The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-11 00:00:00

AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA NO NEWS OF THE PACIFIC The British mail steamer Canada, Captain Lang, has a rr i ve d i n the Mersey from Boston and Hal i fax, bringing 45 passengers, and advices from New York to the 26th, Boston to the 27th, and Halifax to the 29th ult., all inclusive. We regret to state that nothing had been heard of the missing st eamer P ac ifi c , b u t i n New York hope s of her safety were still entertained. The America n s t eamer Atl an tic, which left Liverpool on the 6th ult , and the British steamer Asia, which a l so l e f t Li verpoo l on th e 9th—three days later—both arrived out at New York on the 2 5th. The C unar d s t eamer Et na f rom H av re had a's o arrived out after having put into Halifax for coal. The steamer America from Liverpool was Passed by the C ana d a on th e 29 t h u lt. going into Halifax. The Canada also passed the Persia at 1 .15 p.m., on the 9th inst., 37 miles to the Westward Fastness. The advices by the present arrival are a week later than those previously received. The Euro pean accounts taken out by the Atlantic and Asia, which it will be remembered were of rattier a bellecose character, had attracted some attention, but caused very little anxiety, the American people Renerally regarding the talk about a war between Great Britain and the United States as too im probable to create any alarm. The New York Times, in its commercial article, on the day after the receipt of the last English news, says :—" The Foreign intelligence by the Atlantic and Asia, to hand yesterday, was very quietly received to day, both in Stock, and Money, and the General Market circles. There is little or no uneasiness mani fested in regard to the discussion in England of the diplomatic relations of that country with the United States, so far as the possibilities of war are s upposed to be involved. At the same time it is felt among our business people that it would be much more agreeable to have the disputed ques tions between the two Governments amicably and Permanently out of the way of angry discussion and recrimination." On the other hand, the Washington cot respon dent of the New York Herald writing on the 25th lilt. says The Cabinet had quite a protracted cession to-day. The subject before them was, I Understand, our relations with England. It is understood this evening, that Mr. Crampton will be dismissed. In that ease, intercourse between England and the United States will be suspended, as England will, as soon as she learns that her Minister has been dismissed, also refuse to receive Fur minister; thus there will be no diplomatic intercourse for some time, at least between the countries, until there is an amicably settlement of c'ur difficulties?' The Washington correspondent of the Boston Advertiser, writing on the day following, says : I le intense excitement caused by the telegraphic despatches of the news by the steamers Atlantic and Asia, on Sunday last, is allayed by the assur a nce that th ere i s no thi ng i n th e government de spatches since received calculated to diminish the hope that our differences with England may be Paci fically arranged, although our relations with that country are not materially changed since the advices by the Canada. Mr. Dallas will soon re ceive his written instructions, his intercourse with the State Department heretofore being of a ve rbal character. The government despatches show that many of the speculations and assertions of the British press and statesmen are untrue : nor 'a there any ground for the rumour of an angry altercation having taken place between Lord Cla• r elition and Mr. Buchanan. It may be . confidently asserted that no formal proposition has been made by Great Britain to arbitrate the pending differ ence% Under these circumstances we believed our government wouid not accept that mode of tu liustrnent." The correspondence on the British enlistment question was to be laid before the Senate on the 20 th, in conformity with a vote of that branch of the Legislature. It was stated that it contains five lung despatches from Secretary Marcy, besides one which he sent to Minister Crampton, in which he pressed the accusations very closely. The first despatch is dated June —, 1855. The one which closes with a request for Crampton's recall, is dated Dec. 28. It also contains two curious letters from Mr. Buchanan, giving an account of his in ter views with Lo r d Cl aren d o n about the Maury affair a nd the co_teroporaneous panic episode. The corr espondence covers more than two hundred ages of foolscap. In writing these facts, the Atl°ston Advertiser adds :—" The despatches by the, • antic contain no definite answer to Mr. Marcy 's r eclllest for the recall of Mr. Crampton, but inti flaaate that one will be forwarded soon. Ti for the story that Mr. Buchanan has Fords his passports. He had no quarrelsome irrds with Lord Clarendon, although the latter v i e „ ( L a rne somewhat excited (luring a recent inter th-"• Mr. Buchanan is to leave London before e arrival of his successor, or the settlement of Papprehend questions. The President still does not t:Prehend that war will grow out of our relations with Great Britain." on Cent ra l A mer i can question was still under c t si deration in the senate. T 0 he steamer Daniel Webster had arrived at New n ert ns from San Juan, with a fortnight's later ata evis from California, All the Central American a Jes, except Nicaragua, have formed an alliance, an Colonel Kinney had gone to Grenada to effect 4331 n. alliance with Walker. From California the tti t r ning , prospects are excellent, and the agricul rain' Prospects good. There had been considerable te '"; The San Francisco market had a downward el 44en cY , The California legislature had not feted a senator, and there was little probability ia choice. Mr. Foot is the American candidate. at SandersQ and Hammond, both formerly collectors f 'au Francisco, have been indicted for embezzling Unds. Ill; New Fork Post gives an account of another r_t 3 fe tit of th e H aytiens. The particulars are given, the followi ng extracts , f rom a l etter d a t e d Cape b a Y t ice, Jan. 29th : —Th e H a yti ens h ave aga i n a eon beaten and driven back by the Dominicans, Old the Emperor has returned here to day with all s a troops, some five or six thousand men ; they ' 17(3 been coming into town since noon, and such hMiserable set of objects I never beheld. Some u ndreds or more of wounded were sent down in barges, and a vast number of dead are left behind e “„ s ti le bushes. This has b een th e mos t di s a s trous campaign the Haytiona ever made. A tel egraPhie despatch from Portland (Maine), st ates that on that day the citizens had confirmed a __ rec ent confi rmat i on b y th e c ity government of inioev,vooo dolla rs for wharf accommodations for t h e 117. mammoth steamer by a vote of 1,415 to sfrCS:nsiderable excitement is stated to prevail at - "robl'B, Newfoundland, in consequence of an In ention, depressed in the legislature, an Fxport yof This impost u.,; 1 of imposing two per cent. upon fish and oil. -- uicl add about £20,000 per annum to the revenue of the island. T4e commercial he from New York do not vary much in their tenor from those last received. There was increased ease in th e M one y Market, a and the last re t urn of the New Y or k B an k s s how ed n increase7of 1,344,132 dols. i loans, 16738 dols, in Specie, and a de lrease of n 405,460 d015 , . 1 in y de posits, and o f 28,785 dols. in circulation. IVe nneX the we e k' s aggregate, with that of the pre week week ....:-- D ate. Loans & Disc. Specie. Circulation. Deposits. ....tvel). 16,'56 99,401,315 15,678,736 7,693,441 88,085,944 reb.23,'56 100,745,447 15,835 In consequence of the easy state of the Money '074 7,664,688 87,680,418 Ilarket the prices of Stocks had an upward tendency. The quotation s f or Foreign Exchange, although, nominally the same as last reported, were sc arcely so firm, and the b u lk of the transactions on London for the Canada were done at 109 to l O gi. The Cotton Ma r k e t h a d been very animated, !Irtd. prices during the week had improved a quarter cent. per pound. The Flour Market Was not active, and prices had declined 121 cents. per barrel. Wheat was also dull. We subjoin our usual details of COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. UONNY AND STOCES . —Si nce oar advice , of 19th Feb., there bias been n o prom i nent feature in the Stock market to notice. The ant ivitY and speculation wch last week animated . Railroad stocks, have in am easure subsided, operatto o n u s r h r ve been leas i mportant, and speculations have variously resulted . up and uota 4,4"nwari, as may be seen is our subjoined table of dad -mut. iThe mores decided abundance of money, show ruarket, begins to produce some effect on some of the Cityßond', and other investment Stocks I they are generally held firmer, even shown q ,n the at advandced prices in man instances. The uneasiness evince I England, according t the advice. of 9th intt., a in n regard to the Unsatisfactory condition of the pending questions between that New YORK, Faa. 26, 6 v.m.