Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-07 00:00:00

ALLEGED OUTRAGE AT SEA. THE COMPLAINT OF MISS JANE HAGGARD AGAINST CAPTAIN GEORGE CONWAY, OF THE PACKET SHIP SWITZERLAND, FOR RAPE. UNITED STATES COMMCSSIONER'S COURT.-JULY 18. SIC3ND DAY. [Tho particulars of the first day's proceedings in this case appeared in our paper of July 30.] BEFORE JOEEPR BRIDGRAM, ZEQ Tun UNITED STATES V. GEORGE CONWAY, CAPTAIN OF THE Sun' SWITETBLAND.—The proceedings in this case were resumed this day, at twelve o'clock. The Commissioner remarked that the report in the triesta/d, of the first day's testimony, being more eltiborate and accurate than his own notes, be would not take any -further notes, but depend upon the reporter. Jane Hag gard, the prosecutrix, was recalled, and her cross- exami • nation continued by ex-Judge Dean : The berth under the inside light ; there was a light, but net so that you can see through it from outside ; tried to look in through other lights ; I could not see through that on the outside I have tried that on the outside to see if I could see in ; I looked after I got on deck. The reason I tried to look was to see if others could see. I do not know whether the window would open ; I have seen the ones that open into the sea ; the captain did not keep it open most of the day in day-time. I should say no person could stand ili the wizen chain and touch the bed when the light opens. 'The opening to get into the berth is a'eout the height of this table. After the captain took me by the arm he took me around the waist ; he stood a'ongside of me ; I think snatched my hand from.the handle, and partly carried me. I do not know wh3 is the tallest, the captain or I. I don't know which was the largert ; part of the way he carried me, and then he pulled me. I r id not get into the b e d fi rst ; I am ,positive; I ca n 't t e ll w hi c h got into the bed first; the Cap tain sat on the side and pulled tee in ; he put me in first; he kept forcing me, and would scold me for not going to bed ; I cannot t , ll how often he committed a rape ; I can't tell whether he did so'once a day ; the next night he com mitted the next rape; he locked the room; I was very sick; he waited until late ; came in, locked the door and told me - to go to bed ; he undressed me and put me to bed; I bad -been crying all day ; I begged him not to put me to bed ; I don't know whether I screamed the first night; the Cap tain staid all day ; next esty he was out a little; no one came ; I do not know whether any or.e heard me; I saw or heard no one ; the lights opened on the inside out to sea; I opened those that opened into, the sea; I did not try to open the deck light: I wanted to get out very much ; I did not think of that light ; those lights as I stood up were higher than my face ; there was no chair, no stool, no way of standing up; the window looked into the sea; I could reach them well enough; I was not afraid of the passengers hearing me ; I can't tell how many prssengers there were ; it was said there were three hundred ; I can't say there were not six hundred ; when the captain got to the berth he eat on the side of the berth; there is room to sit on the edg s of the lower berth and the upper ; he then had both arms round my waist; I was not down the same time as him ; I did not sit down after he pulled me down ; I was set down on the side of the berth ; I do not know how long I was so ; I begged him to let me go ; he said I need not make such a fuss ; when he consented to marry me I paid I did not - wish it; I tried to get away, but I did not ; then the captain pulled me in with him ; he pulled me as he went ; I went in first, I suppose ; lie pushed me, carried and pulled me, I don't know which ; he left marks of violence on my arm ; he knocked my head against the berth ; I showed the marks to no one ; I did not walk and talk with persons after this; when he committed the violence he was between me and the cabin ; I was to the sea side of the berth ; he held me with both hands all the tune; I bad my clothes on at this time ; he held me some time with both hands ; the captain was at the time dressed ; I should think I left marks on the captain ; the marks of violence I left on him resulted from his violence to me ; I scratched his hand ; I did not wish to scratch his face if he let me alone; his face was within reach of me; I pulled his hair, I should think I did ; I do not know that I did not scratch his face; I do not know whether I scratched his face or not ; I do not think his face was scratched next day; I had no relation on board that ship, no friend; there were not two persons on board that ship who passed as my uncles ; there were not two men who used. to send into the cabin as my uncles; no other of the passengers were in the same name, nor no two men who called themselves my uncles went with me . ; I was never deranged before this ; never was deranged on the vessel ; I never told any one but Mr. Peachy about this ; I did not talk with various persons on the voyage ; Peachy's was the next to the captain's room ; I never tried to sea what it was ; I never knocked on that to make Peachy hear me; I never went on the deck but once, except when accompanied by the captain ; I then saw Mr. Peachy ; I had few persons to talk with on the deck or in the cabin ; I was very much troubled in conse quence of what had happened ; any one could see by my appearanc3 that I was grieved ; I cried daily ; Shaw (one of the passengers), and the doctor and the cabin boy saw .it ; the captain swore at the cabin boy, and said he had - told me something to make me cry ; the steward's pantry was right opposite the stateroom ; I was always crying on the deck ; everybody saw me cryirg ; cannot say how oft en I was on deck; it was as often as two or three days ; on the day o f P eachy ' s d eat h t h e capta i n told me it would not be convenient to marry me ; he asked me if I had 'enough to g o di rect, and he said he would give me enough to Stay; I told my sister that he had promised to marry me and he had not done so ; I was afraid to, and did not, tell her anything else ; she said t‘ oh, no, he did not intend to marry me er ; hal kept it a secret from every one until that time, except I told Dr. Nickerson ; I did not tell him right away after I got there ; I cannot tell when I told him I had been seduced ; I thought I was in a peculiar way, and the secret was more than I could bear; I did not tell him I wanted to procure a miscarriage ; the miscarriage occurred after that ; it did not occur from anything ; what I told Nickerson was the truth ; after that I told my sister; I told her the same as I told you—how he had done the matter to me • if he had married me it 'Would have been all right, as I was in the family way ; I don't know Whether I told my sister before or since I wrote the letter; left my brother-in-law's residence to make this com plaint on the 2nd or 3rd of July • I came with my sister ; I have not been deranged since last Sunday ; I have been since the complaint; I did not send for or to the captain ; I have not auth:rised any one to settle this for me ; my Sister has not, to my knowledge; I am not accustomed to drink intoxicating liquors ; the captain offered me some ; I refused ; there were no coloured persons in the steerage ; the crew were coloured ; I did not know them ; I did not speak to them to my knowledge; I never consented in my life to have connection with the captain; it was always -ag•init my w 11; I resisted him all the time all the voyage, and pushed him away all the time; I did have a cold all the time; when the captain was forcing, after the first time, I always pushed him ; I did not scream then, because I