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Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. kirtlitra TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1853 AFTER all the hopes entertained to the contrary War seems not only inevitable but imminent The Manifesto of the PORTE (which we give in. extenso in another column) has just reached St Petersburgh. •It is said that the CZAR upon receiving the same, declared that he withdrew all his fonher concession and observed, that nothing now remained but " war to the knife." guerre a toutrance.): A pyiYate t91.tZ14034C mes sage from Marseilles announces the arrival of the sailed from- Constantinople steamer which Besika Bay, preparing to enter the Dardanelles armahient of several frigates arrived in Paris Cabinets places of others . now serving in the Mediterranean Thee PORTE has addressed a Manifesto to the Foqr Powers ing to the interpretation put upon, .it by the Ma homedan priesthood, signifies, that during the year 1270, a terrible ,war Will Occur, in which, however, the Turks Will be victorious. On the 9th instant began the first day of this eventful INTali6inedan Conflicting rumours still largely prevail as to the issue of the " Eastern question." Some affirming that a pacific solution is absolutely impossible Others again, that actual hotilities will not be entered upon. There can be no doubt but, that during the short time allowed by the PORTE for the evacuation of the Principalities, much might, and will, be done by the Western Powers to effect a peaceful settlement of the Russio-Turkish difficulty, even at the eleventh hour. Their decision we await with considerable anxiety AMONG the reforms to be introduced to the next Session of Parliament, is a Decimal Coinage. The measure has been thoroughly investigated by a select committee of the House of Commons, and favourably reported upon. That committee bor rowed light from some of the most experienced practical men, and the best financial scholars in the kingdom; among whom was the learned Dr. BOWRING, fresh from the heart of the Chinese Empire Strange, indeed, that England, justly boasting of so many improvements in the material and intellec tual world, should have been so slow in adopting this common sense measure, when most of the countries on the Continent, the United States of America, and 400;000,000 people of the' Eastern world had a long time ago adopted it. Such a thing as heading the Journal, the Cash-book, or Leger, in most of those countries, with X. s. d., has been unknown for half a century ; and the greates imaginable convenience has been experienced b; the Decimal Coinage. In the United States till coins of their mint originally were Cents, Dimes and Eagles, progressing upwards in Nalue„ deci mally, from the lowest to the highest denomination For convenience Ofehange, these coins have becii halved and quartered ; though all •accounts and financial calculations are done in the decimals above specified Critical book-keeping, where the accounts are multiform and domplicated, is at best, a nice opera tion ; but those unaccustomed to keep books and do business in this way, can scarcely conceive the convenience thereof, both, in the ease of reckon ing, and the saving of time. Some short-sighted people have expressed fears, that great difficulties will arise in the matter of tolls, as fixed by law, and in the post-office stamps, should the change go into operation. We fear nothing of the kind. The same Act of Parliament which establishes the pecimal Coinage; can regu late all these matters. Say, that the Turnpike Company are entitled to one penny toll for . horse and rider, let it be fixed by law, that the toll gatherers receive five mils thereof. :during the first three quarters of the year, and but four mils for the last quarter ; and so on year after year. This would in the end be precisely the average penny as - now received In regard to postage, should it be reduced a trifle, to four mils the single letter, we doubt not that the increase of letters would fully keep up the present [Revenue But .we have further thoughts upon the subject of this decimal reform. When the hand of Govern ment is .in the matter, why_ should we not make a bold sweep, and a clear dedk, of the artificial, non sensical, and most inconvenient syStem of com pound arithmetic ? . Here we have our weights and Avordupoise, Troy, and Apothecary, of the one, and Long, Square, Solid, and Liquid, of All these rise from lower to higher de nominations by arbitrary proportions, based on no measures--,=.. the others common sense, and most inconvenient and vex atious in practice. Why, in all that is sensible, is the pound weight divided into sixteen or twelve just according to the commodity to be weighed, rather than into any other numbers ? And why are our measures of every kind split up into denominations having no .relation to nature or to science ? Whether arithmetical progression by Decimals, be a fixed principle' in nature, or whether it has only received the sanction of 3,000 years, as the basis of calculation, is of no earthly consequence to determine. It is enough to say, that from the earliest dawn of science, it has been adopted as the basis of figures by all nations, both barbarous and civilized;. and ,this is reason enough why we should apportion things, to be bought .or sold, on this model. We say, therefore, that' not only the coin, but weights and measures of all kinds, and of all commodities, should be decimalized at once ;. and then it will be seen that we have arrived to a state of common. sense. This :reform may meet with its opposition . by an old-fashioned people, wedded to their absurdi ties, and John Bull may kick up a row for a short time about it, but it will be found; in the end, that a more beneficial reform has not been effected in this kingdom, for years lastpast. Where the pro cess of simple addition will cast up the Most -- long and complicated' 'accounts ; and where : all the weights and measures shall be decimalized to agree-with the current coin, the liabilities to error will be obviated, and ~men will do business'in a much more pleasant and expeditious manner than heretofore, We have often reflected upon this subject, pre vious to its recent agitation, and have wondered that England, so wide-awake in money matters, should, in this, so far