Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-13 00:00:00

Lia 3 0 13te )y t he 0 11°t o the er; of ice 11-ELEGRAPHIC NEWS. 7 ,Y Prieish and Irish Magnetic Telegraph. THE KING OF PRUSSIA. HUNGARIAN CONSi'IRA.CY. FRANCE. F INDIAN kUTINIES. _ . "Y Su3marine and British Telegraph. 'ye b e ; ) . ~ireceived from CALCUTTA MAIL. T • 1 1/I NFORCEBIENTS FRO ENGLAND. ttth 4 tit : t ,foll owin M t 1 a phic h was 4 %, f`,,,1.e t i n-a g fu e, : - o ra -4 12, despatc at 12.30 p.m.receive (Yes" d - -4 lie Briiisill Vice-Consul at Trieste : STh e'ALEXANDRIA, ocr. 7, 1857. ept kl ' Calcutta, of the 10th fie,,,el4l4llabringsdatei from ft42 6 trib„ ; Madras, 15th September; Galle, 27th t - P 4l 1 4: 1. ; and Aden, 30th September. The news eiv - 71 ° 1 1h- p t provinces is not later than h" ti 13 w 6 I A A eil, t , cmtbay. 1' 410 .D; 41e A lma passed Galle, her MNieSty'S Ai!! o e4 L e ' 4 ll ,, ea ;4 1 1 1 1 : 1 C i le t oPal, with troops oa board, h. d 2 500 troops were reported e .11.e11(1) .1 a a e r ( r ' '‘ f : t e rl d at the Mauritius. (Signed) JOHN GREEN. (Signed) RAVEN. m A f 4 - ''et rt heT A lg P ele ra hie despatch is. to the follow trtil . ~,t 4 • tiT-I°4le—sa, Senfember 10th, the safety of . t . lie , re ci ll . °fl4ll ekri -- oi ' v was looked upon . as perfecd) 1ie 0 '2 1 e11 . ,,, re e '. e lee ttated LueknOw, September 2nd, had tti: l .tl i:l°ed from General Neill. second sue. 1 0 4 lik i l tie had been made, tw o gu A n b s roa L•a g p . t t u . red, li into f 4t t o quarktity of provisions 1 , h 4t • ~Atlp kb' ott b t% -i ces from cGalle are to September 27th. tZi4'l IVtlerB Cleopatra, and Penelope, with_ , :l y o a o i pilety'lltinc.,h pw3fieers, and 205 d Otln " . -t coaled at Galle an It i • in g e o n ne o li n to 44: a ntr a that 2.500 troops were known 1, .e 41,..;__ some .t.lis tb' ie e '-ved at the Mann 1 • T e t l ll . l4ell eci that the troops at Bhopaul had l e 4 e b, r 'fil s , ".‘,!3,, who continued Me 4"ue Europeans in Safell• Friendly had already i r {Pr poi I:t it hl ° ll l the third edition of the . limes.] , - I 1)0 1 .; 1 1 a ~,,' () et• 1 2.—Tbe Austra ie li x a ten ( d e• r ) i "A .-4 " in 107 hours from A 1,,, . t) 1..,.,. which ... !trriveo (1, 0 ' 1 (1 14 „ I 'l. on. the 7th Oct. 1 4' e l f' Ill aite left Alexandria on that day w,i..`l! •11 , 0,1, , 4 t ' a ril 0 a.clitta to 10th September, Mani Em 4 q e i th eYlon 20th. The safety of the garrison ‘ 11. N..‘"" was looked upon as perfectly tt4 4t elli z 44i4Illitte,1;ce, dated Lucknow, Sept 2u . d had been 4 l a e had' be gi n ener al Neill. A second succ, I fett: Cillatitity IN - made, two giins captured, an . of provisions brought into the 11 q''.r, • ali e. , zs CHINA. . 411 . The Hteamer had not reached 44 151714, tekrtt 'A, , C OMMERCIAL. t o te. Icari te r• 40. —Prices in export market declined. k o kal t 4q-xet u , continued dull. Money excessively °al °Re. 23. 31d 'm oo a . The Bank at Bengal refuses N t 'Ab, tc th a , gatnst Government papers or Bills, h o est. 48 , 8 o 11 3 ') daya t o Pember 15 run ' ' `W s er,,, °4 e, 00 „,. --Hardly any change in import AlQii o One rlei decline`,'easy Government securities go 24.42f41.1Ph0 "WI 4 downward tendency. 11 1 „ BERLIN, SUNDAY N IGHT . n ight. health of the King is a little B e tt e r VIENNA, SUNDAY NIGHT. A Piet f or the 4 ll4tria, overthrow of the Government of has been discovered at Belgrade. Th e ill. PARIS, MONDAY NIGHT. Her e lee Per cent Rents which ten days ago Quoted at OS'. 70c. closed to-day at 60f, 90c.. - -- --- Th e 1 , ALEXANDRIA, Oar. 4 ' e ptep a r, °l33 baY mails, with dates to the 17th o , f 4„tettpl"", leave for Malta to-day by her Majesty s ittipetr Caradoe, which also conveys hence the The illbassador and suite. I be t . hiCOunter reached Suez on the 30th of Sep lit ' Ilr detention is attribated to the bad T he her her coal. ~,Ikttryl:ltLelligence from Delhi extends to the 30th iL Se n s '. The siege train was expected on the 5 . uala,lenTher, after which the place would pto On tbe itar nediately assaulted )4lieli lef t 26 th of August a body of the rebels, th e ei left th City with the object of interceptin, ttt 11,?g2,train, Was attacked by General Nicho l s on the n i q t l ii i l lo r) and utterly defeated, with loss of al l A yp tb • c1141 1tt " is t of SeWember General Outram was at I N • h toil 8 Wit., strong reinforcements, and ex- Th to reach - Cawnpore on the 9.h. ,_ t ( le el e i! arr ison of Lucknow, it was thou„h , woul d 1 .44 ;ei : e d kr( the 15th of September, up to wh ich .. . 1 41 tp,"'‘s c onfidently expected that they coul d . GiCt without difficulty. `l,bit:l.4l havelock had Again attacked the rebels .d reli si , °° , l % on the 16th of Angus', and obtained 9t returning to Cawnpore on the fol f 4t A cIY. ert, 0 1 a all was well. A detachment from the t ettr2per maj or Montgomery, attacked a body o tilli'll All ehur, on tho 24th of August, 'r,, ° • e°lll P l ete suc Y ce t 'ss, and trifling loss on our , 4 11 1 ,t to tl.‘ „ tl i 5 2f) ..1 , 1' Native laeantry mutinied at Peshawur i',:,iti e y - ,, : u of August. . By the following day th . e ll'A‘tte-ing,Ets c ompletely crushed Mutinies of par.. L t tio '„ ( ,. 4 , 1 --4,ht Infantry at Ferozepore and o a Ihji ll i .,,"` tne 55th at Hazarah eve in like manner 1.44 A ron suppressed. 41 % - t ßatr ison at - Arrah, after be ing _ . o r r e e l . ieved, by day ,yr e I re, had Safely reached Dinap ,deß: ad E mbseqaently attacked Knor Singh at b . t',heit": ll '.. The rebel force had beea broken. e 'lli. snrgents were trying to make their way to A p.,, klit• - itiall . • , t ,ltii el 9m tion of the sth Irregular Cavalry had , 41 1 e 9, at 13111guipere R 441 d',•"'d Fusiliers had arrived at Calcutta. -e l''t t- ''' i gio le l ic le f r o s r Hon, Kong on the 3rd of litie N il , ber. lat . t i , a . b l e idia and Hyderabad country continue tiOe re • I " b ril atnder of the Joudpore Legion hasmino -114111 " tit 13 further outbreak has occurred Is , o ttits _ y o a l ; i t ts " , , ,t_ army.. 'hi) t,,` l Regiment had arrived from the Cape, ~,'iti i'lth. Was hourly expected. AltA l iras pi..ilideue v was. perfectly tranquil, Parte" J'lo'nur- rum *. hud p - assed off quieLly in all 4 it er ui India. 'l lec. Et t Was ev z ' ,, t t tli of Jule. a cUated by the Persian troops on G 2 ngQ at to lv.:rnme Bombay closed at 2s. 111. 4 tem nt securi t i es had improved, but . agai t n o +ow ed to 80 for Fours and 90 for Fives, owing 411entations froth Calcutta. gooey y es port s continued to advance. .A4;l' plentiful. til k t t il e - A BP l tn 'it : h f rom Madras announced the arrival th th e ii from Calcutta on the 13th, and stated eo tit „ ink of Bengal had refused advances on ri Y's paper. eilre d MALTA, CCT. 8 „„ ' 43 lust arrived. Nothing new. Th - THE GREENACRE TRAGEDY. FURTHER PARTICULARS. SUPPOSED DISCOVERY OF THE HEAD. The greatest excitement prevals in London reipeeting this extra ordinary affair, and wa proceed to ,umm rise the additional partial lars which have come to light respecting this most extraordinary ocncrrence. A minute examination of the dress and the condition in which it is at present, seems to sh m at least the manner 'in which the murder was committed. There! are marks of three stabs in the brick, between the shoulders, three in the abdomen, and no less than seven exactly over he region of the heart. All these are clean cuts, showing that they mast have been inflected with a deub'e-edged kn fe, about the thickness of a crown piece in the centre a point trd-bladed' weapon similar to thou called Spanish knives. The waistcoat 18 not pierced, so that it mast have 'wen un uttoeed at the time the murder was committed. The trousers also must hive been partly undone, as they are on'y punctured in one spot, though the shirt shows ma ks of the ee stabs having been inflicted. If any conolusion can be founded upon these appearances, they would certainly lead to the belief that the des seed must have been first stabbed from behind, and that then a