knew it was no use ; I pushed him because it was against my will ; the second night, when he got into bed with me, I pushed him • I pushed him hard ; I resisted him every night ; after I got on deck, after the captain seduced me, I went in 'o the steerage, and the passengers were violent - and insulted me ; I deresay they knew it • Mr. r. Peachy 'said he heard th ere were many disgusting r emarks' about this; I was standing in the cabin, the captain in his sta•e room, when Peachy said this ; the captain was in the state room; Peachy said he would see me righted, to never -fear. Mrs. Elizabeth Davis examined by Mr. Joachimssen I reside in Kendell, Orleans County, New York ; I am sister of complainant ; she came to me 24th of June ; has remained with me most of the time since, her health ,!4?Parelstly well ; I h a d no t seen h er fir seven years ; she nes sick been We e k most of the time ; she was under Dr. arson , s treatment most of the time; she told us what 'ha pp e ned between h er an d th e ca pt a i n . C ross - exam i ne d : she had no doctor Once she has been in the city ; she - wrote letters ; she sent none afte r s he called the doctor, that I kn ow o f ; she went to the post-office herself; I saw her send letters to Captain Conway ; she sent one ; she had a miscarriage, as the doc or supposed ; I could not S wear ; I called the doctor at that time ; I did not know what was the matter with her then ; she had told me something before I went for the doctor. Jeremiah Dunne : am one of the Deputy Marshals; I arrested Captain Conway on the Bth day of July ; I told him whet it was for; he appeared to be confused, and said he was engaged to be married to the lady; Mr. Hart was with me ; that was all the conversation. Cross-examined : He was not frightened; he did not appear to be alarmed; I did 110 t ask him whether he -had committed a rape ; this was in the hall; Mr. Hart heard it, too. Franeis Nichols was called for the defence, and deposed —I was on the Switzerland on her passage from Liverpool to New York, April to May 23; I know Jane Haggard ; first saw hor on Friday evening, April 11, in the river , son bo d ; the v esse l nailed on the 14th ; the first evening saw her she went on the poop and stopped by herself until 10 or 11 o'clock; her uncles were walking the deck below ; she had two uncles ; I was told they were so by the pas" sengerS and her talking to-them; I never heard her call them uncles ; I next noticed her, on the third night, I go into the between-decks, and get her night clothes and went into the captain's room and undressed herself; I was on the deck from 8 till 12 ; at half past 11 I called the captain ; I then saw them lying in bed together quiet; they were undressed, both in the same bad; during the voyage I always saw them sleeping together ; never saw sety ill-usage whatever ; during the passage, in the day time, she was mo,tly on the poop; in the night time always in the cabin ; I often saw her on the port side, skylarking with Peachy ; he was the cabin passenger ; I understocd he had a father here; I saw them sitting oaths deck together ; he had his hands on improper placee, and they were kissing each other; locten saw her talk with the niggers; she never appear ed to be unhappy; she appeared to be contented; never saw her crying ; I could look through the deadlight right through his room; I cduld see all t bat occurred ; It was mostly always open during this voyage; the deadlight alangeide her berth opened into the mizzen chains ; there were five hundred and sixty on board, not counting the ship's company ; all had access to the deck; I could see through this dur ing the day time ; sometimes on deck and sometimes below; she had full liberty ; they could all come up to look into the deadliest; there is a little over two feet space between the two berths in the captain's cabin ; the deadlight inside is the same height as the outside. Samuel Hobson : I am English : lam seventeen years of age ; I came in the ship on this voyage; I saw Jane Haggard the day I went on board ; I fetched word from her two uncles to her and her to them ; they eat in the forecastle with darkies ; they are oldish men ; the two - uncles went in the steamboat ahead of her ; she said they were her uncles ; ~he did not at first own to their being uncles ; she did talk of them as her uncles ; on Good Friday night I saw her sitting on the hatch drinking with the darkies the crew ; I saw her go into the captain's room on the 14:h of April ; I saw her ctme from between decks with someling in her hand ; I looked through the deadlight in the state-room, and saw her undress ; Peachy used to go down to the steerage to prevent smoking ; she went down to speak to women ; I was Bashing the cabin one day, and she asked me to get her trunk ; I got it, and she put her clothes in the captain's chest ; she offered me the trunk, but I said I dii not want it ; she appeared hearty and laughing at eve ything ; the doctor and I went with her ; I saw her over ; she took a carriage ; she was hsppy enough ; the passengers used to ask me where the bad girl was with the ft-away cap on ; that was what the passengers called her ; I have seen her all naked in the cabin in bed ; have never been on any voyage but that with the captain ; I have never been to ses before • I was mess boy Cross examined : I saw the girl talk with all the passengers ; we had 500 passengers ; she talked to as many as she could ; I c%n't answer how many ; after going out I saw her go into the captain's room, between 7'and 8 o'clock ; I raw her call meals ; I was not cabin bey ; captain did not send the cabin boy away; he went to Toronto with a passenger ; Mr. Peachy died; they said he took poison ; he used to be with me ; I never gave him medicine ; the doctor attende. him ; he told me he was unwell; I did not go and get medicine from the cabin. George Hubert sworn.---I am French, and just 17 years of age ; I first saw Jane on the day we went out ; she sat on the cock pit talking with another passenger; I saw her often after that; she would come and talk with Mr. Peachy; I saw her " skylarking " with Mr. Peachy; I saw her sit down on the port and Peachy beside her; he looked round 'and then kissed her; the cabin boy also looked ; he had his hand on her dress and then they rose ; I saw her talk to the darkies ; she also talked to me ; I never saw her crying ; never heard her make complaint; could see into the captain's stale room; can open it if you like Cross examined—lt was the third day out she \yes sea-sick ; the captain went in a minute after her ; I did not see her come out ; she continued to sleep in the captain's room. Thomas Conway sworn—l am brother of the defendant ; I have often seen the Swi• zer land ; the opening is two feet foar or five inches to get into the berth in the captain's room ; there was a d.sadtight opening in the front part of the stateroom ; any noise could be easily heard. Henry C. Jackson gave similar testimony. The testimony was here closed. Judge Deau moved for the discharge of the accused A charge of rape on a woman by one man has been long since exploded, and there is no sane man would believe it. The story is very improbable, that such violence could have taken place in a ship with between five and six hundred persons; but that she attempts to explain be saying she was hoarse from a cold, and she explains her letters to the captain by saying she was insane ; it was not, however, " moral insanity ;" it was more like physical insanity. He (Judge Dean) did not attempt to deny that the captain had slept with her and continued to sleep with her throughout the voyage; but for that he has b en punished. Bat there is no evidence hero to