The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-09 00:00:00

FO REIGN INTELLIGENCE FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. It i s rumoured that Cardinal Morlot's " high haBsinn" to R ome , o f w hi c h I h ave a l rea d y spo k en, Which, r elation to the coronation of N a p o l eon 111., should peace be consolidated, will probably site Place in 1857. • The• Moniteur annou nces th a t on th e 2 n d inst. a tr • to saty was signed at Bayonne between the plenipo tentiaries of his Majesty the Emperor and of her i he the Queen of Sp a in 'e Monit eur a l so pu bli s h es a repor t f ro m the Pe ev u eror-Ge nera l o f Al ger i a , announc i ng a sue an expedition expedition against the Hamian tribes, f, on tier ti skirmish with troops on the Morocco „Count Risseleff and the whole of the Russian ' . [Y i lt inn, dined with the Emperor on Thursday. its ' il e guests remained to an unusually late hour, so after coffee the Emperor beckoned Count Kis. ~,z.e , f f into his nrivate cabinet, and remained there kith tete a tete for two hours. c o e 2501 is spoken of for the opening of the is f i ri v fe Tnees, yet I doubt whether any precise date wit i l e n• The instructions of the Sublime Porte "aVe to be waited for, and the Sublime Porte is Of fl ! very active or very punctual. The members t i ;:e Conferences will very probably be the ordi L it) , r esident Ministers of the different Courts IVC"ted, without the Extraordinary Envoys.-- 'l` ll eth er an - exception will be made in favour of 14 3', as is supposed;l cannot say. . .0 . NEUFCHATEL tl l , l , l f le ,Prussian C o rrespondence of the Ist contains pr ei .` 4l "i'ing reply to the articles in the London li t c On the Neufchatel question :—Several Eng . Ne ti i, a pera continue to side with injustice in the (1, 0 „ eilaW question. Prussia's right is as clear as tioV tr ld cannot be shaken by miserable insinua the:''The only thing we wish to observe is, that English • 1 the worthless organs of a gr en t joUrfla i 9, • of G e n ation, do not only war against theju. ndgitn the ent Probi t i 'many and of Europe, but also g ' I to t h. Y O l their ow n government,which has adhered 4 1044 8 .indgm en t. It is the duty of British states eor n , i ? Prove that their sense of justice rejects all liueireitY with those journalists. We hope that vi nca l2r o ofs will soon be given ; and we are con toith' that the attitude of those journals will be Iner e j 4t influence on facts. But if these organs 4 41 6 " intend to excite irritation and mistrust tttta'liedng the P u se ti" r ct. j usan " people, they have perfectly their obe • h e . ••- AUSTRIA, ••• • l lustrian Correspondence of the 2d instant 110;C -e-"Iile newspapers have published the text of a rei, addressed to the Porte, and signed by the l itio eseu tatives of France and Russia at Consto eotilte' The most superficial glance at it ought to t his ( l l- ," any one initiated in public affairs, that oil-vcament is not a joint note. and we have it t Pre -1 ' Power to state that such a note was no 1 '..-4 en h t ed• It is true that the French Ambassador t he :aye addressed questions to the Porte in O f 1-6 -en ae indiCated, . and the Representatives afte r '. BBj a may have taken similar steps ; but !ter h e reasonable reply of the Ottoman Mini glter,:`lese steps have now only an historical Drop , The Government of the Sultan very th f) ri ti er 'Y ref use d to express alone a decision Pending difficulties, and referred them to riftv,tentive consideration of the Powers. We w~ll i ' D c'd reason to hope that an understanding •Cr ea ," Obtained by these means, and that the 411;: 3 ; of Peace of the 30th March will thus be OUt to the letter!' THE BALTIC HAMBURG, DEC. 3. t ')lc Ti e Commercial and Industrial " Union" at the pos e of • Kiel has formed a committee for the pur t4,l2f carrying out the pi•oject of uniting Kiel, 14 0 , 1 iofurde, and Schleswig by a railway which 141 11 I Fi to be of the greatest future benefit to that 14 Holstein and Schleswig, and consequently it t o 11 1 . 3 ' expected that the govt rnment will afford I t ' l lp T)n - execution of the scheme every desirable ' l i:V t • The committee is composed of men of the ilNeti".Bt respectability and inthierce in throurer 41 )I e • Iv e places, which cannot fail to make a ay Pression upon the Minister. for the Duchy I , C ifil e Z t t e in• The plan of uniting the Altona and ( t -14 by a branch line with that of Hamburg "ov e ,. ' r im direct has been unsupported by the 'on:lent from strategic motives. Tit &I , BRAZIL MAILS. ("10 M OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) By Express. • The , SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY EVENING. Nato' ttoyal Mail Steam-packet . Company's paddle i i, cl rni er Tamar, Captain Jellicoe, arrived here this ' 5 ll 11 R , Sh e brings the following dates :- 1' ello % A x;ttle•, "Yres, Nov. 2 ; Monte Video . , Nov. 6 ; Rio l'' '- 2 ( n' N or• 14 • Bahia, Nov. 18 , Pernambuco, ' iett v e . „i;; St. .Vincent (Cape de Verdes), Nov. 27 ; soo n .t, Dec. 1 ; Funchal (Madeira), De,. 2 0 ; d an n d ee, Dec. 4. She brings £3,94l A l2 r s e . et i iroillielOnnluding .R 2 810 from Bueno r s om y Tenerifft', 44(1 (P l° Janeiro, and £487 12s. 6d 4 . 2 f , 661 1 7 s 8 I ; ttii,(lo th14:11f901-111d0 W S i o n a gbarrels tapioca, 109 freight, value £ lob ' 4 ' i e cargo :-256 rolls 4 ,, I) cacuanha, 1 barrel coffee,2oo Ile ron' ° ' 2 cases cigars, 58 bales leaf . tobacco, 460 I.411 ' ; s3elli neal 7 quarter 7 AI ' e a, 8 boxes' and 147 packages of Nlrie lemons, casks wine, 114 boxes Th e ,P• , kr trial' brought the following passe t n h g e e rs rs fr .; t he It .. o rey m Mr. Gaudin, and 17 o 1/4NI. l 'e/' Plat r: Jackens, h 1 Mr. Feron, , 41 ,es, m r e , Mr. Mat ou , T eir i • from Rio de " nu : tip .i.o nto . Rawk, and 10 others d Mr. Cailetan infant from Bahia , rt ° 'Lil lY D I 4 O, a " Mr ' Hamel an nda and 9 others Li 14 P e ' •". Weedham, Mr. Rarro and .5 others from I SII, rec,4lbuco ; Dr. Mattlime, er el , 41 Others were landed at Lisbon. ~,"live,.' 'lsluenos Ayres Legion Rio era, Chi ef of the Itaul'e ian learn . that at Co ß l a o h n i e a l own soldiers. i ll , ttl g - : a b ' h!id ben killed by his 1 „ e tlti„ ° llea of Indians were collected on the s _ a nd _fears were entertained of serious . in 11 1 . 4 it iii:',3' them. An attempt at revolutton at . 1 ,4 z i , " nEtd been suffocated by I 'll 4e nos 4 P acket RRl e yress General Edopes •s that a ra p e o t l e i i t . ica ie l e character t that -1)1 - of the most deter a m y 1 )1 4 e ted for the txt six months ; the itt l t l : c i l . i l tt o e fear stability the institutions . o of (141111sinesti'l stab' i y of the administration. t„ oi 1-4,,,,at Buenos Ayres had been extremely say 4 4 6 6" a nge had fluctuated considerably, h , to 68s ed closing at the latter figure. k'i br a " ll 'ed ,4 ' very dull of sale. Wo n ol t A ,,,, ,gin,,_ goods were . 11, 4 1 a b o rug to come in. ') eu-- ar e, and in goodic'ohnedeiiliiopns'. thDisonsehalesoon: i k °nt rre "Y' 4 in, '3 Video perfectly quiet. Business_ totir.-Portg Iv ° I . P3l was esa.s was perfectly Land in the in price. The clips N a w °ol w ere 1 ' m g rapidlydin quality, and were At liasqnding high h ry veo.. Exchange was quoted l'Neia Prei ghtfo ri r r s l alted hides to England, - tr Th e Wer e completely wanted. Salt 15 rls. w L a a e rds . carce. 