desperate straggle ensued, for the other wounds in the back and abdeinen are wide apart, as if the asseilant Arne% when and where he could. As deceased became weaker, and offered Las resistance, the frnishing wounds in the heart appear to have been given w.th ferocious rapidity. They almost all lie within the circle of a crown piece, and must therefore have been strnel Eli rapidly as the hand could rise and fall. - The balk of the greatcoat is marked with white, as I. the mur dered men had eeruggled hard with his back ageinst a white or lightly papered wall. After the assassination had been effected it is su opo ed that the body must have been left as it fill upon its face fur twelve or twenty-four hours, as the blood has completely s:stur ted all the front parts of the dress. The coats, waisteo it, shirt, and trousers, also, are all split dawn the beck in two helves, and the sleeves of the coats ripee4 open, which leads to the supposition that the body must have become perfectly rtgi.l and in a contorted and unnatural positi- n before any attempt was made to remove the dress. The hcpes which exist of the carpet bag being tracel are founded up rn the fact of Its being a •comparatively new and very peculiar one, wth the trade mark of a shopkeeper, a" 43 se" in elk Lewes on the handle. Tho bag itself, though nearly new, is extremely old-fashioned with regard to form, being teach three fe t deep and two wide ; in fact, its great a* zo and peculiar appearance would place its ideatlficaton by these who had once seen it beyond the possibility of doubt. That this bag containing the re mains was the one ail ch was carried on the bridge by au elderly woman on Thursday night is dis:inet'y established by the statement of Etherington, the toll taker. Ptherington was himself formerly a const,b'e in the A division, and remarkable for lie shrewdness ant caution, and this fact, couple 1 with the pet:miler cir— cumstances which he mentiens, apparently place he accurapy of his statement beyond a doubt. He states tha - the woman came from the Middleeex side of the water, and paid the toll at Oct, western tollgate. He took the toll, and saw that she had with her a b own paper parcel tied with cord ; it wastong, balky, anclapperently heavy. She had also the carpet bag in which the aema'ns were afterwards found, and which a'so seemed full and heavy His attention was particularly directed to the woman in cense 2.ence of her turning the turnstile twice whim endeavouring to get the caxpeabag through. He spoke to her shun. this, said that he would have to pay the money himself, and that she should have been more careful. The worn an didnot reply, but looked at him sMadily while he lifted up the c arpet bag for her and placed it on the top cf the turnstile. She then muttered ssmething ie a very gruff soles to the effect that it could not be helped,took the carpet bag and walked slowly away. As it was thought possible from the gruffness of ins voice, that it might have been a man i i wcman's clothes, Etherington has been questioned on this p .ant, bet is pastas.° as to its being a woman, as he saw her Lice most datinctly, and furthernere that he remarked she was short evee fora woman. The police who are engaged in endeavouring to penetrate the mystery Which surrounds the whole case, believe that a woman so unequal to carry a heavy weight, as the 'amen at the bridge evidently showed herself to be, must either hive been assisted by male accomplices, or have driven to the neighbourhood of the bridge in a cab. Against the formm supposition, is the fact that none of the police in the vicinity of Wellingtin-street, have seen persons carrying bundles such as described, though the carpet bag could not have escaped attention and remark had it been so con veyed. On the other hand, the most minute enquiries have been set on foot among the cabmen throughout the metropolis as to whether any one answering the description of the woman with a carpet bag and bundle, or any one et all with a carpet bag and brown paper parcel, was set down in the neighbourhood of Waterloo-bridge on Thursday night. As yet these inquiries have elicited nothing, though it it still hoped that, as the deta is of the atrocity committe I are widely Reread. information on this point may be obtained. The police are inclined to the opinion that in case of no cab having been employed the murder must have been per; °hated at same of the houses of ill-fame which a e numerous enough almost within a stenos throw of that end of the bridge. Of course, the most vague and contradictory rumours hare been circulated everywhere as to the discovery of the other portions of the body. 'I hough some of these r ports and rem :nrs were in the lest degree absurd, they were a'd carefully sifted and inquired into, and a •me of them ce tainly bora unexpected f rails. Wco .may here mention that the police entertain lit* le hopes of recovering the head, hands, or feat of the body. In their opinion these members were in the brown pat e - pareel takes on to the bridge, and have been thrown into the river. Every part of it forme-, diately bece eth the bridge, on both the eastern and western sides, has been carefully dragged; but, as might have been anticipated in a search far s a BMA 1 a parcel, and one so likely t be ; carried about by the slightest currents. without success. It was confidently stated yester 'ay that the guilty parties had been trace% and that the women who carried the bag on to the bridge had been nded. We regret to say that there is not tbe least truth for such assertions. Literally nothing mire was known at a late hour last ntgtt than was known within an hour after the mutilated remelns were in the handy of the authorities; not only has so clue been obtainer!, bat uoihing whatever has been elicited that would even lead to the h pea of the mystery being eventually cleared up. ',ever toeless, Mr. Superintendent Durkin is tode fatigable MIA endeavours and is exhausting all Gee resources of the detective police in hi, endeavours 't, bent; the matter to light. Among the he terogeneous mass of in , or nation which he received on eaturdae, all more or less irrelevant and useless, were two co nmunications,—one to the effect that a bag supposed to contain something connected wail the murde had been wished ashore at Lambeth, the other staiog that the head of a man had been found slightly concealed under the soil of the eneicsure et Sussex gardens, Hyde Park. 'I he police immediately proceele to inquire into these reports, and found that a leathern bag had been eva had ashore at Lambeth, containing among other sundries, - alpistol-c tee and some bullets, all being the past proceeds of a burglary committed a few days since at the mansion of Sir W. Poland, mite Blackheath . On piocceelng to Sussex-gardens the police found that two - human beads had recently been dacevere I therm—one of a man eel another of a woman, but inquiry into the matter showed most satisfactorily that the man's bad been hurried some months, and that both had been used for the purpose of ra,ular anatomical examination, and were not in any way connected with tine present mysterious case. As we hive mentioned the en' jest of anatomical examination, we may refer to what has been sazgestefi by some of our Sundae cotempotariee— name y, teat this suppcsed murder will turn out nothing more:nor less than a medical stndeat's hoax. This supposition is simply abiu:ds and shows entire ignorance of the way in whisk a l mcd cal student s pursue their anatomical studies. The inquest upon the remain show that beyond a doubt that one of the most deliberate murders which we have hal to record for many years has been comnaittel. Cn Sunday evening, at six o'clock, a gentleman attende 1 at the Bow-street police steles, a- d stated that ha wished to make an important communication re'reive to the above horrid 3 murder. He NM shown in to Acting-Inspector t hams, No. 9 F, to whom he gave h's card, which was a r