The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-03 00:00:00

/a s . Pzra tion a Reality a n d I n f a llibility a Delusion 4 t; L "ter Concerning the Rev J. B. Lowe's Inspira tivera Reality . By rev. John Macnaught , 00l litree : Charles Willmer, 19, South John - Do ra t pvrotestant Developments at Liverpool. By a d i tiverpool Layman. Liverpool : Adam Holden, repareh-t •eet. le first o f the pamphlets men ti one d here, is a lieh which Mr. Macnaught has felt bound to pub - Iva i t ' ll \indicati on o f th e character of his recent ? r1 the Inspiration of the Bible. On the earb," st ance of that work, the Rev. Josiah B. Lowe vie w e forward as th e c h a mpion of the orthodox lett e r ' and with this object published a series of lqa,, to the Courier newspaper, assailing /1 Ir. bit n ail:4les doctrines in a style of true clerical ip mess. These letters have recently appeared k ct i i , v olume under the title of Inspiration i a tio ri ;;I• This book was " dedicated by pew s : . 4 4 to the Lord Bishop of Chester. his ; tt felt jastly aggrieved at the manner i i n r. w i hic s h . repriews were assailed, and unquestionably afl e ? . ented— no doubt undesignedly —in m . th l is 'eari„," a nd as its dedication by permission might an Y of the 'public to suppose that its argu . ‘ ,:nd language were sanctioned by the digni -1101 a :L c ' Permitted the dedication, Mr. Macnaught siai,;.AressPd his letter of remonstrance to the Wri tt -. 2 of Chester in especial. The reply is tvith'n with much vigour, but we mustadd to nltteb bitterness also. If it be a gratification Zr ' enatight to know that he has overwhelmed I' l Yof the arguments of his adversaries , exposed 4; 1 1 1 , 37 _ surprising errors and blunders, and shewn ele a , l stY judgment and uncharitableness, amazing N I L i n a religious controversy, w e do not think it llst ue doubted that he may enjoy that triumph. the we Cannot avoid, as reviewing this work the kajliblie, expressing our great regret at 04 i l er in which this controversy has been carried I that )3 ' its leaders. One might have expected uees a great religious question would ha ve uiseussed by two professionally reli - I 'dth . enquirers with gravity and. calmness, eie n e desire to arrive at the deep truth suffi cif ba Y absorbing to swallow up all feelings PS;;„? °11 ed rancour and antagonistic triumph. ?ea - ' i ght hav e supposed that motives would have tog a ~!°re p construed, defects of reason att e t Tently and temperately explained, and such Itl irdi a i. s t4 Ple shewn to other controversialists, as '44 1, "ye become the position of Christian clergy rißa2lrld the cause of truth which they were i e ßre';' in investigating. Instead of this, w . e ) tial t a - , c) say that the public are treated to a gladia kfion'lBPlaY as unbecoming the great cause and its . ',espOlers. as it is unfortunately but too much in gel c f"g With the general characteristics of that ohti re ligious controversy where all manner of ( 41 is con s id ere d f a i r . As we happen to be /. lis e tztri r i ; 4 Maonaught's side of the question, we . " o apply our censure more freely to him c lf ;'s antagonist, with whose views, and mode t Eatat gai t g them, we can have no sympathy. We ti aa t ue, express our regret that Mr. Mac- Ritt _ ea t y s p Iblished this reply. It is true he has ,7 5 a, isr epresented, and assailed in a style which nri l i; e Sorry to be obliged to term coarse and able -li t' But, when Mr. Macnaught published his ed 11 40 1 ~r l d manly book, he might have expect bi Nas: e sttit. He might have anticipated that and mea ts ts would be utterly misrepresented an - „ ° "ves disparaged. In Mr. Lowe's book there t ", 1 1 t % Z re lY little, beyond the personal matters, a . (4 1taily, Ii iring reply. The leading arguments it ilii rd 's are but those yihieh have been replied to f elt, - " r ed times over. Mr. Macnaught might have „_ 131 84 4 4,1 11 red that, by these arguments, no one could illri s T L Y have been led away, except those whose ;j l Ythli, s w ere previously quite made up to accept . ' 4 °ll CLI on that side of the question. If, in addi th e , 13 the very wise course of taking no notice of * faes e ,,, l)l3l of Mr. Lowe, in the second edition of 41 8 p r ay-1-1 9ht on Inspiration, Mr. Macnaught had 1, 1111 4 es i e dved to take no notice of it at all in any ~..e c% e C t s influence to his prejudice could have latedlit i nfinitesimal, and lie would havebeen a nd v: t he entering upon a contest of personality thq 4. l r e tile nce, in which it is more creditable to be I`4 le ated than the victor. I, l t v ea - i S : C °od of the pamphlets whose title we have fi 'ae ,a Warning to Evangelicals against Mr. - h ub. ri-- 7ut, his bo,)k, and those who think with 1,-111tis It is well written, although containing bh"eweerParticularly new ; and is not intemperate fr om that side of the question at whi3h the e () ' l. :id - e 4trl ds, and which, we need not say, is n At PRESENTS AND IMPERIAL " LIKINGS." His Honour was to have delivered his judgment on the certificate this day, but in consequence of further ques tions being put to the bankrupt, and the consideration which the case required, he adjourned it to another day. Mr. Brett, instructed by Mr. Dodge and Mr. Banner, appeared for the assignees; Mr. Evans for the bankrupt, and Mr. John Yates, jun., to watch the proceedings on behalf of Mr. John Yate Lee, who applied to be examined on a witness summons. In answer to a question from Mr. Dodge, the bankrupt stated that he had had no conversation with Mr. Lee in reference to his examinations. Oa the contrary, he had avoided Mr. Lee as much as possible, believing that it would be improper to hold any conversation about them. Mr. Lee examined by Mr. Brett : I am the Registrar of the Court of Bankruptcy at Liverpool. I was a com missioner of bankruptcy under the old system. I am married to the sister of Mr. Law ford the bankrupt. Mr. Lawford did not come to Liverpool on my invitation. I think I was consulted by my wife as to the propriety of his coming to Liverpool to commence business, but by no one else. Very likely 1 may have mentioned something about his corning to Liverpool in a letter to his father. I was acquainted with Mr. Hesketh before the arrival of Mr. Lawford in Liverpool several years. I was acquainted with Mr. Hesketh's wish to put his son in business before the arrival of the bankrupt in Liverpool. Ido not remember that I introduced Mr. Lawford to Mr. Hesketh for the purpose of commencing business. I think the introduction for that purpose was effected by Mr. Hesketh and my wife. I may have spoken to Mrs. Hesketh about it on ✓ the Aigburth road, but I do not remember any regular conversation in reference to it. I was aware at the time that negociations were on foot. I have no doubt I was consulted by Mr. Lawford after his arrival in Liverpool. He came down for the purpose of some nego tiation with Mr. Hesketh. I knew that at the time. I did not know that at that time the only capital of the bankrupt was and some furniture. I know nothing at all about it. Ido not think I had any knowledge of the bankrupt's affairs during the negociations for the partnership. I considered that he looked to his lather to supply him with the necessary funds. I knew that his father had an income of many thousands a year ; that he was considered