Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-17 00:00:00

AMERICA, ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain Eldridge, arrived here yesterday afternoon, w ith three days' later news, 61 passengers, and 1,7 00,000 dollars in specie. The news to hand is not of any great im portance- From Washi n gt on w e learn that no f ur th er discussions had taken place between the President and Governor Walker on the subject of Kansas. ur n'e, however, are given to understand that the People of Kansas are thoroughly aroused on the t subject of the Leaompton constitution. Meeti ngs came been held in which that instrument has been r epudiated in strong terms, and several pro-slavery Journals have, it is reported, come out strong in o pposition to it. It is stated by the Mobile papers, in commenting upon the chances of General Walker's effecting a safe landing in Nzcaraugua, that a heavy storm eccurred in the Gulf, which was probably encountered by the steamer Fashion, on board of Which the filibusters were embarked. If this should be the case it is not probable that th e Fashion, heavily laden •and crowded with men as eks was, escaped damage. We have carefully *zarnined our files and the reports of ships arriving at the Gulf ports since the 14th ultimo, the day Of the Fashion's final departure, and do not find any report of disasters at sea or bad weather in the region through which the steamer probably sailed. A meeting of the importers and jobbers of drugs, fie., in New York city, was held at 106, Wall-street, on the 3rd inst., for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of reducing their credit system from six to four months. After a 'cog discussion, during which the question was Pretty thoroughly canvassed, a resolution was adopted simply recommending that all engaged in the business adopt the four, instead of the six :tenths' credit system, as beet calculated to pre 'Vent losses and inconveniences In the trade. Respecting the fugitive slave case in Indiana-- We have a despatch dated Indianapolis, Dec. 4th, Which says : About sight days since the agents of Dr. Vallandigham, of Frankfort, Ky., captured a fugitive slave at Naples. When en route to Kentucky. The negro was taken under k Writ of habeas corpus before Judge Wallace, who libera ted him. He was immediately re-arrested and taken before 'United States Commissioner Rea, who, after hearing the ease, decided that the negro should go back to slavery. Ile was again re-arrested on a writ issued by Judge 'Wallace, before whom some questions of State sovereign ity are now being discussed. It is claimed by the negroe's . eollneil that he is free under the 'Fugitive Slave law and Dreg Scott decision, as well as the Stare constitution. leanwhile, Dr. Vallandigham has been arrested on the !davit of the negro for gidnap7ing, and his case is now IA progress before Mayor Wallace. We extract the following paragraph from a New Tork journal of the last date : In our paper to-day will be found several interesting Qoctunents explanatory of the causes of the severe financial Ilistarbances from which the leading nations of the world are new suffering. Amongst them is a letter from a retired Statesman < f Virginia, tracing the origin of these dis turbances to the enormous amount of capital, foreign as Well as domestic, invested in real estate out West. His Ilaws carry with then a good deal of force, and although toe writer may, perhaps, lay too muck stress on some of the points which he relies upon to make out his t heory, there is no doubt that to the cause which he assigns a large portion of the mischiefalla due. Had thete not beea something, however, essentially rotten in the financial systems of Europe, it would be impossible star an influence like this to have c lased such a profound and general disturbance. .As Sir Robert Peel's Bank Act of 1844 has been made the subject of a good deal of discussion in the newspapers, and will, no doubt, be made It prominent topic of debate in Congress, we think it Itsefill to publish, in extenso, the text of that measure. A reliable statement of the pablic debts of the leading actions of the world in 1857 will also be found a valuable element amongs t the data likely to be issued in the l egislativ e discussions which our present fiscal conditions lutist call forth. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, Naw Yome, Dec. 5. 11 "RTA RT AFFAIRS : There is hss buoyancy of feeling in the market to day, owing chiefly to an apprehension of Unfavourable foreign advices, and to a want of confidence in the stability of financial affairs here, except at the expense of a general liquidation of obligations. Foreign Exchange sells very slowly, most of the large remitters preferring gold, and as much specie has been engaged by the Atlantic on Saturday, and the Africa on Wednesday, as can be insured here to good advautage. No drain of gold is feared, the accumulation being too large for any possible shipments to affect the 'Market during the current year. The question of a resumption of specie payments by the B inks is again agitate d, and we should not be surprised if it were speedily 'settled in the affirmative. In fat there is no practical 'suspension, and gold will bring no premium. The govern tient has no surplus funds on hand, and must soon be in the market to borrow for its necessities. Foreign Ex- changes continues irregular; the few bills in demand are bringing very full prices, but. the business is very light ; ' 6 O days on London, 108 i to 1091; do at eight, 110,i' to 111 y ; P a ris, 5,30 to 5,171, mostly at 5,221 for leading lankerS; Antwerp, 5,25 tip 5,20 ; Amsterdam, 401 to 411 ; -Frankfort, 41 to 411; Hamburg, 36 t, to 371; Bremen, 77 1 to 78: 7 ; Prussian thalers, 711 to 721. The stock toarket is heavy, and the prices of tac leading fancy stocks have again decline I. Coroer : Is heavy at the decline last noticed, with sales or 200 bates at 111, for middling upland. BREADSTUFFS : The ma. ket for State and Western fisur has recovered in part from the panic of yesterday, and the love grades are fully 10 cents higher, with a good demand ; the better qualilies are heavy and show no material change. Southern flour is heavy and dull, but prices Ire nominally unchanged. Canadian fl _or is firmer, in sympathy with Western grades. Wheat is heavy and dull, with sites of 1,:550 bushels prime white Michigan at 1 dol 40c; 3,300 white Southern Indiana at 1 dot 20e; 2,650 white Kentucky at 1 dol 41c to e del SOc for good choice; and 600 damaged red aoutbern at 90 cents. Corn is also firmer, but wi h a limited demand ; the sales are 18,000 bushels, at 82 cents Tor mixed Western in store; 85 for prime old yellow Southern, 79 for old and new yellow Southern mixed, and '67 (0771 for new yellow and white Jersey and Southern. hors : Prices are steady at 5 to 7 cents for Eastern, and '6 to 9 cents for Western. hoer: Scotch pig is quiet and nominally nachanged. Messrs. Greenough and Burdett sold by auction to-day, 2 ,000 tons Erie pattern R.R. iron at 34 dole 50 cents to 35 dols. NAVAL STORES: The market is dull ; .sellers do not feel Dleased at the supposition of lower rates, while buyers generally keep aloof, particularly exporters. Common toldn is dull at 1 dol 30c to I dol 35c per 310 lbs delivered. Pine rosin is quiet and very heavy. Tar is altogether bomi oat. Ot : Crude Sperm and Whale Oils are quiet and nomi tally unchanged. Linseed Oil is dull, only moderate jobbing talcs being made at to 530 54c in casks anti brls. The New tedford Standard says :—" Six hundred barrels of sperm oil have been stid in this market at 97c, with &x months' interest added. This is the lowest point yet reached. Whale is dull at 60c to 65c. PaovessoNs : Pork is lower and quite unsettled. Dressed "logs are quoted at 6c to 6ic. Beef is very heavy and dull, stith sales at 9 dols to 10 dols for country mess, 5 dole 75c to 6 dole 75c for country prime, 11 dots 50 c to 13 dole 50c Los repacked Western. Prime Mess Beef is steady. Beef "lams are dull with small sales of choice at 16 dole 7 5c. liaeOn is firm and in good demand. Cie. Meats are steady. 