sustain the charge of rape. It is evident that she had not only con versations but criminal conversations with Mr. Peachy. Mr. Peachy's uncle here remarked, " There is no such evidence, sir. lam the young man's uncle, and I deny The Commissioner called the gentleman to order. Af'er some further observations, Mr. Dean left the case in the hands of the Commissioner. Mr. Joachimssen contended that these letters, written some ninety days after the ' offence, did not absolve the defendant, nor warrant the - United States in not proceeding with the investigation. He therefore submitted that it was a cause fur a Jury to pass upon. It is generally the line of defence, in cases of this kind, to produce testimony, to slander the character of the witness for the prosecution. He submitted that the defendant ought to be held for trial, for the protection of the travelling community. Peachy is dead ; the doctor is gone to Liverpool, and the cabin boy is gone beyond the jurisdiction of the Court. The Commis4.oner said the case was one of too much importance to decide on at the moment, and he would reserve his deelsion for a few days. On the 20th May last a preliininary meeting was held at the Royal Hotel, Sydney, for the purpose of forming a new con3pzny to b- called th 3 Sydney Conium3r3 Gls and Coal Company. The chair was occupied by NI-. Samuel Coben. At the close of the proceedings 33 person-; p.it down their names for, collectively, 5,003 shares.—Sydney Herald. EXTRAORDINARY METEOROLOGICAL PHEN , IIrNON. A block of pure crystalline ice, weighing nearly 25 lb., was discovered on &loudly last in a meadow hAonging to Mr. Warner, iu the neighbourhool of Oricklewood. On the day prier a storm passed over the spot. Al 'eery, in his History of France, mentions a block of the wehrbt of 100 lb. that fell during a thunder-;torm in the year 1510. MERCHANT VESSELS AT SEA.—The Admiralty has issued a circular directing the comm 'odors of her Mejesty's ships to make periodical retorts of all merchant vessels they may meet at sea, signalizing their names by means of the new c mmercial code of signals authorised by the Board of Trade. As every Bri•i :la registered vessel now has, and every foreign vessel may have on application, a distinction signal of four flags, whereby her name, port, nation, ton nage, and other particulars are indicated, it is to be ex. peeled that the regulation will prove conducive to corn mere?, by insuring mere frequ?nt and correct reports in the shipping lists. The four flags lacing distinguished by letters, this info-mation may be prmaptly communiea`ed by electric teltgrapb, and whets the Atlantic cable is laid, we may anticipate in Lloyd's lists the shipping intAligence fr an America as punctually as from the ports of the United Kingdorr. • SAGACITY OF A PONY.—A pony, at Penrith steam was seen, on Sande) , last, to perform a m )st sag scions feat. It happened that a servant went to inspect some sheep in a field adj ing Stockbridge Mill, in which the pony was grazing; be had occasion to secure one, and tie its l'r until his return ; the poly, witnessing this p=eormanee, very sensibly waiter! till the man was gone, when it was seen to match in quick pace to the sheep, walk several times around it, indicating much curiosity. and showed its sympathy thus : by scraping the ground with its fore feet, and licking the sheep with its t , :ngne, but " endeivou s were not long inciLetuel,—he got the rape firm in his teeth, shook it, and ttrew up his head ; the sheep soon ran off, ant Chvle, in a triumphyit matn. ner, galloped round the field with the rope is his mon b. - Carlisle Patriot The Weeley Dispatch says :—A. " claw me claw thee" measure has been concocted between the corporation and the government, which has ended in a Thames Conser vancy Bill, whereby, among other things, one-third of the whole taxes, fees, rents, and license payments to be levi'd by the bill on the wharves and shipping of the Thames, are to be paid over to the Qua: en avid leer family for the it private use, as part of the hereditary rev, cues of the crown The treasury, it is said, promote the bill, while it is entirely I disrelished by the Woods and Forests. Coroner Wakeley has agitated the principal members of the government and opposition. Ho asks if the conservancy of the great metropolitan river is to be handed over to a parcel of taibrs and cobblers, when at this moment a frightful pec•- ti.ence is threatened by the revolting foulness of the stream, polluted by their past mismangement. The stench at present is literally horrible. Coalheavers and lightermen daily sicken with the smell. PR')GRE3S AT Jn:;s2r.—Among the changes, it was pleasant to find that no longer did the Pillory disgrace the Royal Square, no longer were criminals publicly whipped throt gh the streets, as I once saw with shtto,- daring disgust. Formerly women were thus publicly whipped ; but that disgraceful exhibition was put a stop to before my time; and now Jersey has grown humanised enough to se that whipping men must be reliequish d. It was, indeed, a loathsome eight. The naked shrieking wretch with a cord round his neck, halberds pointed at his breast to prevent his hurrying forwards, his back stream ing with blood, his face turned imploringly towards the surgeon, who walked beside the executioner, and whom I once heard utter the cruel words, " Harder Jack I" mean ing that the victim bad strength to withstand even harder blows—a brutal Mob followi;:g without sympathy—the procession moving slowly from the town-hall to the prison. This was the picture justice frequently presented to the inhabitants of Jersey, and which now, thank God, w;_'it never bs seen by them again, bat will take its piste ace,ong the brutalities of the past, a sign of the onward pr ogress we have made. —Blackwood's Magazine, for Aulgr.A. THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1857. WALLASEY BOARD OF HEALTH. The monthly meeting of the Board of Health, of the dis trict of Wallasey, was held at the public offices at Bare mont last nigot. The chair was occupied by the Rev. E Roberts ; and there were also present Messrs. E. W. Col bourn, Fishwiek, Pooley, Hill, Singlehurst, Hughes, W. R. Colbourn, and De. Parr. The minutes of the preceding meeting were read, as were also those of the proceedings of the different com mit' e as. Mr W. R. Connovaer, in proposing that the proceedings of the Works' Committee 11 , confirmed, made allusion to the prop - sal for erecting a weighing machine at the cost of the board, which had been frequently under consideration. The CHAIRMAN, interrupting, said he begged to intimate that a communication on this subject had been received from Mr. H. K. Aspinal, who offered, at his own expense, to erect a weighing machine, on certain conditions. These were, that the weighing machine be laid down at the corner of the Queen' s Hotel ; that the board pay a man to attend on the machine ; and that on these conditions the Board might have the use of the machine for fourteen years. A memorial was next read from a number of the inhabitants of Central Liscard, complaining of a proposed intention of erecting stables, and locating the night sail carts and night sail on the site of the old town's pinfo'd, and suggesting that another site should be selected report from Dr. Parr and another gentleman, relative to the sanitary condition of the " nest," at New Brighton. The report staed that, with the exception of some pig styes and other matters of a somewhat similar nature, the condition of the locality was in a fair state. Mr. R. W. COLBOURN, in reference to the offer of Mr. Aspinall, said it had placed the committee in an anomalous position. They had bestowed much pains on the subject