a wealthy man, and that as he sanctioned his son's coming down to embark in the business, I pre sumed and believed that he would supply the capital. I think I had conversations with the bankrupt as to his capital, and I have no doubt that he led me to believe that his father would supply the capital. Ido not think I had any understanding as to the bankrupt's own capital. During the negociations with Mr. Hesketh, I think I took part in them. The chief part I took was to hear what the bankrupt had to say after his interviews with Mr. Hesketh, and ultimately I reduced it into writing. I drew the agreement. It was given to Mr. Hesketh for a week or ten days to show it to any professional man he pleased. I gave it to Mr. Lawford to give it to Mr. Hesketh, with an intimation that he might show it to anyone on his own behalf. (The agreement, dated the Ist of Feb., 1852, was produced by Mr. Brett, and put in.) I was on intimate terms with the bankrupt during the time he carried on business with the younger Mr. Hesketh. The premises at which they carried on business in Norfolk-street belonged to me. There was a written lease ; I let them to the bankrupt. I prepared the lease. During the time they carried on business I did not advance either of them money beyond a pound or two. The bankrupt insured his life three or four times. I knew the bankrupt insured his life soon after he entered into business with Mr. Hesketh. I have no doubt it was men tioned to me, but 1 was not consulted about it. I think I was made acquainted with the fact that he borrowed money on each of the insurances, through his father, who was the substantial guarantee, and that his father received the money, but did not pay it over at once to the bank rupt. I did not know anything as to the amounts received by the father, or advanced by him to the bankrupt. Mr. Cazenove, the official assignee of the court, is the father in law of the bankrupt. In April, 1853, I believe Mr. John Cazenove was secretary to the Family Endowment Society; he is brother to the official assignee. I had no knowledge of the amounts advanced by the father to the bankrupt, except from the bankrupt, and that they amounted to £2,000 or 3,000. In 1852 and 1853, the bankrupt spoke to me from time to time about his business. He complained very much that he had no assistance from his partner. At first he was rather sanguine about his business. Mr. John Yates here interfered, and requested that the examination should be taken down by question and answer, as if produced in a narrative form in any other court the nature of the examination could not be properly understood. His Honour concurred with Mr. Yates, and observed that the narrative form was adopted only when all parties assented to it. The examination was then resumed: In 1852 and 1853, the bankrupt informed me several times of the want of success in his business. At first he was sanguine, but he subsequently complained that the small painters to whom he sold his goods were bad persons to deal with, and that he had to put a great many of them into the County Court. He complained, ultimately, of non-success, and that it was not, so profitable as he had anticipated. His last repro. sentation was, that his losses in trading were inconsider able, but that the money expended in the plant in estab. fishing the business had been their great mistake; that they paid the foreman a larger salary than he should receive, that the mills were placed there for a larger business than they could at first command, and if they had commenced with smaller machinery and premises they would have done better, and that they had to engage a bookkeeper to do the business which young Mr. Hesketh represented himself capable of doing. was, in the course of 1853, spoken to by the bankrupt about borrowing money from Mr. G. H. Ames, of Bristol. The bankrupt, I believe, suggested that his cousin, Mr. Ames. would lend him some money, and told me that he would write to ask for some, and refer him to me as knowing the property which he proposed to give as security. Ido not remember that anything was sail to me about the amount he wished to borrow, but I know that he ultimately borrowed £1,500 from Mr. Ames. I do not think he made any communication as to the state of his business which made him borrow so large a sum of money at that time. Ido not remember making any particular enquiry as to the state of his business at that time, but I had a general impression as to his prospects in business. My impression was, that the business might ultimately be made to pay, but that it might require some time to establish it as a profitable business. I pre pared the agreement for the loan from Mr. Ames, but I do not know whether it was adopted and acted upon. I do not remember that I was the attesting witness to the agreement. I will not say that I was nmt. I do not recollect when there was a dissolution of the partnership between young Mr. Hesketh and the bankrupt. Ido not know that there was a dissolution of partnership at any time. Mr. Hesketh was an infant, and was to have been a partner. Ido not know the time the bankrupt ceased to carry on business in Norfolk-street. I was spoken to as to their discontinuing business, when a letter came from Mr. Hesketh saying he thought it had better be given up. I did not know at that time that his losses in the trading at Norfolk-street were as much as £3,500. My impression was that the trade losses were very incon siderable, but that he had invested too much money in the buildings and machinery. I had been told by the bank rupt, that Mr. Hesketh had advanced £1,750 to establish the business. I believe he also advanced .W 2,000 by way of loan to Mr. Lawford or his father. I heard that the bankrupt and his father executed a bond as security, repayable, as I believe, in 1859. Ido not know for what purpose the money was lent, but I believe it was to carry on the business. To Mr. Yates : I think there was an agreement other than that of the Ist February, 1852, between the Heskeths and the bankrupt as to the Norfolk-street business. There was an agreement on giving up the business. To Mr. Brett: I cannot say whether it was verbal or written; I was only told of it by the bankrupt. The examination was then adjourned. h ~orre,„ r t il i l:lt ., - s - a t' y u s n : (l_ ent writing from Berlin, on the °l,,f saree y before yesterday the four black horses, the Ring has made a present to the Ern tge ese ti g e nie, left here hy railway for Paris, under i a kti ve bf an equerry and two grooms. The nar ti b e u Ow this present came to be made, as it e ti f fi Lns to transpire, goes a great way to deprive the ell' of much of its political colouring— at any t b e qeti t e Prives it of all connection with the more natzf political events. It appears that Count rsit cl • Prussian Minister in Paris, during a h `tit ere e Paid here some time back, mentioned the i A Bt ,.,!be Empress had once taken in a splendid ; I qqe,"lre horse she had seen ridden by a Prussian : 1, 1 15,, -e _ t a review • the answer to the enquiries she - , 1 "` ) be made as to the origin of the horse tp q o , e ,`' it to be a Trakehner, and the officer i was, bal,",,Elequence, requested to approach the mpeis -1;3q)1 - n ri ', l ,ago, and explain what that meant 1 „ -1 ‘41 e " ° n detailed that Trakehn was a stud andkept 