41 4r gent' lion r,„ Alio ine confederation Pity. and was rapidly progressing in pros -011 th ee tio -e Brazilian ports were healthy, the l ' et ler Ile h 1 ' tly and to r al E , . 4 ( passed over gum , ~. 4t is atisfaction of all parties. and the 1 hel r,. 11 ti, leVeq at Rio that the result of the elec- Ni • 'ler • 11 of the present n ( ,, e will cause the downfall h i tt , Il Y• trtel,_44e-'Baaettuinrrienoifri tehoffeAevohnad; been important since good qualities were / fl e e s , Eind holders w e ere firm. to 1 4 e nße 'r and hides little was doing. , an d ..., ,about i 3(ellange 600,0001 had passed, at 27:i in At - 1 , "losed firm at 27i -44' vorTlalxibuco the Elections had terminated .0- 4 , vi the government party. Itiliv als of Sugars at Pernambuco during the month had been on an inferior scale to what they were expected to have been, owing to the continuation of the elections, which were just over, and prices had been kept up ; whites fell from 200 to 300 rs. per arroba, and have again gained their former position.—An immense business had taken place in Cotton since the arrival of the Genova and prices had advanced about 7 per cent ; the sales had amounted to about 17,000 bags of Pernambuco's, Paraiba's and Maceio's.—ln Ex change about £170,000 have been transacted at 274 d. with credit and 28d 60 & 90 days for cash. Several small lots of hides had been sold Up to 300 rs per lb. In rum some small purchases were made at $95 per pipe. The Glengariff had• been taken up to load cotton for Paraiba at 1 , 1 per lb and 5 per cent, with a sugar ballast at 25s per ton. At Lisbon the impression gains ground that the present Ministry are not sufficiently strong to meet the present Cortes. A famine is anticipated in the country districts of Portugal. The amount of the loan arranged be tween the Government and the Bank of Portugal is nearly subscribed. The Cape de Verde Island, Canaries, Madeira' Ste., were healthy, with the exception of Teneriffe, where small-pox had made its appearance. STEPPING Arrived at Pernamboco—Oneida, Hermihne, and Friends, all from Liverpool. Cleared from ditto Demerara, for Liverpopl, via Macao ; and Charles; for the Channel. Sailed from ditto : Eliza, for Paraiba, in ballast, to lead for Liverpool. The Tamar experienced moderate weather as far as Lisbon, from thence a strong S.W. gale. • VESSELS SPOKEN BY THE TAMAR.—NOIT. 19 : 2 p.m., lat. 10.55 S., lon. 36.44 W., American ship Meteor. Nov. 2l : at 11.30 a.m., lat. 4.53 S., lob. 33.20 W., American ship Bonita. N , v. 25 : at 10 30 a.m , ht. 12 7 N., lon. 27 7 W., English ship Saphiras. Nov. 26 : at 230 p m., 12 1 N., lon. 27.7 W., English ship Sultana. Nov. 26 : at 6 a.m., 16.4 N., lon. 25.22 W.,. the English ships Lord Nelson, Lady Ain hery, aud James Carson. R.M.S. Camilla arrived at Rio on the 12th Nov., with mails and passengers for England, from the River Plate. R.M.S. Prince arrived at Rio from England on the Bth Nov., for the purpose of conveying the mails between that port and the River Plate. The Camilla was to sail for England on the 19th ult. British and foreign ships of war at Rio de Janeiro—ln defatigable, Madagascar, Wasp, Star;and Syren. THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, TUESDKI. INDIA AND CHINA. The heavy portion of the India and China mails, which were due at Southampton by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Candia, on December 5, arrived in London yesterday morning, having been conveyed through France, in charge of Lieutenant T. Tickell, R.N., Admiralty agent of the Candia. The delay has arisen from an acci dent occurring to the machinery of the packet, the paitieulars of which have come to hand. The vessel made an excellent run out to Alexandria, but the return voyage was attended with severe ' head gales, causing the loss of one of the seamen, who was washed overboard from the bowsprit, and lost his life. Another man was seriously injured whilst steering. The jib boom .- was carried away by the force of the sea, and finally the vessel's safety was highly compromised by the breaking of the main shaft. This latter event for tunately happened under circumstances which enabled the vessel to get into the Bay of Tanis by the aid of canvass—not, however, before a calm, in conjunction with a powerful current, nearly wrecked the vessel on an island at the entrance of the bay. A breeze providentially rose in time to save the packet from shipwreck, the soundings being deep up to the island. The captain, Henry Powell, had quietly and ,judiciously prepared for the event . The next day, Nov. 27, the crew were highly tanta lised by seeing one of the French steamers of the Messageries Ithperiales quit the port of Tunis for MarseilleS (via Bonn, &e.) She passed on without noticing the signal guns The admi. ratty agent, Lieutenant Tickell, exerted himself.on behalf of the passengers, and obtained through the consular agency, a Tunisian .man-of-war steamer, which the Bey most graciously placed at their disposal, by means of which the mails and passengers proceeded to 'Marseilles. Strong gales prevented them from quitting Tunis before the 3rd instant. The next day found them at St. Pietro (Sardinia). They were delayed twenty-four hours by stress of weather ; and, finally, reached Mar seilles on the 6th, at 63) p.m. The Candia was left cffocting a temporary refit of the engines, with the hope of reaching Malta, if the engines should prove available, probably to wait there for another shaft from England. A small English screw steamer was also lying at Tunis, - the Sovereign, whose assistance might prove useful to the Candia The cargo includes four boxes of specie. The passengers, 51 in number, include Commissary General Laidley, from the Island of Mauritius; Lieutenant Bomford, her Majesty's 59th Regiment, from Ceylon; Captain Stewart, Major and Mrs. Stather, Lieutenants Floyd, DickensDn, Hunter, Lieut. Chimme, R.N. ; Dr. Livingston (the African explorer), Mrs. Bound, Mrs. Widdicombe, Mrs. Daniells, Mr. Nixon Fleming, &c.; corn. Trigear (of the Peninsular and Oriental Company), Mrs. Aix, and a child born on board. Miss De Esterre remained on board the Candia. NEW BRIGHTON CLUB.—The first assembly will take place on Thursday, 11th inst., at the above rooms. THE STEAMER ADRIATIC —Mr. Horatio Allen, of the Novelty Iron Works, New York, denies, over hi 4 own sig_ nature, the report that there has been any misconstruction of the machinery of the Collins' steamship Adtiatie. lle avers that the engines of the Adriatic have not had team on, and that nothing whatever has occurred to create any , expectation that any change will be required. LIST OF PASSENGERS PER R.M.S. EUROPA.—Mr. and Mrs. Power and child, Mr. 0. Bronson, jun., Mr. Blain, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Parker, Mr. Juoin, Mr. F. Hall, Mr, A. Spufforth, Mr. E. Roger, Mr. E. Wilcox, Mr. L. Clark, Mr. Altnea, Mr. W, J. Gilbert, Mr. J. L. Cobb, Mr. Wm. M'Kean, Mr. Borthwiok, Mr. Wainwrigh• jun., Mr. II Ott e nheimer, Mr. If Dreyfus, Miss White, qr. Leebernool, Mr. J. Van Horton, Mr. H. Allen, Mr. J. Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. Loughnan, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander, Mr. Hardt, Mr. Vogel, and Mr. Philips. TESTIMONIAL TO MIL THOMAS CARTER.