Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—YEsTRIDAY. LIVERPOOL. azrona MR. DIXON. Vicious GIRLS.—Two girls, named Catherine Fleming and M,ry Eliza Threlfall, both about 15 years years of age, described as the daughters of respectable working men, residing. one in Van:then-street, the other in Hender son-street, Park, were brought up by fetective officers Fovey and McCullock, charged with having stolen six daugareotype portraits frum the establishment of Mr. Prestwitch, of 2, Pitt -street. From the evidence, it ap peared that the parents of the unfortunate children could not get any good of them, although they tried every means to reform them. On Saturday evening they went to the establishment of Mr. Prestwitch for the purpose, as they alleged, of ordering pertraite of themselves ; the portraits (stolen) were on a table, and they contrived to steal six of them. They sold two of them, worth Bs. to a woman named Walsh, who keeps a broker's shop in Henderson-street, for 4d, ; this woman was very much censured for her conduct, and Povey said there would not be half so many thieves, if brokers and others did not receive stolen property. The parents of the children came forward and begged that his Worship migkt send them to a reformatory, as the only means of reclaiming them One of them had been bound to a cigar maker, bat she could not be got to attend her business. The officers, when they arrested the girls, got four additional portraits with them. They were remanded for a week. " CHRISTMAS SPORTS "---A well dressed sharp-looking fellow, named James Bailley, described as a mobsman, was charged by a man, named Thomas Begley, who keeps an oyster stall at the north-west corner of John's Market, with having been concerned in assaulting and robbing him of a ring. The complainant said he was in the " Old Dive" pnblic-house, near the market, along with his wife and a gi l ; the prisoner (who had a false imperial on him at the time) was there, with two other men, and when they saw witness, they said, "there is a pig here." It was about half-past ten o'clock, and witness then went into Market-street, by another door, from the public-house ; the moment he got into the street, the prisoner and his two companions caught him by the legs and turned him completely over, and the prisoner attempted to scoop out hie eje with hie fingers. Here the witness exhibited the coat and vest he had on at the time, and such tatters never were seen. He continued to say, the prisoner took lie ring off' hie finger, crying out to his companions, got `fattnaes , '"—a slang name for a ring, which he took off his finger . The other t wo men got away. Mr. Campbell, for the prisoner, cross examined the witness as follows : Are you acquainted with such cbaraetera ? Yes, I have known them for some years. Mr. Campbell: Were you tried for a garrotte robbery ? Yes, but I was not guilty. Mr Campbell : Oh, of course not : no one would say so of himself; vel:ere were you tied ? At Ches'er. In reply to His Worship, the policeman, who had charge of the ease, said the prisoner's wife, and the girl alluded to, were threatened with violence, if they came forward to give evidence. His Worship sent the officer fur these two females, and, after some time, they appeared, • and were examined; but Mr. Campbell produced witnesses who " upset " the testimony for the prosecution, and then c. ntended that his client was entitled to his discharge, and his Worship, agreeing with him, the prisoner was discharged. ALLEOZD PLUSHER BY SERVANTS, &e. —Jane Duffy, formerly a servant with Mrs. Tweedle, of 9, Kent-street, was charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel and other things belonging to her mistress. The r leery took place in November last, but the prisoner was not got until Monday, when there were some of the missing things got with her. She was remanded A boy named Robert Dunne, Who was a porter in the cloth shop cf Mr. Ric:larde, of Prices-street, was charged with stealing cloth. Mr. Bluck defended. It appeared that some cloth was foend concealed in the cellar, and it was stroposed that the boy stole it out of the shop, and exieetsled it there until he got an opportunity of removing it. It was removed and pledged by a woman named Anne Dunne, who was supposed to ba the boy's mother, but there was no proof the fact. Ur. Bluck contended that there was no evidence to convict the boy. The lad was retaniee3, " A Wirea" MAN.---:3lAry Clarke, a young woman, who sad she was a ssrvant, living' i with a farmer some miles from town s charged a sailor named Anderson for an attempt to steal her watch. The complainant said she was ow for the day, and at one in the morning she met the pris.ner in Old Hall street, and after some conver sation, she alleged, he took the watch from her. The priEoner said some men were trying to take the watch from tho girl, when he took it in order to take care of it for her. He was remanded. BREAKING INTO AN OFFTCC—James Duff, John M cGuir e, Cornelius Buckley, and Edward Bell, were charged with breakirg into the coal yard and office of Mr. Brewer, Richmond-row It appeared that the prisoners broke into the yard and then into the office, out of which they carried the iron safe into the yard, and were breaking it open with crow bars ; the noise attracted atten;ion, and the police came and arrested the prisoners. They were sent for trial. BEFORE MESSRS. BEEN AND SHULL A woman named Ellen Lowden, who keeps a sailors' boarding-house in No. 1 Court, Saltney-street, summoned Mr. John Smith, of the shipping office, sailors' home, ender the 127 sec. of the Merch,nt Shipping Act, far receiving 153. from her for shipping sailors. Mr. Snow ball was for the complainant, Mr. Aspinall for th) defendant, and Mr. Tyndall attendel to watch the case for the Board of T , ads. The case may be put into the following factg, although the details occupied a considerable time. Previous to last Augus►, Mr. Smith was engaged in an American shipping office, and was solicited to fill an office at the sailor's home, in consfquence of his activity and intelligence. The complainant alleged that five days' after he wets appointed to the office in the sailor's home, he shipped two man for her, and that he wanted to charge her a pound, and she paid him 15s. in order to gat their notes from him ; she told a man named Armstrong about it. This man was examined, and cross-examined by Mr. Aspinill, and he admitted that he bore the greater part of the present expense ; other boarding masters might have contributed also. Mr. lu3pinall contended that there was a conspiracy against the defendant, who hal made himielf very active in putting down the vile system of crimping in Liverpool. The Mag'strate, after hearing the whole cage, tlecided on - fining the defendant £5 5;. and costs, with the view of allowing him to appeal to the Queen's Bench. LOsS OP LErtqf TRADERS. —S:nce November, 1856, n fewer than fire VPAtri vessels belonging ti, or trading with the port of Leith, have bean totally lost, 'iz., Wslin, Z ivave, Queen Martello, and Rapid, in the following order :—The Roslin, from Stettin, with a cargo of grain, &c., foundered at sea; all hands dro - vned. The Zona', e, trona Stettin, with a \ carga of grain, run dawn ; crew say.,:d. Tao Queen end Martell', general c.trgo, from Invertere, ran on sbote on the Carr R,icks, near Oral; total wreak; cargoes partially rescued ; crew and pusek gers save_ The R‘pid, general cargo, run down off Ymrmoutia ; tout loss; crew and pas:iengers saved. ATROCIMIS OIITE‘GIiI AT Powricruxcr.