Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-15 00:00:00

whether application had been made on behalf of a
London joint-stock company called the Madras Irriga-
tion - and Canal Company, for the guarantee of a
minimum interest of 5 per cent. per annum, payable
from-the Indian revenues, upon a capital of £2,000,000
sterling, for the alleged purpose of enabling the company
to prosecute certain irrigation schemes, and whether it
was intended to accede to the request.
Mr. J. G. BARING said that an application of this
kind had been made, but that it was not intended to
accede to it. •

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE ENDOWMENT.

Mr. SPOONER moved that this House do resolve itself
into a committee to consider the acts for the endowment
of the college of Maynooth, with the view to the with-
drawal of `any endowment out of the Consolidated Fund,
due regards being had to vested rights and interests.
He adduced the doCtrine taught and books used at May-
Rooth as subversive of social order and of the constitu-
tion of the country. Those doctrines cleanly laid down
that the actual sovereign of this country was illegitimate.
They were contrary to the oath of allegiance, and to all
feelings of loyalty. The support given by the state to a
plate where such doctrines were taught was a national
sin, for which, if we did not abandon it, we should be
severely punished.
Mr. LONG seconded the motion.

Mr. P. O'BRIEN said that the speech of Mr.
Spooner reminded him of a saying of O'Connell,
that the greatest enemy to religion was a pious fool,
bUt let Irish tithes, and the &glum Donum be given up,
and the Roman Catholics would be ready to give up
Maynooth.

Mr. HENNESSY denied that the Roman Catholics of
Ireland were in any way disloyal.
Mr. CARDWELL said that the arguments for the with-
drawal of the Maynooth grant would equally apply to
the withdrawal ,of the grant for edneation.
Mr. NEWDZGATE asked whether the fruits of the
grant had not been the dissemination of opinions not
necessary to the Roman Catholic religion, but only
intended for purposes of deceit. Maynooth had
adopted Jesuit and Ultramontane doctrines, and acted
in constant contravention of the law.

Mr. 11A.DFIR1D made some remarks against state
grants, amid general impatience.
Mr. SPOONER, in reply,. adverted to the speech of
Mr. O'Brien, and said if the hon. member, upon refleci
tion, could forgive himself, he (Mr. Spooner) would
forgive him.
Mr. O'Birmv explained that when he used the terms,
" pious fool," he only meant it generally.
The House divided, when the motion was negatived
by 186 to 12g. _

TRINITY AND ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
Mr. POLLARD URQUHART moved that a humble
address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she
will withhold her consent from certain portions of the
statutes of Trinity and St. John's Colleges, Cambridge,
I now before Parliament, relating to the compulsory ordi-
nation of the college master, the compulsory celibacy of
the senior fellows, the removal of fellows who may have
openly seceded from the Church of England, the filling
lip of the vacant places in the seniority by the master
and the remaining seniors, and the delegating to the
master and seniors exclusively all rules respecting the
attendance of the undergraduates who are not members
of the Church of England at the college chapel, and that
her Majesty will give such directions as to her may seem
fit to refer the above-mentioned statutes to the Cambridge
University Commissioners,

Mr. BAINES seconded the motion, commenting on
the injustice of excluding Dissenters from the
honours and emoluments of the Universities, a
restriction which was not for the benefit either
of the university or of the nation, and was of the
nature of pains and penalties for professing a particular
belief. .

