The Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-11 00:00:00

THE GOLD SHIPS. The following are the departures of gold ships : The Roxburgh Castle, with 41,703 oz., and the Great Britain, with 118,560 oz. The exports of wool reach 2,790 bales. Busi ness steady. NEW ZEALAND. Accounts from New Zealand are to the 12th of October. The news of the rebels is still unsatis factory. THE EASTERN QUESTION AND THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. PARIS, Dec. 10. The Paine says it is not true that 'Austria has addressed representations to Turkey on the sub ject of the state of things in Moldavia and Wal lachia. The Patrie also says agitation prevails in the Danubian Principalities. At Jassy the Metropolitan and the Minister of the Interior have been arrested, and conveyed to a convent, where they are provisionally undergoing impri sonment. THE NEW TURKISH LOAN. The Paris journals announce that the subscrip tions to the New Turkish Loan will be opened to-morrow. THE FRENCH FUNDS. PARIS, Dec. 10. .The Bourse was dull. Rentes closed flat at 68f. 95c., or 20c. lower than on Saturday. AUSTRIA. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS AT VIENVA. VIENNA, Dec. 10. The Austrian Gazette says the ministerial crisis is over. Baron Schmerling has been definitively appointed Minister of State, and it is reported Was present at the Council of Ministers held yesterday. Herr Plener has been definitively appointed Minister of Finance. The future destination of Count Goluchowski, the former minister, is not known. HUNGARY. PESTH, Dec. 10. The Congregation of the Comitat of Pesth was ?petted to-day. Counts Karolyi and Nyari spoke in favour of the re-establishment of the laws of 1848. Agitation .prevails in Pesth, but no dis turbances have as yet taken place. PRUSSIA. A Berlin letter speaks of the probable retire inacuala of AL.. ale Tllulel Ga uL J üb6lv.u. ROME. ROME, Dec. 9. Counts Trapiani and Trani have arrived here. Count Trani leaves again this morning for Gaeta, whither Count Trapiani will also return shortly. THE DANISH QUESTION. The Cologne Gazette says that a perfect under standing has been come to between the Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna to take energetic measures against Denmark. The other Governments of Germany.have been solicited to send instructions to their representatives at the Diet to support the views of Prussia and Austria. They are expected to be unanimous in this question. THE WINTER IN THE BALTIC. A letter from Cronstadt, dated November 30th, says :—" As far as the eye can reach the gulf appears to be covered with ice in every direction, and unless some very great change takes place no more lists will be published this year. Sledges have come over to-day from Oranicnbaum." Advices from Narva, dated November 30th, state that the last ships had left that port. The river was quite covered with ice and the naviga tion closed. No vessels wintering. Navigation at Pillau closed December 4th. The Daily Nam and Globe were seized in Paris on Sunday last. The Journal of Rome announces that the, sum received as Peter's Pence exceeds two millions of Roman crowns. Lord Palmerston has consented to preside at a dinner to Sir William Hayter, to be given soon after the meet ing of Parliament. The accession of M. de Schmerling to the Cabinet of Vienna is regarded as a proof that the Austrian Government intends to persevere in liberal reforms. The Globe announces that the Right Hon. Sir John Young, formerly Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, is likely to succeed Sir William Denison as Governor of New South Wales. At the Southwark nomination, yesterday, the show of hands was in favour of Mr. Layard. A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. Scovell, which was fixed for this day (Tuesday). The Lord Chancellor gave judgment yesterday in the case of Evans v. Carrington, an appeal from Vice- Chancellor Wood; he ordered the deed of separation to be set aside, but affirmed the decree so far as the marriage settlement was concerned, but without costs on either side. The Globe remarks that if it should turn out that the gates of Pekin were taken just before the departure of the mail, there is some probability that Messrs. Bra bazon and Boulby may have slipped through their captors' fingers and found a safe refuge. It is stated that although the Emperor of China has fled, the members of the Tribunal of Rites remained at Pekin. This body constitutes one of the highest authorities of the emperor, on whom might devolve the duty of negotiating between the emperor and the allied pleni potentiaries• The following appeared in our later editions of yesterday MR. DISRAELI AND CHURCH RATES. The Daily News remarks that at length the Conser vative party have what they have so long desired—a cry. Mr. Disraeli, at Amersham, has fallen back on the oldest tradition of his party—Church and State—and commits himself unreservedly to the most unpopular and impracticable incident of that tradition, the existing system of Church rates. The Morning Herald, in its notice of Mr. Disraeli's, speech, says it is not' satisfied with the present state ofi the law ou church rates, and is couYi4oed that its most striking defects must be removed if these:rates are to be maintained. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND FRANCIS 11. The Post says the. Emperor Napoleon - has lately addressed communications to the ex-King of Naples, pointing out to him the expediency of his withdrawing from Gaeta. If Francis IL refuses to follow this advice, the Emperor will be liberated from his promise to keep open a retreat for the King, and the French fleet will OR the waters of Gaeta. The King's advisers have chosen to turn this charitable action to their political advantage, and the Emperor therefore now withdraws from them a limited protection which was beginning to threaten very dangerous consequences. • of the ess, SURRENDER OF PEKIN. of as also Phe of rig .nd c is ive ids of on .nd ,C&S or, end ity D. of tor Ip icd •o v ich to tan to of to which an unfortunate young man allowed his sympathy and his admiration for Garibaldi to carry him. The son of the colonel in command of the Italian Legion at Monte Video, had gone to pay a visit to Garibaldi who had kept him several days with him, and had shown him the utmost kindness and attention, the young man's father having been the friend and companion in arms of Garibaldi in America. The time arrived for his leaving, and he appeared to have quite reconciled himself to the idea of going away, but the instant he set foot on board the vessel which was to convey him from the island, he drew out a pistol and shot him self through the heart before any one could stop him. Garibaldi, hearing the report, ran towards him ; but the bullet had proved fatal, and the wretched youth died in the course of an hour or two. _ LATEST NEWS. (BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) FURTHER DETAILS OF THE NEWS FROM CHINA. THE PRISONERS-THE INDEMNITY. PEKIN, Oct. 13. Pekin surrendered to the Allies this day, yielding to all demands. Parkes, Loch, and Lieutenant Eschayrac were released on the Bth instant. Norman and Anderson have died from the effects of brutal treatment. Thirteen soldiers have also been relased. There is little hope of the return of Brabazon, or of Boulby, or the French officers missing. The Emperor and the Tartar army have fled, and none of the enemy are to be seen at Pekin. The Emperor's summer palace was taken and looted on the 6th .of October. The amouut of spoil was enormous. _ - The Pekin gates have been given up to the troops, who are healthy, and encamped on the walls. The allied army will winter in the north. Lord Elgin and Baron Gros are at Pekin. Indemnity ready when demanded. ANOTHER GREAT REBELLION IN CHINA. SRANGHAI, Oct. 20. All is quiet here. A new and distinct rebellion is reported in the province of Shensi. It is said to be headed by influential people. Little is known of the Taipeng rebellion. BATAVIA. BATAVIA, OCt., 29. The state of affairs at Bangermassing is said to be improving. INDIA. CALCUTTA, Nov. 8. The Government Committee has recommended the Bombay tariff for all India. AUSTRALIA. MR. STURT'S EXPEDITION. MELBOURNE, Oct. 26. Mr. Sturt and his important discoverers have been driven back by the natives,' after having penetrated as far as lat. 19 and long. 134. The country was found to be rich and fruitful. CHINA. The Times says that when the allied armies landed in China, there was a party of force and a party of fear in Pekin. The war party proposed to get rid of the invaders by dint of arms and strategy, and the old Chinese pkoposed to do it by delay and diplomacy. Lord Elgin has had to treat with diplomatists who made promises which they had not the power to perform, and to break the power of the other party, who did not intend that the diplomatists should do more than sub serve their strategic designs. The Chinese themselves have forced upon us the inflictions of the punishment which seemed to be best adapted to teach those obdurate mandarins the necessity of keeping faith and abiding by the terms of treaties. SPECIE MOVEMENTS. The shipment of £620,000 in gold by the Persia is of far greater magnitude than any previous shipment ever made to New York. The Times says that of the total no less than £300,000 was taken from the Liverpool Branch Bank, and such was the eagerness to ship that some amounts were put on board as late as twelve o'clock. A portion of the gold is believed to consist of bars which were not with drawn from the Bank. of England. There were no gold withdrawals from the Bank in London on Saturday. The Anglesey has arrived from Melbourne with £232,000. The £295,000 Australian gold, by the Suffolk, arrived at the Bank on Saturday, but nearly the whole will be taken for the Continent. _ _ Between Nov., 28 and Dec. 8 the total shipments of gold to America from Liverpool and Southampton amounts to £951,450. The Herald says the impression is that a rise in discounts will ensue if the shipments of specie to New York are not speedily arrested. The Daily News points out that some of the opinions on the bullion movements are controverted by facts. Gold does go to America, though it was asserted there could be no advantage or profit in sending it. The gold that was sent lately to France was to begin flowing back to us ; but where is the prospect of its return. It has been inferred that the gold will return as quickly from America as in 1857 ; but the Daily News shows that it was chiefly a 10 per cent. rate of discount at the Bank of England which drew back the gold to London. America bid high for our capital and had it. In our distress we bid still higher, and drew it back again. As we do not now look for a panic here, the reflux of gold will not occur so rapidly. The only way of getting it back is by increasing our own bid for it. This would be tantamount to a very stringent money market in England. Whether the gold stop in America, or whether it returns, there is at' present a very great call for caution. The China telegrams are expected to reach London on Tuesday or Wednesday. Mr. Fawcett has withdrawn from Southwark. The contest between Mi. Scovell and Mr. Layard is expected to be a close one. Chevalier Scmering, a moderate liberal, has been appointed Minister of State of Austria, but he is not yet gazetted. The Empress of the French will, it is expected, em bark at Dover this morning for Calais, whence she will proceed direct to Paris. The Times says, we have reason to believe that Lord Napier, at present Minister at the Hague, will, shortly proceed to St. Petersburg, at which Court he has been appointed Ambassador. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Mi. John Brougham made his first appearance here last night. The house was rather. empty ; but if we may judge from the amount of laughter evoked, and the repeated bursts of applause elicited from the audience, his performance was a ,great success. "Romance. and Reality" is the product of his own pen. It is a sort of Irish parody of Shakespeare's "'Taming of the Shrew." Apart from Mr. Brougham's acting as Jack Swift, there seems to be little or nothing in the piece. But certainly it is so arranged as to make this a very amusing repre sentation. " Ould Ireland is my Darling" was sung by Mr. Brougham with great comic effect, and was encored. This clever actor was repeatedlY called before the curtain to receive the applause of his admirers. To-night, doubtless, there will be a fuller house, when the fame of this actor's talents has got wing. Miss Laura Gray had little to do; but that, as usual, she did well. Mr. Cooper, Mr. Blakely, Mr. Neville, and the other members of the company filled their parts with zeal and ability. The second piece was the " Cricket on the Hearth," which also went off with credit. To-night, Mr. Brougham again appears as Jack Swift, in " Romance and Reality ;" and we recommend all to see it—to be followed by "'Family Jars " and "Shock ing Events." THE VOLUNTEER .10VEMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TIMES. Sin,—ln the Mercury a few days back I noticed, in, the answers to correspondents, that a " Broker's Clerk" thought that Liverpool ought to have a Brokers' Clerks' Rifle Corps ;—in the papers of ,to-day is an advertise ment calling upon all "watchmakers to hand themselves together and form a corps ;"—it is also rumoured, in Toxteth Park, that the tailors are about to form a corps of their own. Now, really, this is the right way to go about spoiling that movement of which every English man is proud—viz., the Volunteer Movement; and I trust that the lord-lieutenant will abide by his present intention, and not recegnise any more corps—at least in this town, for -I believe there are more broken rifle corps in this town than in any other in the kingdom. When a new corpi is organised the old ones must suffer. This I can prove ; for more than one corps has been redhced to a skeleton through this absurd non sense. • • Mr. Editor, I pray that through your columns, which are ever ready to assist in this noble cause, you will endeavour to repress this most suicidal bumbug of certain persons wishing to be made officers. Trusting you will give this a place in your paper, I remain, yours, &c., AN OLD VOLUNTEER. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. The fifth ordinary meeting of the above society was held in the Royal Institute, Colquit-street, last evening. The chair was occupied by the President of the society, the Rev. Henry H. Higgins, M.A. Cantab, and there were , about thirty persons present. The following gentlemen were elected members of the society :—Mr. James Alexander,. the Rev. Dr. 'Barr, and Mr. Joseph Leyland,; and the Rev. Mr. Macnaught, Mr. H. Benjamin Roberts, and Mr. David Anderson, of Egre mout, had made application for membership. The following books . were presented to the society, for which .thanirs were Eiceorueu .--A (Jame ..41 Literary and Philsophical Society, Hull ; Vol. VIII. of the Journal of the Geological Society of Dublin; Vol. XII. of the Transactions of the HisteriC Society of Lancashire and Cheshire ; and a Journal of the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania for the Pro motion of the Mechanic Arts, Mr. Moore read a portion of a letter from Mr. S. Archer, H.E.1.C.5., dated from Cashmere ' and formerly of Rodney - street , in this town, in which it was stated that he had frequently met in that remote country, a butterfly known in England as the " Clouded Yellow." The literary and philosophical intelligence was curtailed somewhat, in consequence of there being two important papers to be read. Dr. Collingwood read a defence of the remarks of Professor Louis Agassiz, on " Darwin's Theory of. the Origin of Species." He maintained that Agassiz was strictly sound in his reason ing, and had brought forward some most important physiolOgioal qUestions which no person had previously; thought of, andnfterwards entered into the remarkable facts known as "alternate generations," in order to show that they were not of the same character as the changes undergone by butterflies and rooks. , He also concurred in the assertions of Agassiz concerning the similarity of embryos; illustrating his remarks by diagrams. A paper Containing some valuable hints was likewise read by Dr. Nevins on " Life Insurance." The speaker gave a most explicit exposition of the system of life policies, and the nrofit to be derived by effect ing an insurance at a certain age, and the amount that might also be lost under some circumstances. He also dwelt upon the difficulties that were to be contended with by an insurance company in order to make the policies pay ; and stated that from the close of the year 1844 to the beginning. of the year 1860 no less than 146 insurance companies wound up' their affairs. The meeting was concluded by votes of thanks to the gentle men who had contributed towards the pleasure the audience had been afforded during the evening. FELONY,—At the Birkenhead Police -court yesterday, an elderly woman named Bridget Finnegan, was brought up charged with having stolen three lbs. of beef from a marine store dealer in Birkenhead. At the request of the police officer who ;preferred the charge the prisoner was remanded till next Thursday. COUNTY COURT, YESTERDAY.—(Before W. A. Milton, Judge).--GOLDMAN V. STANRIE.—This case, which was one of considerable p ublic interest, inasmuch as it con tained an important "caution" to the jewellery buying portion of the public, was tried yesterday in the County Court. Mr. Wilson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Blackhurst for the defendant. From the opening state ment of Mr. Wilson, it appeared that about two ye ars ago the plaintiff, who is a travelling cigar dealer, noticed in the window of the defendant's shop, a gold pin, topped with a large Australian nugget. He entered the shop, and asked the defendant how much the article was worth. The defendant replied, that as a piece of gold alone it was worth £4 10s., and he would only . charge ss. for its manufacture, making the cost alto gether £4 15s. Mr. Goldman agreed to purchase it for this sum ; but not having the money by him , gave. the defendant in s t ruct i ons to send the pin to Mr. Levi; who would pay for it. Plaintiff received the pin a day or two after, and wore it for a considerable time. After some months, however, he was told by a friend that instead of being Australian gold, it was merely a compo sition. Upon this the plaintiff went to Mr. Stankie, and charged him with having sold it under false pre tences. Mr . . Stankie denied that he had sold the nugget as gold, and told the plaintiff lie could do as.he liked. Mr. Goldman, when in the witness box, corroborated the above story, and Mr. Abrahams, after examining the pin, said it could not possibly be mistaken for real gold by a person having any acquaintance with dealing in gold. It was only a composition, dirt, and a little gold; its value would not exceed 30 s. of copper, silver , The defence was that the pin had not been sold to the plaintiff at all, but to Mr. Levi. Hi s honour, in onour, 1R ,„ judgment, said he had no doubt that the defendant knew at the time ,he sold the pin it was not gold, and that being the case, he must return the amount over charged, A verdict was then entered for £3 ss. THE WATER COMMITTEE. At 12 o'clock yesterday a special meeting of this com mittee was held at the Town-hall, to consider. the rates to be imposed under the new act, §o as to meet the deficiency apparent of £20,090 a-year in the revenue. Their deliberations lasted- till the time for the ordinary meeting, at half-past two o'clock. !At the ordinary meeting Mr. Farnworth occupied the chair ; and the other members present were—Messrs. Crellin, Woodruff, Rae, Jeffery, Charles Turner, Beloe, Vernon, Earle, Estill, and William Johnson. • . The minutes of the last meeting having been read over, 'Mr. JEFFERY asked upon what principle an applica tion for water-rates, said to be in arrears, was made — whether upon the old assessment, or the new act of Parliament—because they might have a good deal of expense in summoning parties before the magistrates Mr. WHITE, the treasurer, "Aaid the items read referred to summonses against tenants. Those which Mr. Jeffery alluded to were against the owners. Mr. JEFFERY should like to know by what authority those cases had been brought before the magistrates, seeing that the mode of levying the water rate was an unjust one, and that it had been altered by the new Act, which comes into operation on the Ist of January next, Mr. WOODRUFF said the Town-clerk had reported that no owner of property could be charged with rates compulsorily. The CHAIRMAN said they had had a deputation from the Houseowners' Association, and had defined what the basis of composition should be for the next year,—not the past: He had observed . Mr. )'Gowan going into court to prosecute a summons, when he said to him, "You cannot do it; the Water Committee have decided it is riot legal, and they have altered their charge." Mr. JEFFERY wished to ask the Town-clerk by what authority he and his deputy had applied for the summons ? ..... . , The TOWN-CLERK said there must be an order in the sub-committee book. He had never heard of it till that moment. Mr. JEFFERY—Then, do I understand Mr. MgGowan pursued an independent course ? The CHAIRMAN had no doubt it had gone befote the sub-comMittee in a list with others, and summonses had been ordered—the particular case and reason never being mentioned. Mr. Woonnurr said many owners of property had complained to him that they had been compelled to pay more than they received in rents, and that after the committee had resolved that they should not be charged with such rates. Mr. VERNON had heard of many instances in which the collectors of those rates had gone on their own responsibility and taken out a summons, irrespective of any other authority. He thought if ➢Tr. Jeffery's ques tion were honestly answered it would be found to be so in this case. Mr. WHITE, the treasurer, said the collector had no such power. He would prepare a list, and that list would come before Friday's coMmittee. Mr. JEFFERY said it had certainly been the occasion of great inconvenience and expense. There was another question which he wished to ask—that was as to the Albany offices. As he understood, the owner had refused to compound and pay for the offices in a gross sum. Could any of the offices refuse to take the water ? Mr. DUNCAN, the engineer, said there were three or four cisterns, but separate taps. The TowN-CLERR, in answer to Mr. Jeffery, said certainly they were not bound to take the water unless they liked. Mr. JEFFERY wanted to know then why there should be one law for one class of property, and another for another. lie understood if they put the water into a pile of building such as the Albany Offices, they must charge for the whole—the landlord was therefore com pelled to pay. Mr. BELvE.said the Albany was a special case. There were 140 offices there, but offices were only occupied by 18 individuals. It was not likely that the landlord would pay-for the whole 140; therefore, pendente lite, it was best to make an arrangement by which they got full rent from each tenant, and 15 per cent. more, as ;here was no discount. The CHAIRMAN observed that the difficulty had arisen 'rom the water being put on without agreement with he owner that he should compound. Mr. CRELLIN—Is there a pipe put on to every office? Mr. DUNCAN—NO. • • Mr. JEPPERY said he understood their principle was that they refused to supply water to a pile of buildings made, into offices unless they,had some party to look to for rent. Now, the water was put into. that building, and they had no party - to look to for rent. He was not now discussing whether the principle was right or wrong, but it should be.uniform. ' Enquiry was promised, and the subject then dropped. The following report from the Engineer was then read : I have to report for the information of the committee the following matters :—On the filters .nothing out of the ordinary has transpired. The rainfall for the week has been very great, equal to a mean of 3.37 inches, and floods have been experienced over the entire district. The reservoirs .have . all overflowed. • At the Roddlesworth some damage has been done to the byewash by the crushing forward of some of the coping stones, and some flags have also been lifted by the water. It appears the greatest depth passing over at one time was nine inches. I purpose going to . Roddlesworth to-morrow, and will be able' to report to the committee the particulars, with an estimate of the cost of repairs, by Friday. Mr. D unca nson has been up to Roddlesworth : his opinion is, to restore the works as they were before would cost £100; but that the masonry of the walls has not been good, and heavier breast walls are necessa r y .. On the pipe line all remains in good condition . .The depths of water under the ;. overflows of the various reservoirs were, on the Sth instant, as per table : Dec. 8. Dec. 1. Rise. Fall. ft. in. ft. in. ft. in. ft. in. Roddlesworth 0 1 ... 