Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-02 00:00:00

TOXTETH PARK LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH. The usual monthly meeting of this Board was held yesterday morning, at the Public Offices, Park-place, The Commissioners present were Messrs. Alpass, Briscoe, Rogers, Woodhead, Darsie, and Lee. The President, Ittr. Alpass took the chair. The Assistant-Clerk read the minutes of the last meeting, which were confirmed. THE FINA NCE COMMITTEE. At the first meeting of this Committee, after the annual meeting of the Board, a Chairman was appointed, and after some routine business had been transacted, the question mooted by Mr Bonlt some short time since, relative to annexing Toxteth-park with the borough of Liverpool was brought forward, on which a long discussion took place, but the cot sideraion of it was adjourned until the next meeting of the Committee, and at that meeting a further adjournment took place, therefore, no report was agreed 'o. The subject with regard to lamp-posts was also referred to the Tweeter, and would again be brought before the Committee. The proceedings were confirmed. THE SEWICRAGE COMMiTrEC. The proceedings of this Committee were real, and contained a recommendation that the Board would pur r_hace fifteen gas lamp-plots at £2 103. each, which were to be erected by the Gas Company. These proceedings were confirmed. The CHAIRMAN read a letter from Me. Woo'head, exp-essing his inablity to attend to the duties of Chair man of this Committee, as it met -en the Saturday. The resignation was accepted, and the appointment olanother Chairman WWI left to the Committee. On the motion of Mr. Rogers. seconded by Mr. Briscoe, panction was given to the Sewerage Committee to instruct the Surveyor, (Mr. Nt•wlands), to prepare a specification, and advertise for tenders for the levelling, paving, and widening of the entrance to Grove-park, but when these tenders had been recaived, the subject would again come before the Board. MC SEWERAGE PLANS The err/iII:MAN read a letter from the General Board, announcing that they had received the sanction of the Board, and also authorising the Local Board to barrow £4;895 2.. 6d. for carrying out these plans. The CIIATRMAN moved, and Mr. ROGERS seconded a resolution . 0 the effect, that the Surveyor be instructed to proceed with the preliminaries, so as to enable the Board to obtain tenders as speedily as possible, 'which was carried. The necessary cheques having been granted. and there being no other bminess before the Board, the meeting adjourned. GARSTON BOARD 00 HEALTH. The monthly meeting of the Garston Bard of Health took place in the beard-room, Aieburth, at four o'clock ysterday. The eh dr was taken by J. A. Tonne, Esq. The other members present were—Messrs. J. G. Morris, T. A. Watts, H. G. Sutton, John Bevan, S. H. M'lnt3re, W. D. Chidson, C. Oh 'Honer, and John Moss. The proceedings of the Finance Committee were read and confirmed, upon the motion of Mr. Morris, seconded by Mr. M'lntyre. The proceedings of the Works and Health Committee having been read, M-. SUTTON moved that so much of time proceeligs be not cor.firmed as related to all questions of sewerage and the outlay connected therewith. He urged that the notion carried at the special meetirg in reference to that subject, had not bean snfficiently considered by the board, and that at the meeting of the Works' Committee, the members present were not even aware of their power; ; and the ques'ion of eompensation to parties whose lands was touched had not ben included in the outlay. He raised several objections to the proposed plan of sewerage, which he contended was taking the sewage quite out of the natural course. The CHAIRNItN sairl the plan had been adopted by, the General Board of Health in London. The resolution passed at the special meeting wag, that the area be rated as a whole for sewerage purposes, and he une.erstood that the motion now brought forward had reference to that questic n. Mr. Strrrow seid he thought himsef at liberty to refer to the objections which he entertained to the plan. He then proceeded to refer to the proposed arrangement of the district as a whole, and eincluded by proposing that the resolution of the special meeting he rescinded, reservirg for the present any observations he bad to make as to the sewerage plan itself. Mr. MORRIS seconded the motion, and strongly urged th' nee• ssity of rescinding the resolution passed at the special meeting of the 11:h of August, which declared that the sewerage area of the district should be rated as a whole. Alter a short converration, the motion was put to the vote, wh.n there appeared 5 for the motion and 4 against. The motion was therefore carried. Mr. Mounts then moved that the diafrict be divided into A rating purposes. ue Gallen the Garsior,Aigburth, and Geosiendale districts. Mr. WAITS secorded the motion. The motion Mira carried by fi in 2. The urrertudAN remarked , that the B ,ard had obtained authority from the (21-? n Tel Board of Health to raise a sum of money, amounting to £2:2,630, assessible upon the whole township. As they had now divided the district into three rorticns, it would be necessary to get a fresh order. He did Eo t know that there would be any difficulty about this, but it would he necessary that some steps should be taken for that purpose. Mr. MQRRIS then proposed that the Law-clerk be directed to apply to the General Board of Health for power to b,rrow the following Bums for the seperate districts :—For A'izburth, £11,473; Grassendale, £5,219, and Garston, £5,938, in lieu of the total sum of £22,630 upon the whole district. Mr. 'WATTS seeonied the reotron, which was a's) agreed to. A letter was real from Mr. C. P. Melly, requesting permission to place, at his own expense, some seats for the use of the public, on portions of the roads of the Aigburth districts. Tne letter was referred to tho Surveyor to report upon, the chairman remarking, that if the Board agre,:d to the principle, and he did not see why they should not, of having seats placed in the district, the Beard should not leave the expense to fall uToo. Mr. Meetly. It was agtecd that in the mcantimo, a letter should be written to Mr. M lly, thanking him for his communication. Mr. MORRIS proposed that c , rtiin sewers in the Aig burth and Grassendale districts be at once proceeded with, which was egreed to. Mr. STITT - 1 , 7 moved that the sirveyor he requestei to report as to Garston, and the hest me - ins of availing of its present sewerage, and for providing addiiional 'nears. Sane cnversa`ion tcck place on the motiart, which re- Fulted in the Survfycr being regnested to report as to the best means of lay'ng oat £5OO on the district of Gars'en. This cpueluded the bus'nesF. At LEWlc'i & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street. BOYS are CLOTBED f rom th e Ages 6to 20 Years 1 1 / 4 7aw Yoax Quinr.