The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-07 00:00:00

"Norma" was performed last night. This opera has
been so often before us, and is now so well known, that a
lengthened notice of it is unnecessary; however, we may
say, hearing it again last evening brought back the idea
that the work wants but little to have been dramatically
and musically great, as a whole—great it is in
parts ; but the lacking point is where Bellini, wrapt
'n the due developement of his sublime heroine,
made a step-child of the hero Pollio, and leaves
him—the cause of all the woe—an uninteresting
and insipid pro-consul. The position of Pollio is one
peculiarly calling for the fine emotional writing to
portray the sentiment of the character in music ; but, Bel-
lini missed it, and
,has given us an immortal Priestess,
seeking perdition, for what we must term a " walking
gentleman," although the hero of " two loves and a life.'•
Still, passing over the weak place in the work, " Norma "
has become with us almost an institution, at least with
Grisi. In the part there is come to an Englishman's
mind what " Norma " is and should be, and from that he
departs not. Madame Grisi seemed, in her perform-
ance of " Norma" last night, to go back ten years,
and present herself to her admirers with her
former fire almost undimmed. We spoke somewhat dis-
paragingly of this lady's last appearance in the concert
room, but we are glad to have to record that, on her more
legitimate sphere (the stage), Madame Grisi is still
worthy of high admiration. After all, it perhaps now
comes out, that she has always been greater as an actress
than a singer; her Norma is slightly wanting in dignity
and piety in the early scene, but, after that, when she
reproaches the false Pollio ( Fiemi to per chi), when she
resolves to sacrifice her children, and, finally, when she
reveals her guilt to Oroveso, nothing could be more
terrible and touching. In every part but the very high
passages, her voice carried her triumphantly over every
difficulty, guided by irresistible feeling, and the climax
was reached in the piquant passage, " Qual cor
which, uttered in a wailing prano, told the whole woful
history of her heart betrayed. The audience, no less
than ourselves, seemed taken by surprise at the excellence
Madame Grisi seemed determined to throw into this—her
great part—and showered their plaudits most liberally.
Mdlle Sedlazek was a tolerable Adelgise, and sang in the
great duett most artistically. Lorini, in Pollio, was
deficient in feeling, but sang the music in its
integrity as well as nature would allow him.
Herr Formes was massive and impressive in
Oroveso, and sang it with his usual excellence. The house
was crowded from floor to roof, affording an agreeable
evidence of a desire to hear good music when at a
moderate cost, which is specially the tease in the present
engagement. The chorus was weak, but quite au fait—the
band, irreproachable.
To-night, an act of " Lucrezia Borgia," and the whole
of the " Barbiere " are to be given, when Mario appears.

Vie gist of the argument employed by the Times to
allay the anxieties of commercial men awakened by the
unmistakable signs of an approaching monetary panic,
is simply this—" We are not such fools as to barter our
gold and silver for other articles, such as silk and tea,
unless we hope to gain by the exchange, ergo, we need
not be alarmed by a temporary drain of gold, for this
cannot possibly affect us injuriously, so long as the
credit side of our profit and loss account furnishes us with
indubitable evidence of our commercial prosperity."
Is, then, the Times a convert to the doctrines of the
currency reformers? Has it abjured the creed of the
bullionists? Is it prepared to demonitize gold, and to deal
with it merely as a commodity, and not as the so'e basis
of our currency, and the only real representative of our
national wealth ? If so, the argument is sound and con-
clusive, and I congratulate the country on the conversion
of the leading journal. For, were it not for the interven-
tion of laws which violate the first principles of political
and commercial economy, we should, doubtless, increase
our wealth by buying all descriptions of merchandise--
gold and silver not excepted—" in the cheapest, and selling
them in the dearest markets." But, if a certain number
of counters are in the very nature of things required to
circulate that wealth, and if the laws of this realm
require that counters of gold only shall be used for that
purpose, or, at least, counters which shall be vouchers for
a certain amount of that metal deposited in the vaults of
the Bank of England, then is the argument of the Times,
as applied to a country so circumstanced, unsound and
inconclusive. Then our wealth cannot increase while
our gold diminishes. Then we may become impoverished
as a nation, though "we do not spend more than we earn."
Nay, though we may have been earning for many years
mere than we have spent, the depreciation of property
caused by the withdrawal of gold may make us poor
indeed. If gold and silver were merely commodities,
England, France, and other European countries, would
clearly benefit by their exportation to India and China;
but so long as the internal trade of the various nations
of Europe cannot be conducted without their instrumen-
tality, it must be apparent to every one, that a continued
drain of these metals can only result in a wide spread
monetary panic, involving in one common danger all
classes of the commercial community.
Hence it is, that the weekly returns of the Bank of
England are watched with so much interest, and that
the state of things disclosed by these returns is now
creating so much well founded uneasiness with regard to
the future in the minds of commercial men. One of the
latest expedients suggested by the Times, to check the
efliux of the precious metals, is the debasement of the
silver currency of the continent. This would be a truly
barbarous expedient. Measures of this nature have
frequently been resorted to by the rudest nations as a
means of replenishing their exhausted exchequers. I
attach, however, a good deal of importance to the sug-
gestion, as showing that the Tones has at length been
convinced that a❑ exportable currency is unsuited to the
wants of trade. I say this, because I presume that, by a
debased metallic currency, is meant a currency whose
nominal is greater than its intrinsic value. As such a
currency would not sell in foreign states for more than
its intrinsic value, it would, therefore, not be sent abroad
to adjust the balances of trade, but remain at home to
circulate the NNealth, which, in the absence of a cir-
culating medium, cannot be readily exchanged by its
possessors, and property so circumstanced comes rather
under the denomination of lumber than of wealth. I say
that such a suggestion coming from the Times, hitherto
the great oracle of our monopolist money changers, is
deserving of attention, as indicating that a slight change
has "come o'er the spirit of its dream" on the subject of
money, for, in making such a suggestion, the writer
admits that the danger which now threatens the com-
mercial world, is mainly attributable to the fact—that
our present currency is an article of merchandise, which
may sometimes be profitably exported to the advantage
of the few who possesses the means of buying it up, and
to the great detriment of the many who, without its
assistance, cannot dispose of the products of their
industry.
Unless you think that my communications would be

