Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-02 00:00:00

POLICE IN rE LLIGENCE - YESTERDAY. LIVERPOOL. BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD. NOVEL USE OF A TEXPOT.—Thomas Capper, said to be connected with one of the first families in town, was charged with having assaulted Thomas J. Dowling, of 13, Greenside, Derby-road. It appeared that the complainant, in consequence of the prisoner being " hard up " gave him liberty to lodge two nights in his house, but refused to allow him a third night because he was intemperate On Wednesday night, the prisoner entered the house and seizing on a teapot, he ran into Mr. Dow:ing'e bedroom. where he was in, and struck him a violent blow on the head, inflicting snatrt wound on his head. The prisoner alleged that the complainant gressly insulted his wife, but this. was denied, and Mr. Dowling said the woman vas in bed tipsy. The prisoner was fined Ll and costs. DAIATIES!—A black man, name t James Richards, was charged ueder the following circumstances. Mr. M‘Grath, a publican in Spitaltields, fetid the prisoner, wi.h another "black leto,her" and some females, entered his house the previous evening, and had drink to the amount of le 9 i , and went out without peeing. him. He went into the street after him and demanded the money, when the • prisoner dropped a purse and exclaimed that some one had r bbed him of two sovereigns. This was only a trick, as it turned out that he had no money. Mr. Matthew Bellew, the keeper of an eating house in Spitalfields, said the prisoner called at hie house and ordered several hard boiled eggs, well done roast poi k, and a variety of other "dainties," which were sapplied to hire, and for psyrrient he tried the same dodge as he had at Mr. M`Grath's. The prisoner was remanded. CASE ms'TECALten EliAs Williams, a person employed at the Tithebarn-street Station, and Patrick Egan, a resident of Hatten-gerden, were brought up in cast( dy of officer 85, charged with has ing stolen two cask=, the nominal property of Messrs Peeston. It appeared that the casks had come originally from a distillery at Glasgow to Messrs. Pteston. They were sent to Rochdale, and when empty sent back by railway, and the allegation was that Wiiiiamq sold them to Egan. Mr. Cobb was for Williams, and Mr. Black hurst for Egan. Several witnesses were examined, when the ab ye fac:s ware proved, and the prisoners were sent for trial. SHOP ROBBERY --Detectives Seaife, haycock. Smith, and Ast'c, brought up three parsons name d John Prim e. John I O'Connor, and Elizabeth Victory, charged for having broken into the shop of Mr. Leigh, 79, Byrom-street, and stealing tea to the value of „LIS or £3O. On Monday night tie shop was brok-n into, and twa chests of tea and two boxes of tea, value as abovo, stolen The officers got a bag of the tee in the house of the female in Scotland place. and get the male prisoners leaving that house In ' the house where the men lodged, in Ban Jongon-street, the officers found house breaking implements, which corresp)nded to marks made on the doors and other places forced open, It was also proved that the men were eeen looking into the shoo through the key hole on the night of the robbery. The prisoners were committed for trial. THE WATCII AND GOLD ROBBERY.—William Farrell and Francis Kelly, who were remanded on a cha-ge of being concerned in an extensive plunder of watches and gold, as reported in our paper a few days ago, were b.ought up. Mr. Snowball was for Farrell, and Mr. Roby for Kelly. In addition to the evidence al eady given, Mr. James Ellis, the captain of a sloop, proved that one of the watches found on Farrell, was his, aid had been stolen from him, and Mr. Joseph Pugh, a sailmaker, alto preyed another of the watches to be his property. The first was stolen in August, and the last in May. The only evidence against Kelly was that of Farrell's daugh!er, who stated that Kelly sold her father one of the gold watches, which was stolen from a mate of a ship. Mr. Reby argued that this was not enough to commit him for trial, bat his worship, not considering so, sent both prisoners for trial. [SIr. Reay, of the Goa dian Society, attended in the case in reference to some property that was found in Ke ly's house, which he stated had been obtained by false pretences, and Asked for a remand in order to produce evidence, end his worship granted a remand, on that ground, for a week 1 Mr &by asked if his worship would take bail for Kelly; and he replied, "I will accept of bail in qOOO for him" HORSE. STFACING —Francis Murphy And Jelin Henrick were charged with stealing two horses from a farmer named Themes Murphy, who lives near Tintrin, county Wexford. It appeared that on eight of the 25th Peptember the horses were st o l en , an d on S atur d ay the prisoners had them sold at Lucas's Mr. Luca., respecting something, requested the prisoners would produce a certificate of their respectability, and they promise 1 to do so on Tuesday In the meantime Mr. M'Hale, the resident Irish head constable in this town, received information that the horses were stolen, and he arrested the prisoners. Ile asked for a remand until the owner of the horse could be brought over R mended accordingly. CLIARGZ AGAINSr A BARMAN.—A respectable-looking young man, named John Moore, who was described as the barman at the public house of Mr. Samuel Crossly, 20, Spitalfields, was charged with having received come money that was stolen by a prostitute from a sailor. The police stated that the prisoner said he was a partner in the house. Mr. Roby was for the prisoter. who was in cuetody al ing with two females, who stood charged with the robbery .The prisoner at first denied to the police that he had received any mot ey from the girls, but subsequently he gave up a 20 franc piece and four half sovereigns to the officers. Mr. Roby argued that the evidence was n't snfillient to tend the young man for trial. Mr. Mansfield ordered the house to b; reported. and sent the three prisoners for trial BUORE MR. BUELL AND MR CRARGB OF ASSAULT BY A POLICES{ IN.—Pol:ce-con s t able 258 (Nelson) was summoned for having assaulted a ma❑ named . M.Bernie. The evidence of complainant an I hi 4 wife went to show, that between twelve and one o'clock in the morning, the latter went for some brandy for the former, who was unwell, and upon coming to her house, in Walmesley-street, off Athol-street, the defendant asked her to stand a glass for him ; this she refused to do, when he followed her to the door and struck and kicked her. She called for her husband, who was lying on the bed ill, and when he went to take the policeman's number, he was struck several times in the body. The two witnesses positively swore that the policeman was the man who had committed the assault. This was denied as positively, and several policemen were called, including the inspector, (Thompson), who stared that the complainant had on a previous occaiien identified another policeman, and that he and his wife were both drunk about the streets cn the night in question. The two magistrates consulted together for some time, but not being able to agree, only that the man had been assaulted by some policeman, the case was then dismissed. COUNTY COURT—YEsTERDAT. (BEFO7tE JoSEPII POLLOCK ESQ , JUDGE SCOTSON V WILDE AND ANOTHER.—The plaintiff in this case was William Scotson, car proprietor, and the defen dants wcre Messrs. Wilde Brothers, cabinet makers, Hunter -street. Mr. Grocott appeared fir the plaintiff and Mr..Hime for the defendants. The plaintiff sought to recover £7 103. as compensation far damages occasioned by one of hie cars being run into by the defendants' spring cart. Of this amount £6 was claimed for loss of services while the car was undergoing repairs, calculated at 103 per day for 12 days, and .