contest. It will be remembered that a dispute arose between the preference shareholders and the Direeors of the Great Northern Railway Company with respect to the rislt of the former to get pre ferential dividend out of the profits of the half year, wiaieh the directors want to apply to the redemption of the fraudulent stock issued by Redpath. The case was decided by Sir W. Wood , in favour of the preference shareholders, and an appeal was lodged yesterday before the Lord Juttices, who, however, have reserved their judg ment. The news :rom the Continent this morning is rather intert.s'ing. The Belgian ministerial crisis bas been brought to an end. M. Rogiers has been enabled to form a Cabinet. The intelligence concerning the probable issue of the question of the Principalities at the Paris Conference, points now to a peaceful compromise. It seems that the real bone cf contention, which is, of course, con nected with the establishment of a hereditary dynasty, will be removed for the present, It is even said that PrussiA has a distinct prupo anion to that effect in readiness. France cud Itusaht can hardly help simply subscribing to a mediation of this kind, undertaken by their , German alty, and it is to be hoped that so peaceful an overture will induce the Austrian, and particularly the British Government, not from sheer distrust, to let an opportunity pass over securing a field for progressive political and commercial life :in the fertile lowlands of the Danube. A. rumour, which is almost too good to be true, says that Lord Palmerston's Government has taken the initiative in proposing to the French Government that Lord Stratford and M. de Thouvenel should both be recalled from Constan tinople. We can hardly believe some of our continental cotemporaries, that Lord Cowley should have been charged with siuth a proposition, or that it should have any chance of being accepted at Paris. The Asia, from New York, arrived hero at an early hour yesterday morning. Her news is far fiom favourable ; yet she brought £20,000 in specie THE commercial rate of discount is now ten per cent. Are we to accept this notice as a type of our collective wisdom and Ministerial moderation, or as the precursor of immediate national bankruptcy ? The refusal• of the PALMERSTON Cabinet to grant relief to trade left the Bank of England no other course to pursue. The marked decrease shown in their unemployed notes leads us to suppose that their depositors had pressed heavily upon the banking department. They closed their returns of the 4th inst. with only 2,1,55,3151. reserved notes. Six days have elapsed since that statement was published, and we have yet to learn the effect which the intense pressure of the times has had on that compara tively slender balance. We have no reason to anticipate any increase in that branch of the Bank's available means, unless, indeed, notes have been carried in to exchange for gold, which is not unlikely to be the case, as the utmost con sternation has seized on all classes of the com munity. It matters little, however, what becomes of the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and the wretchedly abortive operations which are attempted under its guardianship. It was created specially for the destructive work it is now carrying into execution. It was made law for a clique, and now let them have their fill of its joys. Bat it does appear strange that Lord PALMERSTON should have taken upon himself to refuse relief to trade without consulting her MAJESTY in CRincil or . holding out some hope that Parliament would be promptly assembled to consider the positively frightful state of the country. Had the Premier grounded his refusal to ac cede to the request of the highly influential mercantile deputations which have waited on him, on some such promise, the public might have exonerated him from a desire to take a heavy responsibility on himself ; but the noble Viscount seems to think all is safe, and that it matters very little whether the Bank of England and all the other banks in the kingdom, fall pro strate at his feet. We hope the noble lord will not be deceived. Few can desire to see politi cal calamities added to the country's social thing must be - done, or the results will be really fearful, and if one set of public men will not aid trade, others will be found who will come forward to its rescue. We all know what is meazat by the Bank of England's demanding a rate of discount which no man in trade, can submit to with any show of honesty to.vards his creditors. " It is easily understood," says the,Beuzker's Circular," that the Bank Directors arc anxious not to come under the condition of a forced ~;.uspensiou ; and they therefore adopt the most _,stringent measures consistent with public safety." This is precisely the view the public take of the 10 per cent. announcement. .Should the Bank be called upon,for cash at this usurious rate,,they will raise their rate to 11 per .cent. If that ,will not do, they will try another lift, and so we shall go on, but without an actual stepension; that .is, if the Bank's depositors do not take alarm, and force on the Directors the disasters, they are labouring to avert. In the meantime, the sufferings cf the mer cantile and labouring classes, must be of unpa- • ralleled severity. In a less enlightened age, unprovoked difficulties of such magnitude, would be attributed to the existence of some malignant and.fiendish spirit, which was bent in throwing down