1 ,9 • .., I. 8 Rake Anglezark... Rivington O3l 1 1 0 9.& Prescot No. 1 Prescot No. 2 0 51 ... 0 4 ... Quantity of water received frm RiVill7toTl during the week ending Deceinber,B, 1860. 37,287,415 25,633,070 12,042,000 Into Kensington.... Audley-street ~ Park Hill .... 74,962,485 Quantity of water pumped from the wells at Bootle Green Lane 12,187 701 WindSor --- 22,351,201 -97,316,686 Quantity of water in store, week ending December 1, 1860. Do. do. December S, 1860 17,969,324 2,093,949 95,222,737 Washing out mains, sewers, &c. 92 ' 722 ' 137 Delivered at B oo tl e unm i xe d mixed N2;252002:073070 92,722,737 gallons. Proportion of Rivington to well water as 37 to. 11 The committee next proceeded to matters of finance, and the reporters retired. CHESTER ASSIZES.--MoNDAy. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn) RAPE. John Taylor (67), who could neither read nor write, was charged with feloniously and carnally knowing and abusing Sarah Davies, .a girl of the age of seven years, at Middleswich, on the 6th of September last. The prisoner was employed as the keeper of a coal-vault, and the child having occasion to purchase some coals there tor her parent, the prisoner elltleCa per into ins office, and there committed the charge imputed to him. The prisoner was found guilty upon the most clear evi dence, and-was sent ence d to fifteen years' penal servi• tude. ATTEMPT TO MURDER. Elizabeth Swindell (23), Weaver,' who reads imper fectlY, was Charged with feloniously attempting to mur der her child, at Godley, on the 18th of August last. The prisoner was proved to have been delivered of a female child on the date in question, in an outhouse in the village, and covered it with sods, and then left the place. A policeman named Salisbury, stationed in the :district, discovered the child soon afterwards, and find ing it was still alive, secured assistance, and the child recovered. Mr. Brandt, OR behalf of the prisoner, con tended that she was not perfectly sane at the time she committed the act with which she was charged, and that it was not her intention to murder the child, or :she would have then put it down the hole .in, the out house; and, secondly, that she might have thought • the child was dead when she left it'; and, a g ain, she might h a ve left it there thinking she was, from weakness, unable to carry it beyond the house. The - jgry retired, and after a brief consultation, returned, a? verdict of guilty, accompanied with a recommendation to mercy. The judge expressed a strong feeling of compassion for the prisoner, but said be thought his duty compelled him not to inflict a lighter sentence than that she be kept in penal servitude for three years. PLEADED GUILTY; Joseph Dare (20), collier, who could neither read nor write, pleaded guilty to feloniously wounding a cow, the property of Joseph Goulden, at Adlington, on the 24th of November, 1860. Sentenced to nine months' hard labour. Charles Smith (35), labourer, who reads 'imperfectly, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for feloniously stealing a horse, the pro perty of James Chapman, at Bosley, on the 30th of October, 1860. John Jefferies, alias Jeffery . (26), who reads imper fectly, pleaded guilty to being unlawfully on land in the occupation of Samuel Davies, in Shalnick-park, in the night . time, armed with bludgeons and nets, and de stroying fifteen rabbits, and unlawfully assaulting George Capper and‘James Griffiths, assistant-game keepers to H. B. Trelawney, Eiq., on the 23rd of August last. Sentenced to nine months' hard labour. BANKRUPTCY COURT. THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS AND THE POLICE COURT. During the trial of prisoners yesterday at St. George's Hail, before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the borough recorder, in two of the cases before the court comments were made casting reflections upon the manner in which the criminal business is conducted at the Police-courts in Dale-street, and the recorder threatened to withhold granting the expenses of the prosecutions. In the first case a decent-looking woman, named Mary M'Guinness, had been committed for trial by the stipendiary magistrate, T. S. Raffles, Esq., on a charge of having stolen 4s. Gd. out of the till of a public-house kept by James Sharrock, in Kensington. -The son of the prosecutor said s On the morning of the robbery the prisoner was in his father's bar, and he had occasion, to leave for a short time. Before -he returned he heard the bar door fall to, arid on going into the bar he found the prisoner leaning °Vet the counter near the till. His suspicions being aroused he looked into the till, and missed a half-crown piece and two shillings. He then charged the prisoner with stealing the money. She denied it, and produced her purse, in which was half-a crown, 2s, and some small silver, and she accounted for the possession of that money by statiog that she had that morning pledged a dress for Os, the ticket for which was found upon her. There was no direct evidence given that she had committed the robbery, nor was the money identified. The jury, therefore, acquitted the prisoner. It was given in evidence that the prisoner had never before been in custody, but got her living by selling vegetables. On the case being concluded, the Recorder remarked that it was a Case which ought not to have been sent to that Court, and that any magis trate could have disposed of it better than sending it there. He had a good mind not to allow the costs of the prosecution in such a case. In the second case, James Warren, described as a brush maker, who stated he came from Bradford, was indicted for stealing a watch, the property of Mr. E. Litchfield, a warehouseman, living at 31, Netherfield-road, Ever ton. The prosecutor stated, in answer to Mr. Littler, that on the night in question he was going to the Amphitheatre to Barry Sullivan's benefit. There was a great crowd at the door, and the prisoner was on his right-band side. He felt a snatch at his watch, and on lifting up his arm he caught hold of the prisoner's hand and gave him into custody. The watch was not found upon him, but shortly after a girl who gets her living by selling bills at the theatre door picked it up about five yards from where the prisoner was caught, and took it to the Hotham-street bridewell. Police-constable 158 spoke to apprehending the prisoner, and stated that the silver ring which he then produced was found on the counter of the bridewell amongst other things the prisoner drew out of his pocket, but upon further examination ha said the ring was found in the bridewell several hours after by the Bridewell-keeper, who gave it to him, and he could not say, of his own knowledge, where or when it was found. The Recorder—We must have the bridewell-keeper here. Mr. Littler—He was not before the magistrates, but as soon as I heard what the policeman has just stated, I have sent for him. The Recorder—l see that he was not before the magistrates, which seems very strange, as his evidence is most important. Mr. Littler—The depositions are not even taken in the presence of the magistrates. The magistrates' clerks have a right to take them. Mr. Walters—The magistrates' clerks are paid for doing it. Instead of that they get a set of ignorant boys to do the work, and hence the mistakes that are made in the depositions. Mr. Littler—The evidence of the bridewell-keeper is most important, for we can't tell where the ring was found. I understand it was picked up amongst some rubbish, and was given to the policeman at half-past twelve o'clock, and it was only seven when the prisoner was there. The Recorder—lt is very hard that the jury should be kept waiting. But the case is sent here for trial, and they must wait or take the evidence as it stands. If I put the case back there will be the difficulty of hearing it piece by piece. Mr. Walters—The fault is with the magistrates' clerks. The Council pay them £1,400 a-year to do their duty— and that is to take the depositions—instead of doing so neither Mr. Wybergh or Mr. Garnett will take them, but let them be taken by a set of ignorant boys. As the bridewell-keeper did not attend, the Recorder put the case to the ~j ury, observing that there was no evidence as to the ring ever being 'in the possession of the prisoner, as the bridewell-keeper had not been before the magistrates. The poor girl had behaved very properly in the matter. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The Recorder—l have a great mind to disallow the policeman his expenses ; but 'I suppose he is not to be blamed, as it can't be expected that he should know the proper legal evidence that is required. Mr. Walters—Poor fellow, he can't help it. The magistrates' clerks should do the work themselves, and not trust to boys as they do. The Recorder said the prisoner was liable to fifteen years' penal servitude, but he would take time to consider what should be done with him. . Sentence 'deferred. LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY. (Before Mr. RAFFLES.) JAMES GRAHAM IN TROUBLE. James Graham, (a man very unlike his namesake of Paul Pry celebrity) was brought up by police-officer 109, on a charge, not for opening his correspondence, but for opening his shin—the skin from the bone, by a kick, from his clog. The prisoner was drunk in the street and-creating a great disturbance, when the officer wanted him to go away, and not annoy the lieges of our good Queen. whereon the prisoner gave him a furious kick on the shin and split it open. Several officers had to assist in taking the prisoner to the station, and before they got him there, they had to put his hands and legs in irons. Mr. Legg, the. bridewell-keeper, at Rose-hill, said when the irons were taken off the prisoner at the station, he gave the officer a slap in the face and tumbled him over. The prisoner said he was oblivious to all the proceedings; but the magistrate, in order to sharpen his memory in future, fined him 40s. and costs, or tWe months' " hopping" on the Merry-go-round, to mind his own shins for that period. A MERCHANT AND THE OYSTERS ! Albert Vine, a gentlemanly looking yoursg man, who was described by Mr. Bluck (who appeared for him) as a niereliant of this town, was charged by-police officer. 