with a view to having it carried out in the manner most advantageous to the public. In its preßent state ho should move that the subject be remitted back to (he committee. In respect to the memorial from Liscard, he might assure the gentlemen who signed it, that the committee never intended to bring the night soil there at all. They meant merely to locate the horses of the place indicated; and many people, among whom he must include himself, were not in the habit of considering horses a nuisance, or in any way detrimental to health. This explanation he hoped would be satisfactory, and in that hope he should move that the proceedings be confirmed, with the exception of the part which relate' to the weighing machine. Mr. Fishwick seconded the motion. M HiLn said he had been called on by many respectable inhabitants of Liscard, who entertain a great oljection to the proposal for erecting stables on the old town pinfold. It is in the centre of the village, and in such a situation they considered it could not be other than a nuisance. As they entertained this opidon, it was desirable to respect it; and more so, when it was taken into account that other sites might easily be obtained. In this belief, he thought it would be well if The committee would reconsider the matter, He might mention that a site could be easily ob tained, on a piece of land in Mill-lane, or at Old Liscard. As a strong feeling existed on the subject, he should con dude by moving, as an amendment, that this portion of the proceedings be also referred back to the committee. r. Singlehurst seconded the amendment. Mr. R. Colbourn, in explanation, defended the com mittee and the site chosen for the stables. _ . The amendment was then put f orn the chair, negatived by a majority of six votes to three. The original motion wee then carried. Mr. E. W. Colbourn then intimated that all the sums due by parties who were bound to pay for the cmstruc tion of the road from Seacombe toll to Trafalg Lr-road had been paid, with some small exceptions, amounting in all to abJut £lOO. Having made this statement, he should conclude by moving that the proceedings of the Finance Committee be confirmed, which was unanimowly carried. That) was no other business before the Board, and the meeting broke up. THE CASE OF ELIZ A. PENNING. It will he remembered that in the trial of Miss Madeline Smith, the Dean of Faculty quoted the case of Eliza Penning, executed innocently on a charge of poisoning. A. letter from the Rev. J. 11. Gurney, in the limes, quotes a sta+ ement made by the Rev. James Upton, a Baptist minister in London, to the effect that Eliza, Penning had confessed her guilt. The statement is contained in a memorandum by the late Mr. William Brodie Gurney, the short-hand w.iter to the House of Lords, who was in the habit of noting down remarkable occurences. Mr. W. B. Gurney had the statement from Mr. Upton " Doubts having been on several occasions expressed of the guilt of Eliza Penning, I feel it my duty to record the the facts with reference to her me which came within my knowledge " Shortly after her execution I heard that the Rev. James Upton, a Baptist ministeta preaching in Church street, Blackfriar's-road, had visited her while under sentence of death, having been requested to do so in c mse (pence of her having, when young, attended at his chapel, whether with her family. or in the Sunday school I aqi not aware. I knew him to be a very excellent man—a man of great kindneess of heart ; I telt sa+isfied that he would not form a more unfavourable opinion than circumstances called for, and I took an opportunity of seeing him. lle informed me that on his entering the cell, Eliza _Penning, with great earnestness and tears, exclaimed that she was innocent of the crime imputed to her—that it wax a cruel charge, and so on. That he replied, Eliza, I have not come here to talk to you about that. Ido not mean to ask you whether you were guilty of that crime or not, but I come to you as a minister of Jesus Christ, hearing that you are probably very shortly about to appear before your Judge, to remind you that you are a sinner and that unless those sins which yon are conscious you have com mitted are repented of and pardonod you can have no good hope for eternity. I come to sat before you Jesus as a Saviour able and willing to save.' He said, I was some what affected, considering the nation of this poor girl about to suffer, and I talked to her ea-restly, entreating her to seek mercy, and avoiding altogether the subject of her conviction. Before I had done she completely melted down, and then it all came out.' I said, Do yon mean that she confessed that crime ? Oh, yes,' said he, ' there was no reserve then. She confessed that it was all true, and I besought on her behalf the forgiveness of all her sins, and of that among the rest, and I hoped at the time that she hal joined in that prayer, but I understand that after this she still persisted in assuring those who visited her of her innocence.' " An reimate has been published of the probable amount required to defray the charge of the embodied militia up to the 31st of March next. The sum is .C 200,000. We understand that James Coppock, Esq , has peen apriutcd to the' freasurership of the Kent County Courts, vaciat by the death of the late W. F. A, Dc lang• Esq. We read in a eo!enaj - ra'r :—" It is *stated in political circics, that Mr. Piaiun, the late Secretary of tha Ad miralty, is ahant - proceed to the Co'onics, having acceptel an appointmert." We believe that no such statement has been made in the political elicits. We know that there is not the slightest inssib!e futile lotion for it.— Globe. M. Gaiz it has ju - t published, in the last nnmber of the Reveu des Deux 3foncits ft, article on 4 Belgium and King Leopold in 1857," in which he expie sses his approbation of the resolution come to by the mieiver, and eanctionee by the Keg, relative to the bill on charitable instittrions; and, whilst recommending prudeace to the various parties, the writer declares that, in spite of what has taken place, he does not in the least anticip_tte any evil to Belgium because, though parties are divided, they are all friends of the constitution and of Belgium naionality. M. Kos.trrn.—A meeting was held at Glasgow on Monday evening, under the presidency of Mr. W. M.Adam, in Lennox's Hotel, for the purpose of making arrange ments with the distinguished exile for the delivery of a I , cture en the foreign reactions of Great Britain. A letter was read from M. Kossuth, in which he stated his reluct ance to lecture on the subject proposed to him by the committee, and suggested the propriety of choosing another topic. The subjec, he proposed was agreed to by the mee.ing, and a committee appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the lecture. A FRENCH RIEDPATIT. —The Court of Assizes of the Doubs was, on Friday and Saturday, occupied in trying M. Monnot, cashier of the branch of the Bank of France at Besancon, for embezzlement and forgery ; and M. Vital Pavel, banker in that city, as his accomplice. The case excited great interest. Lionnot, it, appeared, was in 1841 appointed cashier of the branch bank established at Besot ofn. Unlimited cot - trance wee placed in him, and he was charged to receive all the sums paid in, to effect alt payments, and to keep the accounts. Same time b,.ck i was discovered that, for ten years, he had been in the habit of committing embezzlements, and that their total ameten!ed to the enormous sale of 420,000 f; also that lie had falsified his acce,unts, and fabricated or suppressed receipts and otheC itoetiments, so as to disguise his frauds. The greater part of this sum be had employed in carrying on a bank in tae name of,his wife, who had b:en a widow, named Pres! el, and on her death, which took place in 1853, in that of her son, the other' accused; and it was alleged that tl'es young man knew perfectly well that the sums sup' ,lied by his father-in-law were not honestly come by ; P ) .so that he (Prevel)4ad spent a not inconsidereble portion of them in keeping a mistress and horses, and that he had indulged in extravagant luxury. The jury acquitted Prevel and convicted Monnot, though with extenuating circumstances. The court sentenced his to eight years' hard labour. • POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YESTERDAY. LIVERPOOL. BEFORE MIS, J. AIKIN. A BLACKGUtRD.