Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-21 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1857.

EXTRAORDINARY PROCEDURE UNDER THE
PASSENGERS' ACT.

Yesterday, Mr. John De Costa, described as a shipping
agent, of the Wa+erloo road, was summoned before the
magistrates, Messrs. Dixon and Holt, to answer a com-
plaint preferred against him by Lieut. Boucher, the emi•
gration agent, for having violated the 60th section of the
passenger act, which enaes tha' no person, unless duly
authorised, shall ship passengers, under a penalty of not
exceeding £3O, nor less than £2O. Mr. Forshaw appeared
to conduct the case for the complainant, and Mr. Raffles,
instructed by Mr. Duocan, represented Mr. De Costa.
TEe former gentleman having read the clause under which
the summons had been issued, and stated that he was in-
structed by the emigration agent to proceed in the case,
which was one of great importance, called a man named
Robert Conner who stated that he came from Galway in
consequence of a letter he had received from a person
named John Tully, of No. 31, Clement•stree, to whom he
had sent half of a £3 note, for the purpose of securing
himself and comrade a passag3 to Australia After he
arrived in Liverpool, he and his comrade went with Tully
to De Coota's office, where they saw the clerk, Roberts,
who said to him, " These are the two men I want to get
out as passengers' stewards," and his reply was, " That is
all right; have they got the £lO each to pay?' At a sub-
sequent meeting, at the saps office, he paid the clerk
£l3, with the uneerstanding that he was to go out in the
James Browne, Black BAH ship, (chartered by Messrs.
James Baines and Co ,) as passengers' steward, and whose
duty was to be, to serve out water to the passengers, and
see that their berths were kept clean. He then signed a
paper, and afterwards went on board the ship, when, to his
surprise, he was treated as a sailor, an i the mate threa-
tened to kick him. He after that went to Da Costa to
complain, and he told him he would see it all right, and
sent him on board the ship again, but ha was then
treated as a sailor, and placed in the forecastle,
when he left the ship and all his clothes were lost, as they
were away with the ship. He was quie sure he did not
intend to ship as a sailor but as a passenger. Mr. William
Johnson, manager to Messrs. &sine's and Company, stated
that the defendant had no authority to ship passengers on
board the ship. Mr. Raffles then addressed the bench for
the defendant, contending that it had not been proved
that the clerk Roberto, had acted for him, or that he was a
passenger agent, and called the clerk Roberts, who
a imitttd that he had received the money of the
men, and that he had paid it to Captain
Crabtree, of the James Browne, as a bonus for him to take
them as passengers' steward., and that they had signed
the ship's articles as such. He would swear that Mr. De
Costa did not get any of the money. Mr. Forshaw was
about to reply, and in doing so sa.d that Messrs. James
Baines repudiated having anything to do with the transac-
tion, an,l wished to have the case brought before the public.
It was decided that Mr. Forshaw could not be heard in
reply, and the Bench fined the defen lant £23 and costs, a
moiety of which was to be paid to the complainant.

At LFWIS & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-strret.
BOYS are CLOTHED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Year

