The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-24 00:00:00

MEETING OF JEWISH VOTERS.

A numerously and respectably attended meeting of the
Jewish voters of this town, was held last evening at the
Hebrew School, Hope-place. Mr. Charles Morley having
been called to the cl,air, and having addressed the meeting, a
number of gentlemen spoke, and a series of resolutions were
unanimously adopted ; the result was to give undivided
support to Mr. J. C. Ewart, " The firm and consistent
advocate of civil and religious liberty." A committee was
constituted to take all the requisite steps to carry such resolu-
tion into efl, ct, and after a vote of thanks to the Chairman,
the meeting separated.

Tut CfTr or LONDON.—As soon as the council at
Buckingham fialace, on Saturday, was concluded, a
messenger was despatched to the City with the writ, but
he did not arrive until a few minutes past four. The law
required that proclamation of the writ should be made
before four o'clock. The proclamation was therefore
male yesterday, but the nomination cannot now take place
before Friday, as Saturday is strictly Observed by the
many Jewish electors for the city the election may be
delayed until next week.
WEsTurNsTert.—As the writ office is in the city the
High Bailiff was enabled invuediately to make the pro-
clamation, and to fix the nomination for Thursday. The
election for Westmin,ter will, therefore, precede all others
in the kingdom by 24 hours, as Friday is the first day on
which a nomination can take place if the proclamation is
made this day.
WOL,ERHAMPTON.—The election takes place on Fri-
day, when Messrs. Villiers and Thornely Will be re-elected
without opposition, the new candidate having withdrawn
from the contest.

IRISH CH ORCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

lIVERFOOL AUXI

The anneal meeting of this society was held in the I
Collegiate Institution, at half-past six o'clock last night.
There was a Very numerous attendance. Among the
clergymen and gentlenen on the platform were the
following : The Venerable Archdeacon J nes, the
Revds. Hugh Stowell, W. Macarthy, D'Arcy,
Rogers, Dr. M‘l‘l,ile W. Rawson, C. Lawrence, H.
Jones, H. Marlen, D. Anderson, C. Hamilton. S. B.
Sutton, .1. Crtitup, T. Cowan, G Warr, G. Read, W.
Hunt, Dr. Taylor, 11. Gent, Ireland, R. Denny, J.
Bannerman. E. Gyles, J. Berdeley, C Page, H Postancc,
W, Matthias, J. Munn, W. Stephens, R Harke, R.
Moore, A. Knox, T. Moore, S. Sampson, and F'. Harke;
Messrs. C. &Isbell, Morke Wood, H. J. Webster, R.
Williams, J. Rounthwaite, See.
Rev. Dr. M'lsTeile expressed his regret that Mr. Adam
Hedgson, who was to have presided, was unable to
attend, and moved that, la his absence, the chair he taken
by their old and tried friend Mr. Christopher Bushell.
(Applause.)
The motion was carried by acelam ition, and Mr.
Bushell took the chair ; after which the proceedings
opened with prayer.
The Rev. Mr. Moore, secretary, then read the annual
report of the society. It appeared that the income of
the society last year was £39,109, and she contributions
from LiV!rpool £BB3. A marked increase was taking
pl ice gradually in the aid contributed by Liverpool, and ;
also in the amounts received from Ireland. The report I
paid a high tribute to the valuable services of the late i
secretary to the Liveriltel auxiliary, Rev. Mr. Minton,
whese many engagements had compelled him to resign '
the office
the CI-wire-tan said the report had so rally set forth the
objects and the working of the society that he did not deem it
ceesary to occupy their time in any preliminary observations
of his own. Those who knew him would very readily believe
that if he forebore from any lengthened expression of his own
opinion, it teas not because he was not fully interested in the
work; for he believed it to be a great amid a glorious work—a
work worthy of all their powers, and a work which he was sure
would prosper as it had hitherto prospered, simply because tt
was a work which devolved upon them as Christians in relation
to an important part of their own empire, where privileges
were not possessed such as those around him happily possessed
in their own laud. (Hear, and applause.)
The Rev. Mr. Rogers, of Dublin, proposed the first
resolution, and in doing so entered into a lengthened and
interesting account of the labours of the society in Ireland.
He explained the manner in which its operations were con
ducted, partly by the colporteur system of sending the means
of instruction round from place to place, partly, by missionary
intercourse with the people both id the Irish and the
English languages, and partly by means of contro-
versial classes. He dwelt at special length upon tlee
success which had attended the latter system, the manner in
which the meetings were crowded, and the fact that the more
the priests endeavoured to detain people from going there, the
larger the attendance became, He referred to a pastoral issued
by Dr. Cullen, the Amman Catholic Archbishop of Ireland,
warning people against these controversial meetings, and stating
that the persons who spoke there in defence of Roman
Catholic doctrines, and who, by the woakeess of their argu-
ments, only brought ridicule on those doctrines, were, in
reality, persons paid for the purpose of endeavouring to shake
the faith of ignorant Roman Catholics, by leading them to
believe that their doctrines could not be defended. In
reference to this warning, the speaker said a circumstance
had occurred which they had all, probably, seen commented
on in the press, and of which he proceeded to give the follow-
ing explanation. My friend, Rev. Mr. M'Carthy, and myself
called upon Dr. Cullen to ask hie explanation of that statement
in his pastoral. By gond fortune we met with him in the hall.
We proceeded to state that we came to ask explanations of
certain statements made in his last pastoral. " Oh,"
said the doctor, " put it all in writing, and then
we can leave the public to judge." But, we urged,
here is a statement of a matter of fact—either it is
true, or it is not—and we want to know the authority '
upon which it is stated. He began to say, " Gentlemen,
I am no retailer of lies; I have good authority for it." Mr.
M'Car;.hy then began to ask hint for an explanation
regarding the misrepresentations and lies, which, he said.
we had put forward in our placards and handbills. He
said, " Gentle! en, you appear to ignore the ninth com-
mandment, ' Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy
neighbour.'" Mr. M'Cartby said, " Well. but Doctor, that
is the very thing we have come to you about." Up to this
point the doctor had been very polite all the time, bowing
and scrimping, with his hat in his hand, but when we came
to this, he said, "I cannot hold any mare conference with
you, gentlemen. Good morning,"—put on his hat and
walked down the hall Mr. M'Carthy called after him,
but he did not take any notice of it. This is a true version
of the affair, and what was published in the newspapers
was incorrect in many respects. It is not true that he told
the servant to show us to the door. The poor servant was
so frightened that he ran away altogether, and I believe was
not present at the controversy at all. Besides, up to
the point when he turned upon his heel and went away,
Dr. Cullen treated us with the greatest politeness.
Another thing is not quite correctly stated in the news-
papers. It is not stated that Dr. Cullen quoted the ninth
commandment, and called it the ninth—thus sanctioning
the Protestant version of the commandments, and bearing
witness to the fact that those of his creed have falsified
the deealogue. (Applause.) After some further observa-
tions, the Rev. Mr. Rogers concluded by proposing the
resolution, which was, that the meeting sanction the
principles of the society, and adopt the report which had
been read.

The Rev. Mr. H. D'Arcy, missionary in Connemara,
seconded the motion in au address containing many inter-
esting details of the results achieved by the labours of the
society among the peasantry in the western province of
Ireland. _ .

