Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-31 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-DERBY, JULY 20. DAMAGES AGAIN ;T A COUNTESS FOR SLANDER —At the Nisi Prill3 Court, to-day, the Rev. Mr. Highmore brought an action for slander against the Earl and Countess of Harrington. This cause, which created considerable interest, came on for hearing before Mr. Justice Creswell and a crowded court. The Earl and Countess were gem modated with seats near the judge. Mr. Maneulay, Q.C., and Mr. Field appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Mellor, C.,Q and Mr. Bell, for the defendants. Mr. Macaulay stated the case, giving a history of the circumstances which led to the plaintiff being appointed by the late Lord Her rington to the living of Elvaston. Jn 1831, be was obliged through ill health to leave home ; he came back in 1834, when he unhappily mat with such abuse and acandal from the defendant,which obliged him to come before the jury on that occasion, rumours, accusations, and charges of all de scriptions being made against him, all of which he traced to the castle. A system of persecution, violence, and slan der, was commenced and continued against him for several years, and the particular offences charged were committed the first year that a clergyman of the name of Jones came to assist Mr. Highmore ; this gentleman was fre quently invited to the castle and there Lady Herrington made a slanderous statement contained in the decl ration. The Rev. Thomas James Jones said : Lady Harrington began to ask me who was likely to adminster the Sacra • ment on Sunday. I answered I did not know, but I would ascertain for her ladyship and let her know during the week. Her ladyship then went on to say, We never take the Sacrament from the man Highmore, because he is so wicked a mast ; whenever I take it I go to Elvaston or have it administered to me at Gawsworth. I never take the Sacrament here because of that man Highmore. He keeps the Sacrament money and never gives anything to the poor, and took the money which the Duke of Leinster gave fur repairing the church." Her ladyship also added "He is such a low and drunken and bad character that Lord Harrington cannot receive him. He is always playing at cards and gambling, and en couraging the p?ople of the village in all kinds of gam bling, card-playing, and debauchery ; he and his wife are constantly rolling drunk on the floor. He is always telling lies. He never speaks the truth." Several state ments of this kind had been made previously. After other evidence. Mr. Mellor, for the defendants, censured with some severity the conduct of Mr Jones, in that, whilst he was being invited to the Castle, and upon terms of friendship, with Lord and Lady Harrington, he had taken opportunities of treasuring up conversations, repeat ing them to Mr. Hienmore, and finally detailing them before a court of justice The learned counsel called— the Countess of Harrington, who said, Mr. Jones used often to come to lunch. I remember a conversation with him about the Sacrament, asking who was to administer in I told him I should not take it from Mr. Highmore. He asked me my reasons, I told him I thought Mr. Highmore was not a good man, and that I took the Sacrament in London and Gawsworth. I said that he had not accounted for the Sacrament money ; those were my precise words ; I never said he bad appropriated it to himself I never said, speaking of Mr. Highmore, "He and his wife are always rolling drunk on the floor." By Mr. Macaulay, Q.C. • I may have said that Mr. Highmore had been a rider at Astley's, but that is not in the declaration. ( Laughter.) By his lordship : I said that I should not take the Sacra ment from Mr. Highmore because he was ba f man. This WAS because he had put in two bad drunken curates, and his wishing to double the tithes, which the Chancellor of the Diocese branded with the words " exorbitant and illegal." The learned Judge summed up the case. In conclusion, he told them that if they believed the evidence of Mr Jones. they must return a verdict for the plaintiff; if, on the other hand, they thought Lady Harrington was correct in her deposition—supposing that other words used were not actionable—they must find for the defen dants. The jury retired, and after an absence of twenty minutes returned into court with a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £750. NORFOLK ClRCUlT—Norvicff, JULY 29. DRYSDALL V. MAYSTONE —CRIM. CON.—EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—This was an action to recover damages against the defendant for alleged criminal conversation with the wife of plaintiff. The defendant pleaded first, not guilty ; and secondly, leave and license. Mr. Sergeant Wells and Mr. Keane appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Prendergast, Q.C., and Mr. Evans for the defendant. Tne plaintiff is employed in a light vessel off the port of Great Yarmouth, and has been married to his wife, a woman 34 or 35 years of age, several years. The defendant is a coal-heaver, reported to possess some little house property in the town, and is 61 years old. The plaintiff has been in the habit of leaving his home for two or three months at a time, while he has gone aboard the light vessel, and hag ha , i occasional holidays of a month on shore. On the 2nd of fee ember last the rlw.intiff left for the Vett vessel. and the son of the defendant stated that on the 13'h of the same month he went to the hone plaintiff occupied when he was at home, for some furniture which had been left in it. It was between six and seven in the evening, said the witness. My wife went with me. She is a sister of the plaintiff's wife. When I got to the house, I found the gate locked. I wanted some of my furniture, and got in by getting over a wall. The house door was not locked I got in by the front window, which opened into a room. There was no light in this room except that which came from the neighbours' windows. I heard a scuffling noise, which appeared to proceed from near the fire-place, and to be the rustling of dresses. My wife brought a light into the room, and I then saw Mr. Maystone and my sister-in-law, Mrs Drysdall. She was then sitting on the sofa. The defendant, my father, got hold of me and said, 64 You d—d scoundrel, you have catched me now." I said, " I did not come particularly to catch you ; I came to take my things. You ought to have done with your di , graceful transaction." The plaintiff's wife was still by when that was said, but did not say anything. The defendant said " This is just what we wanted,. Matilda, we wanted to be found out." She was still sitting on the sofa, but did not speak. About a month afterwards she went to the de fendant's house. I have seen her go into it with him and lock the door, but I have only seen this once. I have seen her standing outside the door of defendant's house. In cross-examination by Mr. Prendergast, this witness said : My father and me were always on good terms, and never had an angry word. I have been before the magistrates on a charge of speaking to him in the street. I mean to say that I was brought up for speaking civilly to him in the street. We settled it among ourselves by the consent of the magistrates. The understanding was that I was never to speak civilly to him again. (Laughter) I did not write to him about what I believed he was doing. He knew it was improper himself, and did not want his " child " to tell him so. Ith aught it was becoming to catch him if I could. Mr. Drysdall