—Mr. Ride, one of the chief superin tendents of police, charged .a person named George Byres, who s id he lived at Broad-Green, under the following circumstances. The prisoner, in appearance, was what is commonly called "a gentleman," bat his conduct strangely contrasted with his appearance. The officer said, on the afternoon of the previous day ho was called by a respect able female in London-road, who informed him that a man was in Hotham-stree, acting in the most scandalous manner; and whilst proceeding towards the place, another respectable female, with a child in her arms, came up and made a similar complaint. He went along, and before he came within forty yards of the prisoner, he saw him act in the most scandalous and indecent manner. Ho was in drink, but knew very well what he was doing, and it was quite evident that his conduct was not the result of accident, but that he designedly acted in the manner described. The females felt very delicate, and would not come forward. In reply to Mr. Aikin, the superintendent said the females were respectable. His Worship censured the conduct of the prisoner, and fined him £2. The fine was paid. "BnEssirtos" ON TUE POPS. --A very free-and-easy sort of looking young fellow, named Morris Davis, said to be the second steward of the ship Orient, w charged by police officer 311, who said, I saw him in flighfield street the previous evening; he was drunk, and was singing the "Boyne Water," and cursing the Pope. A crdwd col lected, and would have handled the prisoner rather roughly had he not interfered, and his conduct and singing of p arty songs was calculated to create a disturbance. He took him into custody. Fined ss. and costs. TUE Row IN WATERLOO-ROAD. —Henry Wright, Samuel Roper, and Thomas Rea, wh3 were remanded on the pre vious day, on a charge of having assaulted officer 35G. were brought up. Mr. Muck, for the defendants, as he promised the previous day, produced witnesses who fully proved his sts'ement, and the charge was dismissed, and the officer suspended. John Dixon, a person employed by Mr. Rose, the night soil contractor, was remanded on a charge of embezzle ment of money belonging to his employer. A person named William Heyton, said to be a County Court bailiff, was sent to gaol for one month for having stolen a pipe, a 'gimlet, a cork-screw, and other things out of a house in Erskine-street, where he was in charge of a distress. - BI RKE N HE AD. BEFORE THE REV. ME. FIREMEN, AND :NI EMS. 8 HAW AND JACKSON. SUNDAY Tneense.—Yesterday, William Copestick, a publican living in Birkenhead, was summoned before the magistrates on a charge of keeping his house open for the sale of drinks, during the prescribed hours on Sunday last, namely, between the hours of three and five o'clock. Mr. Bretherton appeared for the defendant. Inspector Gunning was called, and he proved that on the afternoon of Sunday list, he was on daty:near to the der'endant's house, abent half past four o'clock, and from what he observed he entered the house with police constable Kehoe. When he went there he saw a Birkenhead man coining through a glass door of the lobby, and he (witness) then went into the bar, where he saw the defendant and a female behind the bar. In the bar there was a Birken head man, (Murphy) and two strangers. There was a glass c _ ntaining some drink on the counter, the witness spoke to the defendant, and went into the front room, where he saw twelve men and some women ; two of the former belonged to Birkenhead, all of whom had drink before them. He (witness) next went into the back room, where he also found two men and two women, all of whom, also, had drink before them. He then told the deendant that he should summon him, when he expressed a hope that he (witness) would not say anything about it, but let it pass over. When the witness visited the place the door of it was open, but all the other houses in the neighbourhood were closed, and the defendant told him that he hoped he woulda look over it. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Bretherton, but the only additional evidence elicited was the identification of two of the persons out of the twelve as belonging to Bir kenhead, and to his most positively denying that the man (Murphy) had told him that he had asked for drink, but that tie defendant had refused to supply him with any. because he was a Birkenhead men. Police constable Kehoe fully corroborated the statement made by the inspector, and identified a third party, and one of the company as be'ong ing to Birkenhead. Mr. Bretherton addressed the Bench, on behalf of the defendant, in a most able and eloquent speech, contending that his client had used all the care he possibly could, by refusing to supply the people of the township, but out of the population of 27 000, and all the strangers who visited the township in the course of the Sunday from Liverpool, he might have made a mistake, and therefore he hoped that the magistrates would not inflict a penalty, perticularly as he should be able to prove that eight of the persons out of the twelve in the one room were there to inquire after beds, and had slept in the house. He then called the servant, Bridget Boyce, who stated that the man Murphy had not had any drink in the house, nor yet any other person whom either she or her master knew to be Birkenhead people. The lad opened the door for all the parties, and had asked them where they came from, and then, as they were travellers, they walked in and sat down. In answer to the Inspector, she said that Mr. James M Donald was in the holm, and that he went in for his stick, but had not an thing to drink in the house. He would swear that he had not one drop of ale. He would swear that th re was no distnrbance in the house after the Inspector had left, nor was M'Donald's hat torn to pieces, although the lad had not seen him have the same hat on since. The Bench were decidedly of the opinion that the house was open for the sale of drink, which was contrary to the act of Pall ament. Mr. Bretherton contended that they had proved that the house was only open for a legitimate purpose—the letting of the beds ; but, to clear up all dispute, he would call M'Donald to prove that the house was not open. Mr. James M‘Donald was then called, and he stated that he was at the defendant's house on the Sunday afternoon When he went up the door was not open, and he had to ring the bell. He went for his hat and his stick, but cer tainly did not get anything to drink—oh, no, decidedly not. He saw the officers enter the room. They appeared to be in a great hurry; but he would not, because he could not, swear that the door was shut at the time they went in. The witness was questioned by the bench as to how he came to leave his hat and stick at the house, and, after some hesitation, stated that he had been a lodger there, and had a great many things in the house, but that he did not go without a covering on his head, because he carried a cap in his pocket. The Bench was decidedly of opinion