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

TATTERSALL'S.—YYSTERDAY.
CESAREWITCII.
10 to I agst Fulbeck (taken and offered)
15 ... 1 ... Middleton (taken)
100 ... 6 ... Merlin (taken)
100 ... 6 ... Cotswold (taken)
20 ... 1 ... Barfleur (take 25 to 1)
25 ... 1 ... Alice Wentworth (offered)
25 ... 1 ... Homily (taken)
30 ... 1 ... King of Scotland (taken)
500 ...15 ... The Earl (taken)

CAMBRIDGESHIRE,
10 to 1 agst Lance
20... 1 ... Polmoodie

CHESTER RACES

NESTER, Oct. 6.—Pantomime, Borderer, Bourgeois
Saraband, Diphthong, colt, Martinet, Uzela, His Piper
Sister to Dramatist, Kenerdy, Sir Humphrey, Gaylad
Underhand, and Princess of Orange have arrived.
MALTON.—The following are expected to leave here for
Chester : Bashilßazouk, Calvary, Cardsharper, Evelyn, and
Petri.

HAMBLEDON.—Gamekeeper has left for Chester.

unsuitable for the columns of your paper, I purpose to
send you a series of letters in which I shall endeavour to
prove that money is not necessarily a commodity—that
gold is not the most accurate measure of value—and that
it is possible to devise and establish a system of currency,
by whose means we shall be effectually preserved from
the periodical recurrence of these monetary panics, which
are the natural offspring of laws founded on the false
assumption that the precious metals furnish us with the
only true means of measuring value, and of circulating
and representing the wealth of nations. J. W.
Liverpool, Sept. 29, 1856.

IRISH SECRETARY TO THE LUNACY COMMITTEE.—A
Mr. Michael Joseph Barry, author of Lays of the War,
has received the appointment of Secretary to the Lunacy
Commission, of which Sir Thomas Redington is to be
the chief.

nA DAY'S REAPING.—There was cut, on the 17th inst.,
on the farm of Easter Pitcorthie, Colinsburg, near
Dundee, by Crosskill's reaping machine, upwards of 18;
imperial acres of a full average crop of wheat. The
machine commenced at a quarter past five, and finished
at half-past sir, with a stoppage of an hour and a
quarter at mid day.

" THE RAKE'S PROGRESS."

MONUMENT TO TilE BRIGADE OF GoAnDs.—The officers
of the brigade of Guards propose to raise a monument to
the officers and men of the brigade who have fallen in
the late stuggle. According to the terms of the meeting
at which the project was discussed, the monument is
likely to be on a grand scale. The officers have already
appointed a committee to see it carried out, with Sir A.
Woodford at its head.