The Prince of Wales arrived at Dover on Monday from
Ostend.
Souvre EAsrwt'r RAILWAY.—W 3 hear that two meetings
have been held by the illrect ars of th;s company with these,
of the Eist Kent for the purpose of bringing about come
sort of amalgamation.—Herapreh.
An extensive order for supply of Limerick lace, to com-
plete the wedding dress of the Princess Royal, who is to be
married to Prince Frederick William of Prussia, has been
reelived at the factory of Messrs. Forrest, in this city.—
Limerick Chronicle.
A negro was bretagt up before the Mayor of Philai'el-
phis for stealing a chieken. Theft conclusively Droved,
" Well, Toby," said his holonr, " what hive you got to say
for yourself ?" "Nuffln but die," repli=d Toby, " I WAS
crazy when I style dot pullet, c z I might hah stole de big
rooster and r eber done i'. Dot shows 'elusively to rev
mind dat I was ltbo+Pitig under do delirunt ereutendus."
MienNEss or THE Seasox.—A correspondent at Comp-
stall has sent us, as prcof of the present mild weather, as
expenienced in that neighbourhoed, a sprig of apple
hl issom from a tree, about one eighth full of bloom ; also
some fine pinks, pluele 1 near the same place; whilst,
is the same garden, he states, are a Sib-rian crab-tree,
gooseberry and entrant hushes, in bloom. Sweet-wil iares
and picks are in full flower at Millbruw, DerbysLine.----
Manchester Ouardian.
LEIPSIC FAt t.—At the autumn fair at Leip ic, which
has just taken place, the business done in cleth was incon-
siderable. Manufaclurers only brou;ht about 120,000
pieces, a quantity inferior to that of the preceding fair;
and yet it has been proved that only from 50,000 to 55,000
pieces I, ft the town, whilst at the same epoch in preceding
years the sales amounted to from 173,000 to 200,000 pieces.
At the last two fairs good and fire qualities were chiefly in
demand ; but this year about 15,000 pieces of coarse el th
see __ rtasleWaraten mat Amer.ean
purchasers we'e absent.
THE ENGLIEIHKAN en PARIS.—An En;,rli3bman Pp-
peered before the Tribunal of Correctional Police to
complain that an Itelian, named Thlsirario, had se indled
him. He had, it appear d, made the aequaintance of a
man an the steamer from Naples to Marseilles, and as the
!atter sail be was engaged in the orchestra of the Italian
Theatre at Paris, they came up to this city together.
After their arrival the Dalian on several occasions borrowed
money from him, solemnly assuring him each time that
he was employed at the theatre; but when the English-
man asked to be repaid his advances, the man was insolent,
aed it turned out that he was not employed at the theatre,
and never had been. The tribunal condemrnd him to a
year's imprisonment and 50fr. fine.—Galignenes Mes-
senger.
Tics DOUBLE MURDER AT WARLEIGH, NEAR BATH.—
The young man Miller is gradually recovering from the
wounds he inflicted upon himself after murdering his two
victims, Andrew and Sarah Border, and in a few days he
will be in a fit state to to removed to gaol. The police
in making a search of the premises in which the prisoner
resides found £92 in money and a bank borc, showing that
he was a depositor to the amount of £7O. The form r
sum, however, is claimed by the prisoner's mother, who
says that she had raved it without her husband's knowledge.
The h,dies of the murdered man and woman, Mr. and
Mrs. Border, were deposited in the churchyard of Bath-
ford, oa Thursday, and besides their own relatives, T. D
Skive, Esq., the owner and occupier of the Warleigh
ornate, with other gentlemen followed the mournful pro-
cession. Mr. and Mrs. Border have left an orphan child
but four years of age, who has been taken care of with the
greatest kindness.

LAuxeu OF AN IRON SMALL BOAT.—Friday evening,
from an early hour, the busy ham of preparation was hoard
VI the dock-yard of the Nep uno Poen try, by the sledging
and hammering of some scores of workmen, for the pur-
pose of facilitating the entree of a beautiful iron steam-
boat into her des'ined element. The dock-yard was
crowded with persona of all grades, the river was studded
with gigs, prongs, ship-boats, and other small craft ; the
hill side of Cromwell's-rock was to!erab!y well covered
with country folks, all anxious to witness the launch Th. 3
Ross and Duncannon boats were at ei'h:r side of the dock,
both crowded to repletion. The evening was beautifully
fine, the river placid e-nd smooth ask lass—in fact the
tout ensemble presented as beautifully pie'ureque a view
as we have for a long time beheld. Ihe stauncbeons being
removed, and the battering rams set to work, under the
indefatigable superintendence of Mr. James Murphy,
foreman ship-carpenter, and directed generally by Mr.
Horn, th 3 eminent engineer of the es ablishruent, this
beautiful and spl'ndid boat—a few minwes to five o'clock
—b gan to move, and glided as gently and mt-jes'ically
into the river as a swan, amid the booming of cannon and
the oft-repeated cheers of the ass,mb!ed multitude at bath
sides of the Suir. She is named the Clods, and is
intended, we understand, for the Liverpool trade. Her
length is 240 feet, and her beam 30 feet.— Waterford
Mail.

