The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-30 00:00:00

_, PR OCLAMATION O CLANIA.TION OF PEACE. (}stare was yesterday publicly proclaimed by Earl King at Arms, attended by the hereditary ous -..arshri , the Duke of Norfolk, and a numer tru,,re"ners. ue of pursuivants, heralds, beadles, and "Vet 1111blic But little notice was given to the to.d, that this ceremony would be gone through St. j„ Y; Yet as early as ten o'clock the route from Ivith' lll es's Palace to Temple-bar began to be lined p.h. bodies of police, whilst the streets were 47:oiled i s .Y mounted officers. The public then linle aware that something was on the tapis, and, a —tw o b list, a Pproached, all the thoroughfares assumed Blis „„, g and crowded appearance. Business was IPiecrtied at the p u blic offices ; in Pall-mall the tied of the clubs were thronged with spectators; kept f° ,° r u pwards of an hour and a half people were „ 0ni,.7 1 ,_ a state of suspense, wondering what there Pereto see, and here and there listening to some ke w el t , ab le individual who endeavoured to recall to Aro e o the incidents connected with the last ltt - r a tion of peace. The thoroughfare from i rafa t ) a m p l e-bar to St. James's Palace was closed to ves e . c 11. °rn half-past ten till the return of the pr0*1,1,141, *1,1,141, shortly after one o'clock. About half-past 4zld e m n the Garter King at Arms, the Earl Marshalis , tee other functionaries who were to take part Wh e e c eremonial assembled in St. James's yard, % e ke they proceeded to the front of" the Palace, tip tem detachment of Horse Guards was drawn City Where the High Bailiff and Officers of the 14%1 6,f Westminster were in attendance at half- Tise_leven o'clock. igea ll 4 f u Officers of Arms, Sergeants at Arms, Ser ttlid Trumpeter, the Trumpets, Drum-majors Yard '3t ' ',T . ints, were also assembled in the Stable s:_ _ James's. Sir Charles Y oung, the G arter Ki ng a t A rms t heh r ead the proclamation as follows : BY THE QUEEN—A. PROCLAMATION. g. ( ; )51, . R.—Whereas a Definitive Treaty . ot Peaoe 't t aj e • „''endship between us and our Allies and his Imperial 'ari s -1 the Emperor of all the Russias was concluded . at Liot a l i _ort the thirtieth day of March last, and the Ratifica tnity :,`lereof have now been duly exchanged ; in confor that t`huereunto we have thought fit hereby to command 44 c1 e l a n , e be published thrOughout all our Dominions Dlea sh e do declare to all our loving subjects. our will and here that the said Treaty of Peace and Friendship be os , „,, (l illvi , s)lably, as well by sea as by land, and in all l0„7080ver • strictly charging and commanding all s ubjects~ e meel to take notice hereof, and to conform '144 thereunto accordingly. t viefh el l at , . our Court . at . Buckingham . Palace, this ;04.s.:eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one ' 11(1 Of our eight hundred and fifty-six, and in the nineteenth reign. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. be at e r eading of the document was preceded by follo,„ c ' f , drums and flourish of trumpets, and the r 'ett by a discharge of musketry. At this point lit:llcourse was very large, and when the Garter ( 14‘ at , Arms uttered the words, " God save the littte t i'l the cheering was general and enthu- Th A . oy Q.- P r oclamation. was read at St. James's-gate l ikbi tA a r , rt e, 1. ; after which the Officers of Arms, I f t p ro 4 in their tabards, and being mounted, made .°l lNr, - . e „ e "ion. thence to Charing-cross, in the - • - g order Aparty of Life Guards, to clear the way. eadl es Ten_ of Westminster, two and two, with staves. tawb. Constable, with his Staff, on horseback. `6° .Bailiff and Deputy Steward of Westminster. Knight's Marshal's men, two and two. Drums. Drunl-Major. 'Sergeant-Trumpeter. ser geants at } Pursuivants. J Sergeants at Arn ie. Heralds. Arms. Life Guards. ce tisi mall was lined with spectators, but the pro ds p e ° 'Presenting anything but an impos in g . C.., at, the public gave distinct utterance to their , tth r , • tob'iOintment. They had, no doubt, anticipated of m 4 L'ing which would present some new features toi l , - • r et Pageantry. The only novelty, however, ,,f . the'l lst ed in the presence of . the " Bumbles o I l e :7 11 ° 11 R Westminster parishes, whose faded th e ' l, l robes presented a melancholy contrast to 1 0 B , 4 °Nvy uniforms of the Guards and the crlitter khlraphernalia of the Earl Marshal's routine. e ' for med the hidicrous side of the ceremony, itk h Seem to compensate the public, by the 1 :14 -8e Illent it created, for the paucity of outward P laY in the procession. t r n:t Charing -cross. an Officer of Arms read the lyirania.tiou, looking towards Whitehall, after tttl:,ll, the Procession moved on to Temple-bar, the of A - ,. °E 'which being shut, the Junior Pursuivant trt i ,, --. ' 4.18 1 going out of the rank, between two t tieTeters, preceded by two Horse Guards _to waY, rode up to the gate, and, after th had sounded thrice, knocked thereat. ‘‘WI - g i ., asked by the City Marshal from within, 'of A " comes there ?" he replied, " The Officers b s . who demand entrance into the City Ill'e' llBl l. her Majesty's Proclamation of Peace." / vas ga tes were immediately opened, when he Agai,Mulitted alone, and the gates were shut %24 - ,; The City Marshal, preceded by his officers, Are s ,eted him to the Lord Mayor, to whom he Qli i) . Ttea her Majesty's warrant, which his lord tc th; e , tl , (l and returned, and then gave directions !,eeo r - PtY Marshal to open the gates, which was (4 e done, the City Marshal observing to np e4 e t ~, --tt ur suivant of Arms, " Sir, the gates are 4ei / j A " somewhat superfluous observation, Ltlr e a that th e bl ac k ene d and rickety gates had W4l2,rolled- back to their usual position. The s tave Lester beadles, with their heavy-headed I I NC 511 d the High Bailiff, who was mounted on eri t ac e charger, were here relieved from the ',Dpe a - jocularity of the public, and, to all ' lgar - ,, 11 , 11 ce, seemed highly delighted that their Zcse of the duty was at an end. The proces :,.veci'fis" denuded of its parochial. appendage, eh - n l4 ' o 4h Temple-bar and-halted at the foot ‘li 4 ja -4 ' cc _,lT•lane, where the proclamation was /118 -.Late r ,, e , a u , but this time without any accompanying ; Power. V,,, 4 111 1 - ; the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs bvitos; 'the procession immediately after____ the . t 2 _f Arms, it moved on to theend of Wood vvia,sre th,.: cross formerly stood in Cheap `e,m) tis a lloct, the proclamation ,having been there Procession continued to the Royal Ex rtt t`i n ,y' * Where the proclamation was read for the t..