£1 103 for the repairs done. The case for the plaintiff was, that on the evening of the 26th of June last the plaintiff.' car was on the stand opposite the Queen's Hotel, Lime-street The spring -cart was going from Elliott-street towards St. John's Lane A lady and gentlemen hailed the car from the pavement in front of the Hotel, and the plaint ff's driver led his horse across the street to the footway. The spring cart, which was loaded with wood, was passing at a trot, and just when the car w.s being turned round some of the !hanks which were projecting in front of the cart struck the panel of the car and shivered it. The driver stated that he saw the cart coming before he turned the car, but that there was sufficient room for the cart to pass clear. His Honour &aid he would not call on the defendant to offer any evidence, as he was satisfied that the plaintiff had no right to recover under the circumstances. It was admitted, even by the plaintiff's witnesses, that the cart was on the proper side of the road, and was seen approach ing by the driver of the car A car driver who left his own side of the road and attempted to pass toile) opposite side was decidedly.bound to wait until 'the road was clear. His Honour, therefore, gave a verdict for the defendant, but did not give costs. on the ground that the cart might; have aided the accident by drawing more out of the way, although he was not legally bound to do so. TILE DEATH OF CAPTAIN LOWBER. Sir,---I am wishful to have it known that the information did not erninate Prom toe of the loss of Cvtain Lowber, of the Ericsson, which appears in this morning's papor:4, an:l, of course , believed. This report was certai n ly current in New York beim) T left, but tUd not appear in the papers of the 17th instant the day af.er the Ericsson . sailed Th's report" must have come- from - spine person. who eamehere in the Kama no. withO,ut my . know ledge. JAMES M. JEF'FREY; Corirmander. Liverpool, September 30-th, 1857. To Thomas Court, Esq., Uuderwriters'.-kooms. Exclusively for CLOTHING BOYS from Six to Twenty Tar. LEWIS k COMPANY, Renelagh-arrest, LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.-YESTICRDAY THE NORTHERN TIMES. ---LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1857. LITERATURE. YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AUSTRALIA; By George Francis Train. London : Sampson Low, Son, and Co. Mr Freeman Hunt, who introduces this work to the public with a few nreiminary remarks, puts the question, —" Why shall not Commerce be installed among the occupations whose achievements shall be deemed worthy of record, and possess a literature peculiarly its own?" To the first part of the question, we presume, the only possible answer is, that there is no reason whatever why Commerce should not be f o received, and that, in point off4ef'it were sachievements in any be sreare thus ot consideredr light already,byany and never rational being. To the second part of the question we can only say, that we cannot see what kind of literature Commerce can invent which would be "pecu liarly its own ;" and what benefit either commerce or lite rature could deriv s from such an invention. We fully concur with him, however, in thinking that commercial men may confer, oftener than they have done, very high advantages upon literature, and still more upon the commercial world by devoting their spec:al acquirements of information to the production of works calculated to diffuse the knowledge which their time, habits, and energy, have enabled them to master. Such a book as this wh:ch Mr. Hunt intr:,clacea. viewing foreign countries and their capabilities of production and improvement from a point not that talent up by the ordinary tourist, is undoubtedly well qualified by its construction to be useful to the world in general, infinitely beyond the vast majority of travellers' notebooks. C mceiving this to be the meaning of the introduction we "an fully agree in its propositions, and are prepared, without further cavil at the terms, to receive the subject of Mr. Hunt's eulogy with a welcome. The name of the author of this work is, however, one already favourably introducei to the public of Liverpool. Mr. George Francis Train is well known as one of the most energetic, enterprising, and pe- severing young merchants America has sent out. It is not vary long since he gave to the public of Liverpool, in his own person, a dashing and brilliant outline of his exertions in Melbourne, and his travels over more than half of the globe. Those who heard that description, full of spontaneous vlgoar and descriptive power, and delivered at a rate of word-velocity about twice that of Sir George Grey, or Mr. Charles .Mathevvs, will ba able to comprehend how such a work as this now before us was written. To compress into six months so much travelling as Mr. Train describes, would be toil beyond the power of most men, But to ransack the commercial records of all the countries through which he passed— to find out their resources, and arrive at their capabilities for development—to compare and analyse their several degrees a .d rives of progress—to enter into the causes of their advancement or decay—and then to set out on pkper, fit for immediate pehication, the results of almost every weeks' labour as he hurried along ; this was indeed a task which required an amount of energy, comprehension, acteenese of observation and perseverance, quite beyond the reach of most of ns even to understand. In his own words we find, thus summed up, at the close of this portion of the work, the leading p Ants cf Mr. Train's extraordinary six months' tour, from his leaving Melbourne in November, 1855: I have bought spring chickens and plain.ainst at Anjer, eaten mgosteen and drunk ice-water at Batavia, lunched at the kingly palace of the Du eh govenor at Bulteezorg in Java, passed through the straits of Sunda to look at the villags of Minto, the tin mines of the Island of Bence, and the spice groves of Sumatra ; gathered pine -apples at three cents a dozen, walked through nutmeg plantations, an d seen t h e native ;irk bathe at Siegapire ; talked opium to missionaries going up the China seas, and wandered tleough the streets of hone Kong, sot prised at its r itaid progress; felt home-sick iu the desolat on of Marren), and bluer still while gazing at the cheerless burial ground at Whampos; promenaded about the Factory gardens in the morning, and in the evening, at Gluten, aad joined in boating, billiards, and routes, making the acquaintance of its merchants, its bankers, and its ladies ; weaned ten knots agaiest !he monsoon up the China coast, up that it-muster river the Yang-tzs-Kiing to 11 , oosuag, where opturn-ships use cannon as an argument ; and still further up this wonthrful dart rto Shanghae, were silks and gie.in teas, and ships and imp 'ins, make active is their seasen merChaats who live like princes, and appear to r e:ish life in China. Di-appointed in paying toy respects to the Emperor of Japan by the non-arrival of the 'Greta,' a state-room was offered rue by a Canton merchant whose clipsar was haunt d two the coast, so in company wilt the Iloston boys, Heald and Gray, we came down fluking ; Saw Niugpo in the distance, passed up the River Min without meeting the Oriental's' fate, and anchored at the Pagoda. No pirate crossed our track, but the Tartar Viceroy of Foo-chow-foo, whose beggarly aid struck down my coolie boy. This is were I saw the black tea ship ments, the cormorant fishing, and the huge spittoon of our Consul (Ike that long-necked jar of the crane in the fable). Did not atop at Amoy, but saw the Sweatt fleet loading slaves, who embark as pashengers, and do not find the mistake till they land in Cuba and South America. I looked again at Hong Kong and hurried down to Singa pore in an opium clipper steamer, sailed past Peaang, up the Bay of Bengal, into the hooghlry, and then I saw Calcutta, and Indian life ; and watched the Indians' customs, while I lived and mixed wilt, Europeans, who opened for me the rooms of the Bengal Club. I saw that roost uousual sight, two live Gsvenor•Generals at one time in India, and Indian princes, ant Indian kings, at lady Cannin s 's ball, whose whealthy domains Enelan , l his kindly - relieved them o, a