The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-28 00:00:00

THE POLICE IN QUESTION. gross manner, and took me to the station, where they offered to compromise the matter with me if I would give them half-a-crown. I did not do so; — but said I would let the matter . go before the court. The next morning I was astonished beyond mea sure to find the inspector make a fabricated state ment, the whole of which was a tissue of lies from beginning to end. I had, unfortunately, employed an attorney, who said it was no use saying anything —but asked the man a few questions, expressing doubt as to his statements; which he, of course, stoutly stood to, I was fined 10s. and -cOsts— though I had allowed the matter to gointo - COurt with the intention of getting the man punished. The man, however, soon repeated his conduct to some other gentleman and got discharged. And - he was on the point of being taken on the force again, but I had the satisfaction of preventing it, by having mentioned my case to the late Mr. Coglan, chairman of the board, lam glad to see, Mr. Editor, that you are taking this matter in hand. The police can, if they like, be very oppressive to the poor. Great care, therefore, should be taken either that too much power be not given them, or that they do not'abuse it. I am sir, your obdt. servant, A MEMBER OF THE SOCIAL MASS December, 1850. TICE LATE COUNTESS or EGLINTON.—The funeral of the much-lamented Countess of Eglinton and Winton took place on Friday afternoon. In accordance with the wishes of the deceased lady, the obsequies were conducted with the strictest privacy.—N. B. Mail. Viscount Lehon, son of the former ambassador of Belgium in France, having lately applied for admission into the jockey club of Paris, was rejected almost unanimously. The reason of this failure is said to be found in the circumstance of this gentleman having been the person who conducted the ba nished generals to the French frontier after the coup d'etat of the 2d of December. It would appear from this rejection that the members of the jockey club have tenacious memories. DEATH OF MAJOR BOWEN, POOR LAW AUDITOR FOR SOUTH WALEEL—We deeply regret to announce the sudden demise of Major Thomas Bowen, of Picton-terrace, in this town, poor law auditor for South Wales. The lamented gentleman was found dead in his chair. The gallant major was formerly in the Prince of Wales's regiment of hussars. —Carmarthen Journal. THEATRICAL CRITICISM.—Booth's Othello was much liked in America. An old Yankee, who had never seen a play, was taken to witness Booth's performance of the Moor ; and on being asked at the termination of the piece if he liked it, he replied, " Ye-as, amazing; but cuss me if I don't guess that little nigger (Othello) played as well as any o' the white fellers, if dot better l."—Bunn's " Old England and New, England." CHARITABLE DONATIONS FROM THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH.—The Emperor has ordered the sum of 700 f. to be paid by Messrs. Orsi and Armani, merchants in London, for the benefit of the Dreadnought hospital establishment in the Thames. Not a day passes, at this inclement season of the year, as we learn, without the receipt, by the same gentle men, of like instructions. Scarcely any of our benevolent institutions appear to have escaped the kindly consideration of the Emperor. We could desire to particularise the dif ferent objects of his Majesty's munificence, but fear we may already have said more than we are warranted in doing upon a subject involving so much delicacy.--Morning Post. A PITMAN'S SUCCESS AT THE DIGGINGS.—A man named Fxancis Bagan, left Jarrow, where he had been working as a pitman about five years ago, and went to the " diggings" of California, during the gold fever in that country, and so, fortunate has he been that in a letter directed to his wife, who Is at present earning her living by cutting rags at the, Ford paper-mill, near Sunderland, he has enclosed a bill of exchange from San Francisco for £lOO, with a message that "all well, he will come home and eat his next Christ mas dinner with her in Old England." The sum just, received is the second sent; the formor was aO. She also received a nugget of gold some few months since.—Durham Advertiser. A WONDERFUL CLOCK.—There is now in the possession of, and manufactured by, Mr. Collings, silversmith, Market place, Thornburg, Gloucestershire, a most ingenious piece of mechanism, an eight-day clock, with dead beat escapement maintaining power, chimes the quarters, plays sixteen tunes, plays three tunes in twelve hours, or will play at any time required. The hands go round as follow :—One, once a minute ; one, once an hour; one, once a week ; one, once a month; one, once a year ; it shows the moon's age, the time of rising and setting of the sun, the time of high and IoNV water, half ebb and half flood; and by a beautiful contri vance, there is a part which represents the water, which rises and falls, lifting the ships at high water tide as it were in motion, and as it recedes leaves these little automaton ships dry on the sands ; it shoNirs the hour of the day, day of the week, day of the month, month of the year; in the day of the month there is a provision made for the, long and short months. It shows the twelve signs of the zodiac ;it strikes or not, chimes or not, as you wish it; it has the equation table, showing the difference of clock , and sun every day in the year. Every portion of the clock is of beautiful work manship, and performs most accurately the many different objects which are called into action by the ingenious proprietor, who is most willing to describe, all,its yens achievements to any one w h o ma y f e el •Plea Sure in kit* him a visit. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. Sin,—ln your paper, a few days ago, appeared a letter from "A Working Man," exposing the conduct of the police, especially with regard to public beer houses and poor girls of ill-fame. As I have testi mony of a similar character, it may probably be worth insertion in your columns, to corroborate the statement of your correspondent. Some time ago, on returning home at night through Birken head from Liverpool, I observed, for several even ings, a young and trembling girl, plying for the wages of iniquity. I accosted her, and held a short conversation with her, which was to the following effect :—She told me that she had lately come from Shrewsbury, and lived in " a gay house." She was about 17 years old. By some allusion to the police, the conversation turned upon them, when she told me that they frequently enter these houses on some pretext or other, being at liberty, I presume, to do so at any time they think proper. I then , asked what they usually did on such occasions. " Why, sir," she said, " it is expected that they will either have something given to them, or they claim to indulge themselves in the house. They generally make these demands upon the youngest, or such as have most recently come to reside." " But," said