„" 1 41 4 - : a . The crowd here was very dense, and he for the moment wa s entirely suspended. and peters sounded a shrill blast previously roci A : immediately after each reading of the the -:'aten. Th e c i v i c f unc ti onar i es appeared tiot tle isetate carriages, and their p re sence tended I v11 01.:"' t to relieve the bald aspect which the Proeess,Rffair wore previous to the entry of of the 0 4 ; 1 , 41 into the domains of Gog and Magog. to th a T i a ,whole the general impression seemed to t he o , "le ceremony was a failure and unworthy 41 ttilr e ,!: 31 ° 11 . There was a universal expression of fla oe ;',Tiess at the restoration of peace, but at the il slie„: 11 fle an opinion appeared to prevail that the t c - * of the procession did not warrant the inter `all to traffic and business which it produced. IRE CRIMEAN MILITARY ENQUIRY. I.4 l. eaterday, the Earl 14,4,. y °llo lsle lord, in re l of Co a --- rdiga — n's ca se was proceeded with, the charge of the Crimean commis pro re , that he had taken everypossible precaution to lir k rte the well-bei ng o f hi s horses;and Was proceeding to eon ence from the report of the Sebastopol o r , by reading evidence L o the ee, including his own testimony , - "ndge Ad b t ce . vocate, who said thata s such h© d w e a n s ce stopped be Lo 'r . lvl by the court, it would be better not to refer to Cardigan said that, in that case, he did not see how pia Ist ate _ pro p e rly go on. The no bl e l or d , however, finished till % 'lent, and called Mr. Assistant Commissary-general he says, was the only witness he intended to ale co ia t .. Mo le _ e witness having b een exam i ned, C o l . T u ll o ch 4 ,, marks on Lord Cardigan's statements, and the adjourned. THE PEACE PAPERS, The official documents presented to both Houses of Parliament on Monday evening, consist of :- Ist. The General Treaty and thre3 Conventions annexed thereto. 2nd. A Declaration respecting Maritime Law, signed by the plenipotentiaries. 3d. The Protocols of the Conferences. The NORTHERN TIMES of the 24th instant, con tained a translation of the Treaty of Peace, with the exception of four articles, of which we yester day published an abstract, and of which we supply below the text as well as THE PREFACE TO THE TREATY, General Treaty between her Majesty, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Russia, the King of Sardinia, and the Sultan.—Signed at Paris, March:3o, 1856. (Ratifications exchanged at Paris, April 27, 1856.) In the name of Almighty Gqd. Their Majesties the Qieen of vie United Eingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of the French, the Emperor of all the Rnssias, the King of Sardinia, and the Emperor of the Ottomans, animated by the desire of putting an end to the calamities of war, and wishing to prevent the return of the complication:: which occasioned it, resolved to come to an understanding with his Majesty the Emperor of Austria as to the bases on which peace might he re-estab lished and consolidated, by securing, through effectual and reciprocal guarantees, the independence and integrity of the Ottoman empire. For this purpose their said majesties named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say : [Here follow the names and titles of the plenipoten tiaries.] "Which plenipotentiaries assembled in congress at Paris. An understanding having been happily established be tween them, their Majesties the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, the Emperor of all the Russias, the King of Sardinia, and the Emperor of the Ottomans, considering that, is the interest of Europe, his Majesty the King of Prussia, a signing party to the con vention of the 13th of July, 1841, should ba invited to participate in the new arrangements to be adopted, and appreciating the value that the concurrence of his said Majesty would add to a work of general pacification, invited him to send plenipotentiaries to the congress. [Here follow the names and titles of the Prussian plenipotentiaries.] The plenipotentiaries, after having exchanged their full powers. found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles : [Here follow the articles, of which we give only those which did not appear in the NORTHERN TIMES, namely, articles 5 to 8. inclusive.] Article 5. Their Majesties the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of the French, the Emperor of all the Russias, the King of Sardinia, and the Sultan, grant a full and entire amnesty to those of their subjects who may have been compro mised by any participation whatsoever in the events of the war in favour of the cause of the enemy. It is expressly understood that such amnesty shall extend to the subjects of each of the belligerent parties who may have continued, during the war, to be employed in the service of one of the other belligerents. Article 6. Prisoners of war shall be immediately given up on either side. Article 7. Her Majesty the Queen of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, his Majesty the Emperor of the French, his Majesey the King of Prussia, his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and his Majesty the King of Sardinia, declare the Sublime Porte admitted to partici pate in the advantages of the public law and system (concert) of Europe. Their Majesties engage, each on his part, to respect the independence and the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire ; guarantee in common the strict observance of that engagement; and will, in consequence, consider any act tending to its violation as a question of general interest. Article 8. If there should arise between the Sublime Porte, and one or more of the other signing powers any misunderstanding which might endanger the mainte nance.:of their relations, the Sublime Porte, and each of such powers, before having recourse to the use of force, shall afford the other contracting parties the opportunity of preventing such an extremity by means of their media tion. Additional and Transitory Article. The stipulations of the convention respecting the Straits, sigued this day, shall not be applicable to the vessels of war employed by the belligerent powers for the evacuation, by sea, of the territories occupied by their armies ; but the said stipula tions shall resume their entire effect as soon as the evacua tion shall be terminated. Done at Paris the 30th day of the month of March, in the year 1836. CLARENDON. COWLEY C. M. V.HATZFELDT. ORLOFF. BRUNNOW: C. CAVOUR• DE VILLAAIA.RINA. AALI. M EHEMMED BUOL- SCHAUENSTEIN. iltTBNEft, A. WALEWSKI. BOURQUENEY. MANTEOFFEL. AUSTRALIA We yesterday mentioned the fact of the arrival at Singapore of the screw steamer Hellespont, with large mails from Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. We subjoin the leading points of news which is .to the middle of February. Sydney papers to February 13. The markets were looking up, and the general prospects of the colony very satisfactory. Intelligence had been received, via Portland Bay, of the total loss of the Aberdeen clipper Varoon, 800 tons, between Cape Northumberland and Rivoli Bay ; all on board must have perished, the vessel being literally smashed to pieces; some bodies were found on the beach fearfully mangled by the violence of the wreck, and were decently buried by the inhabitants. The Varoon was from Manila to Sydney with a full cargo of sugar and other produce for the use of the colony. The papers also announces the loss of the American clipper, Reindeer, belonging to Messrs. E. Gassett and Co., of Boston, which struck on an unknown rock outside Torres Straits and foundered ; the crew suffered severely, being forty-two days in open boats, subsisting on shellfish, and were so com pletely exhausted that, on reaching Moreton Bay, they had to be lifted out of the boats, not having strength to stand or walk. Melbourne papers are to the 18th February. Acting Governor Macarthur had succeeded in forming a ministry, and was consolidating the new government to the satisfaction of the greater part of the colonists. His Excellency was gaining golden opinions by his prudent conduct and deter mination. The yields at the gold fields were undiminished. From January 1 to February 15, 1856, there had been shipped 384,681 ounces of gold, or 16 tons 2qrs 6lbs Ooz, which, at 80s, amounted to 1,538,724/. The price of gold had advanced to 3/ 16s per ounce. There had been severe floods at the Bendigo