One of our London morning cotemporaries gives the
following account of the career of William James Rob-
son, the transfer clerk, who has robbed the Crystal
Palace Company :—Four years ago, and shortly after his
marriage, Robson was found to be living with his wife
in a single room in the vicinity of Chancery Lane, the

rent of which was only 4s 6d a week, and his principal
resource at that time was 18s a week, which he received
from a law stationer, in whose service he was. His
means for some time after this were as humble as hutni.

EXTRAORDINARY, UNEXPECTED, AND UN REILEARSED
SCENE. —A curious scene occurred in the Brighton Theatre
on Wednesday evening during the performance of the
comedy of " Still Waters Run Deep," in which Mr. G,
Vining, as Captain Hawkesley, animadverted in an unmis.
takeable manner upon the conduct of the editor of the
Brighton Guardian in reference to the criticism which
appeared in the paper of that day. In the course of the
performance he remarked " Swindler as I am, adventurer,
ruffian—l might be something worse, I might even sink so
low as to become the editor of the Guardian—that
butcher, who makes his paper a dramatic slaukhter-house ;
and such a critic, before going to a theatre, should swallow
half a box of antibilious pills." At the conclusion, when
being led off the stage handcuffed, he observed, " I'm going
across the herring-pond ; if justice wire done the editor of
the Guardian he would have to accompany me." After
the piece was over, Mr. Vining, being loudly called for
before the curtain, explained to the audience that the
editor of the journal in question bad for many years been
in the constant habit of abusing the theatre and every one
conrected with it. That a paragraph had appeared that
day, " cutting him up" in Captain Hawkestey, a part
which he had had the honour of performing before her
Hajesty, and for upwards of 150 nights in the metropolis,
with the highest encomiums from the press and some of the
most distinguished literary men of the day. He concluded
his address by entreating the audience not to put any faith
in what appeared in the columns of the Guardian, for that
it was invariably false—that the editor of that journal had
been burnt in effigy upon the stage on which he stood, that
he had been publicly horsewhipped in the streets for abusing
an actor in a part which he never performed—and this he
urged, not for his own sake (for, having passed the ordeal
of a London audience, the editor of the Guardian could not
possibly injure him), but for the sake of his brothers and
sisters in the profession, who could not, for local reasons,
defend themselves from his unmanly attacks. The address,
which created much amusement, was received with vehement
applause. _ _

lity could make them, and the first change found in them
was on his obtaining a situation at the Crystal Palace at
a moderate salary not much exceeding 30s a week. A
subsequent promotion found him in the company's
accountant's office, and finally lie was placed in the
registrar of shares and dividend certificate office, at a
salary of £l5O per annum. On this slender means he
managed to establish a chemical works in Bowling
Green-street, Kennington Cross ; he then took a
fashionable residence—Kilburn Priory—furnished it in
a style of great elegance, established his brougham, two
dog carts, and six horses, two of the latter
alone having been purchased for £540 ; kept
his groom and coachman in dashing liveries ;
and had his three domestic servants to attend on himself
and his wife. This, to a man with such a limited
income as that of Mr. Robson, might be supposed by
ordinary minds to be extravagant, but not so with him.
He, in addition, considered it necessary to his enjoy-
ments to have something more to beguile his leisure
hours, and he took under his protection Miss B—, a
courtezan of some celebrity, for whom he took
Cottage, in the Park Road, St. John's Wood, and fitted
it up in a style of surpassing elegance, and, in addition
to other appurtenances for the lady's comfort, provided
for her a handsome brougham, with coachman, &c.,
with liveries to match, and this establishment alone

must have made a considerable hole in £1,200 or £1,500
a year. His attention to this damsel was perfectly
lavish, and it was only a few months ago that he pre-
sented her with an elegant dressing case, furnished with
silver,-which cost the trifling sum of £37. Not content
with this expensive indulgence of his profligacy, Robson
took under his care a young lady (Miss Mary C-)
who had been a favourite " Columbine," and established
her at a house in Craven-street, where he kept her at an
extravagant rate._ This lady, however, he has latterly