—The .Vern York Times says : After the two months of txci'ement we have just passed through, there is at last a prcspect of a ve'y decided calm. Mayor Wood has left the city for a fortnight; Mrs. Cunningham has been taken to the Tombs ; the two Street Commissioners re in a state of dead l uc k wielioat a chance of another certiorari, quo warranto, or habeas corpus; the Police Compeissioneis have aejourned until next month, and the Dead Rabbits are as quiet as mice. There has never befera been so heal•hy a season, and ail fears of yellow fever or cholera hare vanished. N,VEI, MODE OF "RA/SING THE WIND."—The Secre tary at the Guardian Society for the Protection of Trade informs us that a highiy respectable firm in the city lately received a letter from a stranger in London, announcing that as he was passing the G.:nersi Post Office there, he obs rved amongst the list of un c l a i me d l etters one which he thought might be for the said firm. He stales that he noted their proper address opposite to the letter, and he hopes the post-ofEc> c'erl•s have observed his notification, and that the firm in question have received the letter. However, betakes care to say that although what he has done is but en act of kindness, sill he was at one time in o good way of business, but is row in very destitu e cir cumAances, and a poitsge stamp is of consequence to him. The letter was forwarded to the Mendiciiy Society in London, and a reply has been rece i ved from the " beggiog letter department" of that society, stating that the writer of the letter has been known to them for six years, and that he is not a proper object of benevolent assistance. The firm received i.nother letter within this day or two re snindirg them of the f,,rmer ore, and saying—"ln narniog my present unfortunate state I dtd net make the srghtest demand for my very humble services, but should you be p'eastd to make mo a small return in postegi stamps I should be scry thankful for your kindness." It is very likely that he has found this dodge successful in multiplying bis postage stamps, and parties should be on their guard against such a novel system of fraud. —Glasgow Hail. At LE WIS & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh street, BOYS axe PLUTHED from the Agee of 6 to 20 Years; POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YESTERDAY. LIVr RPOOL. BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD. VIOLENT ASSAULT.—A well-dressed young man. named William Smith, was brought up by officer ktielly 91, on a charge of having violently assaulted a female named Catherine Symonds. On Sunday evening, the prisoner, who is a earpen!er on board the ship Cambridge, lying in the Queen's Dock, was going along Whitechapel, when the complainant made rather free with him, and he struck her a violent blow on the back with a heavy mounted cane. A row fullowel, and the prisoner knocked the complainant down, aLd kicked her in the chin, which, by a singular chance, caused a collision between her teeth, and her tongue comirg between them, the half of it was nearly cut off. Surgeon Davis, of the Northern Dispensary, said the woman would be injured for life. The prisoner was remanded for a week. INTERESTING TO PAWNIAOKKRS.—A girl named Margaret Lowe, was brought up on remand, charged with having stolen a bad tick. She was taken into a house in Menai street, out of charity, and in a day or two. she stole the article, and pawned it at the shop of William Holland, Scotland -read, fJr sixoence. The policeman said he called at Mr. Holland's to request his attendance, but he did not come on Monday as desired. Yesterday Mrs. Holland attendee, and said that Mr. Mansfield had made an order to the effect, that pawnbrokers need not attend the c )urt on Saturdays and Mondays, as these were their busiest days. Mr. Mansfield said he never gave such an absurd and foolish order, and he did not think any magistrate wculd make such an order. The girl was sent to jail for two months, with hard labour. A Truxvisra BAILVFF.—A bailiff, named William Smith, late in the employment of Mr. John Kirby, the well known sheriff's officer of Peter's-lane, was charged with having embezzled the sum of £36 lls. 4d., belonging to that gen tleman. The prisoner was sent with an execution for the amount named to the place of Mr. B. Brierley, of Padding ton, who paid him the money, but instead of giving it up to Mr. Kirby, he absconded. He was subsequently arrested at the Derby Arms }total, thotle, by detective officer Sullivan,who found..E3l 63. 6'. on hip person. The prisoner, who refused to say anything in reply to the charge, was fully committed for trial. Asioncreos.—A blackguard fellow, named John Robin son, wi h several aliases, wai charged with having abducted a girl, named Mary Wilock, the daughter of a shoemaker, living at 78, Gerard-street, and also for having a quantity of boots, knowing them to be stolen from Thus Willocks, the girl's father.; and the said Mary Willocks was charged with having stolen the boots, and handing them to the male prisoner. Mr. Black defended It appeared that the male prisoner was a person of very bad character, and that about a week since he succeeded in carrying off the girl, who, according to her father's account, was lif‘een years' awl a half old, bat according to her own she was twenty. He induced her also to go to her father's house and steal ten pair of boots, which he reesived from her. The pri soners were remanded, in order to have a certificate of the girl's baptism, so that the male prisoner night be punishel under the Abduction Act, if she is under six teen yea's' of age. VIOLENT ASSAULT.—Sarah Wilkinson, a re-ident of Cumberland-street, was charged with having violently assaulted Alice Dowling. The sister of the latter and the prisoner had some quarrel, when the latter ran at complainant, (who did not seem to be engaged in the affair), and nearly split her skull with a blow of a poker. The prisoner was tent for trial. COUNTY COURT.-YESTERDAY, THE NOLTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1857, BEFORE J. CONWAY, ESQ. LE GERND v. RICIIALD3OS.—In this case Omer LEI Grand a French machinist, was the plaintiff, and Mr. Richardson, of the Old Saddle Inn, London-road, was the defendant. The action was brought to recover £5, being the cost of repairs dcne by plaintiff to an automation Eore, the property of defendant. The plaintiff gave hts evidence through an interpreter. Mr. Hime appeared for the defendant. The plaintiff stated that he was engaged by the defendant to repair a figure of a smoking Turk, which moved its held and arm and exhaled smoke. He deposed that he was five days employed at the work, and that £5 was a reasonable charge for putting !he machinery in order. The defendant had paid £1 into court, which he contended was a sufficient remuneration. The figure, a beautiful exe.cated little Turk, sitting cross legged and smoking a pipe, was produced in court. It was placed upon the judge's desk, side by aide with its honour, and being set in motion, began gravely movingins head, and apparently inhalin g the odour of its chilacCrie, amid great lau,ghter in court. The judge enquired if the automation displayed no other performance The defendant requested him to pull a string at the figure's side, and his Honour having com plied, a lively quadrille air was rattled evtroy to she intense amusement of all the audience. The defendant produced who stated that the repairs executed would be well remunerated by the amount paid into court. This witness, in order to explitin hie evidence, turned the poor little Turk up on end, and dissected him amid even greater laughter than before Finally, the judge said he thought the defendant's wi . ness had estimated the amount of rei airs bather too low. At the same time he did not see how the work done could have amounted to f 5. He, therefore, gave a verdict for XI above the sum paid into court. LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.