Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-16 00:00:00

TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHESTER RAILWAY.

GENTLEMEN,—In the NORTHERN TIMES of the
11th itistant, is the report of a case, headed, " Im-
portant to Railway Companies :" Inman v. the
Chester Railway. It appears that Mr. Charles
Inman, annoyed by smoke from your engines in
passing his house at Spital, informed against the
Company. I wonder it did not occur to your
lawyer to ask. Mr. Inman whether the engines
did not pass that way before he bought the pre-
mises. I notice it was stated in ervidence that the
engine complained of was constructed with a view
to consume its own smoke ; but acts of Parliament

cannot make engines do t; neither can they enable
the mind of man to devise a perfect remedy.
In conclusion, allow me to suggest that you shut
up Spita!-station altogether; or that you withdraw
the privilege of contracting from all dissatisfied
persons. BYSTANDER.

ABUSE OF ECCLESIASTICAL PATRONAGE.

The Probate and Administration Bill now before
Parliament discloses certain things which those
who believe and worship a high-minded aristocracy
would do well to consider. In 1828, Dr. Manners
Sutton was Archbishop of Canterbury, and had
in that character, the right to appoint the Registrar
of the Prerogative Court; but inasmuch as this
right had been exercised by his predecessor (Dr.
Moore) in favour of Messrs. George and Robert
Moore, and the survivor of them, who were then
living and enjoying the office, Dr. Manners Sutton
obtained an Act of Parliament to permit him to
nominate a person to fill the office, after the death
of the survivor of the Messrs. Moore, and in pur-
suance of that Act of Parliament nominated his
grandson, Mr. Manners Sutton, now Lord Viscount
Canterbury. It also appears that in 1834,
when the late Lord Canterbury, who was the
eldest son of the archbishop, and at that time
Speaker of the House of Commons, was raised to
the peerage, Parliament settled on him an annuity
of 4,000 for his life, and also granted an annuity
of £3,000 (to commence at his death) to his oldest
son, the present Viscount, for his life, but with the
proviso, namely, that, as he had been appointed to
the office of Registrar of the Prerogative Court,
whenever it should become vacant, if the emolu-
ments of that office when he came into possession
of it should exceed £3 000 a-year, the annuity of
£3,000 granted by Parliament should cease, but
if such emoluments should fall short of £3,000, the
difference should be paid by way of annuity under
the authority of the Act of Parliament of 1834. The
act which thus sanctioned the proceeding of 1828,
which recognised, as just and proper in the first
ignitary of the church, the appointment of his
own grandson to an office, not vacant, nor likely to
become so fur many years—this Act, which the
Attorney-General called a wicked Act, was
passed in the Reformed House of Commons. Now,
it further appears that the Moores are not yet
extinct, and consequently fhe present Viscount
Canterbury has not yet succeeded to the office to
which he was nominated nearly thirty years ago-
(Qaery— How old was he when so nominated ?)
And, in the Act now before Parliament for abolish-
ing the Prerogative Court and establishing a new
Court of Probate, there is a clause which provides
full compensation to Lord Canterbury fur the
abolition of this office, which he has never yet
been in possession of, and in the following man-
ner : that is to say, at the time when the new law
shall come into operation if Lord Canterbury shall
then have succeeded to the office in question,
and if not, then at the death of the survivors
of the Moores, a calculation is to be made
of the average yearly amount of the emolu-
ments of the office for such number of years
next preceding the date of the Act, as the Com-
missioners of the Treasury shall think proper and an
annuity of this yearly amount, whatever it may be,
is to be paid to him for his life ; but with this
proviso, that if the yearly average so calculated
shall fall short of £3,000, the difference is to be
made up to him. In principle it matters not whe-
ther the compensation provided by this Bill be
intended for Lord Canterbury himself or for his
assignees. The point to he kept in view is, that
no longer ago than 1828, the highest dignitary in
the Church of England, the Reformed Church, a
member of one of our noblest families, having at
its head a duke, not satisfied to wait and to fake his
chance for the exercise of the privilege to fill up a
lucrative office, when, and if, it should fall vacant
in his lifetime, obtained a power to stretch
h;s privilege beyond the grave, regardless even
of the rights of his successor, and thus grasped
(in all human probability) half a ceniury's
prospective patronage. What if the successors of
Dr. Manners Sutton had been equally grasping?
What if Dr. Howley had a similar Act of Parliament
for bestowing this good appointment on somebody
after the death of the present Lord Canterbury ?
and still further, if the present Archbishop had made
good use of his time since he was appointed, and
got an act for an appointment to follow that of Dr.
Howley? Would parliament have been justified
in providing compensation for all these disap-
pointed reversioners? Appointments in reversion
are in themselves sufficiently odious, if made
subject to all the contingencies that may happen
before they can take effect; but a reversionary
appointment so absolute, nay, so sacred as that
parliament is not to touch it without providing an
equivalent, seems to ordinary minds, to be one of
those achievements that make us,
"Lift up our hands and wonder who could do them,

THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL HERALD

AND THE CATHOLIC PRIESTS.

T. J. Oveley, El., Publisher of the Herald,
7, Old Post Office-place, Live poi.
Sir,—l am desired by the Rev. James Carr, of
Athol street, Douglas, to call upon you to make
im oediate reparation for a libel upon him, which
appeared,in your paper of Saturday last, in an
article headed " Bachelor Priests" You have no
right to hold up to ridicule and unjust suspicion
the character and coadu3t of private persons,
especially such as are cog tged in the performance
of the offices of religion, and the efficacy of whose
ministry is mainly dependent upon the blameless
character of their lives. The circumstance of your
having already been convicted of libel ought also
to hive deterred you from the repetition of such
conduct. Should you decline a prompt compliance
with this request, I must beg the favour of a
reference to your solicitor,—l am your obedient
servant, JOHN PATES, Jun.

22, Fenwick-street, Bth July, 1857.

IG, Soho-street, Liverpool, July 15th. 1857.
Sir,—Your letter of the Bth inst., reached me on
the 11th, many miles from home, where I was
staying for the benefit of my health, having been
ordered change of air by Dr. Truman and Mr.
Slack. I could not travel on Sunday, and left a
sick bed on Monday, reaching here on the even-
ing of that day; when, for tin.first time, I heard of
a summons having been issued, till seeing which,
I was ignorant even of the names of your clients.
I was too ill to attend on Tuesday, but had I not
been so, the time—a few hours—was not sufficient
for me to get legal advice, and I therefore instructed
Mr. Bremner to attend for rne, and request an
adjournment. As Ido not desire your clients to
labour for a moment under a charge not intended
to be conveyed by rne, I most unhesitatingly and
unequivocally declare, without mental reservation,
that I never entertained any idea of immoral pro-
ceedings on the part of the priests, nor was it my
intention to insinuate there was anything improper
in the conduct of those gentlemen. I worded the
statement I made as carefully as possible, to avoid
any such construction ; my remarks were aimed at
the system of Popery, not individuals, and the ex-
tracts I gave from Deus prove this. I must refer
you to the article again, and that portion corn-
mencing—v Far be it from us to impute anything
indecorous or immoral to these gentlemen," Sre.—
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
John Yates, jun., Esq. T. J. OUSELEY.

T. J. Ouseley, Esq., Publisher of the Liverpool
Herald, 7, Old Post pffice-place.
Sir,—Assuming your letter of today to have
been written in the spirit in which it is received,
that is, as a promise and honest repudiation of any
intention to reflect upon the Rev. Gentlemen whom
I represent, or to cast suspicion or ridicule upon
chem, t, on their behalf, feel no hesitation in at
once accepting it, as satisfying the proceedings
which have been instituted against you, and which
I therefore consent to withdraw. I must of course
publish the letters which have passed, and I shall
rely upon your also inserting the correspondence
in Saturday's Herald: I am, sir, your obedient
servant, Jou YATES, Jun.
22, Fenwick-street, 15th July, 1857.

16, Soho-street, July 15, 1857.
Sir,—ln reply to your's, just received, I assure
you that the statement made to you in my letter
this morning contain the real facts connected with
the case. I had no intention of attacking the
private character of parties who are totally un-
known to me personally, and whose mimes I was
not acquainted with till I saw them in the sum-
mons.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
John Yates, jun., Esq. T. J. OUSELEY.
I have no objection to publish the correspond-
ence after it has appeared in the other papers.