—Cottoni heavy, sales 1003 bales without quotable change. Flour in limited demand, sales 4500 brls, Inf. to extra State and corn. to good Michigan and Ohio 63 to 73, fancy and low grades extra Western 73 to 73, corn super to extra Canadian 63 to sn, extra Genesee 83 to 101. Sales 300 brie Rye Flour 43 to 6, and 500 Jer-ey Corn Meal 43 to 43. Wheat dull and declining, Rye-B , ito lush 108to1inat It It ; 115 delivered. Corn unchanged, sales 25,1.00 bush 72 to 75A. Whisky So to 31c. Pork firm. sales 500 brls, mess 153 to 15 94 . prime 13 t r 14. Beef lower, sales '250 brie, country prime 8$ to 93, do mess 10 to 11, re packed Western ll to 131. Beef Hems-200 br.s corn 141. Lard lower, 500 brls 103 to 103 c. Dressed Hogs 72. Coffee-8 0 0 bags Rio 115 to 123. Molasses-300 brls N 042 to 43. ugar —303 hhds Cuba Muse 73 to 83. 0:1-4000 gals Linseed 12, Lard 95. Splits Turpentine-140 brie 405. Rice-43 to 5. Tallow 10. Freights—To Liverpool firmer, flour 2. Oil to 2s 101, grain 7 tai 81, cotton 9-32 to 5.16: to Davie firm, flour 75e, grain 2 , ), cotton 3, lard 3 to 3, rice end pre is no • Illinois Central bands 87#, N Y Central 93, Erie Hudson 33i, Harlem 22, Clzveland and Toledo 79i, hlichig n Sjuti.ern 9 BRAZILS AND THE PLATE The Tamar has arrived seven days before she was due, and has proved to he the fastest steamer that has ever been on the Brazil line. She has brought a mail bag from the government emigration ship Ocean Monarch. RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 13 —The cholera is all but extinct in this city, ,nd app-ears to be spreading slowly over the whole of the empire. The theatre of St. Pedro de Alcantara has been, for the third time, destroyed by fire. An American steamer, called the Mary Smith, attempted to land a cargo of 320 negroes, but was taken by the Brazilian brig - o f-w ar Olinda. The commander and crew are all Americans, and were ironed and locked up in gaol. The schooner embarked 500 of the blacks, hut during the voyage 180 died, and of those landed at Bahia 64 died a few hours afterwards. A misunderstanding arose between the English and French admirals and the American Commodore in this harbour, which at one time wore a rather serious aspect. A steamer, called the America, from New York to Cali fornia, put into this port for coal and water. On the eve of her departure Admiral Johnstone received infor mation that the vessel was, in reality, a Russian privateer, in disguise, conveying an enormous quantity of munitions of war to the Pacific, and that the greater number of her officers were Russians. The admiral immediately pulled on board the Savannah, American frigate, and demanded explanations of the commodore, who refused to allow a search to be made on board the steamer. Upon this the English admiral threatened to send his steamers out to overhaul the vessel should she leave the port, and the reply made was, that the Savannah should be towed out by her to protect the America if necessary. Admiral Johnstone returned to his frigate and made ready for sea, and the Trident and Rifleman got up their steam, whilst the Savannah run her guns out and actually cleared for action. Subsequently, however, the business was patched up by the commodore of the steamer, declaring upon his word that the report was. entirely false. The French admiral, however, declared that he was not satisfied. (Thus far we know ashore.) The America towed the Savannah out this mornitvg, and the Indefatigable, Rifle man, Trident, and French frigate Poursuivant, sailed last night, but whether a collision will take place out side, or whether the Indefatigable and Poursuivant are, in reality, gone down to the River Plate, as announced, we cannot say. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Rio DE JANEIRO, Feb. 14.—Coffee: The falling of supplies is easily accounted for, as the planters are too careful of their slaves now to expose them to the chance of being carried off by cholera. There is plenty in the interior, but it will be some time before it is brought to market. Our stock is about 100,000 bags, and prices for superior, 6.600 to 5.800 ; good first, 5.300 to 5.500 ; ordinary, $49 to $5l. In exchange about £550,000 have been passed, chiefly at 27a to 274, which latter is the ruling rate. BantA, Feb. 17.—Cotton : Holders are beginning to be more anxious to realize. Ordinary sugars are neg lected. The coffee crop is closed, and quotations are almost nominal. The sales of cocoa have been insigni ficant. Exchange : London, sixty days' sight, 28d. PERNAMBUCO, Feb. 14.—For dry goods the demand has been extremely dull, owing to the prevailing sickness. Sugars : Our entries have averaged 4,800 bags per dtem, which have far exceeded sales, notwithstanding which the prices have been on the rise, and we quote browns, to-day, at from 2.200 to 2.600, and whites from 2.900 to 3 990 per arroba. Cotton • The entries have been ridicu lously small, and tho prices have not varied. Hides are in great demand, and much higher prices have been paid there and at the outports. Freights for Liverpool, ad to 7-16 d per lb., from this and outports. Exchange on the whole amount transacted, including that for the Portu guese boat, about £lOO,OOO, the bulk of which was at 28d. Discounts : Money hes become more abundant, but our bank rate has continued at 12 per cent. per annum ; the rate has been raised as high as 18 per cent. per annum out of doors, but money to-day is easier, at from 12 to 14 per cent. BUENOS AIRES, February 15.—Manufactured goods (January) opened with a fair demand, though subse quently checked b y the invasions, and rumou rs of invasions, review ; more' has i really been done than we were in general have not improved , v?sions. that f orm so prominant a feature in the m onth entitled to expe c t. and the stocks on h d result for some ti me , _ r P an are too large to expect such a THE NORTHERN TIMES.=LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1866. C ountry and the United States, has produced no particular effect on our Stock market. In State Stocks the business has been limited to small sales of Virginia 6., Missouri Gs, of Calilornia 7s, and Indiana 5 , , with a sli•ht rieclme on the two former. Railrond Stocks have r-mained generally pretty active duri - g the week, and transactions in Erie and in Cleveland and Toledo have been con siderable. COPPET & Co. On Weln-sciav of last week the market was quiet here ' • sales moderate. On Tharsiay, upon rece i pt o f the Cana da ' s letters, a very large bust ss was ransacted, the sales amounting to 14 090 bales at full 'aces, but without advance. During the remainder of last week a fair business w is d ne without change in prim..., holders refusing to sell except at outside rates. Yesterday, after receipt of the e. uropean letters, there was less disposition shown to operate, 5111 the market was quiet, without mange in quota ions from 'est wee , ,, ch are renewed; though perhaps to effect a sale in quantity soma reduction might have to be submitted to. The sales for the week I estimate at 5,000. The clearances in same time have been— to Liverpool, 3,600 bales : R Aterdam, 234; Elsinore, 757 — total, 4,591 bales. By telezraph the following has been received : New Orleans, Feb. 23.—Receipts for the week 64,600 bales; same week last year, 24 000. Sales for the week, 52,000 bales. and to-day, 8,500. The increase at this port over last year is 325,000 bat,. Stock on hand. 243,000 bales. Freight to Liverpool, id per lb. Mid. dlinz eic to 9ie. Motile. $ eb. 23. —Receipts for the week, 36 000 bales; same week last year, 16,0 - 4). Sales for the week, 19 000 bales; to-day 2,100. Middling. Bic to 9c. Total excess et a'l the ports, as made up here to-day, com aced with last year, 730,000 ha es. Exchange on Lon don 71 to 8 per cent; on Paris 5.32 k. Freight ta Liverpool id ; to Havre Ile per lb. Tne following is a statement of the movement in cotton since the Ist September last, as compared with the previous three years : 1856. 