-YESTZRDAY BEFORE MR. C )MM SSIONE PERRY. In re PAMI: L W. ANTTION r.----The bankrupt, who formerly carried on business as a commission merchant and insurance broker, came up on application for his certificate. Mr. Pemberton appeared for the bankrupt, and contended that the latter, having shown that at the time ..of filing his petition he was possessed of the £l5O required by the statute, he was entitled now to his certificate. His Honour stated that the official assignees had not received the £L.SO, or any psrt of his es ate. He, therefo , e, adjourned the consideration of the aluwance of the bankrupt's certificate until the Ist of December, to enable him to raise the requisite amount. Mr. Pemberton slated that he would appeal against his Honour's decision, WEST DERBY ROAD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,—l trust the authorities of the above town• ship will be more regular in the lighting of the lamps on the West Derby-2oad, during the ensuing winter, than they were last. I have often passed that way at night, without a single light after Boundary-road. The females in connection with my family have been stopped and insulted by iAler3, wh 3 have tnt§ taken ttolvantag of the darkness. It raily also be worthy of remark, that during the whole of last winter I did not meet a single officer on that road after nine at night.—Apologising, & yours, Georgo.2-roa.d, Ist Sept., 1857. H. S. OOLOGICAL GARDENS, LIVE'RPOOI. ROYAL OAK S.COND GRAND GALA ! THIS DAY (W .::NE , DAY), THE 2ND SEPIT‘IBEII. C-ff" THE BALLODN IS NOW INFLATIN3, A-d will ASCEND from the Gardens THIS EVENING, (We,ner permitt!ng.) Francis Dnke of Luxemburg was a celebrated French general and much deformed. Hii uniform success, when contending with King William, rendered him an object of jealousy to that pinee, who once, in the bitterness of his heart, ca'led him "a hump-back."—" What does he know of my back 2' said the marshal, "he never saw it." Tne LATE COLONEL J. FiNrus.—[t is with great satis faction we announce that the ehairna in of the East India Company has, unsolieited, forvvareed to the I, , rd Mayor, in tie name of the Court of Director., a cadetship for his nephew, John Finnis, son of the late Colonel Finuis, who was murdered at Meerut at the commencement of the present outbreak iu India.—Allen's Indian .lfail. A FATAL Juror.—An irquest wc.s held on Friday evenir g, at the village of Herbury, near Wakefield, on the bid', of a lad named Edwin Brook, scn of Geoe f ee Book. joiner, of Horbury. On the previous afternoon, Brook a ,d four other lads went to glean in a newly-reaped field near Dutifieet Mill. While there, a man who was in the field set a doe at them, and they left that field, and went in'o one adjoining the river Calder. Brook went on to the river bank, which is about seven cr eight feet above the water, and editing out ti his c , :mpanions "See me jump," he sprang from the bank on to a small is'and a few feet from it. The force of the jump caused him to rebound, and, before he could save himself, he went head first into the river. His c ampanioes got a stick, which they held out to him, anti which be attempted to grasp, bat could not reach. After coming to the surface twice, he sink to rise no mole. His body was recovered some licurs afterwar.l9.—Verdict, " Aceident&lly drowned." ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A CHILD BY ITS MOTHER. At the Westminster Police-court on Monday, Rachel Downs, a female of short stature, about 25 years of age, was charged with attempting to murder her female child, eight months old, by strangling it with a cord. Anne Grady, of No. 3, Lisle Symp.:ad-street, Chelsea, said that the prisoner lodged in her house about twelve months. Witness thought she was married till last Saturday night, as she was living with a man who passed as her husband, and he has left her with a female child. Mr. Arnold : When did he leave the prisoner ? Witness : Last week, sir. He has left her much in debt, and sines that took place she has appeared much excited is her mind. Mr. Arnold: When was this at'empt made on the life of the child by the prisoner ? Witness: Between eight and nine o'clock on Saturday night I had occasion to go out on an errand. I shortly after returned, when I was alarmed by hearing a violent screaming of a chili in my house. I went to wards the room occupied by the prisoner, when on opening the door I obsorved the child in ins mother's lap. I saw b'ood flowing from its nose, and there was a piece of cord round its neck. The child was screaming dreadfully. The mother had been drinking. Mr. Arnoid: What did you do? Witness : I told her she was a bad wicked woman, and while I said so I loosened the cord, one end of which was attached to the bed post. This she was pulling hard, and the cord was bound close to its throat. Mr. Arnold : Did the prisoner say anything? Witness: Yes, sir; she remarked that she meant to do away with herself after she destroyed her child, as she did no: wish to live. She was always very kind to her child, and loved it, I have no doub', but she has had a deal of trouble on her mind since she has been deserted. I think, sir,. she is not right in her paled. Police constable ~ .`inaLh, 200 B, stated that upon heating what had occurred at the house where the priso.:er lodged he went there. lle took her into custody. ( the witness produced a long piece of cord, which he stated was removed from the be.'-post by Mr. Inspector Farmer, of the B division). Mr. Farmer stated that when he saw the child it had a deep mark round the neck, and it was bleeding at the nose from the effec's of the pressure. Mr. Amold.—flas any medical gen'tmian seen the child ? Me. Farmer.