follows:—" Mr.' Robert Faker Jones, 4, King's-bench-walk, Teinplo." lie made the following st rtement :-- " On the let of Oetober, a'oout the middle of the day, a na m's he .d was discovered at the loser end of Sussex-gardens, corner of West- Loarne-terrace, oppoiste Spring-street, and near the Great ‘i est am Railway Hotel, Peedingtnn. The herd was discovered th a garden in front of the house, under a wild currant tree, and a mars-servant from the opeosle house brought a shovel, and a little boy with a basket accompanied him into the garden. A policeman I behave 'belonging to the D divide; was soon 'n aVeiclance. The servant then put the head in the bastes, and the policeman covered it with some grass and took it away with him ; The head was covered eith linen, or something of that kind, and my relative, a lady of the hi:lest respectability, who lives in one of the houses, end whose veracity could not for a mom nt Le doubted, informs me that she distinctly saw the head herself. She saw that it had hair and whiskers ripen it, as some of the hia'r came through an aperture in the linen. I paeael by the spot not much more than an boa ago in company with this lay and her cleueiter end a gentleman, a d with them I pereeived a portion of the re.; still imbedded in the atone in the garden. We also noticed, about ten yards from the first railings, that the ground appeared to have been recently dug up, sal my relative informed us that since the head was discovered she had passed tha spot, arid exper:enced a very bad smsli, which made her quite sick. I therefore think it likely that the feet and other por tions of the body missing may be found buried there. I spoke of the matter to a person this evening, and he informed /123 that a surgeon was shown the head soon after it was discovared, and he said he did not believe the head had Le,n, off from the body more than twelve tours. diving heardof the Waterloo-bridge affeir, I thought it my duty to come hero and inform the authorities of the circumstance," as there appoers every likenood :that the head is the one missing. Daring Sunday right. and the whole of Monday, a cousi ierable number of persons attended at Bow-street Pac station, for the purpose of inspecting the clothes with a view to their identification, but upon this head everything remains unsatisfactory; and here ae might ranaik upon the extraordins - y number of persons missing, if ,the statement o° those who haeo atteadtd c,t B .w.street are to be bellevtd—we imagine, however, that marry ate attralted to the place by a reeling of curl '517. The police had enterteined a hops that Monday's p- st would haye brought intelligence which might lead to the identificrion o: the clothe., the general belief b.-ing th it they belonged to a pers )n from the country on a visit to London, but they have, we regret to state, been disappointed. Preparatory to the inquest, a fllrt l ier 04 i=inatio . 2 p 1 time t'e3lains tlok pare in the presence of several medical gentlemen, and the ()platen they expressed finally d sPoses of the absurd supposition that it is the work of mediesi students. As usual on au h occasions the pollee are inandat d with litters (anonymous and otherwise) contahiing suggestions for the so'ution of the mystery. As the murder appears to have been perpetrated on the Middlesex side of the river, and the remains taken to the Surrey side to avoid det ctlon, the po'ice have placed under a strict surveilance several notorious streets in the precincts of West minster Abbey, the Strand, and the Haymarket', in which brothels o ti.e worst descr:ptlsn abound. The Thames police galleys continue to search the Thames, and sere - al amateurs In wherries and dingies assist IA the labours. A notification of a Government reward was expected to apppear in this evening's Police Gazette, and if, as p o bably wll be the cace, a free pardon shauldbe promised to any person cot actually the mnrde - er, this may possibly lead to the discovery of the real craninal. 0,1 Saturd , y night, at elate hour, Etherington, the toll collector, was taken by the police to a certa n 1 cality, which, for obvious reasons, it would be Imprudent to specify, and shown two women, somewhat answering the d , scr:ption of the woman spoken to by him, to identify, bat after a lengthened and careful scrutiny of 'hem without their knowledge of the object cf his visit, he declared that neither of them was the party. Various conjectures are cutroLt as to where this frightful murder and mutilation took place. Cne is that it was commit el in a den of infamy on the Surrey size of the water, and that th e reunion are those of a person evidently a forei ,nor, who a few e elks since made Weisel conspicuon in that locality, from the ext-a- rdina - y character of his chess and hi lavish expenditure of money, beating every one he met with to drink. Another idea is that the remains are there •f a person who was seen a short time share hustled by several women into a doorway of a house in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane; this latter informa tien is given by 'a lad in the empioy of the Morning Pest, who has a strong impression that the clothes found in the bag correspond wi.h thos4 worn by the person he reers to. THE IN QU ES T—YEST ERDAY. The) ury;tif.er viewi ,g the mutilated remains, procee led to hear the evidence. Two witaesses deputed to finding the ear; et bag with its contents on the battreas of the bridge. Mr. Poynter, sargeon ts, the police, dsecribed the remains. He put them together, and found them to be bones of me individual, forrring a complete skelelon, the parts wanting being the head, the cerrical, and seven of the dorsal bones. The deceased had evi thntly been a vigorous Aiwa He attrtbutsd the preservat on of the bones to the presence of saline matter, which had made them like salt beef. Tae vahole of 'he viscer t was missibg. Between the third and fourth ribs was a cut of rather smal:er size ruin the hale in the shirt and under the waistcoat, whet' portion of the ribs, when placed in their natural position, had a stab or hole corresponding in pasition ant d,rection. Atroand the wound a great deal of blood had extravasited into the tissues, showing that the wound must have bzen ir fl et:d during life. The * blood having infiltrated roun the wound to the extent of abcut au on examining the to.retea with regard to the sex, he found they war of a larger mks than usually in females, he was of odin:on that the bones were those or a male, although he would not swear. He beiiaved the bones were those of a person of 5 feet 8 inches in height. He also found a goof deal of hair adhering to the mu des, some of a bl-4ck and some a dark colour, as 1.1 a whisker; besides those, he found four hairs that, from their length, might have belonged to a , feme'e, but did not think they belonged to the body. He ha! no doubt that the b3dy was cut after rigidity of death and that the cuts or stabs had been infliete 1 during life. Font the remains of the ja•nts the bones taight have been holed. He felt aatisEed there was no appearance about the remains to justify the supping they had been used for anatomical purposes. Henry Ehtington,thetoll-keoper, examined :.