1855. 1854. 1853. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EMPLOY MENT OF ADDITIONAL CURATES. Receipts at the Ports..., Exports to Great Britain 2,215,000 1,52,000 1,705,000 2,327,000 877,000 743,000 517,000 912,000 295,000 172,000 162,000 174,000 261,00 f) 131,000 118,),00 159 000 1,433,0001,046,000 817,0301 1,245.000 566,0001 403,000 692,000, 750,00.) France . other For. Porta . Total Exports Stock on hand Of which during the past week, included in the above : 123,0001 77,000;107, 4 00 128 000 42 000; 51,0301 44,000 28,000 13,000 . 17 000 i 17,030 12 000 12,1410 14,000 81,0001 73,000 59,000 Receipts at the Ports Exports to Great Britain, For. Ports Total Exports t the ports over last year ecreaso compared with 1853, 112,000. o Great Britain, 134,000 bales ; decrea3e 18.53, 35,000. Increase to France, 123,000 bales ; same time 1853, 121,000. Increase to other foreign ports, 130,000 bales; same timeinlBs3, 102,000 bales. FARTORTB.—To Liverpool the rate is .firm at d for compressed, and 9-32 d for uncompressed bales. To Havre /c has been paid. .Receipts —I WILLIAM P. AVRIGLIT, FLOUR.—We have had a qu'et steady mark t since the lith inst., and prices remained unchanged till the close of the week. At this day's C.irn Exchar•ge a decline of 125 cents per brl. was submitted to on the lower grades, consequent npoa the receipt of the un favourable advi es from Liverpool, per Atlantic and Asia, to the 6th an i 9th i st., respectively. Western Canal, 6 dole 75c to 7 dols per Ind Ohio and pure Genesee, 7 do!s 75c to 8 dols. Fancies and Extras, 8 dols 50c to 1 , 1 dols 50c. Southern Kinds, 8 dols 50c. to 19 dols 50e. Canada free, 7 dols to 8 dols 50c. Wheat continues dull, without essential change in price. A sale has been made of White Canadian at 175 cents, but the article in general is held at our quotations. Genesee white, 180 c to 190 c per 60 lbs. whern white, 185 c to 200 c. Western white, 180 c to 190 c. Western red awl mined, 162 to 175 c. Canada, 180 c to 190 c Indian corn is 2 ti 3 cents per bushel lower. Jersey and Northern round yellow, new, 68c to 73c per 56 lbs. Southern yellow, new, 6Sc to 73c. Southern white, new, 70c to 75c. Mixed, old, 73c to 76e. Wocrualsrcors, KINGFOBD & CO. Asuss,—We have no change to note in the market, which re mains steady, with ?mall sales Pot at 6 dots 50c, and Pearl at 7 dots 73c to 8 dols. _ _ Com. —Foreign remains in good supply, and quite dull. Correa.—New Sheathing is steady, at 33 cents, and Yellow Metal 25, 6 mos., the previous rates. Some 50 to 60,009 lbs. Lake Superior Ingot, have been receivea by railroad, and been bold at full prices. litox.—The market is frm, although there is not much doing. 1....KAD —The market for Pig remains very quiet. PROVISIONS.—The demand for pork is confined, for the most part, to the wants of the toe .1 trades, and the market is about 12} cents lower, the twpply is large, an r the receipts about the average extent for season : sales 230) brls, dosing at 13 d,ls 75c to 13 do'.B 81/c fur prime, and 15 dole 75e to 15 dots 874 c for mess; other kinds quiet and nominal. The beef msrkrt is a ry.side easier, a d the demand moderate; salts 1000 brls at g dots to 9 dois 62 ic tor country prime, 10 dots to 11 doll for country mess, 13 dolt; to 13 dole 50c for Vermont mess, 11 dots to 14 does 25c for repacked Chicago, an 14 dole 50e to 15 dole for extra repack- d Chicago. Prime mess Beef is steady, and the demand fair; sale 230 tcs. prime We ;tern at 22 dole.= Beef Items are in good demand, and the market is firmer sales 805 Ws. at 12 dots to 15 dots 25- for inferior to choice. flacon is cull; saes 10 hues Long Clear Middles at 9fc ; 100 do Short Mid d es, lib in, Sic; and 100 do. Cumberlan t Cut, on private terms. Cut Meats are steady, and in moderate demand; sales 425 packages at 71e to Tic for dry s.dted and pickled shoulders, and Sic to 9c for Hams, Dressed Hogs have advanced to 7ec to Sic, with a fair busi ness. Lard is one-eighth of a cent better, with sales of 1100 bls., closing at lOic to 10-Ic. Butter and cheese remain quiet and steady at our ( t uoted rites. him—Elle market is very heavy, and the transactions of the week conflaed p , Tracipally to small sales for home use, without in prices. ~eomt.—There is a better demand for home use, pirt from rvighlmuring ports, where stumlies are very low, and as ours are mcd:rate and holders very confident, we nit ce a buoyant market and an improvement in prices of * to / of a cent per lb. Fay IGHTI t i Great Britain ate ashade firmer, thou..h the offerings arc st II moderate; in other directions there is no material change. Vessels of about 150 to 250 Lam au table for the West India trade, are becoming more and more scarce, and with a good demand for such, rates are slightly improving. To Liverpool. the engagements ii , clude 28,000 bugle's grain, at Girl to 7ifi, in hulk and ship's b gs; 12,000 bb's flour 2s 6d to 2s gd. dos ng at the higher rate; 3000 bales cuttoo, / 1 to 7 321; 1000 tat baco , , 30.; 640 ,cs beef, 4s; 1010 bbls rosin, 2s 6d to 33; lOU tallow, 255; 20.000 lb. hide cuttings, • 3000 gallons rosin oil, Its 6d; and by the steamer Canadian, in , 200 lies bacon, 50s; 100 tcs pork, 6s; and some measure ment goods, 60s. LA` EST BY TELEGRAPH', support. He referred to the manner in which people were invited to listen to the most extraordinary efforts of the human voice at concerts, for the benefit of patients gasping with disease; of the lungs—invited to dance ANNUAL PUBLIC MEETING YESTERDAY. at public balls in aid of the funds of hospitals for the lame The annual public meeting of the Society for promoting —and to feast at city dinners on behalf of the starving poor. the employment of Additional Curates in populous places It was the peculiarity—he would not say the misfortune— was held in the schoolroom of the Blue Coat Hospital, at of church societies that they could not resort to any scheme half-past one o'clock yesterday. There was a , very con- such as had been described. They must come simply and siderable attendance of both ladies and gentlemen. The honestly before their fellow Christians, and ask the ministers chair was taken lay the Lord Bishop of Chester. Among of the churches to do, what he was told the minister of the those present were the Venerable Archdeacon Jones, Rev, churches of Liverpool did on Sunday—acquaint their con- Rector Campbell, Hon. and Rev, W. H. Lyttleton, rector gregations from their pulpits of the purposes which called of Hagley, Stourbridge ; Rev. W. R. Wroth, incumbent upon them for their Christian and their liberal support He of St. Philips, Clerkenwell ; Rev. J. B. Sweet, organizing did believe there was in the breasts of English Churchmen a secretary ; Mr. Henry Hoare, Rev. Mr. Tomlin, Mr. J. G e d e ep sense of responsibility, which made them feel that their Hubbard, Mr. J. A. Tinne, Mr. Brancker, Mr. Alfred wealth was not theirs, to be spent for personal gratification, Castellain, Mr. Hecker, and several other clergymen and but that it was a talent entrusted to them, and that especi gentlemen. ally in matters which concerned the interests and the advance- The proceedings opened with a prayer by the Rev. merit of the church, and the good of its poorer members, Rector Campbell. they were bound to administer it as the stewards of Christ. The Chairman said : I hope you will allow me to exp ress (Hear, hear.) Although evangelization of the heathen was the very great pleasure I have in seeing so large an attend- the inseperable work of a Christian church—although the ante of our friends. It is the largest I remember yet t o education of the poorer classes was a necessity almost of have seen at our meeting of the Additional Curates Aid the peaceable existence of the country—although the provi- Society of Liverpool. We are very greatly obliged to the sion of works which should communicate to them knowledge number of ladies who are kindly here to encourage us by was equally the duty of those who were able to provide them, their presence, and lam sure they will permit me for on ce still he ventured to believe that the duty of evangelizing the to say, what I wish to be considered not as an empty heathen population of their own country, of helping and compliment, that we are, if possible, even more obliged on teaching those who were brethren of the same flesh and this occasion to the gentlemen of Liverpool, many of whom blood as themselves, was a still higher duty than the task of I see present here, and who I know have so many converting the foreign heathen ; and he believed that to important calls upon their time that it is not w ith ou t build schools, or to build even churches, were good deeds a sacrifice of their personal convenience, and perhaps of themselves, but nothing worth if they failed to provide some important interests for the time, that th e y are men—men who should supply that vital force, that energis good enough to spare an hour to attend at our meeting ing power, which alone could bring them into action • here. (Hear, hear.) I beg, very gratefully, on behalf of (Hear, hear.) Now that there was a prospect of peace, he the clergy present, and of myself, to tender them our thanks called upon the people of the country, when the war should and acknowledgments. Our thanks are due mainly to the be over, to give as liberally of their means for the purpose gentlemen who same here as a deputation from the parent of enabling clergymen, as soldiers of the cross, to carry on society, who have come from a great distance, and to whom a warfare not against flesh and blood, but against the powers I feel, whatever time this meeting can afford, ought to be of Satan and of hell. He called upon them to give the means devoted entirely, for they . are the attraction which has of training up the children of the land in principles which brought so many of our friends together. Therefore, th e would secure them against the dangers which otherwise few words I say shall be limited to a remark, as to the must surely arise ; for the most fearful thing any country relations which I think the town of Liverpool, in particular, could have, was a population busy, active, powerful and bears to the general society for additional curates. Now, educated, but not in godliness. (Hear, hear.) lie before our society, or the Pastoral Aid Society, was Insti- enforced the suggestion of the Bishop, Liverpool tilted at all, the want of additional curates everywhere, should not only be self-supporting, but should even whenever it was felt, was left to be supplied by local efforts. contribute to the general funds, and appealed to those The object of the Society for Additional Curates was to call present , no w that Liver p ool mi g ht be fairl y said to have forth a more general effort, by combining all the people of the country, all the friends of the church troughout the risen to :that position' which Voltaire in the Henriade country, to one united course of action. This was done, described London as holding—being le magazin du monde to co ntribute towards the funds of the society, in a ;' ... anner worthy the second iN, town of the empire. After an partly with the hope that, as the measure a ss u med a more , e public and comprehensive character, it would ca ll f or th, and eloquent conclusion, Thelr. Hubbard seconded the motion. resolutionv. Rector was Campbellpu t and carried proposed by the r attract to itself, more attention, mo re i n t eres t and draw The e s 0 - forth a larger measure of support. But there was also lution, which generally affirmed that the principles another motive which led to the formation of this society. upon which the society was conducted were entitled Diff e rent parts of the country we re i n very diff eren t con - to the confidence of the meeting. He said : ditions, with respect to what might be c a ll e d a wa nt of In attempting to impress upon the meeting the con more spiritual instruction and assistance. Th ere were very fidence in the society which I feel myself, I will propose many parishes in England where there was a su ffi c i en t num two questions, as suggested by the committee, in the annual ber of clergymen already ministering, and ample endow- report o f 1854, and endeavour to answer them to the best ment3 for the maintenance of those clergy ; and it was of my power : hoped, that in a principle of Christian charity, those places "Is this Society impa rtial in the administration of the already so well provided would be willing to cont r ibute funds entrusted to its d i sposal ? A nd is due econom y exer help, and generous help, to other places not so happily cised to prevent ally waste in the department of its working circumstanced in themselves, and where, on the contrary, expenses ? there were neither sufficient staffs of clergy, nor endowments ,‘ With regard to the first of these questions, the Committee adequate for the maintenance even of the scanty staffs c onfidently appealed to their strict adherence to the constitu which were there. Now, if you look at Liverpool with tion and rules of the Society. The lists of its Grants given reference to this view of the Curate Society, our case is in every Report, must bear abundant testimony of this to all this :—Wo have an immense population in this town. We those whose acquaintance with the clergy enables them to are endeavouring to provide adequate church aceommoda- appreciate it. Excess of population in the parish, and in tion for so many members of our church by building, from adequacy of income on the part of the incumbent, are the two time to time, new churches. It was only on Friday last I main considerations which guide the Committee in their had the gratification of consecrating a new church, in a selection of cases for Grants. Content with proof of the want very populous district on the north side of this town, of an additional Curate, and of means to obtain him, they inhabited almost entirely by the w orking classes of our leave his selection, without any interference on their part, to people. We have, also, besides building new churches, a the incumbent, his approval to the diocesan, and make the body of incumbents in our churches throughout the whole performance of additional ministrations, and the efforts of the of Liverpool, of whom I can only say—and every lay a pplicant to increase the Society's resources, the only conditions area l e m s s o i s n t g, active, m nst efficient zeat ous, set exemplary, o ni in i s t a n n r d s ~ gentleman present will confirm the truth of what I say— of such aid as they can offer. t th h a ro t ug t h hey Go a d r , e s i , th fro re in ga a r n d to the question of expenditure, it will be inspection of the annual reports of the past (Hear, hear, and applause.) Ido not know that there is in years, that a most rigid economy has been exercised in this obv " io W us England any town which has more reason to be thankful to department. The annual average expenditure since the Almighty God for the blessing of zealous, faithful, and foundation of the Society, has not exceeded £938 3s. 9d., exemplary ministers, labouring, as they do, from the and in the year just expired it amounted to £1,783 15s. 2d, beginning to the end of the day, for the spiritual welfare of It is by no means desired to institute comparisons which might the people of this place. (Hear, hear.) But, my friends, ho deemed invidious with the office expenditure of other public if those incumbents were left single-handed, they must holies, but at the same time it is felt th at few, if an y , have break down under their work—they could not grapple more c arefully limited their disbursements. The Committee with it—they could not, by man's strength or day's have indeed in this matter been economical upon principle, length, penetrate anything like the masses of the people of perhaps to an excess, inasmuch as they were unwilling to this vast town. They must have additional curates to help pledge their Secretary to an extensive routine of engagements them, they must have Scripture readers to help them, and for public meetings and sermons, which would necessarily kind friends in many ways to help them as district visitors, d eman d a largely augmented staff of officers, and a large and in every possible channel of charity. They must have outlay for the expenses of travelling, &c. and because they these, and how are they to be had ? Unhappily, the preferred as far as possible to promote the Society's interest endowments of almost all the churches of Liverpool are so through the already existing organization of the Church. The scanty, that they have not even remuneration for a single present state, however, of the Society's funds, and the increased clergyman worth speaking of, and certainly can afford no demands of the Church upon it, have induced the Committee surplus out of what they have from professional income, to to take measures to make more widely known its present pay the stipends of additional curates, or even of Scripture usefulness, its urgent wants, and its strictly ecclesiastical and readers. Now, when I say this, I hope that my friends