—lt was taken to the hospital, and was after wards remove Ito the workhouse. The prisoner, who during tho proceedings cried continuously and held her head down upon the bar, was re=anled. ANOTHER CURIOUS GAME CONVICTION AT ROTHIOHAINI. On Monday, a man named William Waller, who lives at Thorpe Hesley, was taken before J. Fullerton, Esq., and the Rev. H. Partington, charged with having seven phea sants in his possession. Mr. Whitfield appeared for the complainant ; and Mr. Chambers, of Sheffield, for the de fend ,nt. —Mr. Whitfield stated that on Tuesday last, Sergeant Oliver, along with another policeman, went to the defendant's house with a search warrant, and they found in a room up stairs seven live pheasants. The Ist and Sod Was. IV. (the Game Act), sect. 4, rendered it un lawful for any person to have in his possession any phea sants after the space of 40 days from the last day upon which pheasants are allowed to be taken. Sergeant Oliver was then called, and stated that he found' seven live pheasants in a room in the defendant's house. The room was quite dark, and apparently kept for that purpose. Mr. Craweha e, head g•mekeeper to the Earl Fitz William, said : From the appearance of the birds he should think they were hatched in July. "I can guarantee they have been wild birds, I can tell by their shyness." (Laughter. ) A quantity of netting which had been found in the de fendant's house was then produced, and Mr. Crawahaw said it was such as was used in catching rabbits and pheasants. In reply, Mr. Chambers said the nets must have been produced to prejudice the case. A man could surely be lawfully possessed of nets, and to be in possession of them was no crime. With respect to the possession of the pheasants, the exception in the act of parliament clearly applied to this case. The place where the birds were found is a "mew, or breeding place," and the officer had rightly described it when he said that the room was "kept for that purpose." He had as much right to breed birds in that chamber as any game preserver or bird fancier had in any other place. Tne question was not whether it was the best place for breeding, but whether it had been used for that purpose. It would be a shame to convict a man on such evidence as had been offered ; and if he did get convicted, it would be more by prejudice than the due course of law. William Jenkinson was examined. He said he was present when twenty five pheasaut eggs were found on land belonging to Mr. Stanton, of Thorpe, and he believed that some of them were given to the defendant. Mr. Chambers asked for a remand, bat it was objected to by Mr. Whitfield ; and the magistrates &lei the d fondant £3 10s, being 10s for each pheasant, and 17s Gd costs, or in default to be imprisoned for two months. FLAGRANT DEPRAVITY. At the Worship-street police court. Hermann Hacke, a uitddle aged German, carrying on business as a sugar baker, in New-street, Whitechapel, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with having threatened the life of a young girl named Elizabeth Christie, under the following peculiar and aggravated circumstances :—From the evidence of the complainant, a comely and modest looking you g person, about 17 years of age, it appeared that she was a native of Kipgston in Jamaica, but in consequence of the death of h.r father, which occurred in her infancy, she and her sister were brought over by their mother to this country, Some time after their arrival her mother formed an accquaintance with the prisoner and eventually engaged to act as his housekeeper, but subsequently lived with him as his pi, rsi wife, which resulted in Ihe birch of two other children. On the death of her mother, which recently took place. witness and her sister ware left without a surviving relation in this country, and having no means of support, she reluctantly co lsented, at the urgent request of the prisoner, to remain in charge of the children, and superin tend his househoid affairs. The prisoner, however, soon afterwards basely availed himself of her forlorn and friend less position, to insult her with improper overtures, in which he pertinaciously persisted, until his disgraceful conduct attracted the no:ice of his own brother, who advised her to leave the house. Before she had time to do so, the prisoner attempted by force to accomplish his infamous purpose, but she managed to escape from h'iss, and fled to the helm of a respectable tradesman in the neighbourhood, of whom she implored protection, which he kindly afforded her, ani she had since been staying with his family., On discovering her place of refuge, the prisoner followed her there, and clamourously demanded that she should be given up to him, as he was the proper guardian; bat after repeatedly calling at the house, and finding him self foiled in his nefarious object, he assailed her, at his last visit, with the most fearful imprecations, and having threatened to murder her unless the assented to his wishes, she lost no time in obtaining a warrant for his apprehen sion. The evidence of the complainant was corroborated by the humane gentleman in whose house she had obtained refuge, and who further stated that in she course of his last attempt to docoy her away, the prisoner was so greatly exasperated at her refusal to cohabit with him, that he demolished several panes of glass in his efforts to drag her out. The witness alded that he felt so much sym pathy for the hapless fate of the poor girl, that he was resolved to provide for her, until he had an opportunity of placing her in a respectable situation, as he felt satisfied that the withdrawal of his protection must inevitably consign her to disgrace and ruin. Gee, the warrant offic-r, stated that the prisoner abruptly left'the neighbour hood, immediately after the warrant had been taken out, and eluded pursuit until the previous evening, when witness found him skulking about close to the house of the last witness, and at once took him into custody. In answer to the charge, the prisoner impudently declared that he had been actuated throughout by the best feelings towards the complainant, and that the ev:dence of the witnesses had been g-eatly exaggerated. Mr. D'Eyncourt strongly animadverted upon the heartless and profligate conduct 4,f the prisoner, and oriered him to find two substantial sureties to be answerable for his good behaviour for six months. The prisoner was unable to procure the required bail, and was carried off in the prison van. Exclusively for cLoTruNG BOYS from 6 to 20 Years LE\V ES & CO xl PANY. Ranelagh strt et, A remarkably ugly msn, as conceated as silly, said to a late wag, who had wit enough for everything but making money. " Why, Smith how thin you are ! You'll never pay the debt if nature, I'm afraid, bat ati'l dry up and blow away." "Well, you will pay that debt, at all events,:' said Smith, " for you owe nature so little." THREE DEAD BOD:Ei FOUND.-01 Thursday information w.is Riven to the police that no fewer than three male persons had been dicovered dead. Tha first was th 3 body of a young man, about 30, f mud on the Great Northern Railway, at Strandgreen, respectubly dressed in black, and having a meersch turn pipe and a la'ch-!cey in his pockets. ',the second body was that of a man aboat 6/, found on Wandsworth-common, lini n marked " A. 8." The third was an elderly man, about 70, found in Slade's-court, Bermondsey, about fire feet tea inohee high. These make about 40 bodies found by the police in and near the metro polis curing the present month• BOY'S' CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE At I.KWLS 14 COMPANY'S. Itanelagh street. CAPITAL PUNISII4ENT. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND DOCTOR GRAHAM, LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER My LORD,—A poor fellow-creature was slaugh tered in this city on Friday morning last, on circumstantial evidence ; in other words, he was slaughtered because men supposed that he had . committed murder.. It was truly marvellous to see men, women, and children going to witness the slaughter. I have been informed that much fuss was made about a confession ; that is, men did their utmost to induce the poor man to confess that he murdered a gamekeeper. Why torment the poor fellow about a confession ? he had already been condemned to die a cruel death. Suppose the man had been guilty, and that he made a con fession, he would have been afterwards hanged like a dog. Perhaps the men who condemned him were doubtful as to his guilt, and consequently were most anxious about a confession. The thief on the cross made no confession to poor mortal men who slaughtered the Redeemer, but shouted with all his might to his expiring Saviour, " Lord, remember me when thou contest to thy kingdom " The Redeemer replied in the following beautiful words—" To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Had there been no reply to the poor thief, we might be doubtful about a death-bed repentance. I have been infsrmed that the man Corbett would have upset heaven and earth if he had the power, rather than John Blagg should have escaped the gallows. I wonder how this great sinner will feel when gasping for breath on his deatiebed. and an eternity staring him full in the face. Well, my Lord, the gamekeeper must have been shot by some one. I regret to say, gamekeepers are too much like police-officers—give them power. and they are tyrants. John Bebbington and John Blagg are slumbering in the tombs to-day in consequence of the game laws. The game law is an accursed law; in fact, it is the law of devils, and ought not to be the law of men professing Christianity. According to my judgment John Blagg had as much right to the game as Edwin Corbett. Proud rich men of earth mon opolize and slaughter the game as if they had created them ; yes, my Lord, and they monopolize everything on the earth as well as what is called game, and call the lands after their own names, as recorded in the 43th Psalm. James, understood proud rich men, hear what he says in the v. chapter,—'' Go to now, ye. rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you ; your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten ; your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire : ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lerd of Saboath." I often see reported in news papers, that such, and such parties slaughtered so much game within a certain time. I sea nothing to boast of in this. When the noble creature man, fell from his original high position, the whole creation felt the blow of this fall, and are groaning and travailing in pain together— so says Paul. The lion, the lamb, and the majestic • eagle, felt the blow of this fall in common with every other creature. The lion once eat straw like the ox—he eats now the flesh of other animals in consequence of the sin of man. The inhuman butcher now thrusts his knife into the neck of the pretty little lamb, and the flesh of the same lamb is eaten by the human family in consequence of the sin of man. Some persons might say—" Was cot the lamb created for the food of man ? " I say, no such thing; not a single animal was slaughtered for the food of man for two thousand years after the creation of man. 'Uhe same persona might again say—" Did not Adam and his beloved wife make themselves garments of the. skins of amimals when whipped out of Paradise. I say, exactly so; the animals in question wereolot slaughtered for food, but as a sacrifice for sin. Thus sacrifice for sin commenced outside the gate of Paradise, and ceased riot until the great and final sacrifice on the cross. The hu man constitution was not forined for animal food but fc.r -rogotatiuu as recorded in the 29th vereo of the tet chapter of Genesis. Well, my lord, lam dis guested with the pride and foolish distinotion,of this country ; I make no foolish distinction between the human family, because the great Creator made no distinction in the material forming the body of the only man ever created. We hear much of royal blood—l am at a loss to know what kind of blood it is—suppose a few drops of my blood and a few drops of what is called royal blood, was carefully packed in jars and sent •to Professor Taylor of London, who is supposed to be the most eminent chemist in England, could he say which was what is called royal blood, and which was mine Remember, my lord, I don't despise roy. tray, I love them as brethren, because they are flesh of my flesh, and bone of my bone. It is not against royalty so called that I am protesting, but against pride and foolish distinction of this poor fallen earth. There is no distinction between the babe of the rich mother and the babe of thepoor mother in the womb, neither is there any appar ent distinction at the birth, both are born naked and doubtless lovely to behold—!he poor slave who is still subject to the tyrants lash in the far west, is as precious in the sight of the Creator as any of the monarchs of earth. If I had a voice powerful enough to reach across the mighty Atlan tic; I would shout with all my might; hold on ye blood-thirsty wretches, don't you know that the poor slave was in the loins of his father in Para dise as well as you. Well, my lord, we are in a sad state in this country—the people are going headlong to hell as fast as they well can do, under the very noses of the ministers of the gospel; I am afraid many ministers of the gospel are not in earnest; too many of them are too proud to preach as they ought to do ; and too many of them suffer the grass to grow under their feet in the pulpits, and dust to accumulate on the cushions, and don't speck out . as men regardless of consequences. Luther used to hammer the truth into the hearts of the people of his day. The fact is, my lord, we have too many Oxford and Cambridge men in the pulpits of England—men puffed up with pride—who crawl the earth as if they were gods rather than men. The poor fishermen were not Oxford and Cam- bridge men. Yet we are told that Peter, by his preaching, converted three thousand souls in one day. It is recorded in the 44th verse of the 2nd chapter of Acts, that all who believed were toge ther, and had all things common. It is also recorded in the 45. h verse of the same chapter, that they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men as every man had need Now, my lord, you, no doubt, understand this very well. The rich who had property sold it, and gave part of the produce to the poor, according to their need. If the falsely called Christians of England followed the example of these men, we should have a very different state of