lag behind the intelligence of the age. Now that she is awake, we hope her eyes will be turned to the weights and measures, as well as to the coins, and then she will be able to count up her immense treasures without spectales. PROSPERITY is sometimes as difficult to deal with as adversity. Nation's surrounded by all the ele ments of vitality, have more than once proved their Thus is it often with indi- lon the sth Instant. She met .with two fleets in Orders have, been given for the immediate Iskender Bey, Omer Pasha's aide-de-camp, has It is said that he is deputed on an important mission to the English and French The Labrador steam-frigate has left Toulon with nearly 800 sailors on board, who are to take the There is a passage in the Koran, which, accord- own worst enemies viduals, .and with bodies of men co-operating in certain biboUrs, for certain, purposes. The labouring productive .classes of England have of late,years enjoyed an almost unexampled amount of prosperity. They, have had for the most p 44, plenty to do, and have been well remunerated for; what they have done. Yet with - the increase of their social comforts, the demand for a higher rate THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES. of wages has increased also, not unfrequently ac companied .by a cliam for larger periods of leisure. At the present moment, the strikes which are taking place in almest every dePartment of labour,through out the 'Kingdom, are suggestive of consequences of no less vital interest to the parties concerned in them, than to their employers, and the community at large. The evils, then, accruing front' these strikes, may be regarded' in a threefold vie W—as affecting those on strike, those. by : whom they had been employed ; and the general interests of society. As •regaiAs.the first point, With which we would no* deal, we fear that if the consideration of their own true interests, and the daily experience each man must be painfully gathering, of not only the. inutility ) but suicidal tendency of such movements, have no preventive or certain' effects, argument, however cogent, will prove of but little avail. Nevertheless, it is most certain that 'the labouring classes,- those poSsesSed of the smallest amount of capital on which to fall back, are and must be the first to suffer. Let them look, for instance, at the consequences 'of the strikes of the pitmen in the coal mines felt . hitherto less in Liverpool and places : similarly situated,. than in . the 'Metropolis, and other more • remote districts to which coal is imported. The poor in Londonare-now payingls. 6d. a sack more for coal than they had to pay in the corresponding period of the last year. This is - truly a fearful state of things, now that winter is approaching, with more than'a common call for such a necessary article of existence as fuel. Here, then, the evil falls pri marily and principally on those, and their fellows, with whom it 'originated. 'The increase in price May, indeed—for vre will deal fairly with the ques tion—be partly attributable to the increase 0: tonnage, but only to a comparatively small extent and, at any rate, the price of coal in . Liverpool and other places in the close vicinity of coal mines would be but slightly effected thereby. But strikes are followed by other consequences of as injuriouS'a tendency to the . labourer. It is on record, that pitmen, whose demands for higher wages have been complied with finding, that they can now earn as much money in Six hours as they previously earned in eight, refuse to work any longer, and . too generally spend . their . extra time and their' money in drunkenness and dissipation, as utterly regardless of their employers' as of their own Teal-interests. Again, the confidence which should subsist be tween Mater and servant is altogether destroyed by these strikes, and a reflex, or double evil, is thereby effected.. The late proceedings in Man chester afford a curious exemplification of this fact. It seems,- that certain operatives th e r e , b y whom a second demand for an additional 10 per cent. on their wages had been made, expreSsed .themselves willing to resume their work, after having thrownit up in consequence of the rejection of their demand; but they were met by their em ployers with the intimation, 'that they could not be received again into their service, unless the 10 per cent. granted to their first demands was sur rendered. " To, such complexion" : it is not im probable that strikes generally will collie at last, and in this way things may again find their level. But in the meantime, how may the character. of the labouring class deteriorate ; what sufferings and privations—not the less grievous for being self-inflicted—may they, not have to undergo— what fearful consequences may ensue to capitalists -what annoyance to the generalpublic ? That the operatives themselves are awakening to a sense 'of such evils, is probable ; and a document lately published in the NonTidnx DAlrx TIMES, seems to countenance such a supposition. It was subthitted by the Committee 'appointed to prepare it to a large Meeting of delegates, held at the Tem perance Hall, Preston, and is entitled "A . Protec tion. . of Co-operative. Self employment." , After alleging, with what degree of truth we will not pauSe to enqUire, that -(in the 'Cotton trade) " the employers - of labour have reaped princely fortunes, while the labourer has not enjoyed his fair share of prosperity;". that " the small advantages which the toilers have obtained, have been wrung from the grasp of the employers ;" that "the operatives will have to. wrench from unwilling hands, their share of the blessings flowing from prosperity ;"—after asserting the. deSire. of the operative "to put an end .to an unceasing warfare," and expressing a belief that the elements of a better order of things exists in their own ranks; after giving also various statistical detailS, among which the enormous ex pense incurred in the support of the strikes at Southport and other places, stands out conspicu7 ously, the document proceeds to urge, or rather to announce, the establishment of " co-operative mills as the onlypermanent plan of elevating the laborer in the social scale." According to the Utopian ideas of the parties from whom this document emanates, a sum would, after the lapse of a few years; be