I, " they can refuse those demands, can they not?" "Yes, sir; but they dare not do so, unless they have something to give them instead." "Do you mean to say, then, that any policeman ever asked you for a gratuity ?" " Yes, sir ; I was obliged to give one eighteenpence the other day, wu " " . .atid began to solicit me." "And what do they do i f tne gu y Ctv 4 :63/14 them money ?" " Well, sir, they annoy them in many threaten to report them, or the house," &e. Now, sir, such conduct as this, and that reported by "A Working Man," requires no comment ; but it is time that some notice was taken of the power of the power possessed by the police force, and the manner in which it is abused. That a number of " men, taken promiscuously from the multitude, and raised from a state of humble dependence and fustain jackets, to one of authority and broad cloth, should take advantage of their position to enrich themselves at the expehse of the public, is not surprising ; • but that such per sons should be entrusted with power greater than any magistrate possesses, does not seem quite compatible with wise legislation, or quite consistent with the liberty of the subject. To give liberty to any man, or set of men, to enter at will, anylicensed victualler's, or other public-house, and go into any part of that house and demand admittance into any cellar or apartment that the inmates wish to keep closed or secret, without a warrant, I cannot think to be a good social regulation. The case of the woman closing a cellar against the admission of a policeman, adjudged by Mr. Mansfield the other day, is one in point; and it does him honor to have given the doubt in favor of the landlady of the public-house. A policeman ought not to be allowed to enter any other than the bar, or the ordinary customers' rooms, without a magistrate's warrant. • There is one other matter I wish to mention ; the police in general are notorious for disregard of truth. .I. have only had to do with three policemen in my life, and all three swore falsely in a most deliberate manner ; and that, too, in the presence of their head. This deliberate false-swearing, I am in dined to think,• was increased rather than dimin ished by the strictness of the late Mr. Rushton. If a man hesitated or forgot part of his evidence, (and the best of us often require time to collect our ideas,) he would be treated as if he were fabricating a statement. This has had the effect making the policemen agree before-hand what the;, 'elan say; and as two of them generally appeaf4Pgettier as witnesses, they can always manage to gupport each others' testimony. They will then, after giving evidence, stick to it whether true or Pal,se, to the last. Some years ago, a police inspectOr Ticked a quarrel with me when going home late at night in Liverpool ; lie collared me, insulted, and ill-treated me in the mos BELFAST MARKETS - MANUFACTURES AND • PRODUCE. So far as we have been able to ascertain, the general trade of Belfast, and the adjacent towns, was very brisk during the latter portion of last week. The "turn over" at the large establishments in town is stated to have been quite equal to that of any Christmas season for some years past. As - to the linen- trade we cannot say that there is what could be called activity ; but, at the same time, business is not such as to create complaints on the part of holders of white goods. Foreign markets have been fairly active ; and in the home trade a regular demand rules transactions. We find full work going on at the bleachfields. Brown webs have been more sought after, and on the average of sales an advance was conceded. Lurgan, on Thursday, exhibited ample supplies of those classes of goods so extensively ma nufactured in that quarter. Cambric handkerchiefs, and plain lawns, of the different descriptions, went off on better terms, and in the more fanciful departments, damasks and diapers were taken up at some turn in favour of pro ducers. Our market,:on Friday, was a full one for the description of heavy goods generally disposed of at the Brown Hall ; but, as we have before intimated, the quantity of webs sold there forms a very trifling portion of the business weekly transacted in unbleached goods by the Belfast trade. Ballymena, on Saturday, was an exceedingly large market, and drapers well pleased at the state of markets, while buyers evinced every disposition to go largely into stocks. Yarns are taken into consumption at the rates noted last month,and now that short:time in spinning has been carried out for some weeks, the stocks held stand comparatively low. For the week, the Belfast exports, connected with the linen manufacture are thus stated : Flax - 5,820 cwts. .. 129 bales. Thread and linens.. 1,782 " In the flax trade, we may report ample supplies of home grown fibre at all the markets, and, for some qualities, the prices paid certainly exceed the highest rates paid for many vets past. Hand- scu t c h e d, on T uesday, in Armagh, sold at les. oa. trilled lots were current at 7s. to 14s. 6d. Home-grown grain may be quoted 6d to 9d per cwt. above the former week's rates ; and it is gratifying to report, that as demand increases, growers show ample capability to meet the requirements of consumption. We annex the average rates of value at the markets of Belfast for the six weeks preceding Christmas, in each of tho following years : 2 0.53 143 w 8 heat, per cwt... 13s Od t o 15 s Od -95 Od to 9s lid—lOs 6d t 01833 11s 3d oats ~ 74 Od to 8s 9d-48 6d to 5s 6d— .40 6d to 5s 8d Barley , Od to Os 3d—e s 6d t o 7 s 6d — 6s 3d to 7s 6d Bakers' dour. ditto 23s Od to 24s od—lOs Od 'lss pd-178 Od to 18s Od We have frequently alluded to the really wonderful changes which the sweeping away of corn-law restrictions has effected in the household economy of the people of Ulster, as referred to the consumption of grain food. This season that change has been still more decided than at any former period. Instead of potat oes f orm i ng t h e chief article of use in the dietetic' economy of the working classes, wheaten bread, coffee, tea, sugar, and butchers' meat, are at present largely consumed by the higher order of mechanics and artisans. We do not say that the mere unskilled la bourer is able to purchase full supplies of the more nutri tive varieties of food, as this season's high prices press heavily on the comparatively narrow earnings of such people ; but, even that class are now better fed than was usual in the " good old times" of the sliding scale. One thing may be said now, at the close of this season of exceed ingly high prices, that we do not recollect a time when, under the pressure of similar tightness in the necessaries of life, there were so few signs of discontent among the masses. If corn has run up to extreme rates, the people aro aware that the market is not artificially acted upon by arbitrary laws, but that the existing state of affairs arises from local circumstances, and irrespective of legislative enactments. The provision trade has been