'itiCnig establishment which had been up - tit gre at care by the Kings of Prussia for a SrstrY and more, and that it had formed the i,E!e* ~his p r esent of value that Frederick the Great from f a ther after their reconc ilia "_ ttl it i I t was in consequence of the interest taken c i ll'l (1 e Empress in that horse , a nd the fondness e xhibit s for horses in general , th at it was d • "Nib %1' here to offer to her acceptance the four finest ?flti elB that the establishment has produced `cl h e Years. It may be worth notice notinc, in e v alsn , that the 4 odsornest and best horses the Royal And e sat Windsor are presents from the King of to our Queen, and it forces itself on the 'N l , °l( teration of those who recognise the national tiOttance of a fine breed of horses, whether the j ° h i t t° rY efforts of private individuals in our own 4 1:4 4 Y, as regards the breed of horses, are not i f t -3 : to be surpassed by the steady, unfluctuating i l t r O of national establishments in other countries.n t ° 1 1. , 1 tiZ tlt venturing to express an opinion . of my o . w 0 . -g kt 0 - „Bubject I will at least not om - t to mention ;etim - " I ' own officers, whether in the Queen s or the ? Il ls service, have, at various times, pro - °l l ll , l distinctly that they could find in this d 'et ' ll' 4 Y a make of horse requisite for artillery and at h o ea vY cavalry which they could not meet with t irki - 1 „ 1-11 e or elsewhere than here. As regards pace t i th o —e ltle the English horses are as yet unrivalled,s.an t.. 1-I tse ll , g ,_" . even in these respects some Prussian irleli k uave been successful of late years agan ; 1 4)0' , both on English and continental courses ~ ; t hat useful combination of blood and power k4aritete‘liorse, • ea rn au ght, something between a hunter and a this country is said to offer the best `• 0 buy in. POLICE INTELLIGENCE LIVERPOOL BEFORE MR. W, EARLE. PLUNDER OF BAG3.—Thomas Murphy. late warehouse. man to Messrs. Trimmer and Grainger, was brought up on remand, on a charge with having stolen a quantity of bags that covered Indian corn. Mr. Hull, of the firm of Fletcher and Hull, appeared for Messrs. Trimmer and Grainger, and said that the firm di d not wish to prosecute, but he was there to give every information required. Mr. M`Donnell, barrister, appeared for the prisoner, who was prosecuted at the suit of the master-Porter, who had the discharging of the ship. The details of the case have already appeared. The facts were these :—Corn was landed in bulk from the ship Richard Robinson —the quantity being equal to 6,666 bags. The corn being landed in bulk was put into bags, And thus passed through the scale when the master-porter became responsible, and relied on the empty bags as a'check. There were 66 bags not returned to the master-porter and these were put aside by the prisoner, and several witnesses proved that the prisoner had concealed the bags. The line of defence was, that the bags were put by in orde r to protect, Me s srs. Trimmers Grainger, because it was alleged that some of the bags were not full when delivered, and, therefore, the empty bags were laid aside to make up for the deficiency. Mr. 111‘Donnell made an ale speech ence was for the prisoner, who was discharged, because t b he evid not considered sufficient to convict him. 1, 6 , 0‘ 1 , t 0 n ma, S l' --ESERTER9 FROM ST. GEORGE'S BARRACKs. I'd bee ti tinda y night, four men of the Scots Fusiliers, who 4," 1 -...t ri c e n . fined in the guard house of St. George's Bar. ‘l,„c---. 0 , .; tor desertion and for being absent without (4;414, 4 "e their escape. Having taken advantage of an li a ;r, hr - o v itl ° ll lent, they eluded the vigilance of those on cl Nelt -e out Of the y guard house, and by scaling the toNI, wail . e g at cff. , a height of 14 feet, gained tho street, and got Mt UP to last night A Q ll . , t4 `itt „, ita) iL,,, 44 ~a 3 , 8. EVOIJRED BY A WOLF. --A letter from War tt le r i l!ed, 4,—" Although the winter has sca-cely yet corn- lft Alexander M'Cambridge and Peter Carraoslsla,nlwtenrne charged with having committed a violent k w ' ha unt very little snow has fallen, wolves have e ill fl a '" in numbers, approached the villages• A e _ y R 6. ,_ umbers, and nek Bradley, d et 1 d The parties met in the house, , ltr ) , l "llla n , e 'l'c_ an enormous one entered, in the open day,knocked Id in e a . houseofbad repute in Peter street. some dispute arose. .The complainant was )rb car r i ed "! t 4 zrmtinow, seized on a child six years of age, 1 10 , 5 1 poolit it .o ff down and kicked terribly about the head by the first to the neighbouring forest. Although the named prisoner. . Mr. Bluck produced h,; • ation of the vial e were in 't f the anial, Carroll, exonerating him, and he was discharg (1. Tire half e .... could b , g pursui o tite ll r _ e found, after several hours searcb, but the other p prisoner was remanded, until the result of the uluaiu s of the poor child." injuries could be ascertained. a witness BEFORE MESSRS, AIKIN AND sTEWART The Chairman : Such is not the case on the Aigburth road. Last night I was there, and I was pleased with the lights the lamps gave. I have no complaint to make, arid yet I consume gas almost at the extremity of the township. Several Commissioners supported the statement made by Mr. Dansie, as to the inefficient supply of gas in the Grove-park district; and, on the motion of Mr. Dansie, seconded by Mr. Boult, the Llw Clerk was directed to communicate with the gas company as to the inefficient supply of gas in the Grove-park and neighbourhood. TAM SEWERAGE COMMITTEE. The proceedings of this committee were read. It was recommended that the tender of Mr. Abraham Thomas, for constructing a sewer, &c.. i❑ Grove-park, be accepted. The recommendation was unanimously adopted, and the law clerk was instructed to take the necessary steps for forwarding the works. THE TOLLING OF THE CEMETERY BELL. A letter was read from the clerk of the burial board, stating that that board had taken into consideration the communication from the board of health, relative to a com plaint made that the tolling of the cemetery bell was a nuisance to the inhabitants of the district, and had passed a resolution to the effect that in future the bell would not commence tolling until the funeral had arrived at the cemetery gates, instead of when it first came in sight, and and that the burial board had given such instructions as to the tolling of the bell as would prevent any future cause of M ACNAUGHT ON INSPIRATION. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT BEFORE MR. C:iMMISSIONBR STEVENSON IN RE WILLIAM LAWFORD TOXTETH PARK LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH. The usual monthly meeting of this board was held yes terday, at the public offices, Park-road. Mr. H. S. Alpws, the chairman of the board, presided. The other commissioners present were—Messrs. Jeffery, Rogers, Hughes, Boult, Siddeley, Darsie, an.i Urquhart,. The Law Clerk read the minutes of the last meeting of the board, which were unanimously confirmed. THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. The minute of the proceedings of this committee was read. It recommended the payment of the salaries and tradesmen's bills, incurred since the last meeting; also, that the chairman be empowered to employ a person as inspector, during the indisposition of Mr. Williams, who had been confined to his house for several weeks. Mr. Urquhart wished to know whether, as Mr. Williams had been suspended, his wages should be stopped ? Mr. Jeffery: How long has :he been in the employ of the township ? The Chairman : Four or five years, and his salary is 26s per week. Mr. Jeffery said. that being the case, then, I would let the wages go on for the present. The proceedings were then confirmed. THE GAS SUPPLY Mr. Dansie wished to know what the board paid the gas company for tl , e public lamps ? The Chairman : £2 each, for lighting them 2000 hours Mr. Dansie : Are the company bound to keep the gas at a certain pressure ? The Chairman: No ; the gas must be kept at a certain laminating power, but there are no restrictions as to the pressure. Mr. Dansie said : As a consumer, he had to complain ; for, in the Grove-park district. the gas was not kept at half the pressure it should be. He had complained to the gas company, and they had sent a man to examine his meter, which he did with a small instrument, and it was found that the pressure was only 4-10 on the inch, exactly half what it should be. In his dining-room, the light was so bad that it was all but impossible to see, the illuminat ing power not being half what it ought to be. Therefore, if it was so in private houses, of course the same result would be in the public lamps; and, if so, the board was paying one-half more than it should do. At the present time he was burning gas without a meter. . complaint. Mr. Urquhart : Then the burial bard are resolved that the bell should be tolled. Is it right that they who live in the present day should be thus annoyed—that they should have a night of the 15th century, when it was considered that the ringing of the bell would facilitate the repose of the departed, by frightening all the evil spirits away? After the representation that had been made from that board, he thought that the burial board had a right to stop the tolling of the bell, because thee had no power to toll such bell. The Chairman (who is also a member of the burial board) said there was no do ibt as to the right, because the act emncwered them to perform the burial service in accordance with the rites of the Established Church in England and Ireland, and such was the custom hero. Mr. Dansie said, the hell was a g eat nuisance to all the inhabitants, and he had no doubt but that it would prevent gentleme❑ from building within the sound. Mr. Jeffery thought that there could not be a more annoying or depressing sound introduced into a neighbour hood, than the tolling of a bell. It was quite enough to give all who heard it the "blues." Mr. Boult suggested that the subject should stand over until the meeting. of the Vestry, when the inhabitants would be able to employ the pressure from without to stop it, if that board had not any power in the matter. The Clerk : We have no power over such nuisances as that. Mr. Jeffery wished to know why the Burial Board did not hold its meetings with open doors, and admit the reporters of the press—then they would have been enabled to have known the arguments that bad been raised in sup prt of the bell. He did not like those private cliques, and would never be a member of a board, the proceedings of which were kept private. After some further conversation, the law clerk was again requested to communicate with the Burial Board on the subject. After some routine business, the board separated. ANNUAL PUBLIC MEETING OF RATEPAYERS AT THE OLD SWAN. The anneal public meeting of the ratepayers of the Old S van and E ige-lane districts, in the parish of West Derby, was held on Monday last, at the National School room, Old Swan ; thellev. T. Gardner, M.A., in the chair. The inspectors produced their accounts for the past year, ending '2lst November, which showed the amount of the receipts to be £327 6s. 9d., and the expenditure £309 lOs 91., leaving a balance in the hands of the treasurer of £I7 16s. The election of inspectors for the current year was next made, Mr Thomas Birchwood, of Stanley, being elected in the room of Mr. Thomas Har rison, who has left the neighbourhood. Mr. William Taylor next proposed. and Mr. French seconded, that the amount of the call for the ensuing year he £4OO, which amount, the inspectors said. would be sufficient to enable them to light the district. In answer to the chair man, the treasurer said that the call of £4OO would keep the rate at the same amount as last year, namely, 41d. in the pound. A letter was read from Mr. Papayanni, mer chant, of May place, Broacigreen road, complaining of the great want of lamps in that road Several ratepayers present agreed with the terms of the letter, and it was agreed that additional lamps should be placed on the road between May-place and the Broad-green railway station. DANGEROUS STATE OF DERBY LANE. The Chairman next called attention to the disgraceful state of Derby-lane,—a rapidly increasing thoroughfare between the main road at the Old Swan and West Derby road. He complained that although the highway board had for several years promised to widen the road, and thoroughly repair it, the improvement had never yet been carried out; the consequence of which was, that the greatly increased traffic on the road rendered it dan gerous to pedestrians. He named instances of persons having narrowly escaped being killed when conveyances met, owing to the road being so narrow. He considered that the highway board, whose duty it was to widen the road, had been guilty of a breach of faith in not having long since repaired it; A rather warm discussion followed on the subject', in the course of which the complaint made by the chair man was repeated by other ratepayers present, all of whom spoke to the highly dangerous state of the road, which, it appears, is only between five and six yards wide, and without any footpath. Mr. French admitted the great importance of the road being at once improved, but said there was a difficulty in obtaining the necessary land. They expected to have the land in their hands in a short time, and then the required improvements would be made. The Chairman said the improvement had been pro mised for ten years, and yet it had never been made. He attributed great negligence and inattention to those whose duty it was to see it affected. Mr. Hodson, the clerk to the highway board, explained that in consequence of there being no trustees to the land which it was proposed to take in order to widen the road, an application was being made to the Court of Chancery to appoint such trustees ; and, until that was done, the hoard could not give the necessary notice pre paratory to taking possession of the land. In the further discussion which followed, the highway board were charged with unnecessary delay, it being urged that this Chancery difficulty had been pleaded for years. It was ulimately agreed to bring the matter promi nently before the highway board, and urge upon them the absolute necessity of the road being widened and improved without further delay. The meeting then broke up. 'MALTA PROTESTANT COLLEGE.