THE CONVENT OF POOR CLARES, BRUSSELS.—The nuns
never lie down, but sleep upright. I went up a narrow,
corkscrew, stone-staircase into their cells, and saw these
extraordinary beds; they consist of a hard and almost
cylindrical mattress stuffed with straw, about three feet
long, at right angles to which is fixed an equally hard
upright palliasse, to support the back. There is no pillow,
neither are there sheets, and only one small thin blanket.
A basin and ewer of water stood on the ground, and the
sleeping habit hung on a peg behind the door. There was
no other furniture. A small window opeitPd on to the garden,
and the honeysuckle which embowered it gave something of
a cheerful aspect to the denuded little dormitory. They
rise at half-past four, are only allowed five minutes to wash
and dress, and go down to chapel, where they pray and
meditate till half-past five, when their first mass is said;
this is always at a fixed hour, and is followed by one and
sometimes two more. After this they remain in chapel till
halfspast eleven. Their first meal, which they call dinner,
is at half-pant twelve, and consists entirely, of herbs, vege-
tables, rice, eggs, &c. Butter, cheese, milk, and what they
call Jail battu, they also eat, but not at maigre seasons.
Their second and last meal is at seven, and consists of dry
bread, and the biere du pays. The sisters do everything for
themselves washing, mending, sweeping, scouring, &c.
The rule of the lay-sisters is slightly less severe in every
particular, but even this is ascetic enough to startle most
seauler persons. The sister who showed us the mysteries
of the house was a very pleasant amiable looking woman of
about thirty-five. She had a peculiarly calm, quiet expres •
sion of countenance, and expresisea herself perfectly happy
in the life of which she had made choice now about fifteen
years since. The discipline they observe, she said, was
bon pour fame, et bon pour le corps aussi." It seems
they are removed from house to house, to prevent too great
an attachment to one locality. She and another lay-sister
were sent a short time ago, on a mission to Ingland, and
this was mother considerable grievance to her ; but she
said she kept her trouble to herself, and accepted 'it as
one of the acts of submission to the will of her superior
to which her rule bound her. The first night they arrived
in London, where they put up at the hotel, they were
shown into a room where the beds were, of course, hori-
zontal. This was a difficulty which bad not occurred to
them, and they made up their minds to adopt the same
position as the rest of the world ; but no sooner had they
tried it than they found it impossible to sleep ; accordingly,
they relinquishßd the attempt, and taking the mattress off
the bedstead Placed half upright against the wall, and had
reason to be perfectly satisfied pith their ingenious ex-
, pediept.—Flemish 1-nterion,

managed to get off his hands by lending £3OO to a young
gentleman who has married her. In addition to
all this profligacy and extravagance, Robson was
actually in treaty for the purchase of Kenilworth Castle
Worcestershire, from its present owner, at a cost of'
£5,000, but, before the bargain had been concluded, the
bubble burst, and he was obliged to cut. A short time
before he absconded, Robson paid £6O to an upholsterer

in the borough, for 'five sets of curtains for his house at
Kilburn : and the elegance of style in which that
dwelling was furnished may be imagined from the fact,

at on the sale of its furniture at the auction rooms of

Mr. Oxenham, of Oxford-street, it realised no less a sum
than £1,200. How Robson could have been allowed to
carry on such a course of extraordinary extravagance is
truly surprising. He was known to every omnibus
driver in the metropolis as a particularly fast man, and
the owner of some of the best nags about town, and it is
said that his frauds, instead of being £5,000, as stated,
will reach the enormous sum of £30,000. In addition
to the other means adopted by the police for his appre-
hension, a number of daugerreotype likenesses of Robson
have been struck off, and forwarded to the authorities at
all the principal towns, and outports in England, so
that his escape may be prevented by every possible
means.

W. SMITH O'BRIEN.—With respect to the intention of
several of the Irish constituencies at the. next general
election returning Mr. Smith O'Brien as a member of
Parliament, it appears to be forgotten (says a correspon-
dent) that a person having been once convicted of high
treason can never after sit in the House of Commons.
EARL GRANVILLE'S MISSION TO MOSCOW.-It is esti-
mated that the mission of Earl Granville to Moscow as
the Extraordinary Ainbassulor of England at the coro-
nation of the Czar, will cost the country from £25,000
to £35,000.
COLLISION' ON THE NORTH UNION.—A collision occurred
at Preston on Saturday evening. As the passenger train
due at 6.35 p.m. was approaching the Ribble Bridge, about
a quarter of a mile from the station, tl,e engine came in col-
lision with a coal train shunting upon a siding, and ran into
and almost shattered two of the last waggons, besides doing
considerable injury to several of the passengers. One man
had his head and eye severely injured, another bis finger
broken, while several others, besides being a good deal
shaken by the concussion, received bruises upon various
parts of the body. Two of them who were going to 13 &fist
via Fleetwood, were so much injured as to be detained in
Preston until the following evening.