—Between twice and, one u'elook oa Monday na.rnieg, a gun is as discharged into Vile County P,,liee OMee 1 1 ..intefract. Elward Chris ter, eerlz to Mr. Orraehy, the supezintendent of the tiri?i,n, was the oily parson in thn offi;e at the time. lie was seated in tin room w'ten thogun was fired through the winlow ; but its conttnts, a quantity of shot, fortu ;we) missed him, and lodged in the wall cpposie. The outrage is supposed by the police to have been perpe trate,' in co , ll . 4quence of their latterly having taken save al disarderly fellows of the town into custo•ly. has a 1)L4,-;11 police ; and hitherto, the " roughs" about the p'ace have had it pretty rues Lleir ova way. Latterly, however, wh , .. , n the raral police 'yore caught Rome of these parsons brealsihz the pe Lee, or otherwise concluating themselves in a disorderly manner, without the boundaries of the borough, they have had them punished. It is therefore, supposed, that the attempt describe ci above is to be attributed to a feeling of revenge against the police. WILFUL Ig BERWICKPIIIRE.—APPItEmEM siON OF TU s INcEND/ABY.—On the night of the 30th Nov., ninet en stacks were burned in the farmyard at Hatchet niz -, in the parish of Coldstream, value about ..£5OO. lutorm.'ion of the burning was immediately communie'ited to Mr. !Joining, supsi',tencient of the Berwickshire police. Assist• d by criminal cater Andrew Torrie, the superin tendent immediately proceeded to investigate into the cause of the burning, and was eatiafied that it was the work of ao liary. In the course of irquiries the supetinten dent tisc::taided that a vagrant had be :11 turned out of a cart-s Led at Whitrigg the same eve=ning. Oa being turned oa t a threatened that he would set fire to some of the adkiniiig stack-yards. Vitittigg it the adjoining, farm to nutcbetniv. This man was closely pursued for a considerable distance into Northumberland, when for sever.] days, ow;ng to his vagrant habits. sleeping in &c., all traca of him cuss lost. He was, how ever, apprehended on the 11th instant, sleeping in a b - ,r) view Hexhaor, Northumberland. He has been committed to G-eenla.v prison for tticl. Much praise is due to the Northumb, , rland constabulary for their active exertions and c) operation with th e s u p er i n t e ndent of Berwickshire in assisting to apprehend the.accused. When apprehended accused were clogs of a very peculiar shape, which corres pond with impressions at Whitrigg, and ale() with impres ions near the yard at Hatohetnine. COUNTY COUR T. -YESTEZDAT. BEFORE J. P. COMET; ESQ. The following are the judgment summonses issued for commitments for noncompliance with judgments•-- Aegustus Miller, 11, Fraser street, fourteen days ; Michael Healey, 2, Back Lower Mersey View, Bootle, fourteen days ; Edward Collins, 2, Back Lower Mersey View, Bootle, fourteen days ; Thomas Borrow, Lower Beau street, fourteen days, warrant to issue in a month; Samuel Bloxham, Duke street, fourteen days ; Miss M. Maxwell, Fox Inn, Casle street, twenty days to Lancaster, warrant to issue in a month; James Hurry, South John street, fourteen days, warrant to issue in a month ; Robert Hope, 30, Wulf.) st.eet, Park, committed for twenty-one days ; Peter M`Cablo, 2 Court, Hopwood street, Scotland road, committed for 14 days; Powlands, 5, Upper Essex street, 14 days; John Worrell, 12, Lincoln street, Wellington road, Park, 14 d ,ys ; Edward James, Mill C Ana, 14 day s ; William Godley, 17, Pleasant Hill street, Park, 14 days ; Maurice Maguire, Combermere street, Park, 14 days ; John Towerson, Combermere street, Park, 14 days ; Nicholas Fitzsimons, Wellington Terrace, High Perk street, Perk, 14 days ; Thomas Catcall, Fair View, Park, 14 days ; Stock, Wellington Buildings, South Castle street, 14 days ; Albert Mander, 4, Gloucester Place, 14 days; Michael Tully, 23, Brick street, 14 days; Delis Leigh, 3 Court, Perry street. 20 days to Lancaster Castle; Luke Monaghan, 40, Frederick street, 14 days ; Mary Mullen, 32, Frederick street, twenty days to Lan caster Castle ; Mary Brenner, 9, Court, Brick street, twenty days to Lancaster Castle ; R hart Ambrose. 65, Gerrard street, committed for fourteen days ; Eden, Brunswick View, Brunswick road, fourteen days; Robert Tyror, Po email Square Market, fourteen days ; John Finlay, Ann's Place, Sorton street, Windsor, fourteen days ; Michael Graham, 14 Court, Oriel &reel . , fourteen days; Peter Baker, Rumford street, fourteen days ; Michael Kelly. 25, Cheapside, fourteen days; Alexander Ree 1 , Highfield street, fourteen days ; Samuel Gerrard, Lower Harrington street, fourteen days; Patriek M'Hugh Albion place, Bispham street, fourteen days; John Keggin, 7 Court, Adlingtsn street, fourteen days ; John Shuttle worth, Westmoreland street, fourteen days. INSOLVENT PICTITIONIERS. The following insolvents made application for dis charges : —.Edward Ceullett, formerly carrying on business a master-bnilder, in this town Mr. Husband supported the petitioner. Teens wag no opposition, and the discharge was consequently granted. Mr. Scholfield Hooker, formerly carrying on business as a pawnbroker, in this town Mr. Husband supported the petitioner. No opposition, petition granted. Isaac Kro ;les, formerly carrying on the business of a butcher. The petitioner was supported by Mr. Chilton, and opposed by Mr. Hill. After a lengthened hearing of this case, the Judge granted the application. James Lowndes made application for final order. Mr. Gray supported the applicant. No opposition, the granting was fixed for the tad February. Thomas B. Gildersleeve, surgeon. supported by Mr. Grocott, applied for final order. No opposition, day of granting fixed for the 2nd February. Mr. Hyde, formerly carrying on the business of a ship broker, applied for final order. The applicant was sup ported by Mr. Husband. There was no opposition, and the day of granting was fixed for the 2nd February. Stephen Reynolds, formerly a coffee honeekeeper, applied for final order, supported by Mr. Gray. The 2nd February was the day fixed for granting. Mr. Hime made an application on the part of John Hurst Harrison, insolvent, that the hearing of his case be adjourned to the 19th of January. in order to amend the schedule. The application was granted, with protection in the meantime. ROBERTS v. MARTIN:—This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Robert Roberts, against the defendant, John. Martin, for wages due to the amount of £5O. Mr. Brem ner appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Almond for the defendant. The particulars appeared in this paper a few days ago, as el cited at the police court. We shall briefly relate them. The plaintiff is a sailor and shipped at Liverpool for Singapore on the 19:11 of November on board the ship Elizabeth Martin, owned by the d.fen dant. The ship had been but three days at sea when she received some damages, and was obliged to put in at Milf)rd, where the plaintiff, in the discharge of his duty, met with an accident, by which he g,t his leg broken. He was thus incapacitated The captain provided medical attendance and paid his beard for a time. While the plaintiff lay thus disabled, and unfit to be removed, the ship was obliged to leave Milford for her destination, having Rot her repairs finished. The captain paid the Doctor's bill, but omitted to make any further provisions for the plaintiff, or to rake the proper and legal steps to discharge him, as the Merchant Shipping