—A public meeting o n be half of this institution which is desi.ned for the promotion of the religiouaand social regeneration s of the inhabitants of Tur key and contiguous parts, was held in Dublin, on Saturday, which was attended by a large and influential assemblage of the gentry and clergy of the city. The Archbishop of Dublin presided. Among the speakers was the lit. Hon. Joseph Napier, M.P. An active committee was nominated to carry out the objects of the meeting. COUNTY COURT-YESTERDAY BEFORE JOSEPH POLLOCK, ESQ, JUDGE, This was the opening day of the first December court. A considerable number of unimportant convictment summonses was heard, and some orders for committal made. INSOLVENTS Robert MacNare was unopposed, and received his final order.—Thomas Mackeridge. also unopposed, received a final order.—Peter Hawley was sup- ported by Mr. Husband, and received a final order. Mathew Davison, supported by Mr. Hime, received a final order unopposed.—George Trowbridge received a final order unopposed.—John Quine, boarding house keeper, was supported by Mr. Aspinall, and opposed by Mr. Woodward and Mr. Anderson on behalf of separate creditors. It appeared that the insolvent had been engaged in a kind of speculative trade, in the cashing of seamen's notes, in which he had incurred no less than about three hundred bad debts. The opposi , ion was chiefly o n the ground that, in April, 1854, insolvent made an assignment to his creditors, under which, however, he di - 1 not appear to have paid anything, and that in June, 1854, he took the benefit of the insolvent cow, since when, he had incurred the number of bad debts mentioned. Mr. Aspinall, in his defence, urged the precarious nature of the trade in which the insolvent had been engaged, and strong'y condemned the act of parliament which allowed the cashing of seamen's advance notes, which, at the best, he urged, could only be a temptation to the seaman to pledge a portion of his wages for something which must neces sarily be below the value. His Honor said, although this case was not within the distinct provisions of the section, by which the heaviest power of imprisonment was given to him, yet he could not but think it his duty to mark very plain'y his sense of the misconduct of a man who, having been utterly insolvent some two years ago, and having obtained protection at that court, went on with his business, so as to incur 300 had debts, and then came there again without one shilling in the world. It was said, on his behalf, that he had been engaged in a perilous' business. The more important, then, that he should exercise due care and cautioe. He had no hesitation in saying, when he found 300 sailors' debts in the sche dule, and between 60 and 70 of them for advanced notes, that he was strongly inclined to believe the insolvent had himself assisted in making some of the bad debts, and assisted the sailors to ocher ships afterwards. He was sufficiently well acquainted with the nature of these dealings to know that there must be something very peculiar when a boarding house keeper incurred 300 bad debts of this kind in the course of' a year or two. He confessed he could not believe that this occurred without some connivance upon the part of the boarding-house keeper. They all knew perfectly well how that business was carried on, and that a boarding-house keeper generally took very good care not to let the sailor go at all until be had got his own bill paid out of the advanced note. The system was a very bad one. Almost every body connected with it was, he regretted to say, more or less dishonest. All were very keen, and Mr. Quine, who was an experienced person, was not likely to allow such debts, unless he was utterly careless and improvident, or unless, which his Honour rather believed, he had himself by his own conduct connived at the notes becoming bad by remain_ ing silent and taking no part, while the seamen left one ship and went to another. His Honour therefore directed that, as it was manifest the debts were either contracted by utter recklessness, or, as he rather inclined to believe, by the insolvent's own carelessness, the insolvent be not discharged from custody until five calender months had elapsed from the date of his vesting order.—Mrs. Mary Anne Cronin, insolvent, was dis charged, upon an arrangement that £4O a year be set apart for the creditors. The 6th of January was appointed for the final order.—Anna Dickson was unopposed, and the final order was appointed for the 6th of January.—David Evans was supported by Mr. Aspinall, and unopposed. The insolvent is a draper's assistant, residing in Pitt street. The cause of his insolvency was a solicitor's bill of costs, incurred in bringing an action against the insolvent for breach of promise of marriage, The insolvent's schedule alleged that the solicitor brought the action on behalf of Miss Powney, knowing that the lady had no means of paring any costs. The action was tried at Devizes, and a verdict for £BO damages was given. The insolvent, however, disposed of the damages by the very satisfac tory arrangement of marrying the fair plaintiff. The bill of costs incurred by the lady, as between attorney and client, was then transferred over as a charge upon insolvent. His Honour remarked upon the peculiar character of the insolvency, ari'ing out of costs incurred at the suit of a lady, whose claim for breach of promise the insolvent had subsequently appeased by marrying her. (Laughter.) The final order was appointed for the 6th of January.—Edward O'Neill was opposed by Mr. Henry, and supported by Mr. Chilton. His Honour ordered the case to stand over, with protection, until the 6th of January, in order that a fuller statement might be produced of the accounts between him and the detaining creditor, Mr. Harrison.—The petition of Thomas John son was dismissed, the petitioner not being in atten dance. THE WINE DUTIES A correspondence has passed between the Lord Mayor of London and Mr. B. Oliveira, M.P., the President of the Wine Duties Reduction Committee, who wrote to his lordship on Friday last, asking him to preside over a public meeting to be called shortly after the meeting of Parliament, either in the Guildhall or the Mansion-house, to promote the objects of the committee. Mr. Oliveira in_ formed the Lord Mayor that the committee consists of 1,250 gentlemen, many of whom are persons of high position and influence, and that their object is simply, by a reduction of duty from 5s 91 per gallon to Is, to obtain the introduction for general consumption into the United Kingdom of the sound, full bodied wines of the South of France, Spain, and Portugal, at a cost that will bring them within the reach of Persons of limited means. The advantages to be expected from such a measure were explained in Mr. Oliveira's letter. The Lord Mayor, in reply, assured that gentle man that the subject should have his earliest consideration. " I am fully alive to its importance ; but a question may arise at this period whether it would be desirable, when r so eli s e t f ro f n ro g m a thefeelingis exhibited by the public to obtain income and property tax, to agitate the wine question. Mr. Oliveira has since addressed a second letter to his lordship, in which he remarked that a reduc tion of the income tax would assuredly be assented to by all sound financial reformers, but that he thought it would be premature to decide that question until we had learned from the Chancellor of the Exchequer the charges in curred for the late war; and that the question of reducing the wine duties