The Rev. Hugh Stowell, who was received with enthusi-
astic applause, supported the resolution. He declared
that there were
that soctety, and why he loved it the more every day he
many reasons why he had long loved
lived. It had for him a special charm, because it was a
home society. Whilst their charity should embrace the
world, they never should neglect the immediate duties
around them, at their own doors, and in their own
land. (Hear, hear,) Patriotism here came to the aid of
philanthropy. Let the discontented men who would revolu-
tionise under the name of reform say what they would, he
appealed to the meeting to say what country in the world was
like old England, and he was glad he could now add old
ircintd toe, (Applause.) He did not like to hoar distinctions

drawn between the Celt and the Saxon, and he emphatioally
urged upon the meeting' that such distinctions of race and
caqntrea should now be forgotten. Ireland h. d, no doubt,
safferasi much—Statesmen bad treated her, too, like a spoiled
child, slow to be ca-ritied, and now to be cute*" "Most e* all
had Ireibrld'strffered from the despoCsm of Rome.—a despotism
which should never have existed within the rioZninions of th;
Queen of Great Britain. Now, however, he declai:Od that
Ireland was receiving from England a thorough freedom, nog
the mere freedom of political laws, but that freedom which
the spread of the gospel gave from the adamantiue oppression
of Rome. Among some of. the many good results of a minor
character which were developing themselves in Ireland he
declared, that he had.observed the greatest improvement in
the appearance and raiment of the Irish labourers, whom
he saw passing through Manchester within the last two
years. He drew a humourous picture of the appearance
of a number of ragged Irish labourers he met many
years since on the road near Oxford, and contras'ed their
scarecrow aspect with the well dressed exterior of the
Irish labourers he had seen during the last two years,
among whom, he dec'ared no•one could be seen wi hout
a good pair of shoes, and only an occasional darn on
the elbow, giving evidence that Molly had improved, as
well as Patrick, by learning to be a careful,„kousewife,
(Laughter.) Ile declared th more goodaijsud been
done for Ireland by the labour of that soe'ssity than by
all the bungling legislation of: the lasts fifty years.
(Applause) He congratulated the meeting upon the
tact that the Irish Church was now fully striving to
carry out her mission, and had been` aroused to a know-
ledge of its.true object—to be aggressive upon popery,
until it was driven back to the mud of the Tiber, from
whence it came. He dwelt upon the Wonderfto
change which had taken place in the social and
moral condition of Ireland, in the total absence
of those crimes which formerly made timid readers shrink
from that part of the English papers which was headed
"Ireland," It was England which exhibited the crime now,
and he believed, bye and bye they should have to go to Ireland
to learn how to improve the social and moral condition of
this country. (Cheers.) There was far less crime, he fully
believed, in Ireland now, in proportion to its population, than
there was in England. (Cheers and applause) This great
change the Rev. Gentlemen ascribed to the silent spread of the
Gospel, and expressed a confident hope that Ireland would, ere
iong, cease to be a blot upon England's brow, and become the
brightest jewel in the crown ; would cease to be England's
mendicant sister, and would herself be able to aid the speed
of the Gospel in other lands. With an elegant peroration,
in which he dwelt upon: the true union: between Englands
Ireland, and Scotland, while this great change was effecting,
the speaker concluded amid eythnsiastie applause,
The resolution was put and carried by aaclaination,
The Rev. Mr. M'Carthy proposed the second resolution,
which *as to the effect that the success of the labours
of the Society gave the most encouraging hopes,
and called for the support of all true friends of
Ireland. To enforce this resolution, the rev, gentleman
alluded to the fact that the operations of the society had
produced the most positively beneficial results in Dublin,
more especially to be noticed in the neighbourhood of their
controversial class in Townsend street, in that city, where the
greatest improvement was visible in the character of the
population, and an almost total cessation had taken place of
night brawls and outrages. The speaker went into a very
full and mintite detail of the working of the missionary
institution in Dublin; and the great success which had
attended its establishment. He denied altogether the truth of
the assertion made in Dr. Cullen's pastoral, that the society
hired petsons to appear as defenders of the Roman Catholic
doctrines, in order that ridicule might be brought upon those
doctrines by purposely weak arguMents. In confirmation of his
statement, he added, that he had written to Dr. Cullen,
inviting him to appoint any priest to come and discuss the
question, and he had placarded the streets of Dublin to the same
effect. The reply he received from Dr. Cullen was his own
letter sent back in a new envelope, and not prepaid.- (Lsugh-
ter.) He asked, if this was the manner in which Dr. Cullen
premed to leave the public to judge between them. (Laugh.
ter.) • Having given several remarkable illustrations of the
effect of the society's labours in the conversion of Roman
Catholics, in Dublin, the rev. gentleman concluded a very
lengthened address amid loud and general appleme.
The Rev. Hugh M'Neile, who was very enthusiastically
received, seconded the resolution. In the course of a
lengthened address he adtiertesl to the fact that some men
objected to that society on the ground that its being called a
Christian Society seemed to convey the idea that Ireland•
was a heathen country, and was, therefore, an offensive
term. These gentlemen were very mild, very kind, very
liberal in their-remarks_ upon subjects of religious con-
troversy. But speak of politics, speak of free trade,
speak of the China war, speak of the price of tea and
sugar, and lo! the exceeding suavity, the ultra-liberality,
the disposition to give no offence which hal charactised
those gentlemen on matters of religion, what had become
of them ? They were all gone, and the gentlemen became
very Zealous, they were almost bigots. Why ? Because
they were in earnest. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Why
were they so liberal, quiet, easy, and gentle in matters
Of religion ? Because they were not in earnest.
(Applause.) Because their liberality, as it was called,
upon these subjects of religion, coat them nothing. (Hear)
It was easy for men to be liberal of what they did not care
about. (Hear, hear.) That was the real secret. Why were
those who thought with him not so liberal in these matters ?
Because they did care about them. (Hear, hear, and applause.)
Truth was intolerant, The man who believed he had the
truth could not talk as if he did not know it, as if he doubted
it. He (Dr. M'Neilc) could no mare talk of Romanism
having a chance of being true ,than one of these gentlemen
could talk about the Reform Bill being wrong. It had no
Chance at all of being true, (Hear, hear, ani cheers.) If ow;
that was what they called bigoted—but on their own subjects,
if the meeting could hear them on 'Change, every one of them
was as bigoted about the price of cotton, about the brokerage
of shares, about .the value of' coupons, and the transfer of
North Weetern bonds—they were as bigoted about all these
things as he and those around him were about Popery and
Presbyterianism. (Cheers.) The reason was simple. The
former were as much in earnest about money making, as the
latter about soul saving. (Cheers.) With regard, how-
ever, to the great apostacy of the Roman Catholic Church,
God had so pleased to work that the cunning which
retained thenames of things, and retained the things themselves,
to be pulled out when questioned, but which perverted their
authority and meaning, was now turning against itself and
becoming a weapon against the apostate priests. Some of the
gentlemen be alluded to might call that term a hard phrase,
but would they not use equallyplain language in speaking of
any of the misdemeanants of their own order? He asked the
chairman what term the gentlemen on the exchange would
apply to such men as Robson and Redpath ?
The Chairman : Thieves. (Cheers.)
Dr. M'Neile said if ho spoke in equally plain terms he
would find himself gibbetted in *some Popish print in the
morning. (Cheers) He then proceeded to point out how
the defenders of Romanism were lately placed in many
dilemmas, and among other matters referred to a recent
judgment delivered in Ireland by Justice Keogh, in which that
judge remarked that it was a vulgar error to suppose that
Roman Catholic priests never had been allowed to marry, and
referred to the fact that bishops were permitted to marry until
the opening of the 7th century, and priests until the opening
of the 11th. The rev, speaker said he should like to
see the fix a Popish editor would be placed in when about to
write a leading article upon this judgment. Was ho to pass it
over unnoticed, and so make it appear indisputable, or would
he deny it, and*So come into dispute with one of his own
judges? He begged, through the reporters, to call the atten-
tion of Popish editors to it, and hoped he should see a leading
article on it by some Liverpool Popish editor in the morning,
(Laughter.) The Rev. Dr. M'Neile, in conclusion, called
upon the society not to retreat from its operatious, but earnestly
to follow them up, and resumed his seat amid loud applause.
The Chairman said he wished to explain that when he used
the term " thieves" he applied it to such men as Robson and
Redpath, to whom be had no hesitation in applying it. He
begged it to he distinctly understood that he did not apply such
a term to Roman Catholic priests, from whom he conscien-
tiously differed, but of whom many, no doubt, conscientiously
differed from him, (Hear, hear.)
Dr. M'Neile explained that ho did not apply the term
" thieves" to Roman Catholic priests. When the chairman
called Robson and Redpath" thieves," he said that was plain
speaking; but if he employed equally plain terms in describing
Roman Catholic priests, by calling them " apostate priests,"
he would be accused of harsh language. (Hear, hear, and
applause.)
The Chairman said be knew that that was the explanation
Dr. M'Neile would give, and he desired to elicit it to save
himself as well as Dr. M'Neile from any chance of misrepre-
sentation, (Hear, hear.)
Thanks having been accorded by acclamation to the chair-
man, the proceedings then closed with a blessing. .