realized, " which would build mills and workshops in every town and village, which would give the co-operative labourer a . position in the markets of the world that would ultimately raise him from, the degradation and wages of serfdom which have too long been his lot." These vast re- ' sults, it appears, are, according to the delegates at Preston, to be effected by funds to be raised in' £lO shares, by _weekly contributions of 6d." Now, whatever we may think of the probabilities of the realization of such anticipations ; whatever may . be our opinion as to the present relative status of the operative and his employer, we feel well assured that this Preston manifestation, as compared with the strikes now so general, is inno ... . . . eence, nay, excellence itself. If the operatives will but persevere in doing their duty in that station of .life to which it has pleased Providence to call them, without following up, at the bidding of every caprice, a, word with a blow, or rather a. strike, there can be no objection to weekly contributions of sixpence, until such a sum has accumulated as will, erect co-operative mills all the world over. However visionary and castle-in-the-air like such a project maybe ; the evils resulting from Strikes, are 'only too real—too truly. injurious to the vital interests of the operative, and, too clearly produc tive of annoyance. to society in general. . HEALTH OF THE TOWN.—Last evening, a general meeting of the Medical Relief Committ ee o the Select Vestry, was held at the Parochial Offices, Brownlow-hill. Mr. Bradley, the chairman of the committee presided, and there were also present Mr. Churchwarden Hutchinson, and Messrs. Hand, Shaw, Kitchen, and Troughton. The report of the medical officers was highly satisfactory, as to the health of the town. It appeared that there had only been eleven simple eases of diarrhoea since the evening of Satur day last, and no case of cholera. Of the emigrants received into the Workhouse during the past fortnight, eighteen only remained under medical treatment yesterday. From another account, made up to nine o'clock last evening, and which we received after writing the above, it will be perceived that there is a slight discrepancy in the two 'reports, though not tcl any material extent.. It appears that one case of cholera was adniitted to the workhouse hospital on Sunday, from Denison-street, .and yesterday an Irish labourer, who ar rived in town a few days ago as an emirrrant, was removed to the hospital from Carlton-street. One death only oc curred in the hospital during, Sunday and yesterday. OV:ERtAYING CHlLD.—Yesterday morning, a child named William Eagan, was found 'dead in its bed, in Wea therhall-place, Chapel-lane Bedford-street, Toxteth-p ar k. It is 'supposed that its m o th er must have accidentally lain upon it during the night. LIVERPOOL DISTRICT COIIRT OF DANKRUPTCY--ht •re DUQNALL AND FAIRCLOUGH.—The bankrupts in this case camebefore the court (AI their adirpied last examina', i ffgn. Airs. Dugnall passed' her laAt- examination.' The bankrupt Fairclough was examined at great length, and his examination was again adjourned to Friday next. TOWN IMP,ROVEMENI'S. KEEP TO THE RIGHT." TO THE EDITOR Or THE NORTHftN lAILY TIMES. SlR,—The above moral injunction is inscribed on half-a dozen half-obliterated boards, about the bridges connecting George's Pier with the streets of 'Liverpool; and with about as much effect upon the inhabitants of "the good old town" as - if they were flexed upert the gates oaf Canton, or in the purlieus of Hong`liOng. What a-world of parchment might be saved—how much of frauds and-feuds prevented—hew many lawyer's fees eco nomizediflow many head-aches . and heart j iches escaped— how many family broils and domestic stews avoided—how much of - hatred, malice; and *all uncharltableness shunned —if people would tut." beep to the right..". 'And—what is most to my present purpose—how many -pushings, pokings, jost lings, hinderings, would 'be evaded, if people, in walking throngh - igitreets, would but "keep to :the right." The art of walking the - streets is one which the people 'of Liverpool have yet to learn.' Ido 'riot : quarrel with the pro posed"improvements"-=the making of new streets, and the widening of old ones—wherever the necessity' exists ;—but let us, meanwhile, make the best of the space we have ; and, possibly, it may appear that, by better Management, in this most needful art, we may show that half the alterations, and half the expense proposed, may be delayed till a future generatienshall require and can afford to pay for them. Any one' who goes to London, and walks from Chariiig Cross to the Mansion House,' will find in the 'same width 'of pavethent, at least twenty times the number of passengers that we have in Liverpool.. - In London we trace in fo.tures - Of the passers to and fro, an eagerness to arrive at the place and object in pursuit, and yet all is order in their movements. In Liverpool there seems less of that eager rushing at the end and object of the journey, and a slovenly laxity and disregard of all method and arrangement in effect ing a speedy and commodious. passage through the,crowded streets. All this . would be avoided if people, would but "keep to the. right." Let anybody walk up Church-street —from Lord-street to Bold-street—and I'll bet you a new hat that in passing St. Peter's_ Church, where the wall is your right—being orr the right —you will meet half a dozen pig-headed pedestrians who will butt, and - dodge, and rush at you to displace you. As a man of. peace, you give way, and allow the confusion to be 'still confounded. As a sturdy belligerent reformer of our ways, you might stand and fight it out, and be carried before the magistrates for an assault. The pig-headed iforenamed seem resolved to hug themselves into the odour exuding from the graves, rather than take their rightful place, and the freer air upon the kerb. The simple rule of " . keeping to the right," would spare all this annoyance and confusion. If a waggoner drives his team through the street, his horses and carriage are on the left of the road, and he must be on the right of the pathway to guide and manage them " The rule of walking the streets is simply this :—pa__ to the right of all you meet, and to the left of all you over take. There is no hinderance in this, to