philanthropy peculiar to ourAng,lo-Saxon mother. I boated up the river to he Government Palace, and saw tha government park, and the govenor's menagerie, and in Calcutta saw the disgusting forms of Hindus worship. Continuing my jeurney I saw Madras and stopped long enough to be disgusted, hut nut sufficient time to see its many beautiful residences behind the wide and uninviting seaport. Bought Indian jewellery from Trichinopoly, and was amazed at the sight of a catamaran; hurried on to Ceylon, and killed musqu:toes as big as an ink battle, at the mansion-house at Point de Gine, but did not think nine% of the cinnamon groves, a standing sell to the overland passenger. Sp:nt forty dollars in Singalese bracelets made of amber and tortoiseshell ; talked East Indian, when the ` Nubia's,' party spoke of American slavery, and argued the point whether annexation in India were a blessing, in America, a crime ! My fellow pass: ogees all considering the political fillibustering seizure of Oade, a master-stroke of policy with the late lord Dalhousie. Slept four in a room all the way to Aden, having a sou of the parliamentary debater, the late Lord Erskine, es a churn. Stopped a day on the Arah's shore to coal, and saw 'h_ naives dive for sixpence, ahl the erreamp ment where the Sepoy regiment guards the sterile rocks of Alen itgainst the Arabs. gaicker and faster we moved ot, up the Red Sea's hot waters, but maw no foot. prints of Pharaoh or his heists, no chariot wheels, ne ancient Colt's revolver or Minis rile in the sand ; wa'clied with singular irrerast the Arab caravan as the pilgrims prayed an I resumed their match to Meter., and counted a thousand camels going between Suez acid Cairo ; ceased to feel t.uprise at the mutinous behaviour of Napoleon's army, fnr the desert ride is terrible to the rerves. Passed through the I+nd of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, and gazed on Alt's tomb. All this I 811,V ; and then ,hose otheyrrawmoindtsieorsf of the world, so dark with age an d mystery, the Egypt more astonished me than anything vet whit It I have s,-en ; but I hastened cre, leaving the Nile, Lower Egypt, and Cairo, through the fertile va ley of the Delta, threueb the inland towns of mud and filth, disgusted with sole eves, sand and fleas, the, humbler and ties] Of the l an d , t il l we g o' Co Alexandria, where CI opats a's Needles reminded me of (`reiae's amours; and Catacombs and Pompey's Pillar covered another historic 'err. Once more started off, and this time for Syria and P e leatine ; reaw Joppa and Rernlah, and Jerusalem, plucked thorns on the spot were Pontious Pila . .e crucified Christ ; gathered fruit upon the mount of Olives, and fisaver, in the ga den of G 3tlisemlne. I saw the holy Sepulchre on Mount Cavalry, anl the tombs of David and of Abseforn and of the Judges ; the brook Kedron, the valley of Telioshapliat, the tomb of Lazarus anti Mary's Well, and walked through the 'ViaDolorosa, and saw the site of Solornerr's temple. And then I rode to Bethlehem, and saw stars still shining brightly over the shepherds of Judea, and beautiful nomen with simple att're ; and further on Jordan, with its memories, the Dead Sea, and Jeriets and Galilee : I saw the Manger Cradle in the Sepulchre, but did riot profit by the mumery of the pries'. I went again to Rionlall and pocked lilies in Sharon's valley, and oranges in the groves of Joppai Then I tried the Au •trian steamer and found an - talian prince, an Irish p-er. and a nobleman of Prance at our table. I saw Mount Carmel, Napoleon's hospital, arid Acre and Beyrout ; was entertained by an Egyptian sovereign in European style, and caught a glimpse of the harem's inmates, peering clown upon the deems. With Arab la arses, in company with a London banker, I rode o'er hill and valley; and there were the cedars of Lebanon, and beyond them was Damascus.; then we visited Latakia and Larnica in the Island of Cyprus, and went to Alexandretta, and Messna, arid then to Rho les, where the Kuights of St. John were once all powerful, and anchored at it cnyrna, a claimant for the nativity of homer =went over to Beruabat, picked oranges out of the parlour windows of my friend, and ordered some flf'y boxes of figs as presents far home consumption. I hope you aro not fa'igu d ; Est there's - more ground yet to cover, for continually we are passing new scenes, island after island filled with history, wild and terrible history. There was Patmos, and—l forget the name, the place menierahle'for brutal slaughter of. the Greeks : 120,000, not forty years ago, were m ssacred by the Turk ; one thousand only °teep d to tell the demning tale ! And this is that Turkey. f allied armies h ave d ressed themselves in ti mourning 0 her lands of note I passed, islands o f which the Levant i s which garb. the full, cover e d w i t h f o li age, bandits, and windenills, and then to Tripoli:Gallipoli, and the Dardanelles, an .ti ; 4 l , l d f: i te ii r:, ued Sea of Marmora. I saw the impqnes' and •tinivriity and all that makes the picturesque in old 'Stamboul, and.therta were Con stantinople - and Pert and the Bosphortai, water, that covers the ruig of minty a lair and, )niely 'maid; and I saw the v; ages on either side, and the transport fleet, and Scutari's hospifa:, all strange, all novel ; but not so strange as represented in the boolc°, not so beautiful as the writers ,yrould make us believes tla; real featursA are swallowed in fancy Why don't tourts's stick to the truth, for cxaegoretion spoils the effac ? From the capital of the Turk, I steamed through the Black Sea, and landed in the Crimea, to be astonished at the magnitude of modern warfare. There were five monster armies, and all that gves them strength. How different from a land at peace 1 Katniesch, with its army, fleet, and its village of huts, at Balakinva, a little mountain lake, uncomfortably packed with sh'pping— Balaklava, where ana ion went to war by rajway ; awl :Sebas topol in its horrible desolation, and the Began with its sickening memories, and the Malakoff, and Inkerman, and the Alma, and the lists of the last of the Cardigans, and the Tchernaya, and Balbek ant Simpheropol —all these were visited, and then we returned through the Moslem pass ; through the lonian islands, were we saw Stio with its quaint old city, and Corti], with its frowning cannon, pointed by an English gar rison--?ast Athens, immortal Athens, the land of fable and of fame, the home of renegade Greeks and of robber hordes; past Lord Byron's grave where he wrote Ws own requiem. Up the Adriatic, near the classic grounds of Italy till we saw Trieste and shuddered at the Austrian's despotic sway. We anchored, and Austrian officars waited upon us ashore with Austrian bayonets, examining our baggage with Austrian incivility, and watching us as though we had been guilty of some political crime. From the hour 1 landed till I left the frontier, pass'ng on.through Graz to Vienna, and from Vienna into Germany, I was never an liberty; I knew that Austrian police were ever near. and the never-ceasing checking and counter checking, signing and counter-signing of my passport, told of their damnable system of esp cnage, by which, thank God, England and my own country have never been cursed. From Austria, through Germ in states', into Belgium, and then to France; through continental cities full of paintings and scu'pture, with history written la blood, till we reach a free air, and lan led at Dover; and hero I am, in London, in time foe the peace illuminations and the Derby. This rapidly-sketched outline merely tells , the reader the many places Mr. Train saw; but gives him no idea of the *moues of information he contrived to extran as he passed on his way. It is not oaly that he has given full details of the commercial history and capabilities of each country, but there is scarcely a topic which could possibly be touched upon in connexion wish arty of the places be travelled through which he has not introduced. Art, literature, science, religion, mallows, dress, social