that the house bad been improperly kept open, and ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 20s and costs. A SORRY THIEF. At the Guildhall, on Wednesday, Chis. Alder, was placed at the bar before Alderman Sir Henry Muggeridge, charged with the following fraud. William Tabernacle, a youth about 12 years of age, said : I live at home with my father, who is an auctioneer and surveyor, at 36, Farringdon-street. I went to the Morning Advertiser office this morning to pay for some advertisements, which came to .E 1 4s. I paid the amount with two sovereigns, having received £3 from my father for that purpose, and to pay for some advertisements at the Times. I received 16e change, and was on my way to the Times office, when the prisoner overtook me in Union street , New Bridge • street, and said, " Oh, they have charged you 4s too much. I have got a sovereign, if you give me the 165." I said, L thought I had better go back to the office, and have the ticket altered, but he said, " Oh, no, that will do at any time." I gave him the 16s, and he gave me a coin, which I thought was the sovereign, wrapped up in paper. I was rather suspicious, and looked after him, and when I saw him running away, I opened the paper, and found only a brass medal. I immediately follo4ed the prisoner, calling " Stop thief," and overtook him in a court near the Times office, when he gave me the 16s back, and said, " all right, my lad," and was going away, but I ran after him again, calling " Stop thief," when he was stopped in New Bridge street by my uncle, who happened to be passing that way at the time, and held the prisoner until a police man ara ived. I gave the p isomer into custody. Sir Henry Muggeridge : Do you wish to ask the witness any question, prisoner? Prisoner No, sir ; only he is mis taken. I am not the person that he complains of. Sir Henry Muggeridge : Are you quite sure witness this is the man ? Witness : lam quite certain he is. Prisoner : It's all a mistake, sir, and if you will inquire into my character you will find it so. I never had anvth ng against me in my life, Sir Henry Mrggeridge : You shall have every opportunity, and I shall therefore remand you till Saturday, in order that some enquiry may be made about you. AN AVOWED A:Tuersr.—Thomas Briant was charged at Marlborough. street Police-office, London, on Tuesday, with stealing a gold watch, the property of Baron Ernest de Gleichen, of Tetteubourn, and 32, Harrington-street North, flampstead-road. When the GospAs were tendered to the prosecutor for the purpose of being sworn, he declined to take the oath, from coaselentious ecruplee. Mr, Beado:, asked him what were his religious tenets ? The prosecutor said he was nei.her Protestant nor Roman Catholic, Mr. Beadon : What is your religion ? Prosecutor : lam an Atheist—a perfect Atheist. Mr. Beadon Then there is an end of the ease. Charge dismissed, AN ALLEGED THREAT 'TO TAKE THE LIFE OF THE BMPEROR NAPOLEON; AT ROCK-FEAEY. Yesterday, twe respectably dreeserl young men, named Pond and Crofton, appeared before the Birkenhead' Beath of magistrates—Mr. Jackson ancrthe- Bev. Mr. Fielding—. to answer a charge preferred against them by Mr. John Clare, jun , for having used threatezing language, and stopped him on the Queen's highway. Mr. Bretherton appeared for the defendants. Mr Clara, upen-being sworn., stated : r was on board the Bock-Ferry boat. at half-past four o'clock, and just before I was ab ut to get on the slip with my wife ant little ch:ld, the fellow Reund jumped from the paddle-box and lurched up against me, and pushed me against my wife. I asked him who he was pushing against ?' when he made use of some abusive language, when that other fellow came up, and'offe-ed to fight me. The Magistrates • Who do you mean by that fellow ? Mr. John Clare : Why, him there, t be sure The Magistrate : You had better call him by his right name. Mr. Clare : That person or that fellow came up— The father of the defendant : He is not a fellow —he is my son, and I expect you will address him respectfully. The Msgistrate : His name is Crofton, and I expect you will address him as tueh Mr. Clare: Well, all right I walked up the slip, and when I got to the pay gate I asked the man there-ifhe knew fellow's names. He said he did not. The fellows then followed me along the esplanade, and when I get to the new ferry, Csc ft on came up to me and put himself into a fighting attitude and said he would '' have at me." I told him I would not have anything to-do with it, and turned into a stable and I took no the half of a spade and I struck at Pond. The Bench : You struck at Pond with the spade then ? Mr. Clare : Indeed I did do so. I was then pulled down by the pair of them I 0 , 911 it being regularly stopped on the highway. I said sorne•hing about persons -wearing hats and trousers, and calling themselves men, but I never saw such treatment for a man to receive . By Mr. Bretherton : I did not take Pond by the throat at the gate, and say, " Come no to the New Ferry, and you shall have what you want." Mr. Bretherton: Did you see this gentleman there (Mr. Ibbitson) ? Mr. Clare : I saw that person there. Mr. Bretherton : I asked you whether you saw that gentleman there, and you -say that you saw that person there ; now, that is not a . proper way to an swer. Mr. Clare: Come, Bretherton, just define to me what the meaning of the word " gentleman" is 7 Mr B CEI • therton : I could in a very short time define to you the very antipodes of what,a gentleman is, but I decline to do so. Mr. Clare: Well, I saw the man there. He did not intetfere with me, nor did he threaten me. Mr Brether ten : Well, did you see Crofton's father there? Mr Clare : The man called on me, and wished me not to pro-' teed in the matter. Mr. B etherton : Did you not say that you wished to kill the pair of them ? Mr Clare : I will not swear that. Mr. Bretherton: Did not the father tell you that if you had done so, you would be hung ? Mr. Clare :I do not recollect it Mt.. Bretherton : Well, did you not tell him that you would have the life of the Emperor Napoleon in the coure of the same conversation ? Mr. Clare : Now, Bretherton if you do not proceed with this case properly, and ask me questions in a gentlemanly manner, I shall shut up and speak no more Mr. Brether ton : I only wish to refresh your recollection. Do you recollect making use of such an observation about the ' Emperor in the course of the conversation ? Mr: Clare : Perhaps I might, but I do not recollect it I shae't answer any more. Mr. Bretherton : Did you say so, or did you not? Mr. Clare : I can't say whether I said so or not. I don't know that I became angry and was much excited, but I will say this, that fighting is not my trade. Joseph Dalton, a witness, was then called, and he spoke to seeing the defendant with the plaintiff, and to the latter going into the stable yard, and . getting a shovel-handle, and threatening to " bra in the pair of them " That was at New Ferry, and from the annoyance he had rec"ived, he really thought that Mr. Clare had acted with a great deal of forbearance, ccnsider'ng the way he had been treated by the defendants. Mr. Bretherton then addressed the bench on behalf of the defendants, contending that the plaintiff had been the first aggressor, by making what was really and truly an accident into an assault ; and then, by using the most abusive language, for the purp ee of irritating the two respectable young men, who were procee ling home. He called Mr. Ibbotson, a traveller, who said he hear d the defendant say to the plaintiff, when at New Ferry, " Now, come on, you took me by the throat down there, and if you want anything, come on." The plaintiff did not deny it He then