The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-03-27 00:00:00

in nt ha , b- Ip - )f ,a ertY bile .ded AC a the der- that re they :40 0 our lake awl" stie d ilth .hargy and indifference, and to struggle manfully for the, preservation of all that is dear to them ? The 'Gentle-Men' of the Whig party, of whom our contemporary of the Liverpool Times is the especial organ, appear just now. to he in a situation very much resembling that of a puzzled pig -driver, or a hen with a brood of duckling's which have unfortunately become Possessed of an - inclination to dabble in the horse pond: The herd of bipeds, upon whom our contem porary has for the last month been exhausting the weapons and the vocabulary of Billingsgate, will not be driven,—but with the true obstinacy of porkers, prefer to journey to the shambles by a road of their own choosing ; and we are afraid that the coaxing vein, to which our contemporary has at length resorted, will be thrown away upon so unenlightened a race. :Yes —the Reformers of Liverpool, the "common fellows," the proprietors of beer-houses and barbers' s hops, boarding houses. and other houses whose local ity is not in the aristocratic regions of Abercromby square, or the rural retirement of Wavertree, have dared to select for themselves a candidate to represent their "most sweet voices" and persons in parliament, or rather to attempt so forlorn a hope. These men, "the uMvashed,"—to gratify whose tastes and likings "the editor of the Albion thinks fit to degrade his paper to the level of the Liverpool Chronicle,"—have dared to overlook the superior wisdom which centres in the "gentlemen" of their party, and to select Mr. Joshua. Walmsley, the Mayor of Liverpool, a "71 OMS IMMO," the chairman of that Very vulgar body, the Tradestnen's Reform Association, and a townsman, in preference to a man "of high parliamentary reputa tion, distinguished talents, tried liberality of principle and commanding influence," such as for instance Sir George Grey, or—who does the reader suppose ? " Lord Palmerston !"—the contemptible fribble whose very name provokes a laugh or a sneer in every court of Europe. What super-human obstinacy is here ? We C Ould -- 4eefi-Ilbt- our -contemporary, as we have often beery` inclined to do with the poor Emerahiers *horn :we 'have seen toiling and perishing amid the dust and heat- of a summer's day in the vain attempt to inspire inianhninity of sentiment into the minds of a drove of "elegant" pigs, fresh imported from New ry, atid 'reared in the sweet county of Kerry. We could:*eiP to think that our Rathbones and Earles, the elite : 6f our common Council, the "decus et tato men" of this great community, should be compelled to ocktiowledge as the "foremost man amongst them all" plain `JOshna Walthsley, mayor of Liverpool and not a' Barimet, and lose for ever, through the self-willed obstinacy of- their party, even the most distant hope of Walking- *Downing -street, some fine day, arm in arm with a eannet minister, and that minister Cupid himself. Seriously, ho weve r, it is a sad thing to see obstacles thrown, in the way of an object so easy of accomplish ment as the election of one Whig member for Liverpool Would be. The time has been when—but we will not a wake unpl easant reco ll ect i ons. W e s h ou ld really thi nk , however, that, notwithstanding the defection of the very small party whose ambition or something else our contemporary represents, there may be hopes for ; the May or a f ter all. Though not a Baronet, he may still be an M . P . and if not by fair means, he may by means not unknown to his party ; for our contemporary I tam ;Made the confession—a rather novel one from an admirer of the Reform Bill—that "human nature in a t en pound house is human nature still ;" whereas we, to our simplicity, had always believed that a rental of ten Pounds was the standard of every virtue under heaven. Our friend the Albion has already enlisted the bludgeons of the Irish in his favour; and with a little personation of voters, a few perjuries and other trifles, the Mayor may at any rate fight a good fight. A - friend at our - elbow suggests that perhaps it may be that some of the " Gentlemen" of the Whig party— Mr. William Itathbone himself or William Earle —may have a lurking wish to exhibit their own proper persons in the House of Commons, "et /zinc ille ire." Really we should no t won d er if this is not something very near the Mark. The sneer of the Times at -" that most in significant of politicians, General Gascoyne," is not unlike a projection of the venom which the backsliding Quaker on a former occasion launched at that amiable and excellent representative of the people of Liverpool. We should, nevertheless, strongly advise Mr. \Valais ley to persevere, for we do think he could bear a beat ing as well as any of those " Gentlemen" who stand golnuch- upon their order ; and we are afraid, too, that I - 4 rd Palmertton's-."-triefl. liberality of - principle and ewilmanding influence" (prodigious !) might be lost to hilt country foi , a season, if, in trying so wild an ex- Peritnent as - the' contesting of -Liverpool, he should un fortunately lose the snug, - rotten, .pocket borough of voters' `Stanley the second reading of the Irish .g moved Reistration Bill, on Wednesday evening last, when a very animated and interesting discussion en 611eclin the . of Commons. The object of this b11i1 !. to purify the Irish registries, which are noto r ,"Ay contaminated with fraud and perjury, on a 7 41 e of fearful an d g i gan tic magnitude. The inanu '4l.llT.e" of, wholesale fictitious votes, under the pre t sYstem, has been carried on to such a length as to c i gil tnostlotidly for the interposition of some salutary 'egislative enactment. There is scarcely a constituency ilf!,th4t country in which this has not been practised. raa fictitiousefacilitiee- now a ff or d e d for the multiplication of votes, conjoined with the very easy con sciences of the Popish rabble of Ireland, constitutes the title secret of O'Connell's influence over the re presentation. Inquiry after inquiry has fully established the truth 41 ' the foregoing remarks, and several attempts have bee n made to provide a remedy against the abuses which are - at present acknowledged to exist. These ilt liPts have hitherto proved abortive, because the __ ' Pieo4l7it - Mi n i stry d are not i ntro d uce a purer system o f If they did, O'Connell's tail would be 4F°el6l- Of more than one half of its joints, and the 4. !, l ,.easuri ng cast majority " of his Whig vassals would -:„lt#oar at' the same time. I. r"ro . :gtaniei his ventured to cope with the e x i s ting 7.l,lB'attetidant upon the Irish registrie s . Hi s me a su re uo:ikes at' the very root of the present system of d u d and penury. -- It is not surprising, therefore, that ie -APotild- be gre e t e d b y t h e a b use o f O'C onne ll an d - I ,lli ,! 6 :eW,.ortliat . the Ministry, whose fate has been so yerribling in the balance, should give their most opposition to the measure. We sh a ll l oo k vards with much anxiety to the division on Lord Stanley's motion. He has made a noble sacrifice of his thatt•lonal feeli ngs ; i n b r i ng i ng i t forward, and we trust his exampl e w ill b e emulated by the other Con ertiye.members of the Hou se o f Co mmons . If t h e y t ick their' duty, and are able to 'carry this measure 91rOugh,` the . claY is : not far distant' when the Popish .. ence in the House of Commons will be almOst ' 4l R i4a tedf It is some consolation to find that the t r eat q't,f4erVative:party in the House are beginning assume ~. .aggre ss i ve a tt i tu d e. Th e y have n ow Paul` `corn com menced an attack, and in right good earnest, upon one of the strongest fortresses of their enemies. We cordially wish th em every Prise. success in their enter . • .We would particularly direct the attention of our :;enders to the excellent and impressive remarks made * Mr. Justice Coleridge, in his charge to the jury 4esterday, on the subject of religious education. The 4ttirnony of so distinguished a character on this irri- OrtaAt.topic is of the highest value, and must carry 'h it great weight. Mr. SitiztlFF EVANS.—In the course of yesterday this Persecuted gentleman arrived. This visit was expected, and, . 1 1.$ he had promised to attend a Secial Meeting of the Liver- Pool Conservative Association thi s evening at the York Hotel, ' l, ,es anxi ous l y looked for. On yesterday afternoon, about 3 dock, 'he proceeded in company with Messrs. Samuel liohne, Dawson, Potter Walker, and several other gentle en, to the Exchange liooms, where he was warmly greeted ly his friends, and the admirers of his uncompromising re !l44stanee to the Felf-arrogated power of a "tyrant majority" I the House of Commons. Three times three cheers hay „loll:been simultaneously and unanimously 'given; tolr. Evans raetired, accompanied by the above-named gentlemen, n o frog ighly gratified with his reception, and confident, :,.trt this display of p u bli c feeling, that the. meeting of this . 1 1 , 4 t11t would be not unwort h y o f hi s atten d ance . !tA..,_ . ---Ther e is now landing from the American packet &Om NeW.York, about 3,000 chests of tea. itlarawiltnot, ofuourse, affect the tea. market here, as the Br ja-adosi,saabln for home consumption when imported in j asicildtplini‘oillY.: The whole will be put in.bond, prior 7Texpottatints far, w e l earn; :British America. ii.4l -0-14 qksang , 4 ,1 55 A bear that on Friday last, dit y beltiltij6 °tPOritiOniif tiiiitaster paid their re to ilar.' . .inatice!Colerid ve; Div his arrival in their town, . ° il t i lgr f l i lh iPi•FPF lnur ! i g i f t e4 tem ,the 13 . 1eAshag intelligence .a•!thele IX a probability Of 't iiteigig'being brought 'back Lintaittii; ththletratiowatul removal of a part of `l9 **l 6 4tos • 1 ;a -Live P 0 0 1 311 44 *en attended with great in k__ e ewe and ha can gulch distattifactton.-.-Black. -"v7i Standard. SOUTH LANCASHIRE SPRING ASSIZES. The assizes for the southern division of the county of LancasterusticeColeridge n commencedand the H yesterday. on.r .T Justicehe lea Erskine r ned j g , e a s r , r i M v e r d . J in this town on W e d nes d ay afternoon, accompanied, as usual, by the High Sheriff, Thomas Fitzherbert Brockholes, Esq., of Claughto n H a ll, near G arstang, and an escort of his men. They proceeded to the Crown Court, where the commission was opened with the customary forms. Their lordships then went to St. George's Church, where prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Pedder, the sheriff's chaplain. At ten o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Justice Coleridge entered the Crown Court, which was opened with the usual forms. The roll of magistrates was read over, as was also that of coroners. Mr. Dearden, the coroner for the Rochdale divi sion, did not answer to his name. The learned JUDGE said coroners ought to attend the court early. Their presence at the assizes was of real importance ; there were a great many cases of coroner's inquisitions, and it might be that a case might fail without their presence. His lordship then ordered Mr. Dearden to be fined 40s. The following were sworn on the grand inquest : Sir Henry Bold Houghton, Bart., of Bold Hall, Foreman, Sir George Drinkwater, Knight, of Liverpool. Sir Thomas Brancker, Knight, of Liverpool. Henry Ashton, Esq., of Woolton. James Aspinall, Esq., of Liverpool. Charles Dixon Archibald, Esq., of Rasland Hall. John Bourne, Esq., of Liverpool. Peter Bonnie, Esq., of Liverpool. Thomas Bright Crosse, Esq., of Shawe Hall. William Wallace Currie, Esq., of Ellerlies. Pattison Ellames, Esq., of Allerton Michael Hughes, Esq., of Shirdley Hall. Ralph Thicknesse, Esq., of Beech Hill. William Gerard Walmsley, Esq., of The Platts. Joshua Walmsley, Esq., of Liverpool. Hugh Hornby Birley, sq., of Swinton House. William Gale, Esq., of Lighthouse House. John Lewis Phipps, Esq., of Doe Park. W. G. Unsworth, Esq., of Maghull. William Rathbone, Esq., of Green Bank. Huraphry Trafford, Esq., of