diggings, doing much damage ; the losses were estimated at 10,000 ounces. Some riots had taken place at the dig gings, the diggers being desirous to obtain -the government reserves of land, on which to carry on their mining operations _ Mr. Gavan Duffy, late of the Nation newspaper, had arrived and been entertained at Melbourne; the dinner ended in a riot. Mr. Duffy had dis claimed all intention of carrying on agitation, pro fessing to devote himself to his profession—the bar. VAN DIEMAN'S LAND Hobart Town journals to February 9, are loud in denouncing - the conduct of Sir H. Young in refus• ing to give his consent to the Civil Service Pension Bill. This measure had been introduced by the Government, and the Governor's refusal to pass the royal assent took every one by surprise. The Legislative Council had been prorogued prepara tory to its final dissolution. Mr. William Brown, of Hobart Town, had offered to construct an elec tric telegraph for government, from Mount Lewis to Hobart Town, thence to Launceston and George Town; to complete the whole in nine months from its being commenced, at a cost of £16,000. The project was under the consideration of government. 41;' 41 :tgtrr, 4 ,,,,,.Xa i1dr LEN Saturday Night.---By the Valetta, from "ner ed 2 .4 , We learn that the corn merchants had MEDAL FOR THE BALTIC CAMPAIGN.—I-Ter Majesty ex• , Tit % y' l linnus losses, and failures were anticipated. la v i i :llose 4 o 7,, l '- 00 N- FAMILY.—A movement is on foot for the pressed to Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Dundas, when at the lb, ' Nvifo "alsing a fund to assist Mr. Frederick Incledon review . of the fleet on Wednesday last, her intention of ./h Uel and +, he ~ e ti ttle , 4 ..uree children, who are now, and have for granting h medal for the late Baltic campaigns. alth . Dabt. been suffering, greatly from poverty and ill THE EX-ROYAL FAMILY OF FRANCE.—The Prince de Joinville, the Due d'Aurnalet and the rest of . the ex-royal 11 milt. Frederick Incledon, the son of one of the first family of France were the guests of Capt t am ß Yelver . ton c lglitt a l , 'gingers, is now an out-patient of St. GT)rge's and the Marchioness of Hastings on board he runswick, b'" B ister, and he, with his fimily are deriving their sole 81, at the late naval review. '4l ee from the scanty snm doled out tq them by the CRIMINAL REFORM.—Mr. Mayhew has issued a pro 14't p' t The rules of the musical and dramatic charities do spectus of a new charitable brotherhood, designed to o i l t ti c i s :alaint ( r i li i e r f to be given from flair funds to such a case assist in the restoration of the criminal to the society which hay e Ila kir• Vebster, of the Adel hi, Mr. Buckstone, he . may have offended, either from his ignorance or his d wickedness. The Howard Society is the name proposed e co Yrnarket, Messrs. Cramer aril Beale, and others, 4 4 21 ;Thin,ssae,ntt.ed to receive such subscriptions as those who for the new brotherhood. The machinery proposed con sists of a home for prisoners on discharge from gaol—a dhtp ath e "use with a case in every way deserving of public bank for deposits or loans —a school for instruction — eased Ina Y be disposed to forward for the relief of a really a registry of employers - - and a guarantee society.- 414 deserving family. Athenceum.l . LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, fiTOIITHEIN TIMEgs, SELECT VESTRY.-YESTERDAY. The usual fortnightly meeting of the select vestry was held in the boardroom, workhouse, yesterday. Mr. Churchwarden Woodruff occupied the chair, and the other members present were—Mcssrs. Bairstow, J. Owen, Wiie, Hand, Bold, Brancker. Shaw, Whitty, Satchell, Taylor, Hastings, Cooke, Denton, Critchley, M,llor, J. Jones, Jackson, H. Jones, William Jones, Luff, and Gardner. SCOTCH AND IRISH PAUPERS' REMOVAL BILL, A very important statement has been drawn up by the clerk to the Liverpool Vestry, with reference to the provi_ lions of the Scotch and Irish Paupers' Removal Bill, now before the House of Commons, as compared with the opera tion in Liverpool of the existing law. The statement was drawn up for the purpose of being laid before the Poor-law Board and the House of Commons. A copy has also been sent to the principal Boards of Guardians in England and Scotland, inviting co-operation with the Liverpool board in their efforts to oppose the bill. It will be seen, by a reference to our report of yesterday's proceedings in the Select Vestry, that the statement was the subject of some discussion, but was finally agreed to as the expression of the general opinion of the board. The views embodied in the document are set forth in the following terms : Under the present law, the pauper before removal is required to make oath before the justices, that he was born in Ireland or Scotland as may he, and had not acquired auy settlement in England ; he is then, without any delay, taken and landed at the seaport in Ireland nearest to the county of his birth. The evidence taken before the Select Com mittee of the House of Commons shows that, in the year ended December, 1854, Liverpool removed 5,001 paupers of the most destitute class, at a cost of £1,240, the able-bodied having been first submitted to the severity of the Work house test (viz., wheat-grinding by hand), but a considerable number of the whole consisted of women and children, to whom no test was at all applicable. Fur-fifths of the whole applied to be so removed, and none were removed without their own consent. No complaint has ever been made aTainst Liverpool, as to such removals, which was not immediately, and, to the Poor-Law Board, satisfactorily disproval. Under the provisions of the proposed bill, were these removals at all practicable, they would have cost, in extra maintenance, extra justice clerks' fees, extra officers, and extra conveyance, to say nothing of costly litigation, not less than an extra sum of £7,000 in the year ; but the practica bility, it is contended, is entirely out of the question. The sth and 6th clauses of the bill require that the pauper shall be removed to the place of his both, unless it shall be proved before the justices, that he, having been born in Ireland, had resided continuously in some union therein for the space of five years next before he left Ireland, in which case he is to be removed to such union ; and that thirty days' notice of the chargability shall be given by the removing pariah before the removal takes place. Now, such is the ignorance of the Irish paupers we have been in the habit of passing, that two-thirds of them cannot name the place of their birth. If possible, they are still more ignorant of the name of the union they may have resided in. All they can tell is the name of the county, if they give the best information in their power, which they naturally do if they desire to be removed ; if they do not, then the obstacle to removal is insurmountable—they " cannot tell anything about it." Again, the rambling propensities of the Irish poor are so notorious, that an actual residence of five years in the same union would be an exceptional case indeed ; consequently, the place of birth would almost always be the information to be sought. Supposing, now, that some clue be obtained to the place of birth, you will have to seek out the necessary witnesses in Ireland or elsewhere , to establish the fact, by legal evi dence, before the justices in open court, or in a case of appeal, to sustain an action in a court of law, and the seek ing, after all, may result in a total and expensive failure. In Ireland