life, are all discussed with the most amazing volubility, and pronounced upon with a dogmatic decision, which often displays as much jade:- ment and acuteness as courage and promptitude. o.:e feels quite at a loss how to deal with a work so am z:ngly comprehensive as this. What is , the. use of &bating sicgle points of difference with an author who deals with almost evrery conceivable question, and every country in the world, in one volume? To what avail to point out slight inaccur acies in the statements of a traveller, who has described the history, resources, character and social life—who has analyzed the past and prophesies the fature—of half the nations on the earth in a six rnontlis' tent.? Teat Mr. Train was mis aken when he fancied he passed the grave cf Byron at Missolonghi—that in his haste he sometimes forgot in whit quarter of the globe be happened to be, and calls his travels wanderings in Europe, Asia, and Australia, not remembering this a goodly portion of his work refers to Egypt ; these are trifling inaccuracies which the most ordinary reader can understand to be merely the result of hurried labour. That many of Mr Train's conclusions are such as English readers will hardly agri e with, no one will be-surprised. The werk is of a character which, to say the least of it, is intensely American. Viewed as a merely literary production, it is undoubtedly disfigured by a superabundance of peculiarly Attie jean phraseology, and its opinions are obviousuy in fluor-seed by the same tinge of national partiality. Mr. Train rejoices in everything American. He is proud to find American ices and confections at the table of the Governor General of India. He is not very s -rry to have to tell that the drunkenness in the Crirae,n camp was occasioned by " pure New England rum." Ile would have eve-y- place Atneriaanised, iecluding Jerusalem ma i Athens He is glad to tell ns, although of course a de termined Republican, th at he was introduced by Lord John Russell to Lady Russell, at Braemar ; Viet he spent an evening with the Duke of Devonshire in Wales ; that he rode to Sebaetopre in compan with a Russian prince;: and such pieces of good fortune with which democracy not unfrequently loves to reward its patience and self-denial. He meets two young ladies of rank at the Gevernor- General's ball in Calcutta, and, having gi v e n t h e i r names. ,, hi informs the public, with a candour peculiarly charae teristic of an American traveller, th it " neither of these young ladies need look for her portrait in the Book of Beauty." On the same occasion, he tell us he saw 5911113 of the Ameers of Seiade, and alludes to tnein as " the captives, or rather the victims, of Sir Charles Napier, who,. following the model of the great Roman general, and Perry, on the lakes, and of Bosquet at the Malakoff, marked his despatch by its brevity. The pun was WO good to be lost, and the simple Latin word peccavi went forward to the Governor General —I have sinned (Made)." Not at all hours can even an ac lie American be sapient. The story which Me Train tells so gravely, as a fact of history, is an old joke which appeared in Punch several : years age, and of which we knew the inventor. But it is a task of neither pleasure nor profi:, to dwell upon trivial inaccuracies, blemishes, and defects of taste in a work which must be loeked on ;es a feat of energy rather than a finished literary production ready for the critic. Taese disadvantages a-e inseparable from the very nature of such a book, and the reader will find, on the whole, fewer of them than he might reasonably expect. One can hardly recommend the undertaking of' such perbrmances Scarcely a more profitable result can be derived from them in general than from exploits in walking for a wager, or displays of slight of haud. It would unquestionably have been better if Mr. Train had taken more time been more cautions in his conclusions, less universal in his topics, and more careful about the revision of his book. But the feat has been accomplished, and the results are before us; and it would be injustice ro deny the:, this volume contains a vast variety of information, obtained with singular energy ells qitickness of observation, and valuable in a high degree not to the commercial reader only, but to the world in general Mr. Teen is an honea and faithful observer. He looks at eve-y.hing clearly out of his own eyes, where they are not interfered with by an American haze, and is not content to judge of any country according to the received fashion of travellers. Wherever his own obser vations is involved, he may in geaeral ba safely reed upon; and where commercial topics are concerned, we d) not think it would have been an easy t ,sk to cram him with got-up facts and statistics. It need not ba said that the commercial portions of tha work we by far the most valuable. Indeed, the latter part, which is confined alto gether to Australia, is worth infinitely more than all th,, rest. In Australia, Mr. Train had time and ample opp , 3rtunities of personal and close information. No one can read this part if the volume without feeling ast on i s h e d at the clearness and exactness of observation which mingle with so much of brilliant volubility. We should be glad to quote largely from :be Australian . letters, if our space would allow us to do them any justice, and if it were not that many of them made their first app earance i n the columns of uur o journal. It is an int eres ti ng an d useful consideration to observe how many o f th e con jectures hszarded. by Mr. Train, from his o observation of the condition of Melbourne same years since, hav e come to a full realisation Indeed, there Are other p arts of the work to which the semi remark will apply. The chapters on India contain many instances of the same accuracy of conclusion from rapid observa. ion. There are many p - ssage9, tors, of rich and brilliant description. clashed off in the same vivacious style as the author's public speaking. In Java, he tells ui No pen can t xpreEs, no tongue can utter, no ponc . l can paint the sublimi-I of nature in di.) interior of Java ! All I see or ho*r around we enchants my senses. It is the land of poetry and eoug ; and when von gmz upon the burial-place of a native prince, or a Hindoo chi,f; when yon emternplate the tuaAsive ruins of lust ages ; when you walk over and around the immense native temples—bniq God knows when—admirin g their atetitecture and revering their venerable age ; whet you pan through monster estates of rice, of sugir, and of CJifte---, aII cultivated with the simp'e of the nativesland see no modern t,ols of cul ure ; Wien you smell 111.., odour of the spices, and are astonished at the bc:auiy of the nu meg and peper at ihe singing of Jiva birds, and chirping cf inu•cts and lizards ; as you ride through forests, curiously absorbed i❑ the wonders of the eat ;at the c mat grives, the c )!ton and the bread•fruit tree; at the banyan, with its numberless branches, all taking lot again to strengthen the old trunk:a touching emblem of parent and chill supporting each otha., through earthquakes, storms, and tempests ; at the mangos the groves ; 143 ratan winding i . setf about the teakwood forest ; at the bamboo shooting up 'through all the rest ; at the culti vatioc of European fruits and native vegetables; at the simplicity of the native gills who bathe so innocently before you as )'ou stand upon the riva's bank, and ncee them p'unging singing, laugirM; and swimming about—now below the water and now above ; at th • frightful look of some of the (Alder men and women, whose chocking custom of chewing the betel-nut, mixed with pepper-plant and tobacco, gives their lips an un natural red, and blackens their teeth till they resemble charcoal; at the monkey-resemblint , appealance of the babes and children, and the monkeys themselves; at the immense herd of native deer; at tha wild hog; at the tiger and the rhinoceros ; at the cassowary, a huge black bird, not unlike, except in colour, the emu of us . tralia—when you