4 eardj e firmer, with sales at 10c to 103 c, and Mac to Hie for enei ee . Batter and Cheese are dull at our quotations. FBEIGEITS : To Liverpool, 5,000 bushels wheat were taken at 5d in ship's bags ; 1,000 boxes cheese at 22s 63 ; 425 bales cotton at 5 dols 3 2 cents ; 108 tons mahog a ny at 20s ; and by the Kangaroo 1,000 boxes cheese 40s ; 150 `.. 00, bacon 35s ; and 700 tea beef at P.N.T. To London , 'MOO bushels wheat, in bulk, at 61d ; 500 boxes cheese !Os ; 80 tons nuts 25 ; To Glasgow, 35 brls nap tha at 58 . To Rotterdam, 1,000 brls rosin at 3,3 d ; and 200 "a logwood 32s 6d. Abig of 300 tons was chartered to load at Brandywine for St. Crcix at 1 del 45c ; a barque vas laid on for Cienfuegos at 10 dols for hoops, and 30c for ?hooks : a brig to load at Wilmington for Porto Rico and ,osek at 50 c f o r sugar and 3 dots; a brig hence to Porto 4 tico and back 35c for sugar and 3 dols ; a barque same :°Yage supposed same terms ; a vessel to load at Galveston for the Continent at it: for cotton seed. Tut DOUBLE MURDER AT CROYDON. — The inquest on the 'Jaime of the double murder and suicide, at Croydon, was re sumed on Tuesday. The only new fact established was, t Mrs. Smither had died of prussic acid. The jury i i c ‘trued a verdict of " Wilful Murder " against W. H. tether, and also specified that he committed eaicielo while 111 a State of mental derangement, failures, 20,000,000 DEc• 15 ' n 0 interp, r Sl ag" - end till ; 61f' Dye. 15 . , tli DOI, fl )10. , d e for 11— e 2 0- 'Ol k w 10 INDIAN MUTINIES. DESPATCH FROM GENERAL HAVELOCK, AT LUCKNOW. BRIGADIER-GENERAL HAVELOCK TO TILE CHIEF OF THE STAFF TO THE COMMANDER-III•CHINF, RECEIVED BY TELEGRAPH FROM CAWNPORE. Lucknow Residency, Sept. 30. 18.57. Major-General Sir James Outram having, with char acteristic generosity of feeling, declared that the command of the force should remain in my hands, and that he would accompany it as Civil Commissioner only, until a junction could be effected with the gallant and enduring garrisen of this place, I have to request that you will inform his Excellency the Cemmander-in-Chief, that this purpose was effected on the evenieg of the 25th instant. But I must first refer to antecedent events. I crossed the Sye on the 22nd instant, the bridge at Bunnee not having been broken. On the 23rd I found myself in the presence of the enemy, who had taken a strong position, his left posted in the enclosure of the Alum Bagh, and his centre and right on low heights. The head of my column at first suffered from the fire of his guns, as it was compelled to pass along the Trunk road, between morasses ; but as soon as my regiment could be deployed along his front, and his right enveloped by my left, victory decided for u', and we captured five guns. Bir J. Outran, wits his accustomed gallantry, pressed our advance close down to the canal ; but as the enemy fired with artillery and with guns from the city, it was not possible to maintain this or a less advanced, position for a time, but to become* necessary to throw our right in the Alum Bagh, and restore our left, end even we were incessantly cannonaded throughout the twenty-four hours, and the cavalry, 1,500 strong, swept round through lofty cultivation, and the sudden interruption upon our baggage massed in our rear (sic in orig.), The soldiers of the 90th Regiment, farming baggage guard, received the charge with gallantry, and lost some brave officers and men, shooting down, however, 25 of the troopers, and patting the whole body to flight. They were finally driven off by two guns of Captain Olpkerts' battery. The troops had been marching three days, under a perfect deluge of rain, irregularly fed, and badly housed in villages; it was thought necessary to pitch tents, and permit them to halt on the 24th. The assault on the city was deferred until the 25th. On tha t morning our baggage and tents were deposited in the Alum Bagh, under au escort, and we advanced. The let Brigade, under Sir J. Outram's personal leading, drove the enemy from a succession of gardens and walled en closure., supported by the two brigades which I accom panied. Beth brigades were established on the canal, at the bridge of the Char Bags. From this point the direct road to the Residency is a little less than two miles, but it was known to have been cut by trenches, and crossed by pallisaths at short intervals, the houses also being all loop holed. Progress in this direction was opposed, so the united column pushed and deployed along the narrow road which skirts the left bank of the canal. Its advance was not seriously interrupted until it came opposite the King's Palace, or Kissurab Bagh, where two guns and a body of mercenary troops were entrenched. From thi s entrenchment a fire of grape and musketry was poured, under which nothing could live. The artillery and troops had to pas) a bridge partially under its influence, but were then shrouded by the buildings adjacent to the palace of Fhuretd Buksh. Darkness was coming, and it was proposed to halt within the court of this Mehal !or the night ; but I esteemed it to be of such importance not to leave this beleaguered garrison, knowing that succour was at hand, that I ordered the main body of the 78th Highlanders and the regiment of Ferozepore to advance. This column rushed on with a desperate by Sir J. Outram and myself, Lieutenants Hudson and Harhood, t of my staff, and overcoming every obstacle, established itself within the encloiure of the Residency. The . . . garrison may be more easily conceived than described ; but it was not until the next evening that the whole of my troop, guns, tumbrils, and sick and wounded, continually exposed to the attack of the enemy, could be brought step by step within this enclosure and the adjacent palace of Fhureed Balkh. To form a notion of the obstacles overcome, a reference must be made to the events that are known to have occurred at Buenos Ayres and Saragossa : our advance was through streets of flat-roofed and loop-holed houses, each forming a separate fortress. lam filled with surprise at the success of operatiocs wkich demanded the effort of ten thousand good troops; the advantage has cost us dearly. Th 3 killed, wounded, and missing —the latter being wounded soldiers, who, I regret to say, have fallen into the hands of a merciless foe—amount to 464 officers and men ; Brigadier-General Neill, commanding Ist Brigade; Major . . . , commanding Artillery ; Lieut.-Colonel Thzely , a volunteer with the force, are killed. Colonel Campbell' commanding 90th Infantry; Lieut.. Colonel Tyiler, my Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, and Lieutenant Havelock, my Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, are severely, bat not dangerously, wounded. Sir James Outram received a flesh wound in the arm in the early part of the action, near Char Bagh, but nothing would subdue his spirit; and, though faint from loss of blood, he cDntinued to the end of the operation to sit on his horse, which he only dismounted at the gate of the Residency. As he has now assumed the command, I leave to him the narrative of all events subsequent to the 25th inst. H. HAvanccx, Brigadier-General. Note made at Calcutta: Query?