itself difficulties arising out of this habit on the part of the Irish poor, of moving about from place to place, frequently occurs with the boards of guardians. In short, the present bill would be a complete withdrawal, for any practical good, of the power of removal, in the use of paupers belonging to Ireland; any number of them may be assisted over to Liverpool (often for 61 to Is per head) and thrown upon English parishes without the smallest chance of the latter being relieved of the burden ; and thus will be entailed a vast additional expense on English ratepayers in the support of Irish poor. A perusal of the evidence taken before the select commit tee of the House of Commons must convince any one that it is undesirable to abrogate the law of removal as regards Irish paupers. We have it on the evidence of the oldest and most experienced poor law inspectors—of the most practical and experienced poor law officers—and others most competent to form a judgment on the subject—that the abrogation of this law would inflict grievous injury on the English ratepayers ; that its value, as a " test," operates as a powerful stimulant to drive the Irish poor to strain every nerve to obtain employment ; and that the result has been, to place many of them in a state of independence by self exertion, who would, in all probability, be hopeless paupers but for the operation et this law. To retain this law, therefore, as a check on Irish vagrancy and pauperism, has, by a vast majority of the witnesses, been insisted on, because it guards the English ratepayer, as well as benefits the Irish poor themselves. It is bat just, then, that it should be allowed to operate free from impossible conditions, Much stress ha 3 also been laid, in portions of the evi dence, on the value of the workhouse test, as a sefeguard against Irish pauperism. This evidence is utterly futile. Why is it that in Ireland, with the most stringent and disheartening system it is possible to conceive, that, even before the f amine crisis, the - workhouse contained so many paupers ? How is it that slew there are snore than one third of the inmates of the Liverpool workhouse irremovable Irish ? It cannot be urged that in Liverpool we have no test; for at the present moment, our stores contain 1,000 packs of flour over and above our wants, exacted from the labour of the pauper—!he labour so much exceeding the demand; and although the Liverpool workhouse may be - said to be comparatively free from able-bodied paupers, there are SOO of that class of Irish paupers which cannot be tested. They are infirm, young, and disabled, the mothers of children, and otherwise so encumbered, as to render the application of a labour test simply impossible. Under these circumstances, the Select Vestry are anxious to obtain the co-operation and assistance of Boards of Guardians, in a strenuous opposition to the bill in question, it being intended for a second reading in the House of Commons, on Friday next, the 26th instant. THE SCOTCH AND IRISH PAUPERS' REMOVAL BILL. The Chairman stated that a deputation, consisting of the vestry clerk and himself, waited upon the Poor Law Board last week, in reference to the Scotch and Irish Pauper Removal Bill. They were received very politely by the Poor Law Board, and bowed out very politely, the Board not stating whether or not they agreed with the views of the deputation. Considerable pains ha l. been taken by the vestry clerk to pre= pare a statement applicable, not only to the case of that parish, but to every important parish in England and Scotland. This statement was very largely circulaled throughout all the parishes, previous to going before the Poor Law Board, and the result was, that in a few days they bad an immense number of letters from all quarters, promising hearty co— operation. A large deputation, amounting to twenty-three deputies, met also in London last week, at a central place, to confer upon the question, and take further proceedings. The deputies, or a majority of them, waited again upon the Poor- Imv Board. Whatever might be the result of that deputation, one thing was certain, that the bill had not yet been brought in, as stated. It had been postponed two or three times, and now stood for a second reading, precisely as it did three weeks ago. Whether the bill would be persevered with or not, he could not say ; but he must express his own opinion that, if it were passed, it would be a grievous infliction, not only on the parish of Liverpool, but upon every large parish in Eng land and Scotland ; and that whatever effort might be wanted on the part of that parish, to enforce upon Government the necessity of withdrawing the bill, should not be spared by them. (Hear, hear.) The deputies told the Poor-law Board, plainly, that they did not object to the Irish passing from one part of the country to another, upon fair and legitimate business ; but they had a strong objection to having Liverpool, Warrington, and other places inundated with Irish paupers, sent over here at a trifling cost. The Poor Law Board asked what remedy the deputation could propose, to which the deputation replied, " that they had none to propose. " The board asked what amendment they would suggest, and the deputation replied, " that the only remedy they could su g gest, was the withdrawal of the bill as wholly inconsistent with justice," (Hear, hear.) The Chairman then assured the meeting, that so far as the deputation was concerned, nothing should be wanting to support the interests of the parish, and ho hoped that the result would be satisfactory. He proposed that a petition be prepared, in accordance with the views expressed in the statement drawn up by the Clerk, that it be signed on behalf of the board, and entrusted to the borough members for presentation to the House of Commons. He added, that both Mr. Horsfall and Mr- Ewart had paid every possible attention to the interests of the parish, and gave their hearty co-operation to the de putation. Mr. Shaw seconded the ' resolution, and expressed his full concurrence with every word, which had been uttered by the Chairman. He considered the measure a most base and iniquitous one. Mr. Whitty asked whether there was any evidence at all of any systematic practice of sending over Irish poor from the Irish parishes. This was alluded to in the statement of the board, and he thought it rather unfair to embody it there unless some evidence of the practice existed to the clerk's own knowledge. The dlerk said evidence to that effect had been given before the select committee of the House of Commons. Mr: Whitty said the board had adopted the statement as if they had some evidence of it themselves to their own know ledge. Now, he did not believe there was any such systematic plan in existence, of sending over poor from the Irish unions. He quite approved of the board opposing the measure upon its own merits, but he thought it very wrong to charge Irish boards of guardians with a systematic practice of which ho did not believe they were at all aware. _ The Clerk said it had been stated before the select committee, and he believed there would be no difficulty at all in producing witnesses who had seen it milled on to some extent. (Rear, hear.) The Chairman said Mr. Ewart stated distinctly before the Poor Law Board, that he knew, as being extensively engaged in the steamboats, that paupers were frequently sent over here from Ireland at a cost of is or 6d a piece, while 2s 6d or 33 was charged to the parishes here for sending them back. In 1847 and 1848 