the whole of our social fabric, regardless of all consequences. The time has come, how ever, when we put a more charitable construction on the acts of cur rulers, and turn to our own • •! better knowledge of all the great affairs of life, and seek within ourselves a cure for the maladies which overtake us. And that we must do so, in this instance, is quite clear. Lord PALMERSTOS has nothing to suggest. His busi ness is to hold nEce. The British public must therefore guard themselves, and save their property as they best can, and in order to decide what is best to be done, a Town's meeting and a County raleting should be convened without a moment's delay. The Bank of England cannot help us out of the difficulies which beset us, and it is perfectly prepos'erous to be looking longer in that direction. The Western Bank of Scot land acted wisely and honestly in closing their doors the moment they heard the Premier's and Bank Directors decision. The former had no help to give, and the latter had no money to lend to support other Banks; and, consequently, they suspended business before any more mischief was done to their depositors and general creditors, and if a few more leading banking-houses were to follow the same course, it might possibly give her Majesty's Ministers some better knowledge as to the real state the country is in. At present the PREMIER does not seem to understand what is going on, and he is, probably, waiting to see how many - days the Bank of England can keep their doors open with the protection of a 10 per ant. rate of discount, Next Wednesday's return will most‘assuredly clear away all doubt on this head, should the Premier think it advisable to allow a return worse than the last to meet the 'public eye. The Directors will not take upon themselves the responsibility of closing the doors of the National Bank while they have a pound in their till. It will be left for the Executive to put up the shutters and toll the bell, should such a terrible event take place as that which all outward appearances seem to fore shadow. At all events, the Bank of England is inoperative for all legitimate commercial purposes. No man can pay 10 per cent. for money to be employed in trade. But cannot the Directors take upon themselves the responsibility of at once enlarging their note issue in a season of such unprecedented commercial distress, and rely on Parliament and the country for their justifica tion when the hurricane has blown over ? ELECTION SPEECHES AND PUBLIC PARKS. The Municipal elections are over—the little stir they created in the town has passed away— and we may now turn aside from discussing the financial crisis and the Indian mutinies, the two great interests of the day, and devote a moment to one of the most important questions raised by the various candidates who have been so lately before the public. The question of Public Parks was a very popular one on the occasion of the Municipal meetings this year. The successful candidates of Abercromby, Vauxhall, and St. Peter's, and the defeated of Everton and the Toxteth wards, impressed the necessity of Public Parks upon enthusiastic au liences, and pledged themselves, if returned, to to devote their best energies to this important question. Are all these pledges to be unfulfilled ? Were they but the clap-trap which was to catch the cheers—sentences formed but to round periods ? Were the vociferous cheers but the howls of party applause, and are the cheerers to be satisfied if the promises are unperformed ? We hope and we believe that the new Town Councillors advocated, in this instance at least, measures they were prepared not only to advocate, but to propose in their places in the Council Chimber ; and we are much mistaken if the applauding ratepayer is not ready to pay the extra rate, if rate be required, and to hold the Councillor to his pledge, if he does not seem ready to redeem it. We happen to know that the Daily Press of the week before last has been widily read, and deeply studied ; that the idea of People's Parks is one in which no philanthropist takes a theo retical interest as deep as the practical one taken by the hard-handed mechanic, and that the vista opined in the squalid cellar and the dreary garret, to the honest and temperate but miserably ing, one. The happy walk of the artisan accompanied by his wife and family, in the com paratively pure air of his own Park, described by 'one of the speakers the week before last, is a picture which has been realised by the power of imagination in many households. By what means are these pledges to be redeemed, these ideas carried out, these dreams realised ? We are, and have ever been, among those who have but small confidence in the present management of the Corporate Estate ; we do not believe that our annual resources are husbanded as they should be, or our real property made the best of, and we are perfectly sure that by a system of open accounts a rigid economy would be at once enforced, and jobbing put an immediate stop to. When the principles of judicious retrenchment and reform have made themselves felt at the Town-hall, we do not apprehend that the estab lishment of Public Parks tvill cause any new burden to be laid upon our already heavily taxed ratepayers. It will be easy enough to fix upon the districts where open pieces of ground are wanted, but it will be a matter of no small difficulty to find plots of unoccupied land suitable to the purpose. The Cabbage Hall estate is too