A FOOLlT.trtnr AIRONAUT.—NARROW ESCAPE.—Pro-
fessor Marion made his ascension from the National Garden
at about half-past four o'clock yesterday afterno n.
Professor msnaged to get his balloon pretty nearly quite
full this time. He nude or.e attempt, 10 wevt.r, with bas-
ket, anchor, and ballast, to ascend, but failed, and his bal-
loon was torn by cot:t tot with the trees. The rt nts wt re
at once sown up, and, considerably excited, the Professor
determined to try again. He cut loose the bask, t, tied the
suspending ropes in a knot together, and seating himself on
the knot, clinging with his hands to the ropes, away, in
this critical position, he went, leaving ballast, grapples,
and everything else behind, and rose with considerable
rapidity, having for his supp)rt only the cords pendent
from the balloon. It was really a fearful sight to see him
clinging to the little network of cords which was alone
interposed between him and certain destruction. When
about two hundred feet up, in attempting to change his
position, he app Ared to lose his bod, and pitched head
downward, as though about
.dashing to the earth, which
caused a thrill of horror to the spectators. It was at this
time he lost his cap. He, however, recovered himself, and
the ascension to quite a distance was grand, when the bal-
loon took a southerly direction, and the last seen of it was
at the hills back of Greenbush. He landed in a swamp
last evening, five miles beyond Sand Lake, having travelled
fifteen miles. He was almost perished with cold, and was
takea to a farmer's house, where he was kindly cared for.
He returned to this city about noon to-day.—Albany
Journal, Sqat. 30.

At LEWIS Ps COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street.
BOYS are CLO FLIED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Years.

SELECT VESTRY.

The Select Vestry held anti* fortnightly meeting in the Wo khonw
Board-room, at tea o'c ock yesterday. Mr. Chtirc.i Arden Wood.
ruff presided, and the othe mombers present were Messrs. Bairstow,
0 w:n, Jacks n, Richardson, Chesney, Williams, Mellor, Fenton,
Hughes, J. Jones, Crit:hley, Shaw, Smith, Syred, Cropper, Whitty,
Syers, Gibson, and Luff.

WORKII0,: SE COMMITTEE.

The minutes of this committer were read, from which it appeared
that the number of inmates in the house on the 14th Octiber was
2,127, sick cases during the week 591, inclaLling 49 fever, and 32
itch ; vagrants ref ved during t' a week 275 ma'e., 88 females, and
42 chi;lien—total 405.

Mr. Shaw moved the confirmation of the proceedings, which did
not contain anything of importance.

Mr. D:nton seconded the motion, which passed withant any dis•
cussion.

CSTRIAL SCHOOLS' COMMITTEE.
The minutes of this meeting were ead.
Mr. Bairstow move) the confirmation.
Mr. Jackson remarked, th it there was a difficulty In the way of
observing the progress made by the children in instruction in conse-
quence of the ve It rare at 'endance of the inspector un ler the Committee
of Ciurcil on Education. 1 hat get tleaian only came to examine the
children about once a year. The consequence was that the children were
not passed up from one class to anoth r as rapidly as they might be,
the teachers beinc unwilling to remove the children from'me class
'to an th,r, lest upon the inspector's vis t auy given classs should
appear not to hale made any I.r )gress what -iver. In or:er that the
inspector might see what pro,Aress the children had made In as y
given class, they were kept at one stage from one end of the year t
the other. If that were so, as he w luformed by Mr. Holmes, he
thought it was desirable that they should request the Inspector to
come down there more frequently.
Mr. Cropp r thought that if the inspector did not visit other schmls
mere frequently they could not expect that he would come there
oftener.

Mr. Barstow said that when Mr. Jackson had had a Mee more
61{p, e once of her Maje.t,'s Inspectors of Schools, he wouli not wish
them to come more often than at present.
Mr. D ntonsiid if the inspwt or cam' more frequently he wctid be
b3t:er acqua'nted with the renthe of the establishment. W hen he
he came now, he somet;mos mids statements which were incorrect,
and if he came more frequently he would be in possession of facts
which he did rot know when he only cams once every twelve months.
Mr. Jackson said, so long as they submitted to Government inspec-
tloa at all, they ought to require it to .be done in a mure efficient

manner.
The Chairmen remarked that in the absence of the chairman of the
Industrial SohoDls' committee (Rector Campbell), it was incouven'erit
that the depniy.chairman was not prese .t to explain the proceedings,
and the manner in which the educe be of t'e chiliren was conducted.
(Ilea-, hear.) No indivi ual member of the committee fdltjastilled in
going into explau4tions in the absence of the chairman or deputy-
chair -nan.