Mr. Whitty could have seen positive evidence of the systematic manner in which the Irish paupers were sent over here. Mi. Shaw expressed a similar opinion to that of the chairman. Mr. Whitty still objected to the board embodying in their statement, on such very slight evidence, a definite charge Linst the boards of guardians in Ireland. so serious The Chairman said the Irish boards did not, of course, publish to the world that they were sending over the poor here, but it was found from practical experience, that when any pressure arose in Ireland, masses of the paupers did find their way over to England. (hear, hear.) Mr. Whitty said he had no doubt that at a time of pressure in Ireland large numbers of paupers did find their way over here. But this arose from the necessities of the country, and it did not prove the existence of any such unprincipled system on the part of Irish boards of guardians ; as the sending over their paupers here in boat-loads. Let them oppose the bill upon its own merits, but not make it the means of introducing a serious charge against Irish boards of guardians on very slight evidence. After some further conversation the motion for the adoption of the petition etas put and carried. Mr. Jackson moved that a copy of the statement drawn up by the clerk be sent to every member of the House of Com- ~...... Mr. Satchell seconded the motion, which was also carried. WoRKHOUSE COMMITTEE The minutes of this committee were read, from which it appeared that the numbers admitted to the vagrant sheds last week were, 190 males, 52 females, and 15 children, in all 257. The number of sick cases in hospital, on the 19th inst., was 641, including 49 fever, and 49 itch. The total number in the house on the 23rd inst. was 2,314. Mr. Shaw moved the confirmation of the minutes, which did not contain anything of public importance. Tho minutes wore confirmed. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL COMMITTEE. The minutes of this committee was read, but did not con tain anything beyond details of management. They were confirmed after a short conversation. FINANCE COMMITTEE. Tho minutes of this committee were also confirmed, without any discussion of public interest. On the motion of the Chairman, Mr. Jackson was appointed a member of the workhouse committee, and Mr. Syred a member of the industrial schools committee. PAUPER LUNATICS A lengthened communication was read from the visiting justices of Rainhill Lunatic Asylum, in reply to the applica tion of the vestry for their approval of retaining idiots, and bed-ridden, or helpless incurable lunatics, in wards, to be provided in the workhouse. The communication enclosed the report of a committee, consisting of Messrs. Joseph Pollock, William Earle and William Rathbone, appointed by the justices to inspect this accommodation prepared in the work house ; and also some correspondence with the commissioners of lunacy. The general effect of the correspondence was, that the justices and the commissioners could not, in any case; sanction the retention in the workhouse of any class of lunatics, except those specified, for whom the accommodation prepared in the workhouse appeared to be more than sufficient, and that, even as regarded those classes, they saw at present some objections to the proposed alteration. Mr. thaw moved that the whole correspondence be referred to the workhouse committee, to report upon. Mr. Denton seconded the motion, which was carried. This concluded the business. HORSE FLESH BANQUET.—A grand feast of horse flesh took place last week at Vervins (Aisne), and, as at Alfort, Lyons, Toulouse, Perigueux, &c., proved quite successful. In order to be prepared for any delicate stomachs which might not find the staple commodity of the repast to their ta.te, a second service was prepared with game, truffied fowls, and other dainties ; but it is asserted, not a single article so made ready was touched by the guests. FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE AND LOSS OF Lira : Two PERSONS INJURED,—On Saturday morning, James Man ders expired in St. Bartholomew's hospital, from injuries received under the following circumstances :—lt appears that on Friday evening a gentleman left a horse and chaise cart in charge of a man at the corner of Fleet-street and Bridge-street, Blackfriars, when the horse took fright, and started off at full speed, knocking the person down who had charge of the horse, which was attempted to be stopped by a police constable, who was also knocked down ; the wheel of the chaise passing over him inflicted such injuries as to incapacite him from duty. Near the corner of Harp-alley, in Farringdon-street, Manders made an attempt to stop the animal, when he was struck by one of the-shafts in the side, the wheel passing over his body. He was conveyed in a senseless state to Mr. Hutchinson's surgery, and from thence to the above mentioned institution, where he expired from internal injuries. THE LICHFIELD BANK FAIIURF —On Thursday, at the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court, Mr. Richard Greene, of Lichfield, banker, came up to un:lergo the usual examina tion. By the balance sheet it appeared that the total amount due to sundry creditors is 41g8.185 14s. 10d., in cluding 492,503 on deposit accounts ; 475,767 on current accounts; notes in circulation, €5,955; Messrs. Smith, Payne, & Smith, bankers, London (covered securities), .e 43,682. The assets showed a deficiency of £69,561. In the course of a long examination by Mr. Knight, on the part of the assignees, the bankrupt said that the main cause of the insolvency of the bank was the amount of debt owing it by Mr. Palmer (the senior partner) at the time of his death in 1850. On this account alone the deficiency was 433,000. On the day before the bank stopped there was 44,800 in it; this the bankrupt said was amply sufficient to carry on a business having a cur rent and deposit accounts to the amount of 4170,000. The Commissioner : Then it seems that the business of a bank may be carried ou with a ,very little. The matter was adjourned. THE DEBATE AND POLITICAL PARTIES. The Times contains a sarcastic notice of Mr. White side's speech of last night, which appears to have occupied hours in the delivery. Judging from this article, it appears improbable that any serious disaster to the ministry is anticipated at present. The Times, in a second article, insists strongly on the necessity of parliament sheaving more firmness, con stancy, and loyalty, not to profess confidence in a minister one moment and the next to place him con tinually in a minority. If the House of Commons had withdrawn its confidence from the present government, and bestowed it on any other party, the Times would not say a word, but the tactics recently exhibited against every government will go far to destroy the efficiency of parliament. The Daily News commends the spirit which has led ministers to be first to challenge discussion on the peace treaty. They have thus fearlessly thrown themselves on the judgment of their country, and, at the same time, have put an end to the guerilla Derby-Disraelites by forcing them into a general engagement . CONTINUATION OF TREATY. The three conventions attached to the treaty of Paris, are :—First, respecting the Straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus ; second, convention between the Czar and the Sultan, limiting their naval force in the Black Sea; third, convention between France, Russia, and England, respecting the Aland Islands. The stipu lations of the first and third