far off to be of immediate practical use to the class for whose good we are princi pally anxious ; though we are quite unable to see why that estate has been allowed to lie fallow so long, for as a beautifully laid-out Park it would be a most invaluable addition to the Egerton li.nd West Derby districts. The Prince's Park partakes of the same objection, though its value to the 9Outii end is being felt in more ways than one ; the Botanical Gardens, and the small strip of :round adjoining, are invariably crowded with the class to whose health and morals Parks are a necessity; but this is again far from the real centres of toil and poverty. The Birchfield Estate, now the ,barracks in Islington; the land opposite St. Joh.n the Baptist Church, on the Park Road; the plot between the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and the Sandon Dock ; the fields between Edge Hill and Rake-lane, or be tween Edge-lane and London-road, might, among many other vacant spaces, attract the attention of the new Town Councillors. Let each find out where there is a plot of land suitable to the purpose, whether the wants of the neighbourhood warrant the expense, and what that expense will be? The town is rapidly growing up; many excellent spaces are being built aver every day ; each year, what might have been a Park, produe. tive of health and happiness to many thousands, becomes a nest of courts, where vice, drunkenness and cholera are claiming hundreds. The rate payers are ready to support the men who advocated these Parks. Will the Cuuncillnrs belie their election speeches ? THE WEST DERBY GUARDIANS AND THE GOVERNOR OF THE WORKHOUSE. THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1857 THE LATE AFFILLIATION CASE. Yesterday morning, a special meeting of the Guardians of the above union was convened at the Workhouse, Mill-lane, Everton, for the purpose of making a full investigation Into the charge that had been preferred against Mr. Edward Gough, by a female named Margaret Clarke, alleging that he was the father of her child. This meting was, it will be recollected, called in pursuance of a resolutio n passed at the weekly board. . The Rev. Mr. Badnall, the chairman of the board, presided. Tho oth-r guardians present were—Messrs. Lodger, Morris, Richmond, French, Heyes, Parkin, Owen, Clarke. Abrahams, Edwards, Sagar, Tattersa , l, Bird, Almond, Pitts, Stone, Davis, Mawdaley, Roberts, and Whitby. There were also several guardians from Toxteth-park present, amongst whom we observed Messrs. Batten, Siddeley, H ir• rison, &c., &c. Mr. Hoiden, solicitor, appeared to represent Mr. Gough ; but the female, Clarke, was not, in the first instance, present in parson, or by a legal adviser, although, by the instructions of the guardians, the following note had been sent to her by the clerk, and also to her solicitor, Mr. Bluck West Derby Union, 2, Elliott-street, Liverpool, Nov. 5. 1857. The Guardians of the West Derby Union, not feeliqg satisfied with the result of the inquiry which took place on Tuesday last, before the magistrates of Liverpool, with reference to the charge made against the Master of toe Workhouse, 1163'8 resolved to make a full investiga tion of the matter, at a special meeting of the board, to be holden in the board-room, on Monday next, at eleven o'clock, on which occasion your attendance 'a requested, with that of any witness you may wi.h t ) have examined. You will also be at liberty to have present any professional adviser or friend you may wish.—l am, W. CLIJAVES, Union Clerk. The Chairman said he did not know whether Mrs. Clarke was present or not, or her legal adviser, or her witnesses—they may be here, but he was not aware whether , she or they were there or not. He hoped in the course of that painful inquiry that all would dismiss from their minds anything like prejudice or partial feeling, and that nothing but the strictest impartiality would be observed; and that they would form their opinions solely from the evidence that would be laid before them. lie was sure, when they considered what was at stake, when they considered that their own reputation as a Hoard of Guardians was at stake, as well a, their reputation—and what was dearer to a man, whether in high life or low life—than his clow actor and reptititi n ? He, therefore, exhorted them to dismiss from their minds all feelings of partisanship —of all party -of all political feeling, whether on the ene side or the other, and do equal j istice to He would not detain them with any further remarks then, but ha did hope that the resu't of the inquiry would be such, that Mr, Goagh would come out clear, and"that he would still deserve the opinion they had an entertained o f him. Mr. Holden then said that he did not know what course the Zuardians intended to parsue, in the investigation, but he thought the best course he could adopt would be to retard the evidence as taken before the magistrates, from the reports in the newspapers, which, he would say, were all substan lolly correct, and then he would call other evidence before them. By the s inetion of the Board, Mr. Holden then raad the o7iden ae as reported in the pipers of Wednes lay last. Having gone through with that, he said he thought before the investigation, in which they were then engaged, had been brought to a conclusion, he should be enabled to produce such evidence before them, to prove that there was not the slightest foundation for the charge th .t had been brought against