impartial character." around will recognise at once, that Liverpool is, in this In expressing my preference, however, for the rule of as p ec t, one of the cases for the benefit of which this society this society, which leaves the re-election of the curate to was designed and intended—that it i s a case which is very the incumbent, and his approval to the diocesan, I should properly a recipient of the bounty flowing ir from the society. not wish to be understood as quarrelling with another kind I have no doubt that Liverpool receives from the Additional of rule, which gives the committee a choice in the selection, Curates' Society more than it contributes. I think we are and a power of inquiry into the opinions or capabilities, of debtors to that society for a balance in Liverpool. I have the candidates, on the understanding that such choice is endeavoured to show that in one aspect of the case we are uninfluenced by any party spirit, and such power exercised properly recipients of the bounty of the society, but I should w ith j u stice and impartiality. It is justly argued, perhaps, like to say now, not to the deputation, but I should wish to that a committee, entrusted a ith the disposal of a charitable say now, a few words to the gentlemen o f Liverpool present fund, should take care that it is administered in conformity here—and not so much to th em , as , if it were possible that with the intentions of those who have raised it ; and, when one's voice could reach them, to the gentlemen of Liverpool that is done, honestly and fairly, without extreme or excess who are not attendants at this meeting—that although on eitheir side, we must not wonder, perhaps, after what Liverpool has in one respect b e en d escr ib e d by me as a we have witnessed in the present day, that a godly caution, proper recipient of the Additional Curates' Society's amounting almost, perhaps, to suspicious jealousy, should bounty, yet let us say that Liverpool is a very wealthy occasionally be exercised in guarding those funds from place. and a place of great public spirit. I only wish that misappropriation to the puerile vanities of a seducing it cou ld b e ma de one point of public spirit that we should s uperstition, unsuited to the nationalcharacter ;re p u diated by not he debtors to the Additional Curates' Society's general the national will. (Hear.) All we want, I believe, is fair play. funds at all. 1 wish t h a t we cou ld a t l eas t contribute as In a church like ours, acknowledging no infallibility, but 'Teich from the w e alth of Li verpoo l t o t h e f u nds of that that which resides in the word of God—latitude of interpre society as we take back from them. (Hear, hear,) I wish tation where the word of God has not spoken de e m itically— that we might, if it was only for the credit, as we know it must be conceded, when in conformity with the articles and would be for the credit of Liverpool, that we might strike liturgy ; and, in spite of all that has been said respecting an e ven balance here at least, and that as respects our own our internal divisions, I believe, and rejoice i n th e b e li e f, spiritual wants Liverpool should become self-supporting, if that, with comparatively few painful exceptions, not to be I may say so, and not dependent upon the bounty of any wondered at, in a body consisting of 16,000 or 17,000 men, other quarter of England. (Hear, hear.) I do, from my the great and overwhelming majority of the English clergy heart, believe that it will not be long before this is the case. are as true to the principles of the Reformed Church, as I think that the gentlemen who have not contributed to the needle to the pole. Keep the golden mean between the this, or any other of our charities, have not done so from two extremes, and lean neither to the excesses of Geneva or any niggard s pi r it, or an y w an t o f liberality, or kind feeling Rome. (Hear.) But it hardly becomes me, perhaps, even to to the church, or t o the particula r objects in which we are allude, in passing to contentious questions of doubtful dis interested, but that it is because their attention has not been putation, or permit the element of controversy to disturb directed to the point at all. (Hear, h ea r.) We cannot, if I the unruffled, but I hope not stagnant, calm of our religious may use the expression, catch their eye or their ear. If atmosphere. lam very grateful to the Church Pastoral they had had their attention drawn to 'the subject, Ido not Aid Society for the services it has rendered to the parish of think they would b e b ac kward in working, heart and hand, Liverpool ; and, as gratitude has been facetiously defined with us, in helping us to bring the district into that position to be the ardent expectation of future benefits, I which I hope before long it may occupy, of being self- owe, at least, this sp ec i es o f gra tit u d e t o the Additional su pporting in all these matters. His lordship, in Curates' Society ! It has done something for us, and I conclusion, allud e d to th e c h ar it a bl e example set hope that, by the increase of its funds, it will have the power, by Mr. Naylor, of Seabank, who some two or as I doubt not it has the will, to do much more. Now, my three years ago offered to give £2OO towards the stipend of Lord, without pretending to any very great tenderness of two additional curate s , p rov id e d the gentlemen of Liverpool conscience, I think our assembled friends will believe me would raise an equal sum f or t wo o th er cura tes, which offer when I say that it is rather difficult to have even the was at once responded to, and since which a generous- n ominal charge of such a parish as this, without the con hearted gentleman of Liverpool, Mr. Baily, had promised stant pressure of a somewhat painful responsibility : an £lOO yearly for an augmentation of the salaries of those uneasy feeling that something continually requires doing, curates. His lordship th e n a p o l og i se d f or having occupied without knowing exactly how it is to be done. And such is the time of the meeting so long, and resumed his seat amid my case, thankful, tho I have reason to be, to the father of loud applause. spirits, that amidst all the stumbling-blocks which obstruct The Rev. Mr. Tomlin read the annual report, which was our path, and prevent us from commanding, however a very lengthened document. It mentioned among other anxious we may be to deserve, success, the expected hostility facts that there was a decrease in the general income of the of our adversaries, and the unexpected, or at least unmerited, Society to the amount of £6O O . although the annual sub- cold heartedness of professing friends, there are bright seriptions and church collections shewed an increase of over examples of religious munificence such as those which our £2OO. The number of grants voted for curates was reduced report has recorded ; there is a band of trust-worthy laymen from 330 to 300, while th e num b er o f una id e d applicants constant in the godly determination to show their faith by had risen to 274. The amount co ntributed by the diocese their works ; there is a body of faithful clergy acting in of Chester was £1,058 9s. 2d., in addition to which £391 harmonious co-operation in promoting the cause of our was raised locally, and £455 in Liverpool alone, making a common Redeemer, the glory of God, and the good of our total of £1,904 9s. 21. That amount shewed an increase fellow-men, and that, in spite of the sneers and taunts of of £524 upon the former year, and £354 u p on the highest those who stop their ears to the truth, there are multitudes annual amount raised since the diocesan ass ociation was of quiet self-devoting men, doing the work of their Fattier formed. The report expressed the regret of the Society for in secret, with no other hope but that of receiving their the sudden loss during the year of the R e v. G e orge Dover. Father's reward—faithful, though unrenowned, warriors of It alluded to the gift already mentioned f r om Mr. Laurence the cross, devoting their lives to the service of their H. Bally, and a donation of £25 from Mr. Francis Alexan- Redeemer with as true a heroism as those gallant men who der Hamilton. Several interesting statements regardin g have shed their precious blood, and lost their lamented lives, local applications, and the position of local churches and in the battles of their country in a distant land—seeking no parishes, were comprehended in the report. worldly distinction, hoping for no decoration but in the The Venerable Archdeacon Jones proposed