inactive for the last week, and large quantities of cured were taken off on fair terms for holders. Rates of value are well supported in all varieties of the business. Hams sell at 71s to 74s 6d per cwt. for prime, and 68s to 70s second qualities. Mess pork 85s to 88s 6d per brl, prima, and 80s to 82s 6d second. Bacon, 52s 6d to 65s per cwt. Mess beef, 109 s to 110 s per tierce. Pork sells at better prices. Farmer's pigs, 48s to 50s, and dealers lots, 47s to 49s per cwt. Butter continues to main tain high rates; 95s to 100 s per cwt. ruling all sales fo prime qualities PERSIA AS AN ALLY OF RUSSIA. Reports which reach this country by various channels, and which, therefore appear the more trustworthy, state that Persia has declared war against England. The shark might as well declare war against the eagle ; for, a bird in a sea of deserts, Persia can make but a feeble approach towards England. The most she can do is to subserve the treache ries of Russia, with whom we shall have to deal in a direct way. But, absurd as it is, the declaration of war on the part of Persia does not surprise us, nor is it without signifi cance. There have before been differences with the Court at Teheran, and there have also been friendly relations. During the protracted war which the Persian government carried on against the rebellious province of Khorassan, by an army under Abbas M:rza, brother of the late Shah, an English officer served with that prince, whom we remember previously as the companion of Sir John Malcolm, and who astonished that accomplished officer by the audacity of his riding. The Englishman who accompanied Abbas Mirza to Khorassan was named Vernon, and was the last of the English officers deputed to assist in the drill and improve ments of the Persian army. Wearied out by the insolent inattention of the officers placed under his tuition, and by the impossibility of getting his money, this gentleman came away from Persia about the year 1849. He had a successor; and that successor is rather a re markable man. It was Count Karaczay, a colonel in the Austrian army. This officer was formerly employed as Commandant de la Place at Mantua. The Commandant de la Place is charged with the duties that pertain to the keep ing of the fortress, town, town-gates, keys, gaols, police, &c. For some reason, to us unknown, the Count excited the dis pleasure of his government; and from the language em ployed, we are inclined to suppose that he was suspected of a leaning towards the patriotic party • the more probably, since he is by bi r th an Hungarian. From the sequel, how ever, it is to be supposed that he confessed his fault, and was pardoned; and the circumstances may account for his having been deputed to a distant mission. He is a very agreeable man, about sixty years of age, an excellent officer, well acquainted especially with the scene of war in the East, and author of the best existing map of the district of Montenegro and Herzegovine. He was sent out about two years ago with a staff of Austrian officers to Teheran, to renew the services relinquished by the Englishman, Vernon. Persia, therefore, has received into the staff of her army an Austrian infusion, and she is now openly subserving the treacherous advances of Russia.—The Leader. The Blue Anchor Tavern, Whitechapel, London, was de stroyed by fire on Christmas morning. The Ann Mary has arrived from Sydney, whence she sailed Aug. 17. She brings 3,490 ounces of gold, and 3,255 dollars in gold, worth together about 14,2001. The heavy portion of the mails from India, with those from Australia, per Euxine steamer, were delivered on Monday morning in London. The ship Lord Duncan has arrived from Wellington, New Zealand, whence she sailed Sept. 16. The intelligence she brings is unimportant. The Bayonne :iffessager says that Madrid is to be the scene of another duel, in which Lord Howden and Count Esterhazy, the Austrian ambassador, are to be the principals; but the letters from Madrid say nothing on the subject. A strange circumstance, says the Journal de Frankfort, occurred at Carlsruhe on the 17th: As the Regent was writing in his cabinet in the Grand Ducal palace, the door suddenly opened and a stranger appeared The Regent asked him what he wanted, and receiving no answer, rose to ring the bell. The man took alarm and ran out, followed by the Regent. When in the ante-chamber, the intruder jumped out of an open window, and effected his escape. Mr. Charles Dickens, from a desire to aid in the establish ment of a popular educational institution in Birmingham, gives three readings from his Christmas books, in the Town Hall, Birmingham, during the Christmas week. " The Christmas Carol" and " The Cricket on the Hearth" are the works selected. BRITISH MUSEUM.—On no former occasion has this im mense establishment been visited in so short a space of time by such a concourse of visitors as on this day. Every room and lobby leading to the several departments were crowded with moving thousands of well-dressed persons, in eager curiosity to inspect the immense collection of specimens of the animal, mineral, and vegetable kingdoms, and articles of vertu, which abound throughout the establishment. It is calculated that, before 'the close of the day, not less than 40,000 or 50,000 persons will have visited the Museum. THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—The effect of the almost universal holiday in the metropolis was manifested to an almost incredible extent at this exhibition. Soon after the doors were opened, and during the entire morning, thousands upon thousands of well-dressed persons continued to crowd every room throughout this truly national establishment, and it was pleasing to mark the interest that was exhibited in viewing the numerous chef d'ceuvres of Rubens, Corregio, Murillo, N. Poussin, the Carracci, Claude, and other ancient masters ; and notwithstanding there could not have been less than 2,000 persons in various rooms at one time, the strictest order and regularity were observed. We published on Monday morning the particulars of a shockingly murderous assault on a female servant, at the farm of Highgate, Beith, in Scotland. The Edinburgh Witness throws some light—a horrid light —on this affair. We learn, it says, that the mystery which envelop e d thi s revolting, atrocity has been revealed. On Thursday night last, David Finlay, the son of the occupant of Highgate farm, where the deed was committed, went out to a field be hind the house and deliberately shot himself. The inference from such an act, is, that he it was who committed the horrid outrage upon Elizabeth Paterson. It has been ascer tained that she is pregnant; and it is supposed that on the night of the outrage he had decoyed her to the outhouse, which we now ascertain is separated from the main house by the distance of about a quarter of a mile, and there perpe -trated the ninrderous assault. Yesterday the injured woman was a little better, but there are but faint hopes of her