brings this action. I don't pay a fraction to it. I have no money. Mrs . Maystone, the witness's wife, gave a corrob)ratiYe evi dence, and Henry Rayner, the brother of the plaintiff's wife, after stating that her husband had behaved kindly to her, deposed that on one evening in January, he had observed familiarities pats between the defendant and his sister,which he did not altogether approve of. He obseverd them together on the occasion in question in defendant's house. Other evidence having been adduced to show that the plaintiff and his wife had up to a recent period lived comfortably together, Mr. Prendergast addressed the jury for the defendant, and called witnesses to show that the plaintiff had not treated his wife well, and had been unfaithful to her. Lord Campbell said, whatever might be the result of the case, it afforded a poor specimen of the manners of Yarmouth. Mr. Pren dergast : We could not put Yarmouth on the record, my lord. (Laughter.) Lord Campbell, in summing up, said it was a disgusting case. It was lamentable to see indivi duals so nearly connected with the parties come forward to give evidence. The jury must at the same time deal with the evidence as it came before them. The injury sustained by the plaintiff, in losing such a wife, must, however, be very incon:iderable, and very small damages would proba bly answer the ends of justice. The jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages, one farthing. Lord Campbell : I agree with the jury, I think they have come to a very proper conclusion. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—NEWCASTIA ON TYNE, JULY 28. SENTENCE OF DEATH ON A WIFE BEATER.—John Harris, one of the men who broke out of Newcastle gaol, a wild violent.locking man, was this morning charg d before Baron Watson, with cutting a wounding Catherine Robson, a young woman, with whom he had cohabited about eight months. It appears that he hl.d beaten the unfortunate young woman on several occasions, and ;that he had inflicted a considerable ,gash on her throat with a razor on the 10th June, because she had disturbed him in going to bed. On the 2tith she was sitting nursing a child, when he ordered her to go for some tobacc3. She said she hid snne, which she gave to him, and that she would buy him more when that was done. He immediately rose from his seat, and seiz;ng, a poker, knocked her down by a blow on the head, and taking a razor from his pocket he attempted to cut her throat. She, however, defended herself, and shielded her throat with one of her arms, which the pri soner severely gashed with the iazor. A man named Shields was attracted to the room by her cries, and he 1 feed the ruffian off the unfortunate woman, and thus saved her life. Upon being charged by the police with cutting and wounding the proeecntrix, the prisoner replied, " 1 am the man. There is blood on my hands. They can only transport me for lifv. If I had an opportunity would put an end t 3 her. If I hal done it properly they would have hung me, and that would have been better." Medical evidence upon the nature of the wounds inflicted upon the prosecutrix having been given, the judge summed np, and the jury returned a verdict of " Cutting and wounding with intent to do some bodily harm." The Judge passed sentence of death upon the prisoner, which will be commuted to penal servitude for life. WHAT IS A POST LETTER ?—Richard Johnson, 17, post rider between Lowick and Berwick, was indicted for stealing a post letter, containing £5B 2s 61 He was do fended by the Hon. A. Liddell, and a good deal of ingsnioue discussion arose on the question, What is a post letter ? The lad, it seems, while riding between Lowick and Ber wick, had bleu in the habit of taking up letters belonging to country people who met him on the road, and also of fAchir g in private bags from the lodges of gentlemen's Beats. On the 27th April, Mr. Gregson bad put £5B 12.36 d into a letter addressed to the district bank at Berwick, and enclosed it in another envelope, addressed to the post master, with a request that he would send it on to the bank. It was sent away in the private bag from the lodge, but never reached Berwick ; and there is little doubt but that the prisoner stole it ; for though he was a poor lad, only earning £l2 a-year, immediately following the disappearance of the letter, several five pound notes were found in his possession. Baron Watson maintained, in answer to all the arguments that were alduced to him for the defence, that as soon as a letter was delivered to a post-rider or collector, whether it was stamped, or to be taken to the office to be stamped fir posting, it imme diately became a post letter. The prisoner was found guilty, and was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. OXFORD CIRCUIT.-SHREW3BURY, JULY 28. BEFORE MR. BARON MARTIN. STABBING, &c.—Henry Hamphreys, aged 28, labourer, was charged with stabbing and wounding Emma Cryle, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm, on the 10th of January, at Ludlow. Mr. Corbett appeared for the pro secution ; Mr. Cook Evans defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutrix that on Saturday night, the 10th of January last, she went into a public-house at Ludlow called the Spread Eagle, and there saw the prisoner and other men drinking. In about a quarter of an hour she left, and was followed by the prisoner, who walked with her down the street. They parted for a short time, and then met again and went down a dark entry together. Some conversation ensued, in the course of which it was agreed the prisoner should give the prosecutrix a shilling. The prosecutrix required the prisoner to give her the shilling first. bat he refused to do this and stabbed her three or four times with a sharp instument in the private parts, kicked her in the back, and then left her. The prosecutrix said that for a time her sight went from her, but she got home and received attention, though the blood did not cease to flow for several hours. Surgical assistance being procured, she was admitted to the workhouse, and got well in about a month. She gave a description of the man who had wounded her, and several men were taken into custody on suspicion, but not identified. The prosecutrix remained in the workhouse for several weeks, and, according to her statement, after she had come out, in the month of April last, a man accosted her one Saturday night in the street, and proposed to her to go up an entry. She agreed to his proposal, but she said when she saw who he was she trembled, for she recognised him as the man who had stabbed her on the 10th of January. She told him that she thought she had seen him before, and she went to fetch a policeman, bat could not find one. On the follow ing Friday, a woman told her the man's name was Henry Humph eys, and where he lived ; and upon this she obtained a warrant, and had the prisoner apprehended. She swore positively that the prisoner was the man who had been with her on both occasions, as well as upon a third occasion, three months before the 10th of January. She identified him, as she had done befoi'e the magistrates, by his whiskers and by his voice, to which she now added that she knew him by a scar under his left eye. A man named Black proved that soon alter 11 o'clock on the night of the 10th of January he saw the prisoner go into the Spread Eagle public house. Mr. Cook Evans, for the defence, said the only question was whether the prisoner was the man who committed the cruel and dastardly assault upon the prosecutrix ; and he contended that if the prisoner had been the man the prosecutrix would at once have identified him by the scar on his cheek. Mr. Baron Martin said that he thought the verdict ought to depend upon the confidence the jury might feel in the honesty of the woman's conviction of the prisoner's identity rather than upon any particular marks or circumstances. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Mr. Baron Martin said he thought the offence c .mmitted by the prisoner was about the mcst atrocious he had ever heard of. The law pro tected the good and the bad alike, and the prosecutrix was entitled to be protected in her person as much as if she had been the most respectable woman in Shropshire. After soma further comments on the case his lordship said he felt it to be his duty to sentence the prisoner to seven year's penal servstuae. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1857. COUNTY COURT.-YESTERDAY. Mr. WILLIAM ADAM FULTON, of Preston, Judge of County Court, Circuit No. 5, presided in this Court yesterday. LEWIS AND SON V. THE LON]) 31 , 7 AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. —This was an action brought to recover £4 Ws. for damages to a parcel while in the charge of the defendants as carriers. It appeared that on the :18th of March last, there was delivered at the residence of the plaintiff a parcel from London which contained silk. It was found to be in a wet state, and was objected to at the time accorly. On being opened, it was found that a piece of silk, valued at £5 10.3., had received so much damage. that it was afterwards sold at £l. The present action was accordingly brought to recover damages for the loss thus incurred. On the part of the defence it was urged as an objection that the parcel being of value ex ceeding £lO, and not being entered as such at the time when it was delivered to the company, the latter were not liable, under the Common Carriers' Act, for any damage which it might have undergone while in their custody. His Honour cons dered the objection fatal, and nonsuited the plaintiff accordingly. CORONER'S INQUESTS. Yesterday the Coroner held the following inquests : On the body of John Callahan, 26 years of age, a brick layer's labourer. On the 16th inst , the deceased was at work in Dingle-lane, Kirkdale when he fell off a plank, and was so severely injured that he died in the Northern Hospital. Verdict, " Accidental death." On the body of a child named Martha Cliff, aged three months, who was suffocated in bed at 46, Vernon-street, by accident. The jai found accordingly. On the body of a female name! Catherine Jack son, aged 54 years, who kept a public house at 191, Great Howard street. From the evidence of Catherine Hartley, the niece of the deceased, it appeared that she was much in the habit of drinking; and from the testi mony of other witnesses, it appeared that on Tuesday evening she flung herself into the river from the Bramley- Moore dock pier•head. It was shown that she was de ranged, and whilst in that state committed the act that deprived her of life. The jury found that she drowned herself whilst labouring under temporary insanity. Lin reference to the report in our paper of yesterday, ttat the son of. Mrs. Jackson had been a source of trouble to her, we have been informed that he is a very steady, well-conducted young man.] MR. BARCLAY TO BE RE3TOrIRD.— The following appears in the New York Herald : —Everybody will be gratified to learn that there is a strong probability that Mr. Barclay may re-appear among us ere long as British Consul at this port. The uniform popularity of Mr. Birds) , with all classes here, his family connections, his extensive interests in this country, his long experience in the duties o f his office, and his intimate knowlerze of, and pruilent dealings with, men and things hire, combine to render his re-wpointtn=nt a matter of sincere congratu lation, not only to his countrymen, but to us. We hope therefore, that the rumour of his return may shorty be confirmed. It is of the greatest consequence that the British Consul at this port should be a man with whom busiuess can be done well and pleasantly. We will take the liberty of saying that, while Englishmen possess as many fine qualities perhapi as any other race, amiability is not always one of them, nor that love of approbation which is the parent of popularity. There are a few cross grained and slightly pig-headed Englishmen floating up and down the world's stream ; and it would be possible for the British Government to pitch on one of these ; in which case we ell] only say that a very hostile feeling to ward England, in a class hitherto friendly to her, might very easily be arouzed. miss SMITH IN LIVEIWOOL.--• A full-le , gth and correct Likeness of Miss 'min is jest aided to Allsop's Crystal Pala2e Wax-work E•thi bition, Lime strew, I iverpool, mudelled from a drawing taken during er trial at Edinburgh, and positively the only one taken.— Advt. CASH AND DEED BoxEs.—The next important thing to the posses slon or (ash is, how (when you have got it) to keep it saf..-dy, either in the counting-house or at home. The same remarks apply to deeds and other valuable documents. We have seen a large and varied stock of both these desirable articles, manufactured expresily for Mr. E. T. Hall, of South John.street, that challenge attention. Thee boxes are made on new and admired principles, and possess patent boas, which defy the ingenuity of any " pick-lock" in the world to open, except with the legitimate key. To merchants, solicitors, and others, these new safes, on a small scale, must prove valuable ndeed .—Nprthern Daily Times, 210 May, 1857, POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YESTERDAY. LIVERPOOL. HEFORS MR. ALDERMAN J. H. TURNER. SUSPICIOUS.—Simpson, officer 159, brought up a person, named William Thompson, on suspicion of having stolen silver spoons in his possession. The prisoner was found in Park-lane, offering two silver table spoons for sale. They are crested with an uplifted arm and dagger, in a clenched hand, and initialed "P.D." The prisoner said he had been wrecked in a vessel, called the Medina, on the St. Lawrence, and that he found the spoons on the banks of that river. He was remanded. BEFORE MR. O. HOLT. ILLEGAL PLEDGING.—JAII C. Fortune was charged with having illegally pledged two-and-a-half yards of waterproof cloth, which he had got to make up for Mr. Hellewell, his employer. The case was proved, and the prisoner was fined £2 104., and 12s , the value of the cloth, or to be imprisoned for two months. Ties BURGLARY IH PARR LANs.