On Saturday, the annual meeting of the Worcestershire LIVERPOOL.
Agricultural Society was held. In the evening, the J BEFORE MR. ALDERMAN TURNER.
members and friends of the society dined together. PREPARING FOR THE RAlN.—Hugh Sweeny, a porter at
Amongst those present was Sir J. S. Pakington, Bart., f the Bull Hotel, Dale-street, was charged with having
M.P., who addressed the company at considerable length. stolen an umbrella, belonging to Mrs. Smith (of the
He congratulated the agriculturists upon their present Mercury newspaper), from a carriage at the railway. It
prospects, by which lie did not mean the mere-obtaining appeared that the lady had left the umbrella in a seat in
of high prices, which undoubtedly had in some degree order to secure it, when the prisoner entered the carriage
been caused by the circumstance of the war. He believed and went off wi h the article, which was subsequently
those prices hal been for some time higher than was found at his lodgings. Mr. Black, for the prisoner, said
consistent with the interest of any class. He did not he went with a gentleman's luggage from the hotel to
believe that the occupiers of the land would desire that the station. He put the luggage under the seat which
the prices of agricultural produce should remain so high Mrs. Smith had taken, and, seeing the umbrella, he
as they had been during the last two or three years; thought some one had left it there, and he took it for
but, on the other hand, they had a right to hope that safety. The case was dealt with in a summary manner,
prices would not relax to any lowness of range which and the prisoner was fined £l, or, in default of payment,
could not be borne by the farmer in a manner con- one month's imprisonment.
sistent with that prosperity which was in a great degree INGRATITUDE.—A boy, named Patrick Quigley, was
owing to his own energy, spirit, and skill, but in some charged with stealing a 'watch from Laurence Holmes,
degree also to the circumstances of the times in which an 1 a female, named Bridget Barrett, was charged with
he lived. They must all recollect the time when having it with a guilty knowledge. Mr. Bluck defended
if they met a farmer in the street, and wanted to the woman. It appeared that the boy went to complain-
put him in a good humour, all they had to do ant's mother's house, and made a sad story to her of his
was to ;ell him that he was hopelessly and irretrievably misery, saying he had no place to sleep. nor anything to
ruined. (A laugh.) Nothing was more unaccountable cat. She gave him his supper, and then she give him a
to him than an attempt at consolation, such was the bed in the room where complainant slept. In the
state of depression which then existed. The right hon. Morning the lad got up and took the watch from off a
baronet then went on to notice the fulfilment of his bed, and, as it was alleged, sold it to the woman for a
anticipations as to the influence of the discoveries of small sum of money. Mr. Bluck said the woman bad
gold in Australia and California, in preventing the inju- given some money by way of loan to the boy, who said
ries which the free trade measures would otherwise have he was sent to borrow it on the watch. The prisoners
entailed on this country. He considered those gold dis- were remanded, as the watch would be forthcoming.
coveries had been neither more nor less than a merciful EXTRAORDINARY CAss.—Jane and William Beere
interposition of Providence to meet the circumstances of were brought up, charged by James Yates, a soda-water

the times, the r7(;•iirements of an increasing population,
and to promote the advance of civilisation. He con-
sidered that the pn;sperityof commerce and manufae-

manufacturer, Of Clare-street, with having stolen IBs 6d
out of Hs pocket at St George's Hall, on Saturday night,
whilst going into the concert. The complainant said he
- - -

tures, and also thlh of- the landed interest, was attribu

had 19s 9d in his pocket, hiving changed a sovereign at

table in no swill degree to the ionnenie influx of the

a public-house opposite oPposite the hail

precious metals which had marked the last few years, and

Which would beneficially operate in future. Nor was that
all. These few disastrous years had taught them that
the prac ice of agriculture was governed by the same
laws as any other occupation, that the time had gone by
when the man who had neither money enough nor wit
enough for any other profession, might take a farm and
say he would try and live upon it. If a man was to succeed
as a farmer, he must approach his business as he would any
other ; he must have adequate capital, brains, training,
and skill. The same conditions applied to the man who
undertook to farm a piece of l'ind as to a man who under-
took to be a banker, or merchant, or manufacturer.
They had learned that, if they meant to live upon the
land, they must show confidence in the land, and place
their capital upon it, and then they would eertainly suc-
ceed. He asked them to consider the millions of money
which had been spent in guano alone during the last few
years; the hundreds of thousands of acres which the
spirit of English agriculturists had recently brought into
cultivation ; and lastly, upon the millions of money—
he thought he might safely say millions—which
had been spent under the wise, judicious, and liberal
conduct of the government of this country in deep
draining the land. He spoke with diffidence upon
this particular question ; for, although not a very
young man, he was a much younger farmer than
many of the gentlemen present, but he believed deep
draining to be one of the most important branches of
agriculture, and that nothing paid better for an invest-
ment of capital. As to agricultural statistics he con
sidered it most desirable to obtain them, and especially
for the benefit of the agriculturalists themselves. He
did not believe, however, that they colld be collected
effectually without the good and hearty co-operation of
the farmers themselves. He believed and hoped that
some good system would be discovered which was not
inquisitorial in its nature. In conclusion, he said the
prosperity of the land was not simply the welfare of an
individual farmer, nor of a class, nor of a district, but
the welfare of a great community, of which they were all
proud to be members. (Cheers.)