recovery. THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. THE STAR-HUNTER IN LONDON. The following case, heard before th e L on d on Police courts, shows that there are dupes as well as swindlers in London as in Liverpool:— Elizabeth White, a very artful woman, well-known as a dabbler in astrology, was charged with obtaining money and wearing apparel from two females, named Louisa Symmons andiElizabeth Horne, in the service of Mr. Shef field, Dermer Cottage, Wellington-road, Bow, under the pretence of ruling the planets and telling their fortunes. The case exhibited the most extraordinary credulity. Louisa Symmons said the prisoner called at her master's house on Friday week, and said she could tell her fortune, and rule the planets, and when she would be married. Wit ness said she, did not want to know her fortume; but the i prisoner would not go away, and she said she was the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, and consulted the stars. The prisoner then asked her if she had any jewellery to propitiate the planets, and said that jewellery would bring most luck. Witness had none, and the prisoner laid hold of her hand, and traced the lines, and told her she would leave her place with a blemish of her character if she did 'not give her two dresses. Witness then gave the prisoner ;two cotton dresses, and she afterwards said she must have some under clothing to keep the planet warm before she could rule it (laughter), and she gave her a flannel petti coat. Mr. Ingham : How could you be so ver y s ill y ? Did.you give her anything else ?—Witness : Yes, sir, a shilling She said she must have the value of 10s. in clothes and money before she could rule my planet. She said she would have to take the money and dresses to her home to rule the planet, and that she would return at half-past six in the evening, and let:me know what the planet said. (Continued laughter.) Mr. Ingham : I suppose you were afraid of being• made a star of?—The simple girl held down her head, and said that the prisoner also promised to rule the planets for her fellow-servant, but would not allow witness to hear what she said to her. The prisoner said she would bewitch a young man witness kept company with, and that he would come to her master's house and seduce her if she did not giro hoc chillin g anti fba drpecna Mr. Ingham : Did you tell her you had a sweetheart ? Witness : Yes, sir, I did. Mr. Ingham : How come you to do that ? Witness : She baffled me with so many questions that I hardly knew what I said. The prisoner here said she was quite ashamed of the young person, and, after having examined her with very great severity, she asked her if she did not give her one of her long hairs to bewitch her young man. The witness said the matter was too delicate to mention in open court; but on Mr. Ingham telling her that she must relate the whole truth, she confessed that she gave the pri soner a single hair "to bewitch her young man with." (Roars of laughter.) Elizabeth Home, fellow-servant of the last witness, and a much older person said the prisoner told her she had been a mother, and that her child would soon die. Mr. Ingham : Have you been married ? The witness (hesitating)—No, sir; but I have had a little one. The prisoner asked me for 10s., and I said I had only 75., and she said that would do, and I must give her a dress to make up the rest, and I did so. Mr. Ingham: For 'what ? Witness—She said she wanted to rule the planets. Mr. Ingham : What was she to rule the planets for ? The .woman, who seemed heartily ashamed of her credulity, said, the prisoner told her she would bring back the money and dress when she had ruled the planets, and heard what they said; and also told her that she would bewitch her for twenty-one days if she did not let her have what she wanted. Mr. Ingham asked the prisoner if she had any defence, t o which sic replied, "No." Mr. Ingham : Do you know where you will spend your Christmas? Prisoner—No, sir. Mr. Ingham : Then I do ;—in prison. I am a better for tune-teller than you are. I convict you as a rogue and vaga bond, and sentence you to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months. IRELAND [Fitox OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] DUBLIN, DEC. 26. COMMERCE OF DUBLIN.—The customs duties paid in the port of Dublin, from the 10th October last, up to the 24th inst., was £199,400, against-X202,750 for the corresponding period of last year. There • is in this sad but conclusive evidence that Dublin is retrograding in commercial importance. But, unhappily, the figures show also a lamentable and irrefutable indication of the backwardness of the country. Ireland, no matter how theorists may speculate, is retrograding in her social condition. In the midst of the painful considerations to which this state of things give rise, there are some occurrences which afford hope that time may pro duce a change for the better. In the Cork Southern Reporter, we find an announcement of the establishment of an oil mill; and the writer has this further indication of industrial progress in that' quarter. " Within a few years, since we have seen flax growing revived here, scutch-mills established, and the highest price in all Ireland got for the fibre produced in them, (Mr. Cummins got the first prize at the late Belfast , meeting), weaving set on foot, and now linseed oil and oil cake are in process of manufacture, and we expect soon to add flax-spinning also." A NOBLE BENEFACTION —Mr. Arnott, an exten sive haberdasher in Cork, gave a substantial dinner on Christmas day to 2500 poor persons in that city. The Irish fairs last week ruled very dull, and prices, except for bacon pigs, were lower everywhere. Farmers and feeders, under! these circumstan stances, are bringing as few cattle forward as their engagements will permit. The quantities of unrefined sugar imported into Dublin up to Saturday last, was 10,328 cwt. and 1427 barrels ; the quantity of loaves, 315,361. ROMAN CATHOLIC CONVICTS.—Lord Palmerston has directed Colonel Jebb to take steps to have a registration made of the religion of each convict, whether in a depot or hulk ; and to afford Roman Catholic clergymen the same access as is permitted Protestant clergymen to the convicts of their com munion. Also to report on the proper stipend to be paid for such attendance. In the case of Dowling v. Lawler, in which Mr. Sadlier's proceedings at the Carlow election were in question, the jury has found against Mr. Sad lier's friends. THE RECENT WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES OF GOLD IN AUSTRALIA. EXCITEMENT IN MELBOURNE.