Th- proceedings were then confirmed.
FINANCi COMMITTE Z.
The proceedings of this committee were read.
Mr. Shaw moved their confirma'lon.
Mr. Denton cal ed attent on to a -esolution recently passed by the
committee, at a meeting where ante tunately he was not able to
attend. Some eight months ago, a sab•committee, appointed to
see that a resolution directing all outdoor med cal officers to
provide waiting-rooms for s atient s, and to hare sign-beards
outside stating their hours of attendance, &c , reported that Mr.
Gildersleeves, one of the medical officers, had rot complied with the
requirements. Mr. Gilder-leaves was ordered to supply the
deficiences, but recently a sub committee again made a similar
report. Mr. G idersleeves was charged also with keeping the pe:ients
waiting, on the day when the sub•com.aittee visited his place, from
11 o'clock, the hour he had fixed ft,r hie attendance, to a quarter
before 12; and it was also steed that a pa-ish nurse sometimes
attended and prescribed :or him. He was called before the committee
at the meeting to which ATr. Denton refer.ed, and salter his r xelana-
tions had been heard, the committee reported that they considered
them noon the whole satisfactory. He (Me Denton) thought that
Mr. Gildersleeves ought to have been discharged from the service of
the parish. For the laq eight months he had allowed the orders of
the Board to lie dormant. lie had n t tot a sign-board, or provided a
shelter for the poor wretches, whom he allowed to stand hours
together in the rain, drenche 1 to the skins, waiting for him.
He ('dr. Denton) had been t let that over and over again complaints
were male of this man's behaviour; and ho tiFiught
it was their duty, as guardians of the poor, to deal with him as he
deserved. Ulm (Mr. Denton) eel been p-esent at the me •ting of the
finance committee, he would have moved that Mr. Gildersleeves be
discharged forthwith. He now begged leave to move, as an amend-
ment upon the proceedings, that thit portion be referral back to the
committee, with the recommendation that a vote of (ensure be passed
on Mr. Gillers'eaves.
The Chairmen said he was sere the Board must all admire the zeal
of Mr. Dentou, but that gentlem in would have done more good by
attending the committee, than by thus going back into a yeatter of
detail. Mr. Shaw, who was a member of the deputation, along with
Mr. Denton, attended b his duty at the finance committee, and could
explain the matter to the Board,
Mr. Shaw thought it very nnfortinate that Mr. Denton had not
..fits I,U.G3LILF U. ride be been
there he (Mr. Shaw) felt sum Vie explanation given by Mr. Gilder-
sleeves would have been satisfactory to his mind. There were three
cliarg,s brought ag dust that gentleman—first, his not having a
slgnl:oerd up ; second, hi s not having proper accommodation
for the poor when waiting ; and third, that a woman, who called
her-elf a parish nuree, was said to have occasi nalty prescribed and
attended pat eats. With regard to the first two charges, the explana-
tion was, that the house Mr. Gildersleeves then °cc apitsci, was the only
house he could procure in the neighbourhood; that he had been
trying for twelve months and could not procure one having the
requisite accommodation ; but that, within that week, and before
receiving a summons to attend the committee, he:hal prevailed upon
a party who occaplei a school, to give up the premises, and let him
have them. With regard to the woman, it Was a question of veracity
between the two, and he (Mr. Shaw) should feel himself degraded, it
he did not accept tie statement of their medical officer in preference
to that of the woman. He believed Mr. Gildersleeves, and he die-
be iavad the wornea. The explanations Mr. Gildersleeves gave were
considered satisfactory by the committee, inasmnch as he stated that
he had provided another room, that he was having a sign-board
painted, and that in less thee a week he would be in his new
premises.
Mr. Jackson could scarcely believe, whatever amount of credit Mr.
Gildereleave might be entitled to, that there was no place to be had by
him with n the spa's of six months. He thought it ale) a serious
co nplaint, that he had kept the poor so long waiting.
Me Shaw raid Mr. Gildersleeves explained that on the morning in
question he had been kept at home by illness, and assured them that
every other morniret he attended regularly at eleven o'clock.
Mr. Jackson suggested, in regard to the signboards, that the Vestry
should p ..vide them, and enforce their being put up.
Mr. Syers seconded Mr. Denton'a rue believing the expla
nation satisfactory.