—" It became necessary to throw our right, Ice., and retire our lett." 4 t havelock ? FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The Divan of the Danubian Principalities having done all that was expected of them, and perhaps something more' and having transmitted the result of their labours to the European Commissioners, we may now look forward to an early meeting of the Renipotentiaries iu Paris. It has been already announced that the commissioners would leave Bucharest at the end of the present or the beginning of mxt month, and the Cabinets who have taken on them selves the definitive organization of the provinces have, in all probability, very nearly arranged their plans, so as to suit the views of all parties. Leaving the Political question to be settled by the Congress, I may say a few words on the condition of those countries in a merely material poin t of view. Their importance is, indeed, now pretty generally acknowledged ; thrugh the elements which compose it are imperftctly known, not only to the public, but even to statists. There are few works on the subject, and for such as have been pubished the materials were scanty. People generally know that there are two dependencies north of the Danube, called, Moldo-Wallachia, but few are acquainted with their relative condition—that they contain the germ of a prosperous State—that they are favoured with a soil of great fertility, producing far beyond the wants of their inhabitants—and that no coun try in Europe offers more advantage to industry and capital Walachia and Moldavia -together contain a superficies calculated a 45,000 square miles, exclugvo of the portion of Besaarabia which, is virtue of the Treaty of Paris, has lately revertel to Moldavia, that is, an extent of territory considerably larger than Portugal, nearly double that of Sardinia and of Bavaria, triple that of independent Greece, of Belgium, of Holland, and of Hanover. The population, which is not in proportion to the extent or fertility of the soil, may be reckoned at 4,500,000, two-thirds of which belong to Wallachia. This amount would, in fair condi tions, be probably doubled in 15 :ears by natural progress and by colonization. Of that number 4,000,000 are of purely Rowuan origin; the rest 15 CQlZipeeed of indigo- THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVEI nous races, which I have already noticed, such as Arme nians, Jews, Bulgaritins, Gipsies, &?., and foreigners, placed under the exceptional regimen of the Capitu lations. The Principalities are divided into depart ments or districts ; and these, again, into arron dissements or sub-divisions, each containing a cer tain number of towns or villages. Wallachia has 17 districts, 100 arrondissements, $ 4l . towns, and 3,507 villages; and Moldavia 15 districts, including the portion lately annexed, 63 arrondissements, 44 towns, and 1,933 villages. The territorial property consists of 6,414 loss, of which 1,518 belong to the monasteries 3,498 to private persons or large proprietors, and 1,318 to the mass of petty landholders, who hold their portion undivided, under the name of " Mosnoni" in Wallachia, and "Rozeches" in Moldavia. Those ;who constitute the intermediate class between the Bayard, who holds- but does not cultivate his land, and the peasants, who till the ground without owning any part of it, may be reckoned at 150,000 families, with, however, a tendency .to dimi nish in consequence of the extension of large properties. The greater part of these lands lies fallow, the extent of soil untitled being estimated, for Moldavia, at one-third, and for Wallachia, one-sixth of the whole superficies. The revenue derived from land is about 140,000,000 f., the produce in corn being 'estimated at 15,000,009 of hectolitres. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, DEC. 14. The inconveniences and dangers that would inevitably accrue to the P.tussian State from the introduction of the abnormal hybrid arrangement of a co-regency, or partner ship-monarchy, which I described in nay last letter, seem to have bean fully appreciated in such circles here as can afford to think solely of the country's good : and the idea is meeting with the most determined opposition on the part of all those circles who feel competent to form an opinion or called upon to express one. The occasion that has given rise to this notable conception is the very dis tinctly expressed and emphatically repeated determination on the part of the King to resume his monarchial functions, certainly at the end of the three months, if not earlier. Thi s strong fatuity on the part of his Majesty to resume the place in the State which undoubtedly is his own by right, if he had but the strength to fill it, is the natural, and, as one may say, the physical, result of returning Itonvalescence, which leads the invalid to over-estimate his powers, and long for opportunities to manifest the strength he fancies himself to possess, This allusion on his part is strength ened by the consciousness of adequate mental powers for a variety of subjects—for instance, these which have always been the favourite objects of his study, suck as architecture, archaeology, history, matters of taste, and the fine arts, in all of which his Majesty shows very little, if any, diminution of his mental powers; that he should mistakenly suppose that the same powers wou'd suffice to bear up against the incessant wear and tear of the faculties that the head cf the Prussian polity is exposed to is due al so in part to the self-seeking and deceptive flatteries of those that surround him. The Q•oeen, who has ever since the commencement of the King's illness shown herself in the most admirable colours as a woman and a wife, is, how ever, LA) clear-sighted as to the certain result of the King's subjecting himself yet awhile to the burden of business to lend any assistance to the matceuvre and intrigue by which certain persons trust to insure themselves a prolonged term of office and position at the risk of the King's life or sanity. Under the influence of her recent severe trials the Queen has been led to throw off the various feelings of aversion, suspicion, and jealousy she formerly entertained towards certain members of the royal family, and has shown herself throughout the King's illness sincerely disposed to sink all other feelings and considerations in the unfl egging, strenuous endeavour to avert every incident that might interfere with the total recovery, bodily and mental, of her consort. She recog nises how fatal any resumption of the sceptre, how in jurious even any participation in the cares of business, would be to the King, and she has manifested the greatest readiness to do all in her power to bring about a sole regency in the hands of the Peince of Prussia. Just now the choice between two villas, one on the Lake of Como and another in the close vicinity of Naples, has been offered to his Majesty ; and th_.' Queen has for her own part expressed her entire aillinguess to accompany the King away from his own dominions in search of health and repose from the solicitudes of State ; and this absence of the King from the seat of power forms oue of the most prominent features in any plan for his recovery. BELGIUM. The Belgian Chambers commenced their sittings on Tuesday last, when the new members took their seats. The Prince de Ligne was elected President of the Bureau of the Senate. SARDINIA. Maw, Dec. 13. There is a complete lull here at this moment, everybody awaiting with impatient interest the opening of the Cham bers, now so near at hand. There is au eager demand for tickets of admission to witness the ceremony ; and if the weather continues as it has been for some days past, bright and crisp, with a cloudless sky, and the ground slightly Frost-bound, it is probable that all Turin will be out of doors to see the popular Sovereign of Piedmont proceed in state to open the national Parliament. It is thought not improbable that there will be some anti-clerical demonstrations on the part of the people, perhaps a few hisses, direr ed at some of the most unpopular deputies of the Right, but of anything like disturbance not the slightest apprehension is entertained. The Chambers opened and the Royal speech