conventions are generally known. The second limits the naval force of Russia and Turkey in the Black Sea, according to the following articles :—The high contracting parties reserve to them• selves each to maintain, in that sea, six steam vessels, of fifty metres in length at the line of flotation, of a tonnage of 800 tons at the maximum, and four light steam or sailing vessels, of a tonnage which shall not exceed 200 tons each. A person has been arrested by the police in Paris, under a charge of participating in the abstraction of state papers. It is supposed that the treaty of Paris, which appeared in the Daily News of Wednesday, and in the Brussels papers of the same evening is the state paper alluded to. An ultramontane journal of Vienna has been confis cated for abusing the Bureaucracy and accusing it of lukewarmness in religious matters. THE CIVIL SERVICE CoMansslCN•—The expense of the establishment of the Board of Examiners from their ap pointment to the end of March last was,. £1,905. The estimated expense for the current year is £4,995. The salaries are as follows :—The secretary has £BOO a year ; the registrar, £450 ; three senior clerks, £2OO each ; three junior clerks, £lOO each; one officekeeper, £100; one messenger at £63, and the other at £6O ; one porter at £6o.—Civil Service Gazette. THE CHARTIST POET.--The Nottingham Journal states that a purse, containing £lOOO, the result of a public sub scription commenced some time ago, has been presented to Mr. Thomas Cooper, the Chartist poet. THE IMPERIAL PRINCE OP FRANCE.—The Prince Impe rial of France was on Thursday carried out for air and exercise by his nurse on the terrace of the Tuileries oppo site the Seine, followed by one of the sous-governantes and two footmen. The Emperor accompanied the Prince as far as the gates of the terrace, and then returned to his apartments. COLONEL YEA'S Waa-House.--The horse which the late Colonel Yea had in the Crimea is now in possession of Lord Vivian, at Glynn. in Cornwall, and was ridden at the hunt in the neighbourhood last week. We understand that, on the day preceding the attack on the Redan, in which Colonel Yea lost his life, that gallant officer had a presentiment that he should not survive the coming assault, and with this conviction wrote letters to his friends in England —among others to Lord Vivian and Sir Colman Rashleigh, Bart.—and he bequeathed his war , horse to Lord Vivian. - TEE POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY, (BEFORE MR. SANDS.) DOG STEALING.—Peter Brown, and Thomas Moran, were charged with having stolen a valuable (to the fancy only) dog of the terrier breed, the property of Mr. ITenry Brownrigg. The little annimal frisked about as if exhibiting' delight at being restored to its master, wha said he would not take a large SUM for the animal. Ir was stolen on . Monday week from a place in Richmond. row, where Mr. Brownrigg had it. On the previous day he saw the prisoners offering it for sale in Great Howar street, and, in consequence, he had them arr-----"" id she prisoners produced as witness, a woman, who bought the "quadruped" about the time it was stolen but she could not Zell from whom or where. Thi cond " valu complainant said, the present was the able" dog stolen from him during the past six weeks He did not, however, wish to punish the prisoners. w all he wanted was the restoration of the " beautiful animal." This was ordered, and the prisoners were discharged. , Snor LlFTlNG.—Johanna Lyons, and Jane Townsend, alias Williams, the former a" ticket of leave" woman, *ere brought up by Thompson and Scaife, on a charge of having stolen a pair of boots from Mr. Syred's shop, Saint James-street. The prisoners were sent to jail for a montb. _ . A CAS2 OF " BRASS."—The two officers in the last case brought tip a man named Thomas Griffiths, who keeps an unlicensed marine store, in Gore-street for having and other metal, Black, for the in his possession a quantity of bra for which he could not account. prisoner contended, that he was not obliged to accou for the possession of the property, which he purchased in small quantities from time to time. Mr. Clough said he could not tell if there was not a connection between the prisoner and some persons already in cus tody, on a charge of being concerned in a robbery or property of the same description, and he thi - for a remand. The prisoner was remanded ROBBERY AN D A SSA ULT.—A Yankee-looking fellow nam.td John Breman, was brought up on the following charge. From the evidence of a Mrs Bradshaw and a youth, together with a man, it appeared that on,Montlay evening the prisoner, with six other persons, entered the public-house of Mr. Thomas Earle, Old Hall-street, where they called for same ale. When asked for pay. ment, they had not any money, and they created a row with the bar boy, and struck him. Mrs. Bradshaw, who is sister of the landlord of the house, happened to be present, and had a small basket on her arm, which con tained about £2 10s. in money, and in the row, the blackguards knocked her down and stole the money ; they also assaulted the man who gave evidence. The Men, with the exception of the prisoner got away. The police, however, had a notion that they should capture some more of them, and the prisoner was remanded are asked (BEFORE MESSRS. SANDS AND REYWOOD.) FAMILY JARS.-Mr. John Davis, a publican, residing at the "Royal Oak," Greenwood-street, was summoned by Mrs. Maria Davis, his wife, for having committed an assault on her. Mr. Black was for the complainant, and Mr. Campbell for the defendant. Both persons were respectable hi appearance. Mr. Black in opening the case stated, that on the morning of the 18th April, at breakfast time, the plaintiff and defendant were seated together partaking of that meal. Some dispute arose, and in the course of the quarrel, the defendant flung a saucer full of tea at his wife's head, but the saucer mis sed her, and the tea went on her person. He then took up the sugar basin and threw it at her, but she stooped her head and thus avoided that missile. He then rushed at, and struck her two blows—one in the eye and the other on the cheek, which cut her very much; and hurt her considerably. This was the corn plaint, and all she wanted was protection and support. as he (Mr. B.) was informed that she had been turned out of the house since that period. The complainant was then sworn, and stated exactly the same story as Mr. Bluck. _ In reply to Mr. Campbell, the , lady said there was a lodger in the house, flaw - ed Mr. Hatipson, and she had given him notice to leave. Mr. Bluck : Now, this is what I want to prevent ; it has nothing to do with the assault, and I want to keep to that alone. Mr. Campbell : I want to know if she gave him any provocation. Did you, Mrs. Davis, give your husband any provocation for the assault ? Mrs. Davis : He called for his stockings, and as I had not them ready on the instant, he abused me and said if any one else wanted things they could be got at once, and that was all the provocation I gave him. Mr. Heywood suggested that the case should be settled out of court and not proceed further ; he would, therefore, advise an adjournment for that purpose. The, suggestion was adopted, and the parties retired. (BEFORE MR. :tIANSFIRLD A WINDOW SMASHER.