--a boat ha' f-past e'even on Thursday night, ho recollected a female passing over the bridge with a carpet bag, wiziah he diftel over the turnstile. He L'entified the bag pioluraal as the one lifted over. The woman was about five fat three 'aches high, with a masculine voice. THE BIRKENHEAD MURDER. She farther 'wiry int) this most painful aed mysterious case was resumed yesterday morning the Police Court, Birkenhead, before Mr. J. Jaci son, the magistra'e, who has, from the commencement, presided at the hearing of this case. At the fo-mer investigation (a full report of wit ich we puleished on Wednesday last) evidence was adduced which proved that, on the Sunday night, a number of the navvies and other parties engaged in the making of the doekis, were at a public house called the " Eggs and Baeoe," situated some short distance from a clam,' of buildings called the Dock Cottages, chiefly inhabited by that class of persons. At the time appointel for closing that house, all the pakies left, and nothing further was heard of them untilethe policeman on duty re ceived informatoa that a man tael been stabbed. This provel to be a feet, and, likewise, that another nerson hadbeen murdered. e ee This led to come further iarealry, when all that. Sitie illfcited wig, that a young man was to king to a young evehean at the • entrance to one of Weeks, when two of the - acpseea came tip, and, as he coned not sati'factorily explain Silty .he was there, they atta?ked him. He e nut " Marilee" n several parties came up, and . after that a iegular indee took place, the cid of which was, that the body of John Drury was found quite dead, with severa l stabs in it, and but a short d stance was off w:.s found the Pri soner Francis Smith, pale -tly insensible from a wound inflicted by a stone, under whose right hint was a knife coven.] with blood. Another man,Dnin, had also been stahl3 d, but he hal m tee his escape, and hsvine told the coasteees of what had oceuered, was taken to the hovilal, where he for so netime remained in a most precarious state, but subsequently so fee recovered as to be enable! to give eisstetem - nt, and fro n what he stated before the C ironer it wan quite c'ear that he coati not il edify any of the accused as the person who stabbed him. Yesterday morning, the Ores persons amused, Francis .smith, Peter Gallagher, and Jahn S nith, were age'n troeght before the magistrate, when the additional evidence, as taken before the Coroner at the inquest, w s rempitniated, and only was to the same effect as that already published in the calrenne of this journal. After the several witnesses had been examinee, all of whom gave evidence similar to that on the farmer occasions, excepting a few slight verbal discrepancies, Mr Brether.on. in an able and elle:pent speech, addressed the bench on behalf of the ;accused, contend'ne that the evidence was insufficient to convict his clients of th time imputed to them. In the first ineanee, there we; not the slightest identifleati )n of the knife which had been prodleed, a most pet:teller instrument, and one which. if it ever had been in the posses ion of any man metrieg in the yam, sphere as the prison ere, C3llll have been ea tily identitied. But, notwithstaneing all the exertions of the policemen, th it knife had not been Identified as ever hiving been in the possession of either of the prisoners; therefore, taking all •he matters tato consideration, theies wan not the'slightest title of evidence to cenneet the men with the murder or the stabbing. After recapitulating and conam•nting upon the whole of the evidence, ne eneeetaly that portion of which related to the knife, and its nat having been prayed as to belonging to either of the actu ei, he said he should there leave the case in the hands of tee Magistrate, t ' sew well assured th it ha wetted, after a careful and impartia l returns of the whole case, be of opinion that neither Jelin Smith nor Peter Gallagher con's bs implicate' in the murder of Drury, or of the stabbing of the man, Dunn, who, a'thmelt he had stated that whea he hoard tee noise ha ran into the entrance, but had not, although it wan moonlight, been able to identify any of the prisoners. With reg rd to the other' pr'soner F -ands Smith, the only po'nt against him was the finding of tee knife, near or under his hand, but as to that he had before referred. The Magistrate, Mr. Jack:on, then obs 3rve Ith the case was one of 13 much imea:trice Vest he did net wish to take the responsibility of giving a dec's'oi until ha hal again carsf,lly hokal over all the deposit I ens. Mr. Bretherten, on the psrt of the prisal-rs, expees3e4 his satis faction at he careful way in which the w 1013 CU) lila bsen irquired into, and sell he was cpit t sere that ev:estersr the daefs'oe of the bench might b his die its, who wera mett desply involved, we uhl be cont•nt with the decision. Mr. Jackson sal that he hal been obliged to take the w:hile, case by himself', ache had commenced up at it; bat hi aisnred the court th it he felt deeply the r sponsib' ity that had devolved upon him, bat ho would say that he would calmly read over the elide= as given, and would then give a fair an I impartial d The prisoners were then real tided until Welnesl ty next. It b , ing after five o'alo k in the aftercoon before the inquiry was concluded, the Court adjo .reed. t " iag4 THE NORTHERN TIMES,---LIVERPOOL ) TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1857. THE WAVERTREE BOARD OF HEALTH. The monthly me ting of this body was held last night, at the Public-offices„ Wavertre3. The 11,..v. Mr. Badnall presided, and the following other members were present:—Messrs. Chaffers, Picton, Rishton, Gore, Bralburn, 0. S%inden, M. Parken, Andert,n, and Clarke. The mln:tes of the former meeting having been read and confirmed, the report of Mr. N,ulands, engineer of the borough of Livenro', under whose i,lans and directions the sewerage of the township, in i a ma'n sewers, was conducted, was read, and he reported that the contrae o s Moss s, Chadwick and Hodges, who had constructed the great arterial sewers, had been satibfactorily completed. There was some ex eption as to a portion of 173 yards. The account of Messrs. Chadwick and Co. were ordered to be paid, except as to the provrtion for the 173 ; ards yet incomplete, Mr. Piston move .1 that the Law-clerk be requested b apply to the Marquis of Salisbury and Messrs. Serjeantson for their proportions of the expense of the sewerage of the township, amount ng, in the case of his Lord:hip of Salisbury to ‘833, aid to chat of Messrs. Serjemtion to £Bl4. Mr. Picton stated that he unders'ood Lord Salisbury lr.d sg eel with Mr. Newlanls as to the roportion fo,. which he would hold himself nsponsible. The motion was agreed to. Tbe other business was then proceeded with, and the Board adjourned. WITCUES FRINCE.—The race of witches is not yet, it appears, extinct in B Wally. The Plcare de la Loire of Nantes states that an old w_m in has just heel arrsted r t t Lorient, who was long known in the county by the enticing designation of the Black Cat. She underwent a first interrogatory on Monday, and an immense crowd :resemble l on her pasacge from the pri on to the office of the examining magistree, in the h.pe of seeing .a - i)erson to long famous fur her sorceries. SUSPE;;TED SUICIDE ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. On Saturday evenlnT,, Mr. Baker, Coroner, htl 1 an inquest at the Ca•pentors' Arms Tavern, Cambridge-road, Bethnal-gre m, respect ing the death of a male person unknown, apparently about 30 years of age, who was ki led on the line of the Eastern Counties Railway, under very mysterious cirtnmstances. Thejary h vying been sworn, proceeded to view the body, which was lying in a shed. .The deceased presented a sad spectacle, the head being crashed in, and other por ions of the bady exhibited severe inju-le George Barber, a fireman in the service of the Eaten Counties Railway, d -p, sed that on Wednesday night about half-past nine o'clock, while he was on an engine coming from Cambridge to London, be suddenly saw a man walking on the line. The night was dark, and the train was travelling at the usual speed. Witness could sae the deceased by the light of the buffer lamp. He was walking on the external rail of the np-line, his tars towards Lon lon. When witness first saw the deceased, he was walking on that portion of the line about a mile oa the I ondon side of Ponder's-end, in the Parish of Enfield. The deceased was only about four yards distant when WrtnesS first saw him. The whistle was sounded. the steam shut off, and the beak instantly applie Ito stop the train, by witn e ss ant she engineer. The deceased was struck by the buffer and forc.:d across the