delivered, the division into bateaux or sectinna will at once take. pl-ce, and it is pro. bable that by Wednesday or Thursday next, the pro ceedings of the Chamber of Deputies will become interesting and important. THE MONETARY CRISIS IN THE NORTH OF EUROPE. HAMBURG, DEC. 13. This is the first time, for several weeks, that I have the pleasure to communicate a certain revival of that mercantile spirit and confidence, the want of which has created such melancholy results among the trading community of this city, and the effects of which will be severely felt for a considerable time to come. The decision of the Senate, sanctioned by the unanimous approbation of the Hereditary Burgesses, in yrwerday's assembly, to use the ten millions of banco so generously advanced by Austria—and for which aid the Assembly gave their public thanks t the Emperor—has ultimately turned the scale, and all classes are now quite satisfied that the Senate could not have acted with greater wisdom than in upholding those strong pillars of the mercantile community, Merck and Co., Gassier and Co., Goddofroy and Sons, Lutterreth and Co., C. H. Dannor, of Altona, with some others, who have nut only been keeping up their own cre.lit hitherto, but doing much to assist others to effect the spine purpose. Accounts from Copenhagen, Stockholm, Christiania, and other towns in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, state that parties are doing their utmost to meet ths crisis, when called upon by their respective Governments and other civic authorities. At Stockholm some important failures have taken place. The Government is expected to grant a loan of some millions, to put a speedy stop, if possib!e, to any more. We learn from Copenhagen that during the session of the Volksthirg, or. the 11th inst., the Minister of the Interior made a proposal with respect to the sympathy entertained by the Government so far as the Kingdom of Denmark is concerned, and in relation to the sum of 450,000 riz thalers to be granted in aid of the present monetary difficulties. It was almost unanimously adopted SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 10th contain no political sews. The Bank of Spain bad resolved to coin 25,0':,0,000 reals in Barr. POOL, THURSDAY, DECRAII3F,R 17. 1857. . LIVERPOOL ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCH2E °LOGICAL SOCIETY. YCRKSHIRE WINTER ASSIZES, Dec. 15. The fifth meetinj of the session of this society was held last night, in the Roj'al Institution, Colquitt-street ; Mr. S. Huggins In the chair: Mr. W. Wardhouse Hayes, Mr. E. A. Hafer, Mr. Wm. Irvine, and Mr. J. R. Cooper were elected associate members •f the society. TAR LIVERPOOL ACADEMY. TRIAL OF H. S. BRIGHT FOR FORGERY. Henry Smith Bright, 41, was yesterday placed at the bar and arraigned en nine indictments, for having forged and uttered certain transfer deeds and other instruments, with intent to defraud. To all these charges he pleaded not guilty. The jury having been impanelled and sworn, the court proceeded with the first indictment, in which the prisoner was charged for that he, on the 4th day of July 1853, forged the name of " Robert .ohn Taylor" to a certain deed for the transfer of shares in the North, Eastern Railway Company, And that he uttered the said deed with intent to defraud. Mr. Overend, Q.C., stated the case at some length. The prosecutor is a gentleman, named Robert John Taylor, the son and administrator of Sohn Taylor, who was formerly an extensive corn merchant at Hull, and died in 1856. The prisoner who now stood before them . was Henry Smith Bright, and was the cousin of the poosecator, and nephew to the late Mr. Taylor. The prisoner's uncle received him into the concern, in the first instance, as a clerk, and subsequently as a partner (in 1848)'; in January, 1856, Mr. Taylor died. and the business was afterwards carried on by Mr. Bright alone, and Ihr his sole interest, tilt his bankruptcy in 1857. The prosecutor was not a partner with his father and the prisoner, but only a cashier in the concern ; bat of railway shares, 238 extension shares in the North-Eastern Railway, bought in May, 1 1 349: 144 were registered in the name ofJohn Taylor,. 36 in that of Brieht, and 58 in that of R. J. Taylor. In July, 1853, Mr. Bright effected the sale of 48 of the shares standing in the name of Robert John Taylor, by forging that gentler:zoo's name to the transfer deed o and this constituted the charge into which they were now. inquiring. There were also other shares standing in the name of Mr. Jblin Taylor, which Mr. Bright had sold by means of forged transfers, his own name appearingeas the attesting witness to such transfers. On the shares now in question £1;080 Was realised, which Bright paid away in two sums of seloo each,-on his own sole account. The prisoner caused the books to ho made up, as if all the shares remained the property of the firm ; though it was subsequently found that all in this- company had been sold (except two lots of eight and ten shares), most of them by means of forged transfers ;. so. that of the 238 shares, only IS remained. Mr. Bright r however, ,still continued to pay the dividends to the account of the firm, up to Mr. Taylor's death. The dividend warrants for the 18 shares still remaining in the names of the Messrs. Taylor were regularly issued, and -to every oee of these warrants Mr. Bright had forged the names of these gentlemen for the receipt of the dividends- The prisener's private memorandum of 1854 was read, in vehicle he admits pawning and selling shares to meet engage ments, and to he " agonised on, for day and night has been. my mist ry." Another memorandum, of February,. ; 1856, marked ;.` Most private," was also read, in which, he stated that the firm had lost X 30,000, of which Xlo,ool3'wae his own; but that had his uncle lived, he would never have asked him for it. Yet in March or April ho had the private ledger made up, as if all the losses on shares were the late Mr. Taylor's, and sous to show, instead of Bright being a debtor to the firm of £lO,OOO, that there was a small balance in his favour. The facts- having been proved, Mr. James addressed the jury. for the prisoner, complaining that the prosecution, instead of allowing the prisoner to give an account of the various traneaetions in which he was engaged, stepped in when he was-going through his books, and so prevented him from giving a fair and honest statement— The transactions of the firm from 1845 exceeded 1,250,000; the railway speculations, from January 1, 1845, amounted to about X 159,000, including 1,000 to 1,2J0 transactions—and all these gigantic undertakings had devolved on Mr. Bright's management and control ; and he had the full authority of the deceased Mr. Taylor for all ho did. The court adjourned to the next morning. s IMr. Justice Williams, on taking his seat on Tuesday morning, proceeded to sum up the evidence. The only real question for the jury, said his lordship, was whether the deed of transfer was,a forgery or not. If it were, then it was plain that the prisoner forged or uttered it with a guilty knowledge. They would probably decide without hesitation• that the deed was not signed by Robt. John Tay. for ; yet it by no means necessarily followed that it was a forgery. Though the shares transferred by this dead stood in the name of Robert John Taylor, he was only the nominee or agent of his father and of the prisoner. Ttre shares were undoubtedly partnership property, and . Robert John Taylor had no interest in them; being then, only a clerk in the house. If, therefore, the prisoner honestly put the name of Robert John Taylor to the deed bona fide intending to sell the partnership property for partnership purposes, with the authority of his par ner, Mr. Taylor, then it would not be a forgery, though Robert John Taylor were entirely ignorant of his name being put to the-deed. The learned counsel for the pri soner had stated that the prisoner bad a right, as a part. nor or joint owner, to dispose cf them, and was incapable of committing forgery by any step necessary fur their disposition ; but it was his (his lordship's) duty to. tell them that the.law was not so. The partner had uncines tionably, in point of law, authority to put the name of the firm to a bill of exchange or any similar instrument, and if he does that for his own purposes and not for the partnership it is not a forgery, but merely an abuse of the power with which the law vests him as a partner. But it was obvious that this was not the writing of the name of one of the firm, but of a stranger, Robert John Taylor. The jury must take the law from him to be this :—lf the evidence satisfied them beyond reasonable doubt, that the prisoner, without the authority of his partner, Al r. 