Act requires. The result of this was, that the Vaintiff was unable to get another ship, not having a certificate from his last captain. The claim now was compensation for support since that time up till about three weeks ago, when the ship returned t 3 Liverpool. Mr. Almond a rgu ed th a t t h e decision of the magistrates in granting a month's wages beyond actual service was legally sufficient, and debarred the plaintiff from any farther claims. After some lengthened and legal arguments an objection was rose o f a technical character—this was, that the master, and not the owner of the vessel, ought to be sued. Henry Murphy, of the Sailors' Home, was examined in defence. He stated that the plaintiff would not have had any difficulty in obtaining a ship if he had come to the Home and ex plained his case. Mr. Milner, agent and part-owner of the ship Elizabeth Martin, next stated on oath that he would have given the plaintiff a certificate or otherwise given him employment in another vessel, if he had made application. Walter Caig. captain of the Elizabeth Martin, was next examined. There was no further evidenee elicited for the defendants. In cross-examination, he stated that the owners of the vessel were at Milford during the time of her repairs, and saw the plaintiff while ill. Mr. Bremner closed the case. Judgment deferred. The Court closed at about seven o'clock. ST. STEPHEN'S DAY TN BELFAST.—On. Saturday last, St S'ephen's-day - , the greater number of the large estab lishments in tis general drapery and grocery trade were closed for the purpose of giving the assis!ants an additional Ths weather was unusually mild for the season, and most f:.vourable for rut•deor amusements. A. BANK MANAGER'S WIT.—IT is rep , rted that when the late maaageriof the Western Bank of Glasgow, was being dismis3 , -d from his Wee, one of the directors present who is more celebrated for the energy than the elegance of his I , .n;uuge, fired off a pretty heavy volley of oaths at the retirinz offici.d. The latter, after haying b irne the i oflietian with characteristic sangfroid, sai: l ,—" I have often heard a min sworn into office, but it is the first time I have hea:l a man morn cut of it." Rigs. PA RTINGT N'S OPINION.—" Your neigishaur Smith, Mrs. Rrington, i> something of a cinnoissur, is ha Bet?" asked the doctor as he looked in. It was a stiffener of a word. I dori't like to express myself dispe:ishing against anvborly."—ssid she, " but I s%ould say, by th, wiiy he swills down the wine, that he comes as near a common sewer as anything." —"Cornosseur—connosseur—rnY dear madam" he said, checking her. " Well," replied she, " what's said is said, and the 'oist said is soonest mAided For my part I find it the best way to say nothing against nobody." MR. PURGEON'S VALEDICTC WC SERMON FOR 1857 Perh,ps the most numerous congregation that has assem bled in the Music, Hall of the Starry Gardens, to listen to the teachings of Mr. Spurgeon was drawn there on Sunday inornirig on the occasion of his preaclaing his last Sabbath sermon there in the year 1857. The number o! people githered tnge:her was estimated as tnproachinz to ten thotrand - His sermon from the prollecies of Jeremiah, ebapt9r rift, verse 6.—" What Gave von done ?" w as marked by many of those re tliarities, in language and manner, which bve ever distinguished his pulpit compo sitions, and have elcited such free, and, occasionally severe etiticism9. C(1111,31111'; CURIOSITIES OF THE " BALLYMENA OB • SERVER "—"A; we write," !Jays the Bat ymena Obsertfer, 441 this Christmas-eve, a full-grown and vry beautiful butterfly is flying vigorously about oar otlicc. It was caught in tf.e oren air, by Mr. Joseph M'Auley, et' AlM st set, nn Wednesday. A pair of sparrows are busily eagrag.l in the construction of a nest at no grew distance from our premiss ; and a pair of magpies are emp!o et in like manner in a neighbouring towuland. A stalk of wheat, the second crop this season, and ra ,, w in fdl ear, may he seen in the garden of Mr. Henry York, of Tam laght O'Criily ; and a swllow was observed in flight over Shan...'4 Castle nu rser y groun d s, on T IE slay last. These facts are ample proof of the unusual mildness ~ f a season which, for uniformity cf temperature, is without precedent is the memory of any resident of this looalitt." AN IMPOSTER ' 6 ARTIST . ' IN BRADF RD.-011 Tuesday last, a wAI-dressad foreigner called upon several artists atd drawing movers in Bradford, stating that he was " Mr. C. A. Da Val, a! tis', of Greenb.is, Mancllester," and that be had lest the use of his right hand and arm ; and, as he appeared familiar with all the Manchester artists, both by th,ir names and their works, he received several dorm - Sens. He stated, amongst other things, that he had painted the portrait of Mr. Richard Cobden; and he w. e. on the whole, tolerably successful in "raising the wind." It is supposed that ha has left Brad'ord for Lced*, where he is probably practising the sure fraud upon the benevolent, and obtain.. lug money by false preteucer. It is scarcely necessary to add, exe-pt where Mr. Du Val is not known, that he is not a foreigner; and that he is still a resident of Grcouber, and we hope will long have the use of both arms. \Vera he to meet with his personator, we have little doubt that the rascal would soon discover that Mr. Du Val had not t lost the use of his right land and arm. THE N ORTIIERN TIMES. HAYTI AND ST. DOMINGO. REV. J. MACNAUGHT IN REPLY TO THE REV. J. K. GLAZEBROOK. The eastern part of the island of Hayti, which has constituted itself into a separate government, under the name of the Dominicen Republic, forme, according to the boundary treaty between France and Spain, signed in Jane, 1777, two thirds of the whole island. But even after this treaty had been coneuled, and in spite of the good understanding which appeared to exist between the various parties concerned, difficulties and contentions so often arose amongst the colonists that, in order to put an end to them, France asked for, and Spain agreed to, the cession of the eastern part of the island, which arrange ment was completed in July, 1795, by the tree) , of Bale. But this new accession to the French dominions depended for many years exclusively upon its own resources, France, at that time, being unable to turn it to good account. This state of things continued until Toussant L'Overture, then Governor-General of the island, took possession of the Eastern territory in the name of the French Republic, and entered St. Domingo on the 26th of July, 1801. France, however, did not remain in the Peaceful possession of the who'e island, fir the people, after a long and sanguinary struggle, the like of which it is not easy to discover in the annals of history, rescued the western part from the yoke of its former masers. Thus did the sun of the IA of January, 1804, shine upon the first free and independent negro state in the new world, and the name of Hayti replaced that of St. Doming', But Dessalines, the valiant founder of Haytieu independence, felt that neither peace nor stability could be secured to the new state as long as any part of it whatever was occupied by France, and the regenerated race continued to live side by side their former oppressors. In 1805 he undertook a campaign against the town of St. Domingo, the stronghold of the French forces in the eastern division of the island, but he was unable to carry his bold enterprise into execution as be possessed no strung pieces of ordnance