—The announcement of fresh and important discoveries at Ballarat has caused con siderable excitement to-day, though the real facts having been received per express by government have not been fully given to the public. From what we have been able to learn, however, from other sources, there can be no doubt that some very lucky hits have been made. From a source on which we can rely, we heard of a party of nine who had cleared, in two or three days, no less than £15,090 worth of gold, which is of itself sufficient to warrant the conclusion that an extraordinarily productive vein has been struck upon, without demanding our belief in the apparently fabulous report that a sort of table-land of gold has made its appear ance. All these accounts at first are generally exaggerated, and the rumours, therefore, must bo received in the mean time with due caution.—Argus, August 31. The announcement published in the Herald about the recent gold yields at Ballarat have caused quite a sensation in Melbourne, and accordingly many parties of intending diggers have started from the city, and Collingwood, resolved to have a shy at the golden lottery. A very fine 35 ounce specimen of solid gold may be seen at Mr. Clarke's, Water mans arms hotel. It is half of a7O ounce nugget dug up at Ballarat, by a party of six; and in the division of their earnings, tbe mass of precious metal was actually chopped in two with an axe."—Melbourne Morning Herald. THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT OF WINTER GARMENTS in LIVERPOOL, of Superior Cut and Workmanship, At Wm. EARP and CO.'S, 59 and 61, LORD STREET. LEGAL CHANGES.-Mr. A. S. Logan has been appointed junior advocate-d e p u t e • and Mr. Thomas Clegh orn suc ceeds to the senior depute-advocateship, vacant by the appointment of Mr. Macfarlane to the sheriffship of Ren frewshire.—N. B. Mail. MURDEROUS AsSAULT.—Upon Saturday night, a fellow named Edward Macnamara quarrelled with his father, and cut his throat with a shoemaker's knife. The wound was immediately dressed by a surgeon, and the man is progressing f avoura bly . Th e sou has been apprehended. Both of the parties were under the influence of liquor.- -V. B. Mail. SUICIDE.--About five o'clock yesterday morning, a pen sioner, named H u gh M ac k ay , residing in Prince's-street, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. When discovered, he was lying in a pool of blood, and the instrument still in the 'wound, and grasped tightly by his right hand. An infirm woman was the only occupant of the house besides the deceased, but as she was in bed, she is unable to give any particulars of the tragical occurrence. —.Y. B. Mail. THE WEATHER.---Yesterday 'morning at an early hour Liverpool and its vicinity was visited by a heavy fall of snow, which continued up to about ten, when it ceased. At first there was a tendency towards a thaw, but as he even-: ing advanced a sharp frost set in, and much difficulty was experienced in walking. The change was so rapid that buss horses and others were not prepared for frost, and.the result was that the usual traffic of the town was carrie'd on with great difficulty, and in some cases it amounted to danger, THE COURT. WINDSOR, DEC. 25.—The Queen and the Prince, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice, the la dies and gentlemen of the Court and the domestic house hold, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Duchess of Kent was also at the service. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated, and ad ministered the holy sacrament. His Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg and suite arrived at Mivart's Hotel, on Saturday, from Germany, en route to Windsor Castle, on a visit to his illustrious relatives, the Queen and the Prince Consort. The Earl of Clarendon returned to London on Saturday, from Windsor. Castle. It is reported that either the Earl of Radnor or the Earl of Albermarle will succeed the Duke of Norfolk as Lord Steward, his Grace's health not being equal to the duties. The Earl and Countess of Derby are seeing company at Knowsley. The health of the noble earl has of late greatly imprcved. The preliminaries for the union of the Hon. Harriet Han bury, eldest daughter of the late Lord Bateman, with George Dashwood, E sq ., l a t e C ap t a i n i n the 71st Foot, and second son of Sir George Dashwood, Bart., of Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire, have been completed.—Hereford Tunes. On Christmas-day, the boys in the Blue Coat hospital school, were each regaled with their usual treat of mince pies ; and yesterday, a holiday was given them, when a gentleman belonging to the committee liberally presented a plentifully supply of fruit. For this kindness, the boys expressed their grateful acknowledgments. MIDNIGHT MASS.—Amongst the numerous cases brought before the magistrates yesterday, under the charge of being " drunk and disorderly," was Mary Jackson, who, it was alleged, had created a disturbance at Copperas-hill Catholic Chapel, during the midnight mass, which took pl ace th ere on Saturday night. Th e defendant, in her defence, stated she went to the chapel for the purpose of attending the ser vice, but as th ey oontanaoa Oonic ILLUIIey sue refused - to give tt to: hear the word of God, and was given into custody. The magistrate fined the defendant 5s for annoying the con gregation, upon which she said she would never attend such a place again. CHRISTMAS CHEER TO THE POOR IN MANCHESTER WORSHOUSE.—On Christmas day the inmates of the Man chester workhouse, to the number of about 1250,were plenti fully regaled with an excellent:dinner of roast beef and plum pudding. To each person a moderate supply of ale was sere ed out, and all seemed to enjoy to the utiriost, and with the most grateful feelings, the repast provided for them at this festive season by their considerate and philanthropic benefactors. The Ursula ship left the Mersey yesterday for Para, having on . board 40 male passengers, including four en gineers, who are to be employed on the railway about to be constructed at Para. They were all on board. on Sunday, and there partook of a substantial Christmas dinner, upplied from the Mans ion House Hotel. CAPTAIN NORTON—RIPLE-SHOOTING.—Thi S gentleman, who had laid claim to the invention termed the Minie rifle ball, writes the following challenge through the Cork papers : —My late experiments, with my elongated rifle-shot, rifle percussion-shell, and rifle fire-shot or spinster, fired from my rifle canon, were so successful, that I now challenge to the contest all spherical shot and spherical percussion-sh e ll s , however great the " secre t" o f t h e latter, and I have no doubt but that I shall beat them in the three great essentials of range, accuracy of flight, an d certa i nty of explosion on striking the object. Also, that my rifle fire-shot, or spinster, will beat the rocket, bombs, and carcasses, as well as all the other projectiles for incendiary purposes. The three abeve mentioned projectiles are forwarded to the U. S. Institution, Scotland-yard, London. GUANO DEPOSITS. --Dr. Peacock, F.R.G.S., of South ampton, who has visited the shore of Peru exploring the guano deposits supplies the following information which seems more favorable than that of the admiral on the sta tion :—I estimated in 1844 that the quantity remaining on the northern island alone, was at least ten million of tons; although