line out ide the rails. Amon as poosib e, witness procured a light, and found the decease I about half a mile down the line. He was in-en sible, but a'ive. Ho was placed in a carriage, and b:onght to the Mre-end staton, bat deceasei had expired. There were seventeen carrines in the train on that nigh , . The deceased hal no business oa that portion of the line, end there was no pubic pathway near the spot where he was found. Mr. George Henry Boa,well, the station master, said th it the deceased was not at present known, although every means had been used to discover the relations of the unfortunate man. The deceased hat a return ticket from Water-lane station to London, and in his pockets were found 3s, a knife, two keys, and a letter, not dated. The following is a copy: A • Percy-street. D •ar Henry,—As I have not seen you all t'le weak, I have raison the first epp•rtunity of writing to you, to inform you that it is grate impossible for me to get oat while I am here, or I should hays written to you b,fore. Dear Henry, if you ar e not engaged on Sun !ay next, I hope to have the pleasuru of your cJmpany. Hying this will find you wa:l. —Yours, ever faithfully, E. STBEATLY. there was ne a 'dress to the d icumse, which was evidently written in a fams'e's hand. Other avidenee having been adduced, the Coroner remarked on the distressing nature of the case, after which the jury returned a verdict of" Accidental FEARFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSIONO. The Butterley Company's new Colliery, at Riple7, Derbyshire, h is 'been the scene of a series of explosions, by wLI3II about fifteen persons have bean more or lass injured. On Monday the 'sth inst an explosion took placo, when two men were severely bunt. On the foliowing day (Tuesday) the ground bailiff, Mr. John Smith, went down the FE to ascertain the state of the workings, and whale going round, the gas ignited an I burnt o.le •poor fellow very badly and Mr. Smith hicase'f was also burnt, but not sorions'y. Pre cautiona ware taken to prevent further damage from the dangerous element, and, netwlth 'tanning the con intt.4 presence of much foal gas, it was cons , dered safe for the men to continue at work. Early oo f ridgy morning. however, intelligence was quickly spread that another and more fearful explosion had taken place, by which nine men and two la.ss s had bee., severely burnt. Their iames aro George Bunting, William Walter, Samuel Shotter and his son (a boy), Enas Yates, Samuel Meakin, Will'am Bullock, John Green, James Wragg, Henry Ivin, and John Mille *ship. S :vend are very bad, and serious doubts are ent,rained of their lives being preserved. Lome idea may be formed of the sevarity of th! fire, from the fact that a new sult of flannel, which one of the sufferers wore, was completely burnt to a cinder on his body ; and a valuable pony, afeerwar Is brought up the pit, presontad rho most f 4ghtfal appearanc-, havieg been literally roasted alive. The sufferers were promp ly attended to by Mr.W. H. Fletcher, surgeon, eif Ripley. A2cor I in; I o latest aaouots, they wore doing fully as well as might be exFected. The colliery being newly started, we are inlerm d that great difficulty is at present exp!rieneed in obtaining prover ventilation until the "headings,' now being pushed on, are furth:r advanced, and tiro proper "airways" are formed. Tills is being done wi h ail possible* speed . The immediate cause of the accident on Friday appears to have arisen from one of rha mon h eying olued a nakal candle too near the roof. Bullock died on Saturday morning. EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. On Saturday evening, an inquest was held at Basings'oke, before the cliqr.ct coroner, on the bodies of two men, recently in the cmphiment of the London and Southcalres'ern Railway, who lost their lives by the esp!esion of a locomotive engine, at BasingstoPe , sho:tly after t xelve the previous night. The evidence taken was rather voluminous, but the fßowin; are the short facts of the ewe :—A man, name] Reuben T:sorogood, an'exparienced driver on other lines, was maki-g his first trip en th:s line, and whilst in the act of stopping for his engine bein{ fed with coal, the fites-p'ace blaa up, and seat the dri ver a distance of at least thirty yards into the air. s Ha fall upon the roof of the ref:eshmant department, and so great ireartherwatglit of the pour fe lo.v'e bo iy falling from such a distance, that it made a hole in the roof .uffii3ieatly larg-, as one of the witnesses stated, to pass through two paLs of water. The fire man was also bla vn a constderab'e chstaqc and when phked no was also ratan(' to be quite dead. It is barfly necessary to state iu what a shocking mutilated con 'Rion both bodies were ; bat as the,e appeared na blame whatever attached to 'the Railway Company, who had previously t stet! the engine, the jury, in each case, returned a verd ct of " Ac, idental de3th." HORRIBLE TRAGEDY AT BATH. Baur, Fund ty NI. ht.-1 he excitemen t , occasioned by the Leigh Woods murder had searee4 began to subside here, when a still more fearful tragedy has occurred, spreading co.:start dim throughout society. The victims in this case are man aid wife, named Andre w Border and Sarah Rebecca Border, the former of whom was a groom in the employ of T. B. Skrino, Fsq., of Warletzh House, about four miles from this city, the murde bein; a man named Ti omas Millard, a cowkeeper in the ervice of the same geitlemai, and who also lies in a precarious state, from wounds inflicted on himself. It appee that on Friday and Saturday Millard had bee.) oh,erved to be some what strange in his manner, and as his father has been insane for the last ten years, it was feared by some of the servants that the son was also of unsound mind. Ho, however, discharged his duties props ly, and on Saturday evening, having killed and dres; ed a pig, he returned to the cottage of his father, with whom he resided. /shoat eight o'clock the same evening, Border and his wife, who resided in a cottage about 100 yards away from the Millards, sent co , he latter fir the purpose of ascertaining whether it was safe to leave the son by himself or not. Immediate's , on their entering the cottage, alillirdt sv , io was sitting alone, rustle i ulna Mr. Border, and stabbed him in the bowels with a large clasp-knife. Ile then turned upon iirs• Border, and a'med a blow at her as she was running screatn;ng from the ayirtment, which c it through the side of her bonnet, and inflictzd a weird near the shoulder bone. When she reached the door, it is supposed elle caught her foot in rotnethUg•, and le. ing with great violeice against the stone border of the Earden, fr, ctated her skull and died instant moonily. the screams of the un'ortunat3 woman bro ightthe mother of the murderer down stairs, when she found Border ales on the fi mr, with a dreadful gash in his abdomen. She called several neish'Aurs to his aisistance, and Mr. Edwards, surgeon, was lent for, but medical skill was of no avail, and in two hours after the unhappy roan expired. Ia the ms ntiose d had been found in the garlea, with several severe wounds in his thro st, and arm' her in the abdomen. Ile was taken into the cottage, and his wounds di allied, end hopes are entertained of his recovery. H• is about 23 ye Ts of age. Border was 25, aid a native of Bing's Stannto 3, Devon. His vir,fe was 9, and came from Poplar. DEPARTURE OF ROYAL ARTILLEPY FOR INDIA. In acecrdance with reg'ment Al order , , the offivrs, non-commis sioned officers, and men of cap`ala J. C. Thing's "InP-111y,.2nd Battalion, and Captain A. M. Calvert's company, 11th Battalion, Royal Art llery, uoder orders for India, assembled on parade at Woolwic', at seven o'clock or. Su:day morning, with every equip ment, for inspection by the comnan ling offizers, p evious to immediate departure. A large proportion of the men wore decorated with medals fa the Crimean campaign, and their ge eral appear ance was that of soldiers