wherewith to batter the walls of the town, while the enemy was well provided with cart non. After a siege of nearly a month he aba•tdoned the undertaki ig upon learning that a French fleet was in sight, and hastening to the succour of the besieged garrison. On his return to the western part of the island, and in order to guard the country against the aggressions of foreign neighbours, hs promulgated the Imperial Constitution of 180.5, by which were proclaimed the independence of the island and the principle of the unity, indivisibility, and inalienability of the whole territory. After the death of Dessalines, the western part of the island was divided into two governments; the ono in the north under the dominion of Christophe, who proclaimed himself King of Hayti,. and the other in the south and west, the President of the latter first being Potion, and subsequently Boyer, who succeeded him. This anomalous state of things continued until 1820. In October of thlt year Christophe being unable to suppress the rebellion of his own troops who were tired of his tyranny, put an end to his life, whereupon the whole western part of the island was immediately united' under one government, bearing the name of the Republic of Hayti. It is worthy of remark that all the constitutions of Hayti from those of Dessalines, Christophe, and the republic down to the imperial one adopted in 1849, proclaimed the unity of the territory as eFe3utitl to its security and independence. Those provisions of the Haytian constitutions may be regarded as solemn pronses against ali insidious attempts to bring about or to perpetuate, the dismemberment of the territory ; and as periodical warnings against the fatal results- to the independence of the country of such a suiehlal policy. The Seanish co'onies availed themselves of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon, to expel the French from their territory. The eastern part of Hayti being guarded only by a handful of French soldiers, easily rel'eved itself of the foreign yoke. The chiefs who delivered their country from its disgraceful thraldom, did not wish again to become the subjects of Spain ; but that country being early warned of their dreams of independ ence, took immediate and efren'ual measures to prevent their fulfilment. The colony, therefore, again became a part of the S' stain West India p ssssionr. In 18e4, by the treaty of Paris, France formally recognised the right of Spain to possess the eastern part of the island. The firm re-establishment of Spanish rule was unfortunately followed by the resus,itation of slavery, which, although existing in a mild form, could not fail to be, as indeed it ever is, a crime, a 'caudal, and a curse. Spain being •too much engaged in repairing her own disasters at home neglected her colony, from which she could net derive any immediate advantage. Abandoned to itself, without indus'ry and cenimerce, to an extent ceirenensurate with TO THE EDITOR OF TUB NORTHERN TIMES. Glazebrook's letters of yester 'ay and to-day do not seem to me to have much to do with any of the paragraphs of my two first letters. However, I shall give them such attention as ESADIO necessary. Mr. G.'s epistle of yesterday ought to have been an apology fer the several misrepresentations of which I showed, in my letter published December 16th, that Mr. G. had either actually been guilty, or else had even shame lessly confessed himself the perpetrator. That Me. G.'s letter of yesterday is not intended by him to be an apology, appears by the fact that he continues— in his own words --to "amuse " himself by tho " artifice " of " altering the punctuation " of my " words," in order to "to n them against" myself. Mr. G. also disavows all intention to apologise, when he asks you, Sir, to observe that he has shown no wish or intention to retract or modify his assertions." I am sorry, for Mr. Glazebrook's own sake, and for the credit of oar common profession as Christian clergymen, that he refuses to comply with the ordinary rules of of courtesy. However, I have done all I can far the main tenance of those rules, as wallas of the higher principles of morality and religion, and the theme of their violation mast lie where you, Si-, and your readers may adjudge it. With reference to the whole column of this morning's letter, which Mr. Glazebrook devotes to " Woolston," I shall only reply in the terms of my letter which you published on the 11th instant, "Let it be observed, I am not vindicating Woolston, for I am not acquainted with his writings." He is "a writer whom I have neither quoted nor even read:" and, supposing. " Mr. G. could blacken Wool-eon to his heart's content, I submit that this would not affect any one question at issue between Mr. G. and myself." Mr. G. states that I " refuse to believe the narrations of the Gospel respecting Christ." This assertion of Mr. G.'s I met with a plain and decided, but most respectful denial. lf some third party should say to me, "I believe Jesus to be the Son of God, and to be my Saviour, but I do not believe that Jesus ever called the rulers of his country foxes, hypocrites, and a generation of vipers," I dare not excommunicate such a third party ; I dare not deny him the name of Christian. This is the entire purport and the distinct statement of p. 200-in "Aracnaught on Inspiration:" For myself, I am a most firm believer in "the narratives of the Gospels respecting Christ ;" indeed, so firmly do I believe them, that I deem it right to compare their various statements of the same events, in order to learn and believe their testimony on many subjects where their teaching is, as at present, too commonly neglected. Of the superficial and unobservant manner in which Scripture is too often used, we have an example in the quotations with which Mr. Glazebrook supports his asser tion, that " The promise" of God's patting his laws ino the minds and hearts of men, " only °rends to God's people—is limited in its effects, and does not prove that all men are thus enlightened." To support this assertion, Mr. G. quotes several texts in senses entirely difierent from the significations attached to them by their-writers. Oh ! that Mr. Glazebrook heel interprets I his texts on those excellent, rationalistic principles which he laid down in his letter in your paper, stir, of the 18th I Oh ! that before he denied that " all men" are " enlightened" by the Word God, which addresses itself to their hearts and minds, Mr. Glazebrook had only remembered those words of the Gospel (John i. 9.), that (;he word which was with God, and was Go I) was the true light which lighletle every man that cometh into the world ! So much sir, for all that Mr. Glazebrook has written about God's limiting the light of Ili., Word to the minds of some men, and not extending that light to "every men that cometh into the world." Mr. G. must either abandon his position, or make up his mind to contradict the plain teaching of Holy Writ. iIL r. Glazebrook has several times intimated that I am "in a rage, &3." Now, sir, I beg most good hurnouredly, to assure my opponent, that I never was in a better temper in my life. Not only is it blithe Christmas time when every heart has so much in which to rejoice and for which to be thankful; bar, moreover, I am, just now, in particular glee, because I am satisfied that this controversy, betwixt Mr. G. alai myself, has, by the spirit we have displayed and by the arguments we have produced, been eminently calculatel to open men's minds and