Trafford Park. William Garnett, Esq., of Lark Hill. William Blundell, Esq., of Crosby Hall. Nicholas Blundell, Esq., of Crosby Hall. Silence having been proclaimed, the royal proclamation for the suppression of vice, profaneness, and immorality was read. The learned JUDGE then proceeded to deliver the charge to the grand jury. He was sorry diet the calendar they had to dispose of was a very numerous one, he was afraid even for this county, and to perceive at the same time that a very large proportion of it was for very serious offences. A great deal of their time, he feared, must be taken up in the exa mination of these cases, and he need not say how much of their serious attention. With regard to the first—to the time they would. be employed upon the calendar, be knew not whether it was. necessary—perhaps it was riot—to state that as they sat only as a court of preliminary enquiry upon the part of the Crown, if they found a very great number of wit nesses brought before them in any particular case, it would not be necessary to go into the examination of all of them, but to cease as soon as they were satisfied there was proof of a case for enquiry before a petit jury. With regard to the other point, the degree of attention they should bestow, it was unnecessary for him to say a single word more than this, that if they should find, upon the examination of this or that witness, a reasonable probability that the charge wasunfound ed, that circumstance should lead them at once to a more dili gent investigation, for they did not meet so properly to pro tect the interests of the prisoner, but as they were a step be tween him and the common jury, any thing like that arising in their minds should lead to a more full investigation of the case. Having so much before them, he would not detain them by any further general remarks, but go at once to the individual cases on which he thought it necessary to say 'a few words. He was sorry to find there were no less than five cases of wilful murder to come before them. None of these cases, however, presented to his mind any peculiar cir cumstances of aggravation, considering the serious nature of the charge ; and a great many of them, he thought at all events the larger proportion, would melt down to a charge of an inferior description. The first of these cases which oc curred to him as calling for observation, was No. 72 in the calendar, against a man named Joseph Knight. This was a case attended by very remarkable circumstances. They would find he was charged with having wilfully murdered an infant female child before its baptism : its mother was his own sister-in-law, and he was the father of it. The husband of his sister-in-law, it appeared, had fled to America, but under what circumstances it was immaterial to inquire. The child was born, and within a few hours afterwards, with the consent of the mother, it was taken away by the father, and from the time of his hav ing possessed himself of it, it had never been seen again. Suspicion attached to the prisoner and to the mother from the disappearance of the child, and both were taken betbre the magistrate; but the magistrate was very shortly satisfied that the mother was innocent of any wrong done to the child. She then became a witness for the Crown, and stated that there had been an agreement between the father and herself, before the child was horn—not an unnatural one under such painful circumstances—that the child should be disposed of privately, and taken to nurse, and that feeling anxious about it, she often asked him for it, but he refused to tell her where it was. The prisoner refused to produce it, but as serted it was alive, and in the charge of a nurse. He ulti mately stated that he had taken the child that night (and no doubt he. had) to nurse, but that on his way he stumbled over a heap of stones, with the child in his arms, and that, on getting up, he found it was dead—he knew not how, hut he attributed it partly to the fall and partly to the compres sion of flannels, used to protect it from the cold—and that, in his disturbance of mind and agitation, he had thrown it into the water. This was after he had stated many circum stances of a contrary description; and in addition, it appear ed that the witness who spoke of this was also the bearer of a message from the father, to find the father a female child of five or six weeks old, to produce before the magistrate. It was therefore a case made out almost entirely by the pri soner's statements and the contradictions of them ; and the most remarkable circumstance attending it was this, that the body of the child was not produced. The water into which the father said he had thrown it had been searched; but this was several weeks afterwards, and the decomposition that would rapidly take place of one so young, might account for the non-production of the body. That great and good judge, Lord Hale, had laid it down as a rule for his own guidance— and that which was a rule of guidance for him might be a safe one for any person—that he would never proceed to the con viction of a party charged with murder where there was not direct evidence of the putting to death, or the production of the body. Neither of these was the case here : but he apprehended that Lord Hale, in laying doatn , this .svit, meant it only as a safe rule to guide discretion by - , :but cer tainly as no rule of law. It would be very easy to produce cases where the want of evidence of the crime would be suf ficient to make out the charge. Suppose two men went to sea, and only one returned : one man might have thrown the other overboard, and the body not be produced, though the party had actually committed the offence. He did not mean to put this to them as a point of law, or as a stringent reason for throwing out the bill ; but to see whether the amount of contradictions would not justify them in sending the prisoner for trial. The prisoner alleged that the child was bound in and covered with a great many and rather tight flannels, so that it was suffocated. That was open to inquiry—how was the child sent out by the nurse, and so on ; but he only mentioned these points to give an example of the mode in which they should enter on the inquiry. There was another case, No. 74, in which a prisoner named Nicholas Fleming was charged with murder. This also was a remarkable case. The de ceased lodged in the same house with the prisoner and his wife. There was no, reason to suppose that there was any improper intimacy between the prisoner and the deceased, or anything like a grudge. The deceased was employed as a dressmaker, and was not in affluent circumstances ; she was not therefore an object for plunder, for it appeared she had about her only half a sovereign and a few coppers. It ap peared pretty clearly, that in the course of the night the prisoner entered the room where she was in bed ; he was half dressed • she was awoke by the noise, and found him with a pistOl in his hand; she spoke to him, but he dis charged his pistol at her, and she was severely wounded. The wife came in, and implored the deceased not to say who did it, and the prisoner carried her to the Infirmary, upon a promise that she would not reveal the fact he desired her to say that it was an individual in a white frock coat, whose per son she did not know; and he (the learned Judge) believed that she did say so. A great many declarations were made which he could not say were evidence, inasmuch as they were not made in the contemplation of death. However, there were statements enough, not made between the parties, but overheard when they came to the Infirmary, to make it pretty clear that the prisoner was the man. But the circum stance should be noticed, that although the deceased was grievously wounded, there was no ball in the pistol. The prisoner said the pistol was his, but he seemed hardly con scious whether it was loaded or not. It was a very remark able and mysterious case, and the question would be whether he was conscious of the act he was doing, or, if he was con scious, whether he was conscious that the pistol was loaded ; because it was attended with the remarkable fact, that there was no ball in it. None had been found, and the medical men spoke of nothing like injury by a ball, but said her death was occasioned by severe laceration and the general shock to the system, which produced lock jaw, of which she ultimately died. He should wish them, in determining whether it was murder or manslaughter, to investigate what was passing in the prisoner's mind ; whether he was conscious or not that the pistol was loaded. If they believed he knew it was not loaded, yet went so near the deceased as to kill her, that would be murder ; for no man had a right to use loaded wea pons with so much incompetency or carelessness as to take away the life of another person. If it was not reducible to a pure accident, nothing less than a bill for manslaughter would satisfy the justice of the case. There were two cases, No 71, against Hannah Blackburn, and No. 72, against Joseph Knight, both of child murder. There was no doubt, he thought, in either of these cases; and in each case, that the mothers were both the mothers of the children so destroyed. The grand jury were aware how the law now stood with re gard to the offence of child-murder by the mother, with con cealment of the birth afterivards. Until the latter end of the reign of George the Fourth, the only mode in which a party who was mother of a child base born, afterwards disposed of the child—the only way in which this offence could be reached, was by charging the mother with the crime of wilful murder. But if the jury were satisfied that there was no ground for that charge, they might bring in a verdict of con. cealing the birth. That was felt to be an improper state of the law, because it authorised the grand jury to find a bill for wilful murder, although they were satisfied there was no evi dence of it. The law was now altered, and concealment of the body, by disposing of it, was made a misdemeanour, pu nishable as the offence was before ; and at the same time as t rcßw l eh i eum e illtld l oi e twvrf g heeht i endh s a l c.etb a rya t wiT u sinsae r hhs e eeobg m ruofioerl ad e that alteration, th e l aw , was extended to rdid n nsu . tgbc eget Tudoo question st e oat:ppeo distinctionopinion nfeinfos oon,r tttl hhoi awaetit att b ihshn e eetq t yshwueawietrreeyeonrrfest wouldohcneo asn, aboutc knowing concealment. n 2 8 0 ne whe therb noewt. come mothers of children, placed themselves in such a situa tion, or neglected to make such precautions, that the neces vary and inevitable consequence was death to the child so born, then it brought itself like any other case in which ne glect or want of care occasioned the death of another human being, and there must be a bill for manslaughter. Then again, he was sorry to say, the legislature, remedying the defect as they did before, had left the law unaltered with re gard to the crime of wilful murder; and it now stood thus— if any woman Murdered her child, it would be lawful for the jury to find her guilty of concealment : therefore, unless they found a bill for wilful murder, the parties would not be reach ed 'for the offence of concealment, of which they were pro bably guilty. The law must not, however, be strained. If, in the end, they should find a bill for manslaughter, and that should terminate in an acquittal, and the jury should be sa tisfied that the party did conceal the birth, recourse must be had to another bill, on the charge of concealment. But he would not, in any case, advise them to find a bill for wilful murder unless there was evidence sufficient to put the party upon their trial. Then came the charge against Nos. 69 and 70 in the calendar, George Murray and John Costello, for wilful murder. The facts appeared to be, briefly, that there was between Murray and Costello, and other persons, a drunken scuffle and fighting, and that Murray and Costello had, received provocation by blows. It seemed probable