your walking faster than otheri, if you desire, or have occasion to do so ; in such case Pass round the left hand of the slower walkers, but immediately take your place before them on the right hand of the pavement, and you will find yonr passage all the smoother and more facile for this concession to the rule of all large . and civilized co mmun iti es ." Say this, my dear Mr. Editor, to the people of Liverpool, and you will confer an obligation on society at large, and amongst the number to Your cordial well-wisher, A FELLOW WHO WANTS TO GET ON IN THE WORLD. DR. NETVM.AN'S LECTURE ON TURKEY. Last evening a lecture, on the Tartar *races and the Turks, was delivered in the Catholic Institute, Hope-street, by the Very Rev. Dr. NP - WmAx,"of the Oratory, to a numerous and respectable audience. RICHARD SHIEL, Esq., presided. The CHAIRMAN said—Ladies and. Gentlemen, I am about to perform a duty which I think might have very well been dispensed with, that is, of introducing to you the Very Rev. Dr. Newman. (Applause). He has been for some time very well known to us_and to him 'we owe so many and such great obligations, as render it quite impossible that we should forget him (hear, hear) ; or that we should even be'capable of not receiving him with • that, expression of gratitude to Which he is so justly entitled, not only from us, but from all Catholics in the Empire, in every place, and under every circumstance. (Applause). I feel I should be trespassing on 'your patience and acting injudiciously, if I were to take up your time any longer than by saying, I have the honour of introducing to, you the Very Itev. Dr, Newman, who will have the pleasure of addressing you. (Applause). NEW3IAN commenced by : laying . it down as a prin ciple that there -had been .from time immemorial a great conflict 'between the north and South the north had been aggressive, and the south had always to be on the defensive. This was brought before them in the Holy Scriptures. When the favoured people fell into sin and - we re threatened with judgement , 'it was said to come from the north, because in the history of the world, the north was the place' which was the home of, those restless nations which poured down upon the south. Why they did 'so was very plain also. The due had every thing to tempt, and the other had numbers to be tempted. The south was rich and beautiful, and the north on the otho hand had been called the store hoftse of nature. There was an enormous tract starting from the 50th degree of latitude, running from near the Chinese sea, across the whole of Asia and Europe. It went to the Baltic and Euxinn'Seas, and even to the Rhine, and the, peculiarity of that. great tract was- that it was a plain. This plain had been a sort of wild common or broad horse path, of those nations,and the home,if it could be called So of 'those wandering races. 'ln ancient times, before the Christian era, this extended into Europe. This tract was said to be 5,000 miles in length ; its breadth varied very much, sometimes 400 miles, and sometimes as much as 1,100. This great sphere was the home of the Nomadic or Wandering tribes, with their flocks and herds. In Asia this great space was scarred by four different ranges of very high mountains. None of them intersected each other, but ran parallel from west to east. The' lowest of those was the. Himalaya, and the highest the Altai, and that might he said to be the metropolis, the fountain head from which those races had poured out and' lled the im mense space he spoke of. It was a curse pronounced on man in the beginning, that by the sweat of his' brow he should earn his bread, but man in a naturally savage state was unwilling to comply with the necessity p u t up on hi m , and was exceedingly indolent. In the vast plain of which he spoke, the, inhabitants did not till the land, but subsisted on their flocks which lived on the spontaneous vegetation they found. Those people were especially attached to their horses, and they had duties of experience to perform to those brutes because they depended upon them. The horse to them was everything; whether as shepherds or in the chase, and as they travelled about much, the horse was their means of transport, but more than that, the horse was their food, both living and dead. The lecturer then described how they sturOunded therhselves with domestic animals, such as sheep, oxen, and horses ; but of all animals the horse was their peculiar characteristic. • The lecturer then described the many services which the horse renders to the Tartar from time immemorial, how, in past ages, he distilled a far from unpleasant spirit from the mare's milk—how his friend in war; the horse, was no less useful to him when dead, his flesh affording him food, his hide; the means of constructing a rude boat, which enabled him in his many wanderings, to cross wide and deeply flowing rivers, and the intestines a substitute for cordage. With this characteristic all their customs were connected ; and even at the present day the decrees of the sublime Porte are dated from the " stella," and the flying of the " horse-tail" is, as of old, their decla ration of, war. _ They had more than a contempt for houses, and would never enter them, calling them " the sepulchres of the living ;" but they wandered through the wastes, with, their families 'and herds, a . kind of knight-errant, though their object Was diffe r ent. seeking wherever they went, war and plunder. The -lecturer then pointed 'out how a certain amount of discipline being necessary to preserve the cohesion between these wandering hordes, they could with a very slight transition be made a military camp, possessing a fitness for war which no other people had or could have. For in all warfare; particularly modern 'warfare, the great difficulty was the providing a proper Commis sariat, but with this, now essential, the Tartar from his mode of life could easily dispense.. The lec turer then described the formation, • the cold, and other characteristics of the extensive plateau possessdd by_ the Tartar tribes, and observed that the only office their father land could do them, was to thrust them forth from its inhos pitable boSom on lands more fertile and tempting. He then described the course the tribes took in their migrations, which were alWays in the first instance westward. Having