have seen all these wonders of this wonderful county, in three hours' rile, you will come to the conclusion that personal observation willj teach a man more in oae day thin he can 'learn from books in an age. The 'dream', of my youth are all revived again, and the pichires, of my school-books give me the form, but not the life, of nature. Whop the foregoioe, chang es hay® boo rand • •.; • before ten o'clock in the morning, and you have drunk deeply of such grand and p:ctureagne scenery as the view presents far and near about the Coverntnent House, you cannot but imagine and feel 'hat you are' in a , fairy-land, and all that is required to complete the allusion, and make .a gar d en o f Eden of the ground,lt is to se e h ut - nee Adam and Eve, instead of such a swarm of semi-clad beings. While in China the author very naturally falls into.a consideration of the opium question. We cannot refrain from extracting the following interesting summary of the history of the opium trade:— While on this question, there can be no harm in briefly tracing the history of the opium-trade, from the notes which I have made from the several authors. The fiest opium which the Chinese got a taste of was introduced by Col. Wat son and Vice-President Wheeler, from Benga', about the year 1700. These gentlemen, then, may be considered the fathers of the immense trade, which forms nearly one-half of the entice- foreign commerce of China. During the• next half century the import did not exceed 200 cheats of a pienl each; but in the year 1767:—in Lard Chatham's day—it reached 1,000 chests, the Portuguese having the trade entirely to themselves, at the-then flenrishine ' eport of Macao, Six years later, that indefatigable body o f merchants, the East India Company, started their first 'venture, -and owned the firat receiving-ship near Cumsinginoon. The treaenry of the Com pany was at Canton, and the proceeds of thee armed ship sent out from Bengal in .1781, entirely laden with opium, was passed to the credit of that government. The first receiviug ship at Whampoa was about the period of Lord M'Cartney's embassy to Pekin, 1794 and then the Chinamen' began to enact prohibitory laws, for previous to the commencement of the. present century it was admitted at the China custom house as a medical drug, under a duty equal to six cents per pound. The import increased gradually, and at that time (1800) amounted to 2,000 chests ; which see alarmed the Imperial government, that a s'oeper was at once put on in the shape of its entire prohibition as an article of sale or import ; and unman under penalty of death was allowed ta. cultivate the poppy in His Majesty's dominion. These laws have not been repealed, but the government has never been able to execute them. In 1809' the [long merchants gave security that no- opium should be broteght; but notwithstanding these precautions- some 5,000 chests found their way through Macao and Whenzpoa, in 1820 ; and the next year the Governor of Canton was dis charged in disgrace for want of vigilance ; mire stringent acts obliged the merchants to resort to all the dodges of the smuggler—bribery, arms, and secrecy.. Abney was paid the merchant at his counting house, and the Chinese purchaser, with boats armed to lie teeth, got the needful from oat of the storeships in'the night-time. Than came the age of opium-- clippers and romantic adventures--.he time of great risks for greet profits. About the time of Louis Philippe's desut on the French throne, other edicts were proclaimed year after year, stronger and strongir, in 1831, 1832, and again in 1831: the Impiriat Cabinet than put forth proclamations against foreigners fur bringing, and Chinese for using, did wltieti was undermining all their happiness; and yet in the fare of all this the import had so multiplied, that in 1836; 35,000 cheats were sold in China. We have now reached the period of one of the most remarkable events of ies history, the exciting dis cussion among the chief govenors and ministers of thee Empire, comprising: the mist talented stet- amen of the land, for and against its being a legal:aed trula ; but its opponents ware to, strong for those who recommended it, and the former came off victiniou.„ while many of the la ter were disgraced by the Emperor for expressing such opinions. At once measures were eaten more decided-thanbefore, even to the- execution of those who were engaged is smunlnag. Foreign merchants engaged' in the traffic were notifieek by government to leave the country. In 1843 a.Chiaatuan- was beheaded at Macao, and another towards the end of ihe year near the foreign residences at Canton, and shortly after another Chinaman-was executed in the factory-gardens—all for, dealing in the drug. Some others inland had their l'ps cut off';; and other ci ueltiee were resorted to in order to atop the use of it in the kingdom, and yet all the while the oaium-merchants were sill rolling in the drug. We are all of us more familiar with- its history since then. Extraordinary powers were given to the . celebrated Commissioner Lin, who arrived in Canton in Match, 1539, It is a short story ;-,„ Lin's energy,. his letters to- foreign residmts, the bond from them in return, swearing they would never again: engage in it,. which was never kept; the seizure of 23,283- chests and their destruction in twenty days, by lime and salt, nearly 10,001),(00 dollars in value ; the protests of the mer chants; threa.ctivity of the E a st India Company;. the arrival of the British fleet; the prewess.of the British army in the far-famed opium war, where millions of Chinese were sent to me(t their ancestors, and Cana opened up to foreign commerce by the treaty of Nankin, in 1842. This war to , a certain extent settled the question, and the trade has gone on from 200 chests, in. 1756, to 70,000 or 80,000 in 1856;e-from one million dollars then to forty million dollars now. But now t iere is little said about it in the Pekin Gaze2e. and the traffic still moves on. The late Emperor, when again asked to legalizi the trade in 1841, made use of strong language in his remarkable reply—' Yes, I cannot prevent the introduction of the growing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will, for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; bat nothing will in duce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.' From what Ican see you might as well try to keep back the waves of the sea, (which Sidney. Smith, when he first intro duced that amiable lady, Damo Partington, to the world, failed to de,), as to stop the use of opines. When segars are • abolished and tobacco in any form is not used as a stimulant, when intoxicating beverages are swept from the earth, when slavery is no more and the 'world as pure as when created, the opium trade, foreig❑ and dome-tic, may prove abortive ; but until then I doub; if all the books which aro published, argu ments which are advinced, the laws which aro enac!ed, will be the means of keeping opium out of China. The nasives have a taste fos it; and if they cannot get it from India, they can cultivate it in any quantity in. their own empire.. Some con attends , assert that even now. they produce some 40,000 chests p r year;. and as the loans of it increases, in spite of the government, they will continue either to raise is or to imp ,rt it. The East India Company have the credit of all the iniquity, but so long as they continue to derive 18,030,000 dollars revenue per annum, what do th'y irate far newsplper squibs and Bankain editorials?