well able to sustain the arduous serv'ce in which they will shortly bet ngagcd. After inspection the companies formed in marching order, and proceeded from the gar, ison to the Arsenal ration o' the North Kent Railway, where a 'special train was provi 'e I for their c niveyance to Southatnptoo. I , f,tw ithstand. ing the early hour, large numbe - s of persons assembled to witness the departure of the troops, and loudly cheered them on the march. By an excellent arranse nent the train which leaves Woolwich by the North Kent R ilway proceeds direct 'to Southampton by mans of the Reading branch cf the South•Eastem line, thus preventing the necessity of shifting carriages. On arriving at Senthampton, the force, w..ich is accompanied by Lien'enint-Co!onel Maberley and eta $, will imme lia ely embark on board a 'steamer for Alexan dria, from thence cross the desert and proceed to Suez, whea they will re-embailt on b ard a steam-vessel for India. From the pried of leavin g Woolwich It is ealea'ated t'tat the force will arrive at Bombay in thirty sic days, as the railway across the desert is now part ally o_ en for truffle. It is much to be regretted that the artil lery force now on p ,ss _e, or at least a large proportion, were not fire arded by thi route. Mr.ssixo ! —£s 000 RETARD.—What about Reform ? There appears a certain disposition t) sink the very sub. j =ct. We almort suspect that "tha part)" has absconded. A suspicious silence in certain quarters invades the est.. India is a god-send to those a hl aro in hopes ef preserving the British Constitution, not in its oiginal state or halthy vigour, but in its collaps7. Any gentleman, proper! ) qualified, who shall produce the missing party, in the proper place, will be rewarded with .C5,1:00 a ycav t and the pest of Premier.—Leader. COUNTY COURT. Mr. Pollock entered C. at ha'f-past tetn o'clock yes terday, and proceeded to deliver jn3g neat in some cases which had been standing over fir some time. ITKINNELL V. THE LONDON NoRT ti 'WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—This was a case affecting the liability of the Company, as carriers, which was tried some time since His Honour directed a verdict to be entered for the plaint iff. \Yams v, THE SAME; ABBOTT V. SAME ; CYTTER V. SAME; IVAN'S V. SAME —These acti,ns rested upon the same point, and were decided by the judgment in the pre ceding case. • Bauoit V THE T ONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RATLWAT COMPANY.— His Honour remarked that this WAS a very peculiar case. The plaintiff, a cigar manufacturer, of Liverpool, sent a box of &gars to a correspondent in Newark. Inside the box there was sent a card, belonging to the consignee to be taken out and fastened upon the outside of the box when it was being returned, so that it should be returned as what was called an empty package, free of charge. The cigars were found to be unequal to the sample, and were sent back in the box to Liverpool. Bat by some accidoot the card, which was to be fastened upon the box only incase it was retuned empty, was fes•ened cutside, althouqh the cigars were in. ide The box was charged by the railway company as a box of cigars, and safely for warded to Liverpool, where it arrived. When it arrived, however, finding it marked as empty, the porters p'aced it in the usual deposit for empty packages. It was sought for some time in vain, and when it was at length discovered the cigars were found to be spoiled. The question was, whether the railway company were liable for the negligence, as between the company and their servants there might be some cause for supposing a slight deg - ee of negligence, but as bate een the company and the consigner his Honour Paid, he had arrived at the conclusion, that the consigner had materially contributed to the mistake made by the company's servants, and having so contributed by the aid of his agent in affixing a card marked empty to a box really co ;mining valuable property, he was not entitled to rec ever. His Honour, therefore, gave a verdict fit the defendatrs, without costs PoLvp.a.v CHAPMAN —His Honour said this was a very peculiar case, into the merits of which he did flit intend to enter, and he should bequeath to his succeasor the pleasure of investigatirg it. It involved a very considerable amount of Admiralty lees, and some dispute I facts. He had adjourned the case that evidence might be produced more fully, and inasmuch as the evidence had not yet been producetke thought it better that the case should be re-heard by his strcessor. Trims v M'CORQUOD ALE.—In this case His Honour said the doctrine contended for was, that a man who bought goods, which ho ex , acted to be of a given quality, who received the goods, and after ascer:aining them to be of inferior quality, kept them an unreaeonable time, and disposed of hem to another, was afterwards entitled to give in evidence in reduction of damages for the inferior condition of the goods. His Honour was of opinion that the defendant having retained the goods for an unreason able_ able time, and disposed of them, was precluded by his own act frOm such a defence, and must be taken to have acquiesced in the contract. A verdict was therefore given for the plaintiff'. A LIARDYCIO v Pot.—Verdict for defendant. GEEMAEN v Cnaiteze.—This case 'stands over to be re-argued. . Julgement was also given in one or two cases of no public interest. RETIREMENT OF MR Poritoox. As it vas known that, tjter delive-ing judgments. Mr. Pollack was finall, to leav, th • bench, the con:t was crowded by memhars of the bar, roll Bora and the puhlio generally. Among the members of the bar present wera—Mes3r4. J. B. Weir, Asp'nall. Formby, f. S R tics, Isf‘Daanell, Ho - nby, Danson, Halton, trea urer of the court, Conway. The attornles in sttenlan.se were Me!sr..t. Ambrose ace, Caro 1, Ellis, Fletcher, grill, Dolze, Neal, Martin, Swift, Collier, IL W. Statham, M weefet, D ace, C. Acpin .11, Mime, Grocott, Gray, Tyndsil, E Yen, S tsnist met, Barrow, Holden, Porn_ berton, T. L. Smith, H. Forst' tw, Daly, Almond. Stone, rulean. Townsend, Frodelm, Ewer, Yates, Anderson. Col ins, Sell. Wm. Weod, Gray. Fafc , n, ey, llenkin op, Payne, Jeakin C. U. Hill, Lowndes, C nnpbell, ilosband, &c Mc. J. R. Jeffery, Mr. I'. W. Bost, and many other gent'emcn, not conn ted - with leg,l proeessims. ware also present. The following attorni's attended as a depatati.n from the Liverp La v Society—Mr. Ambrose Lace, p - esident, Mr. Henry Jenkins, vice t:re.sident, Mr. H. A. Ewer, Mr. Ch tees Fr, c ra, Mr. R. A. Payne, Mr. Henry Bell, Mr. John Yates, Jan., Mr. John Fletcher, Mr. J. J. RI iley. Haylnz delivered the jutdcnenis as a`sove, Ur. Pollack rase, and was about to leave the banch, when Mr J. K. Blair (aapohated as the successor to the retiring j 3d4e) rose, and, in a few words, aspressnl the deep regret of the bar . at the retireme,t of Mr. Pol:ner., and at the pecu'iar cause which lea to it If it were sa:y conaoatioo, he bogged 'to . ilain'te Mr." Pollee% that he retired from the bo -ch with the deep regret of all the members of that large anti 1,411131144 body. The patience he had always dis played, and the fir ones', combi - led with the courtesy with - each he had discharges the duties of the °Mee, ceinmen le! the respect and regard of all ; while the accuracy of his decisi ens had won the most perfect cent ence of the large commercial community of Uverpool in retiring from that office, he hoped Mr. P,llO k Weald permit him to express, on the pert of the gentlemen prastisin; in that court, their most anxious desire and hope, that retirement for a short time from such laborious duties might restore hi n to that health which had been I npa'rei in the public service. (4op'ans;.) Mr. Lace sail, I have the honor o' smearing here t3-'ay as representing the Law Society of Liverpool. I hops I may say, and I think it wilt be no arrogatioa to ray. the•. I represent the feeling of the whole cf erfy professional brethren in