it had been worked by the Indians from time im memorial, and although a very large quantity had been removed since the permission of its first exportation to Europe in 1841, besides the immense quantities that had been used by the Peruvian farmers since the conquest. At this time (1844) I measured the cliff of pure guano lying in a north-east and south-west direction, where it h a d b een worked in upon from the north-west verge of the rocky basement towards the middle ridge of the island, I found it to be 85 feet perpendicular, and I calculated that by the time the workings has reached the summit or crown of the hill it would be at least 100 feet in section to the rocky base, all pure guano. I did not examine the other two islands, merely landing on them, the deposits there not having at that time been opened upon ; but Senor Villa, who examined them in 1842, declared that they contained, in his opinion, considerably larger quantities than the north ern island, the middle oue being the largest of the three. A rough estimate was formed that from 40 to 50 millions of tons existed on this group. Senor Don Francisco de Rivera, the late charge d'affaires of Peru in London, found that valleys filled with guano to the level of the sur rounding hill of this material, upwards of 120 feet in depth, existed in the Chincha group, and that the quantity might be said to be inagotable, or practically inexhaustible, during the present gene r ati on . l am th ere f ore i nc li ned to think, with all due deference to Admiral Moresby's report, that Mr. M'lntosh may be mistaken in his calculation. However, independent of these immense deposits on the Chincha Group, the Lobos, Guanape, Huaura, and other islands upon the north-west coast of Peru were estimated by me to contain some five millions of tons of it, at the least; whilst that truly wonderful sugar-loaf shaped peninsula, the Pavilion de Pica, in- the province of Tarapaca, still contains some four millions of tons : and whilst the Huanillas, Chipana, Punta Lobos, and other known guaneros on the south coast of Peru, between Iquique and the river Loa, contain some four or five millions more amongst them. Thus, independent of the Chinchas, there are some thirteen or fourteen millions of tons of this invaluable manure still known to exist, and I am therefore of opinion that the holders of Peruvian stock need be under no apprehension of their guarantee falling . short whilst the demand for this indispensable article remains practically inexhaustible, as I firmly b e lie ve w i th Senores Rivera and Villa, it to be. It may be said that some of these deposits cannot be worked, owing to the difficulty of approach from the constant rolling swell of the Pacific, but while in Peru, I invented machinery called "a flying railway," purposely for shipping guano from any one of the deposits enumerated, which was practi cally tested in 1840 and in 1845. One of these railways has been recently prepared in London, nearly three-quarters of a mile in length, under the superintendence of Messrs. Liddell and Gordon, engineers, Westminster, and sent out to the coast of Peru. INQUEST.—BRUTAL CONDUCT. -_A coroner's inquest was held on Monday, at the Wheat Sheaf, Wakefield-road, Bradford, on the body of a male child, belonging to Mary Hollins, a married woman. From the evidence it appeared that about one o'clock on Saturday morning last, as police-constable Holmes was on duty in Queen-street, Broomfields, he met a woman carrying a bundle, and inquired wh a t s h e h a d got i n it. She a t fi rst re f use d to tell, but upon his insisting, she related a tale of wretchedness and misery sufficient to cause the blood to curdle in one's veins. She informed him that, while at the lodging of a friend, she had been taken in labor, and delivered of a male child, which the brutal occupant of the house, named John Ball, threw out into the street, and immediately after drove herself out also. Holmes then informed Sergeant Laycock of Mrs. Hollins' statement, and set out immediately for Ball's house, which was a perfect den of filth. After some searching the body of the child was found covered with mud and dirt. A surgeon was then sent for, who did all in his power to alleviate the sufferings of the poor woman. He examined the body of the child, and, in evidence at the inquest, stated that in his opinion the child had been still-born, and that was the result of priva tion and want. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with that opinion. The husband of Mrs. Hollins, it appears, left this c o u n t r y f or A mer i ca i n June last, and she has never heard anything of him since that time. •He left her in com plete want, and she has since continued in that state having been scarcely able to "keep soul and body together" by the scanty earnings she occasionally made as a charwoman. She had applied to the board of guardians on Friday week, to be admitted into the union workhouse, but was refused any assistance. The poor woman, at the point of starvation and on the eve of her confinement, having been thus rejected by them whose duty it was to relieve her in her critical and delicate situation, turned away to beg a pittance from some of her acquai n t ances ; an d i t was in the lodging of one of them, a niece of her own, that she was delivered of her child. We do think that guardians might sometimes look into cases of this nature with some degree of care so that the narra tion of distres s i ng occurrences o f this kind might be spared the ears of the inhabitants of a civilised and Christian country. TIER MAJESTY'S VISITS TO PA RLIA 111 ENT. THB ROYAL SA L UTE. —lt having been determined that in future, on those occasions when her most gracious majesty shall viei tho House of Parliament for the purpose of inaugurating the session, or for the prorogation of the sittings, that the royal salute shall be fired in St, James's Park, the necessary ar rangements were yesterday completed for conveying the signal from the lobby of the Victoria Tower to the lodge facing the Horse Guards by electricity. The submarine telegraph cent. pany having been applied to, they have carried out the neces sary operations for connecting the two pdints. The wires run from the Park to the foot of the staircase leading up to the royal gallery in the House of Lords. The instrument by which the telegraph is worked is here placed in a niche, while in a chamber below are deposited the batteries necessary for pro during the current of electricity. There will be two signals given —one to make ready as her majesty approaches the house, and the other to fire as she enters. The royal salute is usually fired on the Queen setting foot in the house, and hitherto it has been discharged from the yard of Mr. Serle, the boat- Wunder, on the opposite side of the river. The system of signalling was then found to be very unsatisfactory —on e party !laving to be stationed in the lobby, who communicated with a second at the foot of the Victoria Tower, who in