that what they did afterwards was done under a great deal of provocation from blows received, when their blood was ex cited, and they being also in a state of intoxication. A few words from him upon this plea of provocation would proba bly serve to save time in several other cases that would have to be brought forward. With regard to provocation, there was no doubt that when provocation had been received by blows, and the blood excited thereby, and when, in that state of excitement, something was done that took away the life of another person, the law of this country, in condescension to human infirmity, knowing that such a state of mind took awaY the goverzuwout and control of the paiiione, reduced the offence from wilful murder to manslaughter. The pecu liarity in this case was, that the deceased seemed to have been altogether unoffending, for he had been quietly sitting with one of the witnesses in the room. He went out, and Murray and Costello appeared to have mistaken him and his companion for the two persons with whom they had been quarrelling. The deceased was felled to the ground, and killed upon the spot. The witness, who came up immedi ately after, received a similar blow, but not so violent ; and when he had recovered he found his coinpanion in the state he had described. So that in this case the parties who re ceived the blows were not the parties who gave the provoca tion. The grand jury, however, could make no distinction between the cases. The fact was, that what the prisoners had done was done under the influence of provocation and excitement ; and he (the learned Judge) thought, therefore, that the deceased and his friend must be put in the same situation as the persons quarrelling with them ; but whether the provocation was of that nature which would reduce the crime to manslaughter they would take into their serious consideration. Although the law condescended to human infirmity it would not allow human infirmity a cloak for malice ; consequently, if they found that this deed was not done from excitement and provocation, it would he wilful murder. The other circumstance in this case and which was common in occurrences of this nature, and which indeed was always urged by way of excuse, was drunkenness. By our own law, drunkenness, that was voluntary drunkenness or that which a man brought upon himself, for he (the learn ed judge) was not satisfied that a man could be made drunk by other persons, was no excuse or alleviation for any crime whatever. The law, though it condescended, as he had before observed, to human infirmity, would not allow any M5ll to urge the infirmity which he thus voluntarily brought upon himself. Therefore, if any man in a state of vol untary drunkenness took away the life of another per son, he (the learned Judge) had no hesitation in saying that that simple circumstance alone would not make the case less than wilful murder. It was vain for a party to say, " I was drunk, and I would not have done it if I had been sober." The law said, 6` You have no right to be drunk ; you have no right to put yourself in a state in which you lose the go vernment of your passions." The law did not lay down one rule for the drunken, and another for the sober man. If it did, the sober man would meet with much more severe pu nishment than the habitual drunkard : besides which, there would be a difficulty in ascertaining whether the party had not got drunk for the purpose of committing the offence. He (the learned Judge) was aware they would find it stated in some of the books, that in certain cases judges had been allowed to take into consideration the circumstance of drun kenness where malice was an ingredient in the offence. Now he must wholly dissent from that proposition, and he would mention, that the cases in which that principle was laid down had been overruled by his learned brother, Mr. Baron Parke. But there was still this to be considered, that sometimes you wanted to ascertain the existence of malice from collateral facts or declarations. For example, one man had stabbed another, and you wanted to know whether he intended to murder him. If the prosecutor tried to make out malice by the language the prisoner made use of, it was tit to in quire whether the man was drunk when he used the words, because, as a matter of evidence, the same words used by a sober men might have a different meaning to those of a drunken man, and those of a drunken man a different meaning to the same words of a sober man ; therefore he (the learned judge) quite agreed that they were proper to be investigated. But at the same time, and he wished this to be distinctly remembered by all who heard him, henceforth no man who had made himself drunk would be allowed to plead drunkenness, either as a defence, or as an alleviation for his conduct. These, then, were the cases of wilful murder. He passed from them to a class of cases, which he knew not whether they were not almost more revolting and disgraceful in the present state of this country than. any other crime—he meant the cases of stabbing and cutting. He was sorry to find they were very numerous, there being no less than eight or nine of them. In this country, if there was any thing among the classes more immediately concerned, of which we once had reason to be proud than another, it was the English mode of settling little disputes, in the right and natural way which their own limbs and hands enabled them to do. They had not used to have recourse to the foreign and un-English mode of taking vengeance by using the knife or the stiletto. He was sorry to say that we could not now take that boast justly to ourselves, for the offence of stabbing not only here but in other circuits as he found by the charges of learned judges had alarmingly increased. He musts in that place state that it would be absolutely necessary in order to put down so dangerous and increasing an offence, that the judges should exercise the utmost severity, that they should see whether people would still have recourse to this dangerous and wicked mode of vengeance—to see whe ther they could not put a stop to it by means of severity and punishment. After some further observations on cases of this nature and an exposition of the present state of the law, in the course of which he noticed that of William Gill as being the worst in the calendar, the learned judge referred to a charge of rape and one of arson in each of which he gave an outline of the circumstances and applied the law to them. He then proceeded to observe that these were all the serious cases on which he should think it necessary to trouble them with any observations. It was possible in disposing of the calendar that they might find some other cases in which they would be desirous of asking him questions. He could only say that with regard to them or to any other he should be ex ceedingly glad to be applied to render any service in his power. He was sorry to say it was impossible for him to close these without noticing, with regret, that in addition to the large number of twenty or thirty or more—of persons indicted at the last assizes for offences of the nature of sedition, some others were to be presented before them on charges of a like description. He dared say that on the last occasion they c w o e u r s e ti f t u u l t ly i n of t instructed his i o n a n t h t r e y na t t h u e re u o t f in tl ( l ) o s t se p o o ff s e s n i b c l e e s . freedom was allowed for the discussion of the conduct of persons however high in the state—and for the discussion of the r i t c h . t e y r , e o f r o legality e w o l f t s a any measures lmced al also o f government,fo perpersons proper Whe ther and for propriety, peace m ab e l e y tio t g o s aosfsetuhribsle natureand dwiserrlisseitrillieorse:pirnuedaesoutreosr. he must he allowed to feel the greatest possible doubt. When we considered how little possible good could result from ttohedmis,cuhsos th wi oe questions,ll;qualifici th how dangerous eindividualsa the tten ssedinagtmhebi m iii were • ofere the people in large numbers was, how rapidly excitement pro pogated itself from one district to another, how soon the peo ple forgot their principal objects—doubt, he said, was not the proper term for him to use, because he had no hesitation in saying it was most improper, unprofitable, and highly dangerous practice for persons of that description. And he mint say that many persons who went •to meetings of this sort out of idle curiosity, had far better stay away. It was •herdly liessiblefor.any- persons .ti;.laso-uaglanoenied s p ec u daen .. Thg mere assemhliug.of large numbers added to the, danger, and by exciting the fears of persons not there, made it more difficult to put down meetings of this sort. Therefore the true course for the well disposed was not to attena them; but if they had not the courage to assist the civil magistrate to put them down—as it was their duty tout them down-- let them withdraw themselves and go ho. He had said it was lawful for persons to meet in the way he had described and he had said also it was higly dangerous and unwise for them to do so. At these meetings speeches of the kind here alleged were made; but the grand jury, as magistrates, knew they had a duty to discharge. The law cornered 'eon them large powers. It would be wise when they did inter& T, to interfere with promptness and with as strong a hive a they had at their command ; and in addition -to the powers with which the constitution invested them • of swearing in special constables, they had the power to call in, and make it the duty of those to whom the call was ad dressed—all the peaceable and well-disposed of her Majesty's subjects—to assist them in keeping the peace. He would fain hope these things would draw to au end. That would not, however, be done—it were idle to suppose it could be done —simply by the measures the courts of justice should take in the way of punishment. It could not be done merely by the measures the magistrates might take by inflicting 'minor pu nishments, because that would only keep down the evil before hand, and not keep down the cause of it. It was idle to say that in this country there were not causes atwork to keep it up. The magistrates, the gentry, the merchants, the manufacturers of the country, had all great and important duties cast upon them by the present state of things. The problem was, how shall we restore that peaceful state of things, that good feeling, that cheerful loyalty for which this country had been so re markable,' that harmony between the higher andthe lower orders. If, in answer to that, he said a little upon the sub ject of education, it was not because he undervalued it—it was not because he was one of those who thought education was not producing the effects promised from it. Upon the centrary, he firmly believed that a Christian education must produce all the good effects promised from it, in time ; but he did not omit from his consideration the many discourag ing circumstances they had to contend with. The rapidly increasing population, the great growth of manufactures, the wealth among the higher classes and the depression of the lower orders, were dangerous juxta-positions, if he might use the term, between the comforts of one class of the people with the necesary pressure upon the other—all these things must be considered ; they all tended to retard the effect of education. Besides, education must operate upon the rising generation, whereas the pressure was upon the adult popula tion. Without time the effect of education could be but small. And allow him to say, that education had not been tried a sufficient time to effect any change in the whole population ; it had neither been carried to a sufficient extent nor carried out upon true Christian principles. In his notion. a Christian education did not conist in being taught the catechism and to read the Bible ; if it gave no more it gave but little ; a Christian education must be founded upon principles which pervade it in every part. But, as he