Liverpool. (Hear, hear.) I have, sir, noon this occasion, to offer to you a resolution passed this angling by the Law Society, express've of the great regret they feel that this is the last time on which they slr el! see you upo this bench dispensing justice here. sir, i may say that it is net merely a matter of rearet, but of grief to all of the profesoloa, seeisg the canoe which compels you to ret're. Sir, lam almo t gr.) vn grey in the eerv:ca. Some 30 or 40 years ago, seein; the great want of jostles to the po r made some atten.t to get a court eetabrshei 13 connection what the bu'ifsess' of the County Magistrates for the distribation-of justice among the lower classes. At tho time I was told that the thing was Impracticable and could not be done. You, sir, have shown that not only could justice be done by the same judge to the lower c'as'es, but that the very highest, the very nicest points of law could he as well deti s id sd 1i thl4 covert as 1 s a the courts aioove. (Cries of hear, he tr, and apalente ) To a' l brantes of the profession sir, it as I hire sa'd a matter of regret that you shin d leave this belies: But it is almost more peculiar:y so; sir, to there who are concerned oo b half of the mere Intl e cemoennity of Liverpool. Either questions of s very nice intee•t to the co nmunity must be left undecided, or an. expense must be go n e to which renders it almo-t ane r tire air ntsgo. Bat, sir, you have given to U 3 not only the a 'vantage of sound law, bat you have g i ven tens veri great advantage aed comf rt of courtesy a d confedera tion. (Ilea, Ira*, and applause.) I w sin hopes, sir, thtt tessistaace might hay • bee 1 rendered to you which wont I have enabled you soon to return to as, but Ife r the' we may estlt hold to that hop-. We mar taro to the o'd maxim, wh7ch says, "hope over experience," ants, am afraid, we shall fill by ex /rime a that w"a we hope to get in the future, mast not bs what we have got already. I say this, sir, in no untindly spirit, bes,aose I knee not who may come after you ; but I sa y it, ir, in justice to you, and, in so - e de Tee, an ereisi . ta of the feeling of myself end of my p - oresiioaal brethren at large I shall not say more, ly.cla , e si geld cause We its reo a ivoc3cy. I shell slsnpry r ad, in conclu don, the resolution which was passed by the Law Society this m - ruing :—Xt a speeial meeting of the com mittee of the i iverpool s a'v Society, held the 12th day of October, 1857—1 t having been• intim s'el to tea society that Joseph Polio k, Esq., is a'out to retire from the °Rice o'j dgo of the County Court of Lancaster, holden at Liverp col iesolv3l traao'mo tily—" That th - s society record its deep sense of the loss which the public and she legs] procession will sustalo, by the retirement of aj ud ce whose con duet on the bench has been alike re ne:k stele for the justice of his decrees, as for the unwearied patience and urbmity,exercised towards the suitors and rractitioners lathe co - art; and this society nnfeignedly regrets the cause vt'aleh his le 1 to his retirement, slid earnestly hope that cessation from j licia' labelers will restore his health, and enab'e him to enjoy alo liFe of happy and useul years." It was further resolved—" That the President of the society be Ceauted to convey the foregolar resent= to Mr Pollock " Mr. Poll, k sa•d—Gentlemen, I am quite unahls to reply as I ought, to this pabli: m tni`es', &on o!' kindness and confidenc I with which you ham just honoirelTll9. Eve were I stronger thtn I am, I believe I c .old do nothing more titan sal I thank y. it From men of all ranks and cl asses, Pim men of all creeds and politics, from the public aid the press gtn.rally, from the proles lona' gentleman of iverpool in par Imlay, w:tom I see in suM ntimberi around, I ha e ever received that cud al 'co offer non, unsupi:erted by which it would be quite imposAbll f r nv, with anytlfn ; eftlAency, to con lug the business of thi. coat. I sever, wth great regret. the co nation which has for some years waste', b3tween no. On all nee tsioni, I have found that the consi er it 'on extende I to me. via 4 far greater th a I dose, v,d. Allhave been ready —a'l with ,ut e :caption have been r 'alp you have done tin m - rail r, to nta,ggerate ser,it•es, and to ove-look my deects. If in the dis. Thane, or the sup posed discharge, f a pubic do y, I have ever tiv.n p .I.i to any man, lam Ilea. thy sorry for ;t. You wll not expect me to_ei,ter Lion man of the toles to wh oh Mr. La-7e ha; alluled Some of then are of great Importance. I have laboured for them whi a here. Shots d God spare me my strength, I hope to labour f,r tivin h_ra af.er. (Apol .u. e.) I have little more to say, than to bid you far wh. In parting I.om you I hay, t' acon olati ,n of k:aowlug that my once ss - tr is one of whom, If hs re not m 7 perso mat friend, should sty no more than that p .bilc aid private uto..ests t are safe strien intro t• dto hi , care. Ag in I thank ion; you wit believe that I 8110 co,ttnue to fe 31 a cep interest in your per-onal gener• 1 welbre ; 3n4 I shall rejo'ee, I hope, in the con an tri.n, I think t unhog prosp rity of th 's great commit atty. (1.,0ul app i aum.) • &tire lea lag the court ',lr. PAlock addad4 6'entlernen I h d a'most fo go ten t say the my friend and suitlssor, M . Blair, Ii good enough to act as m.. dednty or a f:w days, until my formal re rit.,Hat•oi is sent in, a.id his formal aupointmeut is made ow. Mr. Folic ck then retired from t i, e bench. -übsequently ed to - dtepose of some ordinary eases. Mr, Blair took h i s sear, and proceed AMUSEMENTS. THE NATIONAL ENGLI9II OPERA. AT THE THEATRE It mr..—The National English Opera Company made their first appearance before a Liverpool audience at the Theatre Royal, last night. We understand that they form a corneae) , on the principle of limited liability. Whether this limited liebilty extends to criticism, and how it is to be aptlied in the present instate), we do not hear; but it has always been our principle to limit the liability to each individual for his defects reed merit 3, and we tru it that wll be satiefactory t, the present company and the public. The popularity of " Il Travetore" must be the excuse for the preseatatioe of that opera in an English dress, so EOM af er the splendid performances in Italian by the great opera companies. The National Opera C ompeny, in spite of their "limit," will be liable to un favourable comparison with their predecessors, whose sweet sounds have scarcely ceased to reverberate in the ears of Uvarpool audiences. Lucy Escott, who scorns the Miss" or " Mrs.," will b 3 contreseei and compared with Madame Bosio, whom she emulates, and (to no obj 3c-ion able degree) imitates, and to Ma Ills Spezha Mes I Lanza will be thought m ire like Madame Pottle thin like Madame Nantier Didiee. Mr. Henry Squires has more of the force of Nevi Baraldi than the finish of ; and Mr. Charles Darand will be thoug'it to have mere of • coarseness of Bsneventano than the rieaness of tone of Graziani. Mr. Aynsley Cook; who played Ferran 10, began the mere with a brusqueness and roughness which was shared by all the singers daring the first act. They warmed to their work, and greatly improved as the business went on. They have plenty of power. but lacked refinement, part of which may, no doubt, be attributed to the E glish words, which refuse to be as sweetly and chareeeristicslly blended with the music as the original Italian Maritants" will, probably go much better to night. Mr. J. H. Tully con ducted with great stea liness and propriety, but some of the choruses in unison with the accompaniment, as is too frequ(ntly the casein Verdi's music, could not be made to fit. I! Veen was eneo - ed —so was the love song in the third act, and the Miserere in the four h There was a.. very fair eV:alliance, especially when we consider the counter-a•tractions of a cew piece infrodaced by Mr. and hire Barney William, at the Royal Amphitheatre, and Vie opening of Hengle2. circus, of which we fear, in the pre eat state of public taste the cnmtcalities and grotes- . queries, together with the English love of horse flesh and tours de force, will operate against the more intellectual and refined gratification afforded by the performance of Engli. h operas. IfeNeeeet3 CIRQUE, DALE STREET.