—We have been favoured with the opportunity of inspecting a very elegant, massive, and chaste silver salver, with a tea and coffee ser• vice, which is about to be presented to Mr. Carter, the indefatigable honorary secretary of the Liverporl Licensed Victuallers Association, for the attention and ability he has displayed in the conducting of the aff.irs of that association. Besides the salver, there is a tea and coffee service, with twelve handsome embossed silver tea spoons, and sugar tongs to match. The above articles are all of solil silver, aad are valued at upwards of £BO, and were manufactured by Mr. Jacobs, silversmith, of Church street, and reflects the greatest credit on that celebrated establishment, for the neatness, taste, and care with which the workmanship is executed. The salver bears the following inscription, very neatly engraved :—" This salver, with the tea and coffee service, presented to Mr. Therms Carter, by the committee, subscribers, and friends of the Liverpool Licensed Victual lers Association, for the unremitting attention, zeal, and ability displayed by him in the discharge of the mast arduous duties as hon. sec., during the years 1853 and 1856. —D,c. 11th, 1856." We understand that this well deserved testimonial will be presented to Mr. Carter in the course of a few days, on which occasion a very splendid dejeuner will be given. Loss OF THE BRIG EMMA. --FT. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, Nov. 14.—The bug Emma, Captain White, thirty days from Liverpool, with a cargo of salt, was lost about midnight on Saturday last, at Seal Cove, a small opening three miles N. of Flat Rock, ten miles from St. John's, Newfoundland. A heavy swell setting into the bight, the ship became unmanageable and finally went on shore. The cook, an Italian, jumped overboard with the intention of saving the crew by means of a rope attache i to his person, but the surf on the shore cost the noble fellow his life. The captain and crew succeeded in getting on store, the vessel parting shortly afterwards. Bere we must record oue of those instances of sagacity peculiar to the dog, which are much oftener read of than witnessed so near home. A fisherman of the name of Mayo, living near the scene of the wreck, with two sons, were aroused from sleep by the barking and scratching of their dog outside the door, and supposing some person! was lurking around the premises they got up, when the movements of the animal attracted their attention, and they followed him to the edge of a precipice, acme seventy feet high, at the foot of which Captain White and his men had landed. This circumstance saved their lives, as it was found necessary to haul them up with ropes, the surf beating so furiously around them as tl render their position very precarious.—. Newfoundland Ledger. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE SOUTH LANCASHIRE WINTER ASSIZES. CROWN COUR Mr. Baron Alderson tool eleven o'clock, when the sworn in as a Grand Jury :- X.-YESTERDAY. his seat on the bench at following gentlemen were The Mayor of Liverpool. T. B. Horsfall, Esq., M.P. W. Entwhistle, Esq., F'man. Oliver Heywood, E.q. Edward L'oyd, jun., Esq. H. Cook, Esq. N. Nevitt, Esq. N. Gregg, Esq. E. Grundy, E.g. H. Hardman, Esq. Robert Heywood, Esq. J. C. Harter, jun., Esq. G. W. Moss, Esq. J. A. Nicole, Esq. J. N. Walker, Esq. G. H. Thompson, Esq. H. Phillips, Esq. Edward ToOthill, Esq J. A. Turner, El, W. R. Wood, E'q H. Woods, Esq. W. Eccleston, Eq. James Acton, Esq.• H. Asten, Esq. H. Bai'ey, His Lordship then said : Gentlemen of the Grand Inquest, I am very glad to see so numerous an attend ance, indeed, the largest number which could properly attend in the court, for the purpose of discharging one of the important duties belonging to your rank and station ; and I am very glad that you do not neglect it, for, believe me, it is one of the greatest safety valves for the English Constitution. So long as the gentry of the country discharge these duties to the public, so long will they have that legitimate and proper influence which they have hitherto possessed in this country. And he is the best Conservative who continues to do his duty in his own station of life, with the utmost activity and intelligence. We are met together here at a season of the year which I cannot say is an unusual period, knowing that I am speaking in a place where I have before addressed persons at this period of the year several times. It would be absurd for me to :call this an unusual period ; and, in truth, I do not myself forget that it is very right and proper, and ought to continue to be a usual thing in the County of Lancashire, that the , judges should come here at this period of the year for the purpose of discharging the gaol of the large body of criminals which accumulate at this time. Imay, per haps, think it is not quite s) necessary in other counties of England—certainly not in all, as is manifested by the fact of the judges not being sent to all, but in this county and in the adjoining great county of York, there is DO questiou but that it is a necessary and very' proper management. Gentlemen, there are in this calender not a great number of persons to whose cases it is at all necessary that I should call your attention. There are several charges of murder. I think two or three of them will probably amount only, in your judgment, when they come to be considered more fully, or even if you should have doubt about it, there is the judgment of the potty jury to cases of manslaughter. There is one, for instance, in which a young woman, certainty of bad character, and living with a man in a very improper and indecorous way, and both being extremely drunk at the time, stabbed the man under circumstances which I cannot help thinking will turn 'out to be of very con siderable provocation towards her even by blows, which of course, if it be found so, will reduce the crime to manslaughter. If you so look upon it, and see that there is reasonable ground for that belief, you will find a bill only for manslaughter. There are other cases in which no such provocation can pos sibly have arisen, for they are cases of the the murder of children ; not at the time of birth, for that is not in general a case of much difficulty, but after the children have been born, have lived, and have been seen alive—so so to speak—in the world. These are clear cases of murder, for there can be no manslaughter in such a case, inasmuch, as the child was incapable of committing any offence towards its mother, which could justify the act of the mother—unless you are satisfied that the death has arisen from exposure of an unwise and im - provident description, without amounting to the offence of murder, by means of the intent to kill. But, if a per son expose an infant child voluntarily, to hardship and cold, with insufficient clothing . -you can hardly but infer an intent to kill. If that be so, the crime, of course, is murder. Then the questions will only be questions of the identity of the child and questions of the identity of the mother. There is, then, another class of cases, which I am sorry to see beginning t to be so common thronghout England ; for, 1 regret to tell you, that elsewhere the settle thing prevails. Cases of what are called Garotte robberies, in which persons are seized, put to considerable violence, and robbed. Generally speaking, by two or three together, like the Thugs in India. These are cases, in which, when , they are brought before you, you will, if the circum stance warrant, find bills, and I will, to the extent of my power, punish them with the greatest severity of the law, because I do believe that that is the