CANADA-ITS GOVERNMENT, ITS
STEAMERS, AND ITS RAILROADS.

mCp
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ultimately to a
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the great nations of the earth. Her colossal dimensions,
her vast rivers and lakes, her fertile and active population,
all combine to mark out her career as one of high
destiny. The free institutions everywhere planted, the
system of self-government established, and the protec-
tion of one of the most powerful nations of the world
without the cost of supporting it, are incomparable
advantages, and will yield fruits of greatness and
grandeur to remote ages. We are led to this train of
thought by the many developments of power and capa-
bility which Canada has lately exhibited, and among
others the successful establishment of an admirable line
of steamers with Great Britain by the national route, viz ,
the St. Lawrence. A more important event could scrcely
be consummated, and we anticipate for it the highest
advantages, both to the colony and the parent State. It
is this successful opening of a direct communication with
England that will give efficacy to the railroads of late
years constructed in the interior of the country, and take
to a ready market the vast productions, not only of
Canada herself, but of the vast West which lies beyond.
When the chain of internal improvements is completed,
the shortness of the river route into Europe will bring
it into full play for at least six months in the year; it
will be the nearest road both for passengers and produce
for all the Western States of this republic to the great
marts of the old world, and will bring Quebec nearer to
Liverpool than Danzic was to London under the old
system of navigation. The Grand Trunk Railway line
is to be opened to Toronto at an early day in October.
The length of this line is 333 miles, or 12 miles less than
the former estimates of its distance. The completion of
this link makes a continuous line to lowa City, 1,372
miles from Portland, as follows :
Portland to Montreal
Montreal to T ronto .
Toronto to Hamilton.
Hamilton to London.
London to Detroit

29 2 miles.

He was attheTpayr

window when the female rushed past him, put her hand

into his pocket and took the money out, which she gave
to the male prisoner (her husband ) He then gave
them into custody. On cross examination by Mr.
Bluck, he said he was sober at the time ; he d d not see
the woman take the money, but he felt her ; there were
others about at the time, and a great crowd outside, but
this was inside of the hall at the pay window.
Wben the prisoners were searched, 5s 3d was
found on the woman, and is 6d on the man.
Mr. Black : And the woman performed all that opera—
tion in a rush past you ? Yes she did. Mr. Bluck :
And took 18s 6d in loose silver at one chance pull from
your vest pocket ? Yes. Mr. Black : She must be very
expert, indeed. Mr. Clough : The most expert pickpocket
in Liverpool could not do that. The police officer who had
charge of the case, gave rather a different version of it,
and said the prisoners loudly protested against being
charged, as they were innocent. Mr. Blink addressed
the court, and said his clients were respectable persons,
residing in a court off Dryden-street. The man was
engaged as a respectable mechanic, at Bathgate and
Wilsons, of Canning-place. On Saturday evening,
after receiving his wages, and regulating the household
affairs, he resolved to spend his evening with his wife,
not in a public house, but in rational and intellectual
amusement, which he (Mr. Bluck) was delighted to find,
had at last been provided for the working classes, at a
reasonable rate, in one of the finest Hall's in Europe.
They went to the Hall, and as there was an enormous
crowd, the man went to get change, as no change would
be given at the door, and whilst waiting for that pur-
pose, the woman was given into custody. He spoke in
very strong terms of the conduct of the prosecutor, and
contended that he must have lost his money in the crowd
outside. He would at present, call it no more than a
mistake of the prosecutor. He dwelt on the hard.hips
suffered by the prisoners being confined since Saturday
night. When he spoke to them, and heard their case,
he told them they must be discharged, when they re-
plied, " that would be very poor compensation for their
feelings and character." He called Mr. James Hamilton,
the conductor of Messrs. Bathgate and Wilson's house,
and he gave the prisoners an excellent character, and
said he was instructed by the firm to do so. He hap-
pened to be present on Saturday night at the Hall, and
he offered to go bail for the prisoners, but it was refused.
He gave a different version of the case from that of the
prosecutor, and said the latter was intoxicated at the
time. The prosecutor denied the latter statement,
when Mr. Bluck asked the Gfficer in what
state Mr. Yates was? and he replied, " he was certainly,
the worse for liquor." Prosecutor : I was not. Police-
man : You were, certainly. His Worship said, lie had
no doubt whatever that it was a case of mistaken iden
tity on the part of the prosecutor, and he hid no hesita-
tion in saying, th it the prisoners left the court without
the slightest imputation on their character. Mr. Black
was very glad to hear his Worship say so, as it would
prove of some consolation to them. He would, however,
communicate with Mr. Yates in another way. The
prisoners were then discharged. (Both wept bitterly
whilst in the dock.) They seemed respectable persons in
their position, and the case excited some interest.
BEFORE MR. AIKIN.