—Catherine It I'lkfally was charged with having broken a square of glass, value 6s 6d, in the window of Mr. Jones's public house, Uheapsidc, and also with attempting to stab her husband with a knife. Mr. Jones said the prisoner's husband was in his house with some other people, when she rushed in with an open knife iu herhand and made a furious attack on him. She was seized when in the act of plunging the knife into her husband's body. The weapon was taken from her, and she was put out into the street, when she took up a stone and broke the glass. In reply to Mr. Mansfield, the prisoner said Mr. Jones kept abad house :or married men to meet married women (not their wives) there (laughter), and that her husband spent all s time and money there with other women, and she only went to talie bin] out. Mr. Mansfield (to Mr. Jones) : You hear what she says Witness : I do, sir, but there is not a particle of truth in it—it is a gross falsehood and calumny —my house is respectable, as is well known. The prisoner was ordered to pay the amount of the damages to the glass, or be committed. DANDFLtol.r.—Two well-dressed girls, servants at the Atlantic Hotel, Regent-road, were charged with having assaulted an old woman, named Catherile Curley. The woman's head had been bandaged up; and from the evidence of W. Wall, surgeon, of the Northern Hospital, it appeared that she had a - slight contused wound on the forehead. The case, as told by the complainant, was somewhat incoherent, but as far as could be collected she said she gathered "dandelion" for the use of ladies of delicate and "interesting positions" (laughter). She was on her way that morning to a beautiful young girl with an apron full of the medicinal herb, when she went into the hotel to get a glass of ale, and to ask the young lady in the bar if she would like a quantity of the stuff " (laughter). The prisoners, she said, were sweeping at the door, when, without any provocation, they struck her on the head with a brush, and cut her " poor old skull" in a bad way. For the defence, two men were produced, who swore that the complainant entered the house and acted very improperly towards the lady in the bar, and that complainant flung two glasses of ale that were on the counter before them into their faces, and afterwards hurled a glass at the lady in the bar, to whom she used all sorts of foul language. She was put out, and then seeing the girls sweeping outside, she attacked them both with her tongue and hands, and one of them put up the brush to save herself, and in this way the wound was inflicted. Mr. Carr, the governor of the workhouse, who happened to be present, informed his worship that , the poor woman was, no doubt, a lunatic, as he had kno a wn her to be in the asylum some time ago. A policeman said he knew her to be wandering about Bootle, and had no doubt what ever she was out of her mind. Mr. Mansfield .ordered her to be taken care of, and directed the young woman to be discharged. FEARFUL CASE or WattNratio.—A most dissipated and abandoned looking female, who gave her name as Alice Hughes, was charged with wounding another female, in a brothel, in Pall-mall, on the previous night. The complainant, whose face was much lacerated, having had, as the surgeon at the Northern Dispensary, Mr. Soyer, stated, three incised wounds, one an inch and the others two inches in length, inflicted on her face, while a slice was cut off her nose, when called upon to state the case, said, " I was in drink at the time, and I do not know anything about the case. I know we had some words at tea, and she went to the drawer to get something, but Ido not know what it was. A girl, who lived in the same locality, stated that she went into the house at the time, when she saw the two women struggling together on the floor. She picked the com plainant up, and finding that she was bleeding from the face, took her to the Northern Dispensary. She could not tell how it was done. The surgeon stated that he had no doubt but that the complainant would be for ever disfigured, as one of the temporal arteries Was rut. Mr. Mansfield said in this case there was no doubt but that a knife had been used, and that the woman had received a permanent injury. It is too serious a case for him to deal with summ arily, therefore lie should send the case for trial. The prisoner was accordingly sent for trial. ANOTHER CASE OF STABBING.—TWO ruffianly looking characters, named Hunt and Flynn, were c h arge d , together with a man named Devine, not in custody, with having stabbed and violently assaulted two young men, named Patrick and John Kenny. Police officer 63 stated that lie was on duty about half-past ten o'clock on the previous night in Collingwood-street, off Scotland-road, when he heard that there was a row in a cellar, and on going to the place he found that th e comp l a i nant and his brother had been stabbed in the face with a knife. Patrick Kenny was so much injured that be was not able to attend. John Kenny said lie was in the house when he heard Flynn amil his brother arguing rather violently, when he went out, and immediately received a blow in the cheek from a stick, which knocked him down. The stick was produced, and was rather a formidable instrument, being about two feet long, elastic, and one end loaded with lead. He got up, when Jemmy Devine (the man not in custody), gave him a tip with a poker. He caught hold of Devine, who stabbed him in the face, and again knocked him down, kicking him in the mouth and loosening all his teeth. The prisoners were remanded for the attendance of Patrick Kenny, the other man injured, and to give the officers time to apprehend the other offender, Devine. mulanaliisJ DEMERA.RA. RAILWAY COMPANY. The annual general meeting of the proprietors of this company, was held at one o'clock yesterday, in the Clarendon-rooms, South John-street, Thomas F. Bennett, ' Esq., chairman, in the chair. The Chairman fter mentioning that there had been lo transfer since last meeting, and that this was the irst meeting of the company in Liverpool, it being ;ailed under the ordinance to transferring the manage- ment to this town, proceeded' to say, that the directors had scarcely any thing- to add to what had been already communicated to the shareholders, in the printed report. They could state that the mana,gement and working of the line, by Mr. Manifold, was quite satisfactory to the direction, and he believed also to the public in Demerara. He believed that, on the whole, it answered Mr. Mani fold's expectations, and the directors hoped that he would derive such profit from it, as would attach him to the line, for on him their hopes very much depended. With regard to the traffic, he was sorry to say that it had not yet come up to what they expected from it. They had been led to hope that it would amount to £20,000 per annum, and though the actual receipts came very near to that amount, being .