turn signalled a third person placed on the summit of the tower, by whom a flag was waved, and thus an intimation was conveyed to the gunners in the boat yard. To obviate this unnecessary delay, and occupation of so many persons, the agency of the electric telegraph has beau called into operation. ALLEGED WHOLESALE INFANTICIDE. DrrciurNet, SUSSEX, SUNDAY. —Mr. F. H. Gell, coroner for East Sussex, held an inquest a t th e B u ll I nn, Di tchl i ng, yesterday, on five infant skeletons, which were discovered under the following circumstahces . A cottage, opposite the inn, has lately passed into new hands, and, by way of fitting it for occupation, a new fire place was deemed necessary. On pulling down the old one, it was found that this was not the first time that the process had been resorted to. Originally there was a large old-fashioned, countryfied chimney-corner; but modern comfort, as it is called, had been introduced into the dwelling, and the fireplace had been blocked up on each side, leaving a chasm of about a foot between the old and the new brickwork. In these interstices were found on Friday last—three on the left side and two on the right—fib skeletons of evidently new-born infants, who at the time of birth had been immured in the place where they were discovered. Of course, the discovery produced a great sensation in the village, and the question "How came the bodies there ?" led to replies which caused the apprehension of a supposed culprit. The occupants of the cottage for more than fifteen years were—one James Gatland, a labourer, and his daughter, Harriet Maynard, a woman of 40, with two illegitimate children, a young woman o f 20 , an d a youth of 17 or 18. The woman was, during the last year, married to a labourer, and six weeks ago was again a mother. At the inquest three women swore that they had observed that the woman, when living only with her two illegitimate children and her father, presented an appearance of pregnancy, which, after existing for a time, was no more seen, and that the last time this occurred was nearly three years ago. The five infant bodies were scorched, evidently by the action of the kitchen fire through the inner brickwork. It was shown that • each of the corpses was wrapped in a piece of cotton-print said to resemble cloth seen in the possession of the prisoner. There was, however, no evi dence to substantiate a capital charge against the woman, and she was therefore discharged ; but she was immediately apprehended by the police of the East Sussex constabulary on a magistrate's warrant, and is to be examined before the magiotratoo at the Lcwee bench on the charge of concealing the birth, on Wednesday morning, The exami• nation before Mr. Gell on Saturday, occupied four hours and upwards. THE ACTON MURDER. The following is a portion of the evidence given on the inquest in the case of the boy, aged fourteen, recently found stripped naked and dead in a ditch at Acton, after having disappeared for seven weeks. The facts seem.not less hor rible than mysterious. George Medhurst, residing at 11, Slade's-place, Allen street, Goswell-street, Clerkenwell, was the first witness called. He is a horsehair curler by trade, and identified the body as that of his son. He recognised him by his features, and also by a slight scar on the left side of the neck, caused by a burn, from the time when h e was a c hild . His name was Richard, his age 14, and witness last saw him alive that day eight weeks, at 5 minutes past 7 in the evening in Old-street, St. Luke's. They worked together at Mrs. Thurtell's, and parted outside the door. ,Witness sent the boy home to his mother, and, on returning himself, asked, "If Dick had been home ?" to which the boy's mother replied, "No." His son wore a dark gray tweed coat, short cut, with pockets, and moleskin trousers, dark in colour, with a plaid pattern. His waiscoat was a dark silk one, with white spots. His clothes were not very good. He had lace-boats on, which very nearly new, and a black cloth cap with a peak and braid round the top. He wore a plaid neckerchief round his neck, and was in good health when he left home. Is the body different now ? Witness (sobbing aloud).—Yes. I don't think he had a bit of food after he left me. Though rather a delicate boy naturally, he always had a good appetite, and I never stinted him. He once had an abscess on the right knee, but it healed up, and he had no other wound or sore about him. He was a very good boy, and never stayed out at night. The evening he was taken away, he and his cousin proposed going to see the penny Rotunda at Blackfriars. Next morn ing, after going to the station-house to make inquiries there, I went to my brother's to ascertain if his son had been with him. I could, however, get no tidings of him there. I gave a description of him at the police-station, and I made every other inquiry I could, but the boy was not advertised. He mt that et o a n Thursday night last, afbroomut had never run away from me or been a w ay b e f ore . Green, a policeman, B l2 ag o n , e i l g o g e we a li nd s, toldcamem t o e been found. Green took me first by mistake to Hackney, but at half-past four o'clock we ascertained it was at Acton. When I left my son on the Monday night he was with George Jack son, a boy who worked with him, and lived near. After being to my brother's I went to George and asked him where he had left Dick. He said, Is he not come home yet ?" and I said "No" George then told me that he went away with a big man in a moleskin or fustian coat, who had a little green cart with a black pony in it. The man wore a hat, and had a full face. He said to them, " Will you boys come and ride with me ? I am going a little way down the road, and will give you a few halfpence to mind the horse." Jackson has since always persisted in the same story. I went back to the station and told the magistrate what I had thus learned. I have no suspicion whatever as to how the boy was done away with. He had at the time 3d. in his pocket, and a little l • h ba (The witness was much distressed in th e . at g. and during the :proceedings his grief at intervals ls evidence. vals broke out afresh.) George Jackson, a sharp-looking boy, not quite 11 years of age, and living with his father, a labourer, at 30, Station- I street, said—l have seen the body, and recognise it as that of Richard Medhurst. I know it by the mouth. We worked together at Mrs. Thurtell's. The last time I saw him alive was eight weeks ago to-day, in Old- s t ree t, on a Monday night at half-p as t 7 o'clock. We were standing at a gate for a certain purpose, not far from a green chaise with a black pony it, when the man to whom it belonged, and who wore a white fustian coat, came up and said to me, "Little boy, come along with me and hold my horse ;" I said, " Yes," but Dick said, " Don't take him—take me." They went down to the chaise, which was standing opposite a coffee-house, and the man gave another boy who was standing at the pony's head a