The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-13 00:00:00

RUSSIA

zThe f BERLIN, DEc. 10.
its, be-chewing intelligence from Russia will, if
which r f,und important. It comes from a source
_
Ain b -- uave generally found to be correct, but I
rateelind to state that I do not find it corrob.o-
ctegNatlYWhere else, and that it stands in a certain
trota'e °t• opposition to the information I receive.
A_aek;.°tber quarters on military movements n
A-op; A St. Petersburg correspondent of the
St. reier
9 Journal states that it is understood in
;Salm e‘ersburg that General Birjuloff, who coma
laae4 the troops on the Russo. Persian frontier,
at treived orders to enter Persia with 50,000 men
f
Persia first requisition made to him by the Shah o
d'0,414. At the same time it is said that two corps
sown fe have been set in motion towards the Ausa-
torentier. The correspondent then says, as .
,e,llnotT,lt of his own on this statement, that Russia
ore ia,-',°,ok on ; a passive spectator of the bold steps
Of ,',"ish Government is taking towards Persia,.
`v, of
'le tergiversations of Austria ; and that it
tiiee:labe Russia's fault if new warlike complica-
niste.7B,e- The conviction that the Anglo.Gallie
Pditi„--, I? at its last extremities gains, he says,e
'ilai- -I,'-ittl strength from observing the trouble. the
t Qiiili;; Press takes to be friendly with Austria ; as
1-.,'') fall is-rY Power on land is necessary for England
i4_,kjhane on to enable her to act boldly in the
744 los,' is now seeking on the Danube what she
4'l'er, •" the Seine. Of the Russian army, how-
ill it isadded,' u
Rh t que e ne demande pas nzieux
N'ill°11:to ,:nlensure its strength with the Austrians,
t(4. 11 It saved in 1849. As an indicationd
°,StlrdWsiti. the ideas of the Russians. are. change
dellaysa ,rance, he mentions that it is generally
"44e11-,- ulat Prince Napoleon is about to mar.rymav
°f th, 'er of the Grand Duchess Marie, the widow
eq e buk
100 1110 0 of Leuchtenburg.
.If the press and
1i: 4 report had not already given Prince. Napo
.on in age to so many princesses, it might be
..,chs. e 0 enquire which daughter of the Gran
'-'Whi,-,18 IVarie is to be honoured on this occasioins
11110W'Luer it is the one of her children that
?,t. tlle,,d„to bear their reputed father's name, or one
lviills- three that are only allowed to be calledt
I,os e-04,.(1• The Emperor Alexander, when a
g°olB3,- lately Om the occasion of his coronation,
Ire
gar''4 ed the marriage of his sister with Princer
‘°,4,etll. stroganoff, but it was not made clear
ft. ,r th,‘
tt. ring v.. hat marriage had taken place recently or
ni_lit tl. ue lifetime of the late Emperor; however
I,Qildre? be there is no contrivance by which th_onise
,„'el'er i\F., etso he made legitimate. The late E
the
'el nir'ettclas would not only never hear of
illlcl the being effected between his daughter
s
Sligii,e Ilussian Prince, but also upbraided bi
''ollth,'eti. with the notorious liaison that she had
Gi4gts'eeeLel_With him, telling her. that she was a
terttlad to I.° the Imperial Family. To this the
^eet the
answered, that she was in
.this
"i ,tapershe clnite worth of her father, aad especially
ncestr
ess the Empress Catharine, in whose
1142,age followed. lady and her prese.ns.
'llOll tild have, as it a ears, now received permi
e The ° travel, and are on their way to Switzerland..a
114, in --.ll;2l9Bburger Algemeine Zeitung contains.
\‘'f:4lllli-„`eittion, dated from the Polish frontier
I,l,,ktlie 1,--- 'seine degre corroborates the statement
4cl aZfelnent of thee Russian forces southward
,°, 3',eNi?ard. It states that the entire Russian
the
1-titli, "'"ell has hitherto been stationed in
inter h's
i.tct only to remain there during the
alted'f,:ll',lBo a cosiderable portion of it is to be
.
a1.1;,,i,a atiTutehre scoUthtward to the frontier of Besse
.oas of the Black Sea. There is
4theroeit etre sirlerab_le movement of troops going on
Nil carp,
craOn, for the purposes of strengthening
ei.fonder tootle in
ki' P ""d, is destined to c
Orenburg, which, it is gene-
ross the Caspian
Ph sh Persia for the purpose of protecting. the
Tr Eigai ,
th:l'Liellersnst European as well as Asiatic foes.
:o- uot'll coming from Astrakhan mention that
), Well .14 of the Caspian Sea is so numerous and
t
tb"Sta 07PPcinted, that it could, in a very short
cics.,„,tiee, transport a whole corps d'armee to
wltiov,-- 'vicinity of Teheran.
upof a totally different
qgirth'i eat
kryeEte itirearti sPwitaehesee-boref breakingof the second active
kea•• ral timers till I acte.lgy under the command of
II be recollected that im-
lars,stelY after • diffe"tches
of
ththel' pte.awole the various independent
tenePt Portiones afetti.hve army stationed in the
that were threa-
()4sl tWere united° inteo empiretwo equal armies, open
r,‘l'est 1,4 g of the first three corps darmee in th
'(lrlaislrl, der Prince Gortschakoff, and the other
illrider,°R of three corps darmee in the south
ti,,4deras'eneral Luders. Not long back General
`qee - received leave of absence for a year; no
Stts itior Was . - his place, and now the
th S' 10,tel appointed in .
P reo El LY under his command is broken up into.
lT..ll:l3lftpi)daEtp corps. &armee. The officer next in
th'' tilt,
eo after him, General Helfreieh, 4th
of t3th Oliriander of the sth, and Lipran. di, of
A-‘ Cotli' "Ve each of them received the attributes
'illotVtllder of a detached corps in time of peace.
'4 pleasure that was previously decided on