to advance that cause of truth for which alone I contend. I say, lamin a particularly geed humour just now. lam tot at all disposed to be angry and call any man hard names. But I hope Mr. Glazebrook will take notice that, if I were disposed to adopt so silly and unchristian a course, he is now, as he has been many a time, open to all sorts of discourteous and offensive epithets. I might— be it remembere 1 I put the case playfully—l might exclaim, " What blasphemy is this of Mr Glazebrook's ! He does not believe tee Gospel ! He pretends to dofen the Bible, bat he is only like Judas, acting the part of a friend in order to be a traitor ! What hideous perversion and falsehood is this of Mr. Glazebrook's ! Surely, he mus; be an infidel, one of the Synagogue of Satan, a man given up to believe a lie, &c., &e., &c. ! for Mr. Glazebrook intimates that all men are not enlightened by the Word of God; and he even dares to call such an idea an "incredible absurdity," although the very Bible itself tells us that •• The Word of God tighteth every man that cometh into the world!' This is terrible blasphemy in Mr. Glaz brook ! This is shocking infidelity, pious fraud, sanctimonious hypocrisy, and inconceivable blasphemy! Ile is another Joe Smith ! His writings are impostures only worthy to ba designate l another " Book of Mormon !" Now, I, most goad humouredly, put it to Mr. Glazebrook what force there would be in all these terms, which are bat a few of the phrases which I select from Mr. G.'s vocabulary ? Is not all this worse than childish nonsense ? Is it not altogether unworthy of a gentlemen, a theologian, or a Christian ? How would any man like to have such epithets, even foolishly, applied to himself? Tnen, why not "do to others as we would they should do to us ?" Away, I say, with such folly and uncharitableness. Mr. Glaze• brook does not intend to go counter to what is right. He does mean to blaspheme. He has no wish to contradict the teaching of the Most High. Mr. G has fallen into grave mistakes on this and several other subjects. I may have fallen, or I still may fall, into my thee) of errors. Let us correct one another, but let it .be " in the spirit of meek ness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted " The question about the sameness or oneness of substance between the Father and the Son, is fairly worn oat. I never used the word " similarity" of substance, to which alone Mr Glazebrook seams to object. I hold the Homo ousion doctrine, and by oneness of substance, which is the correct Prayer Book rendering of the term, I mean sameness. When I wrote about my believing the " oneness of substance" as an '• Article of Peace," I, by no means, said or implied that I did not fully assent and consent to that article. I simply meant, what no man of common sense is now likely to deny, that this article, about the metaphysical essence of the Father and the Son, is not of much use or importance, however true it may be. The matter is quite exha us t e d, I venture t o submit, and never was relevant to the controversy in hand. Only, as Mr. Glazebrook attacked my personal orthodoxy with reference to it, I chose fearlessly and candidly to follow him on to his own grrund. I notice that Mr. Glazebrook challenges my opinions on the " Atonement." Sir, when Mr Glazebrook shall have closed his controversy about the thirty-nine paragraphs of my first heters to you, I shell be quite prepared to discuss with him the great, important, and much misunderstood doctrine of atonement. But one controversy at a tilts is, surely, enough. Let us settle the questions raised by the successive paragraphs of our first letters. This is what tlr. Glazabrook challenged me to do, an t e what I undertook to perform. Sir, I have only one other point to notice in Mr. Glaze. brook's last letter. Ile writes, " I should at this moment have declined to continue the correspondence, had I not," &c ; and, "so far as regards myself I wish this letter to be file. I shall willirgly leave the question in their hands who are competent," &c. Now, sir, this looks very much as if Mr. Glazebrook did not like to proceed to paragraph 4in my first letter. It looks very much as if Mr. G. found it difficult to explain what " the church" is which (he says) has been " preserved from dee:rinal error " I say, Mr. G.'s words sound very much like the beating of a retreat. Yet, surely, after challenging me to the controversy—after proposing to " number the para graphs" cf my letters, in order to notice' the cardinal points" of those letters, and " to prevent confusion"— surely, after all this challenging , and provoking, Mr . Glazebrook does not intend to retire from the field. Surely, Mr. Glazebrook will not leave the remaining thirty six of my paragraphs uncontested, because he has not bean as victorious as he might have wished in the battles about the fist two or three paragraphs. Surely, Mr. Glazebrook, after all his words, is not going to leave unnoticed the mighty argument and crushing authorities I have adduced in support of Reason as the supreme earthly judge of Scripture as " only " wrees the "immortal Chillingworth ") the rule of faith. Though some of my friends, sir, tell me that Mr. Glazebrook will never attempt to grapple with the d:fficalties of para graph 4, yet I cannot believe that my opponen will shrink so speedily from a combat which he so earnestly sought However, sir, Mr. Glezebrook's wo ds admit of the interpretation which implies retreat, and I must. therefore, most respectfully ask him what is his intention? Was his last letter final" or not? If it was not final, then I must trouble Mr. Glazabrook to keep to paragraph 3 of my litter or, if he has done with paragraph 3, to proceed to paragraph 4 If Mr. Glazsbroo i's last letter was "final," it will only remain that I should use my right to sam up and reply. Let Mr. Glazebrook kindly inform us of his intention, and we will do our best to meet his wishes.—Yours truly, Sir, Bverton, Dec. 29, 1857. half Micnvota• s wants, possessing but feeble means of defence, and agitated alike by internal factions, and fears of the dar ing pirates who sprang forth from the revolutions of South America and came to infest the West India Archipelago, the colony seceded once aga in, in December, 1821, from the mother country. Bet after the first moment of exultation had passed away she felt her weakness, and dreaded the vengeance of Spain. She dare not apply for ail to the new republics of Beath America, who then la boured under the same feeling of fear; but in her extremity she in February, 1822, threw herself into the arms of the Haytians, to whom she promised feel y, homage, and indissoluble union. The face of the Eastern country changed immediately. Siarery was for ever abolished there. A new and hotter administration was establisn , d ; an armed and regular force organised ; the Hayrien system of legislation introduced; order main tained in the interior, and the seaports guarded from attack; labour encouraged; the exportation of precious woods increased ; and agriculture developed. The results soon b ,, came manifiest. The great markets of the West received and disposed of large numbers of the cattle of the East. The more talented Dominicans were called to the Haytian Legislature and courts of justices , . The funds of great commercial bodies, especially of the English hoasea at the Cape, FLytain Gonaivea, St. Mare, Port au Pririce, and Jacmel were diffused throughout all pints of the country, revivifying