THE POLITE LETTRII•WRITER.—" Lord Panmure re-
quests the attendannce of Sir John M`Neill and Colonel
Tulloch at the War Office to partake of a cold shoulder
of mutton. P.S.—lf Sir J. MN. and Colonel T. find a
.el,OOO note under each of their plates, Lord Panmure
hopes they will pocket it without any nonsense." Answer :
,‘ Sir J. M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch respectfully beg to
decline Lord Panmure's polite invitation. They dislike
cold shoulder, and don't want '1,000."---Panch" wif
CAUTION TO FAMILIES. On Sunday last, whilst
Jeremiah Evans and his family were attending divine
service at St. John's, Clapham-rise, his residence (which
is next to the church) was entered, and a considerable
amount of property, in plate, jewels, watches, &c., was
removed from various rooms, and packed ready to be
carried off, but happily one of the servants went into the
dining room at the instant the thief was about to depart
with his booty, through the back window, and in his haste
to escape he left the bundle behind.:3l4o. pcgicp are on
Pie 1001 k 011tv r -

THE ELECTION.

TO' THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES
_ _

Str,--eSo much has been so ably said and written
oft-the-ifilTeet of-the coming election; -that-I can
scarcely venture to trouble you with the following
remarks, but feeling -that the all important question
of the Town Dues, is much misunderstood by all
-earties' and feeling the vital importance of the
resuie of the election; es bearing upon this point,
I feel boti.7d to request the insertion of' this letter.
I have been ni:ich _canvassed for my vote, by the
friends of Mr. Te.7ner, and I have asked, why, at
this critical moment, .disturb the peace of the town,
The answer I rectived,io both candid-and graphic.
It is to gratify revenge, for having our canLidates,
unseated at the last election.
Again, I suggest, the danger to on; local interests
in sending to Parliament an obstructi:"e opponent
to government; but I am told that his pa:4,y hope
in the new house to secure such . a Conserelative
majority as ,will drive liberal,estatesmen into tee
shade, and thus extinguish all attacks upon our
Town DueS !, 'Let my readers consider whether
such hopes are likely to be realised.
Buten.. Editor, this question of ToWn Dues is
Made a mighty bugbear, wherewith to frighten
the little minds to be found amongst us.
Had the council faithfully performed their duty,
and not been frightened by the whispers of their
own officials, they would have printed and circu-
ited the report of the commissioners appointed by
geeernmenctO enquire, into the' subject, and the
weeeeee intellect of our weakest representative
would liace found that the commissioners never
recommended the abolition of the Town Dues,
although they Advised. that a .tax originally
granted to build a harbour, should be ap-
propriated to harbour purposes.,
,rather than
be squandered in civic entertainments, legal
and parliamentary expenses, or in aid of
local • taxation. They advised, in fact, that
the administration of the fund should simply
lie transferred from the Town Hall to Llle Dock
Office--eno very gross act of spoliation, more
especially should the House of commons, as trt.:.s'
tees of the public at large, and in that capacity
omnipotent, decree, in their wisdom, that such a
transfer would be beneficial to the trade of tile
kingdom.
That some such change in the administration of
this fund is at hind is known to no one better than
to the town-clerk; but Manchester, Bolton Hud-
dersfield, Bradford, Stockport, &c:, See, urge their
claims to a paetieiPation inethe proceeds.
The real question, then, is-not the preservation of
the Town Dues, for their abolition has never been
contemplated (at least by Government), but that
the right of administering the fund—whether at the
Town Hall or Dock Office—should or should not
be confined to the burgesses of Liverpool. Upon
this point, Parliament, as a whole, will be cool and
indifferent, and the question will be left to the
decision of Government. Can any thing, then, be
more suicidal,—could we commit a more egregious
political blunder than to depute Mr. Turner to
represent us in this negotiation, a gentleman who •
could have no influence with the Minister, and
vvh6se prestige would only damage the cause.'
So long, as Liverpool is unjustly limited to
two voices in therepresentative assembly, we
seem to have in Ateliers. Horsfall and Ewart all
that Liverpool could ciesize. Both sons of Liver-
pool merchants—both born Inu the good old town
both. wealthy, and beyond suesicion, of personal
motives—both unambitious and moderate in their
political views—and both members of the Church
of England. The Conservatives have c.?nfidence
in the one and respect for the other, and
the Liberals, whilst they approve of Mr.
T. 8., Horsfall; place great faith in • the
friendly influence of Mr. Ewart with the minister.
Thus Liverpool, by the return of the old members,
will be fairly represented, but should party bigotry
unfortunately succeed in sending Mr. Turner to
parliament, and he should not again shortly be
ousted on petition, a bombshell is thrown into the
town, nearly all the wealth, and the large majority
of the intelligence of its inhabitants will be dis-
gusted, Manchester will chuckle, and the proceeds
of our town dues will be diverted into neighbouring
municipal coffers
Failing to take warning, by the . political
hostility we have experienced since OUE
eraceless rejection of Mr. Cardwell, and
failing, also, to take advantage .of our improved
condition, by the return of Mr. Ewart, we shall
again be overwhelmed with the contempt of all
thinking men, and deservedly shut out from the
benefits which enlightened statesmen have yet in
store for the honour and prosperity of England.

Having, then, carefully reviewed our -Position,
carefully surveyed the dangers that surround us,
and given due attention to the weighty arguments
used by our Manchester opponents, I am convinced
that every burgess, having at heart the prosperity
of Liverpool, will vote in the first place for Mr.
Ewart, and give a friendly hand to the election of
Mr. Horsfall, rather than in any way promote the
return of the Tory candidate, Mr. Turner.—
Yours, &C. A CONSCIENTIOUS VOTER.
March 23, 1857.

THE SHADE OF ESOP
TO

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF CASTLE STREET WARD.

erecting,
From my abode in the Elysian Yit.-.Yls. where
I arrived after that ugly fall I got on earth, I am
permitted to contemplate the progress the wori,:.l.
makes In civilisation. Now, your town of Liverpool
claims some notice, and I have watched with
interest the signs of the present election, and last
night I was. present at the Philadelphia Hall.
While there I was much struck with the conduct
of the professed champion of Liberal tendencies,
and The representative of Castle-street Ward. The
speech of that amphibious animal in fact
forcibly reminded me of one or two fables whiele,
in the days Of my mortality, I used to teach man
kind. •I will repeat one of them :
" A wolf, once, possessing himself of the
skin of a sheep, put it on, and gained admission
into the flock. For some time his ravages
Were disregarded, but at last the shepherd,
discoverng his real character beneath his innocent
guise, took immediate vengeance on him. Some
neighbouring shepherds passing that way, saw him
hanging to a tree, and called out to their fellows,
Hey (brothers, do you hang sheep?' But the
others, replied, Not so ; but this is one that
St(e)ams the honour of the class, even, to which he
belongs ;' and the enlightened shepherds showed
their companions the true nature of the culprit."
I also taught another allegory, viz:, that an ass
finding a lion's skin, put it on, and astonished the
world, until his braying betrayed his asinine
nature. Now, the putting on of the skins of •
animals is no new manoeuvre. It was practised on
tpleermseoy.untains of Helle, as well as in the valley of
Nor is your move a-n-Ew ART : the only
difficulty is to prevent you from braying. Asses
cannot roar like lions, but mon can talk like asses.
But it is no accomplishment as a ventriloquial art
—far from it. Those who cannot imitate the
accents of the great should hold their tongues, and
not expose their littleness
Take advice from one who has before now cast
his oyster shell, with the rest, at Samos—read the
signs of the times—and don't think every one is
so green as to be gulled by such specimens of
intelligence as yourself. If you wish your con-
stituents to follow the advice of the representative
of Castle-street Ward (with immense accent on.the
definite article), by Pallas, you must acquire a
little more common sense in an uncommon sense,
and show an " outward visible sign" of an " inward.
spiritual" understanding.

'Vale.

Written at Liveropolis, 21st March, 1857.