Mr. Gough, and that there WAS no re'iance to be placed in the statement made by Margaret Clarke. He should not only do that, but he should prove th et she had been guilty of perjury. Ha should be enabled to exonerate Mr. Gough, La' on the 10th of February, one of the days on which she had alleged that a connection took place between them—that on that night he was out of the house; and on the 12th of Febru ry, on the other occa.ion, he should prove that Mr. Allen, one of the relieving (Akers, was with him, during the evening, and such an intercourse could not have tat en place. He should also p eve that on the 23rd of February, Margaret Clarke was from the house for severe 1 hours, and a'so at various times she had told persons in the house that, on that 23rd day of Feb., she had seen her husband on board a vessel, and had had connection with him. For his part, he helieved'that the whole tale was untrue, and that Mr. Gough wa n perfectly in ocent, and that the magistrate was not justified in making the observation he had done, on the ex parte statement of the woman, and before any witnesses had been examined for the defendant. He then called the following WITNESSES. D:. NT...vins, the Medical Officer or the Union. He slid he recollected having a conversation with Margaret Clarke, when she acknowledged tring In the family way. She than said that her husband was the father of the child. He could n.t tell the date this conversation took place. She was confined a short time after she expected to be. She hal told him tkat her husband was the father of the child on snore than one occasion. She never made any allusion to him that any other parse a then her husband way the father of the ch Id. Mr. H. Heyes, one of the Guardians, was next called. He said he knew the woman Clarke, and had freque.tly seen her in the work - hoase. 0 the 25th of Jane last—he believed that was the date—the husband was taken before the mvgistrates. He was standing by the An,r of the nit's m ' ^ ..s hire cr - n.grt•Nris i- tuoi' , lll'ar oz fife child, but that she would not do so to pease them, as the child was her ha.baid's, and I will not make myself a whore to please them." Phis was about four months ago. Mr. Kennedy, the porter of the Wockh nee, said. Tn Feb., 1350, hs was porter, and produced the book kept by him. In that book he kept the names of all the parties who entered aad left the house. On the 10th of Feb., in that yea•, Mr. Gough left the house at' ton minutes past six, an I did not return until twenty minutes past ten. On the 12th of Feb., Allen, the relieving o'fiLer, came to the work house at forty - -foar minutes pad five o'clock in the evening, and did no t leave until fifty-fi *a minutes past ten the same night. He then pro duced t le paupers' liberty book, from that it evened that on the 23d of Feb. Margaret Clarke left the house at forty minutes past ten in the morning, and dii not return until a quarter past three in tha afternoon. On the 16th of April she also left the house at a quarter past ten, and did not return until twenty minutes' past two in the afternoon. She could not have left the house at aiy other time for any length of time without it being entered in the book. Sze might have been out fo7 a few minutes and it would not have been entered. The entries were flr:t made on a slate, and then copied into a book. He did not think it p)esible that she coald bar! been out for an hour and a half or twa hours without an entry being made. No person goes into the house or leaves It without an entry is made in the book. Mr. Allen, the relieving officer, spoke to having vary frequently sport the evenings in the workhouse with Mr. Gough, but never with any other oftber or inmate, and during those visits he had never seen anything unbecoming in his conduct, nor hi l he over heard of any misconduct. Mr. Gough, the gove nor of the workhouse, was then called. He said, I am the derenlant in the case that was brought by gargaret Clarke in the police court. Mr. Holden : Did you ever take any familaritie3 whatever with her ? Mr. G :ugh : Never. Mr. Holden : Did you ever have any criminal intercourse with her ? Mr. Gough : Never. [.l number of letters, the same as those produced in the police court. were then pat in and read, from which it apeared that after the woman had left the house she had at varhons times applied for assistance, as loans, and that he had sent her lOs, 23 61, and 55., but on the 7111 of October she had sent a letter, informing him that he must make some arrangements for the child, and to meet her at Mr . Cleaver's office for the purpose of making such arrangement,.to save expense. A number of other letters was also producel, sho sing that from Feb.2s to the 13th of June, Mr. Gough had made a number of inquiries at va-ieus ports for the p arpose of ascerta'ning where her husband was to be found, but wincrit success.] ie then went on to expla'n that Mr. Alen had been in the habit of visiting him for the purpose of teaching his daughters music, and after that had spent the even'ng wi la him. He also stalest that there was no lock or key on the parlour door, and while s tting there they were very frequen ly interrupted, and that the money he had given to the womv', was from the fact that she had been very attentive to his wife end children while nursing them, and what he had done was from benevolence and charity, because he thought she was deserving of it. The Rev, Mr. Moore, the late chap'a'n at the