only way in which we can put them down, if we can put them down at all. The other cases are such as occur to you in the ordinary course of your duty as magistrates, and I am quite sure, knowing the county of Lancashire fora in. it'd or jcazn no.v amounting, to very close upon 50, that you are perfetly well competent to discharge your duties in that respect without any instruction. Gentle men, these cases having been disposed of, then, perhaps, you will find a good many— I do n a know how many— eases in which the prisoners are persons who have been pardoned, so to speak, and have come back into the worl I with what are called tickets of leave, which, certainly, appears to be'—apparently from its effects, I mean, a very unwise arrangement. These persons ara let toose, you see, upon society, and the reason of it is because it is almost impassible to keep persons for so long a period of time as persons used to be transported for in custody in this country. People get tired of keeping them any longer. I believe that is one of the operations of human nature. Then, the chaplains of the geols become extremely atten tive, and if a man turns up the , wh'tes of his eyes a little more than others, and pretends to be a converted sinner, the chaplain immediately considers himself much complimented by the effects of his ministrations, and recommended him to be set free. So that, in truth you see the effect is nothing more than to add hypocrisy to their other crimes. Then we have the benefit of this in the next generation resul ing in a greater number of crimes committed by hose very persons who were not really reformed, but pretended to be reformed for the purpose of escaping from punishment. Gentlemen, this arises in some degree from our having, through the medium of certain very active, but I cannot help thinking, not very judicious philanthropists, seeing that they are not practical men, abolished to some extent or been attempt ing to abolish' the punishment of transportation altogether. Now, that transportation was subjected to considerable evils, and required considerable reforms lion, is perfectly true. But it is not proper to abolish it, hecause, after all, it is the best punishment both for the country which inflicts it, and for the criminal who receives it. For, I believe it is pretty well known, that the number of persons transported, who recovered to all appearance their good name in the colonies, and lived as decent and respectable people there, is a very large per centage, whilst of those who remain in this country and are not transported, but turned loose again, a very small if not an infinitesimal per centage has been found to reform. I remember some years ago I visited the Millbank Penitentiary, as it is celled in London, a penitentiary which receives principally, if not only—l believe indeed only—persons sentenced to transportation. I went over that prison with the late Mr. Whitworth Russell, a clergyman of very considerable eminence on account of the attention which he devoted to what may be called criminal statistics. He showed me ever the gaol, where there were some 600, 600, or 700 prisoners at the time. He had been there doing his duty, and very actively and energelcally, for upwards of fifteen or sixteen years. After Iliad seen the whole gaol, and observed all the means whereby the penitence and reform were to be produced, I said to Mr. Russell : " Pray, Mr. Russell, as I know that you have been here fifteen or sixteen years, how many persons do you think were really reformed during all these years, out of the 700 who have been constantly here ?" Now, what do you think was his answer? " Possibly two—l am sure of one !" This was the experience of that gentleman in the greatest penitentiary in London, among that class of Persons of whom we are now speaking having been sub jected to transportation. But it is absurd to talk of this as being reformation. If, however, these persons had been sent abroad, had been put into the colonies, and turned out in the colonies, after the periods of their transportation had elapsed, perhaps subjecting them In the intermediate time to that very objectionable system here, but not objectionable system there, the ticket of leave, it has been ascertained by experi ence that 40 or 50 per cent. of them would have been reclaimed. It is therefore really and truly' a humane proceeding to transport people, with a chance of redemption for them, rather than by keeping them in this country, out of all chances of redemption at all. Surely this is more humane—surely this is more wise I do not think I need doubt about the answer you would give me, if the facts be such as I state. Well, first consider what the circumstances are. What is a man to do? You turn him out after he has been subjected to a long series of imp , ison• ments in this country. What is he to do ? you turn him out with a ticket of leave. I will presume he has behaved well in gaol, because people who cannot behave ill are for the moment apt to behave well, and this is particularly the case with this class of persons, They are always clever, and know what will be the consequences of good behaviour for the time being, but what are they to do when they come , out ? Would not you, if you took any one of them into your employment, consider that you were doing, and you would be doing an act of the greatest philanthropy, but at the hazard of your comfortif you took him into your house—at the hazard of the comfort of all your servants who would not like 'to associate with persons of that description. They cannot obtain employment, what then are they to do ? You turn them out amongst their old associates, they have the cleverness which belongs to people of that description ; they place themselves at the head of new gangs, the same evils arise, crime is committed, the man is punished, and perhaps sometimes even to the extent of death. That is generally the consequences of the act, but if you turn them . out in the coloniei, where the capital of the country yearly requires additional labour, you will treat those people more humanely, because you can employ them with much greater ease. At all events, they will be far from their associates in England, and vim Will give them the opportunity of distinguishing themselves by their talents and their conduct, and by their exercise they very often redeem them selves and become useful colonists. Well, then, why should we abolish instead of reforming transportation ) Far better to do the one than the other. ,It -is but. gaining nothing in exchange for a great good, though that great good is accompanied with some evil, no doubt, because it is inconvenient and difficult to obtain a place in which a settlement is to be had. ,A great deal of that difficulty has arisen from the early blunder and early want of a good understanding of this country with the colonists in former times on this subject. I feel this that no more ought to be transported who is an incorrigible criminal. You should only transport your corrigible criminals, if I may so call them. You should try to separate one from the other by pre viods reformatory imprisonuient, and though you cannot say that the hypocrite will not deceive you instead of the other, yet this you can say and do—you can teach him to yead, write, and cast up accounts. You can teach him a new'trade, or even two new -trades, I have seen in the old reformatory at Pentonville persons who had been taught