Mr. Critch:ey considered that Mr. Gild,rsleeves had laid hims,l
open to a vote of censure.

Mr. Bairstow contended that the raplanation was on the whole
satisfactory, and urged that Mr. Denton's amendment would amount,
in point of fact, to a vote of censure upon the committee. He stated
that he knew of his own knowledge that another of the meical
officers had fould great difficulty in a braining a p:a ie to suit his
patients, as many landlords refused for any consideration to let their
houles for such a purpose.

The Chairman said the Boari ought to remember that Mr.
Gildersleeve was one of their oldest and best ()Mears, who had never
before received a vote of censure. If they appealed to the Roman
Catholic priest 4, or the clergymen of the C:.urch of England, they
wooed grid that Mr. Gilders:eeves attended to his daty,in season and
out of ,-eason, night and day, during the visitation of cholera and
other epidemic, and that he vi.,s always known to be foremost. He
urged that to pass Mr. Denton's amendment would be to declare
that the Finance Committee were not able to deal with this little
trampery piece of neglect.

After some further conversation, Mr. Denton asked and obtained
leave to withdraw his n mandment.

The proceedings were the, confirm Pd.
A letter was read from Mr.Welghtman, stating that as s=on as he
could get his labours in connection with the plena for the new library
and museum concluded, he woull et once give his attention to the

measurement bel,..lging to Messrs. Holme.' contra:t.

This concluded the business.

At LEWIS & OM?A NY'S, Ranelagh-street,
BOYS are CLOTHED from tLe Ages of Six to Tareaty Years.

C nu ainon Utti vartsmr.—The Cambridge independent
states that the fntries this )ear—term having commenced—
are not so large by about a bunired as last year, so many
young men have gone to India.
A BL&SED PARlsll.—ln the parish of 3'. Margarft
Pattens a claim t be registered was allowed, although the
claimant's name had not been entered in the rate baok, as,
according to the vestry clerk, there had been no rat! made
sine, Aprit, 1855, and then only a 3d rate.
Mrsrartious CASs OF MISSING —Since a late hour on
Saturday evening, a respectable trader of this city, a
M. Sutherland, a native of Scotland, has been missing
from his residence. On Tuesday, a hat was found floating
in the liver opposite the quay, which, we undrrstand, has
been identified as that of the missing gentleman. He
has left a wife and a larga young family.—Waterford
Mail.

The Edinburgh Courant says :—" The Duke of Hamil-
ton has secured the Mignauelli Palace, in Rome, for
his ssinter resilen,:e, and is indebted to the el'ettic tele-
graph, and to the swishy of his agents here, for the
possession of that desirable locality, for which a Russian
princess, Madame Cernicheff, who arrived on the same
afternoon as his grace's telegraphic message, was to hare
come to terms on the following day."

ROTS' CLOTIUNG MAD? WITH GREAT TASTE, kt LEWIS and
COMPANY'S, Banelagh-street,

THE FINANCIAL RESULT OF THE
MiNCHESTER EXHIBITION.