A. man in Schnectady advertises a clock for sale, which
"keeps time like a tax gatherer."
" FEMALE PHYSICIANS IN AMERICA.—There are not far
from 20 of them—and several are in excellent buSiness.
They confine themselves t(imidwifery and the diseases of
their own sex. Their success in the former brahch tends
to establish them firmly in families. The number will
probably be gradually on the increase, since they are
beginning to be employed in the neighbouring cities of.
Charlestown, Cambridge, Roxbury, and adjacent towns'
much more than foroopriy,—,l3otian (U,S,J Mediffo

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON
AND THE NIAGARA.'

The screw steamer City of Washington, which
Failed from Now York on the 10th inst., arrived
here yesterday morning, and the Cunard steamer,
Niagara, arrived at seven o'clock Im:it night. The
Niagara brought forty four passengers and.,304,1 86
do! s._

The Niagara sailed from Boston on the tith inst.
The Cunard steamer Emeu arrived at New York
on the 10th inst.

The steamship Ericsson, of the Collins line, was
on the sectional dockwfor repairs. She was to
be stripped, recaulked, and newly coppere(L.
The Belgian screw steamship Leopold 1., the
third vessel of the Antwerp and New York line,
had arrived out from Antwerp, via Southampton.
The political news is quite meagre and unim-
portant. The last accounts from Washington
state that ex-president Pierce had signified to a
deputation of Tennesseans his intention to make
a Southern tour.

The new Cabinet officers took their reapective
positions at noon on the 7th, The duties of heads
of departments have been performed since the 4th
of March by the Chief Clelk3.

Another -despatch, dated Washington, March
7th, 1857, says Mr. Buchanan called his Cabinet
together at an early hour this morning, and they
had quite a protracted
,sitting. They will moot
every day, comMencing on Monday next, 13.-ntil all
the urgent business before them is ( "spored Of.
At twelve.o'elock the new secretarie.s rec4pi-ied, their
portfolios, . and commenced the d- •
dues in their
respecticm departments. The .
duced"their chiefs and el,- secretaries intro-
explanations necesc- and made all proper
taine-d two of to _....dryb Secretary Dobbins de
to assist ; .largest United States steamships
rp. 7 . the duty of completing the ocean tele-
x-onio communication.
A, majority of the .Senate's Committee on the
•ndiciary have decided, to report a resolution for
takiiig testimony in Indiana, in reference to the
contested elections from that State, and will, it is
said, report in' favour of Mr. Cameron's right to a
seat from Pennsylvania. The Senate, in Executive
Session, had ratified commercial treaties with
Russia, Venezeula, and Chile. The Committee of
Foroign Relations would have a meeting to
consider the Clarendon-Dallas treaty.
In the New York papers we find the particulars
of the welcome given by the Chamber of Com-.
mergeof that citY to Lord Napier, the new British
Minister. The.members of the committee pro-
ceeded to the Clarendon Hotel, where Lord Napier
and his family were stopping, and. several prorni-
tient merchants accompanied the committee by
invitation. All the gentlemen having been intro-
duced to his lordship, Mr. Petit addressed him as
follows:

On behalf of the Chamber of COMthere,e of the city of
New York. we have come to pay our respects -to you, and
to offer to you, your lady and family, a cordial welcome to
the Shores of America; and in doing which we would give
utterance to the sentiments and feelings of the whole corn-
inanity. Your arrival in this country is more interesting,
as it fully restores the diplomatic relations between Great
Britain and the United States, and will, we trust, be the
)meaus of adding strength to the ties of consanguinity,
friendship, and interest which now bind those nations
On this continued harmony of feeling and action
depend not only the prosperity of, two great and powerful
`nations, but the advancement of commerce, civilisation and
liberal institutions throughout tLe world. It will be the
distinguished Drivil ge of your mission, we trust, to con-
tritnite largely to these great objects. We regret that your
early departure for Washington will prevent an opportunity
of trending the intentions which we would have offered,
together with our fellow' citizens._ We can only offer you
in this interview our hearty welcome.
Lord Napier replied as follows :
Mr. Perk and Gentlemen,—l beg that you will convey to
the New York Chamber of Commerce my high sense of the
honour they have done me in offering me their congratula-
tions on the occasion of my arrival in America. I can
assure you 'that no efforts of mine shell be wanting to
realise the happy anticipations you have had the goodness
to express, and to deserve the favonrableopinion which you
have gratuitously formed of my ability to promote the true
interests of our respectiie countries. I come with every
desire to be useful. Although I have never visited America
before, I have enjeyed the intimacy and friendship of many
of your countrymen abroad, and I would gladly merit that
regard on the part of the nation which has been extended
to me by its individual members. The sentiments of
cordiality and good feeling which you have been pleased to
t mire; to me, are those which animate the government and
people of Great Britain. Ido not beliere that during the
temporary suspension 'or interruption of diplomatic inter-
course those feelings ever ceased to exist. lam gratified to
anticipate that nothing more can mar the harmony of our
international relations or diminish those friendly sentiments
in the hearts of our countrymen. I venture a hope that the
period of my employmeet in the United States may be
passed in that concord and ca-operation which are so
essential to the best interests of mankind. :
iris lordship received- his--vieitors very kindly,
and at the close.of the speech making formalities,
entered into a free and affable conversation with
them.

1856.

1855.

Mr. Vanderbilt has e`.:Aablished a new line of
steamships between New York and Havre; to
begin runnirg on the sth of May.. The steam-
k',ol and Vanderbilt will be the 'pioneers,
611'4.. will make eleven round trips during the year,
the former sailing April 16, and the latter May 5.
The Vanderbilt is one of the largest shipS afloat,
and as she has not yet been to sea,l great curiosity
will naturally be felt respecting her..
The Secretary of the Navy had ordered the steam
frigates Niagara and, Miasissipi to be equipped
with despatch, to assist in laying down the
Atlantic Telegraphic cable between Newfoundland
ar d.

A letter from Independence, Missouri, of 3rd
instant, says the Salt Lake Mail, had just arrived,
having been three months on the road. The trip
was the troldest and most perilous ever made
across the Plains. Many Indians on the route
were either frozen or starved to death, and others
had eaten their own children.

The New York Times of the 9th inst. publishrs
very interesting letter from Costa Rica. The
_Times says :
Our corrtespondent furnishes us with most important
inteligence respecting the Spanish American alliance
Fillibusterism, of which we have already made
some mention. It is proposed now to form a union
between Southern Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and we are
advised that the inhabitants of the former State have
consented to the plan. The South Pacific States give it
every encouragement, and if :it prove succcessful, the
transit route will then be altogether under Costa Rican
control.' Our correspondent gives details, now for the
firft time made public, cone,.rning the organisation of the
expedition against the city of Juan, so successfully
executed under Spencer, and the plans of the allies for
future operations. It appears that General Canas, the
Costa Rican commander, proposes to follow the course he
has hitherto pursued of maintaining a desultory warfare
until famine and fever shall have reduced his opponent
to'submission. Our correspondent,.in several interviews
with President Mora, obtained a vast amount of valuable
and interesting information, to which we especially direct
attention, for it throws a flood of, light on the Central
American problem, now drawing rapidly to a solution.
important intelligence has been received from
kansas. Governor Geary has vetoed the bill to
provide for taking the census of the territory, and
for the calling of a. Constitutional Convention.
The Governor objects to the bill because it makes
no provision for submiiting'the new constitution to
the people, and enters upon an elaborate argument
to show that the assumption of a power by the legis-
lature, which stifles the voice of the people, is con•
trary to law and common sense. Hie message is a
temtierate paper, but decided. The legislature, how-
ever, passed the bill over the veto, and it is now a
law: The election for members of the convention
is' ordered to take place in June next, and the
convention is to assemble at the capitol in Sep-
tember.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIOENCF.
NEW :YORK, March 10.
IioNtTALY.—The reduced rates of Foreign Exchange and
the accumulating volume of.speCie in'the country Olive created
a brae'. tone in the mad:et. Fit_ ela.ss bills on London at
RO aiiyi can he'had at 8 per cent`.. and even a fr:iettou under.
The new tariff will drive large quantities of goods into public
stores, as fast as they reach the port from foreign countries—
enough being taken for consumption only to meet the current
demand of trade. We way, therefore, look for an abundant