— John Bamford, John Berry, Michael Everall, and William Stanley,were brought up on remand, charged with being concerned in a burglary at Mr. Mart's, pawnbroker, Park lane. They had been brought up several times before, when the details of the case appeared in our paper. Mr. Black, for the prisoners, contended that as no additional evidence was produced, his clients should be discharged, as it would be illegal to keep them in custody any longer. There was no further evi dence given, and the prisoners were discharged. UNGRATEFUL CONDUCT. At the poliee-3ffice, yes'erday, before Alderman S. Ho!me, Esq., and G H dt, Rrq., Me. Charles Reynolds, ma❑ager of the typagraphical department of the NORTHERN Trmas printing office, charged a youth named William Edwards with having stolen a watch from him. Mr. Reynolds said he had taken the prisoner into his office about five or six weeks since as a reading boy. He had pity on the prisoner, as he had only one arm, having, as he told him, (Mr. R.) lest the other at Spot tisewood'a printing office, in London. The prisoner had accesa to a small office used by Mr. Reynolds, and where he was in the habit of hanging up his clothes. Since he came into his employment, he missed at three different tines, three sovereigns and some silver, which had been taken out of his vest packet. On Tuesday night he hung up his vest in the usual place, taking what money was is the pockets out, but leaving a watch (belonging to his son), that had just been repaired, in one of the pockets. The watch was gone i i the morning, and he suspected the prisoner, and gave information to the police. Detective-officer Sullivan said Mr. Reynolds stated the facts to him, and, on investigating the case, he found that the prisoner had left the watch at a public-house at the corner of Crossnall-street in pledge for Is ni worth of drink. A boy frotn the public-house said the prisoner had drink to the amount of is. 9,1 , and when asked to pay, he had no money, bat, taking out the watch, he said, " here, keep my watch until I get money and came and pay you."• Sullivan said he had ascertained that the prisoner changed a sovereign at a public house on one of the morning's when Mr. Reynold's missed a I.ke coin. Mr. Holt s id the charge was an exceedingly serious one, and asked the prisoner what he had to say ? The prisoner said he was sorry that he was overcome by temptation to take the watch, for Mr. Reynolds had been very kind to him. Mr. Reynolds sail he dil net wi,h to press the case for heavy punishment, but it wls a serious matter to have a thief where there were thirty or forty men working, and subject t) he robbed by a persln in wtoin confidence was placed. However, he wished the prisoner to be dealt with as leniently as possible. Mr. Holt said, if the prosecutor had not kindly inter fered, the punishment of the c.mrt would have been much more severe on the prisoner. He sentenced him to one months' hard labour, aml hoped it would be a warning to others not to be guilty of theft and ingratitude at the same time. BO IOUGH SESSIONS-YESTERDAY. BEFORE GILBERT HENDENS9N, ESQ., REC,RDER. CHARGE AGAINST MR. WICKHAM, PUBLICAN, FOR ALLOW iNa Dauenuase IN HIS HOUSE.—James Harrison, Wick ham, publican, of Lime-street, having recently been summoned b lore the Borough Magistrates, for the third time within a year, for allowing druakeness and disorderly conduct in his house, availed himself of the power given by the 21st section of George IV., chapter 9, which enables the defendant to have the case beard at the QiistrtPr Socoione if he requesta if. A pcnalty of £5O tivty be there imposed, in •the event of conviction. Mr. Aspnall applied to the court yesterday on behalf of the defendant, to have the case adjourned to the next sessions, on the ground that he had changed his attorney, and the gentlemen at present employed, Mr. Blackhurst, was not suffici.ntly prepare,!. Mr. Simon, on behalf of the Borough Magistrates, opposed the adjournment. The Recorder said he did not wish to proceed with the case when the defendant, through his attorney, urged that he was not prepared. In order that the adjournment might not interfere with the general licensing sessions, he would appoint an early day at the next borough sessions to hear the case. The _Dundee Courier states that the ancient baronial mansion of Brechin Castle is again about to be occupied by the Panmnre The City Limerick Grand Jury Rate was by the Town Council on Thursday fixed at 7d., the smallest ever recol lected.— Limerick Chronicle. The _Mess, endeavouring to regard the news in the most cheerful light, notices that the military insurrection had not exceeded its original bounds, but was confined to the north-west provinces, far in the interior, and surrounded by a circle of order and loyalty. On every side our basis of operations is undisturbed, and at the very wont it is now little more than one of those local wars with a state of confederacy, such as we have had a dozen timss over since the beginning of the century. Although Delhi had not been captured the insurgents had betrayed the weak ness of their position by some considerable sorties, and their own want of courage, discipline, or generalship, by being beaten with great slaughter. General Barnard had only ;;,000 to 4,000 Europeans, while the insurgents were much more numerous, and in addition to,a fanatical popu lation, better provided with artillery and ammunition. We can make allowance for the policy of not bringing the struggle to an immediate issue within the ramparts and stree:s of the city. Every week is now adding to the European force at the disposal of the Commander-in-chief in Bengal. Fruetereun ACCIDENT Is HALIFAX.-0a Tuesday after noon, a frigh ful accident happened at the works of Messrs. J B. Farrar, ironfounders and machine makers, Halifax, by which the fly-wheel of the double engine was broken to pieces, and oue man was so vverely injured that his life is despaired of. About four o'clock, the whole of the machinery in the foundry suddenly stopped, 4nd on going into the engine-house, the engineer found the interior almost one mass of ruins. On ,- 3 of the bolts of the fly wheel, it is supposed, had came loose, and dropped info the main gear wheel, causing both to be smashed into a hundred fragments, which flew in all directions. The door of the engine-house was broken, as was also that of the joiner's shop on the epposi le side of the yard ; whilst a man, named Ilueben Gough, standieg in the yard between the two buildings, W3S struck by a piece of iron, and rendered insensible, The boiler over the engine was also smashed. The works, in consequence of the accident, will have to b closed about a fortnight. The man G , ugh was removed to the Infirmary as speedily as possible, but his injuries are so severe that the medical men give but slight hopes of his recovery. PIIIESTED PoercE.—At the Donegal Ass - zes last wce's a priest named M'Fadden, when under examination in a Roadie Netice affair, thus addressed Baron Pennefather : —" If the authorities would place confidence in the priests, and treat Wens with proper respect, they would bring ten offenders to justice for one the police could bring." This is a curious statement and an instructive one, no matter from what side viewed. To bring an offender to justice is the duty of every honourable and loyal member of society —a duty prompted in persons of right feeling by a natural love of justice. According to Mr. APFadden, this duty is to be made a matter of sale and purchase ; if you defer to us, priests, he say s , we w ill di sco u r age crime. But again. If the police can only find one offender out of ten the nine must be well secured. By whom? flow does the priest come to know their deeds and lurking places? He cannot mean that he will reveal what he hears in confession—be must mean some other kind a' knowledge of the criminal; and all acquaintance with crikne not obtained in confession, and not divulged to the audio tities, renders the priest possessing it particeps criininis before Gal and in the light of the law. We believe Mr. I‘l`Fiadden'a statement at the expense of his position. It is well, however, that there is a plan by s h:ch we may hope to irfluecce the Romish clergyman to do the common duty of every properly affected person. "We must treat him with respect," else he will retort by for getting to treat his own conscience with any. What t - eatment does Mr. M'Fadden want ? Let him state the terms on which he will enable the police to capture ten offenders in Donegal for each one now apprehended.