Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-30 00:00:00

t will be 100 original cases each day except Friday,
?od December, when there will be about 150 or 200

.g the fort-

loan society cases. • Thursday, the Bth, is fixed for hear-
ing cases of £lO and upwards, and on Friday the 9th,
the adjourned cases will be heard.
LINGARD v. WIGNALL.—This was an action brought

the plaintiff by the defendant in consequence of loss sus-
tained, by the plaintiff, being obliged to resell a pony
which he had bought with a verbal warranty from the
defendant for the sum of £l4. Two witnesses
were produced who deposed that the plaintiff had
been assured at the time he bought the pony that it was

free from vice; but, after one or two trials, it was found
that it "jibed;" and would not go on at times without
being led. For these reasons it had been sold by the
defendant, and in the transaction lost the sum now
claimed. The defence was that Mr. Wignall had only

bought the pony a short time before he sold it, and his

reason for selling it was because it was too large for his
phaeton. He tried it only once and found it stopped;
but, at the time of sale, 'he told the plaintiff so ; and,

therefore aute the nonv Wag sold as it was
142) umld.
_A_

The plaintiff'

TAE GREAT SOLAR ECLIPSE OP 1860.—Tholigh the,
total eclipse of the sun which is to take place next
.year will
not be visible in England, it will' be accompanied by BO
many interesting phenomena; that we think a brief
account of what those who may be more fortunately
situated may expect to see, will be of, interest to our
readers. The eclipse will commence in California, and
terminate on the borders of the Red Sea. Passing
along about the 60th degree of latitude, and quitting
the American continent at Hudson's Strait, it will cross
the Atlantic to the Spanish shore, and for some minutes
--thing like one-fourth of Spain will be in total
The shadow will continue its course over
Africa, crossing the Nile to the north of Dongola, and
finally quitting the earth in Ethiopia. During the
eclipse, the planets Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn
will be visible together, arranged in the form of a
rhoniboid, an occurrence, so rare, that some centuries
will elapse befqre such a spectacle can.be witnessed
again ; indeed; the eclipse itself will be of a character
that will be unequalled during the present century.—
The Photographic News.
THE CHURCH

I darkness

ST. GEORGE'S-IN-THE-Eln.—There
was a marked change for the better (says the Times of
Monday) in the behaviour of the congregation at the
evening service in the church of St. George's-in-the-
East. The attendance was scarcely so large as on most
previous occasions during the unhappy disturbances,
though there were not less than 2,000 people present.
Half of them, at least, were very young men and women,
having the appearance of shop-boys and domestic ser-
vants, and what unseemly conduct there was chiefly pro-
ceeded from that class. Some time before the 'service
space between the communion-rails and
thi pulpit, the quarter in which the opposition has been
always principally manifested, was crowded as usual, and
the officiating clergyman, attended by the choristers,
had to conduct the ministrations with a standing mass
of people pressing upon them on every side. Some 30
or 40 of, the local divisional police were again on duty,
under the direction of Mr. Superintendent Howie,'
inside and outside the church, but nothing occurred to
call for the exercise of their authority. It is true that,
at the close of the rector's Litany service in the after-
noon, the Hey. Mr. Lowder, ono of the curates, who
had conducted it, was followed some distance, on leaving
the church, by a mob of people, whose conduct was
such as to render necessary the interference of the
police, which had the desired effect of dispersing the
crowd. At the' evening service most of the people
congregated in the chancel appeared to be partisans
of the clergy, ,judging from the lusty manner in
which they took part in the chanting, and hence the
service proceeded only with such interruptions as emana-
ted from those who insisted upon " saying" rather than
singing it, and from others who now and then elpressed
their disapproval in a hiss, or in fits of coughing and
jeering. The point of .attraction being the chancel,
the rest of the congregation in the galleries and the
body of the church were all hors de combat, as it were.
They appeared to be a mixed multitude, mostly
young- people, whose attendance was due rather to
a feeling of idle curiosity than to any wish to take part
in the devotions. Yet, from the marked attention
they paid ,to the sermon, which was preached by
the net A. H. Mackonochie, one of. the curates—
an attention, indeed, which. may be said to have been
literally extorted from 'an unsympathising and. thought-
less audience by the singular earnestness of the preacher
and the fervour and persuasiveness of the appeal he
addressed to their hearts and consciences—it may be
reasonably believed they returned better than they came,
and with minds awakened to the necessity of leading
an innocent and pious life. Once, during the dis-
course, some little, interruption took place by a woman
being carried out fainting from among the crowd
in the chancel, a 'circumstance which the evilly-
disposed sought to convert into an open disturbance,
but the preacher never for an instant paused, and the
attention of his auditory, distracted for a moment,
wits won back to his stirring and affectionate address,
which was all the more effective in that it was wholly'
extempore. It was a noteworthy circumstance, that 'the
lessons were read last night from the old-fashioned read-
ing-desk---a concession to the popular feeling which the
congregation seemed to appreciate. At the close, of .the
service, however, as Mr. Mackonochie turned his face to
the east on the ascription of praise to the Trinity, there
was the customary hiss; but the people immediately
afterwards departed from the church in an orderly man-
ner, and their demeanour, on the whole, presented a
decided improvement on that of former occasions.

:ran the op,

THE GREAT EASTERN.

The following report of the official surveyors appointed
to survey the Great Eastern has been published
:
"Great Edstern Steam Ship, Holyhead, Oct. 18.

" compliance with your request, We

have made a complete survey of the Great Eastern, but,
not, having had time to prepare our detailed report, we
beg to submit the following remarks upon the points
referred to in your letter, and some others which
we think it important you should bring under the
le 4 consideration of the board :—With reference to the

;hat Mr. Russell alleges that his con-

tract is completed, we mark that the hull of th

ship to which our survey has been specially directed
gines) is not completed either as

(exclusive of the CT