money market during the next four months. After the Ist
of duly there will be a great change. The effects.of the new
tariff will then be seen in the increased quantities of goods
upon the market, compared with former years. The business
at the Sub Treasury to-day was as follows :
Total Received .
„ Paid
~ Balance
Receipts at the Custom House, doll. 216,166 70. 'i he
Bank Statement ' shows more cenfidence• among their
directors as to the approaching Money Market, The specie
reserve again approaches twelve millions. and to day probably
exceeds that sum. The Banks that have enlarged their loans
during the last week, are the Bank of New York 13,000 dohs ;
Manhattan 100,000 dole ; Mechanics' 25,000 dole ; Union
190,000 dole ; Bank of America 54,000 dole ; Phenix
21,000 dole ; City 22,000 dole ; Fulton 40,000 dole ;
National 21,000 dols ' • Mechanics and Traders' 40,000 dole ;
Greenwich 48,000 dels; Leather 21,000 doll ; ('cean 60,000
dole ; Mercantile 100,000 dole ; Republic 230,000 dole;
Bank North America 22 000 dole ; Metropolitan 114,000;
St. Nicholas 32.000 ; Shoe and Leather 72 000 dole ;
Commonwealth 38,000 dole ; Marine 20,000 dole ; im-
porters and Traders' 22,000 dole ; Park Bank 22,000 dole ;
Dry Dock 20,000 dole. Foreign Exchanges are quiet. and
some Bankeis have reduced their rates for Sterling to 1088,
others are 'asking I 081-. We quote accordingly, Bankers'
signatures, sixty days' sight on London 108 a 1081.

Plaintiffs' Attornets.
1 Er...Summerscales & T
2 C P Bagshaw and Son
3 CP...Same
4 Ex ..Stead
Ex ...W Ascrott
6 QB...Atkinson and Co
7 Ex ...G Whitehead
8 Ex ...1 amb
9' Q8...F Andre*
10, Ex ...Sale and Co
11 Ex ...Same
12 QB...lllgson and R
13 Q8...J 11 Deardpn
14 Q B.—Worthington & E
15 CPl...Webster
16 CP...W K Taylor
17 Ex ...Sale and Co
18 Ex ...J Hall
19 Ex ...Dickenson
20 Ex ...J Roberts
21 Q8...-Webster '
22 C P... M Pot ter
23 Ex ...Brooks and M

COTTON.
the amount of cotton offered for sale in this market
during the last week has been larger than for melaY Weeks
previous, notwithstanding which, 'prices until Friday were
firm, although the demand was only moderate. On Friday
the Atlantic's letters and the Persia's news was received, a
o€cline immediately ensued of le per lb., when upwards of
6,000 bales were told; nearly all of which, however, was in
transitu. - On Saturday the market was very quiet, but
there, was no further change in prices. Yesterday only a
moderate business Was done at the -anneied quotations,
holdera refusing the concession demanded by buyers, the
market closing without spirit, and with a tendency to lower
prices, more owing to a large supply than to any Change of
opinion as to the prospects of the ultimate result of cotton.
The total sales I estimate at 6,000 a bales. The export from
the 3rd instant to- last evening, bas been to -Liverpool,
3,101; Havre, 1,177; Hamburg, 423; Cronstadt, 1,231.
Total, 5 932 bales.

1 QB—Bennett and S
2 Ex ...Rowe
3 Ex Lewis and Co
4 Ex ...Same
5 Ex ...Avison and R
6 Et ...Hodgson
7 CP..,Barnett and M
8 CP...Francis and A
9 Ex ...Yates Junr
10 Hughes
11 CP...Yates Jun
12 Ex.: Wright and II
13 Ex ...Barratt
14 CP...Bolton
15 QB...Lowndes and Co
16 Ex ...Pyr; and Co
17 Ql3...itay
le Ex ...J and II Gregory
19 Ex ...Robson
20 Ex ...Collier
21 Ex ...Same
22 CPL. W and C E,Eaton
23 CP...Yates Jun ,
24 QB...Lowndes and Co
25 CP...Dodge
26 QB...Kirkbank
27 CPL.JOhnson '
28 QB...Lowndes and Co
29 Ex ...Harlin and T
30 Ex ...Vietcher and 11
31 CP—Grimmer
32 CP...Roscoa
33 QB...Lowndes and Co
34 Ex ...Fletcher and H
35 Ex Forshaw
36 QB—Shattock_ •
37 Ex —Williams -
38 Ex ...Godfrey
39 Ex ...Neal and M
40 Ex ...Lace and Co
41 Ex ...Duncan and Co
42 CPL.Roby
43 CPL.Teebay . .
44 Ex ...Conway
45 Ex ...Same
46 CP—Ravvson and Co
47 Ex ...H Forshaw
48 CPL.Johnson
49 QB—Fenton and Co
50 Ex ...Darlington
51 Ex ..:Rogerson and P
52 CP ...Johnson
53 QB...Hassal
54 QB...Wills and S •
55 QB—Shattock
56 CPL.Backhonso
57 Ex . .Teebay
58 CPL.Deane
59 Ex ...Ward
60 Q8...S wan
61 QB...Swift & Co The
62 CPL.Backhouse
63 CPL Same !,;•.
64 Ex ...Haigh and T
65 Ex ...R Birchall
66 CPL.T and It Radcliffe
67 Ex ..North and Co
68 QB ..Lowndes and Co
69 QB...Shattock
70 Ex ...Pemberton
71 CPL. Backhouse
72 CPL.Same
73 Ex ...Kaye •
74 QB—Lowndes and Co
75 QB —Holden and Son
76 CP ...H Forshaw
77 QB...Lowndes and Co
78 QB—Same
79 QB...Shattock

'Co rrox IN TuArran; has accumulated here, and the slight
decline in Liverpool, as advised per Persia, induced some
holders to
.yield ac on Friday last, since which the sales
have been at this redaction, buyers refusing to go on unless
at a further slight decline. The following are the 'rotations
of sales made during the pant few days. New Orleans,
with freight on the basis of 9 16c1, strict middling, 131 c ;
middling, 13c; low middling, 121 c; good ordinary,
121 r. Mobiles, with freight id, at about the same figures.
In Uplands, nothing done. The sales since 3rd inst. to
last evening, I.estimate at 10,000 bales. Market closing
heavily.

NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 7.--Receipts for the week, 40,000
bales; saute week last year, 62.009. Sales for the week,
62,000. MiddlinT, 1310 to 13ae per lb. Exports to Liver-
pool for the week, 10 000 ; to Havre, 3,500. Freight to
Liverpool, 7-164 to 15-321 per lb. Exchange on London,
107 to 10ct per cent,

CROP.—There is will nothing in the aevelopements at the
South to cause ally change in opinion as to the result of the
crop proving somewhat less than 3,000,000.
REGEirs---For the week under review, are 84,000 bales
against 131,000 bales same week la‘t year. and 112,000 bales
in 1853. The total deficit is now 115,000 bales as compared
with last year, and 16.000 hales as compared with 1853. The
telegraphic advices for a week later makes it pretty certain
that the deficit will be further increased for my tables. of next
week, probably to 150,000 bales, and for the week ending
here on the 24th inst., I quite expect the deficit will be at
least 200,000 bales as compared with last year. The monthly
statements of the interior markets of Georgia have come to
hand, from which I make the following :
---

Sock on hand -
Receipts at A ugustaandlat Augusta and Macon stock, Change in seek
H'inb'rg ine'Llthrough' Hamburg Ist Ist March. during Feb'ry,
co*ton during Feb. March. . Inc. den.
1857 - 5,300
1866
.100 2,000 --
1855 -
1854 . 28,000 30,300 11,900 -- 7 500
1863 -
The above confirms the opinion I have expressed of the
receipts at Savannah and. Charleston, being to a greater
extent than usual at the expense of the interior stocks•
The receipts at Savannah and Charleston eluring•February
have been less than in Eby year since 1851. The receipts
during February, at Angnsta and Hamburg, have also been
less than in any of the previous four years. The whole
goes to corroborate the shortest intelligent estimate for the
Atlantic crop. From Mobile we learn that cotton freights
on the rivers tributary to that port have fallen to 25 cents
per bale.