'ray lor either express or implied, wrote the name of Robert John Taylor to the deed of transfer, or uttered it with a guilty knowledge in fraud of the partnership,And for the dishonest purpose of,Secretly and privately t pplying partnership property to his own purposes, he was guilty of the crime imputed to him by this indictment. After reading_ over and commenting upon the evidence, his lordship observed that he thought the jary would agree with him, that there was no doubt that the signature to the transfer in question was a forgery. Then came the question whether, the forgery not being genuine, was it dishonest ? Robert John Taylor was the cashier of the establishment, living at Hull, and might have any moment been had recourse to if Mr. Bright had been anxious to have his signature, Tee defence was that notwithstanding that the signatur , . was not genuine it was not honest, because it was done in the great hurry of these enormous concerns, as means of keeping the firm in funds, and not for the private purposes of Mr. Bright. To meet this view of the case, the conduct of the prisoner was put in evidence, which con sisted briefly of these particulars :—That there is no entry at all of the transaction in question in the books of the; partnership, which they would have expected to have found if this really had been a partnership transaction ; that the money received is not placed to the credit of the railway share account, as it would have been in the ordinary course ; and that at all events £5OO of the proceeds of the sale were appropriated by Mr. Bright to his own purposes, without any minute of the remittance being made in the book. Then there was the prisoner's conduct as to the dividend warrants—signing the name of Mr. Taylor and his son to those warrants, and receiving only the dividend upon eighteen shares, though treating with the cashier as if the 233 shares had been in the possession of the firm. Lastly, there was the feet that when the affairs were gone into between young Mr. Taylor and the prisoner, as the surviving partner, he treated these shares.as still being in. existence, These were the heeds of the case, and the jury were to say whether, looking at all these circumstan. ces, they were satisfied, beyond reasonable doubt, that when Mr. Bright put the name of Robert John Taylor to that transfer, he did it with the intention of dishonestly appropriating the partnership propety, to his own pur poses. If they thought he did that,,he was guilty of forgery ; but if,:on the other hand,, they.: thought they could reconcile the prisoner's conduct with the view, that although the signature was not genuine, the- prisoner did not mean to act dishonestly, but to raise money out of the partnership assets for partnership, purposes, then he was mot guilty of forgery in the sense in whicla that expression is used in the indictment, and they must therefore acquit him. The Jury retired at a varier to,eleven o'clock, and after an absence of 29 minutes, they returned with a verdict of guilty. Mr. Overend said there were other charges against the prisoner, involving the forgery of bills of exchange. Mr. James said, his Lordship would have learned from the depositions. that these cases were of a very peculiar character. The Judge said he endeavoured in vain to understand the cases, the depositions were illegible. Mr.. James : Mr. Overend, on behalf of the prosecution, will admit, that these charges are of a pecu liar nature,, and if they are to be considered in the punishment, I should request your lordship to read over the depositions, or to hear a statement with regard to these allegations. The palsorfer being then asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed, he made, the bellowing remarks to th,e learned judge : —May I be allowed to say two or three words ? I have no fault whatever :to find with the way in which this prosecution has been conducted against me in this court, and I thank the jury for the patient manner in which they have listened to the whole of the statements that have been brought before them. 114 lord, what Ido say is with a lull recognition that a few years ago the crime of which the jury have found me guilty was punishable by death, and I desire to say, with that conviction on my mind, that the whole of the transactions conhected with my firm, carried on as a speculative account ha my individual name, were so carried on for the sole aeirpose of retrieving the position into which that firm had got.by railway engage ments in the year 1846; that :the principal of these speculations were known to my partner ; and that it was with his knowledge/and with his privity entirely that I launched into these speculations. They were left entirely I in my management, and kept from his son, because that son, as is notorious, was nor a man of business, and kept from the clerks, because the knowledge of it would have been the ruin of the firm. Tho jury have found me guilty, and I must leave it to your lordship to pass what sentence you think I deserve. His Lordship said he was entirely satisfied. with the verdict of the jury, and there fore he need not say that he did not believe what the prisoner had been saying. Ile felt great compassion tor the prisoner, who, after falling from the respectable position he had held, had been convicted of forgery, TrtE NORTIIAMPTONSHIRII ELECTION.--Mr. Hunt, the Though he felt compassion for the prisoner, he should be doing a great injury if he were to allow that compasslon Conservative candidate, has been returned for Northar-4. to prevent him passing such a sentence as was oornmen tonshire, in the place of the late Mr. Stafford, kdating surate with the crime. That Sentence was that the the Minteterial candidate, Mr. Vernon. prisoner undergo pima), lervitucle for 10 years,' Mr. Bonit then came forward, for the purpose of pro posing the series of resolutions, of which he had given notice, in reference to the Liverpool Academy. Mr. Frank Howard rem to a point of order, and pro. tested against the resolutions being brought forward in that society. Mr. Boult said Mr. Howard was himself out of order, inasmuch as there was yet no business before the society If, when the resolutions wero read, Mr. Howard did not think that meeting a proper arena for their discussion, he could then move an amendment to that effect. The Chairman, while expressing a hope that all gentle men who entered upon the subject would keep strictly to the question, decided that Mr. Bouit was at present in order in proposing the resolutions. ; Mr. Boult said, as a matter of convenience, be thought it better to propose the - resolutions seriatim, and he therefore read the first ; in support of which he said he thought it would be desirable to impose upon the academy the responsibility of accounting for its proceedings. It now consisted of nine members, ten having been the number, until, as the Courier of that day laid,- they had conferred upon