remains to be carried out, viz., the reduction of the
tetrerves.

Some stress is laid upon the circunistance that
the equal manner in which the active army is now
distributed over the empire is evidence that Russia
looks upon all matters connected with the late
war as adjusted, and has herself no intention of
disturbing the peace again. For instance, in and
about St. Petersburg is located the Guard, in Mos-
cow and its neighbourhood the Grenadiers, in the
western provinces the first three corps d'armee
under Gortschakoff, the fourth corps d'armee to the
south of Moscow, and the fifth and sixth in the
south or south east. This may all be quite cor-
rect, and yet not preclude the possibility of the
first news being correct, viz., that some portions of
the troops in the south east are being passed over
the Don for the purpose of strengthening the
Orenburg corps, in case of its being called into
requisition in Persia.

General Mouravieff, who has been almost lost
from view, so long has he has he been on his
journey from Kars northward, arrived in Moscow
not many days back; he appears to be in very
bad health, and to be very anxious of avoiding the
ovations that popular enthusiasm is desirous of
treating him to.

According to a long article in the Invalide, it is
the intention of the government to collect a flotilla
of steamers in the Balkasch Lake (in the interior of
Asia, on the China frontier.)
The conviction which the 1 ate campaigns in the
Baltic have produced of the openness of the
Finland coast, and more particularly of the Gulf of
Bothnia, has led to extensive plans being formed
for its future protection. General von Berg has
already commenced strengthening the old fortresses
and selecting advantageous spots for the construc-
tion of fresh ones. In the place of Bomarsund, a
marine fortress is being built on the Island of
Kaskoe, in the Gulf of Bothnia, which enjoys the
advantage of a deep and commodious harbour, and
five other fortresses are, it is said, to be erected on
the Bothnian coast. Hitherto there has been no
place of any strength all along that coast, which
is eighty leagues in length. Uleaborg, Brahestad,
Wasa, and Nysford are nothing but small com•
mercial harbours, and the only thing approaching
to a fortification was Gustafsvarn, the chief port at
Hangoe. It is now intended to construct five
fortresses and fortified harbours along that coast ;
the sites for them have already been selected, but
they will be built not simultaneously but in suc-
cession. The first of these works will be a fortified
harbour in the north, not far from the frontier
town of Tornea. The spot selected is described as
being most suitable, inasmuch as the river Kern
ielf falls there into the bay, and the island of
Sauvofaari (which is being armed with batteries)
protects the entrance. The soil is described as
being very fruitful just about there, and it is
expected that very shortly a town will spring up
around the fortress, for which the Government is
said to offer every facility.
There are nine fortresses spoken of as about to
be built along the coast of the Bay of Finland ; a
row of forts connected by coast batteries is to
stretch from St. Petersburg up to Riga, by way of
Narva and Revel.