workhouse, then went foto an explanation of the part be hid taken in the affair, from which it appeared, that it was entirely through his interc:ding that Mr. Goaugh had sent the woman the 10s. after the letter was sent, and that he had himself while visiting her, after she left the house, given her small sums of money. On one occasion, when he called at her house, she was out arid a woman was there, and inu.eados were then thrown out that Mr. Gongs was Vie father of the ch ld, and when she did come in he ordered the wom an to leave the room, a d then ha as'iled her the question, and she said, " Mr. Gough has nothing to do vrth it—it is my husband's child." He also detailed what kad taken place when she was in the workhouse. when it was discovered that she was in the family-way, when he had most severely cross-examined her, and she had give❑ the same answer. At a subs , qttent per.cd of the luvestigation, and at the request of the woman Clarke, who was then in attendance, the rev. gentleman said he had omitted to state, that he had subsequently seen her, when she had told him that her (thild was Mr. Gough's. He to d her that he thought it very strange that s',e should have previously always said it was her husband's, She said she had a difficulty about its maintenance, when ho replied, there is no dillicalty about that, as "leg ally it is your husband's." Cat , erine Cane and Mary Parker, spoke to having Ward her say that the child was her husband's, ani that she had seen him on Ward a bhtp. Toe Rev. Mr. Leslie s?oke to having a eonverAtion with the worn in on the 29th of Sedtember last, when ,hs had told him that her husband hai refused to live with her, from the romance about her child. Mrs. Roberts, Mary Almond, Catherine Hewitsan, Afr. Charles Bolton, a d several other witnesses were then called, all of whom spoke to hearing the woman say at different times, that the child was by her husband. Mr. Cleaver, the clerk, havin; spoken tl the same facts, stated that when her husbanl was before the magistrates, ha heard the wumma tell the age of her children, but did not give a definite answer about her yonogest. He also stated that when she w. s examined, she said that she bad not sesn her husband from December, 1854 bat that he had been in Liverpool fro a the 24th of February to the 6th of April, After her husband WAS committed, She told him that Mr. Gough was the father of the child, and asked what steps she should take in the matter. He also proved that the child had baen registered by the mother as belonging to the husband, and had signed the entry. A woman named Mary Nichols was then called, and her statement was to the effect that she had seen Mrs. Clarke at the police court and that she had told her that her husband, out of revenge, was making her swear the child to a rich gentleman, and.that she had subsequently ascertained that it was to Mr. Gough, who she knew to be a most respectable man, and she could not rest until she went and told him, which she did on the same day. This, she declared, was the truth. This being the whole of the evidence, Margaret Clarke, who had been present a portion of the time, was asl'ed whether she bad any thingto say, and upon her answering in the negative, and that she had left the whole case in the hands of her solicitor, but had attended in consequence of receiving a note from Mr. Cleaver, was requested to withdraw, which she did. Mr. Holden then addressed the board, contending that Mr. Gough was perfectly innocent, and that the whole charge was a vile conspiracy against him to obtain money. The Rev. Mr. Tattersall having stated it as his opinion that Mr. Gough had teen proved perfectly innocent, to the satisfaction of all parties, moved the following raso'ntion : After the most careful investigation by the Guardians of the West Derby Union into the chore alleged against Mr. Goukh by Margret C;arke, of his being Vie father of her child, they have cmae to a unanimons opinion of the perfect innocence of the Governor, and of the fals hood of the complainant's statement in every particular, wh'ch statement they cannot but believe to be the production of malice and conspiracy. In recording their votes of perfect confidence in the Governor, they take this opportunity of pt.blicly stating their regret that the presidieg magistrate should hive anticipated the Governor's defence, and inane remarks in the dismissal of the cese ca'culated to mislead public opinion upon the matter, and to seriously damage Mr. Gongh's charac - er. Mr. Ledger seconded the motion.' Mr. Abrahams ani ',lr. Taylor also spoke in support of th 3 resole • tion, as did also Mr. Clarke ant Mr. Pitts.: ; The Chairman then aid essed the board, observing that he was morally convinced that Mr. Gough was innocent, and of that he was as sure as that he was then addressing them. He then explained some portion Of the evidence, and concluded by expressing a hope that the resolution would he unanimously adopted. The resolution was then pat from the chair and unanimously adopt d, amidst considerable apdlause. The result of the ,nvestizatioa haling been communicated to Mr. Gough, who was much affected, ties board adjourned. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. -YESTERDAY. THE QUE N (ON THEE PROSE OUT lON ( F THE GUARDIANS OF THE WEST DERBY UNION) v. JAMES GOODWIN CII 3I iNAL IN . 