got to the edge of the 'plateau, they left Mongolia and en tered Tartary. They then reached Pama, crossed the Oxis, and then descended into the vast plains of Turkistan. If they did- not take that course, they, turned towards Siberia, and the top of the Caspian, and then, crossed the Oxis, 'by the Caucasus. And when they took neither of these courses, they . crossed the. Don; and so get into Russia, 'and then, crossing the Danube, they would,find themselves in Europe. The lecturer then described how these migrations were nothing more than, raids : or invasions, and h ow , t rave lli ng at their usual rate on such occasions, of 100 miles a day, they could within a few weeks overrun all Asia, devastating and laying waste the country which they passed, more fearfully than a cloud of locusts. They rushed along with all the excite ment of a fox hunt, but with the eagerness and silence of a beast of prey. Whateve r th e y met. they destroyed, and the 'only human beings whom they ,spared were priests and doctors—the first from a superstitious feeling, and the latter for their skill and knowledge. 'But they never spared lawyers, (laughter) and it was not wonderful, for 'of all things they had the least to do with law. 7 .(Laughter.) Society had eut-lawed them; and there , was 'One case on record, where, when they came to a lawyer, they sewed up his mouth, (laughter) saving, that the viper should not speak or hiss any longer. (Laughter.) The lecturer then said, that though he did not intend ,to go into the much vexed question of races, he should observe, that there was..a. general similarity in physical conformation among all' these' tribes, and that the character of the races. whatever their origin might be, would in that country, become like each other.' He then Pained the countries which suffered most from these raids by the Northern hordes, and remarked, that while the North was so powerful, the South was equally powerless against POLICE COURTS .- Y ESTERDAY LIVERPOOL EMBEZZLEMENT BY A SHOPMAN.—Peter Parson, a respect able looking young man, of very good address, was brought up, charged with stealing a variety of fancy articles out of the Shop of hiiemployer, Mi.:Richmond, corner of Church-A. and Paradise-street. The articles were tound in his box. Mr. Richmond stated that having missed a piece of cloth he announced his intention of having the boxes of the young men searched. His suspicion was principally directed to the prisoner, who denied that he had the key. Prosecutor broke the box 'open; and there found, not only the cloth, but a quantity of other articles, his property. Pnsoner then gave up the cloth. He had been but four or five weeks in Mr. Richmond's employment. Prisoner pleaded intoxication in mitigation of his offence. The magistrates said it was too clear a case, and they should send it trial at the Quarter Sessions. CHARGE OF STEALING COTTON.—iaMeSPOWeiaBCI Richard Shea were brought up for stealing six bales of cotton from a warehouse in Kitchen-street, belonging to Mr. Gregory and taken it to the • railway station at Wapping. The cotton was identified. Mr. Clough stated that in Shea's case they were perfectly satisfied that there was no evidence. Powell was remanded for seven days. STEALING 'COAL.— Catherine ifeoughan, Cicely Gill, Ellen Murphy; and Bridget Tierney were charged by officer 254, who stated that about half-past six, on Sunday morn ing, he met the prisoners in Oxford-street, each of them hav ing at the time a basket of coal, for which they could give no account. A flat man, who did not appear, told the po lice that he lost from three to four hundred weight the same morning. Murphy had been once committed before The magistrate said there were good reasons to believe tha the prisoners were thieves, but as the owner of the coal di not come forward, they should have the benefit of that donbl Discharged. • 'EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK.—Michael Bolger,. a clerk the employment of Mr. M'Corquodale, stationer, Casfie street, was charged with absconding with 16s. 6d. money which 'had been entrusted to him by Mr. Mason cash-keeper to Mr. M'Corquodale, to deposit at the Newtoi Savings' Bank. The prisoner was arrested at the Birken head Railway Station with most of the money on his persoi —X2O in five pound Bank of England notes, - the rest ii gold. He had bought a pair of trowsers and vest with thi balance. The prisoner stated that he was going to see hi friends in Dublin, and meant to return the money. Mr M'Corquodale said he was very unwilling to press the charge The magistrates,luwever, expressed an opinion to the effect that there was no alternative but to proceed with the case ; from the evidence now before them. Nevertheless, the) would remand the case for seven days. PICKING THE POCKET OF A DETECTIVE OFFICER !—ln spector Bates, of the detective force, brought up Patrick Colman, whom he charged with picking his pocket on Sun day evening, in London-road. Complainant, who found the fellow's hand in his pocket, had been watching him for twenty minutes previously. He had been once before committed for two months, and was now 'Committed for three months. DRVGGING A GENTLEMAN'S BEER.--The Scotch gentle man, whose case we detailed the other day, has since gone to Philadelphia ' and did not appear yesterday, w h en J os h ua Grimshaw and John Morgan were put forward, charged with drugging him and robbing him of £lO, a gold watch, and gold pen. Grimshaw had been s i nce t a k en in Manches ter, by officer 62. In default of the gentleman making his appearance, prisoners were not sent for trial, but the magis trates gave them three months each. • THE CASE OF STABBING A POLICE-OFFlCER.—Yesterday, the officer, William Laycock, who was stabbed yesterday week, in Boundary-street, was able to appear. David Urwin, the beer-seller, was put forward, charged w ith th e cu tti ng , wounding, and maiming of prosecutor, who ideritified the prisoner. A medical man swore that one of the three stabs was within a finger's breadth of an artery, which, if opened, would have been a fatal wound. Other witnesses deposed to pickiiig up the hurt officer ; finding his cap, &c. The prisoner was committed to take his trial at the assizes. STEALING SHOES . IN THE NIGHT ASYLUM.