Exports continue on a li -eral scale; France and other
foreign ports still take more liberally than Great Britain.
Stocks are declining, and the reduction will be more
rapid in future.

The following! is a statement of the movement in Cotton
since the Ist September last, as compared with the previous
four years

185!L

Receipts at the Ports 2,382,003 2097,000 i1,087,000'1,903,000 2,542,000
Exports toG Britain 781,0 ,0 979,000 8413,0110 r 635,0(0 c.. 94,000
" France 282,000 323,00 f. 193.000 191,000 193,000
" other F.Ports• 230,000, 304,000 153,000 146,1;0 179,000
Total Exports ll 293,000,4606,000 1 194.000 172 000,1.366,000
Stock on hand I 664,4'00 650.000 387.000 697,00:d 823,000
Of which during the past week, included in the 4b,
•-•ts at -,ePorts, t I- • -- -

:ove :-

receipts at the Ports 84.000 131,000 b 2,000 90 00( 112.000
Exports to G. Britain 61 00 59,000 55,000 62,000 30 000
a Prance..: 17,000 4.000 7.090 6,00!1 11,000
" other For. Pts 22.4)00 28,000 14,0 01 2 )09' ; 5,f•(.6
Trial F.xports. .... 100000. 9!,000 76,:-'OO 88,000 52 000

SUMMARY : Receipts : Decrease at the ports compared
with last yea-, 115,000 bales ; compared with 1853, 160,000.
Exports : D.creasa to Great Britain, 198,000; compared
with 1853,' 213,000 bales. Decrease to France, 41,000
increase compared with 1853, 89,000 bales ; decrease to
other foreign ports, 74,000 ; increase compared with 1853,
51,000 bales. W. P. WRIGHT.
BREA MUFFS —State and Western flour is heavy and dull,
and a'thouth we do not alter quotations,' the tendency is
decidedly in favour of the buyer ; the trade are the princi-
pal buyers. Southern flour is also heavy, with sales of
1.200 brls at 6 dots 70c to 7 dolt; for mixed to god brands,
Baltimore, &c. ; and 7 dols 100 to 7 dots 80c for fancy and
extra. Canadian flour is dull. Wheat is irregular, strictly
prime is scarce and commands full prices, but common and•
Inferior q'ialities are heavy ind
Pnovistoltss—Polk is again 25 cents higher for mess.
Dressed hogs are active at 9,ic to 91c. Beef is steady.
Beef hams are firm at 20:dols. to 22 dots 50c. Cut meats are
dearer. Baccla is firm. Lard is active for future delivery,
with very little offering on the spot. Butter and cheese are
unchanged.

FlammTs.—To Liverpool, 15,000 bushels wheat. at 41d
in bulk and 5d in ship's bags ; 1,000 brls. flour is 3d to
is 61; cotton id ; 75 tons lard and 150 boxes bacon' at 16s
100 tierces beet at 3-; ; 30 casks tallow greaves at 17s 6J.

TELEGRAP“ TO BOSTON.
NEW Yoax, March 10, Evening : Ashes firmer, pot 7
70, pearl 71. Cotton firmer, sales 5,000 bales, middling,
131 to 141. Flour 5c lower an common, sales 7,500 brls,
common to strait State, 6 20 to 6 35, Upper Lake 6 30 to
6 45, common to good Ohio' extra 6 60 to 6 90, extra
Genesee 7 20 to 8 40. Southern heavy, sales 2,000 brls.
mixed to good 6 65 to 6 90, fancy and extra 6 93 to 6 98 ;
Canadian heavy, sales 700 brie, superfine 6- 35 to
6 40, ex'ra 6' 60 to 7 50. Oats, 48 to 50,
cad 51 to 54. Corn closes lower and dull for
old, sales 21,000 bushels, mixed 72 to 73 in store,
white and yellow 70 to 75 new, 76 to 80 old. Perk Thaner
for mess, sales 300 brie, mess 23 60 to 23 70 old, 23- 90 to
24 new, prime 18 50 to 18 75. Beef firm ; sales 250 brie,
country mess 12 to 13, prime 10 to 11, repacked Chicago
15 50 to Ip. Lard closes dull and heavy, 270 hrls 141 to
141. Butter active, Ohio 17 to 22, State 19 to 25.
Whisky 261 to 26 Leather firm, o,k light and middle
37 to 40, hemlock sole 32 to 33. Fish steady, Coffee'
quiet ; saes 1,000 bags ;,
.Rip 10,, to . 111.,
Java 15, St. Domingo 11. Sugar, heavy; 83.1 es
700 hhds, Muscovado 9 to 101. MOlaises dull ; P R
62, Muscovado 57, Cuba ciayed 45. Linseed oil firm At 86
to 88c; whale more.iminired for, sales" 800 bil3 selected 70c ;
lard firm at 1 10 to 'l5 ; sperm fairly active. at the advance.
Spirits turpentine lower, 400 brls 47 to 48c; crude 3 50 ;
rosin in good demand, 1,300 brls 1 821 ; 100 brls' tar 2 dols.
Hides active and higher, sales 10,900, B A 36; Porto
Caballo 311 e. .Iron firm, 150 tons Scotch 31 dots. 6 mi.
Rice, 200 tee 32 to 41. Tallow firm, 29,000 lhs 121 to 121,
cash. Freights to Liverpool steady, cotton Id, flour 18 3d,
grain qto sd. Stocks dull and heavy. Money and Eichenge
unchanged. Chicago and Rock Island 105 t 'Cumberland
Coal Co 181, Illinois Central 1381, Michigan Southern
Sinking Funds 81. New YOrk Central 7's 1011. Reading
81,1, Canton Co 221, Michigan Central' 96, Erie 518,
Illinois Central improved 1171,

A return toThe House of Lords, in answer to an address
of the 9th inst., shows that on the Ist of Jan., 1857, the
number of non-Commissioned officers and mill actually
borne on the strength of the army inOude.l 9,073 officers
and 137,855 men (effectives), and 8,501 officers and 133,043
men (establishment.) The number wanted to complete
the establishment on that date was eight Lacers and 723
men, and the numbei of shpernumeiarieeta the establish-
ment was 580 officers and 5,535 men The number actually
boro6 on the strength of tha Fcreign Legiotron the Ist of
October, 1856, was 694 officers and 9,478 men (cffectives)
The number authorised to be raised was. 20,1,00,'nnit'the
number wanted to complete, 10,628. The actual number
of non-commissioned officers and men borne on the strength
of the Royal Artillery on the Ist of Jan., 1857, was 20,249,
and the number of officers and men actually borne on the
strength of the Royal Engineers at same date, 3,490.

CAUSE-LIST
FOR THE
LANCII-SHIRE SPRING ASSIZES, AT LIVERPOOL.

SOUTHERN DIVISION.