Lord STANLEY, as a member of the University Com-
mission, explained that it was not within the competence
of the:commission to deal with the limitation of fellow-
ships" to members of the Church of England. This
could only be done by a direct measure. Fellowships,
as the law now stood, were net forfeited except by direct
and open.secession. The commission was further bound
to attend to the opinions of the colleges, as no
ordinance was valid against the written dissent of
two-thirds of the members. They had recommended
a considerable relaxation of the rule of celibacy,
but they found the feeling of the colleges strongly
in favour of retaining the law as it now stood.
The commission further recommended that the compul-
sory' attendance at chapel should be relaxed in favour of
conscientious dissent ; to this likewise the college ob-
jected. lie asserted, however, that the enforcement of
that attendance, contrary to the religion, simply would
be at variance, if not with the letter, with the spirit of
the net of 1856. The statutes, as adopted, were a com-
promise between the commission and the college to
which he felt himself bound, and he must, therefore,
vote against the motion.
Mr. WALPOLE observed that the legislature had expressly
(and to avoid delay) left these matters to be arranged be-
tween the colleges and the commission. The legislature had
decided the single point that persons not of the Church
of England should be admitted to the educational ad-
vantages of the University ; but it had decidedly nega-
tived theproposition that they should be admitted to its
emolumenti. With regard to the celibacy of the fel-
lows, the college differed on this point, but the govern-
ment of the great colleges depended upon a succession
of fellows, and of their residence in college, both of
which were incompatible with the general marriage of
fellows. As to the compulsory attendance at chapel,-
that depended upon the regulations of the, colleges, and
was now constantly relaxed, where good reasons could
be shown for so doing.

After some observations from Mr. Briscoe and Mr.

Newdegate,
Mr. P. URQUHART withdrew his motion.

VALUATION OF PROPERTY (IRELAND) DILL.

The Valuation of Rateable Property Bill passed
through committee..

The house then adjourned, at twenty-five minutes
past eight o'clock.

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

BIRKENHEAD COIHMISSIONERS.—A special meeting of
the Birkenhead Commissioners was held at the board-
room, Hamilton-square, yesterday morning; John Laird,
Esq., in the chair. The business was of a purely financial
character, and was transacted in private.
ST. ANNE'S DISPENSARY, AND EYE AND EAR INSTI-
TUTION, 13, RASE-RILL.—New patients entered on the
books last week, viz. :—Relieved at the institution, 164 ;
relieved at their own dwellings, 33—total, 197. Visi-
tors, Messrs. E. Watts and George Jordan. Hon. Sec.
and Treasurer, Joseph Kitchen, Esq.

KIRKDALE NEW INDUSTRIAL RAGGED SCHOOL AND
FREE SCHOOL-ROOM CHURCH.-A well attended meeting
of the working classes was held in St. Mary's School-
room, Kirkdale, on Monday evening, Feb. 13th. A
lecture was delivered by the Rev. T. Major Lester on
"A stitch in time saves nine ; or, present doing the
cheapest,"—taken in connection with the ragged school
movement. After the lecture, Mr. Dreaper moved that
a vote of thanks be given to the lecturer for his very
valuable address. The motion was seconded by Mr.
Parnell, who offered to give two shillings each to twenty
of the collectors, and afterwards a further contribution
of £2. Another gentleman volunteered to give one
shilling each' to twenty of the collectors. After this,
some. ten of the collectors ppid in their fortnightly
seceipts, making for the month' 800 subscribers of small
,sums, amounting in all to nearly £3O. The working .
men expressed a very earnest resolve to forward the,
mocn ment in every possible way, proving to the town
that theyJ
are not backward when their help is required.

NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

THE CANADA-DOCK MURDER.—The photographic
portraits of the. deceased, presented to the Coroner's
Court, were taken by Mr. Keith, of 34, Castle-street,
and not by Mr. Keet, as reported in yesterday's North-
ern Times.

LECTURE.—TAe Rev. Robert Halley, D.D., Professor
of Theology, New, College, London, delivered, last night,
the fifth of a series of lectures which, for some time back,
have been taking place every Tuesday evening, in Hope-
hall, under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian
Association. The subject was " St. Paul's Visit to
Athens." Dr. Edwards occupied the chair, and briefly
introduced the lecturer by remarking that he had been
a traveller and had visited the scenes of the Apostle's
labours in Greece. The reverend gentleman described
the route folloited by the apostle in his journey, and
gave a most vivid and glowing description of the city of
Athens, as we might suppose it would appear in the days
of St. Paul, and described what would probably be the
feelings of that apostle when he beheld the luxury and
elegance and the deep degradation and superstition of
that voluptuous city. The lecturer was frequently in-
lerrupted by applagise ;
,and, at the conclusion, votes of
thanks to him and the chairman were most heartily
responded to.