two trades since the time they came into the reformatory. If you send men capable of reading, writing, and casting up accounts, in addition to the trades which he has been taught, the new colony will find him a useful colonist, even though you do not send him out an 'honest man altogether. Not that I would neglect the other means of reformation, the teach ing of religion and morality, which are useful combined with the system of which I have been speaking ; but I know that though you may be deceiv e d in them through the one, you cannot be deceived as to the other, because in it you have a test, but by combining both, while you may probably impart t t o e a t c he hi m n g t s h e o f a d r 7 l g t o g n e s a t d a t . m a r o e r a i o ty b , e derived von, a t fu a ll r froth tle events, i secure to them the undoubted advantage of learning the science of a trade. All that can be done, you can form their conduct in the prison, classify the corrigible and incorrigible prisoners, and then if you only send out your corrigible criminals, you may give them with safety a ticket of leave when they arrive at the colonies, because they are removed from their evil associates— they are very clever—they are capable of distinguishing themselves by skill in their respective trades, and while they become good colonists, you give them the chance of becoming also good men, and with GOd's blessing, 1 hope that under • circumstances their number will increase. You place them in situations, in which, by the exercise of their t a l e nt s , th e y will be relieved of the temptation of want, and that is the best po sible chance 'of reclaiming them from that state in which they were in s .ciety at home. No doubt that is a chance, but it is the best chance. With respect to your incorrigibles, you ought to keep them here ; you have no right to afflict your colonies with them, because of the impossibility of their being refoimed in this country at . all. Your corrigible criminals, seeing that they become useful colonists, you have a right to send them out, and it seems to me that you would have no difficulty in inducing the colonists to receive them, because I do believe that tlartwnoltinfeunidygyiaafe:trterlfe:redmoacy, from n d d ie:nye o ao:i b strn j mht e ehnsu c ruau t c:chm t ahoene as vedr oenreceiveynuoaosrc enorm o us theybitomondostuykhcl numbersao m ttubhel eded v ma amns themao, ti t an h aba a yopei t ni aafe w rrr a stn c oofa om o c nonn u treyoe - . in speak, of the colonists themselves, instead of being those upon whom the colonists should depend as their servants. That, in a great degree, was the canse why the colonists rebelled, so to speak, against them. Then there ought to be this distinction too. I cannot help thinking, that when yon reform a man in the course of imprisonment in jail, and then send him out of the country, you should also provide that he should be accompanied with his wife and family. He ought to be burthened with a certain fixed amount for the transport of his wife and children, to be repaid within a limited period after his arrival and liberation in the colony, and if he is willing to submit to that condition, I do think you ought to assist hint, because it is one of the best ways of reclaiming him, to bring him back to his domestic duties, domestic cares, and domestic comfort s . I am ashamed, gentlemen, to hove occupied your time so long with this topic, but I much wish that you won in employ your minds in tl.c consideration of it. It is a subject much at heart with me, and I hope it will be also at heart with you, and I am sure that if my views met with the concurrence of gentlemen of your intelligence, position, and experience in the country, we shall have some chance, at no remote period, of coming to some real conclusion in this matter. I leave the young criminals to the means which are to be taken for their reformations in thiecountry. They are to be reformed by means of reformatory schools, which are doing great service. I have spoken only of the two classes of persons for whom transportation was provided, and for whom a right system of transportation would be the greatest blessing that could be provided. The Grand Jury then retired to their room, to con sider the bills of indic'ment sent up to them. BURGLARY BY A TICKET OF - LEAVE Anderson, aged 22, a slipper maker, pleaded guilty to the charge of having, at Manchester, in August last, burglariously broken into the dwelling house of John Mannion, and stolen several articles of property. A previous conviction was proved. His lordship, in sen tencing the prisoner, said : In, the year 1853 you were tried and sentenced to transportation for seven years, but at the end of three years they granted you a ticket of leave. This was in June last, and having then come out, you committed this offence the following August. What hope is there, then, for you ? The sentence of the court is, that you be transported beyond the seas for 20 years. If they let you out again, it is their fault, not mine. Bunor.kuv.— James Thomas, aged 24, foundry worker, pleaded guilty to a charge of burglarious:) , breaking into the house of William Edge. at Manchester, in October last, with intent to steal. Sentence deferred. STABBING A PoLicESlAN.—Richard Carr, aged 21, shoemaker, was charged with having at Wigan, on the Ist September last, feloniously stabbed a policeman, named Joseph Pearson, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. Mr. Lereische prosecuted, and the pri soner was undefended. It appeared that the prisoner had been drinking on the night in question, at a public house called the Royal Oak, in Wigan; and alter leaving the place he had a quarrel with a man named Leyland, whom he attempted to stab with a pocket. knife. A cry of " Murder," was raised by Leyland and others. The police-officer ran to the spot, and attempted to arrest the prisoner. The prisoner grappled with him, and both fell to the ground, when the prisoner stabbed the policeman two or three times, giving him some severe wounds in the side and stomach. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and hls lordship sentenced him to eighteen mon, hs' imprisonment with hard labour. BURGLARY.— Patrick Murphy, aged 25, blacksmith, was charged with having, at Openshaw, on the night of the 2nd October last, burglarously broken and entered the house of Samuel Atkinson, a beerseller, and stolen thence 14'. in copper money, a pair of boots, a quantity of cigars, and some biscuits. Mr. Owens prosecuted. The prisoner, when arrested, had the stolen boots on, and had left in the house of the prosecutor, a pair of boots after him, which were proved to be his. He was found guilty, and. sentenced to four years' penal servitude. John. Connor, was charged with having at Newton, on the 21st October, 1856,burglariously broken apd entered the - dwelling h o u s e o f George Macbeth. It appeared that : a noise aw o ke a s on of the prosecutors early on the morning in question, and looking out of the window, he saw three men making their escape from the yard. He called his father, and ran out himself, and succeeded in holding the prisoner until assistance was brought. The other men escaped. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to four years' penal servitude. His lordship eulogised the activity and courage displayed by the prosecutor's son, and ordered him to receive a reward of forty shillings. Sylvester Fairclough, labourer, William Ashurst, collier, and P eter F a i rc l oug h , co lli er , we r e ch arge d with having at Wigan, on the 7th September, feloniously assaulted John France, and stolen from him Avc pence, a silk handkerchief, and other prorerty. Mr. Simon prosecuted, and Mr. Tyndal Atkinson defended. The charge was not sustained, and the prisoners were ac quitted, HORSE STEALINO.—John Hall, was charged with having on the 18th of August, 1853, at Gerton, feloniously stolen a black gelding, the property of John Brown bill. The horse was lost on the day in question by the prosecutor, and not found until a considerable time after, when the prisoner sold it at a fair in War wickshire. There being no sufficient evidence to con neet the prisoner with the act of stealing, the jury, at the suggestion of his lordship, acquitted to prisoner. GAnorra ROBBERY : William Bowler, aged 26, whip maker, was charged with having, on the 29th of August last; assaulted Thomas Roberts, and with great personal violence robbed him of 9s 10d. The prosecutor, a dyer, living in Manchester, deposed that on the night in question be was drinking at a place called the Fox Inn in that city, and having given half a sovereign to pay he received 9s 10d change, He saw the prisoner, with some other persons, there• After leaving the house he was going home along Deansgate, when the prisoner with the others came upan him. The prisoner seized him round the throat, and threw him down, while the two others took the money out of his pocket. A waiter at the public house stated that he saw the prisoner in the house at the time the prosecutor received his change, and two witnesses, a man and a little girl, corroborated the account of the garotting, and the iden.ity of the prisoner. The jury found the prisoner guilty.—Catherine Hogan, aged 26, factory worker, was charged with aiding in a garotte robbery at Manchester.. It appeared that on the night of the 26th September the prisoner met a man, named Ralph Young. whom she enticed into a dark passage, from which another man who had been hiding there came out, caught prosecutor round the neck, and garotted him. His cries brought assistance, and the woman was arrested, but the man had escaped. The prosrentor then found that his watch-guard had been cut through, but the garotter in escaping had left the watch behind. The jury found the prisoner guilty. His Lordship sentenced William Bowler to transports• tion for twenty years, and Catherine Hogan to transporta tion for fifteen years. The Court rose at half-past six o'clock. SECOND COURT. RFFORE MR. SE' , JEANT CHINNELL. STABBING AT TOTTINGHAM. William Johnson, aged twenty•four, a blacksmith, stood indicted with having, on the night of the 7th of September, feloniously wounded Thomas Fisherwood. Mr. Halker conducted the prosecution, and Mr Wheeler defended the prisoner. In this case the _prosecutor was a collier, and on the night in question, he had been reiding at the house of a school master, named Shaw, and was walking outside the door, when the prisoner suddenly came up to him and stabbed him in the left side. -Just before this. the prisoner had been at the house of a widow, namelß tr low, opp ,site the Waggon and Horses public house, inquiring for some fighters. At th it time he had a large clasp knife in his hand, ad declared, with an oath, that he would kill one if he caught any of them. The proseCti• tion having failed to identify the prisoner as the person who struck the blow, the jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdic of not guilty. BURGLARY AT BURY.—lsaac Ellison, twenty-three, hatter, was placed at the bar charged with having, at Bury, or. the 12th of August, 1856. hurglarionsly broken and entered the dwelling house of James Bentley, and stolen therein sixty. pounds weight of bacon. On the night of the 11th August, the prisoner was seen drinking in the Shakespeare public house, and afterwards, 'between ene and two o'clock in the morning, near the prosecutor's premises. He was the next day seen in Manchester, with two flitches of bacon in his possession, which he succeeded in selling, by representing himself as a farmer from Knutsford, in Cheshire. Mr. Monek prosecuted. The prisoner was undefended. He was convicted, and sentences to four years penal servitude: UNLAWFULLY WOUNDING,-John Glynn.- twenty five, labourer, was placed at the bar, charged with having, -at Warrington, on the 9th September, 1856, un'awfully wounded John Lough, by stabbing him in the head. wi.h a sickle. Mr. Ovens prosecuted, and Mr. M'Donnell defended the prisoner. It appeared that on the day in question, the prisoner, the prosecutor, and a number of other persons, were drinking in the Star and Garter public house, in Warrington. A dispute took place between them, hut through the interference of the land lord, peace was for the time restored. The prisoner then left, but returned just as the landlord was endeavouring to put nut Lough, who was drunk. Lough in a moment struck him with his fist in the face, and then in the course of the fight which ensued, the prisoner seized his reaping hook and struck him in the head with it. The point of the hook entered about three quarters of an inch, and then broke leaving about three inches of the iron sticking in the prosecutor's hear). Providentially the wound did not prove fatal. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to two months imprisonment, with hard labour. He has already - been three months in prison. The.coart rose at six o'clock. .. BREAK DOWN OF THE ,CANDIA. —We have received in telligence by electric tel-graph, via Marseilles, that the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Comp iny's ship Candia, C wain Powell, from Alexandria, on the 25th ult., with the India and China nrailt, and which wis due at Southampton on the 4'h inst., had broken down and put into Tunis. The mails and passengers were all safe at Marseilles. The C4ndia hal on freight about 000 bale, £60,000, and a diamond ra'ue 15,000 rupees, consigned to Messrs. T. A. Gibbs and Co., of London. ADMIRALTY APPOINTMENTS. —SA TURDA Y, DEC. 6, 185 6 . —Lieutenants A. 1 7; Hart, to the Pembroke ; C. G. M Grc gor, to the Mminder ; A. J. Kingston. to the Indus ; James C. Clark, to the Coast Guar 3 ; T. 11. M. Martin, to the Cornwallis : Mr. F. A. Wetherell, midshipman, to the Indus ; Dr. Alexander Anderson, surgeon, to the Pembroke; Mr. Samuel Clift (ft), assistant surgeon to the Pembroke; Mr. R. J. Scriire, assistant surgeon, to the Plat 1; Mr. C. E. H. Farrant, second master, to the Pluto ; Mr. Richard hiumfard, se3nnd master, to the James Watt. Prom , tion : Commander William Hoseason, to the rank of captain on the reserved list. SHOOTING A RAT.