things People talk much in these days about education. My lord, take my word for it, no education can be of any real solid advantage unless men and women be educated to know the value of human life. If law makers had been educated to know the value of human life, there never would have been game laws; if the falsely called educated gentleman who slaughters his fellow in a duel had been educated to know the value of human life, such a thought never would have entered his head ; if the captain and the two mates, found guilty of murder in Liverpool a few days ago, had been educated to know the value of human life, they would have treated the poor sailor as a brother; if English, French, Russians, and Turks had been educated to know the value of human life, there would have been no Crimea war; if law-malcers of Eng!and had been educated to know what it cost to redeem the souls of men, John Blagg would not have been executed ; if it be true that a great day is looming in the distance, hidden things of darkness will be brought to light on that day. The tyrants of Egypt of old, who compelled the people to make bricks without straw, will stand in their lot on the earth on that day, and be judged for works done in the body, as well as the . Jeffries and Gurneys of England, who thought no more of hanging a man than they did of hanging a mouse. These, and such as these, are the very men who will call on the mountains to cover them, in order to evade the wrath of the Lamb, when lie eomes in majesty and great glory, attended "by thousands of the heavenly hosts, to judge wicked men of earth —I am, my for 1, your lordship's most obedient servant, A BRITJN. Chester, August 31, 1857. MISSIONS IN INDIA. Few questions are for the moment more full of interest and importance than the infletence, for good or ill, of the various Christian missions in India. Are the missionaries really earnest, self-denying men ? Are they judicious, sen sible men ? Are they influential men? And then comes theequastion—ls it owing to, or in spite of, their efforts at Chriatianisieg India ; that the present revolt has taken place? When the news of this terrible oetbreak first reached us, the impression was general that the indiscreet zeal of the missionaries was the real cause of all the danger. They had insulted the religion of the natives, and a religions war was the consequence of their folly. But, so soon as our information grew fuller, we learnt that exactly in propor• time to the respect paid to their religion by the Europeans seeing to have been the violence of the natives. It is not the Bombay and Madres armies, where various castes are mingled, but it is the high-caste Bengal army, which breaks its allegiance, and perpetrates these fearful massacres. And then we learn auothor strange fact. The greasing of the cartridges, which was supposed to have been the spark which lit up the rebellion, was a thing which might of fend the Hindoos, but which the Muss alrnen could have cared nothing about; and yet, it is now evident tbat the whole affair is not Hindoo, but Mahometan, and that the more gentle race are but urged on by the fiery decendants of the Prophet. This fact is, we cmceive, certain, from the, very circumstance of Delhi, instead of Benares, being the head. quarters of the rebels—from the apathy, and even loyalty, of the native Rsj shs—and from the testimony contained in private letters of the different treatment of European fugi tives io the Hindoo or the Mahometan villages. We 1, then, if the religious question be not the direct cause of all these troubles, are the missionaries entirely free from blame ? We cannot so esermerate them. It certainly ap pears to us that they have done very little, but that little is rather injurious than otherwise. Enervated by the climate, and infected by the sslfi hams of those around him, Vie Christian missionary sits down in some count!) , station, and doss just as little as ha c an p oss ibl e manage to do. lie attends a school or t wo, he preaches occasionally ; but he shirks his work whenever he is able, and draws largely upon his imeginatioe. when he has tai concoct his annual report fur a credulous English Public. Of course there are exceptions, here and there, conspicuous among which are the Roman Catholic missionaries in the East.; but the helplessness and inertness of the majority is a well-known matter-of-feet, to which all travellers bear testimony, and which wes stiikiagly illustrated by a ease which occured but a short time since. In a principal mission ary post, where some five or six Christian ministers aid au English regiment were stati , ned, the missionaries, whose sole work it was to visit by tarns some neighbouring schools on the Sunday moraine, ac uslly refused to real the Church Service to their fellow -countrymen, on the plea that it was not their business to minister to their religion. But perhaps even helplessness and inertness are better than the positive mischief which a zealous mission ary inflicts on a most sacred cause. Instead of teaching the native that God is good, and loves goodness in every form, and under every variety of creed, the missionary would substitute one mode of expression, one outward observance, for another. Ile starts on the assumption that eserything not nominally Christian is devilish. and therefore seeks to overthrow instead of to build, to threaten instead of to reason. He pulls up tares and wheat together, and destroys them Innh. He sneers at idolatory, and substitutes incomprehensible dogmas or senseless book-worship ; and when he has assiduously made an honest believer into a dishonest sceptic, he looks complacently on his work, and, like the Roman of old "he calls the desolation peace." Thus tee population at large regards the christion faith, not as a good life, but as a rival creed. Meanwhile the Christianity of Christ—the Christianity that softens the stony heart, that civilises the brutal nature—this is all but unknown to the natives of Hindostan. Had the missionaries in India done their duty there might be fewer nominal Christians, but we should not hear, as now, of murder, of rapine,, and of lust, working their own wild way in every village throughout the country. The influence of Christianity would hare pervaded with subtile force the hearts of thousands, who are now the blo idiest and most abandoned murderers. Hereafter, indeed, we may hope that Christian missionaries will awaken to the full meaning of the Christian mission, and that the evangelisatien of India will be finally brought about by the uplifting of Hindooisna into Christianity through the devout, loving, holy lives of the teachers of Christainity. Now, hoverer. we turn for help rather to the Government than to the Missionary Colleges. The Government has power, and when ones India is pacified, it must rule it in a way it has never done as yet. It must feel that its mission is not to Christianise, bat to civilise, the country, and it mast determine on the firmest measures. Abuses against public decency must be no longer