LIVERPOOL POLICE 'COURT.—YESTERDAT.
(Before Mr- RAFFLES.)
ASSALLT I:1'0N A FATHER.—Mary Field, a woman of
a most wretched and dissipated appearance was brought
up for assaulting her father, who resides in Alice-street,
Paddington. The complainant is an old man apparently
between- sixty and seventy. His head was bandaged EL),
on account of the blows he had received. 'The prisoner,
he stated, was one of the worst characters in Liverpool,
and would resort to any means to obtain liquor. She
bad maltreated him to such a degree that he was deter-
mined to endure it no longer. On Monday night, she
came home in. a -state of intoxication and -struck,
him with a bottle over his head., smashing it to pietes
and cutting his head and eye. The prisoner implored
her father to L )431E• over her cruelty and pardon her, in a
tone that !nig ht have led one to suppose she was an
itinerant actor. The father, however, 'was inenorable,
declaring she was capable f deceiving the very elect.
She was rema- aded for seven days.
STEALING Briren.—Mrs. Elizabeth 'Gartaide, and
two lads name d James Miller and Thomas Taylor, were
brought up on. remand from
i the previous day—the two
latter charged with stealing a •basket-containing a quan-
tity of butter from a stall n St. Jokes Market on' Sa-
turday, .and the :former with receiving it, knowing ,it
to have beer: stolen. Some additional evidence was
brought forw urd, and the prisoners were committed for
trial.

STEALING 'FROM AN EMPLOVER.—A little girl, about
ten years of -age, named Cecilia Hughes, was charged
with stealin g a quantity of wearmg apparel from her
employer Mr N. 'Knight, who keeps a smallware shop in
Prescot-street ; and a woman, named Mary Parkinson,
who resides i n Hope-place, was charged with inducing
the girl to steal the articles, and receiving them from
her. The prosecutrix stated that the girl had been in
her service for nearly two years, but it was only within
the last six months she had missed any property fro,m
the house. A bundle of dirty clothes were taken away,
which the girl confessed she gave to the prisoner, to-
gether with a:: sovereign. Several pinafores were pro-
duced which were found in the house of the prisoner
Parkinson, and which Mrs. Knight said were similar to
some she had,. but would not swear positively to them
being her prpperty. Mrs. Parkinson's brother, a re-
spectable-loolting man, deposed that he had given her
money twelve months ago to buy them for her little
girl.—Parkin son was liberated on her brother entering
sureties for her appearance should she be called upon
again, and the girl was remanded for seven days.
aO23BERT isY d DRESSMAKER.—A young woman of
respectable exterior, named Susannah Manly, was
charged with stealing a cloak, a number of valuable
pins, and other articles, from a Mrs. Hammerstein's,
Earle-street- }:.lt appears she had been employed at the
house •af this ,rlady for five days in dressmaking. She
left on Wednesday last, and on Saturday Mrs. Ham-
merstein missed her cloak. Information was given to
the police, and a number of articles found in possession
of the prisoner, which the prosecutrix identified as hers.
The prisener,,When asked what she had to say to the
charge, cried bitterly. Mr. Kehoe stated that he under-
stood the charge would not be pressed against the
prisoner, but asked the magistrate to keep her in prison
till her parents, who were respectable people, and lived
at Rainhill, could be communicated with on the subject.
She was remanded for seven days.
STRIP PING Cartnarar.--A lad from ten to twelve
years of age, named' Francis Conoly, was charged with
stripping several children in the street. Detective
Patrick stated that he observed the prisoner leading a
child about .five years of age, along Great Crosshall-
street. Suspecting his purpose to be a sinister one, he
(witness) determined to watch his motions. He ac-
cordingly followed him, and saw him enter a shop and
purchase a pegtop, after which he took the child to a
dark place in Peter-street, just behind Hengler's circus,
where he gave him the top and unbuttoned his coat.
Witness caught him as he was making off with his
booty.: Having heard that three other children had
been stripped last week, he (witness) got the children,
who identifigd the prisoner as the lad who had taken
their clothes. The prisoner was remanded for seven
days, to allow time for inquiry as to the parties who had
bought the clothes.