£18,500, yet the deficiency prevented them from presenting s . good a report as they had at first hoped to be able to do. There were one or two reasons which would account fur the deficiency. In the first case, the crop had not been large, and in the next place there had been some confusion and disorder in the colony for a short time—both of which circum stances had had a material influence on the receipts of the line. The great difficulties which presented them-, selves to the directors, were the same which the company had to encounter from the beginning, namely, monetary difficulties. They had begun in a difficult - time, 1841, and in October, 1848 had been compelled to reduce their capital from £250,000 to £115,000. - That had been done under the exigency of the case to enable the company to borrow money from the public, seeing that they could no longer obtain payment of further calls from the shareholders, and since then the same pressure had been experienced. They should, however, take things as they found them, and if they were only able to pay off their debts, and they were noyi not very far short of that, they would a ppear before the colony in an independant position, and svotiJd soon feel a turn for the better iii their affairs. They had power to raise £20,000 on bonds, btit cipii,g to the liberal and continued assistance which they had deriied from their bankers, to whom they were now indebted !n the sum of £14,000, they had been relieved from as yet' exercising that power. He wished it, however, to be understood by the shareholders generally, that the directors should now place those bonds without further delay, they having temporised in the hope that they would have been able to place them with the public or among the shareholders themselves, at a lower rate of interest than 74 per cent, at which rate the shareholders who had subscribed were bound to take them., He would leave them to judge what chance they had of getting the bonds placed at a lower rate of interest than 71 per cent • and he would, therefore, strongly recommend the shareholders themselves to subscribe the sum, not only as a safe investment, bat as calculated also to support their existing interests in the line. The present income of £18,590, not only fully provided for the payment of the interest on the colonial debt, for the contribution to the sinking fund, for the interest on the £32,000 already borrowed, and for the interest on the £20,000, if they should have to raise that sum even at 71 per cent,' bat also left a surplus very nearly equal to the payment of the preference shares, but of course not the arrears. (Hear, hear) Under these circumstanced he therefore thought that the possessors of those bonds* need have no fear about the safety of their capital, or the regular payment of their interest. (Hear, bear.) It could not be concealed that they very much depended on the general prosperity of the colony, but he did not think that, on the whole, they had received that favour at the bands of the govern ment to which they were entitled. As yet, they had got no benefit from the colony, all the capital having been spent there without any return ; but he felt persuaded that there was now a better feeling towards them there, and that in the hands of the present governor and government their interests would receive every protec tion and advancement. (Hear, hear.) The great want in the colony was labour, but with immigration its produce, particularly on the estates on the east coast, would be doubled, by which the traffic on their line would be doubled. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion, the chairman bore testimony to the zeal of the Demerart committee in the interests of the company, and declared that it was the intention of the company to carry out the Mahaica extension, on which £5,500 had been already sunk, as soon as after the payment of their debts they felt themselves in a position to undertake the work. (Hear, hear.) The report, which has been already circulated among the subscribers, and the substance of which is contained in the chairman's statement, was then, together with the statement of accounts, put and adopted. Mr. Charles Holland and Mr. Samuel Martin were re-elected members of the general committee. Mr. R. W. Sandbach and Air. T. Bona were elected auditors in the room of Mr. Stephen Cane and Mr. J. Torrance, resigned. Thanks were unanimously voted, on the motion of Mr. Tinne, to the Demerara committee. Thanks were also voted to the retiring auditors, Sir James R. Carmichael, late chairmau, and the present directors, after which the meeting separated. ADVERTISEMENT. SMOKE PRE. VENITON TO THE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN TIMES SlR,—Since my return to town, I have seen Mr. O'Regan's letter, is your paper of the 21st, and as you have wisely limited his communications to your advertising column, I am enabled, without imposing on your space, to set the public right, as to the misrepresentations that letter contains. Mr. O' Regan f‘ays, in the specification of my expired patent of 1839, there is "no such bridge." I did not speak of a " perforated bridge," but of a "perforated box," and which may be set in the door, or the bridge, at has been successfully done in numerous cases, during the last dozen years: Mr. O'Regan, however, will find in that specification the following, and which I here give to enable the public to adopt it without the cost of any patentee. " I specially claim as my invention the use, construction, and applica tion, of the perforated air distributor, by which the atmos pheric air is more immediately and intimately blended with the combustible gases generated in the furnace." The use of this perforated air distributor is just what comprises Mr. O'Regan's imitation ;—one of his perforated air boxes may be seen at this company's works, side by side with one taken out of one of our steam vessels. It is unnecessary to refer to the two remaining paragraphs in Mr. O'Regan's letter, further than saying they each contain an untruth.—l am yours, &c., CHARLES WILLIAMS. City of Dublin Stearn Packet Company's Works, Clarence Dock, Liverpool, 29th April,lBs6. THE THANKSGIVING DAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. Sir,—l see, by your paper of this morning, that the "thanksgiving day" is appointed for Sunday next; and I notice, also, that the Londoners intend to celebrate the return of peace on the Queen's birth-day. Now, I should feel obliged if you would inform me whether we are to have a general holiday to celebrate it, too, as there has been no notification of it as yet, I believe. If we ara not, I think that the merchants of Liverpool should not be backward to follow the example set them in the metrop rolis.—SUYßEou, LEA.rs GRETN,A. MARRIAGES CARLISLE CONSISTORY COURT, APRIL 24. BELL V. GRAHAM. The judgment is of the highest public importance. The chancellor commented, in eloquent terms, upon the demoralising effect in this district of the Scotch mar riage Jaw—a marriage of that kind, however repulsive, being legal in England because lawful in Scotland. The chancellor said that it appeared that John Murray, at the Sark Toll Bar alone, performs, on the average, 400 marriages in the year ; and that on the Martinmas-hiring day at Carlisle, and a day or two on either side of it, he splices more than a hundred couple.—Carlisle Patriot. The Worshipful Chancellor Burton gave judgme this suit to-day in open court, and in the pres , the proctors in the cause, and a consideraw of auditors. The plaintiff and defend present. .ant were also nt in oco of -tie number . The suit was instituted by John 1- at-Law, and Clerk of the Peace lien, Esq., Barrister moreland, to nullify a n for the county of West- just over the Scotch Boyirris , ge at the Sark Toll Bar, - icier, alleged to have been solemnised on the 13th of November, 1847, by John Murray, the bar-keeper., The Chanceilo6 jud g ment is, that the marriage (intended by Mr. Bell af, a sham) is pronounced valid in Scotland, the defendar,t herself believing that it was real ; and, as a valid marriage in Scotland is a legal marriage in England, it follows, so far as this decision goes, that Mr. Bell b as found a wife against his will. The suit was disrnissed. Mr. Saul, foe the defendant, asked for costs, The Chancellor said the application was unnecessary. Mr. Bell must 'pay his own costs as a matter of course; and he must also pay those of his wife.