463 for being drunk and disorderly, and for having assaulted him. -The officer said, at about five o'clock yesterday (Sunday) morning, I heard a noise at the corner of Copperas-hill and Warren-street, and as there were several complaints made by the inhabitants of the locality in reference to nocturnal disturbances, I went forward, - and saw the prisoner and a woman creating a noise and disturbance. I requested them to go away, and not disturb the people at that hour in the morning, when he became more disorderly. The woman went away, but the prisoner refused, and I told him I would take him into custody if he did not go away, and then le struck me on the chest. I caught him then, and we both struggled and fell, and after some time another Officer came up, and we got him to the station, but he was very disorderly on' the way. Cross-examined by Mr. Bluck : I did not lay . hold of bins until he struck me first. I struck him in the struggle. I do not know him, but he told his name, and Said he lived in• Great Orford - street, and that is all I know about him. I deny that I struck or laid hands on him until he struck me first. His mouth was bleed ing, but I don't think I struck him on the mouth, hut that it happened when we were on the ground. Police officer 637 said—l heard a whistle and went to the ,place; where I found the gentleman and the officer on the ground struggling. I assisted to take ,him ' to th e s tation, anu on the way ne was very ais•onterty. -At, Bluck—Did you see the first of it ? No, sir. Mr.' Black said he felt very strongly on the case, as his client had given him positive .instructions in this case. He said the policeman rushed at, and struck him first, saying you are the man I want. (The officer denied 'this.). His client, of course, resisted this, and then the ,officer struck him on the mouth . and cut him. The gentleman was a highly respectable merchant in the town, and would not act as described. He had been at home, but came out to get a supper of oysters, and that was the reason he happened to be there at the time. M r. Raffles said it was rather a strange hour for a merchant to be getting a supper of. oysters, a 5 o'clock of a Sunday morning, and then knocking about Copperas_ 'hill with a woman, creating a disturbance. The bride well-keeper who took the charge said the gentleman was drunk •when brought in ; his mouth was bleeding, and he said the officer struck him there. Mr. Raffie. said he would credit the evidence of the officers, and fine the defeudent £l, which was paid. CHARGE AGAINST A LETTER-CARRIER: Matthew Bell, a letter-carrier in the General Post office, was charged with stealing a letter which contained two .half sovereigns and twelve postage stamps. Mr, Banning appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Black for the defence. Several witnesses were examined, and it appeared that the prisoner was employed as the carrier belonging to the Islington district, and that there had been complaints made for some time past of missing l e tters, and the prisoner was sus p ected. On Saturday a person from the P ost-office, London, came here an d posted a letter, directed to a person at 72, Camden-str ee t, London-road (the re bein g no such number), the letter contained two half sovereigns and twelve postage_ stamps ; and this letter was posted about 4 o'clock, and it was the prisoner's duty to sort and deliver •the lett er . It was put in among the prisoner's letters, and he took ' it out on Sunday morning. Subsequently detective ' officer Cozens went to the prisoner's house, where h e found, in a book in his bag, the twelve stamps that had been marked. The prisoner at first, said he purchased the stamps, but afterward s stated that he got the book from another person, and that the stamps mast have been put in it. The money was not fonnd. Mr. I3luck ' argued that the stamps might have been put into the book by some other person; but his worship said the • chain of evidence was so clear that there-could be no doubt about the case, a nd sent the prisoner for tri a l' a t the assizes. (Before Mr. Commissioner PERRY.) In re H. B. GASKELL.—This bankrupt, described as a broker lately carrying on business at Liverpool, appeared yesterday on his adjourned last examination. Mr. Thornley,represeuted the assignees, and Mr. Tyrer the bankrupt. The Commissioner remarked upon the large amount of expenditure by the bankrupt, which the official assignee informed him was not vouched in any way. Mr. Tyrer, in explanation, stated that what the bankrupt had spent was his own money, and not that of the creditors, as he believed there were now suffi cient assets to pay them in full. The assignees offered no opposition, and the bankrupt then passed. The 3rd of January was appointed for the certifieate . sitting. In re JAMES NAPIER.—This bankrupt, a shipowner at Rhyl, also appeared on his last examination. Mr. Charles Lockett, from the office of Messrs. Evans and Sandys, appeared for the bankrupt, and applied for an adjournment, to give time to prepare his balance sheet. Mr. Conway, on the part of the assignees, sup ported the application, and the court granted an adjourn ment to the 3rd January. In re JAMES SAUNDERS.—This, also a last examina tion, sitting was adjourned to the 4th January, the bank rupt, a commission agent at Birkenhead, not having filed his balance-sheet. Mr. Alfred Samuell appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Tyrer for the bankrupt. , LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY FOR CHILDREN.—It is. our pleasing duty to record that the sum of is. 44d. was collected, chiefly in pence, after a sermon by the Rev. H. Postance, on behalf of the above institution, on Sunday last, in Holy Trinity Church, Toxteth-park. THE DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11,.1.860 following is a r e t urn TRADE OF LIVERPOOL.--The,'o spase rpoad of the nu m b er an d tonnage . of shi and. cl eare d outwar d s a t this port com rted inwr s paied th the corresponding periods of last year : k REPORTED INWARDS, For the IS'ec ended Dec S. 1860 . 179 ships ............... 127,015 tons. 1859 .......... Increase ................................. leo .................... .................. 86,081 Increase in tons CLEARED OuT ..........the Week. ended Dec. 8. 1860 ....... IN Aims, For ...... -33 , 0n9 tons. 1859 ....................... 8681 ships sla lP s .................. ..... 44,724-tons. „7 ............ Decrease in ships ............... ..... • Decrease in tons. .• .. ................................. 825 REPORTED INWARDS F ota Jan - • Ito Dec. 8' 16°' 1860 ............... 4 519 ! ' l l fr, ......... 2,59 ),9-5 tons. 1859 ........ . .... 4'535 s hips ............. 2,233,833 tons. Increase in • ships .................... 14 Increase in tons .......... ......... .................... 357,095 CLEARED OUTWARDS, . dal: Ito Dee' S ' 1860 ' 180 59' 18 4 . 768 ships ............... 2,378,49 a tons. Increase in ships ... • 1.27 ..... Increase In tons ................- ... ............. 350,196 SOUTHAMPTON, Sund a - . .. ItePo .. ts have reached here that the packet brig Eclip s e Captain Davis , bo und to Madeira, was la it night burnt to the water's edge in the Solent, and the vessel run ashore between Lepe and Lymington, the passengers being landed at the la tter port. On the arrival from J erse y of the South-Western Company's mail steamer Southampton, Captain Good ridge stated that .about six o'clock they saw what appeared to be a large ship, on the shore named, burn ing. from end to end, and the flames shooting fiercely up into the air, but the steamer was too close under the Isle of Wight shore to ascertain what it was. No fur ther intelligence has reached here. The Eclipse called at this port on her way from London to embark passengers and sailed hence on Wednesday. i j SUPPER TO MR: JOHN BROUGHAM. At the Waterloo Hotel, last night, a coniplinTeittafy supper was given to this talented gentleman, whose histrionic abilities and dramatic talent will no doubt he as favourably appreciated in this country as ,on the other side of the Atlantic. Mr. John Brougham is a gentleman well known in the United States of America, whose inhabitants have on more occa sions than one shown how high is the esteem which they entertain for this unrivalled votary of the Thespian art, to whom so graceful a recognition of his genius was awarded on this occasion. The supper, which was supplied by Mr. Lynn, of the Waterloo, was of the most excellent description, and was served up in the large room of that hotel. The bill of fare was as follows :—Game pie, gallantine of turkeys, roast capons, tongues; canvas-back ducks, American partridge, wid pons, golden plovers ; esealoped oysters, stewed oysters, mayonnaise of lobsters, jellies, German tarts; pastries, ice puddings; sideboard—oysters, roast beef, brawn The chair Was occupied by BeVerley Tucker, Esq. (the American Consul), mid the vice-chair by M. J. Whitty f Esq, Amongst the large number of gentlemen present, we observed the following :—Messrs. James Wltenna. ; Train, Charles MOzley,, Belcher, J. Bingham, IVorrall, Montgomery, Rae, Lester, Whittle, Hathaway, Beniston, Marsh, Frank Howard, Cowper (American tragedian), Captains Tucker, Miller, and Newlands, Lieut. W. H. Peat, and several other gentlemen. The usual loyal and local toasts having been proposed and enthusiastically responded to, the Chairman gave the toast of the even ing—the " Health of Mr. John Brougham," whose talents and histrionic powers he eulogised in terms of the most laudatory nature. In replying to the toast of his health, Mr. Brougham ,thanked the audience in an eloquent and appropriate speech, in the course of which he referred to many topics, which, from the present rela tions of Great Britain with the American Republic, are rendered most interesting. He expressed a fervent hope that the bonds of amity and friendship which so closely bind the two countries would be brought into greater propinquity, and rendered more strong and durable. Although a native of that fine old isle, whose beauty, glory, and patriotism stood conspicuous in the bright pages of ancient and modern history, still he could not be insensible to the gratitude and kindness of the inhabitants of another and a foreign clime. He passed the most unqualified encomium on the many excellencies and virtues of the people of Columbia, and dwelt at considerable length on their generous and philanthropic qualities in recognising talent and paying to it that meed to which it is so pre eminently entitled. His description of the first sensa tions that he experienced on catching a glimpse (after many years of estrangement) of his own native land, the green isle of the west, was characterised with that brilliancy of diction, fluency of language, and gor geousness of imagery, that few, very few but Irishmen can command. The toast of " Prosperity and suc cess to the trade and town of Liverpool " was replied to by C. Mozley, Esq., in an eloquent, erudite, and truly practical speech. Other toasts followed, which were responded to in addresses, characterised by sound sense and practical utility. Speech, song, and sentiment were kept up with unflagging spirit till an advanced hour, after which the company separated, highly delighted with the proceedings of the evening, which were of a most convivial character. GARIBALDI ON THE IRISH PAPAL BRIGADE. The following letter has been received from General Garibaldi by an Irish gentleman, who wrote to explain that it was Popery, and not Ireland, which sent .a band of misguided youths from these shores to uphold slavery in Italy. The following is the translation : " Caprera, Nov. 12, 1860. "Much Esteemed Sir,—Who could ever think that your fellow-countrymen were not deceived when they served the cause of the Pope under Lamoriciere ? Every one in Italy knows the heavy burden of oppression under which your country, as well as ours, is still groaning. The offspring of ignorance and imposition—(Papacy)—dwells, unfortu nately, with the powerful in hypocrisy, and in the poor with the concomitant evils—prostitution, degrada tion, and misery, Albion became great and prosperous when she courageously cut off that cancer. Rome, she ceased to be great, she continued to he prostrate, and still lies in that filthy sink, because the Almighty was pleased to visit the queen of the world with that scourge. We pity the deceived ones of Ireland, as well as those of Italy and other countries; but we know indeed that the hearts of the millions in your noble country, as well as all over the globe, beat for the liberty of nations. We know but too well that if 400 deceived youths were compelled to take service under most despicable Govern ment, it was not with the consent of the brave and generous Irish nation, with whom we aro united in bonds of brotherhood by a community of misfortune, and by the same foe still frowning on us. " The time is not far distant when this people will inflict the last blow to its sacrificers and tyrants. In that 'solemn combat we shall decide, not only on our national existence, but the foundation will be laid for the rising of kindred nations. Then the Italians, together with Hungarians, English, and other brothers, will joyfully and gratefully see the sons of Ireland whom you shall lead to the holy banquet. —Affectionately and gratefully yours, " G. GARIBALDI." ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. BENEFICES AND APPOINTMENTS VACANT. RECTORIES. Oxford St. Clement: val. £120: pat. Lord Chancellor: Rev. E. A. Litton, prom. Ulcombe, Kent : dio. Canterbury : val. £379, with residence pat. lion: C. B. C. Wandesford , Rev. S. Mence, dec. PERPETUAL CURACIES. Islington, St. Matthew. Middlesex : dio. London : val. £250 pat. P. C. of St...Piral, Balls' Pond : Rev. E. T. Alder, dec. Islington, St Michael, Middlesex : dio. London : Rev. L. R Ayre, prom . , • - CHAPLAINCY. - Batavia : British Consular; Rev. J. E. Scott-Monerieff, dee. CURACY. Feliskirk : co. and dio. York. P. PROFESSORSHI • • Edinburgh Univcrsity: Ecclesiastical History : Rev. Dr. Robert Son, dcc. LECTURESHIP. roreester Pio Tsan Training College : Junior L otureship : salary AlOO, with rooms, commons, Bte. : testimonials before Dec. 20. MASTERSMPS. Cheltenham College : EleMentary Classical. Holston Grammar School : salary 20 marks: testimonials to the Rev. R. C. Powles, Blackheath, before Dec. 15. The parish audit took place yesterday before Rees, the district auditor, but we understand that no objection to any part of the accounts *as lodged. LIVERPOOL EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, MOUNT PLEASANT.—ConsuIting Surgeon, Dr. Hugh Neil, F.R.A.S. ; Surgeons, Dr. R. Hibbert Taylor, Dr. Nevins, T. Bickerton, Esq. ; Assistant Surgeon Robert Batty, Esq. ; Treasurer, J. G. Livingston, . Esq. Report for the week ending Dec. 8, 1860 :—New cases : Eyes, 61; Ears, 28. Prescribed for and received surgical assistance : Eyes, 306 ; Ears, 100. COUNTY MAGISTRATES' COURT, YESTERDAY.—(Before Messrs. Preston and Chaloner.)—Michael Beady was fined 20s. and Bs. 6d. costs for drunkenness and*assault ing police-constable 100, at Old Swan, on Saturday. — Joh n Miningan, was remanded on a charge of deserting from the Royal Artillery at Woolwich.—John Carroll and Michael Carroll, were fined ss. and costs each, for fighting and disorderly conduct on Sunday evening, in the village of Bootle. TU E MARKETS COMMITTEE.—The usual weekly meet ing of the Markets Com mittee was held yesterday in the Council-chamber,—Mr.,Alderman Woodruff in the chair. The other members of the committee present were Messrs. Ridley, Johnson, Clarke, Aspinall, Nickson, Haydock, Shimmin, and Holden. The minutes of last meeting were read and' confirmed. From the financial' statement It appeared that the receipts rrom the 2nd December, of 1858, to the 6th of December, 1859, were £3,952 14s. 3d., and for the same period in the present year, £4,074 Os. 4d., showing an increase .of £5OO on the receipts, which the ;chairman considered very satis factory. The wages of 1859 were £573 3s. Gd., and for the corresponding - period this year were £604 2s. The superintendent of the markets reported that 19,630 lbs. of unwholesome meat had been seized during the Week in the northern district, and in the central district, from the 31st August to the 6th of December, there had been seized 17,274 lbs. of unwholesome meat, and of unwholesome fish (cod), from the 31st of August to the 6th of December, 27,074 lbs. were seized. REMITTANCES BY POSTAGE STAMPS—PURCHASE OF STAMPS BY THE POST OFFICE.—III order to afford facility for turning into cash the numerous small remit tances now made in postage stamps, and thus to dis courage the practice of sending coin in letters, the Post master Generaf has directed that the head offices of Manchester, Liverpool, and Edinburgh shall purchase portage stamps from the public, charging a small dis count for the accommodation. This practice , is now. in operation at the head office in Manchester; and postage stamps, provided they be not soiled or 6therwise damaged, are purchased in any quantities—from two upwards—in the inquiry -room, at the and of the box lobby, in Brown-street, and at the Money-order Office, in King-street, between the hours of nine a.m. and five p.m. The Receiving offices arc not empowered to pm.; chase stamps. BOROUGH SESSIONS.—The following prisoners were sentenced yesterday . James John Horrocks (22), joiner, being a servant to one Susannah Robina Wood worth, did receive and take into his possession, for and on account of his said mistress, the several sums •of Gs., Bs. 6d., and. 9s. 6d., and did afterwards feloniously embezzle the same—five days. Ann Golding (21), stealing two dresses and the sum of 10d., the monies and property of Patrick Furlong—three years' penal servi tude. Mary Garrity (36), stealing . one tumbler glass, the property of Richard O'Brien—three months. Abraham Thomas (23), clerk, and John Gee (39), tinnian, stealing. one pump, the property of Joseph Bispham—the former four years, and the latter four months. Michael Hemmingw a y (21), porter, stealing one coat, the property of William Healing—six months. Susan Lester (51) ' and Thomas Lester ( 55 ) — S usan . Lester was charged with stealing two chairs and a table, the property of Joseph' Duffield, and a clothes maiden, the property of Edward MsCallum, and one chair; the pro perty of Joseph Pat.tison Moore; and Thomas Lester was charged with receiving the same, he well knowing them to have been feloniously stolen- :the fdimer 'four months, 4lie latter diScharged. Jane Williams -(40), stealing two pairs of boots, the property of Thos. Pugh Jones- 7 -six weeks.' 'John Brew (38), labourer, stealing one silver medal, the property of William Caldwell, the elder—six : months. Christopher Gallagher (42), being a servant to John Cropper and others, did receive and take into his possession, for and on account of his said masters, the several sums of £1 12s. Bd., 10s. Bd., £1 Bs.. ld., Os. 7d., Gs. 3d., and Gs., .and did after yards feloniously embezzle the same—five months. Catherine Fitzgerald (37), stealing one decanter, one tumbler glass, one shawl, and other goods, the property of James M‘Dine—four years. Roger M'Anally (27), carter, stealing the.sum of 125., the willies of Robert AbrahaM, from his person—five years. Mary .Connor (27) and Elizabeth Ralph (74) —Mary Connor was charged with stealing one coat, the property of Peter Edmond, and Elizabeth Ralph was charged•with receiving the same, she well knowing it to have been feloniously stolen— the former five, and, the latter four months. Samuel Henry Longdin (21), clerk, being a servant to one Geo. Turner, did receive and did take into his possession, for and on account of his said master, the several sums of 12s. and 35., and did afterwards feloniously embezzle the same—three months. James Clarke ( 40 ), plasterer, stealing the sum of 9s. '4d., the monies of Thos. Holland —discharged. 'William Nolan (20), labourer, and Owen Begley (20), labourer, charged with having unlawfully made an assault upon one Johnson Mathews, with intent to steal the monies of the said Johnson athews —each three months, COURT FOR DIVORCE & MATRIMONIAL .CAUSES.--DEC: - (Before the Judge ordinary and a , Common Jury.) FISIIER V. Ftsualt. Dr. Phillimore, C.C., Mr. Ilannen, and Mr. Pritchard appeared for the petitioner; Mr. Serjeant Shoe, Mr. D. D. Keane, and Mr. Lewis for the respondent. The petition was by a wife for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of adultery, coupled with cruelty. The husband pleaded a denial of those allegations, condana ,tion, and a counter charge of adultery. Mr. Serjeant Shee, in his address to the jury for the respondent, said he was not in a position to deny that the charge of adultery had been established, but con tended that the petitioner had failed to prove that her husband had heen guilty of such violence that she could not continue to Cohabit with him with Out danger to her life and health. He had always provided her with a comfortable home, and appeared to have gone to consi derable expense in keeping a carriage and horses for her tise. Her own conduct in going so often to dine with him in the city showed that she was attached to him, and that he could not have been habitually cruel to her. The only two instances of serious violence to which she spoke Were committed in July , 1849, , and' December, 1858. In the first instance Mrs. Fisher admitted that she had been guilty of an improper act in opening his private letters, and the letters which passed between them after she left her husband's house on that occasion proved that she went away of her own accord. The respondent would explain the circumstances under which, after their return from Gravesend a few weeks later, she again went to her mother's. Her letter of the .7th of August was evidently written by a woman who had grievously injured her husband and hoped to be restored to his favour. If the husband bad been guilty of any unnecessary severity it was under great provocation. With regard to the assault complained of in December, 1858, he accused her of the very acts of violence. which she attributed to him. It would be for the jury to decide between the conflicting statements of the two parties. The learned serjeant, in conclusion stated . the evidence on which he should rely to establish the counter charge of adultery against #l6 petitioner. Mr. Fisher stated that he did not recollect throwing a boot at his wife in 1847. It might be true that he had done so, or it might not. • She was generally very touchy, and annoyed him at night with curtain lectures ; she frequently scratched his leg with her too nails, and he had told her that she cultivated them On purpose. She Was sometimes considerate, but occasionally flew into violent passions. She would be good or ill tempered for a month at a time. She' struck him three or four times between his marriage and July', 1849, and once scratched his face. He might have thrown the contents of his plate in her face ; he once struck her with a stick, not a very thick one. _ _ The Judge Ordinary.