— Dublin Evening Packet. THE ROMANCE OF AN ELOPEMENT KNOCKED IN THE HEAD. NEW YORK CODs' OF COMMON PLEAS. BEF3RE JUDGE BRADY. JAMES P. CAHILL V. FRtNCI3 KEITING,—Tais matter has already occupied the attention of the public and the police courts, caused by the defendant being arrested for larceny, he having run away with plaintiff's wife in this suit, or she with him, it is hard to tell which, on which occasion the wife had a watch in her possession. He was discharged by the police magistrate, but is again brought before the public by the plaintiff instituting a suit against the defendant, on the charge of having criminal connection with his (plaintiff's) wife. The present proceeding being a motion to vacate an order of arrest by which the defendant is held to bail in the sum of 2,000 dollars. TIM DEFENDANT'S SIDE OF TIIE CASE. The defendant, in his affidavit, tells an innocent and interesting story ; he says that in February last he was eighteen years of age, that in the summer of 1855 he went to tend store for Philip Smith, in the third avenue, and about a week after he went to Smith's he was introduced, to Susannah McGinness, who lived with Smith at that time, and is a sister of Mrs. Smith; and he taking a great liking to Susannah paid attention to her, and was in the habit of taking her to theatres, concerts, and other places of amusement, and when not that way inclined, spent many a happy evening with her in the parlour, sitting with her until after the Smiths had gone to bed, but that they knew all about it. After he had been thus familiar with Susannah some time, he was introduced to Cahill, who was about to leave for Cuba; that during Cahill's absence, and after his return, he continued to pay attention to Susannah, and once, when he was sick, she came into his bedroom alone, CThill knowing the fact; and he also tays that he has often had long and confidential interviews—such as lovers have—with Susan nah, in Cahill's presence, and he always looked on Cahill as a rival lover, and never dreamt he was the husband of Susannah, from the fact that he never complained of his (Keating's) intimacy with Susannah, never objected to his taking her to concerts or theatres, neither did he ever call Susannah by the name of wife or cohabit with her, but in all respects acted as a mere friend, or perhaps lover; and during all this time his affection laname stronger and stronger, which affection was reciprocated by her. Finally, she said, (and no doubt thought,) " That she never could or would be happy without Keating for a husband." She therefore went to the house of Keating, without any pre• vious agreement, and by a good deal of persuasion, pre— vailed on him to elope with her and get married. In the course of debate she repeatedly said that she "never could live with Cahill, and would die before she would marry him ;" he submitted to the telling arguments of Susannah and eloped, but he further says, that " from his own knowledge he believes that Cahill never cohabitted with Susannah," and that when he eloped she was a " virgin female," and says that the alleged marriage is a fraud, but if she is married, he charges the whole " Smith family," all her relatives, Cahill and Susannah with a gross and united conspiracy to trap him into a marriage, which trap he fell into. SYMPATHY FOR SUSANNAH. James Keating, the father of the defendant, states his knowledge of the affair, and says that the "Smith family" always spoke well of Francis, and when he heard that Francis was married, he was much surprised, and he im— mediately went to see Mrs. Smith, and she frankly admitted that Francis was ignorant of Susannah s mar riage to Cahill ; and that she did not blame him in the least ; and that the marriage had been kept secret ; and that Cahill had never occupied the same bed with Susan nah for " particular reasons." He (deponent) the❑ blamed Mrs. Smith for her action in the matter, and asked Cahill (who was present) if what Mrs. Smith had said was true, to which Cahill rejoined th ►t. it was true, and that he had not cohabited with Susannah, whereupon Mrs. Keating, wife of deponent, remarked to Cahill that " he ought not to blame his wife, for," said she, " I would be apt to do the same thing if my husband had neglected me in such a manner." Cahill then, in a solemn manner, said that he " did not blame his wife." Deponent then offered his service to arrest and bring back the parties. THE PLAINTIFF'S TELL THEIR STORY. Philip Smith, head of the " Smith family," and brother in-law of Susannah, tells his story. He says that Francis Keating was never formally introduced to Susannah at his house ; that she was simply called Susannah, and nothing else, and that Francis admitted to him on the day that he was arrested, that ho knew that she was married at the time that he eloped with her, and that he never permitted the slightest intimacy between Francis and Susannah, in his presence, and that the going out to concerts, &c., must have been done secretly, and that as soon as he suspected that criminal intimacy existed between them he discharged Keating from his employ, and she says further that he (Smith) was a witness of the marriage. WPM WRITES A TOUCHING TATTER. Another affidavit of Smith sets forth that the following letter is in the handwriting of Keating• It was written when he and Susannah were at Poughkeepsie enjoying the romance of an elopement, and was written to Mrs• Smitb, the sister of Susannah : _ _ . MY DEAR SISTER,—I suppose you are surprised at the idea of my calling you sister, but it is a name that I havo languished to call you. My dear sister, you must not blame either of us for what fVe have done, if it had not been for one word I heard Cahill say to my dear (a name which I had given up all hopes of ever calling her,) a word which I knew would cause her many a tear through life, if she lived with him that word is not fit to be written. You shall know what it is when you see me, let that be as soon as you wish ; when you write to us telling us that we may return we will do so ; don't think it strange that I asked my dear to marry me, after her being married to Cahill, but a man that talked as he did, is more fit to marry a wench; then my dear Cahill may as well give up all hopes of ever enjoying my dear, for if she had not coma with me on Friday, the first time I ever met him either him or I should die. FRANCIS KEATING. The judge rather sympathised with the defendant and reduced the bail to 500 dollars. NOVEL EX RIBITION —A SLOW Cc:tem.