went for the shovel handle, and made several attempts to strike the defendants, but they got him down, and took it from him. His wife entrea'ed him to go home, when he threatened to give her a " bank" over the mouth if she spoke again Mr. Clare : You are a liar. The policeman was called, and he said he heard the witness say the same thing to Mr. Clare, and it was not then denied. The Bench then consulted, and after a short time expressed it as their opinion that all parties had been to blame—Mr. Clare, in taking it up as he had done, and the others by trying to annoy such an exciteable man as he was—and ordered the two defendants to enter into their own rerognisances to keep the peace. FICTITIOUS C HEQUES-ALLEGED EXTENSIVE FRAUDS. Charles Mickleburg, a respectably dressed-man, des cribed as a cattle dealer, was placed on Wednesday at the bar of the Worship street Police-court, London, before "Mr. Currie, charged with having conspired with others to obtain,by false and fraudulent representations, a quantity of timber and other articles, under the following peculiar circumstances :—Mr. James Brooks, an auctioneer in Piccadilly, stated that on Wednesday last, he con ducted a public sale of the effects of Mr. William Booth, formerly proprietor of the City Saw-Mills, in Whitecross-street, on behalf of the assignees appointed under the bankruptcy of th t person. The prisoner, who gave the name of Wilcox, was an extensive bidder on the occasion. And several lots were knocked down to him, to the aggregate amount of £4l 3s On the following day witness attended in Whitecross street, accompanied by his clerk, for the purpose of hand ing over the lots to the respective purchasers ; and the prisoner's account was delivered to him but he left without paying it. After a short interval, however, in the course of which an unsuccessful attempt was made by some men, who were apparently acting in con cert with him, to remove the goods from the pre mises, the prisoner returned, and having presented a cheque for the money drawn in the name of "T. Wilcox," upon the Unity Bank in Canon-street West, he was far- - nished with a delivery order for the goods, which were carried off "unt'er his directions. The cheque in question was subsequently tendered at the Unity Bank, but having been returned unpaid, with the endorsement " no account," the matter was placed in the hatds of the police, which resulted in the speedy apprehension of the prisoner. In answer . to the charge the prisoner earnestly disclaimed all complicity in the transaction, and said that be had received the cheque from a man on whose aecortnt he had merely acted as an agent at the sale. It h-aving been intimated that a series of extensive frauds was believed to have been practised by similar moans, as other counterfeit cheques of the same character had been offered at the Bank, the prisoner was ordered to be remanded for a week. THE GREAT YARMOUTH ELECTION.—Sir Ed nnitlii Lacon has again offered hims3lf as a Con3-rva!ive c4rtdi date to the electors of Great Yarn)()nth. Sir James H'gg has retired, and Mr. Adolphus 'William Young and Mr. John Miller, Q.C., of the Midland circuit, are the Liberal candidates. THE. FRENCH EMPEROR AND THE SPANISH N4TION.— The Moniteur peblisbes an account of the r2ception of the Duke of Rivas, the Spanish ambassador,' by the Em peror. The Duke of Rivas eneends Marshal Serrano me Spanish ambassador to the conrt of the Tuilleries. The Emperor's speech was highly complimentary to the duke personally, and to the Spanish nation generally. GREENWICH ELECTION EXPENSES.—FrGITI the official statement of Mr. James, the election auditor of the borough of Greenwich, which has just been published, it appears that at the last election the expenses of Sir William Codringten, were £1,096 las. 6d; and the ex penses of Mr. Mantagu Chambers, who was unseated, £1,039 Os. ld. ThYe extroees of Mr. Townsend, who was returned in the place of Mr. Chambers, have sat yet been published. DISCOVERY OF ANOTHER COACET.—Mr. Carrington, of Redhill Observatory, writes to announce the discovery of another comet by M. Then, at the Imperial Observatory at Paris. Itspasition at 14 hours mean Hesse, on the 39th of July, was found to be—tight ascension, 4 hours, 23 seconds; north polar distance, 35 deg. 30 sec. Bo'h elements were on the increase, the tight ascension et the rate of 12 minutes, end the north Polar distance at the rate of ratber mora than a degree dai'v. The comet was detected by M. Dien on the 28th of Jnly, and on the 30th independently fond by Professor liabieht, of Goths. Wool, SALES.—Oa the 3021 ult. Mes - irs. Thomson and Scott otlared by public sal©, within their Sample Rooms, No, 69, Great Clyde-street, upwards of 300 bales of home and foreign wools. Tb e attendance both of English and local buyers was moe.'respectable. The blddings forborne wools were very Isr",sk, and the following prices were realised :—Laid ii;.ghlands 14s 3d to 15s 61 ; white do , 18s to 20s ; laid Chevi o ', 18s to 203 ; laid washed do., 225; laid creep unwashed, 17s to 18s ; white cross wash ed, 29s to 30 s I Sou'hdown, 38s to 40s. Foreign wools were I flat, but at th e c l ose o f t h e sa l e severa l l o ts found buyers. Skins brought from 2s Gil to 3!.—Glasgow Mail. THE MORALS OF CORK. Our cotemporary, the Cork Daily Reporter, furnishes us with the following repart of the police proceedings In that city on Tuesday. it is anything but complimentary of the morals of the southern capital of the Green Isle. Louis Isaac, a black Yankee sailor, and Isaac C allaghan, another sailor, both of the Waldensian, screw- st*eimer, were brought forward, charged with being drink on the previous evening Mayor: They got a sailor's "rie—l suppose they were in all night ? Policeman: They were, your worship. Mayor :. It might happen a bishop to get drunk. Let them be discharged. John Tarrant was charged with having been drunk on tha Westevn-road on the previous night. Prisoner : Your warship, I worked at he modelling school. Mayo , : A. pretty farm , r they had in you. Prisoner: I tolk only two pus and a glass, and coming home I got a lit le out of the way. Mayor: The law imposes a penalty of 5; for being drunk. ConstaMe :He was lying utid-r the wall, and it was reported he was faling into the tide. Fined is and costs. Michael Doyle was charged with having been drunk at Blackpool between eight an i nine o'clock on the previous evening. Prisoner: I was only cutting kora° within a few doors of my own horse. Mayor : Have you a wife? Prisoner Yes. Mayor : And children ? Prisoner : Yes. Mayor And that is the way you wok to give them a living! What are yoll? Prisoner : An upholsierer. Mayor: how many children have you? Prie : Two at home, and - Mayor : And that is the way you spend the means for their su: port! Prisoner: I was not here for the peat fourteen years. Mayor :. You ought to be ashamed to be here. Then you are an old drunkard. You must be fined two shillings and sixpence. Thomas Greene was charged with being drunk in Shandon-street. Mayor: What is your profession? Pi ironer :. A sweep, your honor, sir. Mayor :Do you belong to Christ's Cnurch ? Prisoner :- I belong to the Norm lane: Mayor :Oh ! you are a northern bird. What made you gst drunk ? Prisoner : I don't know, sir. Mayor : Fine him 24. 