industry everywhere. When in 1825 France recognised the independence of Hayti, the eastern part of the island expressed no desire to put an end to the engagements into which it had entered, but continued to live quietly under Hsytian rale. In fact the union proved very advantageous to them, and they were never more prosperous or happier than during the twenty-two years of its duration. In January, 1830, Spain (folio:via. the example of Franc:) seat to Hayti Don Felippi de Castro, with a view to obtain an inodemnity for the loss of the Eastern part. Bat the Haytian Gavernm -nt refused to admit the claim, and the conduct of the Government was much applaud. .d by all the Haytians, hie uding the inhabitants of the Ede. In 1838, the union was so coeaplete and considered so natural and indissoluble, that khance signed a financial treaty in which she recog nised the whole island of Hayti as an independent state. It was only so recently as 1844 that the inhabitants of the Ea , t come to the conclusion that the degree of prosperity which they had realized, and the dissensions which tem perarly existed in the West, would enable them to dissolve that union which hid proved so beneficial to them. They accordingly proclaimed their independence, and is order to justify this extreme step they put forward frivolous and vexaqous pretexts, among others raskiog it a reproach to the Haytians th it in the cons ituti et of 1844 they had edmittei the principle of religion liberty. But after a short experiment of independent government . , aid when they found that the western part had been strongly recon stituted, they b.:gan to feel is what an awkward position they had placed themselves. Even then had they not been misled by ambitious chiefs, they might have retraced the false step ; but instead of doing this they were induced to abide by their policy of seeessior, and to cat for the protecion of France, then for that of Englaud, and at length, even for that of the United States, which last power was at one time, actually on the point of seizing the rev Republic ! To such a state of subserviency to foreign intrigue, had disunion reduced the unh,ppy Domin'ea: s, and, indeed, ar the present time, the condition of their country is not lees deplorable. We must c7in chide by impressing our reat'ers with the reflection thet the common interest of all Haytians, whether of the West or the East, is to maintain undivided the :111 le island, and that this is the only way to forward the improvement of the country, and to maintain its freedom and independ ence. The misery of the Dominicans at horn', and the state of anarchy and civil war from which they are con stantly suffering are sufficient proofs that the time his arrived when they had better come to a friendly under standing: with their Hiytian fellow-countrymen ; and that the police of those powers who hare favoured secession has taiLd, and that for the sake of humanity, as well as far the permanent security of their own c ;honks, they ought to change their course, and promote, by moral influence, as far as they can legitimately do so, the IT uaion of the two eecti ms of the island. The once celebrated Madame de Chatelet died recently at Bt. o , 2rnaain'e. This lady, it will be recollected, thought it an addition to her fame to rank the popular avocat, Moir. Lemaire, amongst her conquests, but the wily lawyer, after a short courtship, re.ired in favour of the goldsmith De Chatelet. Last week her effects were advertised to be sold by public auction, which Lemaire no sooner heard of than he recollected that at a former period he bad made a present to the lid) , of a geld s inff box, with his mioature artfully concealed on the top of the blx. This, thr.nigh a motive of false delicacy, the legal lover commissioned some of his frierds to bid for, and to purchase at any rate. The eargcrness with which they went to work occasioned it being put up, and knocked down, at a most evravagant price. Lemsi e did not much like this ; bo: lts,w much m-ra was his ehargin increased when applying his finger to the spring of the box, a portrait appeared--but instead of his own dear image, that of M. de Caatelet, his professed end socepted rival. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1857. "LIVERPOOL HO!" TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN D ULF TIKES. SlR,—There are two sides to every picture. Let us look, for a second, at the opposite one to that shown by " A Clerk" in your to-day's paper. 1 too, am a clerk. I, too, have been an ill-paid clerk, I, too, have received liberal pay. I, too, have written bad verses—almost as bad, perhapE, as " A Clerk's." I, too, have been a Paul Treason I, too, have fallen asleep on my stool on mail nights. I, too, know full well what lam doing when I declare " Liverpool Ho !" to be a story in one volume, and a Truth ! The would-be sneers of "A Clerk" are without point. They serve but to unveil his malevolence. "A. Clerk" does not want to curtail the sale of " Liverpool Ho !" No ! His CAUSE IS NOBLER, he says with philanthropic modesty. His noble cause is thus embodied by himself:—" We spit upon and spurn our egotisti cal self-elected champion, Mr. Oswyn !" Indeed ! Pray who elected the non-egotistical " Clerk s' pedantic charopiJn of oppressed quill-drivers ? " A. Clerk's " modesty, it seems to me, is about on a par with his knowledge of mercantile office-life. Once more, not repudiating Mr. Powys Oswyn, I remain, Sir, yours respectfully, Dec. 28, 1857. ANOTHER CLERK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIME, Sir,--Allow me to make a few remarks in reply to the letter of " A Clerk," in your impression of to day. It appears to me that " A Clerk" wrote simply to display his powers of composition, for I must confess I cannot see a single point in his egotistical produstiou. I have read "Liverpool Ho!" and I am one of the class whose cause Mr. P. Oswyn so ably espouses. A " Clerk" (to use a vulgar phrase) " cuts his own throat." He says, " I must disclaim Mr. Powys Oswyn's infamous libel upon the mercantile employers of Liverpool."' "I have been; an ill paid cleric:' "I have fallen asleep on my stool on mail nights when the small hours have crept round, bringing- slowly in their train the small pay day." Are not these quotations incompatible with each other'' Now, with the consciousness of his own value, which it is evident " A Clerk" possesses, I ask him, if " Liverpool' Ho!'r had appeared when he was "ill paid,' would he not have admitted the justice of the character attributed to Liverpool employers quite as vehemently as he now (beinc " liberally paid'')` refutes such charges ? Truth is seldom palatable : never so to those (or the toadies of those). whose iniquities, it exposes and isandemns. I can safely endorse the state ments which Mr. Powys Oswyn makes respecting the tyrannical character of Liverpool merchants. A Clerk" uses no argument, states no, facts, to substantiate the position which he asserts : he simply states what he wishes to be considered his opinion, but which is of no value, backed,. as it is, by "liberal pay." I certainly admire the pre sumption with which he takes upon himself to " declare, on behalf of the commercial clerks of Liverpool," his disgust at what I assert are the home-truths and exposures of grinding tyranny contained in " Liverpool, Ho !" and I, for one. indignantly repudiate any such advocacy. I admit that the work is faulty in an artistic point of view, and that it Contains some exaggerations, but that it deserves the condemnation of "A Clerk," and the appellation of a " lie," I deny. I have found from experience and observation that, with very few exceptions, clerks are considered, and used, as mere tools ; and, like them, when worn out in service, cast aside without a thought; their feelings are never considered ; their difffeul ties never sympathised with : their exertions rarely, if ever, appreciated by their employers. In conelusirn (notwithstanding "A Clerk's" self sufficient protest), I am content to leave the matter in the hands-of the clerks of Liverpool, and I hone that they will take some means to assure Mr. Powys Oswyn of their gratitude for his able advocacy on their behalf.