tolerated. Scenes which are abiminable in England must no longer be endurable in India. Religion must not be used as a cloak to licentiousness or murder,, nor must vice and crime be allowed to walk abroad, under a mistaken cry of toleration. To such a purificetien of Indian life an 1 society the noblest Hindoos would willingly accede. There can be no more real sympathy between the earnest Vedantists and the wretche 1 immoral crew, who profane the temples, than there was between Plato in the schools of Atheas and the noisy hand of Bacchanals, who roared their drunken seines railed some dingy altar. But beyond the protection of public decency nothing must be attempted. The rites of the temples must be reformed, but the temples must re main. The Suttee is properly abolished, but no meddling should be allowed in the Hiram superstition against the marrying of widows. Juggernaut way exist, if human victims are no more permitted; and while disgr a cef u l processions are prevented, no interference with caste roust be allowed. The result of such measures would be that, in a few years, India would be se far advanced in outward morality, that a Christian faith would fall into prepared ground, where it might spring up and bear much fruit. As it is, the force of early training is strengthened, not only by the example of neighbours, but by the allure. ments of sense and the pleasures of license; and until we can make the Hindoos purer and inure hum cue, we shall seek in vain to make them real Christane, however much some few may nominally join us. How far the present missionaries can aid in this work of civilising India we cannot say. If they will preach a life rather than a creed, they may do much, If they insist on formulas and rites, they will do, as they are doing, extremely little. Above all, they must learn that all men are Goo's children, and that any religion must contain within it germs of good, which GOD'S Spirit can quicken into an immortal life.—lnquirer. MISS JULIA PASTRANA THE CELEBRATED NONDESCRIPT, HAS ARIVVED, And will hold her Pint Levee at the QUE TN'S HALL, BSLD-'STREET, ON MONDAY, 7ru SEPT. The Greatest Novelty ever introduced Into this country, and Patronised by the Queen and all the Nobility. F.ee Advertisements and Bills. RECRUITING IN NOTrINCIFIA3I.—The streets of this town have assumed a very martial appearance. At every ginner of the street we meet the reirutting sergeant with flying colours in his forage cap or helmet. Duriug the war in the Crimea, the town was literally drained of its "smart" young men, who from tine to time were draughted off to the various military depots; but since then, they who were rejected some oo account of their being a little deficient in length, or from being a mouth or two too young, having groan up, and increased in years, and are now "free, able, and willing," to serve " her Majesty, her heirs and suc cessors, against al enemies." Numbers of them have taken the opportunity of enlisting, and the instances have been few of the smart being psi I. We may, however, mention a case :—At the Borough Police-court, a young man nunel John James Goddard, a miner by trade, whise parents re side at Ilkes , on t came Mere the Mayor, J. Bradley, E sq ., accompanied by his father, a lace ni,ke , , his son having enlisted in the 4th Dragoon Guards. The parent was not willing for the son to leave the paternal regions, and with money in hand, desired to release him from his engagement by paying smart. The clerk to the bench asked him whether he wished his father to do so, to which he re pli e d in the negative. The money was tenlered, but the clerk said he could not take it, as the lad wanted to be a soldier. His father : Why, be told me he had enough of soldierit,'. Son : Why I didn't. The recruit was asked whether he had made np his mind to allow his father to pay smart, to which, he replied in a broad and Ituniounue manner, which &kited an outburst of laughter. No I aint made up mi moiled (mind) not to be a sojer. I main to be one sum toim (time). I dunes want mi father to pay (pay) smart, but he can do it if he likes, bat I dunna wish him. I aint a going to say 1 dunna want to be a.sojer." At length he allowed the old man to pay the smart, which amounted to 245. though we dare not venture to, say the young fellow will not enlist again, Such is the martial spiciti—Not ein2lianS Aetiew, STATISTICS OF CRIME IN IRELAND -1842 TO 1856. The state of crime in Ireland, for - the period extend ing from the beginning of 1842 to the end of 1856, WaS analysed, so far as to show the classes of crime most prevalent during their course, a course made up partly of years of prosperity, but chiefly of years of adversity ; and a more complete analysis was made of the state of crime for the year 1851, showing the effect of age, sex, locality, I education, general occupation, intemperance, and low class house accommodation upon the amount of crime during that year. The following are some of the general conclusions derived from the facts established in the paper :-1. That the best measure of crime at present available is the computation of persons committed or held to bail for trial at the assizes and quarter sessions. 2. That when a person is thus committed or held to bail, the probabilities in favour of his being convicted, are about 56 to 44. 3. That no inquiry into criminal statistics can • be of service, unless the proportion of crime to population is taken into account. 4. That although it is impossible to state the exact population of Ireland for each year, from 1841 to 1856, that still approximations not very wide of the truth may be made, and that in table A are given about as accurate approximations to the real population, in the different years referred to, as could well be arrived at. 5. That want and privation are fruitful multipliers of all classes of crime, and that tosuch a parentage we may safely look first, when we find a general and marked increase in the crime of a country. 6.. That although during the years of distress, the tendency to every class of crime was greatly increased, it was chiefly offences against property, committed without violence, which swelled the criminal calendar of Irelan 1. 7. That in the year 1858 the tendency to crime in Ireland was certainly not greater,• and perhaps less than the tendency to crime in England and Wales. 8. That the criminal returns for Ireland are susceptible of very considerable improvements, which if made, would greatly add to their value for practical purposes. 9. That among males the maximum tendency. to crime for Ireland generally, and for each province separately, except Connaught, is, at the period of life 2I and above 16, and for Connaught at the stage 30 and above 21 ; and among females for Ireland generally, and for each province separately, at the period 30 and above 21 ; and that in both cases the minimum tendency is at the period 12 and under. 