3.IMATON-WORKIIJUSE ABUSES. Sir Frederick Thesiger:showed cause against a rule obtained by Mr. Brett on behalf of Mr. James Birch aed the other guardians of the West Derby Union for a criminal information against Mr. James Goodwin for having composed and published certain scandalous libels. Mr. Goodwin was a ra'epayer and the schoolmaAer of a chariry school in the union, and he alleged that he wrote the letters complained of bona fide for th 3 purpose of having an inquiry ins ituted into certain matters in which he believed the ratepayers were interested. The letter containing the principal alleged libel was dated the 12th Ma;, 1857, and wa addressed to the chairman of the board of guardians. It asked if it was customary for the guardians of the union to pe mit contract rs to send inferior articles to those they hrd engaged to supply, and if not, why they had permitted James Birch to send i❑ potatoes called " blue farmers," which were of inferior qoaltk to those he had con tracted to furnish the:workhouse. It also asked why they had allowed him, wltre a guardian, to supply flour to the Union, his brotl,e, Thomas Birch, being the contractor. The letter also made other charges is the interrogative form against Birch, and the board generally. The clerk of the board replied that the letter had been referred to a committee of investigation, and subsequently offered Mr. Goodwin an opportunity of substantiating Me charges before that committee, but Mr. Goodwin declined to avail himself of it on the ground that an inquiry Mare such a committee would be illusory, as they had no power over the board and could give no redress. Sir Frederick showed by reference to the affidavit of the defendant, that fur a series of years the tender fur fl rur cf Thomas Birch, who was a farmer, had been accepted, and that he had received very large sums of money annually on account of them, he not being by business a flour merchant, and it appearing that James Birch kept a flour mill and sold flour. The learned council further showed that Thomas Birch had for sever al years furaishod the union with potatoes to a considerable amount, and he sa'd he had evidence to prove that flour and potatoes were seat to the workhouse on behalf of James Birch in 1838,1851, an t 1855. Mr. Brett having been be trd in support of the rule, Lord Campbell said this case very much resembled " The King v . Captain Bei ey," in which L rd Erskine male his first celebrated speech, and where the charges against the defendant was for libel in comp'aining of certain abases in the administration of Greenwich Hospital. although the truth of all the charges was not proved, it malice, and Lord - Man - sfie!trand the whole tour. were of opinion that the application was answered, and refused to make the rule ab;o lute for a criminal information. Without pronouncing any opinion on the conduct of James Birch, and for his sake he (Lord Campbell) would not enter vet/ minutely into the evidence on either side, he clearly came to the coaclusion that Mr. Goodwin, the defendant, was actuated by laudable motives if what he said in his affidavit was true, viz. - that he was entirely him from any personal spite, and believed thst It was .'or the good of the paupe-s that he should tring forwar.l these charges. He must say there were very reasonable grounds for suspicion —there were gross abuses in the confine of the guardians of this union, and looking to the situation filled by Mr. Goodwin, he could not at ell blame him for trying to expose 'hem and bring them to justice. What struck him when the apalication was made was the statement that the defendant had a fall opportunity of having the matter fairly investigated but declined it, and refused to bri rg forward his evidence. That had now been clearly and satisfactorily esplait ed. It was shown that the proposed inquiry was to take piece before a standing committee, composed of some of those against whom. the charges were made, and a fair in quiry could not be expect:d from such a tribunal. He must say, therefai e, that what Goodwin a.kel, viz.—an investigation before the whole board was not unreasonable, and strong evidence had been given that he was act ng in the conscientious belief that he w.,s doing no more than his duty to these very worthy objects of charity who lived in the workhouse. Mr. Justice Coleridee was entirely of the same opinion, He entirely decl ned entering into the actual state of facts referred to in the affidavits, but it was clear, from the affidavits ou both sides, that strung grounds of ouspicion existed,; and he was Sil' istled that there wcs no ground f,,r believing that Goodwin proceeded otherwise than from bone fide and from good motives. He nought it right to add, as a general remark with regard to bodies of this kind, that it was not desirable to treat with toe strung a hand infeilor persons in the situation of Goodwin, who were bold enough to make such allegat ons. Heaven knows that a schoolmaster, perhaps in their employ, but at all events very much under their influence, meet have difficulties enough in bringing forward a case of this description. One also knows how extremely difficult it must be for the paupers themselves to expose malpractices from which they suffer. Abuses in these institutions were among the most misch evens and oppressive that con d be, and therefore he should be very sorry to hold too strict a hand over such inquiries as that sought by the defenda it in this case. Mt. Justice Wightman s.id the question was not so much w!rether the charg.2s were really well founded to the letter, but whether