had said before, the effect of education was not so much upon those who pressed upon us most now, as those who were coming here after ; and he merely said this that we might not slacken their, own efforts. Indeed he was sure that in this town where so much had been done on so great a scale, they would not. It was not however for him to point out de tails. He would only point out that upon them, and upon men of all classes, upon each in the circle of which he was the centre—upon each and all, was the bounden duty of at tempting to restore that wholesome feeling which once did exist. He believed much more might. be done by individual benevolence and wisdom, by kindness, by going among the people, by reminding them of their relative duties in life, to promote harmony and good feeling, than by agitating upon political questions —or by teaching them they had, rights which were withholden from them, or by ex tending the franchise the exercise of which was an hindrance instead of an advantage. It was in short by extending their comforts, and by teaching the people how to appreciate them, by giving them a Christian education, that the most good would be done. These were questions which were perhaps out of place, but he had felt it his duty thus to allude to them. The learned Judge then dismissed the grand jury to their la- bours. The grand jury having found several true bills, the court proceeded to try the BANK AND MINT CASES. Ann Collins, aged 28, stood indicted on a charge of having at Manchester, feloniously had in her possession one mould, upon which was impressed the figure and apparent resem blance of one of the sides of a shilling, and also with having another mould impressed with the obverse. M. Sergeant ATCHEPLEY (with whom was Mr. Perry) stated the case to the jury as it afterwards appeared hi evi dence. John niggles, a police inspector, said he was on duty at Sal ford on 22d April last. He saw Mary Lister, the prisoner's mother that afternoon, and in consequence of information from her, sent other constables to search a house in George Leigh-street. They brought a perfect mould and a half one. He afterwards went to the cellar where the prisoner and her mother lived. He there found a counterfeit shilling, and pieces of moulds, some plaster of Paris, some metal, and a ladle—produced. Lindsay, an officer who was with him, gave him a knife which was marked with plaster of Paris, Hartley, a police officer, said he went, with others, to a house in George Leigh-street, Manchester. He saw the prisoner as be went, with her mother. In the house they found Smith's wife and sister, the prisoner's mother. In an oven, in the front room, or house p art, the y fou nd a complete mould, a half mould, and some metal wrapped in a brown paper parcel. Ile took Smith's sister into custody, an d afterwards Smith. On the Tuesday following he went with another officer to the cellar of the prisoner's mother. Samuel Butterworth, a police watchman, accompanied the last witness, and s e a rched the cellar of the prisoner's mother. He found several articles there, and afterwrads took the prisoner into custody. The mother pointed out Smith's house. James Lindsay was with the last. and searched the cellar. They found several pieces of moulds. Mary Smith, wife of Aaron Smith, said, she lived with her husband in George Leigh-street. He was employed as a maker up of piece goods. On the 22d of. April. her hus• band went to work at eight o'clock in the morning, and did not return tilinight. The prisoner oame to their house that forenoon. No one was there but the prisoner and herself. Witness had searched the oven that morning, and there was nothing in it but three bits of white paper. She cleaned it out. The prisoner sat near the oven. She stopped about half an hour. In the afternoon she came again. Witness was still working. Prisoner Eat in the same place as before. Witness had her back to the oven. Witness was present when the officer found a brown parcel in the oven. She had never seen it before. Adam Smith, husband of the last witness said, he went to his work at Mr. Garsides that day, and did not get home again until between 11 and 12 at night. Mr. John Garside said, the last witness was in his father's employ, and was at his work the whole of the 22d of April. He saw hint last at about half-past ten at night. The JUDGE here remarked, that the evidence so far did not prove a guilty possession against the prisoner. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY said, they:could prove the find ing of the shilling with which the mould was made in the cellar of the mother. The JUDGE.—Even that would not prove the guilty pos session by the prisoner. Anne Booth said she saw the prisoner on the 22d April in the street, with her mother and her mother's sister. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY said he could not carry the case further. The learned JUDGE said that there was no evidence that the prisoner knew what was in the parcel, and that she might have been employed by her mother as a messenger only. Under his lordship's direction, the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. George Davis, alias Gerard, 24, was charged with having, at Salford, feloniously uttered to Thomas Curran, on the 15th August, two counterfeit half-crowns, well knowins the same to be counterfeit ; and he having before been conticted of a similar offence, for which he suffered a year's imprison ment. The offence occurred in Salford. Mr. Murphy defended the prisoner. William Edward Powell, assistant solicitor of the Mint, produced a copy of the previous conviction, and identified the prisoner as the man. The conviction having been read, Thomas Curran was called, and deposed as follows am a shoemaker, in Richmond-court, Manchester. The prisoner came to me and wanted a pair of Clarence boots mending. He came for them two days after, between eleven and twelve o'clock at night, and excused himself for coming at that hour by saving he was going off by the mail at three in the morning. I gave him the boots. The repairs came to six shillings, and he paid me two half-crowns and a shil ling, which I put on the chimney-piece. My wife got the money. In the morning she gave me a half-crown and shilling, and they were both bad. ' Mary Curran corroborated the last witness. She went to buy some bread, with the money in her hand. She gave the, shilling, but it was refused. She then gave one of the half crowns, and got the_change. She afterwards took the other half-crown to a pawnbroker's, who refused it. The prisoner was the man who came with the boots. Thomas Eccles rernemhered the last witness giving him the bad shilling for some bread, and afterwards the half crown, which he changed. Soon afterwards, his sister brought him the same half-crown out of the till, and he then saw it was a bad one. He gave it to one of the police. No other half-crown was taken that morning. Nothing material was elicited in cross-examination. Dorothy Eccles, sister of the last witness, said she found the half-crown in the till, and gave it to her brother. She saw it was a bad one. Normansell, a police-officer, said that Curran brought him, on the 15th of August, a bad half-crown and a bad shilling. He (Curran) described the prisoner, whom witness afterwards found at the Rising Sun public-house, the same afternoon, playing at dominoes. In the prisoner's possession he found £3 18s 20, all good money. He went into the prisoner's bed-room, in the same house, and found some white sand and white powder. The prisoner, on being told that he had passed two bad half-crowns and a bad shilling, said, if he had it was unknown to him. Job Diggles, of the Salford police, re'eeived the prisoner, who said he must have taken the money in change. He afterwards said he had got the half-crowns from a girl, but his story was not consistent. Mr. Powell of the mint said, the money produced was all bal. The sand produced was called silver sand, and was used by coiners to finish off the irregularities left by the mould. The coins were then identified, and Mr. Murphy addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. He pressed upon the jury the disadvantage under winch the prisoner laboured, in consequence of the statute requiring that the former con viction should, in the first instance, be read ; and besought them to consider the case on its own individual merits. He contended that the case was one . of suspicion only, and hoped they would not convict upon it. The learned judge then summed up in a perspicuous man ner, and the jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner guilty.—Sentence was deferred. John Mack, 29, stood charged with having in his posses sion a mould, upon which was impressed the figure, stamp, and apparent resemblance of both sides of a half-crown, and the figure, stamp, and apparent resemblance of both sides of a shilling. Mary Ann Steel.—l sell cakes and oranges on the qauys. On the 16th January, about 6 o'clock in the evening, I was at the Clarence Dock. There was an Irish steamer going to sail. I saw the prisoner and asked him if he would buy any cakes or oranges. He said he had no money. He afterwards said he would buy a penny cake and two biscuits. He gave me Gd and I gave him 4d in change. I afterwards looked at the Gn and found it was a bad one. I afterwards went on board the boat and asked him to change it. He said he had not given it me. He walked round the packet, and I followed him. He gave me back my own cake, one of the biscuits, and two pigs feet. He asked me not to expose -him. 1 agreed to take the pigs' feet, &c., for my sixpence. He then took out some money. It was in a paper, and two or three half-crowns, and some shillings and sixpences fell on the deck. He had a bundle under his arm. I saw the bundle afterwards in the hands of a policinan that night. 1 gave the pigs' feet to a policeman. There were gas lights and moonlight. Catherine Welsh, the wife of Patrick Welsh.—l was at the dock that night. I had pigs' feet and biscuits. I sold him two of the feet and a biscuit for a sixpence in silver which he gave me. 1 afterwards saw the pigs' feet with Mary Ann Steel. I knew them again. I had come out in a hurry with them that night, and had left the back hoofs ou them. I then went to a light and found the sixpence the prisoner had given me was a " bad one. I gave it to police officer Kelly. The prisoner was afterwards brought from on board in cus tody, and on him was found the biscuit he had bought from me. It was marked " Stewart," the baker's name. Edward Wallace, porter to the Dublin Steam Packet Com pany. It was his duty to let no one on board who had not tickets. Mary Ann Steel showed me a sixpence, and 1 thought it was a bad one.- She told the prisoner he 'had given her a bad sixpence. He said he had not. Witness said it was a shame to cheat the little girl. He said he had not done so. He then offered her the pig's feet and biscuits for the sixpence. He pulled out some money, which fell, and he picked it up. It appeared to be two or three half crowns and some shillings. He had a bundle. Fisher, the officer, came on board, and witness showed him the bundle, which was then in the hand of another person. Henry Kelly, police-officer, said—l was on duty that night near the dock, and saw Catharine Welsh. I went on board the vessel. Welsh gave me a sixpence as we went along. I saw the prisoner, and charged him with giving the woman a bad sixpence. He denied it. I found in his possession this file and composition. Wallace aaid the pri,soner had a bundle on board. The prisoner said nothing to this. Fisher brought the bundle ashore, and we found the moulds in it. The pH s mer said it was not-his. I found a biscuit in his pocket, which the woman said she had sold to him. Fisher, a dock-constable, said he was sent on board the Ballinasloe to fetch the bundle. A man on board had it, and said a man had given it into his charge. The bundle was searched in the hut. It contained a couple of moulds, some plaster of Paris, four Britannia metal spoons, some wearing apparel, &c. Witness said, here are some tools, any how. Prisoner said, " If you find any mould for making sixpences I'm done. Mr. Dowling produced the mould, and a bad sixpence, as received from Fisher. Mr. Powell said the sixpence was a counterfeit. The mould had the obverse and reverse sides of half-a-crown, and also of the obverse and reverse. It had evidently been used ; as also had the file, which had some white metal in the teeth of The bundle was produced, and four spoons taken from it. Mr. Powell contintted.