• But China does not take it fast enough, for even now they have and are establishing retail shops over the Singapore part of the Indian Empire, and the beautiful rice-tields and fertile lands of Hiudostan must give way fur the growth of the poppy, after sufficient have been left for the food of the nation.. As a question of broad and liberal philanthrophy, Englasid once expended some 10,000,000 dollars in abolishing. West Indian Slavery. I wonder if her benevolence will ever reacts the East Indian Continent? Parliament may consider it. We will wait a little longer. In a letter from. Singapore I think I alluded to the rather startling fact that almost the whole revenue of that Island of the Company was derived from the sale of the licence to the opium farmers—.some 200,000 dollars. Take the traffic a' ay. from the commerce of China, and some of those beau•iful palaces where the mereant so hospitable entertains the sn-an ger,would have to close their doors. Even now the Lade is not what is was ; fortunes are not mate in one successful operation,. as years ago. Then, every roll was a strike ; but of late years it is difficult to get a spare. There's no use its abusing those who deal in it;, you may as well black ball the rum-seller. There's not so much difference as one may imagine. Holland gin on the North American Indian, and Patna or Malaya on the Asiatic—each carries destruction with execs% If you blame one, blame all— and don't save your cormsp3ndent ; for my fist foreign venture was a ship men: o' four tins of the precious staff in the old ship. Eliza Warwick,' to China, in 1816, an invoice of sixty dollars squeLz 3d out of a clerkship salary in a Boston firm, and if those Who now ;rade in it are not more successful than I was they will never mak', their fortunes, for it almost made me beside getting a sevmv rebuke from my cornmande!-in chief fur indulging at my early time of lif,) in the opium t ra d e . . I think it only justice to stite that the shipment would have been more successful bat not the thug entirely evaporated before it lynched Canton. We should be glad if our space allowed U 3 to make more copious citations from this work. To indicate its character is, however, sufficient to ensure it sums attention on the part of the public It is an experiment, a literary exploit; such as only very peculiar cap%bilities could render so far suecessmul, and which certainly we should not recommend any of our readers to imitate. The book, as it stands, is one with which many readers will probably find fault, but from which none can fail to derive _ _ amniement, and from which any one capable of profiting by it can ga her much valuable information, not to be attained in so condensed and ordered a form from any other source. CONSUMPTION : Its CAUS(3S, Piewntion, and Cure; By John Balbirnie, MD. ; Lonchn: Darton and Co., Holborn Hill. HYDROPLTHIC APHORISMS : By John Balbirnie, M.D ; London : Dayton and Co. The first of these little volumes is an abbreviation of a large and well-known work by Dr. Balbirnie, entitled " The Water Cure in Consumption " The object of its issue in the present cheap and convenient form is to place within the reach of all classes the advice and instruction which it contains upon one of the most deeply and painfully interesting subjects which can possibly engage attention. Dr. Balbirnie endeavours to divest c3nsumption of some of its most cruel terrors, by demonstrating its curability even at very very advanced stages, by the treatment of which he is one of the ablest advocates. The mode of cure which this work is pr.duced to promulgate, is.a purely hygienic system of cure—in the author's own words, " the water-cure of the present day, in honest and scientific hands, and freed of all adventitious and ad captandum acce.sories." The candour, clearness, and freedom from needless professional technicalities, which will be remarked in this book, form not its least valuable qualities, 'as an agent in removing traditionary and superstitious terrors; and assisting every clsa of the public to c impre h en d an d c ontend - with t°l6 and accessories of a disease long deemed fetal. • , c oeft The second of th e vo l umes b e f or e u s, is a fittit re cuo d ' pion to the former, and contains fall and O lin es e . for the application of the treatment Dr. BAlbirDie to the various forms of disease. EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT• TO THE RETAIL EMPLOYERS OF 65 • BRITAIN. trail!" GENTLEKEN,—WiII e - you permit me re a • clos ed tress a few remarks, t o , y ou re lative. to during the approaching winter. the b eidl V However your immediate predecessors , a s to 0 buSiness establishments ma m y have been eor'i that :i considered as ere "'shopkeepers," I feel assiyheiot jot, a body , aim igher standard. ‘' t ided t o deeming it an honour be be actively ina en bee o that commerce, which, humanly speaking , ha g f r oto ur main source of our country's greatness, and get be its chief stay, you yet feel that it is n°' , e era u e these secular occupations should engross either 1' 36 00: 4 affections and thoughts ,or those of the eerselle Qit God's providence, hold situations . under you' n y terms, you (Henke the late-hour system—i 3 ma teoro!ed ces, far more than your yoing men do, jads ln bd wiNef I see and hear. You have become initeres`g e ee „,lo o l great truth that, after all, men require sonlet'crlen r iff( money to make them happy ; that they ha ve Off( aspirations which that corninodity can nev e : be o'j and, further, that, in the main, your profits at ( e ooh the year would be quite as large, even though t e dee g e l 'business were materially curtailed—a large Po'" eo plOr io day being, in the vasemejority of shops, moor °:, tg r and thus literally wasted, to say nothing of "„' .10 , 1 and expenses which are entailed by late tradiolopee,,, Coascious that your lot is cast in a retnerke tb:"4 of the world's history —a period which is noc • Etv"o acterised by its sc i ent ifi c d i scoveries, astoundlll°,ooo, they are, than by it s moral, s o aring, and politica', j and when men are becoming estimated not 9 ; 4) 5 1 , 5 4 account of " the abundance of their possess'e o rsleV their enlightened and personal merits—it is n a- ,peowe should be concerned for your own order, and b e e 'efi f° .l desirous that yourselves and your immediat e ' j og' should,. at least, not be out-stepped in this ouvr ar tt of intelligence by mechanics and artiaans. e ,e Ogo , Nor can you be sensible, now that prescriP are thus daily beComing less and less regarde e ci t e for f• I ,C: sous are estimated for what they arerather t O- , 0 of` ,0 they have, that, if henceforward, business 10 , t beo°,0 occupy their proper position in society e they on to- t o less the slaves of the shop than hereteforer 3L- 0 4 / `e more time than the fag ends of the evening f° r ',Mie r )! pursuits andahe acquirement of useful. knee, o• l d 'l must be confessed, that hitherto a large V e r „ 1 1 1 1;1 1 ,0", eeopkeeping classes (especially prevision "`",,-- w," ro o chemists, and sectioa of drapers) in London I ljei' v e provincial towns, have practically been , pre devoting even this small fragment of time t ° si a purposes of their b e i ng . r e i o i Knowing and feeling all this, you are, I edra' as body, heartily ti re d o f the late-hour system,- rejuicd at it s overt h row. This knowledge 3 ''reavi, o lif however, unless put into act i on, is of no avail' ,„-eer':4ol that unduly prol onge d la b our is, eveh o °"' viewed, a great mistake, and in other reePe e :o 3 ',' f serious evil, bear witieme when I state that , 5 ; rag men, you who have not already done so,- she anus' ' r er practical turn to that conviction. That is to . r i ee l e h using as effort to secure the co-operation of y e : l ef, Live ueigauours, each should; resolve, for bo';it ' s°4o whatever others may do, hencefor ward , he "'fie - ° „,e necessary example in his wn establish non'- t r,,r " mencement of th e winter season is best suited le - t ie Pose is aelestion. Hithertoit has been too toc cll ei ee or , that the fav oura b le majority of employers oreo 111 deterred from clo s i ng early b ecause of a small ai their brethren resolutely refusing to do ;# minority isoften confined to o ne or two indirjued l eie district, who appear to forge:. that men har r well as right s . ere 9 ee Whilst this state of t hi ngs h as been going o'rcji9 years, never to be recalled, have beg' passinre °rje pe sons of impro vement, wasted ; e vast masses - ,goe peo have been dep r i ve d o f their rightful priviieees;"oohrif can tell how. many thousand have been thro cyb e 'ost il ae ts of suffering a n d d isease, or, more serious still, P r ', 4 6 4 consigned to•th e s il ent tomb ; and all thisin e°''?. , of the opposition of the above wre'ched n iinorg ie too . unfortunately, th ere always have been, and itoeir'of feared always will b e , persons.who, incased i°,,`„ so' b el selfishness, are alik e d ea d to the. appeals 01 -30 "1,1 1 justice, and of h uman i ty. It is utterly vain, theu', of 0 , for the compliance of these determined °Wr ier : elltal movement —every effort of persuasi on h av ing bee; t o' ted on them, rather let them be abandone d ' tiO ( unenviable isolation. Ge e 0 Nor need a n y ava il b e apprehended from theireee4eo ing to keep their shops open late (excepting e ve? themselves and those in their employ), now tho' 3 5 0 trade has so much decreased, and especially a ble ra , purchasing clasees generally h ave b ecome s o la' our movement. . eoPulAr, Even before the cause attaened its resal' ' )I°' z there were not wanting-reolployere ;nandbold P ecrd — ... 