TURKEY

CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 1

Last Monday it was announced that Aali Pacha
had replaced Fuad Pacha as Minister for Foreign
Affairs, and the following day it was known that
there had taken place a further modification of the
Cabinet, by which Ethein Pacha—a name new to
the West—would obtain the Foreign-office, and
Aali Pacha and Fuad Pacha places in the ministry
without special departments. The Cabinet, as now
constituted, will stand thus :

Reschid Pacha .Grand Vizier.
Ethein Pacha . ....... Foreign Affairs.
Ritza Pacha...
Mehemet Ali Pacha
Mukhtar Pacha
Mussa Baffiti Pacha
Izzet Pacha Police.
Roauf Pasha
Mustapha Pacha.
Aali Pacha
Departments.
Fuad Pacha

This must be looked upon as one of the
strongest ministries that has been seen for many
a day. The Takim. or movement party, is
cidedly in the majority, while the presence of Mus-
tapha and Mehemet-Ali forms, so long as they are
retained, a guarantee against a vast amount of
intrigue and opposition, which would be certain to
be bronght against the Government were tbey
excluded from it.
We read in the Pays of Paris :—" A telegraphic
despatch,from Constantinople,announces that Riza
Pacha, Minister at War, is no longer member of
Reschid Pacha's cabinet. We do not know the
reasons for his retirement, nor whether his suc-
cessor has yet been nominated. But at all events,
the news, should it be confirmed, proves that
the ministerial difficulties at Constantinople are
not over

T
ITALY.

TURIN, DEC. 8

Although two steamers have arrived at Genoa
within the last two days, bringing news from
Naples to the 3rd inst , we are still in the dark as
to the movement in Sicily, its origin, progress, or
result. The Monitore Toscano appears to have
some peculiar advantages in acquiring information
on this subject, which it probably owes to its
official position, for it confidently asserts that not
only has the insurrection been completely sup-
pressed, but that the Neapolitan Government
had magnanimously given the ringleader, one
Baron San Marco, a passport to leave the country.
The Neapolitan Government has possibly selected
the Monitore Toscano as the means of communi-
cating its benign intentions to the exterior
world, and had the statement stood alone one
would have had no difficulty in crediting
it, but, coupled as it is with the alleged
fact of the complete suppression of the outbreak,
it staggers all belief to hear that the King of
Naples has so entirely changed his tactics as to
show mercy after victory, and makes one rather
fancy there must still be some lurking danger for
the peace of the island. The Muratists and Mazzi-
nians are said to be both active in endeavouring to
make converts at Naples. Mazzini never had much
credit in the Neapolitan dominions, but is said to
be rather rising in popular estimation as the
people lose hope of relief from other sources. The
friends of Prince Murat are constantly predicting
that their chief is just on the point of doing some-
thing, and are most prodigal of promises in his '
name, but I fancy they have considerable difficulty
in persuading the Neapolitans that he is either a
hero or a Liberal.
The Gazzetta di Venezia announces that the Em-
peror of Austria has, by a letter to Count Bissen gen,
Civil Governor of the Venetian Provinces, remitted
the sentences altogether on 14 prisoners, half of
those of two, and a third of that of one, but the
Gazette does not state whether the persons so par-
doned were political offenders or not.
With regard to the sequestrated properties or-
dered to be restored to their owners, I have to-day
seen a letter from one of the proprietors, which
says that he has received intimation from the local
government, through his agent, that previous to
re-entering on possession he will be required to sign
a declaration of his satisfaction at the manner in
which the property has been administered by the
Government Commission, and his readiness to fulfil
any engagements contracted by it during its
management. From this communication it appears
also that it is no part of the plan of the Austrian
Government to pay over the rents of the last four
years when it gives up these properties.
Baron Burger has at length cut the Gordian knot
of his difficulty in finding a Podesta for the city of
Milan fit to set before an Emperor, but not without
transgressing the unwritten, if not the written, laws
of the country, and I believe both. According to
those laws the Podesta should be chosen by the
Government from three names sent in by the Muni.
cipality ; but this year all the three persons named
declined to serve on some excuse or other, and the
Government, finding this disinclination to take
the office general among the Milanese nobility, has
appointed a person from another province, and