—Trusting to your sense of that justice, which the English press is ever so ready to show, for the insertion of this letter—l remain, sir, your obedient servant, No TOADY. Dec. 28, 1857. FOOTPATHS AND BYgWAYS. IN COUNTRY DISTRICTS. TO TA S ICIMTOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,—To the facility of interohange of communi cation lam willing - to admit this country owes much of its present exalted position. Railways have all but siapereeded our old great thoroughfares Turnpike-roads and our Byewaye, shady roads and foot paths, over green fields and golden corn fields, in the suburbs of great towns, without any assignable reason, seem also. to be passing away, and this without any Act of Parliament or other legal authority justifying the disturbance. The public have a vested right of user in these delightful rambling places, and it would appear desirable to preserve them—that the studious having no pleasure grounds can resort thereto, and where also the nurses with their young prattlers, can enjoy healthful exercise without liability to injury. I would suggest that in each local district an association be—formed, for the preservation of these footpaths against the hand of the encroaching landowner. These remarks are induced from a little practical disappointment. I and another gentle man, met with the other evening —beautiful and moonlight was tho night—being at Marsh Lane Station, on the Liverpool and Waterloo line of railway, my companion stated that some of his children were staying at Waterloo, and he should like to see them before returning to Liverpool. There being no train I volunteered to accompany him, and believing there still existed the old shady road, at the bank of what were known to be the late Mr. Bibby's houses, and emerging therefrom throngh the footpath over the fields by the pits, we sallied forth ; but, to our surprise, we found no shady road ; it had disappeared, and formed part of a fallow field. Still we went on on, following, as best we could, a narrow beaten path, until we came to a dead stand. All trace abruptly ceased. The hand of the husbandman was observable even by moonlight. To return we did not feel inclined, so over fallow fields and grass fields we went, trespassing, I suppose, until our course was interrupted by the brook, too wide and uncertain to take, In no way disheartened, we made for the railway, which we used for some die tattoo, bidding adieu to the once existing foot-path, and just managed to reach Waterloo in time to pay a "pop visit" and catch the last train for Liverpool. Enquiry will prove that the disappearance of ancint footpaths in the neighbourhood of large towns, begins by giving substitutionary paths, much narrower than the old ones. Then, as old inhabitants move off, and the history is gone, these subs hilted pathways are destroyed, the land owner justifying the same, on the ground that they are not ancient roads, nor have they existed for a sufficient time to give the public a vested right of user. In this way, the public too often loose the benefit of easements, common to country districts —Y nirs, & A. B. 28th December, 1857. The British Benno. of Thursday, states that the Rs-iv. Thomas Binney eailed on Monday last from Liverpool for Australia, iu the Sultana, in company w ith the R ev . M r , Poore, and a large party of missionaries and friends. Mrs. Binney aecompinies her husband. CAPrUaE or A GANG OF 1i". , 1113ER5.-At the Bat nslry Court House, on Monday, Thomas Ward, James Rigby, and Richard Thirst were charged with b ing found with burglarious implements in their p( ssession ; and also on a second charge of stealing a fowl, the property of Mr. Bennett, of amber. policy constable Machen. while on duty about two o'clock oa Thursday morning la , t, c line act% ss the three prisoners in a lonely part of the township of Darton. Ward had a "jemmy" or crowbar in his hand, with which he threatened to strike the officer, if the latter molested them. Some altercation took place, when the officer drew his cutlass in his defence. The prisoner Hirst then ran awey, when the policeman handcuffed the other two, finding upon Rigby two bags, a butcher's knife and a fowl. On the prisoner Ward were found in addition to the crowbar, a heavy stick, a packet of pepper, and a knife. Hirst was apprehended the same morning,—The fowl having been identified as the property of Mr. Bennett, the prisoners were poplicifted for trial at the see ions. " AMUSEM EN TS" IN CHESHIRE. TO ML EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIM. It ain't for the likes of we to truble newspapers. • thow sometimes some o❑ us carn't help it, when we'd rather net. But I and some chaps, friends of mine, are so much obliged to some people, that prap's, you will kindly let me tell you, which we have had the jollyst lark that ever I had in all my life. Saturday night you know, Sir, is a poor feller's hollidy, and somehow very often it will run slap into Sunday morning, that we carn't help, specially in some places. The raskelly police don't always accomnaiiate us as they do in some places. So you see, Sir, it is just this: On Sunday morning last, which we felt rather spreeish, having missed the Boat, and meeting some more capital chaps, says we, now for it. Ler', sir, if you'd a seen the furious rumpus we pitched up all along the Chester Road, in nice eniey moonlight, all the way from Brombro' to Tranmere, two good wholesome miles, you'd a split your tights. Every mortal gate did we astonish, seine we pitched into the flower beds, some we pelted each other with, some we left in the cart road.and some we left dingle dangle, like a babbune on an arm Now, what I want to trouble you with is jist this : Please thank all the good people in their houses for letting on us enjoy ourselves so long. For two blessed hours did we have it all to ourselves, in the very sonter of the night, and no . mistake, and more partickly I and my friends ask you to thank the police for letting on us have our fling and out our precious capers right under their noses ; but we complain of one thing, and dash their imperence, they talk of getting up a supscrib tion to encourage us in future. Now, I want to ask which is this ? Have the police any think to do with sharing the money with us as they talk of doing? I assure you, 'pou my vittles, they must a bin all fast asleep, and had nothing to do with the shindy; they must a bin in their holy blankets, and didn't show at all, not they. If they mean to filch us, we mean to complain of their not doing somethink for their share. We didn't agree to make them any renumeration, but in course the builders won't forgit them at this season. That's their business--nothing at all to your very humble servant, TONY Lush. Poscrip.