Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-22 00:00:00

ADDRESS TO MI ROSERT RINICIN OF
LIVERPOOL.

We take the following, from a late number.of the
St. John's, N.B , Courier, received by the America.
; I!,obert R mkin, Esq ,of Liverpoolphaving lately
revisited this Province, after an absence of about
twenty years; an address was presented to him by
a number of the principal inhabitants of Portland.
A. committee of presentation waited upon him at
the Counting Houso of the firm with the address,
copyaustbe a great pleasure to Mr. Rankin to look of which, with the reply, we sultjoin. It
must
back to the time, thirty-five years ago, when, at. the
early age of twenty years, he established the firm
of Robert Rankin & Co., which Ints ever since
been in secessful operation, and has always °emu-
pied the highest position for integrity anti com-
mercial enterprise, and it
.1,9 equally gratifying to
his numerous friends in thin country to knew that
he is enjoying, in a rational and useful manner, the
opulence with which Providence has rewarded his
mercantile career:

Toßobert Rankin, Ysq., (I.Liverpo3l..Merchant.

Dear Sir,—The undersigned, Magistrates, Freeholders.
and residents of the Parish of Portland, beg leave to avail.
• themselves of the opportunity of your visiting this, your
former place of abode, to-offfr you a hearty welcome and
their siacere congratulations on so iuteresting'and to them
so unex peat ecl an occurrence. It affords the undersigned
a very great gratitioatiou that, after the lapse of twenty
years, time has dealt so leniently with your—that, with
unimpaired ene-gies and in fail health, you are enabled to
visit a locality where you spent so many busy years, and
which must call up many pleasant rerniniscencri, not the
least of which must be the consciousness that to you
Portland is more particularly indebted for that state in
commercial and manufacturing industry which has of late
rears covered its rocks with dwellings, and increased the
few hundred inhabitants of the period at which ru first
became acquainted with it. to at least the ten thousand
of the present day, who throng its streets and aid in
increasing its prosperity. That your visit may be pleasant
and a meeable, and that you may be spared to your family
and friends, in usefulness and health, for many long years,
are the sincere wishes of, dear sir, your obedient servants,
CHARLES SIMONDS;
HENRY GILBERT,
WILLIAM JACK,
THOMA 4 ALLAN,
JAMES GALLAGiitilt,
and about two hundred others.
25th August, 1857.

Portlande,2sth August, 1857.
Dear am much gratified by the address from
the magistrates, freeholders, and residellts of the parish
of Portland, which you have now presMted to me. on
revisiting the parish, after a long absence. It is upwards
of 35 years since I commenced business in Portland, and
it was there that I made many friends, and spent many
happy days. The address kindly ascribes to me some
share in the great increase and prosperity of Portland_
In that prosperity I rejaice, and if my zealous endeavours,
while I resided there, to raise the standard and enhance
the valuenf your leading exports, and to give an impulse
and imeroved lone to shipbuilding, have had that effect.
I assure you it is a source of great satisfaction to me. r
hi; g that you will be good eanugh to convey to the gentle-
men who have signed the address, my sincere thanks for
their kind wishes on behalf of my family and myself, and
my desire to reciprocate.—l remain, dear sirs, your very
obedient servant, ROBERT RANEINv

To the Hon. Charles Simonds, and Henry Gilbert,
m. Jack, Thomas Allan, James Gallagher, Mo.,
and other gentlemen

LrCUSTS IV WATERFOND.—OA Tiles lay morning William
Curt?, one of Messrs. Davies, Strasgsaan, and Co.'s carriers,.
found, on the Newtown-road, near the Ptople's Park, one
of these insects. The visit cf these in ec.s to this country
is an evidence of the great mildness of the seas tn. They
have arrived too late to do any tnitchief, as the barvtst is-
all removed.— WUterford Mail. •
No TELFGRAPH TO BALMORAL—The Indian express'
which reache.l Lon•3on on Sunday afternoon, did not reach
the Queen until Mondry moroir,g. It was teligrapbed for
Aberdeen, and posted to Bslmot a'. The ether despa ches
were proportionally and necessarily late in being known to-
the Court. Had a wire been hat temporarily lei 1 front
B .nchory to Balmoral, a distoned cf bat 30 nol-s, the cost
of which would have been trilng, this delay v Dili have
been prevented. The Ein of Clarendon received the des—
patch at Haddo 110n32, when:: he was the guest of the
of Aberdeen.