—These are Britannia metal, and many of them are purchased for the purpose of being fused into base coin. The bundle was identified as that which the prisoner had when he bought the cakes from the girl Steel. Mr. MURPHY addressed the jury for the prisoner. His principal argument was that the bundle was not traced to the prisoner, and that as the money found on him did not cor respond with the mould, it belonged to some one else. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY spoke briefly for the prosecu tion, recapitulating the principal points that more particu larly bore against the prisoner. The prisoner's remark when the mould was found in:the bundle was a strong circumstance against him, as was the finding of the spoons. The learned JUDGE carefully summed up the evidence, dwelling particularly upon the points that appeared favour abte to the prisoner. The two letters found in the bundle were not addressed to, nor did they refer to the prisoner. The jury, after a short deliberation, found the prisoner guilty, and he was put down. William Johnson, 33, and Jane Broadhurst, 22, stood charged with having at Handley, feloniously offered and put off two counterfeit sixpences. Mr. Serjeant ATCHERLEY in stating the case, remarked that there were circumstances relating to the female prisoner which entitled her to considerable compassion. Ann Mahony said her husband kept a lodging house in Warrington. The prisoners came there as man and wife. The woman paid. Sarah Cooper said she lived with her brother-in-law at the Ship inn, Warrington. Tne female prisoner came into the lobby and asked for a pennyworth of tobacco, for which she payed a bad sixpence, and received five pence out. Witness gave the sixpence to her brother-in-law. Mr. Lighfoot said the last witness gave him the sixpence which he Faye to his wife. Mrs. Lightfoot received the sixpence and gave it back to her sister. She marked it and gave it to Mr. Whittle, chief-constable. Julia Robinson said, she was the wife of John Robinson; who keeps a public-house in Sankey. The female prisoner came for a pennyworth of tobacco, as before, and gave a bad sixpence, which she put aniongst others, giving her the change. James Rigby, keeper of the Bull's Head inn, Pemberton, said, a person like the prisoner came in a similar manner to him, giving a bad sixpence for tobacco, and receiving the change out. A bad sixpence was afterwards found amongst his money. The prisoner did not swear to the identity of the female prisoner, but thought she was the same. Mary Leigh said my husband kept a beer-shop in Hind ley. The female prisoner here, too, asked for a pennyworth of tobacco. I gave it to her. It was in white paper, and screwed at the ends. I saw it afterwards at Wigan, in the possession of Norman France, the head constable of Hand ley. The risoner gave sixpence, and wit ness gave h er th e p change. From what she had heard she took all her silver out, and the constable found the bad sixpence amongst it. Margaret Harrison; the wife of Thomas Harrison, who keeps a beer-shop at. Hindley. Here the female prisoner passed another sixpence in precisely a similar manner. It was given to Norman France. When the female prisoner was told she had given a bad sixpence, she said to witness, that if witness knew it was not a good one, why did she not return it Ann M'Gee said she lived at her mother's lodging-house near the Scholes. The ,prisoners came and slept there all night. Norman France went in search of the prisoners, and saw them together. The female gave the man something, and he then went on before her. They again met and again parted to about the same distance. He took the woman into custody, and afterwards the man. On being accused of passing bad money, she said if she had, she would give good for it if it was returned. On the male prisoner he found a file, two papers of tobacco, a small spoon, and 3s. 9d. in copper. Nothing was found on the woman but a bit of thread and a halfpenny. Mr. Whittle, constable of Wigan, said, that the female prisoner after being in custody, had told him she and the man had left Manchester on their way to Prescot ; that she had called at different public-houses, as stated, for tobacco, and had given bad sixpences, getting the change. She had called at most of the public-houses and shops in the way, at some of which she passed sixpences: at others the parties would not receive them. In consequence of the minute description of the different houses given by the prisoner, he went round some of them, and found three of the sixpences. William Heath, police constable of Wigan ; witness heard 'the female prisoner's confession to the last Witness, and in consequence want to one of the houses and found a bail sixpence. Mr. Powell said, the whole of the five sixpences were counterfeit, and made from the same mould. The female witness, a rather good looking girl, being asked what she had to say, became much affected, and said she hoped his lordship would have mercy upon her. She was about to enter into a'statement of the male prisoner's conduct towards her, but his lordship intimated that such a statement could only avail her hereafter. The male prisoner, who appeared in the ordinary dress of a Lancashire country man, said that he had nothing to say, and that he did not need to do so, as there was no proof against him in the evidence. The learned judge then summed up the evidence. The jury found both the prisoners guilty; but recommended the female prisoner to mercy as, having been an instrument in the hands of the man.—Sentence deferred. NISI PRIUS COURT—YESTERDAY. The lion. Mr. Justice ERSKINE entered the Nisi Prius Court shortly after one o'clock, and a jury was immediately impannelled for the trial of causes in the Salford list, in which the parties were ready. KING V, COLE. In this case a verdict for the plaintiff for £295 ls. subject to a reference upon terms agreed upon, was taken by consent. UNDEFENDED CAUSES. No. 2. Verdict for the plaintiff, damages £5l 18s 6d. No. 32. Verdict for the plaintiff, damages £3l ls. No. 12. Verdict for the plaintiff, damages £46 8s 6d. No. 11. Verdict for the plaintiff, £4013s 10d. No. 5. Verdict for the plaintiff, £63 15s. No. 6. Verdict for the plaintiff, £133 9s 10d. No. 8. Verdict for the plaintiff. £2B 2s. No. 14. Verdict for the plaintiff, £4O. In No. 3, Barker v. Ashworth, Mr. ALEXANDER appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. WIGHT/WAN for the defendant. The case was of a very interesting character, and the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. RILEY V. IRVING. This was one of the actions arising from the attempt to force the charter of incorporation upon the town of Man chester. Mr. CRSSSWELL and Mr. JOHN HENDERSON appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. ALEXANDER and Mr. CROMPTON for the defendant. The action was brought nominally to recover the penalties under the police and im provement act of the township of Hulme, from the defendant, who was alleged to have acted as a commissioner without being qualified, but in reality to try the question of the meaning of the act as to the commissioners surrendering their powers. Several witnesses were examined, and the ne cessary facts having been elicited, a verdict was taken for X5O, subject to a special case on the construction of the act. GARNETT V. SOWLER. . . _ On this cause, which stood No. 4 on the list, being called, Mr. WILKINS rose and said he appeared for the defendant, but that he was not prepared to proceed, having but that moment had his brief delivered to him. He hoped the learned judge would postpone the cause till to-morrow, as there were a great many" documents in the cause which would require lengthened reading. The defendant had further been misinformed as to the time when the cause would come on— he understood there was no chance of its coming on at that late period of the day. Under these circumstances he trusted the court would not proceed with the case till to-morrow morning. The JUDGE.—Who has misinformed the defendant ? If any body has, it must have been the attorney. He knows very well what course the court takes, and he ought to have been ready. The assizes have commenced a day later than was originally announced, and he could not have been misin formed. Mr. WILKINS only wished for a postponement until to morrow morning, and he apprehended that could not produce any inconvenience. Mr. CRESSWELL.—I must apply for the trial not to be fixed for to-morrow morning, as I shall be engaged in a Bank of England case in the other court. The JUDGE.—You are upon the other aide? Mr. CRESSWELL.—Yes, my lord. The JUDGE wished it to be understood that it was no ex cuse for any party to say he did not think the trial would have come on so early. However, it might stand over. but not for the first thing, till to-morrow. Mr. CRESSWELL. — Perhaps your lordship would take un defended causes in the morning for a short time ? That course would be a great indulgence to me. Mr. WILKINS.—Can any precise time be fixed conveni ently to my learned f r ie n d, M r . C resswe ll . Mr. CRESSWELL.—As soon as the bank case is closed, I shall return into this court. The JUDGE.—WeII, at what time do you think? Mr. CRESSWELL replied, that the case would occupy some time he was sure—from two to three hours. He hoped to return by twelve o'clock at the latest. The JUDGE.—Then the case should he called on as soon as the case which is in progress when Mr. Cresswell returns into court is finished. Mr. NVit.icixs.:Very well, my lord. The court adjourned at half-past five, till nine o'clock this morning, (Friday.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ---TUESDAY. JOHN HODGSON V. THE BOLD-STREET CLUB. Mr. Richard Shaw, secretary to the Liverpool Friendly 'Society, established in the year 1811, commonly called the Bold-street Club, of which the Rectors of this town are, with Mr. Ripley, joint-trustees, appeared before Messrs. Rushton and Booth. on behalf of the above society, to answer the com plaint of John Hodgson, one of the members, who alleged that he had been improperly excluded, and that certain ar rears of an allowance which he had claimed during confine ment, in consequence of an accident, had not been paid to him. Mr. Shaw, when called upon by the magistrates' clerk, produced the rules of the society, and directed attention to the 17th and 30th articles. Mr. Shaw, further, admitted the former membership of the claimant, and the accident. Mr. John Hodgson stated, that, on the 20th day of Feb. last, he was employed in taking in a lot of oil for Mr. Max well, when, by some means or other, he lost his hold of the package which he was directing, and fell upon the parapet. He was taken up and carried home, (as we understood,) and placed in the kitchen. He was hurt about the knee. Upon taking up his trowsers to examine the extent of the injury, he saw a wound, into which he could have laid his two fingers. He became insensible, and his wife, while he was in that state, ran for Mr. Evan Thomas, the bone-setter, who visited him immediately, and did what he considered necessary to the injured limb. He had been put to bed, and when he came properly to himself he considered it best to send for the club doctor. Acooodingly Mr. Lockwood was sent for. When he arrived he said, " Well, H o d gson, w h at h as happened now?" Witness told him how the accident had occurred. Mr. Lockwood turned down the bed-clothes, and, upon see ing the bandaged limb, he said,—Who has done this ?