—lt is imputed to us in Eng land that we allow a husband to beat his wife with a stick if it is not above a certain thickness, but I have always repudiated the doctrine. The respondent further said that this happened not as he was coming in late one night, but as he was going out one evening. He supplied her with everything necessary for her comfort and kept a carriage for her. He ejected her from the house about 6 o'clock on Sunday evening in 1849. He wrote her a letter in which he referred to " his indiscretion," not on the 10th of July, the date written upon it in pencil, but after he had turned her out of the house and after the reconciliation. They had a difference on account of her having taken a packet of lettera out of a drawer in his counting house. She reproached him about them and ran away to her mother's. She stayed about a week, and then returned home. They then went to Gravesend and stayed about a week. The day after his return he found a paper in the drawer. He showed it her, she was in a great passion, and as he was going downstairs she smashed his hat, over his eyes. He said he should consult his mother and his friends. She said he should not leave the house alive. When he returned in the evening, he said she must leave the house. Mrs. Richardson was present, and he desired her to witness that he used no unnecessary force in removing her from the house. The only force he did use was a touch on the shoulder. About ten days or a fortnight afterwards he received a letter from her, of the 7th August. He locked up the letter he had found in another drawer. He missed it some time afterwards. He made a copy of it. (The substance of this letter was stated by Mrs. Fisher, the mother of the respondent, in her evidence. It was addressed to "My dear C—," and in it Mrs. Fisher said that she had arrived in town about five o'clock. and that she regretted she had not spent the evening as pleasantly as she had spent the afternoon, and that she wished she had been united to a man capable of making her happy ; and promised 'to meet the person to whom the letter was adressed at a specified place, and concluded by sending him a thousand kisses.) On the 4th Dec. 1858, he was living at Granville-place, Blackheath. She had a muff very.much moth-eaten. She had asked him to give her another, and he had told her he could not afford it. He was in the Kentish Yeomanry, and had a suit of regimen tals. He saw them in the bath-room with the muff upon them lying near an open window, and covered with pepper and wet. • He told his wife it was one of her nasty tricks. She called him a liar, and said the servant had done it. She was very abusive, and he told her to leave the breakfast-room. She seized two of the chairs, and then ran round the room and screamed. He told her not to make such a noise. She seized him by the whiskers and tore the hair but. He then p u ll e d her down by the hair, as it was very painful to him. He did not kick at her, but she kicked him and hurt him so much that he nearly fainted, and suffered from it for some time after. In the evening Fenner and he went to Greenwich together.. Fenner went to his house at half-past six. de followed him about ten. Fenner and Mrs. Fisher were in the breakfast-room, one sitting on each side of the fire. He could not recollect having taken hold of the poker. Both he and Mrs. Fisher were in a great passion, and .called each other names. They had ceased to occupy the same room for more than a twelvemonth. In 1851 there was a misunderstanding about a French girl he had brought_ from Paris. A 'friend interfered and induced him to do as his wife wished in the matter. In cross-examination the respondent adniitted that about. a twelvemonth ago he took Mrs. Jackson, who kept the brothel at Greenwich, and a girl to a tavern, and gave them brandy, and made notes of their state ments. About eighteen months ago he invited Becks, who had been his groom, to dine with him at Penge. lie found the letter to " My dear C--" in one of her drawers, which he had opened to look for a pockethand kerchief. In answer to the Judge Ordinary the respondent said that his house at Blackheath was near the station, and that the house of Mrs. Jackson 'at Greenwich, which he and Fenner had visited together, was situated between the Trafalgar and the Crown and Sceptre. Mrs. R. Fisher, the respondent's mother, was called to prove that her son consulted her in 1849 upon finding his wife's letter in the drawers, and that in 18.54 Mrs. Fisher told her she had got possession of the letter and destroyed it. Immediately after the finding of the letter, Mrs. Fisher said she had only written it to try and make her husbandjealom, and bad put it in his drawer. She admitted, in cross-examination, that she had been for a long time on bad terms with the petitioner. The letter found in the drawer had not been sent through the post. John BeckS, a groom, who was in Mr. Fisher's service in 1857, stated that be had once gone out riding with Mr. Fenner and Mrs. Fisher alone, and that they went to the Seven Stars at Footscray, and stayed there for twenty minutes or half an hour. John Wilson who had been postboy and Ostler at the' Seven Stars, said he had seen Mr. and.. Mrs. Fisher, and Mr. Fenner and other persons, together there. He only saw Mrs. Fisher and Mr: Fenner alone there on saddle-horses once. lie had seen them there alone in a carriage five or six times. It, was Mr. Fisher's carriage, and sometimes Mr. Fenner drove, and sometimes the coacnman. Charlotte Meachard said she had seen Mrs. Fisher and Mr. Fenner alone at the Seven Stars in December, 1859. They went into the dining-room outside the door. Mrs. Fisher went herself into a bedroom, and she assisted her to take off her riding drawers. She and Mr. Fenner remained in the dining-room about three quarters of au hour, and then wont away again on their horses. Cross-examined —They took tea together, and she waited on them and went in and out continually. Mrs. Fisher went back o the bedroom and put on the drawers again before she went away. Mr. Steele, a friend of Mr. Fisher, said he once saw Mr. Fenner and Mrs. Fisher together at Lake's dining rooms in the city in 1857. It was a public dining-room on the third floor. No one was in it when he went in but Mr. Fenner and Mrs. Fisher. Re was conversing with her in the ordinary way. Ann Kendal said that she had once seen Mrs. Fisher at the brothel in Greenwich kept by Mrs. Jackson. She came between 7 and 8 in the evening after the gas was lighted. Mr. Fenner was with her. She showed them into a room and left them. She did not see them go a t o w g aeyt e r S o h n e o h t a n d er s e o e e n o as M i o r n . s F . e eTwroaynd years r o s g . o F Fisher r m t l l tr e e r h e , she saw Mrs. Fisher again in the Commercial-road.' Slie illveras cometakenotuot of a h ahouse n s u e Gloucester-place, p r o osopposite. and she saw In cross-examination the witness described the dress which the lady had worn at Mrs. Jackson's, and said she took particular notice of her because she thought she knew her. ller veil was over her forehead, but not over her eyes. She waited from 10 o'clock in the morning till half-past 3 o'clock in the afternoon in the Commer eial-road before Mrs. Fisher came out of the house opposite. In March, 1859, she was spoken to by Mrs. Jackson about the lady she had seen with Mr. Fenner. That was the first time she ever.mentioned it. Mrs. Jackson said she had seen Mr. Fenner at her house with different ladies. She did not know Mrs. Fisher, but she had given a description of a person who bad once gone to her house with Mr. Fennerond she had been told it was Mrs. Fisher. She was walking in the Commercial- road with Mr. Bowen, when she saw a lady coming out of a house Whom she thought she recognised. She could not say that it was or that it , was not the lady who had been to her house with Mr. Fenner. It was about February, 1858, when she saw, them at her house. She had' fetched a pint of port wine for them. The lady had a thick fall on her face. The mother-in-law of the last witness was also called. to identify the lady she bad seen in the Commercial -road as a lady who had been to the brothel with Mr. Fenner. She saw them there six or eight months after Kendal had 16ft. ' John Bowen, who had b ee n employed " to get up evidence" for the respondent, said he had taken the Jacksons and Kendal to the Commercial -road to identify Mrs. Fisher. Two servants whO . had lived with Mr. and Mrs. Fisher several.years ago, were called to corroborate Mr. Fisher'S statement s as to the violence of her temper and conduct. One of them said . that Mrs. Fisher never seemed. happy but when she was quarreling. irgedtha o t ffc b n o c t e h , Mr. Serjeant Shee, in summing parties had been guilty of every uP, matrimonial but that they were g etting on together very well, and would, no . doubt, have lived happily in time, if they had not unfortunately made the acquaintance of Mr. Fenner, who took advantage of his intimacy with the family to aggravate their dissensions and to debauch Mrs. Fisher. Dr. Phillirnore, in reply, remarked With great severity upon the conduct of the "filthy miscreant," as he called the respondent, who had for years associated with prostitutes and treated his wife with inhuman brutality, an d who now trumped up a charge o f adultery aga i n st aga i n st her and supported it with perjury.: He c.mtended that the charge of cruelty ' - had been fully established against the respondent, -and that the slight evidence upon which the counter - charge of adultery rested was. entirely untrustworthy. It was ridiculous to imagine that Fenner would have taken Mrs. Fisher to Fisher's own brothel if he had been car rying on an intrigue withiher. To all the other injuries which Fisher had -.accumulated upon the head of his unfortunate wife he had now added that of endeavour ing to blast ,4r pharacter by slandering his own friend. The forenan said the jury would not trouble his lord ship to sum up, as they had made up their minds long ago. They found that the respondent had been guilty of adultery and cruelty, and that the petitioner had not been guilty of adultery. His lordship expressed his entire concurrence in the verdict, and pronounced a decree nisi with costs. EXTRAORDINARY DIVORCE CASE. One of the most extraordinary cases of divorce which we have ever heard of is at present on trial, at Brooklyn, near New York. The Nei), York Herald, in its issue of the 27th ult., give's the following resume of three days' proceedings :—" A curious divorce ease was commenced on Thursday, before Judge Lott, in the King's C ount y Circuit Court, in which Alfred Beardsley applies for a divorce f rom his wife, Mary Elizabeth Beardsley, on the ground of a d u lt ery with Dr. James Francis Mahan, of New York, to whom she had represented herself as a .single woman, daughter of a Mr. Seymour, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, by which the doctor was induced to marry her during the lifetime of her husband. The defence set up is mistaken identity and adultery on the part of the plaintiff with a principal witness. Great interest is excited in consequen ce , of the respectable posi tion in life of all the parties concerned. Mrs. Beardsley being a daughter of the Rev. Nathaniel D. Law, a Methodist minister. The case was resumed at Brooklyn, before Judge Lott, on Friday, when Dr. Mahan, the party to the alleged adultery with the de fendant, was again placed on the stand, where he re mained nearly the whole day. Sonic of the details of the evidence are too revolting for publication. An attempt is being made to prove that the person Dr. Mahan married was not Mrs. Beardsley, but a single woman, a companion of hers. If this be proven, Dr. Mahan, who has sworn to his subsequent marriage with another woman,' will be liable to an indictment f or bigamy, as well as another for conspiracy. On the other hand, if he did really marry Mrs. Beardsley, she will be liable to the indictment for bigamy. The case is full of mystery, and causes considerable excitement. The plot thickens. New and strange disclosures were made before the court on Saturday of the freaks of a rural editor, a clergyman's son and the plaintiff, with gamblers and other bad characters in houses of ill fame. The evi dence for the defence was closed last evening . Evidence in rebutter will be brought by counsel for the plaintiff to-day. The Rev. Joseph Law, the father of the defen dant, was on , the stand yesterday. It is expected that counsel will begin to sum up this evening, but how this most mysterious case will end nobody ventures to pre dict." MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY, AND ARTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP. Mr. Edward Everett has prepared a Life of Benjamin Franklin. The model for the monument to Ary Scheffer, at Dordrecht, is ready for casting. Madame Clara Novello has departed for Italy, where she intends to take up her residence. Mr. Woolner has in hand a statue of the late George Stephenson, for the Oxford Museum. On the 17th instant Messrs. Christie & Manson are to sell the musical library of Mr. John Hullah. Spohr's violin, a Stradivarius, we are assured, almost unique in quality, is in the market.