333 "
38 "
76 "
111 "

DISORDERLIES.—A very great number of drunk and
disorderly persons, who had been apprehended since
Saturday night, were brought up and fined or imprisoned
for various terms for disturbing the peace o' the streets.
ASSAULTING A POLICE INSPECTOR.—A ruffianly—looking
fellow, who gave his name as Sandy Law, a female,
named Agnes Lloyd, with a child in her arms, and
another female, named Mary Welsh, were charged with
assaulting Inspestor Skinner, on the previous night.
The Inspector stated, that he was going towards home
about half-past eleven o'clock on the previous night, and
when in William Henry street, the mile prisoner came
up and struck him a violent blow in the face, saying,
"this is the b —." He had his hands in his pocket at
the time, and therefore could not prevent the blow, but
instantly held up his hands, saying, "I am an officer,"
being at the time in private clothes. Whi?e employed in
holding the man back, another man came up and struck
him another blow in the face. Being alone, he deemed it
advisable to make a retreat, and seek the aid of another
officer, which he did, and then went and apprehended
the prisoner. He was again attacked, but succeeded in
securing the prisoner. On their way to the station, the
two females assaulted him and also attempted to rescue
the prisoner. For the defence, it was alleged that the
Inspector had been making improper overtures to the
female Lloyd. The Magistrate fined Law 20s, or one
month's imprisonment, and sent the two females to gaol
for three days each, stating that had he not believe.] that
they had mistaken the inspector for some other person,
the punishment would be much more severe.
DESERTING FROM A SHIP.—Four foreign sailors were
charged with being deserters from the ship Emma
Goodwin, the property of Messrs. Perrin and Co., of this
town. The evidence went to show that the sailors all
shipped at Antwerp for a voyage to Quebec, Montreal,
and then to a port in the United Kingdom. The vessel put
into Newfoundland in a leaky state, and then it was that
they deserted the ship and joined the Merianda They were
all four clearly identified as those who had deserted. In
their defence, they alleged that the captain had been
drunk for three weeks before they left the ship; that
he had drunk the wine, and accused the crew of stealing
it ; and that, on the day that they left the ship, he hod
gone to the forecas-le in a state of drunkenness, and told
them to take their clothes and go ashore, which they did.
This statement was corrob 'rated by a boy who was on
board the ship at the time, and the Magistrate ord red
them to be discharged, observing that the loss incurred to
the owners had been from their placing their property
in the hands of a drunken captain. Had it not been so,
he should have severely punished them for deserting.

850 "

Portland to Detroit on Broad guage linen
Narrow Gunge lines—
Detroit to Chicago
Chic ago to Mississippi River at Rock Island-- 182 "
Reck Island to lowa City 5B "

522 "

Total length of road from Portland to lowa-City 1,372
miles. From Toronto west the Grand Trunk line is
completed to St. Mary's, 91 miles, which is to be extended
to London, 19 miles, the coming year, making a double
line between Toronto and London. From London a
single line will be extended to Sarnia, operated for the
use of the Great Western and Grand Trunk companies.
From Toronto north a line extends to Lake Huron at
Collingwood, on the 5 1-2 feet gauge, a distance of 96
miles, so that the completion of the railway to Toronto
furnishes a perfect connection between the seaboard at
Portland and the Far West.