G sodwin was actuated by a sense of duty towards the paupers, wills whom he was to ace tain extent connected. As schoolmaster he had a public duty to perform, and he was justified in expo,ing any malpractices which might have existed in the workhouse, and there was sufficient on the taco of the affidavits to show that he might have entertained a sincere opinion that an improper system was carried on in the workhouse, and that in truth ,the paupers did not g,it the allowances which according to the contracts they were en. titled to receive. And as the court was influenced by a sincere desire to reform such abuses where tie sy existed contrary to law, and seeing that the motives here were devoid of all malice. whi.ih was an essential i gredieat in tisese ca ,, es, he agreed , with his learned b 7othera that the rule should be discharged, Mr. Justice Erie having expressed the srme opinion, The rule was discharged. Sir Frederick The3iger said the defendant was a very poor man, and he h , ped their lordships would n t make him pay the costs. Lord Campbell —Let the ral2 be discharged with costs. Sir Frederick The:iger—To be paid by Mr. James Birch? Lord Campbell—Yes; he is pat forward in the case. Ru'e discharged with co ts. LORD 31IYOR'8 (OF LONDON) DAY. The annual civic procession from Guildhall to Westminster, took place yesterday morning. Tee weather, fur the month of Novemb -r, was favon able, and the concourse of people yes fully as numerous as of late years. Tho sight mast have disappointed then, for in point of fact it was little more than a sting of private carriages, Inters,:er ed w,th a tui itary bind or two, and sligh , ly diversified by a few mei in armourfrom Astley's. Tne new Lord Mayor seems to have studiously div sted the show of melodramatic eff cts, the only exception being the men in armour, wnose lugabriou, count nances and general air of discomfort prov:l;e•i r d:cale rather than admiration. The procession deviate :I is an important particular from p - edons years, there baiig n , water procession. T e corporation aro no longe: the only cons :riators of the Thames, and it was therefore resolved that the route should be entirely u ,oa land. Another dep attar° from precedent was the absence of the usual slaadrons of dragoons as an escort to his lordship. The chan:e of Nate has not been received with gratitude by th inhabitants of Fleet-street and the Strand, who appear to find little in the show that atones for the inconveniences which a stoppage of t - affic necessitates. The crowd, who ware kept writing a consi lerab'e time, were amused in the intervals by the oil methods—Punch and Judy, banjo-players, ballad mongers, and strolling bands, who applied their respective vocations with undiminished zeal. Iligh'y coloured prints of the procession, of ancient date and extraord"nary length, were hawked about, and some of the men as a recommendation assured the bystanders that they gave a particular account of f: what viitals thee has Lr dinner." TELEGRAPHIC NEWS' By British, and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. 10 1311 ' DISSOLUTION OF THE BELGIAN PABL BERLIN, MONDAY NlGlrr'. M. Rozier, the Belgian ;Ambassador at p a A has succeeded in forming a Liberal Cabinet, al; has obtained, as a condition of accepting office, t o. power of dissolving the Chamber and appealing the country. The Ministry which retir es entered office in March, 1855. THE DANISH QUESTION. The German Universal Gazette declares that i g interposition of the Powers in the affairs of stein is contrary to pablic right and the Ito • r nations. LORD POWERSCOURT. BELFAST, MONDAY NI ci 0 ff . : The rumour respecting Lord Powerso7o.- death is unfounded, his lordship being a present in the enjoyment of good health. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY Ni ci° %t• The Three per Cent Rentes elosud to-d5l GU. 750 . AMUSEMENTS. TIMES CONCERTS last night, and all full, with Me at 10 r,r sett'. ST. GEORGE'S HALL.—Mai Piceolomini an d b t c t troupe drew a fashionable attendance to the re served i le t bf in St. Ge.org:'s Hall. The body of the hall 0A f galleries were fall without being crowded. The Coneeo" was a very good one, though an apology was pai d° Madame Puma, which caused a change in the prog r3alw tr The novelty of the evening was M ille. performance of "I dreamt that I dwelt in gar-.f. Halls," and, to the delig at aad astonisholes of everyboly, bath singing and pronu ncia n were perfection. She was eatbuiastically encored; repeated the last verse with evil effect, proving sgsl:t 8r have always contended, that she is q rite as great 3 A as she is an actress. Madame Spezia, Madil?. Ort°l6l; Siznori Giugliui, Vialatti, and b uce `,, e o t wera also very successful in their parts of the Concert)" we have Rot "pace to go into particulars. THE New PHILHARMONIC wade a very satigfcetcserie' debut in Handel's Oratorio of " Judas Maccabee s. Concert Hall was cram nod. M. M an n was recliceir with great enthusiasm, and greatly distinguished ilinll,sBof in L 0 Sound an alarm" and '' .11 . )ev van is man," bc' t ' b r which, in spite of a regulation that there were n3l t° any encore', were celled for a secoad time, and re2 ncl amid M oud applause. et. l E. W. Tetowes's Concsars.—Mr. Thomas, also, 0, a god attendance at his opening Concert, which "los.