penny, telling him he would be in the same place next day. Dick then said, " Shall I get lip?" and he answered " Yes," and they drove together quickly down towards Shoreditch. Thomas Francis, surgeon, at Acton, said,—l first saw the body of the deceased lad on Monday morning last, at this house. I found it in a very dirty state, covered with a quan tity of matter, which at first appeared to be fcecal matter, but which afterwards seemed more like an ointment or application which had been poured over the body or ap plied to certain parts of it. Mr. Wakley : Did you ascertain what it really was ? Witness : No, I did not, but on the lower part of the body it looked more like fee cal matter than above, and the post mortem appearances indicated severe purging. There were a great many scabs over the body, and an abrasion over the bridge of the nose, as though from a recent injury. The right eye was black, and on separating the lids there was a bloodshot appearance. I found on the right side of the chest five scratches, as though made by some pronged instrument, they being at equal distances from each other. On the left side of the chest there was a small opening through the skin, and which penetrated to the out er muscles, but not between the ribs. I found pus at the bottom of the sinus. There was also a fistulous opening on the left groin. The prong-like scratches on the right side were scabbed over. They were at a distance of nearly half an inch apart, 1-16th of an inch in breadth, and the centre one was shorter than the rest. There are two other scratches of the same character, and about the same length, a little nearer the centre of the chest. The abscess in the groin had two openings, one a smaller one, leading to the larger, and the whole about an inch in length. • There appeared, when I first saw the body, to be marks on the wrists and ankles, as though from co r d s , th e s ki n b e i ng _pitted there ; but cannot discover any now. On the sacrum there was a sore, as though from lying, the skin being broken there ; and another higher up, apparently from the same cause. There was also a redness of the skin on the other prominent parts of the back and sides. The right orbit exhibited no fracture, and all the bones of the head seemed entire. I found the left lung, on opening the chest, most extensively diseased, with a large tubercular cavity, occupying nearly the whole of it, containing pus and serum The ulceration had destroyed the pulmonary pleura. Mr. VVakley : Might the appearances you found be produced byill-usage and starvation ? Witness : I think not entirely. I think there must have been disease before, for it is not probable that there could have been such an amount of disease in two months. Mr. Wakley : But the person who could have acted so hor rible a part as to throw the body, like that of a dog, without any covering upon it, into an open ditch, could have acted an equally brutal part towards the boy when he was alive. Everything seems to denote that in this case as foul and barbarous a mut der has been committed as ever was perpetrated. Witness : I think there can be no doubt from the evidence that death was accelerated by oruel usage, but I have nothing to do with that. Mr. Wakley, addressing the jury :--There are strong reasons to believe that this poor boy has been horribly and foully mur dered, and if it is a murder there has been cruelty enough in it for twenty. If the jury agrees with me in that opinion, I will make an application to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who I hope will offer a reward for the discovery of the man who took the boy away. `The inferenco from the evidence, as it at present stands is, that when taken away, he was confined in some loathsome place, starved till disease was brought on, and killed in that way, if not by direct violence. It is a case bearing signs of such deliberate and cold-blooded cruelty, that every possible means should be adopted to bring the guilty parties to justice. The jury unanimously expressed their convi-tion that a foul murder had been committed, and thereupon the inquest was adjourned till Monday, the 9th day of January, at 1 I o'clock. CLOAKS, PONCHOS, SACS, AND PALETOTS, of superior Cut and Workmanship, at Wm. EARP and CO.'S, 59 and 61, LORD STREET. The holly was sacred to Saturn, whose feast was held in December. / :The mistletoe was sacred to Freya, the northern Venus, and hence, doubtless, the custom of kissing under the mistletoe I LIVERPOOL MARKETS. —YESTERDAY. (Written expressly for the Northern Daily Tftnes.) Corrow.—The market was firm, arid a fair gel existed for all the sorts. The sales wele 6,01 which 1,000 were for export and on speculatio! LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—YI There has been a good deal of activity in the kets during the past week, with a rise in the vt about equivalent to that which had already t: this side the channel. Indian Corn appears, tricts, to be taken much more freely by co) speculation existing at the same time, from the of the demand for a while to come requiring I almost entirely from stocks in hand, an imp about 2s te? qr has been established. The Eni close the week with less animation ; and here, the only business day since our last report, the dull, the tendency lower, particularly for Flour pressure on the spot as well as for future arrival Under the influence of lower English prict York accounts of the 13th instant state a declini on Flour, and 3d 419 bushel on Wheat. The tinued mild for the season, a fair quantity ei from the interior, but the stocks on the seal than usual Of the exports of Wheat and Flour, the Europe still takes a considerable proportion. Our import and export list this week comprise days—from the United States we have to note a of Wheat and Flour, with a few lots of tht Canada ; with the exception of Oats and 01 Coastwise and Irish receipts are insignificant. ' again from the eastward, and this morning we hl fall of snow. We had not a numerous attendance at our market thii morning, but there has b een a goo d i nquiry for Wunil; and a fair extent of business done, at a general decline of la, sbushel from the rates of thi s d ay wee k , the depression ° Friday being partly recovered, and the trade closing. firm. In FLOUR we note a reduction of 6d to 9d brl on the week, the transactions have been rather limited, but holden are less pressing to-day. BARLEY and %arm meet a slow sale, without change 15 value. OATS are in improved demand and ld t.'? bushel dearer; and OATMEAL realises an advance of 6d to 9d load, though not so free sale as last week. INDIAN CORN is qr dearer, the inquiry being chiefil for the better descriptions. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET. —YESTERDAY. BEAsTs, 637 ; quality middling. Trade brisk at full rates, and all sold. SHEEP, 4,469. Trade steady at former rates, and all sold. PRICES : Beef, 6s to 8s stone ; Pork, 6s to is; Mut tol l 62d to 7d lb. MESSRS. 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