—On Saturday last an elderly rustic entered a stationer's shop, and asked fur a pennyworth of writing paper. This being handed to him he paid for it, and then, with an air which precluded all doubt of his sincerity, asked him for a bawbee's worth of postage stamps. The shopman again glanced at his customer, and seeing that ho was really in earnest, inquired if he had never bought and really did not know the price of a postage stamp The rustic confessed he had never bought one. Then, said the shopman, there is to be a fair here on Thursday, and no scarcity of shows ; but if Sou will just come and get yourself exhibited as the man who, bordering upon 40, never had bought, nor did not know the price of a postage stamp, you will get plenty of B animas eager to contract with yea and make you famous as a living monument of ignorance. SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—On Friday afternoon, a young woman, named Price, daughter of one of the vergers, who, with a companion, had ascended the interior of the cathedral spite, in coming down the second ladder, jumped on to the floor. The floor, being in a very weak state, immediately gave way, and ahe fell with it a distance of twenty-seven feet, her companion vainly en deavouring to arrest her fall. Tier removal, unfortunately, was a matter of some difficulty, for the passage and stairs do not allow of two persons waning abreast, and the young woman, though happily escaping with sound hones, was of course unable to continue her th-scent. She could not, consequently, be removed from the steeple (where she was attended by Mr. Cooper, surgeon), till the evening, when, chloroform having been administered, she was lowered by means of scaffolding, which had, as it happened, been erected outside the tower, the north face being under repair, and was then removed home. Alth..ugh much bruised and cut, no bones were broken, but the shock she has received will naturally retard her recovery.—Norfolk News. DETERMINED ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.—CARLOW, JULY 23.—0 a ycsterd iy evening a young woman named llaugliney, residing in Graigue, in the borough of Carlow, attempted to destroy herself by strangulation, under very extraordinary eireunastances. From the facts elicited it appears that the girl in question and her mother, who is a widow, lived together in the same house. The mother, who is a buxom jolly person, conceived the idea of again entering the matrimonial state, and having thrown her amorous eyes on a sprightly swain named Price, the succeeded in securing his affections. A day was named for celebrating the :auntie' tie. Knowledge of the circumstance having boen conveyed to the daughter, her indignation knew no bounds. She taxed her mother for being carried away by such girlish notions, and demanded that the suite should be abandoned, and the lover discarded. The elder Llaughney was obdu rate to the appeals and threats of the daughter, and no very complimentary epithets passed between them. For several days matters continued in this condition, which were brought to a climax last night by the younger Haughney declaring that if her mother did not give up the idea of getting " spliced " she would hang herself. The mother laughed scornfully at the threat, and en c Araged the girl to carry it into execution, which she immediately did, by retiring into the garden at the end of the house, where, having procured a rope, and selecting the strong arm of a tree, she adjus'ed the noose by placing it round her neck, and was soon suspended mid earth and heaven. The curiosity of the mother was excited by the long absence of the girl, and having followed her to ascertaih if she really intended to carry out what she stated, she was horrified to find her daughter in the aw f u l position she was in. Assistance having been procure,' ( the unfortunate girl was cut down, when life was found not to be quite extinct. After the application of several rem %dies she slowly recovered, when she was taken by the ,Viice before a magistrate, who ordered her to find bail for har future good conduct. The mother, it is stated, was so e jected by the melancholy catastrophe Acl her intention of that she has rennin entering the bonds of Hymen for the presoo,—Sgunders, HEALTH COMMITTEE. The usual weekly mee'ing of this Committee wag held at half-past two o'clock yesterday, in the Town Hall, Mr. Alderman Dover in the chair. Other members present Messrs. Shell, M‘Gaffie, Beckwith, Crosthwaite, Tinne, Anthony, Haydock, and Stitt. The minutes of the List meeting were read and cam firmed. lIP.ALTH OF THE TOWN. The Medical Officer of Health reported that the mews temperature of the last fort- ight having been more than two-and-a-half degrees below the average, bowel com plaints had become very prevalent, as they always do in July and August under similar circumstances, but as yet the mortality has been almost entirely confined to infants. The deaths from all causes, which, in the previous week, were 214 ro3e last week to 238, being 12 more than the average of the same week of the preceding nine years, ex cluding 1819. In the paristi 169 deaths were registered, and in the out-townships 71. Of 97 deaths caused by zvmotic diseases, 45 were from di arrbce a, the average being 29. Of these only two were adul's. 21 deaths arose from hooping-cough, more than in any week of the previous eighteen months ; 13 from scarletin , , 5 from typhus, 2 from cholera, 1 from smal'-pox (unvaccinated), 1 from measles, 1 from syphilis, and 1 from glanders. Diseases of the lungs, with consumistion, caused only 44 deaths. A married woman died from intemperance. The mean temperature of the week was 65 4.10 degrees, nearly three degrees above the av,irage. The rainfall on four days of the week amounted to upwards of an inch. The Through Engineer, Building Snrveyor, and Inspec tor of Nuisances reported various particulars of the opera tions in their several departments during the week ; from which it appeared 118 nuisances c maplained of by inhabi tants had been inspected, and means taken to remedy them ; 1,022 houses in the unhealthiest distlicts, contain ing 3,229 apartments, and 628 cellars, had been put under examination, with the view of improving their sanitary condition. Mr. C. P. MELLY requested permission to place plain benches, a foot wide, and six feet to nine feet in length, against the wall of Mr. Cr:ssfield's rice mill, in Parliament street; Mr. Cropper's print works, in Bedford-street; and by the flour mill at the top of Falkner-street ; also in Park-lane, below St. Patrick's Church, on the consent of the proprietors being obtained. If, on trial, the seats give rise to inconvenience, Mr. Melly will have them at once removed. In his communicltion requesting this permission, Mr. Melly pointed out the advantage which those seats would be to mothers, old men, and invalids living in the neighbourhood, who might there enjoy, in fine weather, a fresher atmosphere than their own dwellings airarded. Mr. Tirsie observed that the town owed a debt of gratitude to Mr. Melly for all that he had done for it, and now sought to accomplish, lie could see no objection to granting the permission. Mr. BECKWITH said that the corporation should have provided those conveniences for the people ; but he feared that with the loss of the town dues, they had allowed the opportunity to pass by. The permission was grant&. Thanki were voted to Mr. Melly, and, after transacting some routine business, the committee adjourned. THOMAS FULLER BACON versus MADELINE SMITH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,—Can any of your readers explain the grounds of the distinction in the verdicts of these two cases. Both were cases of arsenical poisoning, and the evidence in each case circumstantial. In that of the lady the motive was existent, and the purchase of the poison clearly proved ; but the verdict of " not proven" was, according to the rule of the judge, incumbent, in the absence of proof of the administration of the poison by the accused. In the case of poor Bacon, there was again a motive ; but the same connecting link in the chain is not sufficient to save him front conviction. In the latter, there is also the fact of suspicion being directed against a second, or the insane wife. The points in each are so analogous, and, in my mind, the circumstantial evidence in the one outweighing the other, that I have been induced to imagine the variation may exist between the English and Scottish courts, rather than to account for the anomaly from other causes.