-41thenmunz. The city of Florence is erecting a monument to the memory of Cherubini, her most illustrious musician. - Mr. and Mrs. Henri Drayton, according to recent American advises, have been appearing with success at MObile. Mr. Robert Stothard, one of the sons of the designer, proposes getting np, in the spring, an exhibition of his father's works.—Critic. " Ways and Words of Men of Letters" is the title of the new work of the Rev. J. Pycroft, the author of "Twenty Years in the Church," &c. We understand that M. Stephen Heller is expected to make a professional visit to London during the musical season of 1861.—Athe'uaum. The violinist Ernst is at present residing at Vienna, and in a considerably improved state of health. He has just put the last touches to his opera. There will be a representation of Mr. Tom Taylor's " Babes in the Wood," at Windsor Castle, on the 14th instant, by the command of her Majesty. Mr. J. Lothrop Motley's " History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort," is announced by Mr. Murray. Mr: Bentley is preparing for publication a series of " Lives of the Archbishops of York," to be followed by the " Lives of the Archbishops of Armagh." The intended performance of " La Traviata" in Berlin has been forbidden by the authorities, on the ground that the libretto is unfit for the ears of a Protestant city. The new name of an opera composer comes from Copenhagen. This is M. Berendt, whose opera, "A Trial of the Heart," is said to have had a success at the Royal Theatre. The Rev. John Barlow, whose retirement from the active duties of the secretaryship of the Royal Institu tion we lately announced, has been succeeded in his office by Dr. H. Bence Jones. The rehearsals of Rubinstein's new opera, " Les Enfants des Landes," are going on actively at Vienna, and it is probable that it may be brought out the end of the present month. Messrs. Chapman and Hall have nearly ready "The Island of the Saints ; a Pilgrimage through Ireland," by Julius Rodenberg, translated from the German by Lascelles Wraxall. The Berlin state paper informs us that the commission appointed to award the prize for the best drama of the last three years, has given its vote to the effect that no drama will be crowned this time. Amongst the papers of M. Frederic Braun, a cele brated amateur of Dresden, lately deceased, has been found the manuscript of an unpublished opera by Winter, composer of the " Interrupted Sacrifice." It is said iu Paris that Mr. Gye has found a tenor in Italy; also, that among his operas of 1861 are to be given "Guillaume Tell/' " L'Etoile" (with M. Faure as Peter), and a version of the " Pre aux Clercs." Mr. Sims Reeves has temporarily retired from his pro fessional duties, and the reason alleged is the .recent death of his father. Mr. George Perren has been en gaged as first tenor at her Majesty's Theatre. - 'Messrs. Macmillan announces a new book of travels. Tt is entitled "Cambridge Tourists in 1860," and will consist of a collection of accounts of tours by eminent members of the University, in Iceland, Italy, on the Alps, &e. Messrs. W. and R. Chambers announce their "Cham bers' Household Shakespeare," to be issued in weekly numbers. It will be on the same plan as Bowdler's, and has beeh prepared under the editorship of Mr. 'Wil liam Chambers and of Mr. Robert Carruthers, of Inver ness. ,We have reason to believe that the Council of the Institute of Architects propose immediately to take into consideration what course shall be adopted that archi tecture may be completely illustrated, and construction fully represented, in the Great Exhibition proposed to be held in 1862.—Buildcr. The " Trinummus" of Plautus will be performed by the Queen's Scholars of Westminster on the following nights :—Friday, December 14 ; Tuesday, December 18 ; and Thursday, December 20 ; with the addition of a prologue and epilogue on the latter two nights.— Saturday Review. The eighteenth volume of M. Thiers' " Histoire du Consulat et de Umpire" was published on Wednesday . , by Messrs. Paulin and Co:, Paris. The volume is divided into three books, entitled respectively, " Restaura tion des J3ourbons," " Gouvernement de Louis XVIII," and " Congres de Vienne." An inventory of all the treasures of Art in the Paris museums and imperial palaces is being made by order of LllO r.inputui. 01 11 1114 1 C.ll.i.tivE i t.i.e. vi uojtui vi aiV 1.1/ the churches and public collectioirs of the whole empire are contemplated. A grand Archaeological Art-Exhibi tion will soon be opened at Paris. The new planets have been named as follows :—No. 60 (discovered by Mr. Ferguson on the 15th September last), Titania ; Is t o. 61 (discovered by M. Goldschmidt on the 19th September), Dame ; and No. 62 (dis covered•by M. Forster in October), Erato. No 59 (dis. covered by M. Chacornac on the 12th September last is still unnamed. Gossips talkmysteriously of a gigantic commission. _ _ amounting, it is said, to £lo,ooosferling—given, or a. least offered. to Mr. Frith, R.A. It is too dark, this dullest of Decembers, to see anything in the studios, SQ we are unable, even in our mind's eye, to discern the faintest outline of a sketch on Mr. Frith's rumoured canvas.--Illustrated News. Some half century ago, there were novels in vogue which, under the titles of " Madeline," " The Abbey of St. Asaph," &c., created a sensation similar to that now produced by the works of Bulwer or Thackeray. A descendant of the author of these novels has, we are told, written a wor k o f fi ct i on, w hi c h w ill b e shortly published, under the quaint and attractive title, "The Ws)rld's _Furniture."—Athenwum. A very graceful compliment to dramatic art has just been paid by two of the most eminent literary professors of the art pictorial. Messrs. Clarkson Stanfield, R.A., and David Roberts, R.A., in kindly remembrance of their old connecti on w ith th e th ea t res as scen e painters, havejointly announced their intention of building a house in the Royal Draniatic College, and adorning it with Oictures from their pencils.—lllustrated News. , One of the masterpieces of the French school ot. the nineteenth century, Goricault's "Naufrage de la Me .in the Museum of the Louvre, shows such traces of pending destruction and corrosion that the govern ment has thought proper to have a copy taken, so that at least a r emembrance of this masterly creation shall be preserved. This large picture is at the most forty y ears old. The performances at the Theatre des Varie'te's at Toulouse were interrupted, a few nights back, by a sin gular incident. During the first act of the "Pecheresse," an enormous 'rat fell from the roof into the pit, whence it ran to the orchestra, and at last took refuge on the stage, to the great terror of the actresses, who uttered exclamations not to be found in the prompter's copy. Order was soon restored by the death of the intruder, which sins killed by one of the musicians. Messrs. Alexandre, the celebrated harmonium manu facturers, h ave just brought out an instrument, the name of which, indicates- its use--rannexe-piano. It seems to be A sort of harmonium on a small scale, with three octaves of notes, and three stops—the flute, the oboe, and another somewhat resembling . the.vox humane in an or gan. The k ey b oar d o f th e instrument is placed almostimmediately under that of the piano, so that the right hand can Play the melody on the annexe, whilst the left band takes the accompaniment on the piano. A few days -•ago the• German names of the streets in Agram were daubed over with black paint, and on the 28th of November there was an anti-German demonsta tion in the theatre. The German actors and actresses were not allowed to perform, and when they attempted to address the public, they were pelted with rotten eggs and other equally offensive missiles. The orchestra played " God Save -the Emperor," but the noise made by the audience was so tremendous that hardly a note tonic). be heard. The disturbance continued until a Croat actor appeared and promised his fellow-country mea that in future the Sclavonic language should be used on the:stage. HoLiewAv's Orxi,,,, m , r ANI -------- ---- - - r ------ .. n,L,.--ChestAffections: The frame deteriorati unus.m.ally mild darn —1 ) weatler fearfully tells on - the human its reservoir, en'oir, the lugn n-t he blood, and producing morbid results in by bronchitis g 8: Hen ce on all sides we are surrounded might be cured' readily cured , asthma, consumption; all of *which „hose active rinciple b Y Holloway's never-failing remedies, nil,4. - — wes the blood, and causes all mor bale matter speedily to be expelled from the body. With such means at hand, near bathshe o fountain, will they groan and die •. No : use and saved! If the sufferers be listless, let eir friends and relatives urge a trial of Holloway's medi cines, which 'WOrk wOnders on every tissue, by substituting pure for impu,re blood, and giving nervous power.... , . . COAL EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. Messrs. W. & H. Laird, in their Monthly Coat Circular for the month ending Oct. 31, 1860, give the followine , statement of exports of coal from all the ports of the United Kingdom to all ports abroad to which coals have been sent during the month : ;.,02 'ii ~.9.2. Liver- gs .o,i TOTAL, F.,... 0 . o pool ~- ' - 5 t f ; Oct., o •-• 0., ~,,,, . c , 0 Z P4 c , c 0., 43 p., 1860. ___ Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. France 80,715 6,822 3,898 35,238 2,815 129,541. Denmark 23,213 2,582 ... 2,413 3,685 31,893 Norway 6 ,146 5 77 - - - 5,875 12,5911 Sweden 14,914 2,045 . . 363 17,322 Russia 4,615 1,568 16 6,.679 • 13,173 Austria 5,564 1,334 ... 7,428 386 14,712 Germany 40,650 1,890 ... 1,308 5,386 49234 Prussia 24 038 332 283 500 549 25,702 Holland 29,100 100 ... 405 198 29,803 Belgium Spain Portugal 5,177 380 309 1,407 200 7,473 Italy 15,535 2,218 450 10,543 1,712 30,458 Mediterranean 3,744' 964 2,474 • 14,126 1,866 23,174 Greece 374 ... 107 3,584 774 4,839 Turkey 3,637 ... 307 8,713 ... 12,657 Africa 6,671 . 914 13,395 12 20,992 Australia •8 . . . 250 318 East Indie' West Indies North America South America Channel Islands 7,215 ... ... 691 ... 7,819 Heligoland ... ... ... .. 1 . 10 . 110 Iceland Azores ..54 169 223 ...• • • Canaries Madeira 1 062 ... 1,062 Ascension • • • • •• • ••• ••• 0.6 St. Helena Ladrone Islands ... ... ... ... ... ... Ncw Zealand ••• • • • ••• ••• ••• • •• S an d w ich Islands ... •• . ..• • •• ... ... Society Islands -• • • - ••• • •• ____- --- -- - - - --- Total 136,290 30,631 539,615 Exports 304,369 22,831 32,020 16 8 ,9 59 38 , 052 566 , 231 Do. ct., 1859 311,71 3 30,106 30,832 Incr. in Oct., 1860 1,188 32,6 6 9 7,418 26,616 • •• ''' Decrease do. 7,384 7,275 ~. ... ... ... Tons. 129,541. 31,893 12,596 17,322 13,178 14,712 49,234 25,702 29,803 4,185 29,614 7,473 30,458 23,174 4,839 12,657 20,992 318 41,507 12,276 24,583 20,536 7,819 The following is their statement of the exports of coals coastwise, from the port of Liverpool, for the month :-- To ports in England Tons 671 Ireland ............. „ 12,843 » Scotland.. 