stood upon an entirely different footing. " We have ivre," he said, "to deal with an excessive impost upon an article of general consumption, the amount of which is, on most of the wines of Europe, a prohibition. To retain that duty at its present rate Is to diminish con sumption, and, consequently revenue, to promote the fabrication of unwholesome home made imitations, and thus to damage the fair trade of the importer and dealer in foreign wines." In conclusion, Mr. Oliviera said the committee wished it to be understood that, in presiding over their meeting. his lordship would not commit himself to the adoption of their resolutions. Ralph • Waldo Emerson has spoken in Boston in aid of the funds for Kansas. His was the second lecture of the course inaugurated by the Young Men's Kansas Relief Society. Mr. Emerson treated of tl-e " Culture of Life," but introduced his remarks by saying that, as in the recent contest, the day had gone against freedom, it seemed as if nothing were left but suicide or emigration. He was happy to say, however, that it had not come to this. The freemen of this country were yet alive. Culture, said the lecturer, is freedom, and every step in this course is breaking the chains of a slave, we must not meet the immediate con summation of onr desires, as the Divine Providence meant that liberty should be no hasty fruit. Thinking men will not advocate slavery. Mr. Emerson here stated that although it might be expected by some who were present that he should express his sentiments there on the subject of slavery, he should decline doing so. SOCIETY Of ARTS.—On Friday some experments were made at the Society of Arts, with the view of testing the efficacy, as an antidote to the bite of a venomous snake, of a root which has been recently brought to this country by the Hon. R. Temple, late chief justice of Honduras, and which, if not the veritable guaco so famed among the Indian tribes for its medicinal properties, resembles it closely in appearance, belongs to the same class of serpentaria, and is universally reputed throughout Central America to possess similar virtues. It was determined to test the potency of the plant, both as a repellant and a remedy, and for this pur given by D r . Ch am b ers to a h ea l t hy ra bbit, w hich wa s th en pose some eight or nine drachms of the infusion were put into the same box with two puff adders of the deadliest reputation, procured from the Zoological Gardens. For more than ten minutes the snake endured the presence of the intruder —if so he may be called, who enters less by his own act than by that of another—with exemplary resigna tion, but finding that his visit was prolonged beyond reason able duration, they flew fiercely at him, and one of them bit the poor martyr of science in the mouth. On being taken from the caga ' the same infusion was again administered, and the wound was fomented ; but the hind legs became rapidly paralysed tetanic convulsions supervened, and, though a small dose—not more than two drachms—of the tincture was given, the animal languished and died in thirty-five minutes from the time it was bitten, It is under• stood, however, that the experiments will be repeated on other subjects in the course of a few days. A somewhat curious case, exemplifying the many and deceitful ways and means which persons who depend upon their wits for a living, was brought before the Marlborough Police Court, London, on Monday last, when Henry Bailey, an elderly man of respectable appearance, was charged with attempting to defraud George Hunter Ferrier, of £2O, under the following circumstances :—The prosecutor deposed that on Satur. day morning, about eleven o'clock, he met a man near the Duke of York's column, who accosted him, and after some conversation, they went to a public house. After partaking of some refreshment the man went out, and the prisoner came in, and made some remarks about the severity of the weather, and in a few minutes the man who first accosted him came back again. The prisoner then said he was a stranger, and was tired of London life. lie then said he had come in`o possession of £7,000, and that one of the conditions was that he should give £lOO away in charity. The other man suggested that the prisoner should give him £2O to give to some needy persons where he resided in Liverpool, and that, in addition, he should give the same sum to witness, who immediately consented to accept it, and stated the name of the cbari'y he would give it to. The prisoner said his lawyer had advised him to give the money only to those persons possessed of a little money of their own, and that each of them muse show that they were possessed of £2O. The other man said he had not so much, and asked witness if he had the amount. He replied in the negative, but said he could get it if it really was required. The prisoner said, if that was the case he would ineet them at two o'clock. He then left, and at two o'clock he met them, when the prisoner suggested they should go to some public house, and they all three went to the White Horse, Princes street, Leicester square, where the prisoner called for three glasses of whisky and water, and begged to leave them for a moment. The other man asked him if he would come back again. He made no reply, but took a purse from his pocket, apparently full of gold, threw it in the other man's hat, and said, "That will be sufficient." The other man covered it over with a napkin. After a few minutes absence the prisoner returned, and said it would be necessary to get two stamped receipts. Prose cwui objected t t o n r e s s s ai t d ot h gt e oh l a i t a , da out.na e i sT h C a e i idep thatt r n i his n s oeu p r l o d e a k sn e ko t et b dd o o o i. k r . Prisoner er p cowing n lgefbta,ckb,uatnd the other he e r i aemntwn would ou n u l e dnd d go r aat beckoned altpiniejuderrssaem i same. stop,.t into and unhdee hat. Witness was going after him w h en t h e pr i soner called declined e h d i him back, :e g l( and oan a d d v s i a s i e d d that the other man had better get the two stamps. The prisoner objected to this, and said each of them must get his own stamp. The other man asked him (witness) to accompany him, to which he assented, when the prisoner again advised him to do as they had done. Witness said he did not think so, and told him the affair was nothing more than a " plant." The other man appeared to las of the same opinion, and went away. Witness then went to the bar to pay for the whiskey, and as he was doing so the prisoner tried to slink out of the house. Witness laid hold of him and gave him into custody On the way to the station witness heard some thing fall, and a person picked up the brass counters produced. The prisoner, who made no reply to the charge, was remanded till Thursday next. THE LATE TRAGEDY AT CROYDON. I APPREHENSION OF A LEITH MERCHANT ON CHARGES OF FORGERY. SURRENDER AND EX kMINA.TION OF THE ASSASSIN It will be recollected that in this journal last week we gave the particulars of a most diabolical attempt at assassination made upon the person of Mrs. Belton, a most respectable married woman, living in White Horse road, a lonely road leading from West Croydon to Croydon common. On that occasion, as we before stated, the assassin escaped, and the unfortunate victim was in such a state as to render her death almost