—Oa Wednesday, a most dangerous accident occurred to Mr. W. C. Burniston, collector of taxes, Suffolk-road, from the bursting of a pitool. The family had, for some time, been annoyed by the incur-sloes of a rat in the cellar, and had in vain tried to capture the in truder with a trap. On Wednesday, the rat venturad into the kitchen, and Mr. Burniston having loaded a horse pistol, drove it into the garden, and there shot at it—as it stood with its head buried in the snow, as the ostrich hides its head in a bush. The pistol burst at the breech, and shattered the stock to pieces. Parts of it struck Mr. Bur niston on the hand, which was severely injured, the thumb being almost torn off. The b irrel struck Lim on the fore head, instantly knocking him d awn ; and on a surgeon being caliel in, it was found that the skull was fractured in two or three places. The fractures were removed, and no depression of the brain havinz taken place, the injuries, though dangerous, are not lik ly to prove fatal. The ace dent is believed to have arisen trom the pistol, which had not been us - cl for some months, having been imperfectly cleaned about two months ago. Mr. Barcistoa is pro gressirg very favourably. DETERMINED CASE OF SELF-DESTRUCTION AT BOLTON. —A most determined case of self-destrucion occurred iu Bolton, on S tturday evening. A young man. 21 years of age residing in Blundell court, top of l)eansgate, tamed Joseph Pendlebury, was discharged that day from his employment at Mr. Skinner's mill, for some cause not stated. On the same eay a small felony was commitied at the house of a neighbour, named William Mann, and the wife of rendlebury on that evening charged him with com mitting the offence. In consequence of this he became so exasperated that he left the house, stating at the time that he would go and destroy himself. The wife followed him, and remonstrated witlihim on his rash conduct, and strug gled with him for stveral hours on tho road towards Mere Hill : be appearing strong in his d :termination to go and drown himself, asking the wife to go back to the house and fetch their infant child, so that they might all be drowned together. The wife b. ing unable to struggle with him longer, left him at Dawson lane, about eleven o'clock at night, and went to the police office and gave information of the occurrence. Sea , ch was made for him the same night, bat he was not found until about ten o'clock the morning following, when his body was discovered in a lodge belong. ing to the mill of Messrs. Hebden and Whittaker, at Mere Hill, so that he evidently had gone direct from his wife when she laft him the night previous, and committed the rash act. MYSTERIPUB DISAPPRARANCE OF NEARLY £2,000 . WORTH Or ?RorEßßy . .—On Monday night last Mr. geys, the traveller for an extensive London house, lost a case con taining nearly £2,000' worth of watches, while travelling from Coleraine to this city. Mr. Keys, who is known in business to some parties in Derry, states that he arrived in Coleraine from Belfast by the last train on the evening in question, having'with him a portmanteau and two cases, ' the latter containing gold watches, &c. These packages he brought with him into the omnibus which carries passengers between the Ballymena and the Derry termini at Coleraine. He was about getting into the compartment of a second class carriage at Coleraine, taking the cases, &c, with him. when the guard of the train told him he could not bring them there, as the luggage must be put into the compartment re served for itself. The train being about to start, Mi. Keys permitted him to, remove the parcels. Oa reaching Derry, however, to his dismay, he discovered that one case, as already described, was rot forthcoming. Only three or four passengers had travelled by the train, and of these but one had got out between Coleraine and Derry. The guard wrs at once taken into custody ; he denied that he had taken the case into his hands at Culetaine, but said that he had ordered a porter to carry the gentleman's luggage to its proper pare. This the porter at Coleraine denies. The constabulary and the officials of the line have been making every effort to recovo• the missing case, but without success, Having been detained in gaol till morning,. the guard was liberated, security to the amount of £lOO having been entered into for his appearance when called upon. This is a grave matter, and wt lit we trust, be thoroughly investigated.—Derry Standard, THE GREAT GOLD ROBBERY. ESCAPE OF TESTER FROM SWEDEN AND NOTIFIED SURRENDER.. After the positive manner in which Mr. Bodkin an nounced the speedy capture of Tester, at the commence ment of the proceedings when Pierce and Burgess were brought up for re - examination before the Lord Mayor on Tuesday last, some little surprise will no doubt be excited. when it is stated that Mr. Bodkin, Mr. Rees, the solicitor for the prosecutor, the authorities of the South Eastern Railway Company, and the metropolitan detectives, have all been upon a wrong scent in looking for their man in Sweden, when he was in reality in this country. and even in the metropolis. There is, however, every reason to believe that such has been the case, and that Tester for this month past has been quietly hiding himself away in London. while Thornton and Smith (the detectives) were in hot pursnit of him in a foreign country. Tester, it is almost needless to repeat, was for some years in the employment of the South Eastern Railway Company, and, in fact, continued so for several months after the perpetration of that gigantic robbery, in which the evidence of Agar, the convict wit ness, has recently implicated him as one of four active principals, if not, indeed, as the original contriver of the daring design. The robbery took place in May, 1855, and in the month of September following, Tester being offered an appointment as district traffic superintendent upon the Royal Swedish Railway, at a much higher salary than he was then receiving from the South Eastern Railway Com pany, accepted the appointment, and went over to Sweden, carrying with him his testimonials and letters of recommendation, speaking of him in the highest terms of official praise. Ile continued to fill the situation thus obtained in a manner satisfactory to his new employers, up to nearly the middle of November. In all probability, like the• other parties to the robbery—if such he really were—he had come to the conclusion that all risk of discOvery was over after such a lapse of time; but no sooner were Pierce and Burgess, his alleged accompPees, in custody, and the first public proceedings in the prosecution of the case taken, than Tester, either from private information, or the reports which appeared in the newspapers, became aware of his danger, and took steps to remove and place himself beyond the reach of any offieeni of justice who might be sent to capture him. As is well known there is no convention for the deliver ing of parties so accused, between this country and Sweden, and, therefore, under ordinary circumstances, he might have stayed in that country without fear of police interference; but it is said that he received a hint that continuance in his situation was out of the question. and that neither the railway officials nor the Government of the country would countenance his evasion of Justice. Under these circumstances be (pitted Sweden secretly m ire than three weeks ago, and coming direct to England (and it is even said to London), watched the proceedings in the case, until at last, either being conscious of his innocence or aware that ultimate escape was hopeless, he accepted the advice of a solicitor with whom he had put himself in communication, and came to a resolution to surrender and stand his trial. In consequence of this resolution. Mr. Rees, solicitor for the prosecution, formally notified on Saturday that Tester would give himself up to Meet the charge against him, on the day appointed for the further examination of Pierce and Burgess. Upon that occasion he will have the right of insisting that Agar and all the other witnesses hitherto examined shall be again put into the witness box, but, acting upon the advice of his