Mr. Herdman the only honour in their power, by expelling him from their body. These nine gentlemen were appointed- by each other. If a vacancy took place, it was supplied by the votes of the gentlemen in the academy. It was, therefore, a close corporation, self.eleeted, irresponsible, or responsible only to its own members. He did not think that in the present day a society of that nature was one which any of them could feel disposed to trust with the expenditure of the public money. He did not think any of the rates of the community, which many found it difficult to pay, ought to be placed at the irre sponsible discretion of a body of that character, and he therefore submitted that it was the duty of the Town Council to obtain from those gentlemen an account of the mode in which the funds of the Academy had been dis posed of. He contended that this was a legitimate subject for discussion by that society. It was stated in one of their rules that the society was established for the advancement of architecture, and promoting'and facilitate ing a knowledge of the various arts and sciences connected therewith. Upon these words he rested his standing there. He contended that painting and sculpture were arts naturally connected with architecture, and remarked, as an instance of the correctness of his view, that Mr. Frank Howard himself had contributed to the society a paper upon pre-Raphaelitism, and Ruskin's Principles of Art. He would beg to remind the Academy that although they had thought proper to erase the name of Herdman from their list of members, they had not answered the accusation which he had preferred against them, and that it they would stand fairly before the public, they would enter into mere justification of their conduct than they had done. The Chairman observed that he thought Mr. Boult was now travelling outside the question. Mr. Boult proceeded to say that he considered that any public body in the- receipt of public money should be subject to some control. Formerly, he' believed the honorary secretary of the Academy raised £2O a year for travelling expenses : he was Wormed that the present honroary secretary was in receipt of a salary of £lOO. He should protest against the practice that was growing up now a days of paying salaries to honorary secretaries. Mr. F. Howard rose to order. They had nothing to do with matters which Mr. Boult was introducing, nor were the facts such as were stated by him. Mr. Boult continued to argue that the course adopted by the Liverpool Academy for some years back, but particularly within the last two years, was most prejudi cial to art, and that his allegation to that effect was supported by the concurrent testimony of nearly the whole community, of the Press of Liverpool, and of the leading art journals of London. Be felt it was the duty of the society to protest against this persistence.in wrone, and it was therefore that he rose to propose the resolutions of which he had given notice. In conclusion Mr. Boult read the resolutions, which we gave in the report of last meeting. Mr. Boult proposed in the first instance that the first of these resolutions be adopted. Mr. J. Hay seconded the resolution, and observed that the Academy did not provide that accommodation in their exhibitions for architectural drawings which they ought to do, and such as was provided for them in exhibitions in Edinburgh and London. Mr. F. Howard rose to protest against the discussion going any further, and observed that he would content himself with simply contradicting the statements which Mr. Boult had made, in order to form a ground for his resolutions. He (Mr. Howard) was the only painter in the room, and it might probably be supposed that for reasons of his own he had instigated Mr. Boult to make this attack on the Academy. He had had occasionally controversy with the Academy, but he protested against those controversies being introduced into the heart of the Architectural Society. Mr. Boult said that he was informed that so and so was the fact, but he (Mr. Howard) apprehended that such an attack as that then before them should not be conducted on " mere information." The only assistance which the Aca.lemy received from the Town Council was the use of the rooms, the rent of which was estimated at £2OO a-year, but the Academy had them only for six months, or perhaps less. It was urged against them that the Academy elected themselves; undoubtedly they did elect themselves, but that was the principle on which all Academies were conducted. They were in no way responsible to the council or to the rate-payers, but if they were responsible to the rate-payers the society did not meet as such, and had no right to entertain such a subject. As to the selections of the Academy, why " they paid their money and they took their choice," — (laughter)—and as any gentleman had a right, if he thought proper, to find fault with their choice, so also had they a right to make it. The society might disapprove of their selections, but did not conceive that they would r be therefore justified in adopting the sweeping resolutions which Mr. Boult had submitted for confirmation. In conclusion, Mr. Howard referred to the comments oa the Academy which appeared in a late number of the Athenceum, and declared that no statements more errone ous or absurd had ever before been :published in a newspaper. Mr. l'iclon said he did not feel himself competent to say whether Mr. Millai's picture ought to have the prize or not, nor did he think the Architectural Society were much more competent. (Hear, hear,) He objected to these resolutions, as a precedent. That society had a special object, and so long as they kept to that object, they would make themselves respectable in the eyes of the public ; but if they became a kind of organised Don Quixote, and ran full tilt against every windmill that offended them by its gyrations, they would get thrown on their back, like that redoubtable champion of old. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) The Academy only obtained the use of the rooms from the Council, and all the account they were bound to furnish was such as this—" We get the use of the rooms for the purposes of exhibition, and we exhibit the pie.. tures." The Architectural Society get the use of their rooms for a very wall sum from the proprietors of the Royal Institution—were the proprietors therefore to have a full control over the management of the society ? The mode of giving the prize, or the grant of any prize at all, was not a part of the stipulation on which the Academy obtained the use of the rooms from the Corpo ration. He asked, were the members of the Town Council themselves to choose the prize-picture, and if not what other body but the Academy was to do so ? The very most that could be charged upon that body was an error of judgment, and there being no final tribunal,which could absolutely decide even upon that point, he did not see what right the society would have to pass any resolutions such as those which had been proposed. Mr. Picton concluded by proposing an amendment, to the effect, that it was foreign to the purpose of that society, and•inimical to its interests, to interfere in the affairs .of other societies, and that, therefore, the resolutions animadvert ing upon the conduct of the Liverpool Academy could not be entertained. Mr. F. Howard seconded the amendment. Mr. Alderman Bennett admitted that it would have been as well if the Council, who were undoubtedly sup posed to be the patrons of the Academy, had taken the question more into its consideration for some years back. The Council did for three years actually give the £5O Ariz The giving the use of the rooms to the Academy was, in point — of fact, equal to a grant of £2OO a year, less. what the Council received for their use from other soiarees during the year. He agreed with