—Yours, &e., F. X. INFORMATION UNDER 'MR FACTORY ACV AT BRADFORD. —At the Bradford Borough Court, on Tuesday, Mr. Robert Baker, factory inspector, cited Messrs. G. L. Leather and Co., Messrs William Rouse and Co , and Mr. Maunders, all spinners a❑d manufacturers, with having employed a number of females in their premises beyond tho hours allowed by law. Mr. Terry, solicitor, appeared for the defence in each case. The information against Mr. Leather was first considered. The charge of Mr. Leather having employed, beyond the regular legal hours, four females, on the 24th of June, was not denied ; but Mr. Terry urged, in defence, that the building in which they were employed was not a part of the factory, but a ware house connected with it, and c )ntained no machinery. Mr. Baker urged that so long as the building was con nected with the mill it was to all intents and purposes a portion of the factory. The bench agreed with this view of the case; but Mr. Haigh stated it as his belief that Mr. Leather was not aware that he wa; infringing the Factory Act, and hence the penalty imposed should only be small. In the case of Ann Mitchell he was fined £1 145,, in cluding costs, and the simple costs in the three other cases. Similar penalties were imposed upon the other defendants. EXTENSTVZ HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT BRADFORD.—At the Bradford Borough Court, on Tuesday. a notorious char ac'er, named Julia Brady, who has frequently been committed was charged with having robbed Mr. Josepti Webster, agent, of about £7O in bank-notes and cash. Mr. Webster said that on Monday night, a little after ten o'clock, he was proceeding up Little Horton Lane, towards his residence, and when near the Independent Chap:l the prisoner seized him by the waist. He instantly shook her off, but she again seized him, when he threatened to give her into custody, and she went away. He was then accosted by a man, who asked what was the matter, and finding at the moment that his pocket-book and purse were gone, he answered, "You rascal, you know what's the matter," and the man ran away. Mr. Webster pursued him for about twenty or thirty yards, and lost sight of him ; when he immediately gave information at the police office. From the description given of the woman, the prisoner was captured in Threadneedle-street, where she and others were in a state of drunkenness. Mr. Webster's loss was four £lO and four £5 notes, and most of the remainder in gold. The prisoner was searched at the station, when £3 103. 4d. in gold and silver was found under her stays. Active search was also made for the man, whom Mr. Webster could identify, and who had no doubt. receieed the money, but no trace of hiss could be found. The female prisoner was committed for to ial et the assizes. THE LATE DIVISIOg ON THE BALLOT.—A document on this subject, issued by the Ballot Society, slys : —The late division on the Ballot shows the greatest numbes of votes ever recorded in favour of the motion. The division in which the next largest number voted for the motion was on the 18th of June, 1839, when the total numbers were, ayes, 216; noes, 393; majority against the motion, 117. It will be observed that the late division shows a diminu tion in the number of our opponents, and of their majority azainst the measure. There voted in the majority 77 Whigs, Peelites, and Liberals, and 210 Conservatives. The ascertained friends of the Ballot in the present Parliament are 232; therefore, even if it be assumed that the 50 Liberal absentees are opposed to the Ballot, there is a majority in the Liberal party of 105 in favour of the meisure. Eleven members of the administration and of the royal household voted or paired in the majority, viz., Lord Palmerston, Lord E. Bruce. Mr. Hayter, Mr. 11. A. Herbert, Mr. Labouchare, Sir G. C. Levis, Mr. R. Lowe, Vi - count Sandon, Mr. R. Vernon Smith, Sir Charles Wood, and Mr. R. W. Grey. Fourteen members of the Administratiol and household voted in the minority—viz., Sir R. Bethel', Mr, E. P. Bouverie, Viscount Duncan, Mr. C. S. Fortescue, Sir Benjamin Hall, Sir H. S. Keating, Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, Eon Mulgrave, Mr. Massey, Mr. Mousell, Mr. Osborne, Lord A. Paget, Sir John Ramsden. In the majority, the following twelve members voted or paired, who were neutral in the last Parliament—viz, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Colonel llerbert, Mr. R. W. Grey, Mr. R. Lowe, Mr. C. Fitzwilliarn, Viscount Milton, Lord Haddo, Sir J. Matheson, Mr. I. Steel, Lord A. V. Tempest, Mr. G. Tomline, and Mr. J. A. Wise. Mr. Crawshaw Bailey, Mr. Monsell, and Earl Mulgrave, who, in the last Parliament, votes against the motion, in the last division voted for it. Mr, Ridley also voted for the motion, having previouly been neutral. Sir Harry Verney, who, when previously in Parliament voted for the motion, in the last division voted against it. Lord Stanley continues neutral, If all the absentees amongst the Liberals and friends of the ballot had been present, and voted for the motion, and all the absentees amongst the Conservativa and apponents of the ballot had been present and voted against the motion, the majority would have been ninety. DOCK COMMITTEE. The weekly meeting of this committee was held at oils' o'clock yesterday. Mr. Charles Turner presided, and the other members present were—Messrs. Brocklebank, Palmer; Robinson, llalhear, Rounthwaite, Barber, Monde'', Uubbaci, Chilton, Clint, and liohne, An application made by Mr. Betheil to rent a piece of land in B:rkenhead, fir the erection of creosote works, and which was referred by the Town C,)uncil's Coro• mittee to the Dick C immittee, was referred by the latter to the Worki Sub-committee. In the Marine Department, the sub-committee recent' mended, that an advertisement be issued for tenders for $ line of electric telegraph between Liverpool and noir head, including communication with the semaphore stations, which it would be necessary to retain. Tho recommendation was confirmed. The Master Porters' sub-committee, recommended that the salary of Mr. H. D. Clarke. superintendent of the weighing materials, be raised from £l3) to £l5O. Mr. Irotme objected, that whatever might be the merits of the officer, the situation was not wor h paying more than £l3O a year for. Mr. ROBINSON said, Mr. Clarke hal been a candidate for the office of deck-master, and was rather prevented bf the committee, wh3 did not kn3w where they could get person equally qualified for his present office. He had to find his own residence. Mr. MONDELL thought it would be well to have the matter further considered by the committee. The subjsct was finally refereed back to the cool' mittee. A letter was read from Messrs. M'lver, stating that thel found the accommodation at the engine-works of the Huskisson Dock inadequate to the wants of their trade without the erec'ion of another furnace, which they ac' c , rdingly req'iested the Deck Committee to allow them to put up at their own expense. The letter was referred to the Works Committee and the surveyor. . _ The fol r .owing memorial was read from owners, shipperer and consignees of timber cargoes : TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE LIVERPOOL DOCK COMMITTER. Liverpool, 29th July, 1857. Sir,—We, the undersigned owners, ship-masters, and