With the view of having the recent order- promulgated
from the Horse Guards carried eut relative to the forma—
tion of a second compin3 to each of the Indian dep6te at.
the provisional battalion, Chatham grrrison, the Gene-al
commanding-in-Chief has directed an order to be for-
warded to every officer on the hem station who is at
present absent from head-quarters on lave to proceed at
once to join his Indian depO; at Chatham, for the purpose
of officering the see ,nd company no* being formed. The
strength of each depot is to be raised to 200, men,
exclusive of officers, and when the w'dole of the companies
are formed there will be au available reserve of upwards
of 5,000 Indian troops at Chatham ready for embarkation
at the shortest notice,.

There are vacancie for boys for school apprentices on
beard the Victory at Portsrnoul. The boys mist be over
14 an.] under 16 jeers of age; over four feet eight inches
high, from 14 to 15 years of age; over four feet 10 i ches
high, from 15 to 16 years of age; able to .road and write
well; strong, healthy, and well-grown ; free. from all
plsys'eal mllformition ; and must be ab'e to pass a strict
medical eximination. They must have the consent of
parents or nearest relalorte. They are well cored for,
educated, and have certain employment until they are 28
years of age. All carkrlida`cs from a distance must come at
their own expense, and if rejected, noui,t find their way
hack to their hien% at their own expense. 44 it is
d sirable that boys should be properly clothed as .non as
possible, it. is impereive that they bring, X 2 with theta
for Chit purpos!.
MALTA.—The letters of our M slta c )reespondentextend
to the 15th of September, and report the arrivttl on the
11th of her M ;jeqty's steam g inb ,at the Vigilant, from
Algiers, off which i.ort, on the Btb, she left the l;ri isle
squadron, under Lord Lyons, s'oaping.its couree for Malta
and the lonian Islands. Her Mojesty's screw seam gun-
boat the Wanderer left Malta at l 1 a.m. on the 11th of
September for Cagli Ira, with a summary for telegrcphie
communication of he intelligence from India, which
reached Suez on the 4rh by the Pskin from B-nfoay. The
Russian Government vein:ter Pi'ziunda arrived at Malta
en the 12,h from London and Gloralta,,, stor=es, and
left for 0 lessa, having on board atptaia Andraeff and

Engineer L hello, of the Imperial. Navy, In a pcs script
our correspondent advizes the arrival on the 14,h of the-
Indus from Southampton and. the Vectis fr.ma 1111rseillec.
B )11i left for Alexandria AD_ the motting of the rith.
Tae. Ville+ta arrived at AI Ate. from Alexandria on_ the
mort3ng of the 16th.
Yziv MODE or CUR NG, BSC 3N.--TRI9LI TRADE.—One
.'reason .of the very high pee() of pils at this seaaan of