7 e - ti 11 ' of ded, to set the example of closing early o,' ; ,e ; ° ,of had the gratification of hearing them s, satisfactory results which thusarose to tbe msei ' e families, and their assistants. The following, which is the substance of a leT t l i, f r f o?o,l chemist carrying on b u si ness i n one o f the W s ' l ,, str i jt 4 localities of the metropolis, may be adduced ag 1 e ,e3 1 0 0/ specimen of such testi m o n y. —"l close ehlfg during the six day s o f th e wee k at 8 o'clock (t. 4 -„. eze' from business fourteen hours in tke week), which h 3. practice since January, 1855. . .• f eodyff If this advantage could hav e been obtained bar 3 ' - 6ot e ) pecuniary sacrifice, I should have been content; Jodi believe it has. been secured ; without any loss pJ rejoice that L have made the change." „ r o ,efr I venture to hope th a t many who may bol l e a re ilol reading this letter w ill b e i nduced to make a periment to that of thi s sp i rited chemist, an".,vii°lool success. If yo u w ill only take the precaution ; t l3 o e r jel due notification to th e pu b l i c that you ate about co r ef early, Lam confid ent that the plan will meet I-1-,toOfeff approval and support of thegreat balk of your' eu el . 1 4 and that, on ce thoroughly adopted, so far- fro y e a being likely to revert to the old system, Yl r ootP would rather be that o f re g ret t h at you ba d t i o ago abandoned th e p ract i ce rep l ete with so n ' evils to all parties connected with it. I am, gentlemen, tfill ll o yours very resnee A JOHN LLI , WL,OO I r; Hon. See. of the Early Closing 35, Ludgate-hill, London, 28th Sept., 11357. BJYS' CLOTHING Itl.l - ;E: WI CH GRE tiTiTA.ITE AT • COAI PANY'S, Raneiagh-street. Le Nord announces that the Emperor Napoleon' . - ,j a visit to the Ring o Prussia. THE DIY OF HUKLLIIT/ON ANT) NITER "Sy notified that Lloyd's will b e c10,;(33 on the 7th 0 f t the day of humiliation an d p rayer . 011 601 Private letters received at Paris state that, a Singh, the Nanaha rs j a h o f C ta h meer, had dieciie poison. He had placed an army of Sikhs at the of the British. r to Tae Sardinian Government h is issued a ciren ,, 3 , c so, of kr own to architect s th a t destrs are desired for , i ' o o'ol sons Turin n l one in Genoa. The cost of ° ', l (l r is pris)os Tulin (580 c 911,) is a xe d a t £62,400, ° 68 1 0 ,0) of the other £50,400. The cost of the prison at .00;00, not to exceed £64,000. O ne pr i z3 i s o ff ere d fig, afrpt orisons in Turin of £320, with further premin tri de sig . " and £6O for the second and third best. Fur the; 2 4/1 the prison in Ge n o a th e p rem i ums of f ere d are ' 1 " t ot and £4B, PoRT , K,OUTTI, Sept. 23.—Great activi'y pre' ;the 11 0 dockyard in the cun;truetion and completion 0 ' o f l it " men-of-war on thevarious building slips. AurnoO d li ore tine Victoria, 131 g in; ; Prince of Wales, 13 "' all. 10 , 101 ; R o y a l F re d !r i c k, 116 ; an d B acc h ante , 51- 001 0 with the exceptioe of th 3 Royal Frederick (bu t „, o ll9i be altered to one), screw s hips, a n d w ill be Pr,Vidrot engines of from 609 to 1,000 horse-power. 1 .0 ! 662 0 , D mean, and Ilicehante will b 3 espec'ally m l O / 0 0 powerful ships. „ VO L 11: THE ROBB SHIES AT Sr. PANCRAi to r, al , Tuesday, at the weekly meeting of the cli re- r osvolP Churchwarden Wyatt in the chair, a discussion 3.0 sec t the master's not having sent in his resignatio n 1 00 0,0 i ante with his previous declaration. Mr. Glazi e , r e 010 0 the master bore a high character, and mold unt,",, r ged, btt with these robb ides. The chairman said 11 0 f" - g ede, i with great neglect in allowing them a no int iiiitiPor nose: Towards the dose of the meeting tl 7rdit received the tho cook had ben taken into a" J i o brought up at the Cl er k e nw e ll p o li ce cou rt. do OA ONE OF III E R ARE T HINGS —sh e C o urier sa tiO n e relates the foll o wi n g s t or y, we h o p e 01 good A n 11 :e This spring, a Canadian, of St. John's subttru d s 'hielt`ol o poor man, and the father of a family, present' t f r om ell a rich Englishman of this city, and asked to f e li t iottitr i one of his houses within the wails. The een"' a ssiny' accepted on both sides, and the day fixed for P o tatitol s lease. Oa the day appointed, both went to the a rt a % l A' there the I , raprietor, instead of a lease,_ eig ne ilY;(o .4 s. donation. He then explainel his conduct '° . 3 gea - 09 , who was of coarse full of astonishment at W oo 0 0 1 act. ' I began," said he, "to make my f °r p t , par is oltf the French Canadians; I traded in the I°°/— lodg e lo ll , and, wherever I went I was kindly received, coins fed ; and ell g, ratuitouslr. Since I have be atit', have sought fir the meats of paving m y debt ° 1 fr t ,0 0- and as I could not acquit it towards those tow tomt eat) owing, I re so l ve d to do so in favuor of the g i st who should offer me a good opportunity." trot. At LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Raaelaill'srworf fl BOYS are CLOTHED m tb.o Age. or 104 , Th %P ‹, 0 % 41114' 1 7 0 h; It oke4 if :4 , X 1, ',V It, 5 -4k)ititltz ;;. ***. • • , L • ,* ‘ 4 VEI!' A < 1 1 1: iHr L T S ] ISEFORZ MR. COMMISSIONER srgo-1.160N. In re ANT HON Y O'DONNELL —Mr. Bremner appeared before the court on behalf of the bankrupt, an d applied that an order might be made for his discharge from aaan easter Castle. He said that the petition had been filed a long time age, but pro'ection having been withdrawn on the 15th July, the bankrupt was arrested and sent to Lancaster Castle, where he has remained ever since He be lieved that protec'ion had been withdrawn because of the unratiefaetory state of the belence sheet, and of the in ability or unwillingness of the bankrupt to give any ex planation, but be (11r. Bremner) h Ted that the court would order his discharge, in order that he might be en• able] to come up and pass his last examination by giving the best explanation in his power. His wife and eeven children were chargeable to the parish, and no good could be effected by hit further punishment. Mr. Pemberton opposed the application on behalf of the petitioning creditor. He did not want that the heeler - tip'. should be imprisoeed for ever, but hs thought that he should remain incarcerated `or some time longer. His conduct heel been very bad. He was a pp o i nte d an agent b y the petitioningcreditor for the sale of chains, but the goods having been forwarded to him in his own neme. be thought fit to treat the matter as one of credit, and refused to account. He made away with the property, and after disputing the adjudication, refused to eive any account of his estate and effects. Besides, he seemed to lead a very happy life in Lan caster Castle, as might b 3 seen from a letter which he wrote on the 29th of August, and in which he said, 1 never had a pleasanter time of it. We have gentlemen in he e for thousands of pounds, shopkeepers, merchants, and all sorts. All