consignees of timber cargoes, beg leave to call your particular attention to the unfortunate position in which we find our s e lves at the present time, from want of accommodation for discharging the cargoes of the vessels recently arrived frail British America. Just now there are upwards of twenty vessels waiting in the riser for permission to dock. M an y of them have lost the last spring tides, and some of them are certain of losing the coming tides, unless you can find some remedy for them. The timber trade is in a very peculiar position ; for, unlike other trades, which have the whole range of docks open to them, it requires special adapta tions, which are only supplied by the Brunswick and Rut" kisson docks. And it is in ono of them—the former--in the very height of the import season, that the obstruction exists of upwards of 21,000 tons of empty laying-up s hips, which, if removed, would give immense relief to the trade. The 'Aka of this letter is, therefore, to request that you will endeavour to make the required robm by removing the empty ships to other docks, where there is sufficient space for them to lay up without occupying quay berths. Until lately Liverpool was always a favourite port with shipowners engaged in the timber trade, because of the despatch they ured to receive in discharging. But now, o wing to the difficulty which we are sustaining, and which has pre• vailed more or less for the last two or three years, but never in so marked a degree as at present, the whole of that advantage is lost, and the preference is given to the Bristol Channel and other places where an arriving ship is enabled to get rid of her cargo without delay : a most important point at this season of the year, when they are desirous of making a second voyage, and have only a limited time to do it We are, sir, your obedient servant., Fern'e Brothers & Co. Jolla Forzakai•ley & Co. S. R Graves. James Lord. David Cannon, Sons & Co. Duncan Ewing & Co. James Bland & Co, Massey & Mollyneux. Robert Curwen. Mercer Brothers & Co. Charles Henry Wright. Wilfred Carter & Co. Gibbs, Bright &yo. Hugh Pierco & Co. James Johnson & Co. James Alexander. James M'Afurdo & Co. Thomas Rimoaer & Sou. Pro. Ritchie, Mackay & Co., Wm. Anthony & Robinson. John Ritchie, Farnworth & Jardine. R. J. Jones. Mr. HALHEAD thought some eff.irt (tight to be mailer and even some little expense incurred by the Dock Corn.' mittee, to meat the request of the memorial. The timber trade had been increasing for several years back, while the accommodation was diminishing, lie thought the Bruns wick Dock would be suitable for the purpose. The CHAIRMAN said that the ships could be removed very easily from one dock to another if they bad an opening from the Brunswick to the Queen's dock ; but the difilonlty would be in taking the ships into the river. In case there was any loss or damage to any of the vessels in going round, the committee would be liable, unless they had the consent of their owners. Mr. lIALREAD said they could insure against such dancer for a very trifling sum. Mr. MONDELL did not know where the vessels were to go to. There were 360,000 tons of shipping in the docks at present, which he believ.'.d were only calculated for 350,000 tons. Ur. HALHEAD recommended that some gentlemen of the committee not connected with the trade should go down and make themselves acquainted with the facts. The CHAIRMAN had no doubt some of the members of the Harbour Master's Committee would undertake the duty. the subj,:et was then referred to the Harbour Master's Committee. The following letter was read from Messrs, Edward Higgins and G.). : - TO CHARLES TURNER, ESQ., CHAIRMAN OF THE LIVERPOOL DOCK COMMITTEE. Liverpool, July 30, 1857. Sir,—On the 7th instant we had a note from your secretary, debiting us with the expense for damage done to your crane on the south side of George's Dock Basin, caused by an attempt to lift, a• boiler considerably under the weight the crane is guaranteed to carry, to which we replied, remonstrating against the charge in question. We have since found it necessary to apply for the use of another crane situated on the north side of Canning Dock, for the purpose of lifting another boiler, also considerably under the weight the crane is guaranteed to carry. A similar misfortune, we are sorry to say, has occurred with regard to this second boiler, resulting in very serious loss and damage, from the inability of the crane to perform the work contracted for. The chain of the crane broke while the boiler was hanging in mid-air, causing great damage to and nearly sinking the flat into which it fell, and injuring the boiler to an extent which has taken nearly £lOO to repair. Before using these cranes we find it is customary to sign a document agreeing to be responsible for damage done, but we looked upon this as a formal proceeding, and more to guard against attempts to try the cranes more than they are able to bear than with any serious intention of claiming upon us for damage done through no fault of ours—we paying for the accommodation which the canes are supposed to give. We therefore beg to suggest the propriety of your reimbursing us for the loss and expense caused by the inefficiency of your cranes, on special ground—that having paid for their use, and the work that we required to be done being much within their guaranteed capability, we ought not to be the sufferers from the consequences of their failure. We will thank you to lay this letter before your committee, and are, sir, your most obedient servants, EDWARD HIGGINS & CO. The CHAIRMAN sail it must be referred to the surveyor, to inquire into the circumstances. The weight might be very much under the weight guaranteed, and yet the crane might be easily broken if jarked. He did cot say it was so, but that it might be so. Tne letter was referred to the surveyor accordingly. In consequence of the 6th of August, the day for the annual election to fill the place of members retiring by rotation, being the day of the Town Council meeting, the Chairman requested that some member of the committee might be appointed to preside in his absence. The committee accordingly appointed Mr. Rounthwaite to preside. This closed the general business, SLANDER BY A Coy Nuns l —Lady Harrington, in a case tried at Derby assizes, has been found guilty of slandering a clergyman. Damages, £730. PARIS, Wednesday Night.—The Emp eror arr i ve d h ere at six o'clock this evening. He drove along the Boule vards in an open carriage without an escort. He left immediataly for St. Cloud. NEW MAIL CONTRACTS TO viz Cars —The admiralty will be ready to treat on the 28th August for monthly con veyance, each way, by steam vessels, of the mails between England and the Cape of Go o d H o p e , th e o ld c on t rac t having been given up. THE NEXT MAIL FROM INDIA.—The writer of the Times city article says that, judging from last year, the day for the receipt of the telegraph will be Wednesday week, the 12th of August. It is not improbable, however, that sup posing anything of great importance to have occurred shortly after the despatch of the Indian mail, the authori ties in India will have made an effort to transmit the intelligence by means of the steamer from Australia en route to Suez, so that, in the event of a steamer being des patched from Bombay to Aden, news to the Bth or 9th of July, or a week later than that just brought, might be received here via Marseilles, about the sth August. !I t I tiv 4 4 4 214 / .' 1 (1 c L titi 4%a