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the year (lays the Wept feird 'Afail),p oceede from the appli-
e'ation of scientific kaowledge to the curing o' meat, and
particularly to the use of ice. The firm of He-iry Denby
and Son have gone to great expense in fittiog up a portioa
of their premises to the methods of curing bacon with ice
and the effect of this srteru is, to be able in the warmer
part of the year to se ad mil tenni bacon quite sweet to the
English market. When the pigs are killed ankcut up,
they are placed on berches in la g" underground cistern:,
rendered water-tißbt and subjected to the action of p ckle
coiled with ice, which is renewed so as to keep it at a low
temperature, and after three week's treatment the bacon
comes out perfectly cured, hard an I swe;.t. Last week the
firm we mentioned purchased in two days 600 pigs, which
wool' represent over £3,aco, and we are toldrtbat the ice
they used duping the summer cost upwards of £I,OOO.
In consequence of this demand the price of fat pigs has
maintained itself in a way that could not have been done
if the provision stores were'shut.
Ties BRiatlit SCR/19V. STEAM-S/11P COUPANY --An event
of no small interest occurred yesterday. `the Malvin%
screw steamer, one of a fleet of screw steamers, owned.
principally by Belfast merchints, stoamed from the quays,.
with a full cargo, for Loudon. The Malvina. has just
been lengthened by. 42 fat, giving more hold and more
space for cials, while, at the same time, the st-eagth of her
construction has been increased on the mist approved
recent principles. Additional stringeis of double angle
iron, placed bark to back, and strongly :;vatted, run from.
the ne-4 into the old work for a distance of 20 feet both
ways. As she left the q ray, and passed. by the Qoeen'ts,
Is'and, the workers in the ship yards of Messrs. Hickson
and Co., where the improvements had been effected,
lined the bank, and cheered a hearty "Goa.
Speed," which was responded to from all on board.
It is eredit.ble to Messrs. Hickson, and Co., and in n
less degree to the Screw Steam ship Company, for
encouraging local enterprise, that the works were exe-
cuted at the green's Island ship-yards in a manner that
met the hearty commendation of the best judges, and
could net be surpassed elsewhere, even in, the ship-cards
of the Clyde. The run from the quays to Donaghadee
was in the usual quick time. Passing out of the harbour,
the Blenheim, steamer, the prop iv of another Belfast
firm, was met, and salutes were exchanged; and, on
steaming past Ballyhorse Bay, a salute was fired opposite
the marine villa of Mr. Mitchell, one of tbo proprietors of
the company, and the inventor of the sorew-pile. The
Malvina is comananded by Captain Silly. The fleet of the
Belfast Screw-Steam Ship Company now has a capacity
fox over 1,T0.0 tons of oargo,—Belfast Paper.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-YEiTERDAY.

LIVERPOOL.

BEFORE M. MANSFIELD.