291 7, Wales . „ 4,282 /) Isle of Man . „ 193 Total .. Oct., 1859 „ 16,223 Increase, 1860.. „ 2-,057 The imports of South Wales, and other coals coastwise, into the port of Liverpool ibr the. month, are stated to be as follow : South Wales . Tons 6,074 North Wales „ 1,155 England If Scotland fl 84 Total 1859 „ 5,506 Increase, 1860.. „ 1,807 porting rittitigente. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY • TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. Quotations. Trainers. 7to 1 taken Oates Kettledrum Diophantes and Kettledrum (coupled) were supported at 3 to ; and the following were backed against the field :—Kattle— drum, Klarikoff, Preceptress, Nautilus, and Russley. THE DERBY, 1861. Quotations. Trainers.. 25 to 1 taken Fobert 30 to 1 taken Mannin g-50 to 1 taken Oates -50 to l taken May' 1000 to 15 taken W. Day 100 to I taken Dictator Nautilus Yorkininster Prcceptress .. Cassio Aurelian Mr. Jackson's Belleisle (brother to Riseber) and Jackal have gone into Mr. J. Prince's stables at Lambourne. Mr. E. J. Irwin's Irish Piper, engaged in next year's Derby, died a short time since from the effects of Castration. Dulcibella, winner of the Cesarewitch, and Weatherbound t w inner of the Cambridgeshire, are being placed on canvas by Harry Hall, of Newmarket, and are likely to add to the already we ll-known fame of the artist. Lord Palmerston's Orbit, by Planet—Longstop Lass, 2 years old, and a yearling by Rataplan---Romsey's dam, are gone to , Goatees stable, at Littleton, to be trained for thei r engage— ments. Mainstone will join them in a few days. TROTTING MATCH.—Mr. wolstencroft has backed his horse , Little Wonder against Mr. Battersby's Oldham Charley, for £6OO a side, to trot six miles in harness, on the Manchester and Altrincham turnpike road, December 31st, between two' and four o'clock p.m. It is said that the Hon. Admiral Rous, will, in the spring,• bring forward a motion to reduce the allowance to ford:go' horses now running in this country; and that he has several' other measures relative to the weights of great races in contem- ,- plation. . . T. Jennings returns to Newmarket next week with a second lot of horses from :France, comprising Black Prince, 4 yrs. ; Pierrefonds, 5 yrs.; Daman, 3 yrs. ; Royalien, 2 yrs. ; Com piegne, 2 yrs.; Egmont, 2 yrs. ; Grenadier, 2 yrs.; and Good bye, 2 yrs. During the past season ➢fr. J. Clark has officiated at thirty nine meetings, and judged 669 races. The number of rtarnerg at the said meetings has amounted in the aggregate to 4,865'.• Of the above races, the number of dead heats has amounted to) thirteen, being at the rate of one dead heat for every tbi4 l 4i meeting. Sir William Booth's stud will be offered for sale at Hyde- Park-corner on the 17th instant. The horses in training com prise Artless, Stampedo, Clovernook, and Loughope, together with a yearly filly by Tadmor, out of Weatherglass, and two brood mares, Beatrice and Repentance (dam of Stampedo). The Racing Calendar for 1861, just issued, shows an increase' of blood stock in all parts of the United Kingdom. The aggre— gate number of foals is 1,447, viz., 736 colts and 711 Allies, or nearly 100 more than last year. Touchstone is the sire of five' colts and six fillies, and will be thirty years of age on New , Year's Day. At the sale of the late M. Aumont's stud, which was very' thinly attended, Count de Morny and the late owner's son were the principal purchasers. Amongst others, the Count secured a fine strong-built yearling, Solferino, a son of Fitz- Gladiator, for 7,900 f., and the beautiful sister to Zouave, after some very spirited bidding, for 14,800 f. The "crack," Mon Etoile, was knocked down to M. P. Aumont for 34,000 f. Yous SPRING MEETING.—The Yorkshire Union Hunt Club have given two prizes of 50 sovs. each, to be run for at the York Spring Meeting, 1861. On the first day will be the Union Hunt Plate of 2 sovs. each, with 50 added, for bona fide half bred horses, two miles and a half ; and on the second day the Tally-ho Stakes, of 3 sovs. each, with 50 added, two miles' otelf the old course. Profesasional jockeys, grooms, and servants are excluded from riding. The entry for both stakes will close on the let of February. From the success of hunters'' stakes at other northern meetings last season, the races inc question are likely to prove most attractive. NOMENCLATURE.-Mr. J. Wilkin's two-year-old filly by Vul can, out of Merrywing, has been names Darid Ann. Mr. C. E. Johnstone's two-year-old colt Brother to Marionette, Scara mouch. Mr. G,Morton's chestnut yearling filrn by Weatherbit, out of Scotch Jeannie, Hailstorm. Mr. Stephenson's colt foal by Fandango, out of Springwell's dam, Abta , ll , a4n Lincoln. Mr. J. R. Riddle's Satanella, by Planet, 3 yrs,- has been re named Hypocrite. HUNTING FIXTURES. The WYNNSTAY PACK will meet on Tuesday, December 11, at Pcntre Buchan Thursday, December 13: at Allen Sadlers Friday, December 14, at Ralston Each day at half-past ten. Master, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., M.P. ; Huntsman, J.Walker. The CHESHIRE HOUNDS meet on Wednesday, December 12, at Wrenbury Station Thursday, December 13, at Cholmondeley Saturday, December 15, at. , Ildttmere Tuesday, December 15, at Sandtway llezt4 Thursday, December 20, at Tab/ey' Friday, December 21, at Note Monday, December 24, at Wrenbury RAMO* Wednesday, December 26, at Warmingham MOP Thursday, December 27, at Yale Royal Saturday, December 29, at Twemlow Hall Each day at half-past ten. PLAYING CARDS —Hitherto the keenly contested whist cribbage, too, &e., exhausted the use of the playing card. Now, however, the beautiful, instructive, and chaste designs OT Valid NChni"fiaTeeTifrent2f the tartliffii"Cirreleanftit Those manufactured by De la Rue and Co., are peculiarly rich in design, and can be had in great variety at Benson and Mai- , lat.'s, commercial stationers, 10. Castle-street. NEW INTENTION.—THE NEW FOUNTAIN PEN.—A greater annoyance than a bad steel pen can hardly be met with—the' difficulty is to get a good ouc. Amongst the recent improve ments the new " fountain pen," just introduced by Rudhall i and Co., is the best we have ever seen. By a simplebut effee.' tive contrivance the ink is retained in a fountain, by means of a second inverted barrel, above the writing nib, and this barrel can be taken out at any time, so the pen can be kept perfectly clean without any chance of being corroded. Another feature in this pen is, that one din in the ink will last fur five minutes' quick writing. The pen itself is of the finest description, tn d in merchants' offices, banks, and indeed in every place, it will be found to fill a want felt by every one up to this time. 1V have tried this splendid pen, handed to us by Mr. E. T. HA, South John-street, and can pronounce it perfect, and w'e' mid sure all who use it will give a full verdict in its favour, CONSUMPTION, COUGH, ASTHMA, AND BRONCHITIS CURABLE. —" I believe that the preparation of Balsam of Horehound and Aniseed (as prepared by Mr. Martin, of 22, Copperas hill, Liverpool,) will prove of more value, in cases of bron chitis and incipient consumption, than any other remedy extant. It relieves the most irritating rough in fen , 71TilltlieS and, although it contains no preparation of opium, it induces sound and refreshiny sleepy soothes the nervous system, and restores the healthy action of ,`he lungs." Recommended above all other medicines by Sir Alexonder Tralles—sec Thorason't Materia Medica, page 175, vol. 2. The following is frorti Brett, the eminent chemist :—" I consider the balsam of hone- hound and aniseed, as prepared by Mr. Martin, an clegaht and efficient cough remedy, and I fully agree with Sir Alexan , der Tralles and Dr. Anthony Todd Thom . io n, that, in conjunc tion with cod liver oil, it is an admiraN e remeaY for con sumption and delicate constitutions."—R. it Brett, Ph. Dr., M.R.C.S., late Lecturer on Chemistry and M e dical Jurispru dence, Liverpool Royal Infirmary. the balsam of horehound and aniseed is prepared only by I'. Martin, chemist, 22 , cop peras-hill, Liverpool ; but, owing to its great and increasing sale, agents have been appointed it: all principal tOwns any, cities. It can be procured wholesale from Raimes afid Co.. Edinburgh and York, from Sutton and Co., London, \Test macott, Manchester, and wholesale and retail from the ma:lu facturer, as above. Price, Is. 10., 2s. Pd., and 4s. Ad: cad:. The lozenges in box at Is. lad.• or free by post for lA. ed: INFANT-REARING. — Miss Martineau, who, like all philosof, phical ladies, has studied the matter thoroughly, says, tha " in England alone, 40,000 babes die annually; and cne-third more of that number grow up either idiotic, sickly, or de; formed." The reason is evident, as mothers, through inabilitl* to nurse their offspring, resort to the administration of baked flour, biscuits, tops-and-bottoms,or pap. The infant stomach cannot assimilate such crude preparations, and frequently rejects them; but still the nurse or mother continues them, under the hope of soothing the child. Internal inflammation place—eructations, diarrhma, and consumption appear—and most frequently convulsions are induced which seal the infant's fate. The Medical Times and Gazette, August 29, 1555, p. 215, conveys Dr. C. B. F. Routh's views on the same im portant subject, and his opinion of Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, as adapted to obviate the mischief effectually. Dr. Routk is physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and Children. This learned and experienced practitioner says : "The human milk contains, besides salts of lime, chloride of potassium. Now, in common with carbonic acid, this salt enjoys the peculiar property of dissolving carbonate of lime or chalk. An absence of it in the food, as in wheat bread, :8 very injurious to a growing child ; hence, a child fc., on pap for a time grows fat, but the bones are soft; frequently it sickens, and severe symptoms supervene. Amongst the vege ' table substances, that which comes closest to milk in its com position, besides being more easily assimilated and strengthen ing, is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, containing both phosphoric acid in abundance, and chloride of potaSsium; it also includes caseine, the same principle which is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder, there fore, that under its influence many children affected with atrophy (wasting away of the body) and marked debility have completely recovered. I have given it with the greatest advantage in such cases ; and, so far as I may judge from my own experience, practice fully carries out what theory, from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate. It gives good muscle and strenathens the bones, restoring tone, and a healthy, regular action to the stomach and bowels, whether constipation or a relaxed state of the system is complained of." C. B. F. Rom', M.D.—Packed in tins, with full instructions : 11b., 2s. 9d.; 2 lb., 4s. 6d. ; 51b., Ils. ; 121 b., 225.; 241 b., free of carriage, 405. Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street; a'so Fortnum, Mason and Co., Piccadilly; Abbiss, 60, Grua.. church-street, London; and through all grocers and chemists,. Agents in this district :—Nixon and Thew, 1, Castle-street; T. Low; J. Kirkus ; Forsyth; F. G. Jones, 5, Paradise-street; R. Sumner and Co. ; H. S. Alpass; E. Pearson and Son ; J. Oliver; W. Cross ; Sharp, Higgins, and Co. ; Clay and Abra ham, 37, Bold-street; Evans, Sons, and Co., wholesale agents ; John Beynon ; Thompson and Capper ; J • Strawson, druggist ; G. Bramwell and Son; C. Bromlow, 1, London-road; Isaac Woodville, tea dealer; R a i me s and Co., wh o l esa le druggi s t s; F. Staveley, druggist, Price -street ; T. D. Walker, Ranelagh street ; J. 11. Howell, 72, Dale-street; Hingston, druggist, Bold-street ; Henry Middleton ; Gilbert Brothers ; J. 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