solicitor, he will no doubt waive that right, and be content with having the deposi tions read over in his presence. As several more exami. nations will be necessary to complete the case, the prisoners cannot be included in the Old Bailey calendar before the January sessions of the Central Criminal Court, which, as the Great Northern Railway frauds are also likely then to be on the list, will be of a protracted character. The services of Mr. Serjeant Ballantine are intended to be retained, if possible, on behalf of Tester, while Burgess and Pierce will have the best available talent of the bar employed on their defence. THE PARLIXMENT-STREET'MURDER. CONDUCT OF MARLEY IN NEWGATE. Since the condemnation of the wretched man, Robert Mar ley, for the murder of Richard Cope, in Parliament street, be has conducted himself in a very ept;sfactory manner, but appears quite resigned to his fate, which he seems all along to have considered inevitable. The culprit appears to hate received a good education, and to have been connected with a family of very great resprctability, but in consequence of his wild habits they were compelled to di.card him, and he enlisted in the 7th hussars, and served with that regiment in the Caffre war, and evinced very great bravery upon several occasions when hefbre the enemy. He was visited on Tuesday by a female relative. The interview was very shout, and, for obvious reasons, need not be further alluded to. Marley was long known to the police. He was originally convicted snmmarily by a magistrate at one of the police courts, and was subsequently tried for housebreaking, and sentenced to be. transported, but subsequently obtained his liberty under the ticket of leave system, but he stated lie had no chance at obtaining any employment, even if he had been disposed to weds, end he was compelled again to resort to his evil courses to obtain a subsistence. ee all the conversations Marley has had with the officials of the gaol of New s ate, he has till every occasion expressed his satisfaction with the manner in which his trial was conducted, and also that Mr. sleigh, the gentleman who was assigned to act as his counsel by the humanity of the sheriffs, did everthing 'hat was possible for him, but he says that ho felt his ease was hopeless, and that he was not at all surprised at the verdict that was delivered by the jury, and that as he had been the means of destroying life, be was prepared to sacrifice his own in return. It should not be inferred that there is any bravado exhibited by the culprit, on the contrary, his demeanour is very decorous, but he it evidently a determined man, who has calmly weighed all the circumstances, and who is prepared for the worst. It has been. stated that immediately after the sentence the prisoner's clothes were taken off him, and the prison dress substituted, but there is no truth in this statement, the gaol authorities have the power to take this step, if they consider it necessary, but it is never resorted to unless, as in the case of Palmer, there is a suspicion that poison may be secreted about the garments, and Marley still retains the same dress he wore at the trial. During the day one officer is in the eell with him, and at night there are two. He converses freely, and from his tone and demeanour, no one would suppose that be was under sentence of death, and that his days were numbered. It is , almost net dices to state that the prisoner, notwithstanding the ingenious manner in which bill learned connscl argued the question upon the trial has never for a single moment since his conviction, attempted to deny, that his was the hand that intcted the deadly injuries upon the poor man Cope, but he persists in asserting that he had net accomplices wha'ever in the matter, and that the whole. offence was entirely unpremeditated, and that be had no thought of being concerned in such an iiffair a quarter of an hour before the occurrence took place. It will he remembered, that the principal witness, Lerigo, while passing the shop heard groans from the inside, and saw two or three men standing close by; and when he inquired what was the matter, they told him it was only a man and his wife quarrelling, apes ; rently to throw him off bis guard, and not to interfere; east those men subsequently rendered no assistance to apprehend the prisoner ; and from these circumstances it was very naturally inferred that they were concerned with the prisoner in the eutrage. Marley, however, declares positively that this was riot the case, and states that he alone was concerned in the affair, and that, accidentally passing by and seeing that it was a small shop with no one in it but the deceased, who was appa rently a weak and A:minutive man, the thought struck him that it was a good tipper-trinity to commit a robbery, and he went in with that intention, but he declared most solemnly that he never intended to use more violence than would be necessary to render Cope helpless, and enable him to escape with his expected booty. He admits that having made some inquiry of the deceased to take off his attention, he suddenly,. struck him with the life.preserver, but the blow did not haves the intended effect, and as he was fearful that the alarm raised by Cope would cause his deiect'on, he was induced to give biss a several other violent blows before his victim was reduced to unconscious, ess, and there is no douht that it Was the leas blow so indicted that fractured the skull, and depressed the hone, and was the cause of the fats" result. The culprit states that, in the confusion and excitement of the moment, be had no opportnity of making very close observation, and seeing the basket which, it will be remembered, contained a cod fish, &so which had been placed in a blue bag, he snppased that it cap tained some valuable property, and snatched it up and made oft with it; but, finding that it impeded hie flight, he threw it away shortly before lie arrived at Bridge street, and he asserts that there is no foundation for the supposition that it was handed by him to to accomplice. With regard to the fact of the posaession of such an instrument as a life preserver, the prises ner says that it is no indication of an intention to destroy li'e, as such weapons are constantly carried by persons who are inS the habit of committing offences of this class, and. that he had. it always about him, and that the only use for it was to stun the person intended to be robbed. Although that may perhaps the the ease, still it, of course, does not afford the slightest nalliatiou, either legal or moral, The execution will ta k e place M P the 15th, instant, of the risoner's offence. on onday next, Mr. Hustwit, carpenter to the Herue.bay Pier Coln pany, while at work beneath the pier, a few days ago, Picked up a packet of papers, tiad together with a tarred , twine, which appeared to have been in the water some , time, and "sanded." The pier master, on finding it to contain document's belonging to some ships of war, immediately placed them in the hands of Li eu t enant when,upon further. papers belonging theyoaswtgeureard station, be fousntadton to no less th an 15 vessels o f war , among which were et i I m p i t nn ' a t of ion t h e, c the Wellington, Waterloo, and Victory. How they came to be taken so little care of, or who consigned them to the custody of Neptune, at present remains a mystery. Tbey were forwarded to the Admiralty, —Kentish Observer.