—.Malachi llforan and PhoMas BrOwn Were charged by the master of ;he Night Asylum with selling their pass-tickets for Ireland, . _ which they had gOt from the magistrates, for sixpence each, and also for Stealin a pair of shoes, the property of a fellow inmate. They has' climbed over the . wall, and for a time escaped, but officer 407 was strict in his search and arrested the ungrateful vagabonds. The master said, when shoes were stolen, he furnished the sufferers with others out of his 'own Pocket, sooner than let them out bare-footed. The magistrate said it was a horrible case when poor and destitute persons thus robbed each other. They should have three months each. ANOTHER. YANKEE STRIPPED.—Bridget O'Brien was charged by Jain Meagher, an American sailor, with h av i ng robbed him. The complainant stated, .that he met the prisoner at half-past two on Saturday evening, and went to drink' with her, when she extracted from one of those safety buckskin belts, one sovereign and twenty-five dollars. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Bluck, who procured her discharge, by eliciting from prosecutor in cross-examination, that he was drunk at the time and could not be trust worthy evidence. ROiDERY OF MoNEY.—John Sagar, a gentleman desorib- Ig himself as " from the Cheshire side," but who would of give his address, charged Mary Murphy with taking :11 10s. from his person in Duke-street. His evidence was uite conclusive, and prisoner having been committed three mes before, was now sentenced to two months' imprison- Lent. A QUEER PosmoN.—Constantine Koetath and Collis Spells, who said they were Greeks, were charged by officer 370 with being, about two o'clock on yesterday morning, on the top of a house in Hanover-street, belonging to Mr. Drillsman, Watchmaker. The officer stated that both prison ers were sober at the time (they pleaded drunkenness as an excuse).. They were remanded until the Greek Consul could be communicated with. LARCENY.—Catherine Brien was charged with pledging a waistcoat, stolen from the house in which she was in service • .s. , SO in Waterloo-road. The prisoner was fined 3s. 6d., the value of the article. and 205., or be imprisoned for 14 days. CHARGE Or PERJURY.-- Winifred Howard, who had been committed by the coroner on Saturday, was put before the bench, charged on the testimony of Mr. Blake, the beadle of the coroner's court. The evidence was, that she represented and swore that she was the wife of the late Captain Webster, when in truth she was not so. Another woman had appeared, and proved that she, and she only, stood in that relation to deceased. Mr. Owen defended the prisoner, and the magis trate ultimately discharged the prisoner, considering that the evidence was not sufficiently conclusive. such a calamity. For, in the first place, the North had no reprisals to offer, and therefore there could be no retaliation. In addition, the North was in itself impregnable ; for what ambition could be so mad as to attempt to conquer in these regions. With ambition, in itself .a fever, you could , not lay down any ru l es , an d th ere had been conquerors who attempted it ; but from the very first to the very last, from the great Cyrus down to Napoleon, they might observe as a rule, that no conqueror ' - no soldier, had ever a tt em pt e d t o l ea d his troops to the North but who had failed, accomplishing only the destruction of his army, and the prestige of his name.. In ancient history they had one or two instances of attempts of the south to attack the north, and they illustrated merely that which was illustrated in the later history of Napoleon, in going against Russia. The lecturer then narrated the ori gin and result of the expeditions of Cyrus and Darius against the Scythians, and how their innumerable troops were de stroyed, as those of Napoleon were, by the poverty, of the country and the rigour of the climate. It was a very curious fact, and a very prophetic remark of the greatest of ancient historians, Thucidides, that if the Scythians were united, they would be the greatest and most powerful of all peoples. In ancient times they never were united, but it so happened 'since the Christian era, they' had been united under one power five different times. There had been five different 'Tartar or Scythian empires. The first was that of Atilla and the Huns, the second was Zangis and his Tartars; the third was Timour, or Tamer lane, and his Mongols, the fourth was the Turks, and the - fifth 'was the Russians. What more remarkable in those ' five empires, was, that as time had been going on, they had been more powerful, and more civilized, (though none of them were really civilized,) than the one before it ; and another remarkable thing was they had all been the enemies of the church. The two first were simple Pagans, Attilla and Zangis. Timour was a Mahomedau ; the Turks were Mahomedans, and the Russians belonged to the Greek Church. Each of those empires was more lasting than that which went before it. Attilla's power died with himself; Zangi's extended to his grandchildren. Timour founded an empire, which existed to the middle of the last cen tury, when the English superseded it, Delhi was his capital. The Turks were a most remarkable race, augmenting, and springing up in a most wonderful way, when they appeared to be almost destioyed, Russia was composed of numerous Tartar races, and it was remakable in this respect ; th e y h a d t h e force, ferocity, and. energy of barbarians in the subject, with refineme n t and. civilization in the rulers—those five empires had been all enemies of the church, and one after the other had been more powerful than the one , before.