—This splendid Cirque was re-opened last evening, under favaureble auspices. In point of dee ,rati one, and brilliancy of illu mination, the ample building has nothing tsat we know of to cope with it. Daring the recess, many alterations have been made, and dee orations the most elaborate, beautiful and finished have bsen added to all parts of the building. In the peculiar style of art adapted by the artist, Mr. John Crawford, who has painted the ceiling with eques: trian .subjects from the Heathen Mytholoey, there is *vale thing to admire —the g-aceful harmony of the figures seems to animate the whole scene, and in pic turesque beauty, all is stril‘ingly attracting. The house heretofore was brilliantly lie, and when we say to those who have witnessed it heretofore (and who has not?) that in addition, no less than nine gorgeous chin fellers have been hang about the Cirque, it will give an idea of the beauty of the whole, and nearly realizes the poet's maxi of the beauty that hangs on the brow of night, Iu 1 .10 ions nrj try , making du'l heaven iigt-t. The effect is dazzling yet . Oiling, and we may say, out exaggeration, that the house is unrivalled in all respects. Although necessarily noicing them beautiful things first, we must not forgst that attention —and much attention, too —has been pant to the comfort of the visitore, Every sea', from the gallery to the stalte, has 'leen antd , did proper approaches made to all ; sod, in a cemperative point of view, th e humb'ett visitor is as well sec mmelatecl, for his money, as the person who pays the highest price. We think this a great inp ovement, for humble people will be amused, and Mr. Howler is deserving Of ohe.t.ks for the neat and -c mafortable places provided for this class of visitors. The stalls, boxes, promenade, &c., leek nothing that taste could devise and money accomplsh. ladeed, the expeaso gone to in producing this megeificent Cirque must be considerable Having said s much of the limes., we yelll say a few words as to the perform Inca and per farmers. The list of ihe latter comprise t'.e first equestrian nemes in the new and of i world. Had not M. 'Jingler even added one to the troupe that gained such merited popularity here last spring and summer, he might have contented himself with the assurance that he would please the public ; but he has not con tented himself even with these, for we find the names of artiees celebrated on the Continent and America amongst the perform its. As to the training of the fine stud little need be said The hone comes next, if not, indeed, E gnat to, the dog in sagacity ; and we may °Starve that from the wonderful performance of Mr. Illengler's stud, the n animal is ca,,able of receiving an amount of instruction truly rnirtculouv, as shown in the present instance On the fist night, we are oblged to content ourselves with these general rem arks, without g ing into detail, 44 we shall do in a day or so, but, in globs, we msy remark that the pePfarmance of last night gave entire satisfaction to a brilliant audience. There were none of the drawbacks lucid el to an opening night Everything was perfect. Individual and collec irs performers shall claim our attention daring the week. The urbanity of .he gentlemen who ofileisted about the exterior and interior desetnne notice, and, with the whole staff, we think Mr. angler may anticipate the patronage which his exertiens and - he performance merits. Tne house last night was er ewded beyond all precedent, every available spot was fall The audience was most enthusiastic, and the performance deserved the applause. As we hAva alfeady stated, we are unable to particularize all, but we cannot refrain from mentioning the wonderful performances of Moms. Sebastian, little Edward, and Mr. A. Bririgee, as the acme of perfec - ion in their art, and the ternedes of apelause told how they were airninsi. Miss Josephine is pesitively beautiful—her performance is worth going any distance to look o". Mr. James Bridges' repro sentaione of Falstaff, Shyloek, and Richard 111, are natural, and presents these celebreted characters before one in excellent relief. There are a variety of o'her things that we cannot revert to this day, bet we can say that such a splendid troupe wee never before seen in Livereool. We were glad to see our friend and welt public favourite —Me. Francis —in his place last nigh - ; this usual attention was be,towed on all visitors, and he was warmly weeted by a host of Mends. TUEAT ROYA L, EDINBUR4FL The e ,, te tamm3nts during the pls: eck h are tatee gene aPy revivals pf good stock pieces, which appear to have anti d . full satisfeclon to an excellent atten !axe% On Tnurslay eat:mine, the performances were tin ter the patronaec -'f .the termhers of the Caledonian Mint CIA), vrtr. n a large and fashionable andi-nce attendel, upon which occasion the proprietor, Mr. Wy elh m, deliv dan id it' a; in mem try of Lhe late Mr Alex n 'or wh far many years had been leader of the ha •d of tee Tee ere il, iy ih and long amid hoeou-ahly conecci .d with the =sive' proces;ioa of the city of E , inbureh. We la lieve Mr. William Howard has been nppointei by 'Mr. Wynn im 'o succeed the late talented leader, as chief , f the erceest-a. QUERN'S TOATtI.P, (OPRRA Th- , ep iirs a id re-rieco - Aions at this hOIIS3 are.now nearly emi?leted. a l l we boli:lve that, early next mo , ith it is like!y to re- 'pen on tin most magnificent scale of spleAour and attraidi )n. FINE ARTS. ENAMEL CABINET PICTURES.We yrstenlay had the Pkascae,of tho 'Very of Enam*-I Cabinet Pic tures, now on vi, ve at the Sterk ti "td, Qaeett%-sen They are workt of Wast!ich, Danineer, Lsngbamer. lluel'er, an I 0 hers of the mo t c I ,bra 4 .6l Bsrarian artists, and are equal in number and artisuc cac.ltenee to the collec ion .of enamel pictur4 in . the Royal Ga'l'e y of Aurich. We have never witneaPd a more this aing c a'ct'ion of pai Wings, or one which will bet*er fepay inspection. lieretifore the art of enam 1 pain ing was eonfieed to miniatures, because of the diffisulties which en-rounded it, and but few .r.i,ts of eminence devoted th it time and tzeeitis to it. Th,c, , whose p educti ins are here exhibited 11.%ve hten the fi st to travel outsi'e the rn'e, and in every inearc3 success has re varied their t boldnfai. NAhing eur:aee the purity of tone and col laring of 6.2 e,l'Pe‘i.in now en ex`iibitiol, witi!e the pictures from which the enamel co)ies have ction have been ttlter.!y sol I to noble and w e ll obreanthemadme stcosscpmrii ‘ent m,, e the st e -1. (I.73ve4errreasi of of some of teee known collecto•s, ineu ling the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Hari-gten, Lord Boson, &‘., but there are miry Set of surpa;sing xcellence rercataing to be di-posed of. Of these We may particularise Nos 3-7 aad 38 in the ca'aligue . —*‘ Girl awl B e)ulti mine'," and `tTwo Buys eat ng melons"—ho'h after Mur 'be, a:0 both en amel] -d by Hein ; t h e m-uteula e C ,rc ption," after Muri!lo—(the o i g i na l picture ;Fa , p s etlaserl f r X 35,040 by the Freach G v.-rameet, at the teit'e of tlarshal Siult's c .llection) nem lied by Wastlich ; the " Smolter,” arttr Teniers, ename led by Mu ler, which would grace' any c. llecti in. Indeed, the same rqnstk Inn be appl,ed ti each and every one of the pictures, whose fileliiv to the origin Ili may be j !clod f-otn the one wh eh h,a Is the gallery —an enamel c bj SJhaeitz - sn of the portrait of her Ai jesty Q teen Victods, by Winte htLer. It is a tm;s' faithful cupy of Vie otigieal but, of o bursa, on a much smaller settle, and has b.ea executet with singular del!cacy. Tie coll,c;ins will be 01 view fcv this week.