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

increased the salary by one-fourth, without consul?
ing the municipality. The individual selected by
Baron Burger is the Count Sebregondi, at present
Podesta of Como, but formerly Aulic Councillor to
the Viceroy, the Archduke Regnier, and a pensioner
of the Austrian Government. Count Sebregondi
was Vice-Delegate of Mantua in 1831, and gave
refuge to the late Duke of Modena by harbouring
him in his own house at that time, by which
service he, of course, secured the Duke's protection,
and having also gained the confidence of Prince
Metternich, he was by him named Special Envoy
from the Vienna Cabinet to the Court of Rome
I when the Austrian Government wished to come to
an understanding as to how the reforms suggested
by the great Powers could be most easily evaded.
All the world knows how eminently successful that
mission was, and in something of the same capa-
city Count Sebregondi remained several years at the
Papal Court, after which he was named Aulic
Councillor to the Vice-regal Government of
Lombardy.
Marshal Radetzsky's health is said to be so
infirm now that his retirement has become inevit-
able. On the day of the Emperor's arrival at
Venice, the Marshal was taken ill, while waiting
at the landing place, and attacks of the same kind
have of late been so frequent, that although he
has long been only nominally at the head of the
government and the army, it is impossible he can
continue so much longer. It has been generally
supposed that the Marshal's name was a tower of
strength in itself, particularly with the army, and
I was very much astonished, therefore, when I
heard the other day, from persons who must be
pretty well informed on the subject, that his popu
larity with the army is by no means great. His
probable successor is said to be Count Gyulai, an
officer who is not very popular with his meu either,
as he is a soldier who never made a campaign, and
a martinet. Judging from the manner in which he
treated the town of Milan after the outbreak of
February, 1853, it might be a dangerous appoint-
ment if he were to succeed Marshal Radetzsky in all
his functions, as he gave a signal proof of want of
temper and judgment on that occasion ; but as the
contemplated changes include the nomination of a
Vicerory, it may be supposed there will be less
power left to the discretion of the General. The
Archduke Charles, a younger brother of the
Emperor, now Governor of the Tyrol, was first
spoken of as likely to be made Viceroy, but reports
say there are defects of temper in his case also
(as are found occasionally in members of the very
best regulated families), and that the Archduke
Ferdinand, who is reputed the most amiable of
the House of Hapsburg, will therefore be the
person, and, being Admiral-in-chief of the Austrian
navy, he will make Venice his head quarters.
A horrible attempt at murder took place in the
streets of Ravenna the other evening on the person
of Connt Franceso Lovatelli, who was fired at, and
severely, if not mortally wounded, just as he was
about to enter his own house, about 9 o'clock in the
evening. Count Lovatelli is a Liberal in politics,
and is universally respected by all who knew him,
but his political opinions being moderate, have
earned for him the dislike of the extreme
parties. In 1843 he was banished for
expressing too openly his political opinions, and
he remained in exile in France until 1848,
when he was named a member of the Upper
Chamber by the Constitutional Government, and
filled the office of Intendant of the Province of
Ferrara. A a yet no clue has been discovered of the
aasassin. and the Papal police are accused by the
people of Ferrara of want of energy in prosecuting
the search, if not of something worse. By the last
accounts received from there, it appears the unfor-
tunate gentlemen was still living, although in
extreme danger.
It has been rumoured for some time that His
Holiness the Pope is about to proclaim an
amnesty, and it is with much curiosity, there-
fore, that news in confirmation of this report
is awaited from Rome. It can hardly be
expected, indeed, that His Holiness will be
more liberal in his amnesty than his devoted
and very apostolic son the Fmperor of Austria, so
that a release of from five to ten per cent. of politi-
cal prisoners, and a cautious permission (which
may be rendered null in its operation by the
agents appointed to execute it) for the readmission
of political refugees, is all that is looked for, and
oven of that thorn io no oortainty ao yot, thOugh
I doubt not something will be done for the sake of
appeal antes.
Intelligence has been received from Sassari by
telegraph, reporting the loss of the steamer
Castor, belonging to the Company Rubattino, of
Genoa. She was on her outward voyage from
Genoa to Sassari, and was wrecked near Bonifacio.
The crew and passengers were all saved, and part
of the mails had been recovered