— (Loud applause fol lowed the conclusion of the Lecture.) The Rev. Mr. NUDE Tr then briefly addressed the audience, informing them that the same tickets would do for the next lecture. He sincerely thanked the Catholics of Liverpool for their aid in supporting the Institute, and observed that the sole object of its sstablishment was to provide rational and innocent amusement for the Catholic young men of the town. This w ou ld b e hi s d uty, and he hoped to be success- , ful in it. (Applause.) BIRKENHEAD Edward WiMains, a boy about 14 years of age, was brought before the magistrates, on remand, charged with stealinc , a number of books and envelopes from the stall of Mr . Tames Cross. The' prOperty, was found at the pri soner's home, and was identified by Mr. Cross. Two previous convictions being recorded against the'prisoner, he was committed to the house of correction for 21 days, wiih hard lab Our, and was cautioned that if he was brought before the court again, he would be sent to the sessions for trial. The prisoner's . mother. was severely reprimanded by the magistrates, wh:s told her`that She 'should have known her dhad not come by the property honestly, and that she ould have compelled him immediately to retura it to the more attentive to th e i r children,in The magistrat es a l so o b serve d that if paren ts either honestly empl o y e d or at school, the court I ", Th saved much pain i n comm itti ng so many y o unz nesir seeing that they, ad Thomas eavtes.,-elifichael Fahe e teo respectively 14 and 15 years, were charged I rith s d with $ prs • found lark e L ' quantity of lead, weighing 89Ibs. It Was . d sold It. a ' 6 , marine-store dealer, to whom the prisoners had km_ prisoners denied the robery, and were remanded. tr e4 Lra I THE EFFECTS of pRUNKEIyEIs.-7 . 4 y_oung boy an';'„, f i tTh e years of age, was chat'*(lsYwith stealing' some sheeps' t 0;9'4 re an d S.: fired. 4 from the market_ stall of Mr. Charles Baines— lt Tot Lst that the prisoner, who is of respectable parents, tlenis a ' efipi quantity of brandy which was given to him by a gent s , eti ey and that he conimitted the theft while in a state of in i w sti oto i t tion. The , prosecution was not pressed. The -Magi itot. severely commented on the impropriety. of giving sP l t . r h i s ' , lto( of liquor to one so young, and advised the boy to take o t it Cpl the deviation 'from the path of rectitude as a war n ,..f c o ,-,DI the misery and, degradation which in addition to druis" a "4 . ti ( 4 4 his riper years' would be sure to' entail on him. tio kr MANCHESTER. 4 10 1 ' 5 4 7 44 1 ..0 SUSPECTED POSSESSION OF PURLOINED AND 13r e ier, Goons.—Yesterday, at the City Police Court, Matl e u e o .' li e " au elderly man a weaver,' named Thomas Fox, r esidini e Cheetham-street, was placed in the dock, on a eharaly having in his dwelling-house a quantity of purloined embezzled materials used in the -worsted, woollen, ea t ; -7;Att and linen mannfactures. Mr. Hoppe , solicitor, was for yr, .:4t prosecution, and Mr. Bent, solicitor, for the prisoner. , b 0 Ok ; M'Donald, of the detective department ofpolice, stated , 1 L.40 4 4'6 on Saturday morning last he ',vent to the house of the s Pi t t 'at< soner, accompanied by Mr. Jones, inspector to the 0 • e i'tvo r , Protection Society, and that by virtue••of a warraut7., g searched his hous e . Wh en h e went in; witness told ' r i o t 4 1 that ,they had c ome w ith a warra n t - to search his Itolle ' 4 3 / 4 4 • cotton, silk, worsted, or other yarn materials. The ply 0 a te& ; answered that he had some yarns in a barrel of which , ort tlgi us had come into possession since the last time he was b ei f y li gqQZ l the Court, under similar circumstances. On searching,, n ! Vr a i ' barrel, they found a quantity of weft in it, and on Ina l " s search, they found a large quantity in the kitchen, Die /3 against the head of a sofa, covered up, they found a quo, p of Turkey red y arns. Th e art i cles found were produced it eq ' 4 r e , Court.—Mr. H o bb s s t a t e d t h at the complaint against " ktt, that prisoner was p re f erre d un d er the 16th of George 111., cif 56, on the g roun d th a t susp i c i on was entertained thatl , had in his possessiOn purloined and embezzled worn' cotton, linen, and silk. goods.— Mr. M'Donald, in answertpi i t tye questions put by Mr. Hobbs, further stated, that the prig", '' ir tre g said he purchased th e b arre l o f T urkey red yarn from a on '11,415" 'Witness asked him if h e h a d any i nvo i ce for it, and he tt to that he had not. He made no remark as to the rest ef t ts ( 41 , goods: The pris oner sa id t h at t h e father of the man I ' , "of whom he purchased th e goods, kept a sm a ll s h op i n Ge°l 4 .4 )1) , Leigh-street. The defence elicitedf in cro ss - exam i na ti o n that the prisoner had purchased the yarn found in his p osse" sion, the value of .w hi c h amounted to about £3, from t" . persons named Holmes and Briefly. Mr. James Jones \q t ., specter of the Manch es t er -Silk P rotective Society, corr'ebt';and rated the evidence of M'D ona ld . The prisoner was ' h e o weaver, but witn ess saw no l oom i n his house. It w,„I very, suspicious matter, to find a quantity of yarns, weigh'; e o n e about a hu n d re d- we i g ht , i n t h e pr i soner ' s house. In or% tt to afford the p r i soner ti me to b r i ng forward witnesses prove that he had purchased the goods, the case was re ' Nip mended to Wedn es d a y. ETA ASSAULT IN POLLAR D -S TREE T .— Y ester 6 y ,- ,at the "' 4 4t1 Police Court, M anc h es t er, a person of the name of Andr' „, ;',, '4 3 -4 Bolton, was ordered t o pay a f i ne of 508. and costs, or default to be imprisoned two months, for assaalting, knec„ . nr• 4 cli e - ' ing down, and kicking a policeman, in Pollard-street, ' 1 " 'R e d, ti, t , Sunday morning, about twenty minutes to three , o'eloelc•I e 1 3 2 1 At the same Court, yesterday, a young man named Samiiii Wlieatcroft, who stat e d th at h e was a mechanic, was fiat'' j The4ll 40s. and costs, ,or, in d e f au lt , ordered to be imprisoned fCOQ one month, for assaultin g , on Saturday - evening, about eign; o'clock, in Chatham-stre e t, M r. Gr i sdale, the superintembn's constable of -Saddleworth, in Yorkshire. r HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Yesterday, at the City police tlgt Pa eit Court, Manchester a boatman, name d Matthews, was CO- rettl) mitted to take his trial at assizes, on charge of 110 0 t t3 e °44 on Saturday night, in Store -street. robbed a fellow worktna ll 44 a named Jonathan Wordswo r th, who had fey been eiceeding l f Of kind to him, of 14 s . 6d. • Le 11 fa ASSAULTING THE POLICE'—At t h e Salford Borotrjh e(1,4,e1 Court, yesterday, an.l r i s b man name d' Richard Varnah r Ye tb , ls(l fined 20s. and costs for being drunk and disorderlY I f kit a •et Chapel street on Sunday n i g ht, an d assau l t i ng police'n ffiee ko Dixon. SAVAGE AssAuth.