inevitable within a few hours. Mrs. Belton bas, however, up to the present time, survived, but she was, on Monday evening, in such a state that Mr. Cooper, her medical adviser, considered it his duty to refuse the magistrate's permission to take her depositions. Her case is very similar to that of Cope, for whose murder Marley at present lies under sentence of death in Newgate. Mr. Cooper states that she is suffetirg under a severe concussion of the brain, caused be a blow from a blunt instrument, such as a chopper. The operation of trepanning has not yet been performed, and from the state of the poor creature on Monday evening, there is very little chance that it will. At five o'clock on Monday morning the assassin surrendered to the police at Croydon. He stated when ho gave himself up to Sergeant Julian, that he was concerned in the affair of Y. ton, and ho supposec knew all about it. The officer then took him into custody. He searched him, and found only 93 o❑ him. He was then placed in a cell, and on Monday, at eleven o'clock, was brought up The magis- Joseph Manning Wilson, recently a well-known corn merchant and ship-broker, in Leith, has just been appre hended (says the Scotsman,) on charges of forging bills of exchange to the amount of between £2,000 and £3,000. It may be recollected that, in the month of May last, Jacob Christiansen, who was also a ship-broker, in Leith, was convicted before the High Court of Justiciary of forging seven bills of exchange for the the sum of £3,775, and bearing to he accepted by parties in Dundee, Montrose, Newcaqle, Hull, Stockton, and Hartlepool ; and at the same time Wilson was outlawed for not appearing to answer to similar charges. In the course of the investigation into Christiansen's case, it appeared that Wilson was im plicated in the matter, but before this came out he had absconded ; indeed, it would appear, that he had left Leith immediately after the apprehension of Christiansen. It was not till two or three weeks afterwards that Mr. Grant, superintendent of the Leith police, received informa tion of Wilson's share in the forgeries. lie immediately proceeded to London, where he had reason to believe Wilson had gone, and succeeded in tracing him to the London Coffee house, Ludgate bill, and then to the Bridge Hot where he ascertained that Wilson had taken his passage on board the Cyclone for Sydney, that he had gone on board the vessel at Graveseni, and was then far beyond the reach of the police. Mr. Grant, however, determined to use every means likely to secure Wilson's apprehension, and he accordingly took measures to have his movements watched on his arrival in Sydney. A few days ago, accor dingly, be received intimation from Australia that Wilson was about to return to this country, and that he had taken tiffs passage to London on board the Adele. Mr. Grant, at once, put himself in communication with the London police, with the view of getting immediate information by telegraph of the arrival of the vessel off Deal. On 'ttonday last, in pursuance of this arrangement, Mr. Grant received a telegraphic message from Superinten dent Hodgson, of the London police, to the effect that the Adele had passed Deal that afternoon. Mr. Grant imme diately started for London, expecting to reach Gravesend in time to await her arrival. He was, however, too late ; but he had arranged that two London detectives should be there in ease he should not have arrived, and they informed him that Wilson was not on board, but that he had left the ship iu the morning in the English Channel, somewhere between Dover and Dungeness. Mr. Grant proceeded to Dover, and then to Folkestone, where, in conjunction with Superintendent Steer, of the Folkestone police, he succeeded in apprehending the nrm of whom he was in search. He brought him down to F.dinborgh on Thursday night, and yesterday the prisoner was brought before Bailie Wishart, and remitted to the Sheriff on various charges of forgery. It seems he had not intended to come to Scotland, but was about to proceed to Germany. It may also be stated that he cheated the captain of the Adele out of his passage money home, having given him a bill on the Bank of Scot land, payable at Coutts and Co.'s, in London, which was dishonoured on being presented. WRECK OF ASTEAMER ON LAKE SUPERIOR FIFTY LIVES LOST, before T. Byron, Esq., at the magistrate's office. trate's clerk, Mr. Penprase, stated that he was charged with a assault upon Harriet Belton, on the 20th November Croydon, with intent to murder. Sergeant Julian, 2,, deposed: At about five o'clock this morning, I heard a knock at the back door of the Croydon Police•station. I went to the door, and found the prisoner there. He said he wanted to speak to me. It was dark, and I could not see into hie face, as his face was enveloped in a large handkerchief. The prisoner came into the station, and said, ‘' My name is Staines, but I go by the name of Bright, and I want to give myself up about Mrs. Belton's affair." I took him into the charge-room, where he took off his neckerchief, and saying, " I go by the name of Blight—you know all about this." I said, " No." Ho then said that there were six of one and half a dozen of another (alluding to himself and Mrs. Belton ) I searched him and found only ninepence in his pocket. He said he knew he should be ' snapped," and so he thought he would give himself up. When he did the deed, the chopper with which the blow was inflicted was in the room, and as she had been insulting him, he struck her. Mr. George Cooper, surgeon, of George street, Croydon, said : I am a surgeon to the police at Croydon. On the 21st ult., about one o'clock, I was called to Belton's house, Vine Cottage, White Horse toad. I found Mrs. Belton quite insensible, suffering from severe concussion of the brain, and contused wounds on the same side, produced no doubt by the instrument I see in court. (the hatchet was here produced. The head was covered with blood, and there was also portions of clotted hair upon it.) The Magistrate : Do you now consider her life in danger ? Mr. Cooper : Certainly. She is sensible now, but is perfectly ancensciousof all matters in connection with the occurrence. The Magistrate (to the prisoner) : Do you wish to ask any questions Prisoner : I have done the job, and it can't be helped. Mr. Thomas Lessingham, a gentleman living next door to Mrs. Belton, deposed to hearing the disturbance on the night of the occurrence, and on going into the house, found the deceased lying on the floor, with her head in a pool of blood, and the hatchet by her side. After some further evidence, the prisoner was remanded. TRICKS UPON TRAVELLERS. DARING GAROTTE ROBBERY On Monday Samuel Turner, a determined•looking fellow, was placed at the bar of the Worship street police court, London, before Mr. D'Eyncourt, charged with having been concerned, with others, in violently assault ing and robbing a respectably dressed young man named William Holloway, a cabinet carver, in Hunt street, Bethnal green. The prosecutor stated, that between five and six o'clock on the evening of the 4th ult., while one of the shoe brigade was in the act of cleaning his boots in Brick lane, Spitallields, he was suddenly surrounded by the prisoner and several other men, one of whom rapidly threw a handkerchief over his bead, which was drawn