--who put these splints on ? Witness told him that Evan Thomas, the bone-setter, had been sent for; upon which Mr. Lock wood turned round, and appeared to be going away. He (Hodgson) said,—l hope, Doctor, you are not offended that Mr. Evan Thomas has been here. Mr. Lockwood said, — Yes, he was greatly offended that a quack should have been called in. Witness replied, that he was a very clever quack. Upon which Mr. Lockwood replied,—lt may be so, but you have, in consequence, lost your club money. Mr. Lockwood had refused to sign his weekly note, and, in consequence of his (witness's) representations, a board had since been sum moned, but the board refused to admit his witnesses. All his applications had been useless, and at length he (witness) had thought it best to apply to the magistrates to decide the point. __ _ Mr. Flodgson called up his witnesses, when Mr. Shuttle worth observed, that all that they could prove had been ad mitted.. Mr. Rushton read aloud the 17th rule as follows: " That no person shall be entitled to any relief from the society till he shall have been a member, &c., nor shall any member be entitled to any relief who ref use d t o h ave hi s case examined , by any physician or surgeon appointed by the directors, &c." Mr. Rushton said, it did not appear that Hodgson had re fused to have his case examined. He took the evidence to be, that Evan Thomas had been sent for, that he dressed the wound, and that when the regular surgeon was sent for, the limb was offered to his inspection, and that he would not examine it. At least that was the state of the evidence at present ; he was ready to hear the testimony of the surgeon if he were in court. Mr. Lockwood, surgeon, was sworn.—Mr. Lockwood stated, that on the day in question Hodgson's wife called upon him about a quarter to three o'clock. He was with Hodgson before a quarter past three. He asked him what was the matter with him, and he said his knee was dislocated. He (witness) turned over the bed clothes, and on seeing the bandages, he asked Hodgson who had been called in. He replied that Evan Thomas had been sent for. He (Mr. Lockwood) told that he could not act with him, and that it would be necessary for him to give up Evan Thomas, or give up him (Mr. Lockwood.) Hodgson replied, that he would not give up Evan Thomas. Mr. Lockwood upon that told him that he would forfeit his club-money. Hodgsou handed in the following certificate from Mr. Evan Thomas : " This is to certify that Mr. John Hodgson is under my care in consequence of broken cup of his knee since the 20th of February, and that he is unable to follow Lis usual application. March 24, 1840, Liverpool. (Signed) EVAN THOMAS, Bone -setter." Mr. Rushton said, there had been a point of professional etiquette in the case, which he knew to be usual. It did not, however, appear before them that Evan Thomas had not a diploma. That point did not appear to him at present to have anything whatever to do with the case. The knee had been submitted to the inspection of the surgeon, and there was no evidence to show that Hodgson had refused to allow the surgeon of the society to examine the case. Mr. Shaw referred the magistrates to the 30th rule, a por tion of which Mr. Rushton read. The parts which bore on the case were as follows There shall be as many snrgeons appointed to the society as the board shall think fit, &c. No gentleman shall be eligible to be a medical attendant or sur geon of this society wlio does not possess a diploma as sur geon, or who is not licensed to practice according to the Apothecaries' Act. The medical officers shall attend the sick members of the society in their respective districts as assigned by the board. Those who are incapable of attend ing, from sickness or lameness, at the surgeon's house, shall be visited at their houses assoon as possible, (either by himself or some sufficient assistant,) after the delivery of the note to visit, and as often after as the case may require ; and all such members who shall not be visited within three hours after the delivery of the note, or, in case of sudden sick ness in the night time, without a note, shall be at liberty to employ any other medical man at the charge of the surgeon. The medical officers shall furnish the sick members with good and proper medicines, when prescribed by themselves or their assistants, sign the sick members' weekly notes prior to their being presented for payment, whether attended by themselves or any other physician or surgeon, &c." Mr. Rushton said, it was certainly mentioned that no per son was eligible but one who had a diploma. He did not know whether Evan Thomas had a diploma or not. Mr. Shaw—Evan Thomas has not any diploma. Mr. Rushton—How do you know? I cannot take that as evidence. This is a question involving the rights of this member, and the rights of all the members. (To Hodgson) —You showed the surgeon your knee ? Mr. Hodgson—l sent for the doctor, and showed him my knee, and he looked at it himself, and then said I had lost my club-money for employing Evan Thomas. Mr. Rushton—That is no refusal. I do not say how the case would stand if Mr. Lockwood averred that the case had been improperly treated —or if the man had been longer on the club, in consequence of the treatment, than he ought to have been. But this has not been shown. Mr. Shaw—Mr. Lockwood is appointed by the directors. When the case was brought before the hoard, as he (Hodg son) has mentioned, the board told him that his payments should commence from that day if he would conform to the rules, and give up Evan Thomas, but he refused. Mr. Lockwood —And 1 could not possibly act with Evan Thomas. He has no diploma to practice at all; therefore, professional etiquette prevents me from acting with him. We are hound by oath to put down quackery of every kind. I will stand up for the profession in every way, and am deter mined n o t t o g i ve way one inch. I cannot do it. I should be pointed ou t b y t h e profession as a black sheep if I did. complainant, and I cannot se e th a t he should be exc Mr. Rusht on —Thi s is a point of some i mportance to lud t e li d e because he sent for this man, and — be A M I rr Rushton—ltH dgson e do w e a s s n s o e t n a t p f pe or a w r, hl so long as he did to remain under his treatment afterwards, attend him, I s e a l y, w t a h s at in h s e7sli si o b u le ld . excluded because Thomas was sent for, andbecau a s n e d h s e ee ch til os a e t not refuse to let the regular surgeoninjury, j ury, particularly as it it was really a case of serious _app i l o a w rs a t r o e well ? improperly treated. (To Hodgson) V ry nearly quite well. I never had any. Mr. Hodgs on--- ll e 900 n. 1 don't wish to stop on the club h y a e v u e_b e u n i te n not thing that got we any longer. I shall attend to my business. I tun merely seeking to recover the arrears of the allowance which ought to have been paid to me while I was in bed. Mr. Rushton—This is a question which involves some grave points touching the rights of members. In the first place, there is the p ro fe ss i ona l e ti que tt e , respecting which professional .<4 . entlenien are, I know, extremely delicate ; but it cannot be left out of view, that the patient had nothing to do with that etiquette, and perhaps knew nothing of its existence. Mr. Shaw put in certain records of cases, in which persons had been excluded when they had persisted in employing in dividuals with whom the regular surgeons could not co-ope rate. It appeared that Mr. Hodgson had been served with one or more copies of these records. Mr. Rushton said, if Hodgson, knowing of these eases, had refused to dismiss Thomas, it 'might alter the aspect of the case. It was another point for consideration, however, that he had not refused to submit his wound to the examina tion of Mr. Lockwood, but had tendered it for such exami nation. The case was not quite clear, and he would take till the following day to consider it. He had an impression, knowing the rules on the subject, that it might appear that the refusal to dismiss the person who was first called in, was in reality tantamount to a refusal to have the case examined by the regular surgeon. There was not, however, any direct act of refusal on the part of the man, and he was not prepar ed to say that Evan Thomas was not a very good bone-setter. Mr. Lockwood knew that there were in this country some irregularly educated persons, who were very famous for their skill in that department, and that some persons had great confidence in their mode of treatment. This individual, for aught he knew, might be a very good one. Mr. Lockwood said he knew that such was the case, but he should, under similar circumstances, act again in the same way. kr. Rushton promised to give his decision on the case on Wednesday. On Wednesday, accordingly, Mr. Rushton gave his deci sion. He said, that having considered the case, he was of opinion that Hodgson was entitled to the allowance ; but he wished it to be distinctly understood that this decision was not given on the general principle, but from the peculiar cir. cumstances of the case only. WEDNESDAY. EXCISE INFORMATIONS. A number of officers in the Excise appeared to prefer several informations against parties for breaches of the Ex cise laws. Johnitobert Jones was fined in the mitigated penalty of £5 for selling ale without a licence. An excise officer had gone into the house of Jones and purchased there a glass of ale, for which he paid lid. An information was laid against John and Margaret Regan, who keep a public house, for having in their possession smuggled whiskey. On the 14th of November, an officer went to the house of the defendants to examine the stock. On going into the bar, he saw Mrs. Regan doing something which excited his suspicion ; he found that she was attempt ing to hide something beneath her petticoats, and that " some thing" turned out to be on examination, three stone bot tles containing whiskey. She declared that her husband knew nothing of them, and that they had been left there by a woman in order that he might see the whiskey, and if he chose, make a purchase. The stock was below permit amount. Mr. Rowlands, the officer who made the seizure, said that Regan was a poor and honest man. John Regaii was acquitted ; his wife was convicted, but her penalty was mitigated to the lowest point in the power of the magistrate, namely, £25. Henry Child appeared to answer an information, charging him with having continued to sell beer after the expiry of the license granted to him. An excise officer, on the 25th of November, went into the house of the defendant, and pur chased a pint of beer, for which he paid 3d. The license which had been granted to Child expired in November, 1838. The defendant said that he had not the least knowledge that he had been doing wrong. The officers came to his house every day, and if he had been doing wrong, it was their duty to have told him. The magistrate pointed out to him that his license expressly mentioned that his power to sell expired on the day mentioned. He was convicted and or dered to pay the penalty of £5. An information was laid against Patrick Fearon, a fireman on board one of the Irish steamers, for having in his poses sion smuggled whiskey. An officer stated, that for reasons which it was unnecessary to mention, he believed that Fearon was in the habit of bringing over whiskey from Ire land, illegally, and unshipping it. He accordingly went to Fearon, on the 11th of the present month, told him of his suspicion, and of his intention to search his (Fearon's) house, and asked the defendant to accompany him (the officer) thither. Fearon did so, and in the room occupied by him the officer found jars and bottles containing two and a half gallons of whiskey, the greater part of which was con cealed under the bed. He had previously acknowledged to another officer that he had in his posession two bottles. The defendant was convicted in the penalty of £25. Michael Murphey appeared to answer two informations, charging him with having a still for illicit distillation, and with having attempted to frustrate the objects of the excise officers by breaking a bottle containing whiskey. On the 21st of December last two officers went to the house of Mur phy, and searched it. In the cellar he found a still, thirty six gallons of wash, a quart of low wine, nine tubs, and a worm. The house had been let by Mr. Jones, the agent of the landlord, to Murphy. When the officers went into the house, Murphy took up a bottle, which he broke by per mitting it to fall on the hearth stone, and then said, " There, that will save a bit of fine ; I am an o ld h an d , you see. '' An officer tasted the fluid which had been contained in the bottle, and found it to be whiskey. The magistrate informed the cunning Irishman that instead of having " saved a bit of a fine," he had made his case much worse. By breaking the bottle, to attempt to avoid detection, he bad forfeited to the queen £2OO, in addition to the fine of £2OO for having a still for illicit distillation. The defendant endeavoured to make the magistrate believe that he had broken the Dottie by acci dent, and that the cellar was not in his occupation, but in that of his brother-in-law. He, however, brought no wit nesses, and the magistrate told him that he disbelieved his story, and was of opinion, as the defendant himself had said, that "he was an old hand" in the trade. He (Mr. Rushton) strongly advised the defendant to seek out a more honest calling, or the probability was that he would spend a large portion of his life in gaol.