—Yesterday morning, at the Salford 13 ; orenuagchhaCroguerotfavtiaollleinritlsyhamssaanuwltash,gbiaPraugattnbaeinfoerde jtalongesgvisi4tri:eti It appeared that th e prosecutor was go i ng a l on Lane, on Sunday night between ten and e l even e'elre'ek, two females, and that the prisoner was proceeding along th e street at the same ti me i n the company of thr ee fon ov ; Some few words ga sse d b etween the parties, up:m- 11 without any• provocation,' the prisoner rai se d a lard _iron bolt with w hi c h he struck the prose cu t or an d knock ed him down. Fin e d £5 , or i n default of payment to be co mitted to hard labour for two months. . ANOTHER •ASSAITLT .ON THE POLICE.--Peter ,r„Ain one bt o he f iei t inv h ep e sri, gang known amongst the police as " the Deans:en "sownaesdfinFied dlat,anodycotshtes,moareinstrdaetefasualtt,theerc,leTroedwil;u; hall, Salford, yesterday), for having: on. Su n d a y lie' assaulted police constable Dennison, New Bailey -street. . WATCH ROBBERY.--At the Salford Borough coo t yesterday, a . girl well known to the police, named' Bennett, was committed to take her trial , at the next - ses' for stealing a wateh from the person of a spinner, named / 4 , ° 1 1 0 Fielding, who lives i n Union-street, Oidfield-road. robbery - took place on Sunday, night. NUISANCE CASES.—In respect of 28 cases .of summons against individuals for keeping pig-styes in improper ph 36 0 ; 0 imperfect drainage, and other nuisances, the d e f en d an ts 's!",„ ordered to :remove the - nuisances complained of 'Ow' 2 days. t 4c a ris e , he t i la to DEATH 'atom S6ALDlNG.—Winifred Eagan, aged ts (° years, was scalded on Sunday, and died yesterday, in - O ur / hall. Mary Eagan, her siste r , saw h er f a l l into a p ot ° scalding water. Despatches from . the Governor of Gibralter wer e sent off from the Colonial office ott Saturday eTenig . Despatches were also sent to the Governors of the West Dl' dia Colonies. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.--Th e annual meeting of this Society was held in the Royal Insti tution last night. The chair was occupied by the president , Dr. Dickenson. During the meeting, the Society was wholly engaged in transacting the routine annual business, the election of officers, and appointment of a council for the coming year. - . . LONDON AND • NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—At monthly meeting of the board of the above company, held at the Euston Station on. Saturday, the 15th instant, the Marquis of Chandos was unanimously elected a director of the company, and subsequently as the chairman of the board of directors, which is, as 'heretofore, an unpaid office' A MONOMANIAC AT THE POLICE COURT.--yesterday' whilst Mr. Smith, one of the borough magistrates, was en gaged in. the business of the Police Court, an old lady, whose eccentric manner caused mu c h excitement, made her appear' ante in Court, and, addressing the magistrate, said she came to complain; that in the neighbourhood of the gas-house the poor were not allowed to keep. pigs. This she thought 3 great hardship on the poor, who, she begged to say, lave d bacon just as well as their worships. She said that she ap peared there on- public grounds, to complain of what she considered as a_ public grievance. Mr. Smith, the magi' strate, said, " Kadam, you have brought your pigs to the wrong market. I have no doubt but that you are a whole" hog humanitarian, but in sanitary affairs you must apply at the Town-lla11." SCENE IN A CHRISTIAN COI:INTIM—P ass i ng along • St. Anne-street, a b ou t t wo o ' c l oc k yesterday afternoon, our attention was directed to a crowd of persons who were as' sembled around a woman in front of St. Anne's Church,. On enquiring the cause, we foUnd th e wretc h ed woman had. been carrying a shell, in 'whi c h were the remains of ono 13' her children, aged from 12 to 13 years. The poor woman had placed the coffin on the ch urc h wall, to rest her wearieu. frame. Whilst there, sh e was surrounded by a crowd of persons, who looked on with coo l i n diff erence to her men t a l and bodily anguish. Amongst those who had assembled; we noticed a gentle man , w h o sported a yard and a half. o f white muslin in the shape of a neck tie, a cane, black: ,1 jet, and a profusion of sable coloured cloth. Ile enquirel what was the matter, and having ascertained, he turn eT coolly on his heel and l e ft th e spot, w i thout uttering a word of consolation, or bestowing a fraction on the affiiete woman, who, true to her trust, again took the coffin on her back, and proceeded to di sc h arge t h e duties of her l a st office, with the bones of he r c hild rattling against the shel" ,' as she walked through th e s t ree t s ! We wished we knew the name of the rev. (?) gentleman. THE BOSCAR of NE MIXES.—In our publication - Saturday; we gave a brief notice of a meeting of Share holders' k place in the great O ns l ow m i nes, which took' at til, f e Angel Hotel in Dale-street, on Friday. The followill- 5 particulars of another meeting in connection with the 1 3 ° 3 ; came mines have since been commun i ca t e d to us : „ Wednesday last, a meeting was held at the Angel Trot" Dale-street, of suc h o f th e propr i etors in the Bosearli° mines, as 'had 'aecepted the compromise offered by Messrs' Bennett, Carr & Co*. It was was well attended, and p lc ' sided over by'Ab so l om B ennett, Esq., purser, who, after some preliminary ob serva ti ons entere d at length into a history of the negociations and ar r a ngemen t s effected , s him with reference to the Penquean slate quarries ; au after dilating upon the advantages possessed by this qugl 7 i. over all other quarries, concluded 'by assuring the IneeC il i that their pres e nt p os iti on was i n every way b e tter tha n r, 11 could ever have been. a s p ropr i e t ors o f B oscarne. So ,ii other gentlemen 'followed, who expressed their as to the promising prospects of Penquean. Mr. Broat re . next addressed the meeting, and after severely condea l9 -1 1, the ambiguity of th e t erms use d i n t h e circulars, couvol i t lk7 io the meeting, proposed that the leases ednve3?ag. ni .Penquean slate qua rr y t o Absbio Bennett and his e 0 : 00 venturers be read by the Secretary, verbatim. ,After sred. discussion, this re so l u ti on was seconded, but not car r . The days for holdingthe annual and qua r te r ly illee ti l ot ngs were then fixed, and regulations for future mauage n proposed and adopted. I v, ' ll k,. r : ti hj s ef t td 'et 4 1 ' 84? 4i1,1