we are short of now is 'new cocks' (more insolvents, &c.) I have as good a table aa Glenieter. I have ss. a week, and we have nothing to da but to make up the beds.'' (Llughter.) The letter was dated from " Hansborough Hotel" (Lancaster Prison), and as he was so happy he (51r. Pemberton) thought it would be well to leave him there a little longer. His Honour observed that they had no security that the bankrupt, if discharged, would come forward to pass his last examination. The Court would therefore take a few days to consider the application. CORONER'S COURT. Yesterday the Coroner held the following inques's : on the bo 'y of a boy, 12 years old, named Thomas Ellison Be was engaged at Mr. Vernon's ship-building yard, and on Monday he fell by accident into the hold of a ship, and died from the effects. Verdict, "Accidental death." On the body of Ma-ga-et Ed wards, the wife of a carter. She was 40 years old, at d was mach given to drink, and whilst in a state of intoxication the jumped nut of a window in Leeds-street, into the yard, and died from the effect of the injuries. Verdict, "That she killed herself whilst in a state of temporary insanitj, brought on by drink." On the Indy of a female child that WM found in a field .n Chureh--treet, Everton:and the jary founl a verdict of Wilful murder againt some one uukuJwn." BURGLARY AND MURDER, About two o'clock on Wednesday morning a shocking murder took place at Braman, fmr miles south of Stock port. A farmer and grazier named James Henderson, aged about 60 years, lived at a farm in Robin's-lane, Brarnall, called trardy's farm, and about two o'clock in the morning the faenily were alarmed by hearing the discharge of a pistol or gun in his bedroom, and the unfortunate man was afterwards found in bed with the left half of the upper jaw shot away, nod lying in a pot of blood. Hardy's f arm cons i sts c f about 200 acres of land, rented from Colonel Davenport, of Bramall-hall, Cheshire, about a mile distant The house is a god siz,d tenement, fronting to a garden and small lawn on the south, and wi h an entrance from the gar len, and also a second entrance f.cm the farmyerd at the beck. Mr. Henderson slept is a bedroom on the first floor, and over a font sitting room, near the hoed of the stairs ; his (Hest son, James Henderz , on, who is a cashier at a whole ale grocery house in Maechester, slept in a bedroom to th 3 lef , of his father's oa the settle Tor; and Mrs. Henderson, the wife, who has been some time in ill health, slept with a married daughter in a bedroom on the right. A younger son, Thomas Hender son, aged 26, slept with a servant man and boy in an attic, and a featele servant slept in an attic. Two Irish lads, who had been working on the farm from June last, slept in a granary over the kitchen, having an entrance from stone steps outside the house, at the west end. The eldest son says he was awoke at about two o'clock in the m ruing by the discharge of a pis , ol in his father's room, and, get ting out of bed, he took down a doable barrelled gun that was in his own bedroom. On opening his bedroom door, which is opposi e the to of the stairs, he saw on the land ing, half way down the stairs near a window there, a tall man, at whom he instantly discharged one barrel of the gun. The man gave vent to an excla• oration of pain or alarm, and immadietely ran down the remaining six steps. Immediately after his, his father's bedroom door was opened, aid a light being extinguished at the same moment three men ru hod out and went down the stairs. Tho whole family wore awake by this time, and raised cries of alarei. The younger son having come down from the attic then joined his brother, and having reloaded the gnu they went down stairs and thence outside the granary door, arousing the two lads who slept there. They found no trace whatever of the men who had been in the house, and there is reason to fear th st the man shot at entirely escaped, as the charge of small shot fired was partly fiend in the wall by the side of the window, a small poruon of it only having struck an upper pane of the window and broken the glass. As far as can be judged, the shot was too high for any portion to have taken effect on a man staeding upon the landing. Oa the two sons re-entering the hoists they found that a sitting room door hed base opened, and a leather writing case be!ouging to the elder had been f e.ced, or cut open, and from it £l4 103 in gold had been abstracted. In the fedier's bedroom there was au order on the Bank of Scotland for £lOO, and a receipt for £93 103. which had been lodged in the District Rink of Stockport on the previous thy These were in the drawer of a small dressing table, locked up, and there was no appearance cf th t drawer having been disturbed. Mr. Henderson had held his annual sale of a ock on Mondey, and had sold 38 head of cattle, for which he had received about £2lB, and it is supposed that the know edge of this money hav:ng been received was the inducement to the burglary. There a - e several very mysterious circumstances about the robbery and murder, bet wlach may probably by cleared up hereafter. One is that no door cr window had been bro%en open, se that at least one of the barglars must have been concealed on the premises to have let the callers in. unless by some accident one f the doors was left unfastened Another of these circumstances is that a sheep d g kept in the house, and which that night was in the younger son's attic bedroom, did not bark or give any alarm. The third is the motive for the murder. The deceased was found lying on his pillow, and if the object of the burglars was plunder the firing of a pistol was the surest way to alarm the family and defeat their own purpose. It is possible, however, that the o ld man opened his eyes while the men were in his room bef ge they had time to break open the drawers. and the murder was effected to secure retreat before he could lay hands upon any of them. The family, upon the discovery of the murder, commeni cate i as quickly as possible with the county police, and Mr. Chief Superintendent Andrews, of Stockport, was on the premises about 4 o'clock. Later in the day detective inspectors Maybury and Buckley, from Manchester, visited the house. A posl mortent exeminatien was made of the body by Mr. Graham and his son, su-r ons, ofStock port, who extracted about a dozen No. shot from the head, a portion of it having entered the . brain. Part of a tooth had also been driven into the brain by the charge, and several teeth had been forced through the left she• k, and were found on the room floor. Mot of the family state that they heard the noise of feetonth en e so), andstaircase after that the firing of the second shot (that by the there " th em e seodutnd to be was three f j ()_ ed r foonner, as though persons by t h t e h r e noise, re n% though were without shoes, or had so mething tied over theta to lighten the sound. There is at present not the slightesth Atfirst clue to the perpetrators of this shocking outrage. suspicion fell upon a servant man disc h ha e wasdischarged foundfror to ' the house on Saturday night, but on enquiry a h t i e g () b o oe d n di a st t an h c o e m f e r m all an n y i g o h t h . in custody is situated at for the Henderson, the eldest murder of his father. erT son, hil° eu . .l ef s a. James Hender At LtIVI3 & CO If PANT'S Ra , neagh-Itreet. BOTS are CLOTHED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Years Sir E. B. Lytton and Mr.. Disraeli bath delivered speeches on Wednesday, the one at St. Albans and the other at Newport Pagnell. Sir Edward spoke enthusiastically of what might be accomplished by the military prowess of the South of England, and advocated the formation of volunteer corps• Mr. Disraeli took a gloomy view of the news brought by the last mail. Both orators were agreed that there had been mismanagement somewhere, and that the government were to blame. "OrrcLOTIIING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE, at L EWIs an d COMPANY'S, Itanelagh-dieol4