- musically, a great SUCCeSg. Miss Loui,a Vianing o f greeted with loud cheers, and ravel herself dese,finso them in " Ah ! Fors a Lai," and is " Home, Sweet illtn.; Both were c elled for again, but in lieu of re P est-,0 the latter, she gave •'C nnia' Through the S h r e et o which the audience would have been glad t° ark over again, but Miss Vinniag only came t a ees • , Mr. E. W. Thomas justice, and oer oil f7i7red Lidet very successful in his sole, in an air from La Seimaar n ".- li n P We hope we shall be able to recor: i ncrease d audienc es " "to' ing the week. Tuere will be a morning performance morrow; RJYAL AMPHITHEATRE—.ME. WESToN , a BV lSfil ;kir To-morrow night, Mr. Weston, the box-keeper, will l a benffie, which we commend to our reade rs ' notice' t f e or • performarces will be, Messinger's s t r iki ng play, " 4 - tbs Way to Pay Old Debts," in which Mr. 1301304eiel American Tragedian, will assume the part of Si : 00 11 Overreach, in which the great Kean electrified, 13 , - 0 le ° ' the audience, but his fellow-performers, ma l es a el le , o s tb e Mr. Flexnsore and Madame Auriol will a l so appear'n-f the Dumb Savoyard, and his Monkey. All the lover 6; rsir Theatre will have experienced the att e ntions °I the Weston, and we trust they will not overlo ) k or N r g et claims of an obliging pub!ie s:rvant. LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW BiTADLISHM3NT o d , " i vr CLOTHING.—Number of b.. , ys clothed for wee` p i, 10" Satur lay, November 7:h, 543 ; corresponding '" year, 339, incre ise, 204 boys. VO lt i e f i r FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Sunday, a youth, named Greer, on boird the Pel'e in steamer, fell from w e a l gaff on the dick, and was killed. The poor lad Mi ss " • hold, and the result was his death by the fall. bt of DE4TI=I FROM DRUNK , NNYSS —On Saturday 9%0 ' 0 rather on Sunday morning, a young man, nee:lV ec iar McLtnnon, who resided at a house in 11 Court, uf'",,, - eat°' street, got drunk, and lay on the floor. By some C O - . 081 not explained, his clothes caught fi re , and he diedtb s ( - pence of the injuries received. He was taken "ode"' Northern Hospital, but he died before the office" l lac s ; there with his body. H e pr e sented A h orr ible aPr a ' a stto` WAYERCREE LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH Q t monthly meeting of this Board was held last nigh t n - w isf Board Room; Mr. Chaffers presided : The Plod' members were present : Messrs. Gaddis, Rishtort Dar • burn, Parkins, and H o thead. Mr. Atherton, the off Clerk, read the minutes of the list meeting, w h ealife ll : confirmed. A qoesti en arose as t o th e sewerage e' t ington-road, and it was left to Mr. Newland; to r e P i , I Cotn: the subject. It was resolved t o w r it e t o the llea't,„ - 4 -101 mitten of Liverpool to rep a i r the f oo tp a th over the R' 0' bridge, at Edge Hill, which was now dangerous. icrot4 routine business was then transacted, and the adjourned. „,, fer ti : SANITARY QuasTro N s.—Th e i mmense lo?nefli. -- n rr its, upon the British army in th e C r i mea by the late Sa t ion Commission, has had the effect of directing the att ev re ssinf continental stWes to sanitary questions, and of ineace the British government with a souse of the i'vP ° .,,, rt r . a o fee 6 t r continued viOlance. Dr. Southwood Smith. J; frea tti7 Way, and M r . H. A us ti n , o f t h e G rnera l Beard 01 ""„ t ao have gone as a deputation to Milan, to inspect °: riaa irrigation there, with a view to the important gee-se, the application of sewag e t o agr i cu ltural Purr ra blep, connection with the gr e at metropolitan sewerag e P f to 0" in particular, and th e u tili za ti on o f th e sewage ° in THE geral. Engl e ne NEW GUY FAWBES.—N. x na Sahib is a n 0 0- scholar, conversant with our history, and intimatet/31 qeainted with Europe a n politics. Ha V/ 08 P lr s l idere 4 English society, and the p a l a ce a t Bithoor was ontieraelt' an open house by English officers, and other g'elit, pipe' stationed at Cawnpore, from which it is on'y aevenearoj toi bee° miles elitatit• Its owner is even said to h ay acquainted with other modern languages of EttoP e ' de aote have had some scientific knowledge. Hi s place _ t an d the home of a Hindoo of more than curr ent refineme i n or of taste, and the c hief f o llo we d European manners rt.a ° they could be brought into consistence with the rigi'm the of a high c Ste ilindoo. Nana Sahib may have s e o i ug hb or c i society of British residents and visitors to this ° heot on heod, with the hope of beaming popular among t _ th° improving his iffott to obtain a ra-caneideratio,7lo rotla pension question. At any rate, he was more peP it!tl'' B•itish society than almost any Hindoo gentlemani:',of tbd gal. When no expectation remaieed of pecuniary seutence from Calcutta, he was inducettu.:iu., jal c. agent to London, in the hoe of at least prose.e_tttia",°tbet a revere.o,.... case. We regret to he'd, ye p that his agents at Cate e horn the, corres, - oindents at Liverool and the l aw yers . tv 0 " 00 then° employed in London— all thought more of their ol tion thin the Peishwa's ension. * The sum of fifty for the pounds eras transmitted from Bithoor to Caleutr 0 / the pro - ecution of the case in London. Some Perdue; duce money was doubtless re'ained in Coker a for ~e , eet of a 05 0eeft i t r h g e r_ s e ; ix b t u o t the sevenlas t t h o time , , w d e p h o e n a n r d d s_ o f t t hweasb thea!s.nstelebip' decree in Chancery, upon the question of rig"' raised by the rival agents.—Taia. V I ell -- ; 1 1 i : 41 1 e ki et We: B 4op l P v 1,2 01