FIRST LIST.—SALFORD HUNDRED.
- Piaictids. Defendants.
Dunkerlerley and ors v Lees and and
Phillips and .ors •• v Quinn Withdrawn
Belihouse and ano (ss) v The Mayor &c of Wchester Austin
Catenoveaud ano assees (ts) v Finnesey • Rytner
Kershaw v Kershaw • .
Pott and ors assess (Fs) v Lawe
Gee v East. Lane Railway Co T A and J Grunly
Pet tinger v Grasby Burnand and Son
Irving (e) v South Eastern Railway Co 14
B zckham I (it v Anchor Assurance Co J Hall
Bran() ' (,J) v The Lane & York Rail Co Lewis, D and Co
Thompson (ss) v North Eastern Railway Co Newton and R
Charles (s.l) v National Guar Ass Society Sale and Co
Duncan v Harding and ano North
Devpge v Bonnet and ano
Lawton (.:4) v Whitaker
Fansha w (Fs) v Peet P 0
B.anuqt and ano v Simons and ors
Webster . ' .-,.. fi:.• v Harrison .I '
. ..
Fear by :, 1 v Dent
Bate . v Webster
Sheridan . • , v New Quay Co
Bramall . v Lees
SECOND LIST.—WEST DERBY HUNDRED,
Wilkinson (FJ) v Teall
Waring Junr : v Everth
Smith (,-s) v Long ;
Price [(ss) v Dillon and ors
'Martin , (sr) v Frangopulo and ,ano !
Alien v Gibson •
S!ubbs (es) v Baker
Hutchinson v Conroy . z .
McKeachie • v Gibb ..•.3 7
Hughes 1 t.:-.ts . v Fredsham
French and ors - t.'« v McHenry
Ormerod ~j t..., '', v Turner and ors exors he
Suckling i - 1.1 v Bayldon
Baker - '. (sa) v Stubbs
-.
Mavrogordato . (se) v Hindson
Burgoyne
~, v Jackson
Little and ors - v Hamilton ano withdrawn
Stewart • (Fs) v Wright and ano .
Itawnsley ' 1 7 • v Mawdsley
Stewart and anr ::. ‘ (as) v Colchester and ano
Same (eJ) v Smith and ano • •
Reline and anr • v Buckley
Jones admor &c (Fs) y Provincial Insurance Co
Ely - i (Fs) v Bell
Harrison and anr (Fs) v Lee
Shillingford (t.t) v Chester & Holyhead R. Co
Hignett f , ' v Blundell ..
Brennand (s.r) v Ker and ors
Mann 3 : v Scott fi
Grainger and ors :(Fs) v Kirkpatrick
Swinnerton (Fs) v Lon & Nor'Western ft. Co
Allan (ea) v Walters 1
Bolderness and ano v l3ohtlingk
Meek . . , • v•Foyn -"
Baines - • (Fs) v Royal Ex Assurance Co
Leather v Busby and ano
Gurney and 11x , v Lloyd .; !
.
Jones v Hughes
Ford and ant V Hannay
Neilson v Andersson
Miller and anr v Fletcher and anr
Houghton and ux admix &c v Hignett and anr
(lilt . v Sparks and ano
McKnight v Duckworth and ano
"Jones v Same
13ottomiey (Fs) v Nuttall •
Cotesworth and ors (Fa) v Wood and'ors
Parkinson ' v Jackson
•
Radcliffe, Baronet v Whitworth and ano .-..
Harrison • 7,,i v Worthington ,
-'t- . -
Parry --, v Clarke
..,.-
Hodgson v Hodgman
P:oiny and ano exors ~ 1; v Pollard and ors --
Fraser v Jordon
Deane 1 v Littledale and ors
„
Edmondson . v wade
Evans r. (FS) v The Provin Insurance Co
Preston and ors v Tampiin and ano
Mackay and ors
Warden' 7_
vv
SOtioivneer
March. of Londonderry (Fs) v The Sunderland Dock Co.
Dean v Wright ,
. v Wright
Dean and ors -_,
Bredin % (F. 7) v Eatough
Wright - (Fs) v Bankes
Aspden
-...- v Fielding and ano
'
Whitley and ano (FS) v Parr and ano
Johnson and ano (F.t) v Croft
Tapson *?
.. v Swift
Blundell .':' F.;:::':- v Gossage . •
T Hartley v Greenwood. i .
W Hartley ' ''':"- v Same
Goddefroy and ors i (Ps) v Hegan
Wilson and ano' v Me Henry '
McHenry :1 v Wilson and ano .
NiThitaker 1 '' v La wton . ~
Parry ano v Trustees Birkenhead Dock
Crosby and ors (ss) v Wilcox and can
Blame and ux v Willoughby and anr

Redfern

H Forshaw
.Milne and Son
Horner
Cobbett
Cobbett and W •
Mewburn and Co
Conway
Southam

»i

Mordaunt
Walker and H
Thornley and J

Conway

Evans and Son
Ho!den and S3n
W Heaton

-

214 I
Stone

Atkinsons and Co
Roby
Nias 1
Same

Edgworth and P
Harvey and Co
Yates Jun
Swift and Co
H Forshaw
J 0 Watson

Lowly-les and Co
Swift and Co
Mewburn and Co
H Forshaw
towndts and Co
Freshdeld
RllCampbelltnsdn.

J and W Clare , 7.1

Shattock '
Swan
J and IT Gregory
Same

towndes and Co
H Forshaw
Radcliffe and M
Swan •
Pattison

Littledale and B

Edgworth and P
Littledale and B
Lowndes and Co
J B Wathen

Turner and Son
T Taylor
Piekep z:

Russell
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SPRING ASSIZES.

CROWN COURT.
."Atqeleven o'clock, yesterday, Mr. Baron Martin'entered
court, when the following' gentlemen were sworn in as
Grand Jurors :

John PembertOn Heywood. Foreman,
Samuel Ashton, James Lawrence,
Nicholas Blundell, Edward Lloyd, i
James Bourne, Duncan Maeviear,
Charles Cualoner, Robert Neilson,
William Earle, William Rathbone,
Sir R. T. Gerrard, Bart., .john Ressou,
Frederick C. %VallaceGerrard John Abraham Tinne,
Adam Hodgson, WiMani Gerard Walms'ey,
David Hodgson, gobettrAngustus Aspinall,
William 'Forde Helton, Thomas lgolyneux Seale,
_Benjamin Heywood Jetties, Thomas B: Barclay,
His Lordship said : Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,
although the number of prisoners is extremely large; and
much larger than it was at the spring assizes of last year,
I am happy to say the offonces are not by any means of
so serious a character as they appeared upon that occa-
sion. The offences generally consist. of burglaries and
street robberieS, and the burglaries not of a more serious
description. I have rarely seen a calendar, having read
• the depositions, which presents such a simple class of
cases for your consideration. There are only two cases
upon which I feel called on to make any Observations to
you. There is a case,. number 27 in the calendar, the case
of a man- named James Brindle, who is alleged to have
committed an offence by making a false declaration with
respect to the execution of a deed, hy.which he authorized
the use of his name to be placed on a watch. lam not
myself aware that that is a legal offence at all, but as
there may be some Act of Parliament which makes it one,
I should recommend you to find the bill, and if there is
any Act of Parliament to that effedt it will be laid before
me and I shall be able to deal with the case, but at present
I am not myself aware that it is any legal offence what;
ever. The only other case upon which I myself at all
called upon to make any observations is the case 76 in the
calendar, that of Thomas Revell, a person charged with
manslaughter, by killing a boy with a snowball. You will
please to consider whether, in this case, the death was
merely the result of accident. If you find it to have been
an accident you will of course throw out the bill ; but if
there was any blameable negligence or wanton conduct on
the part of the. prisoner, then it will be your duty to find
a bill for manslaughter, for it will be a case of man-
slaughter by illegally killing. It is not a case .of very
great importance, but simple; if you find it to have been.
an accident, you have to throw out the bill, and if it was
not an accident. then the taking away or human life is an
offence which the law charges as manslaughter. These
are the only cases upon which I feel myself called upon to.
make any observations to you. Should any difficulty
arise I shall be very happy to aid you. It seems. to me.
that it would be only a waste of your time aid the public
time to occupy you any longer, and I have only to say
that I am sorry there was not tine to alter the arrange-.
ments for your attendance here. Had there been time I
certainly should, during a week when probably many ot
you desire to be elsewhere, have made arrangements so as
not to, detain you so long as until Saturday, but the
dissolution of Parliament.. took place so suddenly that
there was no time to make any arrangement. I much
regret it, for I should have been happy to make some
arrangement which would have enabled you to give your
attention to business, to which most of .you . probably
desire to attend.
The Grand Jury then retired.

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• NISI PRIUS COURT.
BEFORE MR. JUSTICE CROMPTON.

ON. SATURDAY, THE 21sT DAY OF MARCH, 1857,
Before the Honourable Sir CHARLES CRO APTON, KNIGUT, one of her Majesty's Justices of her Court
of Queen's Bench.
CHARLES TOWNELEY, Esa.,. SHERIFF.

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John O'Brien, aged 18, labourer, pleaded guilty to the charge
of having, on the night of the 3rd January, 1857; at Manchester,
broken and entered the dwelling house of James Willis, and
stolen from thence £2, some shirts, chemises, and other
property. The sentense was deferred.