conclusion, as the auditors of the military tri-
bunal are preparing to leave the scene of
their operations. Sentences to the galleys for
various periods, have been inflicted wholesale,
and five more men were to be shot almost imme-
diately, for attacking and robbing a diligence in the
neighbourhood of Ancona. No doubt the severity
of these measures ensures the destruction of the
malefactors when once they fall into the hands of
the military justiciaries; but legislative amelior-
ations, calculated to prevent the demorilisation of
the people, and the consequently perpetual recur-
rence of brigandage are apparently beyond the
reach both of Austrian and pontifical authorities.

Queen Christina !s honouring Ancona with her
presence. She arrived there at the end of last month
to take possession of the large estates which she has
purchased in that neighbourhood, and which
formery belonged to the late Duke of Leuch-
tenberg, who married the Grand Duchess
Marie of Russia. Count Antonelli, brother
of the Cardinal, and the Marquis of
Castillo, left Rome, three days ago, for Ancona, to
pay their homage to her Majesty, on her arrival
from Tuscany, and to attend to the count's interests
in the transfer of property just alluded to. The
Queen is expected daily in Rome, where she is to
take up her residence in the Vidoni Palace, which,
if not one of the most spacious in the city, can
boast at any rate of having had Raffael for its
architect.

The great column is beginning its march from the
shed in which it has been polished on the Piazza
Mignanelli, towards the base of the monument on
whose pedestal it is to be erected on the 15 h, it
being now ascertained that the preparations cannot
be completed by the Bth, which is the festival of the
Immaculate Conception. Two masons fell from the
top of the lofty scaffolding yesterday, One of them
was killed on the spot, his head striking the base of
the monument; but the other is still alive, although
much injured.

PORTUGAL

The Calpe steamer has arrived here from Lisbon
with dates to the 6th inst.

The United States steam frigate Merrimac, for
Cadiz, had arrived on the 4th inst. The following
were the foreign vessels of war in port:—Her Ma
jesty's screw ships Caesar, Captain Robb ; Sanspa-
reil, Captain Key; Centurion, Captain Fanshawe ;
Colossus, Captain Thompson ; Exmouth, Captain
Byres; the French screw ship Austerlitz and
steamer Phenix, and the Dutch frigate Prins Alex-
ander.

The Government loan of £330,000 for public works
was progressing favourably under the auspices of the
Bank of Portugal, but it was still doubted whether
the ministry could command, without some modifi-
cation, a safe majority in the newly elected Cha m
ber of Deputies

_.....__

NAVAL AND MILITARY

The following general order has been pro
mulgated

Horse Guards, Dec. 5, 1856.
The British German Legion having been disbanded in
consequence of her Majesty no longer requiring their services,
the General Commanding-in-Chief cannot permit that
body to separate without expressing to the officers of the
British army who were attached to it his Royal Highness's
high appreciation of their services during the period they
were employed in the force, to which, in a great degree, the
high state of military efficiency at which the Legion had
arrived may be justly attributed.