It appears that the receipts from shilling payments have been
about £42,808, from sixpenny payments .e 1,650, and from half-
crown iayinents 419,180; or a total of more than X 63 500. But
some allowance will have to be male for the per centages allowed in
the cases of special taains, the visits of certain large establishments,
and the reduced price at which Su aday-school children and others
were admitted towards the close. We may, therefore, conclude that
about £60,000 has been received in cash, and the rest of the receipts
for admission have been from the sale of eeason tickets. We do not
know under:whA arrangements the stands fur umbrellas, &a. have
been concocted, but they have been a sourne of large profit to some
one, and probab'y the executive committee will receive a large
proportion of these payments. One day we heard of as much as £2O
being received fo taking charge of umbrellas a• d parcels. Then, of
course, the executive committee will add to their trtasury from the
refreshment department, from the sale of ca'alogues, and other
sources. We may here state that we have been informed that more
catalogues have been sold at the Art Treasures Exhibition than in
any oiler industrial or art exhibition that has ever been open.
Every day immense boxes filled with' catalogues arrived from the
printers, Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, and they were immedia'ely
swallowed up ; indeed, so pre sing was the demand towards the close,
that the printers had to tax all their great powers of p oduction to
keep np the supply.
The smallest attendance was on Wednesday, Jn'y 1, the day after
the Queen's first visit to the Exhibition. The morning of that day
was reserved for a p ivate visit of Her 31:j esty, and the public were
not admit ad until two o'c'ock. The admissions on that day ware
only 3.914. The largest number o` aimi ,sions was on Tuesday, the
13th of October, when .8,984 enter d the building, of which 27,094
were sh Ling payments. The greatest season ticket day was on
Sew 'ay last, when 9,379 entered the bu lding. Oa the opening day
many entered who had not season tickets, and it is telieve I the actual
number of ticket holder s was less than on the closing day.
Of the contents of the Exhibition we msy briefly state that it con-
tained about 5,000 pi,tures, which were thus dist,ibuted
Masters, 1,200; Modern Masters, 700; British Portrait Gallery, atio;
water-colours, 1,000 ; engravings, etchings, and original. drawings,
I 800. Then there are the minitures, photographs, and as many as
20,003 objects of interest in the General Museum of Art. The chief
a' trac.ions daring the 'r xhibition hwe been " The Three Maries,"
in the ancient saloon, to the more advanced students and admirers
of high art, and the " Death of Caattert on," in the modern (E)
saloon, to the great majority of the visitors other objects have had
their admirers in pia. ference to the pictures named, but by far the
greatest amount of admiration has bean bestowed upon the two
works mentioned.

THE FATAL COLLISION ON THE SOUTH WALES
RAILWAY.

SWANSIA, Friday Night.—This a orning an inquest was held
before Charles CoAil,s, Esq., coroner, on view of the bodies of Wm.
Ashman, butcher, of Cardiff, and Flizabeth Israel, of Pyle, near
Bridgend, both third class passengers in the down train to Isiseath on
Wednesday, the 14th. The j ary, afzer viewlng the bodies (the one, Ash-
man, being much matiliated about the heal and legs) had two wit-
nesses examined wh, were passengers in the train, Their evidence
chiefly went to show that there was no slackening of the speed of the
up train, and that several of the passengers feared a collie on in con-
sequence of inl'ormation they had got at "Port Talbot," the last sta-
tion they hal eft before tl e accident Before proceeding with the
chief witness 3, the jury ex ,re se ! a wish to visit the scene of the
cetaitrophe, and Mr. J. R Tripp. the solicitor for the South Wales
Railway, expressed the wish of the company to effard the jury every
possible aid in the investigation, and stated their readiness to provide
a special train to convey them to the spot. This being ready, in
half an hour the jury left the statio.] and proceeded to the spot,
situated between Port Talbot and Pyle stat on, about seventeen miles
from Swansea ; just in tills portion of ,he line there is a considera-
ble curve, and consequently it was quite ionpee Able for eit' e, engine
drivers to dis:over that both trains were on the up-line. The general
impression is, that the c' ief fault lay with the st itioa-master at Port
Talbot, who, it appears, d-pated a r under porter to attend to the
telegraph in-tead of himself. The jury returned to S wan,ea about
four o'clock, when the inquest was a ijourned till lafonday. We un-
derstand there are between thirty and forty persons mve or less
injured, several severely s TA.) were taken to the Swansea in-
firmary, a woman with her left leg broken, and a man with an injury
of the back ; bAh, we are glad to say, are do'ng well.

ALCOHOL;

OR, THE
MINOR CURSE OF EiN,GLAND.
BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A SERIES OF ADDRESSES DELIVERED IN
CONNISCTION WITH ST. M tRY'S TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY,

KIRKDALE.