ASSAULTING A WomAN.—Anne Flynn, a married woman
livirg in New Bird-street, charged a fireman, named Wm.
Lucas, with having astauhed her. The complainant was,
standing at her own dcor, v here she had tome conversation
with the prisoner about his wife, and she spoke to him
about the irnpropriity of his going to bad houses -and
leaving his wife, when he struck her a violent blow with a
paving store on the head. Mr. Pope, the surgeon of the
S enthern Hospital, said the wound was a severe one, over
the eye and exposed the bone ; her head was alsobruised.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.
A NEW SysTsx cv MUGGING"—John Tierney, Mary
Tierney, and Anne Carke, were charged with having
" mugged' police officers 286 and 151 in Forrest-street.
The officers said the prisoners were drunk in Park-lane on
Saturday rUght, and were very disorderly. The officers
Tut them into a court in Forrest-street, where they lived.
hey went into a house *and brorgnt out a quantity of
"mugs," with which they pelted and thumped the con-
stables most furiously; the male prisoner also used a
knife, whilst the females showered mugs at them, and, hut
for the assistance of a civilian, the officers said they would
have been severely hurt, The prisoners were fined £1
each, or a month's imprisonment. •
STABBING —Patrick Walsh, a carter. was charged with
'having stabbed a young man named Peter Keirnan in
Fantenoy-vreet. The prosecutor's father and prisoner
bad some dispnte, when the complainant went to take his
father away when the Prisoner stabbed him in the lower
jaw with a penknife. The prisoner was sent for trial.
A ssAu T BY A ON ON a MoT nER —A. bull-skulled
looking ruffian, named John Pugh, a sawyer, was charged
with having assaulted his mother, and also for an assault on
officer 730, in New Birl-street. After one o'clock on
Sunday morning the prisoner went home in a state of in-
toxication, turned his mother into the street, and was about
striking her, when the officer came up and prevented him.
He than turned on 'he c mstable and knocked him down.
The prisoner pleaded drunkenness. He was fined £2, or
to be imprisoned for one month.
STREET Ft GIITING —A young man. named James
Noble, described as a clerk, in Bold-stree, was charged
with having assaulted policeman 504. He said
he heard a great noise in Reffiesetree, and on
going to ancertain the canoe, he saw the prisoner and
another person fighting The other person ran off, and he
sprke to the prisoner, who turned on an I assaulted him.
He wax fined Ll
A liArrY FAmILY —An eldesly man, named John
learer, who keeps a clothes establishment at the corner of
Virgil-street, Sco land-road, charged his son, named
George Lower, with having annoyed him. The com-
plainant told a long story about the deinquincies of his
son, whom he designatad as the g-eatest ruffian on the
face of !he earth that he had hunted him from London
through the country, robbing him. He was several times
in pot. and in order to reclaim him from his ev:l ways he
gave him £4O recently, and set him up in trade; but he
soon got rid of that, and because he would not stand more
money, he came to his shop and annoyed him very
much, and threa'ened to murder him. The story told
by the prisoner was as f Bows : —Tn 1814, he said, my
father was tried before Ju;lge Telford for poisoning my
mother; ha was in the cell with the murderer Delman.
After that he deserted his family and left his daughters
destitute in London. My mother then went to live with
the Rev. Mr. Pierce, of Bedford, but she is now in Aus-
tralia. lie then picked up with the woman whom he now
lives with, and her husband being out of work, she and
that man then made up between them to give him money
to set up a privann still, and as soon as he did s e they in-
formed on him, and put him in jail for six months, and
then they ran away from London, the woman leavine her
children chargeable to the Whitechapel (London) Work-
house. There was a reward offered for them by the officers.
The speaker added with great energy—He is * beastly,
filthy, fornicating old man, and I am very sorry he is my
father. Ile thinks nothing of perjury—he would swear
anything The Police officer, who had the prisoner in
custody, said, when in the station-house the prisoner swore
he would take his father's life. His Worship ordered the
prisoner to find taro sureties in £2O to keep the peace.
THE 110EsE CASE! —Patrick Curtis was brought up on
remand, charged with s craling a horse belonging to John
Neville. The details of this case appeared in our paper of
yesterday. Mr. BI ck appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. Gocdere for the prisoner. A man from the Pheasant
Inn stables, stated that the prisoner took the horse away,
saying he wanted to show it to a gentleman, and would
bring the animal back, but he did not do so. In reply to
Mr. Goodere the witness said he thought the prisoner and
prosecutor ware partners, and Mr. Godfrey, who bought
the horse, said the same thing. He saw them sell horses',
together in fairs in England. Mr. Goodere : The
horse is a regular screw ?- Witness : Yes, and has all the
bad qualities that a horse could possibly have. (Laughter.)
Mr. Block : And y t you bought him? Yes, and would
buy another like him now Mr. Black : You are an inter-
prising fellow. Mr. Cihodere said there °held be no doubt
that the parties were partners. Mr. Black said there
was every doubt about it (Here a " horse" discussion
took place, amidst much laughter, after which) the
prosecutor was called and examined, and his Flamers
caused immense laughter. He said the prisoner swore he
would cut some ones throat with a spring knife, and he
got aft aid of him. At the conclusion of some "fun," his
worship decided on sending the prisoner to trial.
CRAMS OF MANSLAuGHTLE —John Delany, was brought
np on a charge of having caused the death of Michael
Lyons, in Marybone. It may be remembered that last
week, the prisoner was remanded until a post mortem
examination of the body of the deceased could be made,
in.the meantime, a coroner's inquest was held on the body,
and two snrgeonn who made the s xaminatioa, swore that
death was the result 'of disease of the lungs, yet the

coroner's jury, in the face of that evidence, returned a
verdict of Manslatighter against the prisoner. A coroner's
warrant was then issued for the committal of the prisoner,
but he could not be taken under it until he was again
brought before the magistrates. When brought up yester-
day, one of the surgeons repsated his. evidence, and Mr.
Mansfield at once discharged him. However, he wao
taken under the coroner's warrant and committed.

COUNTY COURT.-YESTERDAY.