AUDACIOUS THEFT BY 'A
SERVANT GlRL.—Eliza
Forshaw, algid about seventeen years of age, was
charged by her employer, Richard John Banks, White-
field-terrace, with stealing. several articles of clothing,
&c. Mr. Banks stated that the girl had been in his
service for three weeks, but left on Monday night, about
eight o'clock, alleging as a reason that her mother was
ill. Yesterday morning, when Mr. Banks came down
stairs, he found the window which looks out to the back
court open, the furniture in the parlour was all turned
topsy-turveyond the easy chair placed to the back of
the door. A shoulder of mutton, which was left on the
table, was picked clean to the bone. He missed nothing,
but when his wife came down she missed her boots, a
gown, and a boa.- As he (Mr. Banks) was proceeding
along Hygeia-street, he met the prisoner with a
bundle. He called her to him, and on searching the
bundle, found his wife's gown, and the "balance of the
shoulder of mutton ;" the boots were on her feet, and
the boa round her neck. The prisoner pleaded guilty,
and was sent_to prison for three months,
(Before Messrs. BENN and HOUGHTON.)
CHARGE 1W CRUELTY ON BOARD SHlP.—Robert
Wilson, the first mate of the barque Severn, was
brought up on remand; charged with maltreating one of
the men, named Robert Apsey, on the voyage out to,
and while at the Coast of Africa. The prosecutor has
been. lying in the Northern Hospital for some weeks,
the case being remanded from time to time, till he was
so far recovered as to be able to appear in court. He
questions which were
t to him.—Mr. Cobb again appeared for the defendant.
put
uirleatyte etn:
the
answers
rasptpoetahreanee,and was scarcely
presented able to ar articulate
Apsey stated that he went out in the barque Express
as ordinary seaman. After they had been seven or
eight days at sea he was ordered by the mate to grease
his boots, but having been called to do some other thing
immediately after, they were not ready when the mate
asked him for them ; whereupon the mate took up a
handspike and dealt him a blow just over the small of
his back. Op their arrival at the coast of Africa, after
basing been transferred to the Severn, he among others
was ordered to lower a boat. Having committed some
slight mistake the mate seized him by the throat, threw
him with 'violence between two casks, and kicked him
about the breast. He afterwards got a fore reef tackle,
which he doubled, and beat him all over the body. He
(prosecutor) took ill the following day, and had never
since been able to do duty. Dr. Harrison, from the
Northern Hospital, said that if the prosecutor had
actually received all the maltreatmat stated in the
evidence it would debilitate him and predispose him to
an attack of the fever prevalent on the coast of Africa.
In answer to Mr. Cobb, he considered the man to be at
present suffering from the effects of the African climate.
—Mr. Cobb then addressed the Bench on behalf of the
defendant ; and, after giving a summary of the evidence,
and brief comments upon it, he called Henry Thompson,
one of the crew of the Severn, as a witness for the de-
fence. This man stated that he was in the first mate's
watch, and-never saw any him use any undue severity
towards any of the crew. If Apsey had been abused in
such a manner as that described, he should certainly
have known of it. He never saw any marks about his
face, 'or any other part of his body, which could not
have escaped him, as they slept together in the fore-
castle. A boat, with five men in it, drifted away from
twthhieethfisvhAer men,ica
ipf,annd did not get back for eight days ; and all
ifmevmere.diatAelpyseoyn
atnhdeirhirmetsuerf,
‘)vveerree
osf theeized
number.--The magistrates, after a short coniultation,
said they were of opinien that severity had been prac-
tised by the mate, but were indisposed to send the case
for trial, and would therefore deal with it summarily.
Ire must pay a fine of Z 5 and costs.