By command of his Royal Highness the General Com-
manding-in-Chief.

G. A. WETHERALL, Adj utant-General

ADMIRALTY, DEC. 11.—APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenants
H. L. C. Robinson (1854), to the Dasher, 2 paddlewheel
steam vessel, at Portsmouth ; and W. T. W. Hambly (1854)
to the Pembroke. 60, screw steam ship, at Portsmouth.

Second Masters J. E. Chapple (1853), to the Pluto, 4,
paddlewheel steam vessel, at Woolwich ; and A. R. Bur-
niston (1850), to the Wizard, 6, brig, at Cork.
Clerk F. St. J. O'Neill, to the Hermes, 6, paddle-wheel
steam sloop, North America and West India station.
Assistant Clerks, E. A. Phillips and R. T. Arundell, to
the Monarch, 84, flag ship, Pacific station ; C. H. Stone to
the Wellesley, 72, guard ship of ordinary, at Chatham ; A.
Hughes and W. P. Albin, to the Scourge, 6, paddle-wheel
steam shpi, West Coast of Africa station.
Naval Cadets, C. F. Hotham, F. R. Boardman, and C. T
S. De Michell, to the James Watt. 9

Devonnort

IPUBLIC INCONIE_AND EXPENDITURE OF THE

UNITED KINGDOM.

The return to parliament of the public income and
expenditure of the United Kingdom in the years ending
the 31st March, 1855 and 18.56, shows the following
results :

The total income in the year ending 31st March, 1855,
was 64,091,571/, and the excess of expenditure over income
6,145,2461. The total income for the year ending 31st
March, 1856, was 70,552,1451, composed of the follow-
ing items :—Customs and Excise, 40,845,9361; Stamps,
7,063,6101, Assessed and Land Taxes, 3,136,0771; Property
and Income Tax, 15,159.4581; Post-office, 2,767,2011;
Crown Lands, 421,7151; other ordinary revenue and other
resources 1,158,148/. The excess of expenditure over
income was 22.597,1651.

The expenditure for this latter year, amounting to
93,149,3101, was composed of the following items :—Col-
lection of revenue, 2,863,3531; public debt, 28,112,8251;
civil government, 1,695,0521; justice, 3,192,4201; diplo-
matic, 366.4431 ; army, 17,395,0591; navy, 19,654,5851;
ordnance, 10,411,5441; vote of credit (war with Russia),
4,200,0001; bounties, &c., for promoting fisheries, 14,5751;
public works, 950,5761; payments out of the revenue of
crown lands for improvements and other public services,
107,0421; Post-office, 1,578,2991; quarantine and ware-
housing establishments, 137,3071; miscellaneous, 2,470,2301.
The excess of expenditure in 1856 over that of 1855 was
22,912,4931. The excess of income in 1856, as compared
with 1855, was 6,460,5741.
The excess of the expenditure for the Forces—Army,
Navy, and Ordnance—in the year ending March 31, 1856,
over that in 1855, was 19,139,4811., while the vote of credit
(war with Russia) for 1856 exceeded by 2,400,0001. that
which was voted for 1655.

A note appended to the civil government return states
that no sum is at present paid for the use of King Leopold
of Belgium. The trustees, after discharging certain annu-
ities and pensions to the establishment of the late Princess
Charlotte, repay the balance of the annuity to the ex-
chequer. The sum so repaid in the last year, viz. 1856,
Was 33,500/.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

SOUTH LANCASHIRE WINTER ASSIZES

CROWN COURT.-YESTERDAY

His Lordship, Baron Alderson, entered the court at
nine o'clock yesterday.
SENTENCE.—EmiIy Mason, who pleaded guilty to the
manslaughter of William Reay, at Liverpool, on the
24th of August, was sentenced to four years' penal
servitude.

ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.—James Close, aged 35, turner,
and George Berry, aged 30, labourer at the Chemical
Works, were charged with having at Elton, on the Bth
of November, 1856, feloniously assaulted Samuel Rams-
bottom, putting him in bodily fear, and stolen from
him one sack, one leather bag, and two hundred pounds
in money. Mr. Wheeler prosecuted, and Mr. Fearnley
defended the prisoner Close. The prosecutor stated that
he is a postman, in the employment of Mr. Gordon, a
calico printer, at Kirkless. Had been in the habit of
going to the bank at Bury, for money for Mr. Gordon
on Saturdays. On Saturday, the Bth November, took to
the bank a cheque for £2OO, and got £l5O in gold, and
£6O in silver. Placed the gold in one bag

and the

silver in another, and pat both bags together into a sack,
the mouth of which he tied up. Left the Bury bank
about ten o'clock in the forenoon. Called at a gro-ers
in Bury, where he remained about four or five minutes
after which he called at his own house

remained about the same time, and then went along the
Bury and Bolton road towards Mr. Gordon's works,
until he got to a turn rather more than a mile from
Bury. Had an umbrella open over him, as it was
raining very hard, and the end of the ock was
twisted round the handle of the umbrella. A
man came up to him from behind, and laid
bold of the sack containing the money. Did not
observe the man before, and did not pass him on the
road. The man pulled at the sack, but did not at first
succeed in getting it away. He then gave another jerk,
and got the sack away. Prosecutor was pulled down on
his left knee by the jerk, and the man ran away.
Prosecutor ran after him. The man came to a stile, and
getting over it ran along a footpath for about twenty-five
yards. He then threw the sack into a hedge dividing
a meadow from the footpath. The sack stuck in the top
of the hedge. Prosecutor ran to-the sack, and when he
had get near to it he saw another man in the field, at
the other side of the hedge. Prosecutor seized the bag.
Observed that both the men ran away. Having got the
bag, the prosecutor went on to Kirkless. In the struggle
which took place with the first man, prosecutor pulled
his cap off, which he retained and produced in court.
Saw the man's face, and knew him again, haring seen
him once before, about five or six week's previous to the
transaction. It was the prisoner Berry, cannot speak
positively to the identity of the second man. The jury
found Berry guilty, and Close not guilty. It was
proved that Berry was a ticket of leave man, having been
sentenced to transportation for ten years, in the year
1851, for a similar offence. He had been allowed to
return in the present year. His Lordship sentenced him
to transportation for twenty years.
BURGLAILIES.—James Ramon, aged 13, baker, and
Thomas Ruddy, aged 15, factory hand, were indicted
for having, in November last, broken into the
dwelling-houses of George Parker and John Harrison,
at Manchester, and stealing from each of them
a quantity of wearing apparel. The prisoners were
found guilty of the charge of breaking into Harrison's
house, in Newcastle street, Manchester, which they
effected through the grating of a coal cellar. His
Lordship, having ascertained from the governor of the
gaol that the prisoners were Roman Catholics, said he
had been making enquiries with a view to see whether
he could find a proper place to send them where they
might be made better boys than they had previously
been. He hoped that what he was going to do would
be for their ultimate good. The sentence of the court
was, that they should be imprisoned in gaol, and kept
to hard labour for the period of three weeks, and at the
end of that time be committed to the Reformatory
School at St. Bernards, in Leicestershire, for a period of
five years. Mr. Sowler, who prosecuted, stated that he
should not proceed with the other indictment against
the prisoners.—James Clinton, Mathew Gelligan, and
John Burrows were charged with having, _in

Manchester, feloniously and- burglariously brOken
and entered the dwelling-house of Wm. Entwistle, and
feloniously stolen therefrom several pairs of boots. Mr.
Ovens prosecutor, and Mr. Wheeler defended. The jury
found Clinton and Gilligan guilty; Burrows not guilty.
A previous conviction was proved against Clinton. who
was sentenced to penal servitude for five years.
Gilligan was sentenced to penal servitude for four years.
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engaged, from two in the day until six in the evening,
washing for a friend of hers, named Mary Howarth,
who, although a namesake, was no relative. The parties
all lived at Oswald wistle, near Blackburn. At six in the
evening the deceased went, with Mary Howarth, to a
public house in the neighbourhood, called the Coach -
and-Horses, to look at a cow which the latter had bought.
After this they had some drink in the public house.
They had a noggin of gin, and when that was drunk
they ordered another. The prisoner came into the room
about 7 o'clock, and said to his mother —" Are you
coming home ? I'll punch you home ?" He took hold of
her, carried her out of the room, and went away. The
landlady, who was in the'passace,saw him draggingher out
of the room. A man named Hartley, who was standing
at the door, saw the prisoner knock the deceased down,
ill treat her in several ways, and drag her along the
road by the feet. He called out to the prisoner not to
ill treat the woman, and he then saw the prisoner going
away through a meadow, called the " Coach Meadow."
It then appeared that, between seven and eight o'clock,
the prisoner came home to the house where his father
was living, and told him he had brought his mother from
the Coach and Horses to the Coach Meadow, bat that he
could not carry her any further, and had left her there.
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She was about 64 years of age. A surgeon, who attended
the deceased up to her death, and made a post mortis's;
examination, deposed that he found several marks of
bruises on be head, and the brain highly congested
with blood. Both arms were very much bruised, and the
right arm was scratched. There was a small bruise on
one of the legs. The deceased appeared to have died of
congestion of the brain producing apoplexy. The
injuries she had received might have caused such a state
of the brain. These injuries might have been produced
by falls or blows. It appeared, however, that while the
old man was carrying the deceased home she received
some falls. Under these circumstances, his lordship
directed an acquittal.

Ticxsr or LEAVE MEN.—In sentencing a prisoner
during the day, his lordship made some remarks, which
were scarcely audible in the reporters' gallery, but which
were understood to express condemnation of the course
Parsued by the chaplain of the gaol. in writing to a
newspaper, while the assizes were proceeding, some
comments upon his lordship's remarks on the Subject of
granting tickets of leave to convicted criminals.
The court rose at half-past six o'clock.

SECOND COURT.
BEFORE MR. SERGEANT CHANNELL.
CIrAROR OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A SURGEON.`
Edward Astle, aged SS, surgeon, who was out on bail,
surrendered to take his trial on a coroner's warrant, for
the manslaughter of Hannah Newton, at Barton-upon-
Irwell. Mr. Cross prosecuted, and Mr. Owens and Mr.
Scott defended the prisoner. The deceased was the
wife of an engineer, at the above place. Having been
badly seized with the pains of childbirth, the prisoner
was called in to her assistance. The birth was an abdo-
minal presentation, and the poor woman sank under the
pains of her labours. The mother died, and the child
was born dead ; and the charge against the prisoner was,
that her death tad been caused by his negligence, arising
out of gross ignorance. (The details were unfit for
publication.) After the case for the prosecution had
closed, the court adjourned for a quarter of an hour,
and on the re-assembling of the jury in their box,
their foreman stated, that they were unanimously of
opinion that no case had been sustained against the
prisoner. His Lordship said : That he concurred in
their opinion. The question was not whether the pri-
soner had acted rightly in his treatment of the woman,
or had committed an error in judgment; but it was,
whether he had been guilty of gross negligence. The
birth was not of the ordinary kind, and it did not seem
that the prisoner had been guilty of the negligence im-
puted to him. Mr. Ovens observed, that, if the case had
gone on, he would have produced a number of medical
witnesses for the defence, who, he was led to believe,
would give a very favourable turn to the case as regarded
the prisoner ; and would prove that instead of being
an inexperienced person, he was a man of long and
much experience in his profession. The prisoner was
then, at once, discharged from custody,

TRE ATTEMPT TO FIRE THE AMPHITHEATRE,—
Ball, aged 34, who was described in the calendar

porter, was put upon his trial !‘ fori