the first jewels of that celestial crown which is to encircle the heads resolution, which elated that the reportjust read be adopted of the blessed in the kingdom just. But, my Lord, h v est s ry is too plenteous, the and circ. He observed, that he took advan- faithful as they are, the a printed,like the flue b 1 1 and the unwonted opportunity labourers are too few, they are tags with great pleasure of . ' wilderness, and what are they which was thus given him of publicly declaring his high the few small fishes in the 1 b urers to till (lu! esteem for that society, and his earnest desire for its future amongst so many ? We want more a o We want more warrio plant the standard He said this with the more satisfaction as, ground. (Hear.) prosperity, ef t nutrodden by the being a warm friend of the kindred association. the Pastoral of the cross in home deserts as y ulations who have scarcely Aid Society. It was well known that he had belonged to Christian missionary, and pop . _ that societ for many years, and had advocated its cause heard the Redeemer's nam How is ite. .And that you have here comes in deserts at the con y often. He had also h ad much pleasure in advocating temptuous taunt again. the cause which they had now met to p romote. home untrodden by the Christian missionary ? How is it that h ve s heard the For his own part, a lthough they were often you have populations who use of ou carce r ly Established Church Redeemer's called rival societies, he could not see an y g round name ? What is the emty, and so are your schools ; for the charge. Ile hoped , however, that the y would Your churches are half cler p g y ? why go on building more always be so far rivals that eac h would seek to do the most wh y g o on ordaining . ? Did not the dis c losures o f th e good, and raise the largest sum o f mone y , knowin g that the churches and schools more they ra i se d, still greater wou ld be the demand u p on recent census account for the perils of our s ocial state, the character of recent cr ime, the enormous them. (H e a r , h e ar.) After some further remarks, the fiercely aggravated d archdeacon concluded by proposing the adoption of the prevalence of juvenile epravity, , and the frightful increase parent of every crime ? Did report. of drunkenness, the fruitful . . enumerate thirty-five distinct forms of Mr, John Gellibrand Hubbard, treasurer to tho parent not that census of the Established Church, e • sepa society, seconded the resolution, in a lengthened and very ration from the body exposing • Did it not eloquent addres s , In the course of his s p eech, he adv e r ted you t o the mockery of the Church of Rome . ; to the means by which other charities we re so met i mes sup - publish the f a ct that on a given day nearly six millions of ported, and the objects for shich they we re g ot u p , a s con - p ersons in England . a nd Wales voluntarily absented them- rehgious assembly whatsoever; And that traeted with the objects of that society , a n d its MUMS of selves from a ny in your own town, with a population exceeding 376,000 soul, of whom 218,000 might have attended public worship, only 38,000 attended church, and nearly 120,000 attended no place of worship at all ? If this is a ground of contemptu ous sneers, if this is a ground of unholy triumph, I give our adversaries the benefit of it. I do not kitend now to question the accuracy of these returns, or to prove their inaccuracy, or inapplicability to the purpose in band. (Applause.) But however much I might admit their accuracy I deny the inference. By God's gracs, so long as my life is spared, I will go on building churches and schools in the densely-peopled dis tricts of the town; but above all, I will go on multiplying clergy, under the conviction that, if faithful to their trust, they will act as a moral police, more efficacious in the pre vention of moral crime than the belted policemen, whose stalwart frames, sinewy arms, and watchful eyes, protect ou property from robbery, and our persons fromlawless violence. It is argued that our ministry is ineffective, but what is one man to do with seven, eight, or ten thlusand souls? And if the professedly Christian government of this professedly Christian country have omitted, what, in humble submission to their superior wisdom, I conceive to have been their Christian duty, the providing for the moral and religious training of the people, there is greater reason why the people should be called upon to provide the means themselves. The government, which provides for the temporal relief of the poor by compulsory enactments, leaves their spiritual relief to the voluntary system. Providing for their bodies, it takes no care of their souls. (Hear.) It is our duty to supply the deficiency, and by the pecuniary support of such societies as this, to prom3te that which was the great object of our Redeemer's advent, as expressed in the song of the angels to the shepherds in the field, •' Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and good will towards men." (Applause.) The Rev. Mr. Sweet, secretary to the parent society, seconded the resolution in an eloquent address, principally urging the imperative necessity of some steps being taken to check the spread of infidelity among the working I classes. _ _ . The resolution was carried by acclamation The Hon. and Rev. Mr. Lyttlcton proposed a resolution, declaring it a duty to assist in spreading the society, and urging, as a most important step, the formation of district societies. The speaker confined his remarks principally to enforcing the latter part of the resolution. Mr. Henry Hoare seconded the resolution, which was also carried. The Rev. Mr. Wrath p: °nosed the names of a committee of officers for the ensuing year, which was seconded by Mr. Alfred Castellain, and carried unanimously. Mr. Hecker proposed, and Mr. Brancker seconded, a vote of thanks to the members of the deputation from the parent society, which was carried by acclamation. A vote of thanks to the Bishop of Chester was also carried by acclamation. The meeting then separated, shortly before five o'clock. POISONING OF A LADY, BY STRYCHNIA, AT LEEDS ADJOURNED INQUEST ON THE BODY (PROM OUR OWN REPORTIR.) LEEDS, MONDAY. This morning, the inquest on the body of Mrs. Harriet Dove, aged 28, supposed to have been poisoned by her husband, Mr. William Dove, by administering strychnia to the deceased, was held in the court-house here, before John Blackburne, Esq., the city coroner. Tho court was much crowded throughont the day. Tho accused, who was taken into custody on Friaay, was not present during the pro- ccedings, but wal represented by Mr. Barrett, solicitor, of Leeds. The first witness called was Mr. Morley, surgeon, who was re-examined by the coroner, at considerable length. Ho stated, "Tetanus was generally produced by external injury. We did not complete the last experiment on the stomach and intestines of the deceased until five o'clock on Friday morning, and did not make up our mind until that time. Mrs. Dove w:,B taking medicine from me on the 23rd ultimo. It was an effervescing medicine, consisting of carbonate of soda and syrup of lemon i❑ one bottle, and in . . the other tartaric acid and water. Neither of these would leave `a bitter taste. On the 23th, the medicine was changed by Mr. Scarf to a mixture containing ether, venerian, and henbane. The colour would be dark brown, and the taste bitter, and rather hot. On the 26th, ether, venerian, aloes, and gentian, and in addition, a sedative draught, containing opium. That would also have a bitter taste. The same was again renewed up to the 29th of February, Friday. No change was made on the Saturday. I had observed the bottles about during the week. Each of the three portions into which the stomach and its contents were divided was submitted to the following tests of analysis. Examination first—lt was mixed with a sufficient portion of distilled water, acidulated with pure sulphuric acid, heated in a porcelain dish, and then the liquid portion was separated by filtration. The liquid portion thus filtered was heated with carbonate of lime, so as to neutralize the sulphuric acid. It was then slowly evaporated, until it became nearly dry, To this mass rectified spirit was added, in successive portions, so as, with the aid of heat, to dissolve any strychnia which it might contain. The spirituous solution thus obtained was then filtered, and afterwards quietly evaporated in a porce lain vessel, until ;t acquired the consistence of syrup. To this syrupy mass, which would contain any strychine