IMPRISONMENT OF A. CLERGYMAN FOR
MISAPPROPRIATING CHARITABLE CON-
TRIBUTIONS. -

A painful case was heard at the close of the proceedings
in the Lancashire Insolvent Court lately, against the Rev.
Arundel Verity, late incumbent of All Saints' Church,
Habergham Eaves, near Brunley, Lancashire. The insolvent
was opposed on the ground that he had preached a sermon
in his own church, in May, 1855, on behalf of the
Patagonian Missions, and afterwards appropriated the
amount of the collection made on that occasion to his own
purposes ; and that he had received £l5O from the Church
Missionary Society, partly as salary in advance, and partly
for his outfit. The judge (Hr. John Addison), in making
a final order (the case of the insolvent having twice before
been partly heard), said, the charges against the insolvent
were the most extraordinary and painful that had ever come
before him. The insolvent (his honour continued) had
given evidence before a bankruptcy commissioner regarding
the receipt of £350 from Mr. Turner, a bankrupt, in which
he stated that that money was a loan which Mr. Turner
had repaid to him. The:commissioner, however, disbelieved
his evidence, and directed the official assignee to bring an
action against him for the recovery of the £350. A
verdict was on that occasion returned for the defendant, but
on a second trial the verdict was against him, and he was
thereupon lodged in prison, for the amount of the verdict
and costs at the suit of the official assignee. The bankrupt
(Turner), in whose estate the insolvent was mixed up,
was his father in-law ; and it might be that Turner,
finding himself bankrupt, had made a puree for himself,'
and had intrusted the money to his son-n-law. The
insolvent had also been charged with receiving two sums
of money, of £lO and £5O, towards the erection of a
public parsonage, and with subsequently applying those
sums to his own purposes. His account was, that the
money had been subscribed for a private residence, and he
had made out a list of names, with a view to show that he
had received various sums for the erection of a parsonage,
from his relativts and friends. He (the judge) believed
that the sums placed opposite to the names were fictitious,
and had no existence, except in the imagination of the
insolvent. There was a further charge against him of mis-
appropriating the amount of the collections after the
sermon on behalf of the Patagonian Mission Fund, and of
retaining
£4 55.. the funds of a sick society in existence
among
his parishioners, of which he was the founder.
There was likewise the fact of receiving £l5O from the
Patagonian Mission Fund, which he had not accounted for
in his schedule. He had abandoned the idea of going to
Patagonia, and had afterwards gone to the Crimea, for
which he had
purchased a complete outfit, amounting to
£6O, which was still unpaid. Among his debts was one of
£26 for
wines, and he had contracted many others by way
of loans, for which he had given personal security, Taking
into consideration all the circumstances, therefore, and
remembering that two others had been brought before that
court through becoming his securities, he (the judge)
felt
bound, although with great pain, considering his station
in
life, to remand him for six months.

IN THE FIRE AT MESSRS. BROA.DWQ94'S.--TIIO list of
subscriptions towards replacing the workmen? tools is,
we are informed, on the point of being closed. The
amount in hand is about .£l,Bso,and a further sum, little
short of £lOO, is expected to be realised by the recent
fete which was given, spontaneously and unasked, by
the liberal proprietors of Cremorne Gardens. Ineluding
the amount of insurance (some £l,lOO odd) the work!,
men will come off with a deficit of something like £250
only—a small proportion of the gross amount of loss,
which, we believe, was upwards of £3,500.
WHALING EXTRAORDINARY.—A Yankee skipper is at
present in Manchester for the purpose of getting two
rifles of a peculiar character made by Mr. Whitworth,
mechanical engineer; they are each 401 b weight, and
are intended to shoot whales that cannot be approached
and killed in the ordinary method. The barrel is only
20 inches long, rifled polygonally to describe one turn in
the length. The projectile is a shell of 31b weight, six
inches long, fired from the shoulder, with 2 drains of
powder, and having a charge inside of 4oz. The skipper
states that he killed three whales last season, out of forty
fired at with a bomb, in the shape of an arrow, 2) inches
long, and having India-rubber wings to guide its flight.
The rest spouted blood, hut got away. owing to the
length of the bomb detracting from its destructiveness.
religious ceremotnhye.lutelrt_
They are 100 feet long, and weigh 200 tons.
ROYALTY WITH A BLACK EYE.—You will laugh to hear
that the Empress Dowager of Russia has received a
black eye from a Greek priest in her capital of Moscow,
Priest, a man with
a
in a chapel, in the midst of
was at the Foundling Hospital, where, in the chapel,
a long white beard, in the extreme of age, sprang forward
in his seat and threw open the glass door of the shrine, to
she was stooping to kiss an image. The
enable her Majesty to kiss the image without
impediment. The heavily embossed
vening
binding of
the glass canght the Empress, fortunately not o but' on, just
below the temple, and raised' a blue and black weal,
which quickly swelled. Her Majesty
pain ; the old priest burst into tears through terror at
what he had done, and what
The other priests flew to
tell the Patriarch of the delin-
quent, whom, you may be quite sure, the Empress will
not suffer to be in the least q
annoyedtit for the unintentional
mishap.— Moscoworresp C ondent of a Mornini Parr.