Mr. Boult, that so long as the grant was given, the Council ought to receive some account of the expenditure. He regretted, however, on several grounds, to say, that he believed the present year would be the last in which the grant would be made. The lease which the Council had, of the rooms having expired, the Council would in future have to make an annual payment far them if they retained possession of them, and, in the altered state of the Cor poration finances, he feared that would be one of the first articles of expenditure retrenched. Mr.R.P.Horner suggested another amendment, to be sub stituted for Mr. Pieton's, in order to avoid pledging the society not to enter upon discussion, which upon a future occasion might be thought desirable...,The amendment he suggested was to the effect, that the society did not think ! it expedient to elver, in the manner proposed by Mr. Boult, into the Liverpool Academy 's conduct of its own affairs. Mr. Picton consented to withdraw his amendment in favour of Mr. Horner's, and Mr. Howard seconded the latter. Mr. Boult having replied, a division took place, when there appeared 18 votes for the amendment, and 6 against it. The amendment was therefore declared carried. The paper oi the evening was then read by Mr. Alfred THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY. A corn fAclor f 1 Waterford has failed for a large attn.—Limerick Chronicle. BTA7 OF TRADE IN BBCIIDALE. Daring the past eight days we have had no alteration of cote in the number 4.hours which the cotton mills are running generally. A cotton mill on the Damp road did begin to run fah time fur a few days, but it returned to short time again. The ay.rage time of the mills running continues to be four days per week. Within the last few days petty thefts have rather incre:sed. During the pas; wee.. we - have not had the slightest rumour of any monetary ere b„ ree .2 ments among merchants or manufacturers. The number upon thew relief lists in the several townships exceeds the corresponding 'w ee k of last year by upwards of G 00; but it is remarkable that nearly all of those w,to have fallen upon the parochial funds are persons who have been on the relief list before. This fact speaks Well for the operatives in this union, when it is remembered that their rggregate earnings are clove upon £4,000 less weekly than in ordinary times of trade. MIT Or 711 E BLACKBURN TNION. At the meeting of the guardians, on Saturday, it was gated that the number of persons relieved last week, was 3,937 ; being au increase of 979, on the corresponding week of last yesr, and an increase fa cost of 15s 44. The increase w►es in the foilowing and infirm, 32 ; ab'e-bodied, 309 ; children under 18 yews' of age, 638. The inmates in the - vrorklraums at the end of the weekwas 409; beng an increase on the same week iu 1856, of 62 , i The nSna b3r of new applicants for relief was 198. THE UNEMPLOYED POO% OF BRADFORD!, On Friday, a mortmg, convened by the Mayor of Bradford, was held at St. George's Ball, to consider the circumstances of the un employed poor of the ooroughi The Mayor presided, and Vic mat ing was influentially attended. After some discussion, the following resolution was passed Thal this meockig, bzini; c .nvincei that there is an amount of distress existing at present in this bortingh, - , consequent upon' be scarcity of etaploymend, is of opinion that it desirable to raise a subscription, to be-applied, as shall be agreed upon, for its relief." The meeting also resolved itself into a commit . ; tee to carry out the lissolution and sollect subscriptions; and a sub: ;.seription list was opcaed in the ram, headed by the Mayor vritty ;..eSty, and including .4160 from Mr. J. Priestssan, and Leo from Messrs. William Peel and Co.—Leeds'llercury. EXTILEINTZ FAILUKIIIIN LEW" We are sorry to have to announce the suspension of the renpeztsble firm of Saalfeld Brothers, of Leeds,* London, and, Hardburgh, who have ism& the following circular to• their creditors: " Leeds, 14th December, 1 1 .'957. , ---Gentierpart : It gists , us the deepest pain to inform you, that is , consequence of the disasters which have befallen , the Hambargh trade, and of sudden at d severe losses there and in)Londsxi, which may be increated b oar indoraeutents on bills of exchange. still running, we are compelled for the gro,ent to en.— pend payment at cur several 'branches. The position if our affairs will be reported to you 83 suer A• poisible Boltyn, of Leeds; aecounta , ..t, to whose investigation we hare submitted. our books. Trotting to receive ii the iron time your 'kind to:Searance, and deeply regret tie; the necessity Gil this step, we are, gentlemen, your obedient servants, SAALFELD SZOTHERS."—This tirm has not been long known.in Leeds, bat wa understand it has teen -one of extensive and high reputation ire England ana• en the C..ntrant fer mary years So far as wet c .n• ascertain, the i'alsilities are about ..e200,C10, but there is every probability of a spasdy and satisfactory arrangement-- Leeds IliereEry , —lt is added by a- Leeds Correspinder.t ; that Mr. Bolton arc Jual twat, is engaged in preiakring a eta meat of the affairs of the house ; and it is expected thee it will be higlsly satisfaztory. Toe liabilities,. whleit are said to amount to about -£l3s,ofie j , area stated to be pretty generally cove ed by assets, and there is every probability of nape dy arrangement. Ting CITY OF OLAZVOW •BA1,18.• The head of of the City of Glasgow-iiank presentefilt Teturit‘ of ale ordinary bustle to—day, the d :ors being opened for the receipt of deposits, and the transaction of other banking business.. The brands offices are also, we understand, in a elate of activity, and - though the , bank does not yet announce itself to pay-deposits at call, yet deposit , accounts may he drawn upon to a moderate amount, and in a vex? short while the bazek will be ful y ahreast of all demands upon it.- There are two points which we oonceive ittche a duty,. ln announcing... this gratifying resurn ion of business by the City, to impress on the public. The first i that depositors in this bent:ill/we the good sense to.let the money remain where it is, if they, , do not absolntelTneedite; fur business purpos a. The second is, that , the citizens of Glasgow and others woo ten the folly of distrust, and ripprociate the importance of re- taring this bank to its former credit. imd• position, subscribe withont delay to tae S,:ecial Deposit Fund. Already .e.10),000 have been placed at the service of th 3 bank in this way, but this amount may, and should be largely increased in Glaigovir alone, if those who have disposable funds only look at the matter in a true and proper Alter an investigation into its atfairs,by men of the highest standing and integrity in the city, we cannot conceive that aay one who has the po t er will delay to give the bank a When of his confideuosa and support.—Yorth lrtish Alai! of Tuesday. SHOCKING ACCIDENT NEAB.. HOWDEL SEVEN PERSONS KILLED.. A terrible accident took place on Saturday evening at the Otvir. chemical works (belonging to George Anderson, junr , Ftg ~Cleckh eatoa), Uowden Dyke, near Ho wden Thi large coimney, 129 feet - high, cane down with a tremendous crash,. Oast half-pan seven: o'c.ock, falling upon the vitriol c'hinfoer, in witch ten or a dozen men ware at work at the time. Up to half•past ten o'c eight• persons had been taken from the ruini. rive we-e quite dead;. two seriously injured; and t .e other, a boy of n..wat 14. years of age, had one lee; Draken. Tan oodles of two others -eora•recovered on Sunday, making seven dead. The saano near the. works was of the most appalling description. The whole of the man had left work, except. the Plamoers and th?ir assistants, who ware worata overtimo, to finish tue chamber, that busi less might be c ,masericed on Monday morning. The lo.s of pro ;erty will be innerase, as the :Ere iter pert of the works are a complete wreck. :soma, estimate the damage, at £4,000 to £5,000. Most of the men were,,we. understand, married, and some have ieft families. The lotto wiog.la a list of the killed an& wounded: Birterw:ck, lab ,tuvr, gowden t. George Coal— - tard, labourer, Howden Dyke ; Johan ll'aylor, plumber, ,London: Joseph Pearson, plumber, Armley, near _Lee lel .. , es.rAtt 13roadb3nt. plumber, Bradford; Joseph Barer, lab)urer, aaradlay, near klowden . James Ward, labourer, Drift, near Selby. WOUNDED.