The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-29 00:00:00

NEWSPikPER LIBEL.

In the Court of Queen's Bench. o a Tuesday, Mr. E. James applied,
on behalf of Mr. Joseph Stringfield, suraeoa, for a rule calling upon
Mr. James Dire, the printer ai.d publisher of the Weston Mercury and
Central Somerset Herald, to show cause why a criminal Mormation
should not be filed against him for putaishng a Abel in that journal.
An inharmonious feeling had been created in Weston over rivet bands
of music in which Stringfield and Dare were the leaders, on opposite
sides. Waxing ind-gnant at Mr. atringfleld. Dare had published a
libel in his newspaper against Stringaeld. The article rinassentad a
poor old man (.itringfieldas father), appearing at the eon's door. after
waadering many miles, and earnestly soliciting i.dmission to the house,
as he was he'pless and starving. Stringileal. was represented as
replying to him in a passion, and ordering him to be • off and never
show himself there egaaa, " whereupon the old man, in half-broken
accents, exclaimed, • hen your pnor old father mast perish.of want.'
' Starve and be —,' was the impious response, and t':s neat moment
the door of the yonn er man's house of plenty had reached its fasten-
ings. ' But God temuereth the wind for the shorn lamb.' As the old
man wand red the streets of Westwater, he was recognised by an
acquaintance—one wh ) had known him ere ad, ersity hal set in—and
who now gave him that much-needed aasistanee which his own flesh
and tlood denied hima" Me. James said there was not a morsel- of
truth in the story; that the son had alt along contributed to his
father and mother's atipporla and there was an afilds.v t by the father
that he never was present at such an interview as that represented in
the paper. Lora Campbell at once;granted a rule.

At LEWIS & CO NITANY'S, Ranelazb street,
BOYS ,re (7 LOTEILD :rorn the A:z-es of 8 to 20 Years'

It 1,, 11,)W stltel that, notwithstanding the efforts of the,
principal er.ditors of M. Ohl:1,1,-7s ThorneTs-1, to ascertain
the limit of his defalcations, n 1 positiv c “iclusinn hls yet
been arrived at, but that Cat: auoult is ILA Llcely ;to be
less than 600,000.—Times.
CENSUS or NEW SOUTH WALES.—We have received •
some fur.her details of an interesting character with respect
to the census of this colony, which was taken. -early • last
including 147,000
summer. The total population of the colony is • 266,000,
males and 119,000 females, nixing a
preponderance in favour of the former sex of nos then-
28,000. -A the inhabitants it appears that ba,.?ely a third;
113,000, were be in Australia, while of the remain'ier
England and WaloS supplied 74,000 ; Ireland 30,100 ; Seat-
land, 16,300; Germany 5,200; and China, 1,800. The metro-
pons
houSe(s,BY anddileT its )' it is stated, contains no less than 14,500
population, including tha subutbS, is- about
80,000. . Maitland stands the next in rank, with 15,300 ;
then comes .Bathurst, with 12,000 ; Goulhern, 7,000 ;
Brisbane, 3,800 ; and Win(3BoP, 8400. With respect to
religion, the Church of England haft a deeided:ma3ority,
embracing 132,000, or more than one-third of: the whole
population ; the Church of Rom.o is the next; c;)-unting
78,800 ; Presbyterians, 2 ,703 ; and Proteetantdissentere,
15,600. With respect to the professional or other occu-
pations of the• inhabitants, the returns are somewhat
defective ; for we find that, with respect to as lugs a per-
portion as 152,000, no account is rendered ; of the
remaining 214,000. it tie law claims 232
appears that .
followers, medicine 293, divinity 441, anti other professions
447- The paupers, meaning, we should conclude, disabled,
infirm, or lunatics, 1,210. In mining pursuits there were
engaged 4,800 persons ; in agriculture, 16,700 ; in grazing,
12,300 ; and in domestic occupation, 16,700,-,,,l%fs,Yati9u
and New 7, ee-qe.un4 Gazette.

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, Thursday Evening.

We continue to have a moderate demand-for
Cotton at unchanged prices. The sales to-day
were 5,000 bales, including 1,000 which were for
ex port. The amount of Cotton at sea is put down
at 40.234 bales, in the following vessels from the
under-mentioned ports :

Sumter
,Alesto

Ca ARLY STON.

MOBILE.

Arey

1550

1591