present in the stomach, we applied the various tests which are charac teristic of that poison, viz—first, the test of taste. Both the syrupy extract, and the spirituous solution, had decidedly the bitter taste of strychnia. This proof we think of almost equal importance, with the direct chemical tests. Second, to a portion of the syrrupy mass was applied a little pure nitric acid. This produced a red colour, showing the presence of strychnia in its ordinary state. Third, to another portion we applied, first, fine concentrated sulphuric acid, and then added a salution of bichromate of potash. The result was a purple colour, changing to red, again showing the presence of strychnia. This test was varied, by using the hichromate of potash in powder, instead of in solution. The result"was eientually the same. Every test was now applied by each of us separately, and was repeated many times, with such variations in the mode, as would detect any error or fallacy which might have crept in. The same series of tests was, at the same time, applied to strychnia itself, for the purpose of comparison. During the whole of our investigation of the stomach, and its contents, the apparatus used, and our tests, were kept in the laboratory, under lock and key, so that no person but ourselves could obtain access to them. By this analysis, we consider the fact proved that the stomach of Mrs. Dove contained strychnia, in sufficient quantity to cause death' By Mr. Barrett : There are no other tests upon which the presence of strychnia could turn. The Coroner here obser ved that he thought Mr. Morley had stated all that was nec essar y for the purposes of this part of the inquiry. By the Coroner : Nitric acid would produce a red colour, and so would aloes. That again would alter if strychnia had bean applied. We applied ammonia acid, and other tests, but I think it better that I should mention that at another stage of the inquiry. . _ Mr. Nu . nneley said the other tests they had applied were not characteristic. They were merely confirmatory, and, if mentioned, could not increase the weight of their testimony. By the Coroner : The symptoms were decidedly those of strychnia. They were all the symptoms of strychnia. I know of no other cause to produce death. I had some conversation with Mr. Dove on Thursday last in reference to the examination of the body. Ile inquired if we had found poison. He said " I wish to know, Mr. Morley, what you have found ?" I said, " I cant't tell you." He called me into another room. He, and I, and his mother, were then there, and he shut the door. The first word was the greeting. He said " I wish to know, Mr. Morley, what you have found?" I think he said "Have you found poison ?" But I am quite sure that during the conversation he mentioned poison. I made a reply that we had not y et finished our analysis, and could not give him any answer, but that there were no natural causes that we could discover accounting for death. Later in conversation he said, "Do you, Mr. Morley, suspect me of poisoning her. I could not be so cruel ?" I said, "My suspicicns are rather that it is an accidental le P s i a s id 'i ' D ' it if k l no h w a: l ing that you had poison in the house.'' poisoned her, do you think I should have come to your surgery for poison, and have talked about it to others ?" naming, I think, his mot her. He then repeated his request to let him know what the result was. The Coroner : At what period of the conversation was the word " strychnia" used ? Witness : When I was asked about the result of the analysis. By Mr. Barrett : The word was used before I said it was an accidental poisoning. By the Coroner : I am not quite sure at what precise point of the conversation the word strychnia was used, but it was before I mentioned accidental poisoning. I have told you the substance of the conversation, but I never could remember the precise words of a conversation so as to repeat them verbatim. The worts "strychnia," "poison," with the little pronoun " it," were frequently used by both of us, bu't I can't give to each its precise place in the conversation. He asked, as soon as I found anything, to let him know. My reply was, that I could not tell him when the analysis would be closed, as it might not be closed until an hour before the enquiry was resumed. I asked him, at the same time, as to the mode ho had adopted in reference to the poison. He said ho had brought it home in paper, With the word "poison" on it, and had placed it in the razor box, and cautioned her (his wife) not to touch it. He said, " I told her, this is p o i son , deadly poison, the poison that Palmer used. You must not touch it at all." I asked him, having learnt that lie had obtained strychnia, how often lie had obtained it ? He said, " only once." He said, "I got it to poison the cats." I said, " How long had you strychnia in and about the house ?" He said either " ten days," or "perhaps ten days." He asked me to tell him when I found it (meaning strychnia), and when I found it what would be the result, and what the jury would say ? I s aid, " I cannot tell ;it will bo very setions. There will only be three ways of accounting for it : either that it was taken by herself, or given her by accident, or that it was given to her by some person designedly, and the jury will have to decide which." The Coroner; Can you forts any opinion how often ? or what quantity of strychnia had been taken Witness : I think it must hare been given four times at• least during the week of her death. The Coroner: How soon after as to the quantity is ft impossible for you to discover what has been taken ? Wit. ness : I would judge fi om the quantity of matter in the stomach that several grains had been taken. The effects are generally half an hour after it is taken. This refers to the spasmodic effects. The medicines taken in the meats time would not have any influence, that is no material influence ; possibly, in a very slight degree, the medicines taken might make the effect rather slower. Strychnia, with acid, might be rendered more soluble, and her medicines had alkali in them. My own impression war that the strychnia had been administered with the medicine. My impression is formed from the symptoms that were conse quent npon her taking the medicine. On the Friday, for instance, she took her medicine at eight o'clock, and the symptoms occurred at a quarter past. This opinion is founded upon the assumption that she had not taken anything between her tea at six, and the medicine at eight. By Mr. Barrett : 1 should imagine that from one to three grains were taken en Friday morning. My reasons are, first, in consequence of the violence of the symptoms, and their early occurrence. A smaller dose would act more slowly. If half the quantity had been given at tea time, I don't think the symptoms would have been the same, but would have occurred earlier. They would then have occurred within half an hour of the time. The rapidity and ev7denee of the symptoms would depend upon the dose. Perfect health would have the effect of modifying the influence. If I had not been informed that the medicine bad been given at eight o'clock, I should then have said that it had teen probably given within the half hour. I made one post tnortem examination hi conjunction with Mr. Nunneley, and that was in May, 1855. That was the first post snortem and analysis of strvchino that I have made. That analysis was made four or fire days after death. It was either the fourth or fifth day I detected strychnia. In this instance we made additional tests to those made in the former one. 