COUNTERFEIT COlN.—Peter Keenan, aged 50, labourer,
was charged with having had in his possession a mould for the
purpose of making counterfeit shillings, in Liverpool, on the
15th of January, 1857. It appeared that when the mould was
found in the prisoner's residence it had a counterfeit shilling
ill hot in it. Mr. Knolles prosecuted. The 'jury found the
ptisoner guilty. .
Ellen Burke, aged 34, hawker, was charged with a similar
offence, having at Liverpool, ou the 2nd January, '1857,
feloniously had inler possession, without lawful authority a
mould, for the purpose of making.counterfeit shillings. Mr.
Kuolles prosecuted. The jury. found the prisoner guilty.
UTTERING BAEZ COlN.—Peter Kelly, aged 30, labourer,
and John Smith, 35, labourer,- were charged with having, at
Ashton-under-Lyne, on the 14th February, unlawfully uttered
to John Haigh, one: count:Tit:it shilling, knowing it to be
'counterfeit; and to William Garold°, one other counterfeit
shilling, knowing it to be counterfeit. The jury found John
Smith not guilty. No evidence was offered against Peter
Kelly.

Thompson, aged :39, basket maker, was
charged with having at Manchester, on the 28th of April, 1856,
feloniously married one El zabeth Dixon, his former wife
Rotte.umah Seal, being then still alive. The-fact of the
marriage having been proved, the prisoner called .the second
wife, who deposed that she was aware of the former marriage,
but also deposed that she knew the former wife to have been
herself previously married to another man. The first wife
not teing produced on the part of the crown, his Lordship
(Elected the prisoner to be acquitted.
ROBBERY wrist VIOLBNCB.—Patrick. Brannan was charged
with having at Manchester, robbed, with violence, a woman
nsmed Meadows. Tho prisoner was alleged to have committed
the robbery in company with a Second man, who was tried for
the offence at the last assizes, and convicted. The :prisoner
had not at that time been arrested. Mr. Sowler prosecuted,
and' Mr. Pearnley defended. The prisoner was acquitted.
Edward Jaelt on, aged tweney, was indicted with
having, with personal violence, robbed Edward Murray
of.2s 31 ths case, the
.p-isoner not having any
counsel, was 'allowed to sit with the barristera for the
purpose of defending himself. The prosecutor. stated,
that on the night of the robbery he was proceeding
home, having his weekly wages in his pocket, and when
passing through Bury street, in Manchester, be was
attacked by four men, who sprang out of a cellar, a rope
w,s hurled round his neck, 'and he was overpowered, and
robbed of the money. The prisoner, with great ingenuity
defended himself from the charge, contending
that at the time of the robbery, the prosecutor was in such
a state that he could not yidentify the persons who
had attacked him, and • that ihe poli,:eman Who had
apprehended him ha I made a great. mistake as to' his
identity. his 'ordship-sum red sip the evidence, and the
jury rct,.:froe'd a verdict of guilty, with an intent to
commit robbery. Sentence' deferred.
'The cpur,t,wou after adjourned.

The •business of the assizes. for this side of the court COM.
menci'd at 12 o'clock yesterday, at which time his Lordship
took his seat upon the bench. The cause list is not very
heavy compared with previous assizes, 'yet there are more
special jury cases than usual. rho Salford list contains 23
causes, 10 of them being special ; and the West Derby has
9 causes,
... 2$ of these calling for the attention of special juries.
THE MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY V. THE TRUSTEES
Or THE SUNDERLAND Dociss —M r: Hill; Q.C., 'applied to
lordship to fix a day for the trial .of this, case, which.was on the
second list. Ho did so on the ground that he had many wit-
nesses to call, several of whom were connected with the Board
of Trade, whose time was valuable, and it would be desirable
that they should'not be in attendance until about the time the
case would he tried. If his lordship would fix the 2nd April,
he thouglif ho,wonld suit the conyeUicroe 'of the parties con-
cerned. His lo.rdship isid that ho did not perceive how he Could
fix any speelfic day for the trial of the cause in question.
There were an unusual number of the special jury cases in the
first list, and it was most probable that if the case was left to
the ordinary course, it would not come on until the time

required by the learned counsel, which might be about Wed-
nesday week.
BELLHOUSE V. THE CORPORATION OF MANCHESTER.--
Mr. Monk made a. similar application to the above
in this Case. He wished a ti'ine to be named for
the trial, on the ground that Sir Fitzroy Kelly was
specially engaged; and' it further appeired that Mr;
Atherton was also retained, :and that gentleman (M.P. for
Durham,) being busy with his electiori,could not conveniently
attend until after the elections were over. His lordship was
understedd to say, as in the former case, that the trial would
not be proCeeded with in the absence of the counsel. other
business being likely to occupy the time. •
FLETCHER v. FLETCHER.--This was an action arising out
of a judgment in one of the superior courts.of law in America,
wherein Samuel Fletcher had received judgment against
Benjamin Fletcher for a sum of money in dollars, amount-
ing in English money to '761 16s 2d. The plaintiff now
sought to enforce this judgment by the recovery of the
money in England. The necessary:legal documents from
the courts in America, under' seal, were produced, when,
his lordship, in leaving the case for the jury, stated that
the American conris of law invariably looked with respect
to the decisions of courts in this and other countries, in
enforcing the recovery of claiths., when legally
substantiated, and this country Would do the same
He had perused the do(;umentS under the seal of the American
Court, and found them satisfaCtory; The defendant bad the
option of attending here to contest a^y question c•mnveted
with the judgMent, but he was not here, therefore ho con-
sidered the plaintiff entitled to the amount claimed. Verdict
for £761 16..

FLETOHEIt V. GRASBY.--ThiS case lasted three hours,
and possessed very little interest. Mr. Monk appeared
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Mane Sty for the deNnee,
It was "an action commenced by the plaintiff, a wholesale
potato dealer' of Manchester, against the defendant, a farm:3i,
living at Ilevvder, in Yorkshire, for a breach of contract, for
not delivering the produce of 'twenty acres of potatoes, alleged
to have been purchased by the plaintiff, for 8t per tub, equal
to 2521ba weight.. It appeared that, in August last, the
plaintiff went to the defendant and offered him this Price for
the potatoeS, the crops being then growirg. The plaintiff gave
the defendant one sovereign to bind -the' bargain,
with an understanding that both were to meet. en a
subsequent day, 'at the Black Bull -Inn, Ilowden,
where a written agreement was to be drawn up between them,
to the effect that the plaintiff should clear the potatoes before
Christmas. Potatoes afterwards rose in price, and the defend-
ant having signed no written agreement, returned the sovereign
to the plaintiff; Stating that he declinA to sell them. The
plaintiff contended that he had purchased the potatoes, which
the defendant denied, alleging that the sovereign was merely
paid by the plaintiff to ensure his attendance at the Black Bull,
and hence the action.' The judge left it to the jury to decide
whether the sovereign was given in part payment for the
potatoes ; if so, the plaintiff was entitled to recover ; if, on the
other hand, it was paid, as alleged, only to ensure the attendance
of the. plaintiff to sign a written agreetnent, then no bargain
was made. The jury found for the plaintiff, damages £25; at
the rate of 2s per tub for 250 tubs of. potatoes, being the loss
sustained by the plaintiff iron] the breach of contract. ,
Cunfou.s CUSTOM ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE ASSIZES.
Mr. Monk, addressing his lordship, said it was now quarter
past'thtee o'clock, and it was not usual on the first day of the
assizes to sit longer than that hour in the Nisi Prins Court, and
in accendanee with the rule he hoped his lordship would
'adjourn until the following morning. His Lordship said that
he was not aware of such a rule before, and if there was such'
a rule he thought it was a most inconvenient one, when there
was so much business to get through: It was very early, and
,f there were any cases ready he was disposed to take them.
Mr. Hill and Mr... Knowles said the rule had been observed
both here and at York, and by adjourning at that hour it was
not considered to be time lost, as on the first day they were
not always prepared with the cases. His lordship having
inquired whether any other cases were now ready, and no
response being given, the business of the Nisi Prius Court fur
the day concluded.