—Convicted, and ordered to pay the mitigated penalty of £5O on each information. YESTERDAY. The proceedings at the Police Court yesterday were of a very trivial nature, no case of any public importance having been brought before the magistrate, and the court closed at an unusually early hour. On this day, and generally, for some time back, the cases of drunken and disorderly conduct have Materially decreased. Thesystem generally adopted by Mr. Rushton, of ordering those votaries of Bacchus, who abuse his bounties, to be imprisoned on their non-payment of the fine inflicted, and, in some cases, where the culprits have been repeatedly brought before him, of committing them for from seven days to one month, has had a very salutary effect. The cases of petty pilfering, about the docks especially, do not diminish. Daily are prisoners brought before. Mr. Rushton charged with stealing pieces of iron, copper, &c., of very trifling value. It is to be feared that sufficient cau tion to prevent these offences is not used by the parties con cerned. The advice given by Mr. Rushton a few days back, that property should be better watched, is very valuable, and ought to be mote closely attended to than it is. The number of loiterers about the docks is immense—many of them poor men and boys in search of employment; and it amounts to little less than an encouragement of crime to leave property, however small its value, in the way of needy individuals, to lure them into error. It is to be hoped this piece of advice will in future be better attended to. One case which occurred reminded us, without disparage ment of the worthy magistrate, of some of Sancho Panza's decisions ; two boys having possession of a pigeon, of which they could give no satisfactory account, were ordered to be discharged, no one appearing to claim the bird, or give evi dence against them. The pigeon was also discharged, not, however, in the custody of its quondam guardians, but into its native element, to seek its master. THE LIVERPOOL OPRTIIALMIC INFIRMARY.—The re port of this deserving institution for the past year is now before the public. The number of cases cured or relieved during the year has been 2,230 ; since the formation of the establishment, in 1820, upwards of 29,000 persons have par ticipated in the benefits which it is daily administering to the poor. We regret to see that the annual expenditure still falls short of the income. The public benevolence could not be exerted in a better cause ; and assistance at the present moment would be peculiarly valuable, in order to enable the committee to effect a very desirable alteration without inter fering with the funds of the charity. ACCIDENT.--An accident happened on Tuesday which might have been attended with the most unfortunate results. The horse in a gentleman's carriage took fright in Bold street, and, after throwing the servant who was driving him, (and who appeared to behave remarkably well under the circumstances,) galloped off at a frightful pace down the street. When opposite the Music-hall, it came in contact with the Park omnibus, the horses of which also became unmanageable, and ran off at great speed after the carriage. The omnibus was brought up in Church-street by the fall of one of the horses, which was much injured, and the passen gers got out without any other inconvenience than the alarm occasioned them ; the pole was broken by the shock. The driver conducted himself with extraordinary coolness. The carriage was stopped in Lord-street, the pole and splinter bar both broken, but fortunately no other damage was sus tained. DEATH OF JAMES MAURY, ESQ.—A veneraule tindvod man has sunk to rest. The aged James Maury, after tr simple, and blameless life, extended to the . 9sth year, sleeps with his fathers. Mr. Maury was a Virginian, and, as is well known to most of our readers, was appointed by Gen. Wash ington, the first American consul at Liverpool. He held that office for nearly half a century, doing its duties faitafully, and without possible offence to any human being. He was superseded by General Jackson, and soon a ft er returned to his native country, to which he was warmly welcomed by thousands whom he had the opportunity of serving abroad, and by the commercial community at large, whose interests he had vigilantly guarded. A. public dinner was given to him here, which was most numerously attended ; and in Vir ginia he was received as a patriarch, returning after long ab sence, among his people. Subsequently, he-took up his resi dence in the city, with his sons and an only daughter ; and his life wore peaceably away, exempt from suffering, until its tranquil close. Mr. Maury was a man of education and in telligence, a gentleman of the old school, and, withal, a sin cere and steady Christian.—New York American, of Feb. 24. MERSEY AND IRWELL COMPANY'S DOCKS.--TheSe docks are situated at the entrance of the Mersey and Irwell navi gation, about 16 miles above Liverpool, on the course of the Mersey towards Manchester, and afford great advantages to the Irish, Scotch, Welsh, and coasting traders generally. On Wednesday last they were made the scene of great attrac tion to the inhabitants of Runcorn, by the largest vessel that ever entered this rising seaport coming up the river to them. A. beautiful new brig called the Thoma s T a tt er sall, after her proprietor, amidst a gay display of flags and banners, and d crowds along the piers, brou g ht her first ca rgo into Runcorn from Drogheda, to be transhipped into the lighters of 11 hters registered of the Old Quay company, for Manchester. that She er is came s o far for a greater tonnage than any es up the river before, nearly three hundred dredton e s t•eing her car go at a draught of 14 feet of water. Thanks_ to the applicati on of steam for propelling vessels of this burthen, and rendering the navigation of the Mersey safe, delightful, and expeditious. We hope that improvements in the river will proceed until no transhipment becomes necessary at Runcorn, and vess e l s o f equal dimensions to the Thomas Tattersall, come direct up to Manchester.—Manchester Courier. NEW STEAM-SHIP " ADMIRAL."—We have b een f avoured by a gentleman, who accompanied t h is fine vessel on her trial trip down the Firth . on Friday last, with th e particulars thereof. The Admiral, having been loaded with as many coals as will generally be required to take her from Glasgow to Liverpool, and back again, and with as much pig iron as represents the weight of a full cargo of goods, left the Broomielaw at twelve o'clock ; she steamed the length of Greenock in one hour and fifty minutes, which, although pretty good work, formed of course no criterion to judge by of her capabilities, in consequence of so much slowing, and other obstructions in the river ; but having fairly got into deep water, she performed a distance of sixteen miles in one hour and six and a half minutes, which is five minutes less time than it wa s ever d one in by any other vessel ; and our informant thereby calculates that she will perform the voyage from Greenock to Liverpool in sixteen hours, with her steam power alone. The Admiral has cylinders of seventy inches diameter, by six and a half feet stroke, made by Mr. Napier of the Vulcan Foundry ; her cabins are not yet finished, but when they are so, they will not be second in taste and comfort to anything that has yet been done in Clyde.. The arrangements in the fore-part of the vessel, in part have been much improved on, it being divided into spacious and airy state.roo.ns - of oM , nly two berths each. a nuclei. stand that, when finished, she will be laid .. opal) to the in , spection Of the public.—Scottish Guardian. Llift1Z1)00.1, AIDA RD z /..5:7)"7-",----Nr.-% • ' ) r 4,1,11 t - •::.: 1 / 4 171 , , -:" - , - 4 -1' .. . - , - • d: •• -i I 7777f.. t w --......... This is the title of a drama which every"gOdititAt '4 to of that prized name, must feel it an honour to notice in the true spirit of con amore criticism. The writer is one of the author's acquaintances—perhaps more—a personal friend. That is admitted, were it for no . other reason, than that "hunters after objections" may, if they like, take excep tions to an acknowledgment on the face of a critique, which, with the worthy, must tell in favour of the reviewer and reviewed. .~,.. 1 , Y ~.,, - _ "LOVE." Love," has been published' since November, 1839, and has been performed at Covent Garden, and by the company at the Theatres-royal• of Lancashire, with the same dis tinguished lady in the caste who is now representing the leading character of the piece in the second town of the kingdom. We have read the play carefully from first to last—prefa . ce and dedication alone excepted ; and have seen it twice en acted-. On these hints we proceed •to speak, merely obser ving by the way, that though we have taken some pains to entitle ourselves to an opinion op the twofold merits of this production, yet it is for others to see and judge for them selves as we make no pretension to that intuiti ve i n f a llibili ty to which nine-tenths of " critics" ledicrously lay claim. The immediate pressure of assize intelligence precludes us giving an outline of either. the acting plot or the story—two things as often confounded together as they are frequently and essentially independent of each other. This is one vital reason why dramatic poems written for the closet, and lyric. I compositions adapted for the stage, so generally require a judgment of them to be reversed to be equitable. On this understanding our suggestion to parties interested in " Love" is this : its twofold beauties will be best appreciated by those who see it represented with the pictorial aids of the stage first, and who read it in the spirit of analysis, for more abiding impressions afterwards. Like all Knowles' works, Love, is a peculiar play, and in all of its characteristics peculiar to himself. Suppose he had denied its paternity, every audience in every town of the United Kingdom, would with one voice have .aniated the offspring upon him, and him only. Wholly apart from something like an adoption. if not an imitation of the hack handed style of the old authors, there is a peculiar idiom as respects not the surface, but the under current of expression, which is referable to a peculiar habit of thinking or • turn of mind," as it is conversationally termed.: Every one who has had the opportunities of observing Knowles' table-talk, be