63., and it ought to be ss. Prisoner : Begorra, I hav'nt it, sir. Ellen Drinan was charged with being drunk. Mayor: Nothing more ?' You have been "disorderly" here. All the inhabitants are complaining of these women. It is great misfortune they should pursut such a course of life, but they ought to keep outside in the neighbourhood. She must be fined ss. or a week's imprisonment. Mary Mahony, an old ill-leaking woman, was chargad wi , h, having expo , ed herself on the Gravid Parade. Chalk : She is s horrible drunkard, and her poor hu,band can do nothing with her. She drinks all he earns, Prisoner : I was getting deranged your worship. Mayor :. The fact is this, a woman like you, does a great deal of evil, and is a diTrace to society. A coup'e of months in gaol will cure her. Prisoner: I'll die, sr, if I'm sent to gaol. She was remandad till three o'clock, till her husband be communicated. Margaret Ryan, Hannora Wall, and Anne Stack were charge) with being drunk at twenty minutes past ten oa the previous night. Ryan : I was in the street for the past 16 years and this girl (Ryan) interfered with me. Mayor : Fourteen days and hard labour will make them behave themselves. Rebecca Greene was put forward. Policeman : I took this woman to the police-barra2k last night, at one o'clock, she said she would not be let into her own house, and I had to put her into the bride well foe protection. Mayor : What is your husband? Prisoner : He is a. pensioner. The Mayor : Oh ! one of the that get drunk continually. A week in gaol will do you some good ; we will have to support you there. Prisoner: I have an infant, and what wid Ido with it? The Mayor : Oh, God help the infant. Bridget Walsh, one of the "nymphs of the pave," was presented befure their worships, charged with having been drunk and disorderly on the previous night. The pri soner's eyes bore unmistakable cvidenca that she had been in some row. Connell, a watchman, came forward to pro secute. Prisoa r (indignantly): Come, now, you don't tell a lie of me, for you know I was not drunk. Watch man : She was bind drunk, and " another chapP in her company, in Marboro'-street; I saw them f , equeally. The Mayor : Did she ever give you any money ? Watchman : No, up . on my oath. P; ironer (violently): You lie, you rogue; I gave y u money. I told you la,t night, when you asked me to give you whisky, that I had no money, and you said, " Come to Mr. Barry's" wherever that is, " and we will get it." He also brought me back to give him a pint in Grafton's-alley. Mayor: I must say this, I have no better opinion of the wa , chmen of Cork than I have of the women. Wa , ehman: She is always disorderly on the walk. Ma3.or : W.aeiher the man is right or wrong, you (prisoner) were wrong by being on the street. Prisoner : Any one that gives him whisky he will let alone. Mayor: I have the greatest diffidence in the' watchmen. Were you ever drunk?. Watchman :- I was in my life time. Mayor : How long are you a watchman? Watchman : Sixteen years. Mayor : Were you ever drunk on your beat at night? Watchman : I was. Mayor : Were you ever in brideerell for it?' Watchman : I was. Mayor : You are a nice fellow. Go on now and discharge that poor woman. Prisoner (leaving): Oh! good God! you took a false oath against me. Mary Ann 'lowly, a married woman, about 18, years of age, summoned her husband Patrick, who appeared to be about 20, for an assault. She 6ta . ed that they were fire years married, and had two children. Her husband was in the habit of treating her most cruelly. The attorneys' at either side. after some discussion, suggested that the matter should be sent to the parish priest for settlement. Mayor (to Defendant) : Who is your priest ? Defendant : Father Walter Murphy. Mayor : When ware you at your confession ? Defendant : I was not there for the past four months. Mayor: That accounts for your present conduct. The parties then retired. COINERS IN POR.ITGAL. — Lettera from Lisbon, mention the capture of a set of coiners of English. sovereigns and otaer foreign pieces at Braga, about thirty miles from Oporto. The number of the party was siren, and among them was a priest, Aqother priest, who appears to have been the leader, has escape& The coining was carried on in the house of one of these priests, and must have been conducted on a large seal-, as five carts, each drawn by four oxen, were required to remove the implements and maabinery after the seizure. English sovereigns, which are current in Portugal at 4,500 reis each, stem to have been the chi, ntnanufacture, but Seanitsh ouncee and half ounces of Charles 111. were also found. FLORENCE NICiaTING ALE AND IR FRFEM SCXI. L rd Psnmure, accompanied by Lard Darltam, Lord Digh, Lord G)dericb, Lord Linclln, Lord Carnarvon, and a numerous pity, viEited Woolwich arsenal yesterday morn ing, after which they repaired to the Town Hall to attend a meetirg• of the Woolwich Masonic Brethren, for the purpose of instmrating a new masonic lodge, to be named the "-Nightingale Lodge." Tnc ceremony was performed' by tire new D. Grand Master, the Bight- Ito , . Lo-ii Panmure, assisted by .Br. White, P.G - Ste.. Br. J. B. Wagon, G.D , Dr.-Famtield, Assist. G. Sec , Br. Nervy, P.G.D., and a number of others, about 150 of t'e brithr-rt being present. At the conclusion of the cf , rerrinnr, which was impressively performed, Captain Forbes, of the Royal Artillery, was installed in the chair as the First Nlaster, and the D.G.M., addressing 'him, said that though the order did not admit ladies to its ceremonies, there was nothing to prevent their bailing from .a lodge bearing the name of a lady who bad left her borne to pc.rfo!nt a' mest Christian, a, most disinterested, a most useful work, and thus carry into effect that truly masonic virtue— Charity. He felt that she had made a name that was confinednot to a kin:riarta, but which was as widely spread through, the world as was the ancient craft of freemasonry. in the. eveninr, a number of the brethren dined at the Crown and Anchor Tavern ; his lordship, however, was unable to attend, owing to his ditties in the House of Lords.. _ _ . LORD CAMPBELL'S "LxvEs."—..We must couple the referende to Lord Lyndhurst with the cornpl sint, AVhieh he made, both of txwestions used by Lerd Campbell in the debate, and of an attack open him in the " Lives" lately published by the Chief Justice.. This has led us to look at the volume rn question : and we incline to agree with Lord Lyndhurst that the remarks are offensive, though, in all likelihood, they proceed from carelessness rather then design. There is nothing in the general structure of the work which at all negatives this supposilion. o!,,nsid,2ring the importance of the subjeets treated, and the station of the author, it is singular how hastily it appears to love b ee n compost d. This is manifest i n every part of it. The manner in which Lord E lenb oroug h' s repartees are given can only be ascribed to carclesiness ; for they lose their force and efEct sometimes by the redendance of needless words. sometimes by greater errors. Ent this is a matter of taste, and Lord Campbell's may differ from that of other men. As ta fact , , there can be no such d!spute. It is only ut , re carclesiness that could make the Chief Justice eay (Vol. 111. p. 220), that the pillory "was altogether abolished" by the bill introduc ed u p on L r,l Coehrant's ittoit perfectly well known a the punishment for convictionth at it continued, and perjury—the excep tion in the act of 18,6. So nothing sentence, until w i hut baste can account for the statement (ib. p. 318), that Wore Lord Teriterden made his second speech in the House of Lords, " Mr. Canning had fallen a victim to the aristocratic combination against him," when it is quits well known that Mr. C. had died. He follows this up with a severe attack upon his successor. Indeed, the bock abounds in such passages, levelled not only at the dead but the living, as if to meet the well-known mention of him by Sir C. Wetherell in the last speech be ever made, that his noble and biographical friend had armed death with new terrors,—Law Maprzine t for Atigttst,