tightly round his mouth, and, at the same moment, his throat was tightly compressed by another of his assailants, who dragged him to the ground. fit fore he had time to rise, he received several violent kicks about the face and head, which partially stunned him ; and on recovering his consciousness, he found that he had been robbed of his watch and chain, and that the whole of the ruffians had effected their escape. He gave immediate information of the robbery to the police, hut saw no more of either of the men until the previous evening, when he accidentally met the prisoner, who was lurking in the same neighbourhood, and at once gave him into custody The prisoner here addrassed the prosecutor with the ob serration, " Why, you know well enough that you are one of us, and that you have been lagged for a " burst" yourself. Mr. D'Eyncourt : Pray, what am Ito under stand by the expression, that be has been " lagged s:t f rA o e r anm a d . burst ?" Prisoner : Why, nabbed for a burglary to be sure ; and moreover than that, he came to me two days after the robbery, and says he, " Sam, I lost my 'sootier' (meaning his watch) t'other night, but I want you now to join us in a friendly lead." The Mag is is f tr a a c t e e what did he mean by that invitation ? Prisoner : Why, an apsutbi iow) before u rniceoe t teer t hat e ebeo r edui los.esitonteryn:at:rvy with gbhieteitherie Convicted ID: of e the efte 11 prisoner, en yii. i i‘sl er . we call it a " friendly lead" when one of our pals is in the e ff ects of severe recent violelnlrcee, trouble, and we want to raise the tin to get him out of it. The tnheevenrisgeleitn in after lsteppeduetshtieo question robbery t ile forwardprou prosecutor ei until l u t t the pr manifest tim_ , s' on of the robbery and outrage to astonishment, and rather unnecessarily assured the ma of an active g soaswi netfn i al sngittothreenadi sensed t with eat ii al Iv: i epeat blood, n i t : lh) aosrioatenoendlhdfflo:i at tmsr apprehension. from nt a ei but e P t r i (i the eu prisonert o r v a wasa 1 ipwp,e l e : rEl i si c oy h knnneg i ,o i rw e :rntn h ad a s sao d itiadbb membertteieledant it wa s a most flagrant case, which and he hail been twice srtes gang of thieves, dtheefenpereisolineelriatiol ahtteemrpeme had been aggravated, if t po s sible, sible, by the impudent line of remanded for the formal completion to set up, and lie should order of the depositions. We have intelligence of the wreck of the steamer Superior of the Chicago and Lake Superior line, off the Pictured Rocks, on Lake Superi or , w ith th e l oss of nearly fifty lives. The steamer left the Saut Ste. Mary's Canal at 7 o'clock on the morning of the 29th of October. In the afternoon, when off the Grand Marris, heavy snow squalls came on, and as the wind increased during the evening, the captain determined, about 11 o'clock, to ran under the lee of Grand Island, which was then about 15 miles distant. Unfortunasely, half an hour after the steamer's course had been altered, the waves carried away her rudder, and she fell into the trough of the sea. The tiller was shipped, and an attempt was made to guide the vessel by her after wheel, but it would not work. At midnight the smoke'pipes were blown away, and the deck load, consisting of filur, merchandise, cattle, and hogs, was shifted to leeward. The crew then cut away the bul wark, and threw part of the cattle and merchandise over board to lighten the vessel. The wind and sea increasing, however, the vessel began to take in water very fast, until the engine fires were extinguished by it. Finding the land close under their lee, the crew tried to let go the small anchor; could not get the large anchor off her bows. The small anchor would not hold her, when she immediately struck forward, her stern swung round, and the next sea carried her broadside on the rocks. The utmost terror and confusion prevailed amongst the passengers, who ran upon deck, and gat hold of doors and other things to that by. The life.preservers were found to be unfit for use. Captain Jones went to the officers of the vessel, and said, " Boys, I want you to stick the boat as long as there is anything left of her ; this is the fourth boat I have lost, but. I shall not probably lose another. If any of you get ashore I want you to go and tell my mother that I did all I could to save the boat." 11 , was one of those drowned. One of the passengers who escaped, Mr. Foster, thus describes the scene which followed;--" It was blowing very heavy, a sleety, chilly rain and snow. I helped my sister and a boy on the hurricane deck. I should think we were there about five minutes, when a heavy sea struck the vessel, and she gave a lurch, and her , deck parted in the middle and fell in. A number of men rolled down I saw the life-boat in the water. Supposing my sister was there, I jumped off the deck into the water, and found her. Mr. Minter, and four sisters, and some other persons had hold of the boat ; but a moment after I got hold of the boat a heavy sea capsized her, apiece of timber struck [neon the head, knocking me senseless. When I came to I found myself strangling. I reached out to grasp something, and caught a rope- I crawled out of the water, and found it was the painter of the boat. When I got back I found only one person had hold of the boat, The next sea threw me up in tne drifting timber. I was closely jammed among the timber and a reek ; it was with great difficulty I extra. cated myself. I heard some one speak, and crawled upon the rocks. Then I found Mr. Davis, mate, and the boy who I had not seen since I inmped off the wreck. was but a few moments. Tiley were all ashore that were saved. The boy was deranged, and died some time aftet% wards." The next morning nothing was visible . b';,;, the wheels, which. bein g s t rong l y ma d e, an d anchorea fast by the engine and heavy machinery, had not been swept away. Upon these were seen clinging the bodies of seven men, among them the two clerks and the first saloon keeper. As they were but three or four rods from the shore, their cries could be heard distinctly calling to those on shore to come with the boats and save them. But this was impossible, as the surf beating on the rocks would have swamped a goad boat almost instantly, and those that were washed ashore were almost like the steamer, a wreck. One by one they dropped off into the water until all were gone. The scene is said to have been painful beyond description, as the survivors were within speaking distance, yet without power to render assistance. The saved suffered extremely from cold and hunger, and all of them were more or less bruised. Three days they were weather-bound, and not only this, but rock•bounct too, as the bluff at this point rises nearly 300 feet, and; almost perpendicular, presenting an impassable barpier. At this time the sea subsided sufficiently for :them to; reach Grand Island. They patched, up the boats and, started, going part of the way on land and part on water. Two boys died on the way from exposure. The saved( were obliged to subsist during th;s time upon such article& as chance threw on shore—raw vegetables, raisins, awl flour. The number who perished is estimated at about 50. Sixteen were saved, five of whom were passengers, Not one of the women were saved. 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