—Geode Wardle, plam - Aer, Manchester, leg broken; ocholleld, plumber, Manchester, severely crashed; .foseph, t lough, pl Amber, 13rairord, inte.nal injuries, from wh ch there is _ _ I.ttle - niCpe of recovery; Newton, - laticurer;floirden, leg broken. and other injuries. 'lhe scene f the disaster WAS vlsiVitoaSanday by many hundreds - of persons. From the Stit:Cl3l3llt3 of the injured men, it appays,that they heard a crack, aid supposing that .khe chimney was about to fall, were all endeavouring to make their escape: waen the. plae3 came down upon them and buried them Is the mine. It is atkalumet nrracaloas event that any should have escaped. The boy injured has been removed home to his father's house at . Howden, aad it is hoped will reeorer. Our correspoadent visited,/11e inju ed men oat Honda; afternoon, and found them progressing favourably. 'rho exertions of the medical gentlemen during Satuaday right were most praiseworthy, and the sufferers hove $i tee had.:every attention paid to them. The inqnest commenced on Mordiey afternoon, bat the coroner, R. B. Porter, Esq , rettiseel to adm t oar earreepmdsnt, as well as the reprosent/ttves of: other newspapers A highly respectable ja. y was summoned to the tted Lion Inn, an I proceeded to tiewden Dyke to view the bodhte Mach .dissatisfaction has beats expressed that the Coroner did not hold the inq,hast on Sunday:as it woali have prevented the bolted realaini tong. oa the rains of the vit iul chamber. MURDER OF A CHELD BY ITS ,MOTHER;, AT BILSTON.: Ann Plant, an unmarried fern 41e, 22 nears' of age, was tried on Tu,sday for the wilful murder of Joon neat, her illegitlinate male child, on the 22nd of October, at Wolverhanapt.m. The prosecution was colducted by Mr. Spo. ner. The r o:sower was tindakended. On the 20th October the prisoner called at, the house ,of her mother's neighbour, at Bilston, and, asked be allowed to remain there tor a dy or two,h. which was groute 1. she had her child, wci. her. On the second day she wished to go to Freghall, thirty miles,.off, with the child. She w.is allowed: to go, and took ,some provisions with her. She returned to the house the same evening without:; her child, and. told a long story about a. lady and geatlem en at Wave, - .hadapton hav ing taken a fancy to ' the chfirt, and her, leaviug it with: them. This statement was believed for, time ; bat . the prisoner was afterwards pressel, upon the sid4l;ct and con. teised having drewned it in the canal, saying that want had driven her to the act. Toe bed/ was found within a hundred yards. of the spot she indicated.. The vvidence of the-- medical witness was to the effeAthat the deceased diei from suffoca tion, the mica of prolonged imir,e,rsion in the water.. The prisoner's_ statement before:the magistrate was also pat in, audread as follows: " I did it from want; . L had no: home to go to. 'Jae4 not been con fined a month letfore I was ob.:gad to sleep in p,,,t.rewliouse all night.''' The identity a, the child was Droved by Mt's. Nie,krean. In reply tor- his lordship, the prisoner said shq had uo watnesseato call, nor any thing to say ta.tloejury. The learned judgesemi:lW no the evidence,. and tha jury returned a verdict of " guilty." bist strongly Tecate mended her to mercy in co nsideration of bile,di;treissing circumstances. which had prompted her to.commit the rash act. The learned }edge,. who was deeply affected oda Ist sentencing the pl. , coner, said he sheabl. take advar.tage of the discret on allowed by sod, in consequetlea of the strong recommendation of the jury. ordered sentence of dtath. to be recorded against liar. ETRA.ORDINARY, CASE. ear: POLYGAIW., At. Lambeth pollee-court, en Tuesday, John Wilkir_sOn Ann. Wilkinson. alias Alexander, and Ilicheed Thomas Alexar e de, -, Were placed at the bar for final excealnatione each being charged with bigamy. From the testimony of, a number of.witeesses. iteappeared that in the year 1e33, the prisoner Wi had been married to renences Wilkinson, who is now, living at Flury, St. Edmund's, in &silent, and that some four or five: glare after he took up, with the female prisoner, his wife, se•it- was. alleged, having goce,•,to live with another snaz.., since. transported. The parties continued to live together, except at interuals,when his wife, shed to visit Wilkinson, and in lie !a were married at, St. Mary's Church,. Baddington, the second wife giviag her maiden 11=B of Ann Sullivan. Some menthe ago Wilkinson discarded his semi d wife, and took bcme his first, and, this led the second wife to givohim into custody onn.charge of bigamy. When before the magistrates the defence set op was that the second wife herself was guiity of bigamy in intermarrying with Wilkinson, well knowing that his wife and her own husband, Richard Thomas Alexander. were both alive; and at the second exarnin.ai ion Alexander himself attended, sad. admitted that he had been marred to Ana Wilkinson, as she called herself, abeeat eigateen:yesrs before, la St- Andre_w's Church, lielbcen. 'lbis led to rise female being pl seetLie, the deck alongside her aszond husband, ant the publicity given to, the singular case of double bigamy, broeght oat the startling feet that the man. Alexander had been married, ar e Fateosham, in Kent. on the Bth of May,. /850, to a young woman aamad Rebecca Sears, and h., in his tarn, was, taken into cnstodg. TOliee-conetahle Stephen Booth, PA, L, w:o, had apprehended Alt the parties, and had the management of the case, erodueed the eerti,Sc tes of marriage in each case, and the neceesa , y witnesses, so an. to complete the prosecution. i s tr.3e m se lt, id es th eh a e t the was well a n a w a l e o a n t es t i h d e e e tyrtel%wa'itilihkhiehn 4 , 4 a wife Wive. This, however, of timel n hLm they de f e n ce,w e : equally ax th e p a r r i g r s n i o e i ne d l the female denied, and said she thought Alexander w.as de id when she married Wilkinson, Alexander, in reply to th,e chug% sail that . ober:ly after his marriage, he traced his wife to a house of ill-fame, where she was in the habit of sneetine a gent man.' For this he discarded her, and soon after he, found her living with Wi klaseets whom she subsequently aceprnpanied to An rice. Knovrine her were cheap ipurotphe,,nsi Unitestyfr drink, states, a h n e d e k e n ee ezi ,ha n e g d , aslhsea,wthaaltatep never return, and heari_ng nothing whatever of her. he concluded s Elliott he was dead, and under thi s conv i ction got married , agaia. Mr. committed, all the ttxen to take their tg ial at-the Centra.l, Cri snag Court.• TUX Law tx4tu.N.—The atterapts to launch the Leviathan were again re newe d on Taoadity, but the ship made no pros;ress whatever. Cliaatcut of MußDsg.—Philip Clare, 30, a butty collier was tried on Tuesday, for the murder (4 Eleabeth Hopley, at Bradley, near Bilaton, on the 291 of April. The body of the deceased was found in - the canal at an early boor one morning, and the prisoner was suspected and appre- : - 'tended in consequence of the improbable statements he made respecting the death of" the deceased. For the defence it was urged that there was no proof that the woman was murdered, and that prisoner's statement was so incoherent and extraordinary that it could not be de— pended upon.--d verdiot of Not guAlty". was retu rn ed?