10. That the tendency to crime generally among males is only ab ,ut 2.5 times the like tendency among females; but that were the petty offences against property committed without violence to be dropped, the tendency to all other classes of crimes among males would be between 4::and; 5 times the like tendency among females. 11. That the tendency to the class of crime termed " Offences against the person" attains its minimum among both sexes at the period of life 30 and above 21 ; that the tendency to the classeS " Offences against property committed with and without violence" reaches its maximum among females of the same period, but among males at the earlier stage 21 and above 16. That the tendency to the class " Malicious offences against property" is at its maximum among both classes at the stage 21 and above 16 ; and that the tendency to the classes "Forgery and offences against the currency" ,and " Offences other than those before enumerated" is at its maximum also among both classes at the period 30 and above 21. 12. That among both sexes . the tendency to each seperate class of crime is at its minimum at the period of life 12 and under. 13. That popular education singly, but especially when combined with occupation, tends powerfully towards the diminution ot crime. • 14. That the good effects of education and occupation upon crime are very seriously marred by the abuse of intoxicating drinks. 15. That low-class house accommodation tends towards the increase of crime. 16. That popular education, as a means of diminishing a. tendency to crime, although most useful in so far as both sexes are concerned, has yet much greater effect among females than among males ; and that is emphatically the case in regard to four classes of crime —" Offences against the person," " Offences against property, committed without violence," " M slicious offences against property," and " General offences," Class No. 6. 17. That ignorance among the masses operates injuriously among the educated and half-educated classes ; and that, therefore, to educate the ignorant will tend not only to lessen crime among them, but also among the better classes thus influenced. 18. That were intoxicating drinks less freely used, education, as a means of reducing crime, would become most powerful. 19. That the ave. rage tendency to the class of crime, " Offences against property committed without violence." is rather more than one-half the average tendency to crime generally. 20, That, as without doubt, a large proportion of the serious crimes are committed by those who in early life , may be said to have served an apprenticeship to theft and that as this (No. 3) class of offences, at the period of life 16 and above 12 among males amounts to three-fourths of the whole male crime, and among females to five sixths of the whole female crime, it follows that, by getting re duced at this period of life, such offences, the more serious crimes at later stages of life will also necessarily be di minished. 21. That increasing efforts should be made to educate all classes of the youth of both sexes ; and that instructors ought not to rest satisfied with merely teaching to read and write; but that in all our schools industrious habits should be constantly taught; cleat:ilk! ness and morality daily enforced, and the danger of in_ dulging to excess in the use of intoxicating drinks fre quently pointed out.—From a paper by Mr. J. M. Wilson, read at. the British Association. TIIE EAPERORS NAPOLEON AND ALEXANDER:. VIENNA. Aua. 27. • Almost every German paper contains an account of the approaching visit of the Emperor Alexander to Germany, but none of them have given correct information as to his intended movements. On the.. 15th of September his Mejesty will arrive at Berlin,. where he will only remain one day. On the 17th he will join the Empress at Darmstadt, in which city she has been staying with her relatives since the 2301 inst. It is not known to me where the Emperor Napoleon and the Emperor Alexander will meet, but it is a positive fact that they have agreed to do, so during the month of September. - As it is very possible that those persons who are inclined to• suspect the sincerity of the French monarch may " smell treason," it may be as well to state that it, was the Emperor Alexander, and not the Emperor Napoleon, who proposed that a meeting should take place. The good-natured Czar is probably desirous of making the amende 719norabl8 for the public and gratuitous insult which his deceased father offered to the parvenu who rules over the French by the grace of the people. THE MAGAZINE AT DELHI. A. most interesting narrative, offi3ially commu nicated to Geivernment by Lieutenant Forrest, gives an accurate detail at last with respect to the blowing up of the maea z ine at Delhi on the out break of the mutiny Lieutenant Forrest shares with Lieutenant Willoughby the honour of this brave action. On the morning of the rebellion, these two officers and Sir C. Metcalfe were in the arsenal when they heard of the treachery of the native sepoys, and they took instant measures to check their advance upon the arsenal. Sir C. Metcalfe, who had gone out to see the extent of the mevement did not return. Lieutenant Forrest closed and blocked up the gates, placing two six pounder guns, doubly leaded with grape, under Sub-conductor Crowe and Sergeant Stewart, so as to command the entrance. Two more six-pounders were placed in a similar position in front of the inside of the magazine gate, protected by a row of ch va , xde frise. For further defence, two six pounders were trained to command either the gate or the small bastion in its vicinity, other guns being so arranged as to increase the strength of the position generally. These preparations had hardly been concluded when a body of muti neers appeared, and called on the defenders to open the gates. ten their refusal, scaling ladders furnished by the King of Delhi were brought up, and the rebels got on the walls and poured on to the arsenal. The guns now opened and took effect with immense precision on the ranks of the enemy. Four rourids were fired from each of the guns, Con dueors Buckley and Scully distinguishing them selves in serving the pieces rapidly, the mutineers being by this time some hundreds in number, in creasing in force, and keeping up a quick discharge of musketry. A train had been laid by Lieutenant Willoughby to the magazine ; and the decisive moment soon apeeoachedeLieutenant Forrest being wounded in the hand, and one of the conductors shot through the arm. The signal was given to fire the train, which was done coolly by Conductor Scully. Tho effect was terrific; the magazine blew up with a tremendous crash, the wall being blown out flat to the ground. The explosion killed upwards of a thousand of the mutineers, and enabled Lieuts. Willoughby, Forrest, and more than half the European defenders of the place, to fly together; blackened and singed, to the Lahore gate, from whence Lieutenant Forrest escaped in safety to Meerut. Lieutenant Willoughby was less fortunate, and is now said to have been 'killed on his way to Umballah. 1 to , of 4 .- bpi bol