—We sorry we done so much damige ; nem time won't brake nothing. IrOHEID INSTANCE 0? CRUELTY T 3 ANIIIALS;—MonchT night last, some unknown ruffi tn entered the land of a tenant farmer named Dwyer (Trooper), residing at Donee keigb, near Tippefary, and cat the right ear off an ass belonging to him. The miscreant then tied a rockite notice to the other ear, and smeared it over with the blood of the unfortunate animal. The notice was rudely written, and on it was drawn a gun discharging its contents at a man, accompanying which significaat representation were Ro me words of a very threatening character.—ClonmeP Chronicle. NAVIGATION of THE RHINE.—The navigation of t Rhine has thin year been the subject of very serious discussions in the Central Commission of Navigation a Mentz. The commissioners of Bavaria and Baden insisted on the inconvenience which arises from the existing tolls on the Rhine, and on the necessity of reducing them. Tile governments of France and the Netherlands are read y to consent to all the modifications proposed by Bavaria and Baden: Prussia is also said to be ready to make certain concessions, but Hesse and Nassau oppose any radical change in the tolls. Loris BLANC AND Lours NAPOLEON.—After the events of June, 1848, M. Louis Blanc, proscribed ant chased oat of France, stayed a short time at a hotel in J er ray n - s t ree t. The very first visit of condolence from his friends was one from the present Emperor of the French, who burst into the room—to say he walked would faintly describe his generous fervour—and, embracing the expatriated member of the Provisional Government, exclaimed—"Ah les miserables ! ils vow one proscrits!" M. Louis Blanc may b 3 exprc'ed to publish, for the drat time, a variety of similar reminiscences.—. Leader. AN TRISH SAVACIE.—On Monday, at the petty sessions, Bury, Michael Frain was charged with a series of assaults on Saturday evening. He nearly bit the nose of a man named Swift, besides kicking him, without the least provocation; he struck a man named Charles Clegg, and bit his finger to the bone; he struck K ty, th e l an dl or d of the Limb and Flag beerhoese, giving him a black eye ; and he severely wounded Mrs. Kay in the eye. The magistrates, expressing a determination to pet a stop to such brutal violecce, fined Frain £5 and costs for the assault on Swift, in default to be imprisoned two months with hard labour; a similar fine or imprisonment for the assault on Clegg ; and for that on M-s. Kay no floe, but one mouth's imprisonment, with hard labour. DEATH OP A Pupir, op Tim BoaarN.—At Milnrow, la t week, died an old man, named James Lord, aged 85, who was a pupil of the celebrated Tim Bobbin (ar. John Collier). Lord was an admirer of his old schoolmaster, and, as years came on, was extremely fend of delineating Tim's character. He had a remarkable memory, which he retained till near his death, and nothing gave him (and his hearers) more pleasure than en opportanity of showing his mnemonic powers. On these occasions, strange to say,. he could commence and recite almost any of Tim's works. in the native dialect.. The people of Milnrow were not a little proud of him, and his death is looked upon by the old residen's as quite an event of note in the village, amongst " the simple annals of the poor." SHOCKING CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—On Monday, John Johnson, a bosom hawker, was charged at the Preston Towii Hall, with brutally beating his stepdaughter, Eliza beth Durrant, the illegitimate child of his wife. On Christmas-eve the prisoner sent the child, who is about four years of age, to buy a candle, and on going home she accidentally broke it. Johnson seized her by the hair, and gave her a most violent beating, brusing her in a savage manner on the back and loin•, and pulling the greater part of the hair off her head. Two women, who saw the assault committed, stated that the body of the child was in a dreadful condition, and their evidence was corroborated by Mr. Gibbons, superintendent of police. The prisoner, whose defence was that he was drunk, had been previously convicted of assaults upon his father and upon the police, and of cm* to animals. He was sent to gaol for two month?, with hard labour. A Portman. ERROR.—A comparison of the mortality of London with that of continental cities has led to a general opinion, somewhat abruptly formed, that London is the healthiest city in the world ; the recorded annual mortality being about 25 par 1,000, whereas in continental cities the ratio varies from 30 to 40. Therefore, runs the popular he'ief, London is the healthiest c'ty in the world. Amid all the jumping from conclusion to conclusion, a rather important circumstance seems to have been hitherto over looked. However careful and reliable are the returns of the Renistrar-General, they are by no means accurate guides as to the public health; by which is implied the sanitary condition of the living; and it may be seriously doubted wheth , r the pleasant fiction about the general healthin- st of the inhabitants of London is even founded upon fact. The statistics recently published aff ,rd some significant evidence on the subject. They show that if only 2 per cent. die in each year, 20 in every 100 among one class alone, are yearly so ill as to require gratuitous medical treatment at hospitals and dispensaries. The medical attendance gratuitously bestowed on the sick poor of London far exceeds that provided in any other city in the world. There are 600 medical men constantly and officially employed, without fee or reward, in staying a death from the poor.—The Lancet. Esnnaisu PATICNTS —The following patents, amongst others, were sealed daring the week ending December 26, 1857 :—Stephen Smith, of Manchester, tailor and draper, for improvements in coffins; a communication from fs p , rson resi.ling abroad. Dated September 29, 1857.-- - Charles Patrick Stewart, of t' •:c firm of Sharp, Stewart, and Co., of Manchester, engineers, and David Graham Hope , of the same placs, civil engineer, foe improvements in the vilve gear of locomotive and other engine'. Dated Sidi 9, 1857.—Benjamin Nichol*, of Manchester, cott?d spinner, and Samuel Ledward, of the same place, mechanic , for improvements in mules for spianing. Dated June 26, 1857.—Edward Xeighley, of Bradford, dyer, for improve: merits in the 'reparation and use of dye liquids. Dated October 14, 1857.—Samuel Ratnsden, of Iluuslet, engi ne smith, for improvements in the c ons tr u cti on an d fixing (3 ! window sashes. Dated July 17. 1857.—John Agar awl Agar, of Bury, watch wnntracturers, for improve ments in wstches and keys for the same. Da'el July 1857.—John Ingham, and Edward Ingham, of Bradford; and Benjamin Ingham of Halifax, dyers and finishers,. fo improvements in preparing worsted yarns fur dyeing, Dated June 25, 1857.—Elijah James Crocker. of Liverpool , ship chandler, for improvements in the rigging ofships and other vessels. Dated June 25, 1857.-,--Charles Sander son, of Sheffield, merchant, for improvements In. 141 manufaeure of railway bars, girders, and other articles requiring great strength and stiffn e ss, to resist pressure,,„. iara concussion, or strain. Dated June 24, 1857. —vg l' r Knapton, of the Albion Foundry, hiankbar, York, fo,.‘_at; improved machine for d ri lli ng h o l es i n metal awl substances. Dated J ane 22, 1857. —Joseph AI"P sad save- Edward Fairburn, of Kirklers Mill, hlirfield, for Itq manta in machinery for the manufacture of bread, b isc uitgt and caktle. Dated lune 00, 1857 i: