Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-01 00:00:00

£4l 10 1

The number of passengers carried during the half-year was
290,881, or 16,250 more than in the same portion of last year,
while the weight of coals and merchandise conveyed was
326,863 tons on the canal, and 405,682 tons on the railway,
being an increase of 90,367 tons on the welght conveyed in the
corresponding period of 1856.
The bill for regulating and increasing the capital of the
Company was passed without any opposition, the clause relating
to Liverpool Dues being transfered to a separate bill. The
share capital is now defined at £859 200, with poTver to issue
an additional amount of £100,00), and the Company are
authorised to borrow on loan, one-third of the total share
capital.
The Directors regret that they were less successful with the
other bill which sought to exempt the Company's trade from
the payment to the Liverpool Corporation and Dock Trust of
Dues, without any corresponding service being rendered. This .
was referred to the same committee as the lVlertiey Conservancy
Bill, and the latter was passed by the committee, who expressed
an opinion that as that bill dealt with the general question of
the management of the Mersey, further legislation should bo
suspended, until the trust thereby constituted come into office:
Your Directors were :herefore only able to place on record,
the grounds on which they claimed exemption from these dues.
The committee adhering to their decision to pass the Con-
servancy Bill alone.
The works on the line from Gerard'e•bridge, to the East
Lancashire and Yorkskirc Railwat s at Rainford, which were
contracted for immediately after the last general meeting, have
been rapidly proceeded with, and one half of the line is tow
ready to receive the permanent way. The formation of the
line between Gerard's-bridge and the main lino at St. Helens,
is also progressing satisfactory—and the Directors expect the
whole line will be completed before the close of the present
year.
Mr. Jones, ono of the auditors, and Mr. Greenall,
Mr, Holland, Mr. Blundell, Mr. E. Greenall, and Mr. Rigby,
five of the Directors, retire on this occasion by rotation, but
aro all eligible for re-election.
GILBERT GREENALL, Chairman.
The CHAIRMAN said : Gentlemen, I feel that each and.
all of ns are so familiar with the accounts, the form in
which they are presented being the same as that which
has for a considerable number a our past meetings been
laid before you, and yo.:e all being with mpelf so entirely
and thoroughly roasters of the figures, and cf all the cir-
cumstances connected with the railway, I may content
myself with congratulating you upon the favourable
report which we are able to lay before you. I shall
therefore merely move the usual resolution, that the report
now read, and the half-yearly statement of accounts be
recelved and adopted.
Mr. THOMAS lIANDCOCK seconded the motion.
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
Mr. CHAS. HOLLAND, Liverpool, moved that the dividend
he declared as stated in the report.

Mr. BARLOW seconded the motion;:which:was unanim-
ously carried. _

GASKELL TAYLOR expressed his opinion thnt as the
affairs of the company had beer, so well directed, the com-
pany ought to re-elect the outgoing directcrs. He therefore
moved that Messrs. Greenall, Blundell, E. Greenall, and.
Rigby be re-elected.
Mr. SAMUEL TACLOIL seconded the motion, which wax
unanimously agreed to.
Mr. STOKES moved that Mr. Jones, one of the auditors
retiring by rotation, be re-elected:
The motion was carded. _ _

A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the pro-
ceedings.

INCREASED SUPPLIES OF COTTON.

A large and influential deputation from the
Cotton Supply Association of Manchester, com-
prising merchants and manufacturers from Lanca-
shire, Glasgow, and the Midland Counties, had an
interview with Lord Palmerston at his residence,
Cambridge House, Piccadilly, on Thursday, the 30th
July, 1857, at oneo'clock, for the purpose of making
certain statements to his lordship as to the present
supply of this important raw material, and to sub-
mit to him certain proposals by means of which.
in the opinion of the deputation, a largely increased
supply might be obtained from British India.
The deputation consisted of the following gentle-
men :

Edward Ashworth, Vice-president, Bolton.
John Baynes, Blackburn
A. W. Holmes, Derby
Henry Dunlop, Glasgow
Walter Crum, Glasgow
William Potter, Liverpool
George Booker, Liverpool
His Worship the Mayor of
Oldham
Thomas Thornley, Hyde
James Burton, Sildesley

John Ponder, Manchester
Thomas Clegg, Manchester
Joshua Radcliffe, Rochdale
Edmund Birley, Preston
John Humber, Preston
George Henry Ormerol,
Newchurch
James Marshall, Stockport
Hugh Mason, Ashton-on-
Line

WilliamWanklyn, jun.,Esq.,
Bury
Henry Whitworth, Man,

Nathaniel Alexander, ton-
don.
tester, Secretary to the

The deputation was accompanied by the following mem-
bers of parliament :
Edward Akroyd, Esq., M.P.
John Cheetham, Esq., M.P.
R. A. Cross, Evq., M.P.
F. Crossley, Esq., M.P.
E. C, Egerton, Esq., M.P.
Gilbert Greenall, Esq , M.P.
C. P. Grenfell, Esq., M.P.
G. Hadfield, Esq., M.P.
Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P.
J. T. Hopwood, Esq , M.P.
William Henry Hornby,
Esq , M.P.
James Kershaw, Esq., M.P.
William Kirk, Esq , M.P
Colonel J. W. Patten, M.P.
B. N. Phillips, Esq., M.P.
James Platt. Esq , hi.P.
F. S. Powell, Esq., M P.
Sir Alex, Ramsey, Bart.,
M.P.
J. B, Smith, Esq., M.P.

J. A. Turner, Esq., M.P.
Henry WoAs, Esq , M.P.
Willism B.own, Esq.,
Walker Buchanan, Esq.

M.P.
Sir John Potter, lint ,
Robert Dalglish, Esq•, M.P.
Lord Stanley, M.P.
W. J. Garnett, Ecq., MP.
W. T. Egerton, Esq., M.P.
Jam3sPilkington, Es q.,
Sir JamesElphinstone,
Captain Grey, M.P.
Edward Horseman, Es q.

M.P.
J. C. Ewart, E€q., M.P.
Thomas Thorneley, Esq.,

M.P.
George C. Legh, Esq , M.P.
John Biggs, Beg ,M.P.
J. D. Harris, Esq ,

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

'HOME' CIRCUIT.-MAIDSTONE, JULY 30.

Musnza.—This day, Charles Chemley, aged 22, water-
man, was indicted for the wilful murder of Elizabeth
Jones. The prisoner in this case was a birgeman, and
the deceased was a girl of loose character, belonging to
3ffaidstone. It appeared that on the 9th of March, the
deceased and her sister, who is also a girl of the town.
fell in with the prisoner and another man, who was the
captain of a barge, and the deceased's sister agreed to
accompany the prisoner on board his barge, and the
deceased was to go on board the other barge with his
companion. A d spate took place between the prisoner and
the sister of the deceased, and it appelaed that upon some
violence being used or threatened by the prisoner, she left
him, and went on board the barge where the deceased
was, and here some further altercation took place, and
the prisoner struck the deceased a violent blow on the
back of the head with a broom, from the effects of which
she died three days afterwards. The prisoner was found
guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to four
years' penal servitude.
ANOTIIZR ATTESIPT MUBDETt —George Parker, 25,
Was indicted for the capital offence of shooting ary
Anne Eliza Taylor, with intent to murder her. The prose
cutrix, a very good-looking girl, stated that she resided
with her parents at Northfleet ; and at the time of the
occurrence she had known the prisoner about nine months,
and they had been keeping company together and were to
have been married. The prisoner kept a tea and coffee
shop at Rosherville, and she used to take care of it for
him and return at night to her father's to sleep. On the
Thursday before the 30th of May she had a disagreement
with the prisoner about a ycung man speaking to her, and
he squeezed her so hard upon that occasion that she was
compelled to call for assistance, and the young man she
referred to came into the room and struck the prisoner.
After this she went home to hsr father's house, and did
not go to the prisoner's shop any more until the Saturday
following, when she went to fetch her things. This was
the 30:h of Msy. She saw the prisoner, and he asked
her to be friends with him, but she said she could not
after what had occurred on the previous Thursday,
and that she was in " everybody's mouth " She
then, it appeared, went up- stairs and the
prisoner followed her, and said, "Do you intend to have
me, or do you not ?" And she replied, " No, I don't
intend to have you." The moment she said this, he drew
et pistol out of his right hand pocket and said, " You shall
have the contents of this." She heard the click of the
pistol, and the moment she did so, she rushed down stairs.
The prisoner tried to stop her by lacing hold of her cloak,
but it came off and was left in his hands. She went out
of the prisoner's shop and sat on the cell of a window next
door, and the prisoner came up to her at d said, " What's
the matter with you ; I have not touched you, have I."
The prosecutor replied, " No, get away from me, I don't
want you to touch me," and upon her saying this the
prisoner stsbb:d her in the side with a knife. She did not
see him strike her with the knife, but she felt the blow,
and found afterwards that she had received a slight injury
in the left tile, aid that there was also a small cut in her
left arm, but she was unable to say how this was occasioned.
The prcsecutrix, in answer to questions put to her by
Mr. Ribton, said that it was originally arranged that after
they were married they should proceed to Australia, but the
idea was given up, although it was quite settled that they
were to be married. The prisoner had bought her a
bonnet and a dress, and she had gone out f a walk with
the young man she referred to with this bonnet on, and
he came to the c' flee-shop on Thursday; and had some
tea. The prisoner Caine in after tea and said he would not
have him there, and she said, in reply, that he had come
there to have his tea, and she could not turn him away.
From the evidence of other witnesses it appeared that the
prisoner was in a dreadfully excited state at the time of
the occurrence, and that he struck the prosecutor two or
three times before the pistols were produced, and that he
attempted to discharge a second pistol at himself. Two
pistols, it appeared, were taken from the prisoner, one of
which appeared 'o have been recently discharged. The
other was loaded with powder and ball, but did not appear
to have any cap on it. The jury, after a short deliberation,
returned a verdict of net guilty, and his lordship said that
without desiring to cast any reflection upon the verdict, he
felt it his duty to order the prisoner to find sureties to
keep the peace tower% the prosecutrix for the space of
two years, and he at the s ime time said hs should advise
him not to molest h or have anything to do with her in
future.

THE MANALLUGUTER OF A MILITARY OFFICER.--Samuel
Baker, who was convicted on Tuesday of the manslaughter of
a young fficer belonging to the 44th regiment, and who was
originally charged with wilful murder, was brought up for
judgment. Mr. Justice Willes, in passing sentence, said
he had taken time to consider, and had conferred with his
learned colleague the Lo-d Chief Baron upon the subject,
with a view to see whether there were any circumstances
in the case that would at all reduce the quality of the
crime that had been committed by the prisoner, he was
sorry to say that he could not find anything that altered
the opinion he had originally entertained, that the crime
he had committed was of the most aggravated character.
Even supposing that the unfortunate deceased young man
had made use of improper language 4o his wife, it was no
justification for his deliberately taking a deadly instru-
ment such as a poker, and striking him about the head with
it in the savage manner that he had been proved to have
done, and his conduct in leaving him upon the sea shore
in the state in which he was found, and evidently not
caring what became of him, or whether he lived or died,
was brutal in the extrerma. His lordship concluded by
stating that he felt it to be his duty, under all the circum-
stances, to order him to be kept in penal servitude for the
remainder of his li e.