fore or after dinner, (and what a companion !) will admit this. It is immaterial what is the question " before the house. From trout-catching to thoughts of Parnassus and Utepia, or of the luxury of wandering along the banks of a cam panionable river in dreamy reverie—or the active benevolence of sharing a last shilling with some fello w s i nner —K now l e s is Knowle s . And thi s dpends not on a mere idiom of words, but an idiom of thought. lie cannot divest himself of a mannerism which depends on mentalism, and perhapait is on this very account that all his writings are marked by as many defects as beauties when measured by.the foot-rule of conven tional eriticisma- • - - " LOVe"'is fin hued with he'auties. Talstes differ; but tho' inferior, as it is to his Virginins—his Hunchback and the Tale of Mantua—in earnestness of dramtic passion. it more than exceeds them in exquisite simplicity and delicacy of finish. It is one of the sincerest of all the sincere writings of a Manly and sincere author. Much as we admire it, however, it is as a. literary composition chiefly, for we do not think that it has those marked points in its action which alone can secure for it such a place on the Stage as the Hunchback and the Wife enjoy to this hour. As a play under representation, the interest may be said to take a distinct form and to " progress" in consequence of the striking results at the end of the second act. The Countess's love for the serf is beyond suspicion : it is then seen by the surrounding party, which influence her and her fortune—a hawk-eyed hunting party, and a busy, prying go. between (Ulric), who snakes an exit as a " friendly" tale bearer to the lady's aged father, exclaiming : " A kingdom to a h aw k she loves the serf." The action advances, and the interest is made to turn on a plot and counterplot, and is wrought out by a series of trying and finely-written interviews between the respectable go between of whom honourable mention has just been made and the father—the father and the serf—the serf and his lady-love, and then a marriage of implied rather than real mystery. The fourth act has scenes which are of the highest merit in every respect. All through, those between other two of the characters, namely, Catherine and Sir Rupert, are racy, comical, and piquant ; and the crowning scene, the fourth, between Iluon and his unknown partner at the altar, is equal to anything in the language. The recoil of feeling is finely conceived, finely written, and tellingly managed. The construction of the fifth act is defective. Like all of the last acts by the same hand, it is unsustained. Excepting " Virinius" and the " Hunchback," and perhaps " The Wife," Knowles has not yet succeeded—comparing himself with himself—in giving us any fifth act of striking dramatic force. Either he does not do himself justice by giving him aelf the requisite time, or he dilutes his Muse's art by de generating to the narrative " over much," thereby weaken ing the general effect of his legitimate dramas when tested by close criticism as regards their management as a whole. When merely verbal explanations form the staple of a con cluding act—such act becomes an Appendix rather than an integral part of that effective unity which is in everything that has a beginning a middle and an end. Having said thus much, and with something like impar tiality, considering the face of admission which was our as pect at starting, let us note 'hat to many is the most agree able part of criticism"—namely, the exceptionable ! Is the feeling and is the consciousness of the Countess not to be censured with which she leaves ber dying father at the close of the first scene of the first act ? We think both are as reprehensible as they are unlike Sheridan Knowles. Perhaps he never thought of or noticed what we complain of. , But it has reason in't ; and if not, it is for him and others to judge. Thus :—a father, aged and infirm, feels him. sOf to be dying, and uncles that truthful impression blesses his daughter. Does be not believe that she has dud. ft\lly done what his previous art could not effect ? and after asking her father on her knees, once again to bless her in the nameof the All-seeing One, she knowing his belief and herown juggling intentions, no sooner does he totter from one wing of the apartment than she stealthily hastens from another to ratify the very deed on the fgita of security from which, the old father bestowed his pa'ern sl and final blessing? This is so like Bulwer and so unlike Knowles, that we name it now, and shall " pepper" kiln for it the next time he gives us speech. - With other exceptions which we shall recapitulate " wits the malice of a friend," we had also marked a number of select passages for extract—gems of poetic beauty and gen uine transcripts of (xderience. They will keep till Tuesday. 'Meanwhile we cannot in fairiiesidon*ClUde without noticing the admirable style in which this play has been produced at the Theatre-royal. With those who have seen it, it must set any cavilling dumb in respect of the mausgement and the painstaking of the company, which however are receiving the good word" of our contemporaries, though all are not —and never can be—ux4winrous. Our respect for " con temporae,es"—like their's,for us—is, of course, unbounded. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday afternoon last, as William Worrall, a seaman engaged on board the barque Grace, was crossing the combings of the main hatchway of the American ship Mayflower, a vessel lying about third or fourth from the Grace, he fell into the hold, where he was found, lying on a bale of cotton, with his head bent under his breast. He was taken up immediately and conveyed to the Northern Hos pital, where he was attended by Mr. Gaskell, one of the surgeons, who stated that he died on Wednesday, of a frac ture of the spine, caused by the fall. An inquest was yes terday held on the body, before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, when a verdict of " accidental death" was returned. PREJUDICES.—Every country has particular prejudices with regard to accelerating personal improvements ; but, with a few barbarian exceptions, a set of fine Teeth is an object of general solicitude. The present age abounds in useful and elegant discoveries, (says an eminent member of the faCulty,) but all yield in beauty and utility to Rowland's Odonto, which, as an embellisher and preserver of the Teeth, and consequent promoter of comfort and attraction, is certainly the first dentifrice of the present age.—See advt. The Queen:has been graciously pleased to appoint Mrs. and the Misses Johnstone, of 16, Dover-street, Piccadilly, to be dressmakers and milliners in ordinary to her Majesty. The Postoffice authorities, for the convenience of the in habitants of Low :hill, Kensington, Fairfield, and neighbour hood, have established a receiving -box for letters and news. papers, at the shop of Mr. C. Barnett, chemist, Low-hill, from whence letters and newspapers are sent to the general office twice a day (Sunday excepted) without any extra charge. KNOWSLEY PARK, LANCASHIRE, MONDAY NIGHT.— We are concerned to state that the Earl of Derby has suffered a relapse, and is now confined to his bed from the effects of another paralytic stroke. His lordship was returning from his afternoon's drive, on Wednesday last, at the hour of three, p.m., and the servants were lifting him from the carriage, when he fell into their arms insensible, in which state he was conveyed to his chamber. An express was despatelv . d to Liverpool for professional assistance, and his lordship expe rienced some relief after being bled. Lord Stanley arrived a few minutes after his noblefather was seized with sudden illness, from Latham House, the seat of Lord Skelmersdale, whither the noble lord and Lady Stanley had been summoned from town on account of the alarming indisposition - Of - her mother, Lady Skelmersdale. Lord Derby's disorder has taken a favourable turn, and there is no immediate danger ; but Lord Stanley, who was to leave for town by the railway, , has postponed his dep ar t ure f or a f ew d ays. Hi s lordship 'a son and daughter, the Hon. Edward Stanley and the Hon. Miss Stanley, are expected to arrive to-morrow from town. —Morning Herald of Tuesday. AWFUL DEATH.—An inquest was held on Tuesday before P. F. Curry, Esq. coroner, on the body of Thomas Williams, labourer, aged 59 years. It appared that the deceased was engaged in holding timber carriages at the Brunswick Dock Quay, for the purpose of being taken to the timber-yard of Messrs. Dempsey, Frost. and Co. It was stated that there is a brow which leads from the road down to the edge of the dock, which is used for the purpose of discharging vtss3ls laden with timber. After the timber is taken from the ves sel, it is drawn to the top oft.fe,l-.rog%av,ed in audpl i a o c a e a d in i g n a wit ces s : t . The top hetimb o e f r t w he hie /wand deceased ia is engaged the horses were obliged to cote near the dock, with the hind wheels near the top of the brow, in order to load the carriage. When one of these carriages was laden, the driver called out, and deceased was, Standing about his own length from the near hind wheel when it was set in motion. During the descent the wheels disturbed the logs which caused them to slide off, one of the wheels struck deceased and knocked him down, and another went Over his head, by which the upper part of his skull was completely cut off, and his brains scattered on the ground. A verdict was returned of " Accidental death." THE CALENDAR.—HO H referring to the Calendar for the present South Lancashire Assizes, we find that there are 74 prisoners charged with having committed felony, of which number six are indicted on charges of murder, and nine are Bank and Mint cases ; of the misdemeanants, two are charged with p er j ury , an d twenty-seven for riotous and seditious conspiracies, unlawful assemblies, and seditiot a speeches, of whom 23 are out on bail, traversing from the last Aisizes •, altogether, 103 prisoners, of whom 25 can neither read nor write ; 16 read inaperfeetly, 30 read and write imperfectly, 27 well, and sin a superior manner. Of the six prisoners charged with murder, 2 can neither read nor write, 1 can only read imperfectly, 2 read and write well, and 1 superiorly. Of the 27 charged with riotous and se ditious conduct, only one can neither read nor write, 4 read imperfectly,'7 read and write imperfectly, 13 well, and 2 in a superior manner. Doubtless, the last named culprits are men of weight in that class of society to which they be long —men destined by their superior education to take a prominent part amongst their fellows ; mad it is lamentable to see such men,—whose influence ought to be exerted for the welfare of their brethren, and the well-being of society, —urging those simple-minded individuals, whose ignorance they should instruct, and whose actions they should direct into a virtuous course to the committal of seditious out rages, which can'only firing them to disgrace 'aud ruin. - But still, these can only read and write : how much more, then, are those to blame, who placed fat above them in station and intellectuality, have sanctioned their proceedings, and pro claimed them lawful ? How sincerely ought they to repent of their past conduct, On beholding the long lists of offenders risalnst the laws of their country--of which are nominally the guardians, but virtually the destroyers—which have been created by thei r f o ll y and misgovernment. But d o they repent? sVe 'feat not. These effects are Only part of theft . Machiavellian policy ;- and repentance will only come when it be too late, if it is not too late already. And'in betrayitg the peace of 'England to their pseudo-friends, the Chartists, foi a mo'ment's popularity, they may emulate the Roman maiden; -betrayed the 'capitol' ' . hands of her tbun tr.?, foes, for her perfidy was smothered golden braceletiOrtiorMi beneath their shields. tot 4110.'adriaainents'-an 'their 'arms e. the;