Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-08 00:00:00

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RATS, MICE, AND COCKROACHES.—Their extinction in on
night, or a few hours, by Greer's Patent Anti-Vermin Mixture,
2d,, 3d., 6d., and is., at the Anti-Vermin Office, 49, Brownlow-
hill ,

PRINCIPALSHIP OP ST. ANDREW'S UNIVERSITY.—
It is reported in St. Andrew's that the Principalship
of the United College, vacant by Sir David Brewster's
removal to Edinburgh, has been conferred on Dr.
Wordsworth, Bishop of St. Andrew's, and the report
has been so far credited that both the Senatus and the
Provost and Magistrates have memorialised Govern-
ment against the appointment.—Dundee Advertiser.
LEITH AID THE NEW REFORM BILL.—At a meeting
of the. Leith Chamber of Commerce held on Wednesday
it was unanimously resolved to memorialise government
that, in the new Reform Bill, provision should be made
to have a member of parliament to represent Leith; un-
connected with Portobello and Musselburgh ; and that a
copy of the memorial to this effect should he forwarded
to the First Lord of the Treasury, Lord John Russell,
and the Lord Advocate. _ _ _

--THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE MISSION.—Since the
great meeting at the Senate-house of the University of
Cambridge for promoting the mission to Central Africa,
the members of the Oxford, Cambridge, and London
Committees have held a conference ; and it appears that
the enterprise is to be prosecuted, if possible, on a more
extended scale than was at first proposed. It is now
contemplated to send out six clergymen with a bishop at
their head, to be consecrated either in this country or by
the three bishops of Southern Africa, and also to dispatch,
at the same time, a medical practitioner, and a number
of artificers and labourers, with a view especially to the
cultivation of cotton. The cost of establishing such a
mission is estimated at £20,000, and it is also calculated
that subscriptions to the amount of £2,000 per annum
will be required for five years, after which time it is
calculated that the work will become self-supporting.
Communications are to be opened at once with the clergy
and friends of the missions generally, and also with the
great centres of manufacture mid commerce, for the pur-
pose of raising the required funds. The Bishop of
Oxford has requested the Yen. Archdeacon Mackenzie
(of Pieter-Maritzburg, in the colony of Natal) to head
the mission, and the rev. gentleman will probably do so,
as he has for some time been carrying on I
work in Natal without fee or reward. The funds

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coiroborated.these statements. The defendant why
that he had sold the umbrella, but_ said it was for want
and after it had been with him several months.—The
magistrates decided that he should pay
but, on it being represented that he was receiving aid
from the parish, Mr. Atkins said he would be perfectly
satisfied with an apology, which defendant immediately
tendered. Before dismissing 'the defendant, Mr. Gl.
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document. , It would be very convenient, he said, if we
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COUNTY COURT.--YESTERDAY
(Before J. K. 13LAiu, Esq., Judge.)
iRMSTRONG v. M'BRID

—This was an action for

£5.1.. 3d., the value of a ton of greaves sold by the
plaintiff to the defendant. The plaintiff is a provision
dealer and curer, in Lurgan, Ireland, and the defendant
a tallow melter, in Richmond-row, in this town. In
September last Mr. Burnley, traveller for Mr. Armstrong,
called, upon Mr. -I,l‘l3ride, and produced a sample of
gi eaves, and offered to'supply him with any quantity at
£5 per ton. The defendant asked Burnley if the quality
was as good as, a cake he produced, and Burnley answered
that the goods he was selling were as good, and better
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On this representation the defendant ordered
a ton, and on the 27th of September they were delivered
at his Warehoase. The defendant examined them, and
found that they were not equal to sample—in fact that-
the greaves were utterly useless. He at once wrote to
Mr. Burnley and told him of the quality of the goods,
said he would not pay him, and asked him to take the
greaves away. This was, not done ; and Mr. M‘Bride
refusing to pay for them, the present action was brought.
Mr. Burnley, who was the first witness called, said
that the greaves, when shipped at Belfast, were
equal to the sample ; that they had received damage
from sea water on the passage, and that the plaintiff
having shipped them in a proper state, was not respon-
sible for the sea voyage. He (witness) sold the greaves
to defendant for the purpose of feeding pigs, dogs, &c.
Mr. M'Bridc, the defendant, said that ho had been a
tallow melter for the last twenty-one years. He was
also 'a manufacturer and dealer in greaves. On the
14th of September, Mr. Burnley came to him and
represented himielf as agent for Mr. Armstrong. He
said that the price of the greaves was £5 per ton. He
(witness) asked Burnley if ' the goods were of a
good quality, and he replied in the affirmative,
He showed Burnley a cake of his own manufacture,
and asked him if the grcaves were as good in quality and
colour as that produced. Burnley replied that they were,
and he (the defendant) ordered a ton. The greaves
came—he looked at them, and found that they were
utterly worthless ; in fact, complete rubbish. He wrote
immediately to Burnley, apprising him of the fact, that
the greaves were not good, and not equal to sample.
Mr. Burnley took no notice of the matter, and the
greaves were still in his (defendant's) warehouse. They
are utterly worthless ; and they could not be injured by
salt water.—A number of witnesses were called to prove
that the goods were utterly useless, and his honour de-
cided in favour of the defendant.