'With respect to the fiecial examination we divided the whole into three parts. and applied the first test early on the morning of the second day. We commenced the analysis about ten o'clock on Monday night last. The test we first applied was nitric acid. I may say that taste was the first test. We . _ tasted as we went on. We applied the same night sulphuric acid, and likewise bichromate of potash. Nitric acid produced a red colour, prima facie evidence of stryclinia. The evidence was a red colour—nothing else. I applied nitric acid many times that night. The effects were the same in kind, but not quite the same in degree, because we va.ded the strength. Mr. Barrett : Would not the presence of medicine in the stomach, such as you have described, produce the same effects ? Witness : Yes ; the morphia in the opium would give a reddish tint. The second test was sulphuric, acid, and bichromate of potash, which formed one test together, and were used on the same morning. We also ap- plied acetic acid. The application of that test led to our finding strychnia. The colour was different. It Si as a yel lowish white tint. The sulphuric acid produced little etange ; but on adding the bichromate of potash a purple col.our changing to red was produced. I reserved my opinion in accordance with the rule laid down by Pro fessor Taylor. I resumed the analysis a little before four o'clock on Monday afternoon. We continued until very late that night, having only a short interval for tea. We repeated the same tests with the same results as in the morning, and we then applied other tests. We applied ammonia, which is a slight cloudy precipitate, and confir matory of the presence of strychnia. I am not sure whether that day or, the followiMg, but I think that day we tried potash. It produced confirmatory evidence of the p^esence of strychnia. I did not make minutes of everything that occurred during the analysis, but we did of some things. They were not made step by step. The analysis was recommenced on Wednesday between three and four o'clock. I don't know that we added any test then. We applied chloride of tin on Tuesday as a subsi diary test, in order to see whether the red tint was pro duced by strychnia or some other substance. On Wednesday we chiefly repeated the same tests, and more particularly examined the intestines, through the sa . meprocess, and with the same results. My conviction became stronger every day, and on Wednesday I was quite certain of the presence of strychnia. We again examined on Thursday, and closed the analysis at five o'clock on Friday morning. If I had been asked by any person to whom I was hound to give an opinion I should have answered on Wednesday evening that the cause of death was strychnia. Otherwise, I should have observed the rule to which I have referred. There was no other cause to which death is referrible. I received from Mr. Sconfe. my assistant, part of a bottle of medicine which had been brought from the house of Mrs. Dove. It consisted of aloe, valerian, and gentian. I applied tests to see if it contained strychnia and it did not. That. medicine was in a bottle labelled with my name. My opinion that, strychnia was taken four times during the week is formed partly from my own observation, partly from the evidence given to me, and the appearances. Mr. Barrett : Can you tell me if there is any one certain test for the discovery of strychnia in the human body ? Witness : There is no one substance which will deter mine the presence of strychnia. The best combination in my opinion, is the action of nitric acid followed by the chloride of tin and bichloride of iron. Mr. Barrett: Is that, in your opinion. a conclusive test of strychnia in the human body ? Witness : It is considered a conclusive test. If I were limited to those, I should say using such tests, that I should be satisfied to give my opinion as a certainty, I consider it will detect strychnia in its ordinary state. It is not a sufficient test when not in its ordinary state. Stqchnia in its ordinary state, as sold by druggists, and as used by medical men, contains a _ _ little 6rucia. The red colour arising may be produced by brucia, and cannot be relied upon as a certain test at strychnia., pure and perfectly free from brucia. All ordi, nary strychnia contains brucia, and therefore Is not free from red colour. I think this combinution, as'a test, eon. elusive evidence of the presence of strychnia, but I should always look for confirmatory evidence. I am not prepared to say that there is a test for the discovery of strychnia when without the brucia. The same difficulty may exist in degree in all vegetable poisons. He earnestly entreated me to let him know the result after I had suggested the accidental poisoning , . I suggested that it might have been spilt, and taken in food by Mrs. Dove. It was after that he said " if you find any thing, what will the jury say ? " lam quite positive that he said he had only got strychnia from my surgeon once. If he 'tells me he has got it twice that is untrue. As far as his statement to mo went he sail he had tried it twice for kil:ing cats, and it had failed, and he had tried it again for the same purpose. I did not ask him the time that had occurred between the first and second experiments. He told me had warned the servant not to touch it, and that the poison had been put on the cheese in the servant's bedroom. He called upon me on the night of his wife's death to ask me to bring Dr. Hobson with me to see her. I had a suspicion that he was not altogether sober on that occasion. His mode of conversation was not that of a perfectly sober man. There was a change of tone from anxiety to lightness. I entered the bedroom before him. He sat on a chair a short time, and then rose and sat on the bed in extreme grief. I had him removed from the room. I saw him no more that night. I then made inquiries of Mrs. Witham as to the symptoms that had taken place. I made no examination that night. I examined the body exter nally on Sunday, with a view to muscular rigidity and wounds. From what I saw I should have said that the general appearances were those conse quently upon tetanus. I only took one bottle from the house. I had prescribed quinine for her about a fortnight or rather more, before her death. I had the conversation I have referred to last Thursday. I had not, I think, mentioned to Mrs. Dove's mother, that I thought her daughter had died from poison. This being the close of Mr. Morley's evidence, he handed in the fol., lowint , list of medicines he had supplied to the deceased. " Feb. 15,1856. Mrs. Dove had;an effervescing mixture, consisting of carbonate of soda and syrup of lemon. The said mixture contained tartaric acid, and at the same time was sent a liniment, consisting of compound soap liniment, compound camphor liniment and opium. 18th of February, compound rhubarb pill and blue 25th, mixture am nii a t e (. o d n t t a i n e y r o c o . m f v p a o l u e n r i d a n s i a r n i t d s t o i n f tu r e sulphuric ofh e n e b t a n h e o r : Later in the same day, another mixture containing com pound spirits of sulphuric ether. Ammoniated tincture of valerian, and compound decoction of aloes. 26th, same mixture with infusion of gentian, and same pills as before. 28th, a draught consisting of Batley's solution of opium, and ammoniated tincture of valerian. 29th, same kind of mixture, and the same draught." Mr. John Elliotson, pupil of Mr. Morley, was the next witness examined. He said : I know Mr. Dove, the prisoner, since Mr. Morley has attended Mrs. Dove dub: ing her last illness. He has called at the surgery fre' quently. We have had conversation about poisons. The fi rs t conversation was about a month ago. I don'trecol lect the exact conversation that took place. Y can't remember the exact words he used. The conversation began about the case of Mr. Palmer. He said that he believed strychnia could not be detected. That was in the course of conversation about Palmer's case. He said that it could not be detected after death. I said it could be. I mentioned one or two of the tests for it. He asked me the effects of strychnia on man. I told him it pro duced spasms and contraction of the muscles. He men tioned that his house was infested with cats that he wanted to kill. After that he asked me for some strychnine, which I supplied him with, labelling it poison, and telling him to be cautious. This witness was under examination when our parcel was despatched. It is not likely that the case will ter minate before Tuesday evening or Wednesday. COUNTY COURT.—YasTERDAT FRAUDULENT DEBTORS . COMMITTALS . "The follow • o rders for commitment were made out John M'Cormick, Northumberland street, beerseller, 14 days, for refusing to obey the order of the court. Mathew Fay, Townsend street, and Thomas Fay, Blackstone d r ivers, 21 days. J ames Noble, Chapel lane . Bedfordstreet, Toxteth park, t anner, 14 days. Willi a m street, Fearns, 10, Raymond street, labourer, 14 days. John Quinn, optician, 14 days. Robert Coulin, Mackie street, biscuit baker, 14 days. Edward Washington, Lower Mann street, carpenter, 14 days. Robert Williams, 3, Orford street, Wavertree, gentleman, 14 days. Thomas Whittle, 4, Holborn street, Low Hill, stonemason, 14 days. James Redmond, saddler, 14 days. Lawrence Jackson, 57, Clement street, labourer, 14 days, to issue in a month. William Jones, railway porter, 14 days. William Wright, 14 days. James Smith, lan ling waiter, 14 days. William Robinson, Griffiths:lnn, Derby road, innkeeper, 14 days,