BIEPORZ J. POLLOCK; MCI., JUDGE;

BUYING GOODS HYMN SAMPLE —.-MAIN V. M'Costononanz
—By this action the plaintiff, Mr. Main, sought to recover
of the defendant, Mr. M Corgeodale, the extensive whole-
sale stationer of this. town, the sum of £9 159. lid., the
balance of an account for some waste purchased by the
latter , f the fora:er. Mr Rime appeared for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Denson, barrister, for the defendant. In the
month of June last the defendant purchased of the plaintiff
a quantity of cotton w, ste, for the purpose of making it
into paper. It was bought by sample, and was forwarded
to the defendam'a factory, and 4:20 was paid on ac-
count, but it was subsequently tined that the watts
was not in sec )rdance wi, h the sample, and £lO 18s. 7d.
wan, however. paid into court. On the 6rh of August, the
defendant cffsred to return the waste, but declined to pay
the carrlsge ; hence that offer was refused, and the pre-
sent action was brought. For the defendant, Mr. Denson
contended that, as the bulk of the goods did not correspond
with the sample, he had a right to u-e them, and pay the
value of them—irrespective of the contract made in the
first instance ; and cited a number of cases to prove that
such was the law. Haviug argued the point at
very considerable length, and called a witness to
prove the value of the waste, and the conver-
sations • that had taken piece on the subject,
his Honour, without calling upon Mr. Hime to reply, said
he should, •as at present advised, give judgment for the
plaintiff, but should take time to look over the case, and if
be saw any reason, after that, to alter his opinion, he
be should call on Mr. Hime to reply, and then the case,
which was one of considerable importance to the commercial
community, coald be decided in a superior Court. He
dissented entirely from the view that Mr. Demean had taken
of the case, which was, that a person, after Pny length of
time, might say that the coods well not according to sample,
and then, when the action was bernght, claim a right to
repudiate the contract-, and say that he would only pay
the value of then. He would give judgment on tho 6th of
the nez' month.

Excini:vely for CLOTHI'G BOYS from Six to Twenty Yea a
LEWIi & COMPANY, it.nelagh-street

CHEATI,O THE NEGMEI.—The New York Tribune
thus gets ever the cheat that " iLe friends of freedom" in
lge7 York have been perpatrutirgi upon Sarnho:,
Caesar, and 6.1t,r great me.: :—An awkward Mundt r has
been made at Albany by vrcaebedy. The last L gislature,
by a nearly titian:mous vote, initiated an amendment of
the Cons'ituti,m abolishing the property qualification now
required of c,leiured voters. • To perfect Ihe arnencment,
it is resinired that it shall be published far three months
pre.vio:is to the cheico of the next Lftislaiare. The pub-
lishing, it set m., has been neglected so far, r na, as only
two months remain More the else to-, it is now too late
to comply with the technical requirement cf the Con-
ati!ution.

At LEWIS & CONPANY'S, Ranelagh-street.
BOYS are CLOTHED fioin the Ages of 84 to Twenty Years.

,MIIRDER OF A. BOY ON NOTTINGHAM
FOREST.

Late on Friday, the dead body of a boy was found in a
field near the forest, under circumstances which left nodonbt
that a most horrible, and, at the same time, mysterious
murder had been committee. The murdered boy was the
son of Mr. Atkinson, machine holder, residing at Kenil-
worth-terrace, Raleigh-street, and on Thursday evening,
on returning from school, he left home with a playfellow,
about two years younger, and they strayed towards the
Arboretum. About six o'clock they were playing near
the Aboretum Gates, -when a man, of midile age and
stature, with curling red bunchy hair on each side his
head, accosted the children, and asked the smaller one
(not the deceased) to show him the road to Basford
and he would give him ten shillings. The little fellow
said he did not know the road, but the murdered
boy most unwittingly said to the fellow, " I do."
The wretch made the same offer to him, if he would go
with him and show hittlit ; and, they went away together
up Waverley-street, leaving the other boy at the Arboretum
Gates; and that was the last that was seen of the boy
alive. About six o'clock on Friday night, a number of
boys• were playing on the Forest, and one of them,
either to recover a cricket ball or to get some blackberries,
got over a hedge into an adjoining field,' just within the
limits of the narish of Lenton, and was horrified to see the
body of a bay under the hedge. He gave .an alarm, and
the body on examination, was found to bear marks of
compression on the neck, and from the appearance of the
month and nostrils, the boy mutt hav3 been strangled.
There were also marks of violence on one side of the body
as though it had been knelt upon. The lad's boots were
taken o 1 his feet, and it is to be supposed that for the
purpose of stealing iheso the murder was committed. The
police are making every exertion fur the apprehension of
the supposed murderer.

SHOCKING COAL-PTT ACCI DE NT NEAT

MANCH ES rER.