OFFICERS FOR INDIA.—The following officers have
arranged to leave England by the India mail steamer of
the 20th inst., viz. : —Colonels Davidson, Mathoie, Brad-
ford, Holmes, Crawe, Althorpe, Beches. Coppage, Christie,
Wheeler, and Millman. Majors G. Salford, C. Walsh,
Kel-co, H. Hamilton, and Seudamore. Captains F. N.
Smith, Burrows, Malcolm, Mason, Maxwell, Bantle,
Hugoes, Cummins, Dimsden, B. Ramsey, E. Conliffe,
Sante, Jenkins, Turnbull, Dighton, Bedford, Forbes,
Pleox, Holmes, Unwin, Luxmore, Mitchell, Biggrave,
Malcomson, Hammond, Allgood, G. Hossack, J. L. Na-
tion, Bainbridge, and A. D. Mague. Lieutenants F.
Roome, C. Clarke, Lowe, H. Templer, R. Travers. W. L.
Brown, J. Graham, F. R. Thompson, A. Blunt, R. John-
stone, and Pearson.
CURIOUS DOVETAILING MACHINE FOR BIRMINGHAM. —A
patented machine, which will wonderfully lesson the cost
of production and the employment of manual labour in
many trades, is about to be introduced into this district.
It will chiefly affect wholesale carpenters, packing-case
makers, pianoforte makers, cabinet makers, and all who
require boxes and drawls ; an I by its assistance on man
cin do din work of forty men, and produce 1,000 boxes,
&'., per day. It is the inventi in of ae American, and
the patent has been purchased by the United States
government for its dockyards arsenals for five thousand
pounds. The British government has purchased and paid
for a single michine, to make artillery boxes, and it, is now
at work in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, where Colonel
'l'ullock, R A., or Mr. Andersen, will kindly permit it to
be seen. The saving arising from each machine on the
wages of labour alone, if at only £1 per week each man,
will be about £2,000 per annum, or £26,000 for the
thirteen Tars that the patent has to lon. Mr. Recce,
solicitor, of New-street, Birmingham, and Messrs. Rena,
Wilkins, and Blyth, of St. Swlthin's-la.ee, London, will
give every information, and are authorised to negotiate
with any person who may desire to obtain one of the
machines.—Birntingha2n Daily Press.
FIRE IN§URANCES.—A return moved for by Mr. Bouverie,
M.P., gives the following as the sum paid into the Inland
Revenue office in England by the London fire-ofliees for
duty on insurance against fire, in the year ended Christmas-
day, 1856.—viz., by the Alliance-office, £43,545 ; ley the
Anchor, £7,270; by the Atlas, £38,733; by the British
Empire Mutual, £6,823 ; by the Church of England,
£4,132 ; by the " County"office, £61,010 ; by the D -fender,
£7,772 ; by the Equitable, £2,844 ; by the General,
£10,783 ; by the G10be,£37,853 ; by the Guardian,l3l.9B2 ;
by the Hand-in-Hand, £9,971; by the Imperial, £49,440;
by the " Law," £23,929 ; by the Law Union, £3,920 ;
by- the London, £28,223 ; by the Monarch, £13,468 ; by
the National Provincial, £5,062 ; by the Plicenix,
£126,952 ; by the Royal Exchange, £77,891 ; by
the Royal Farmers', £11,355 ; by the Sun, £193,951 ;
by the Times, £2.371 ; by the Union, £27,030;
by the Un'ty, £20,097 ; and by the Westminster Fire-
office, £26 655. The sums paid for duty by the other
London offices are too insignificant to be mentioned, being
all under £l,OOO, and seine as low as £l3, £2O, and £2
(for the year.) The total amount of duty collected in
Scotland during the year was £83,075, and the sums in-
sured on farm stock £5,538,803. In Ireland (as in Eng-
land) the compiler of the return has omitted to cast out
the grand total of the sums paid for duty by the various
companies. The gross total amount of the sums insured
by all the offices in England on farming stock, exemut
from duty was 465,250,687.
FELONIOUS ASSAULT AND HIGHWAY ROBDERY.—At the
Central Criminal Court on Tuesday, John Wyatt, aged 18,
engine fitter, was charged with feloniously assaulting Ada
Elizabeth Pratt, and stealing from her a watch, on the 29th
of June last, at Nelthorp. Mr. Scotland appeared for the
or Beni bu; Mr. Cripps defended the prisoner. It ap-
peared that the prosecutrix was a young lady, aged 17,
living with her mother at Wickham, but being so ill, in
consequence of the assault made upon her that she was
unable to attend to give evidence, her deposition was read.
She stated that on the 29th of Jane last she went to play
the organ at Christchurch, Banbury, and was returning
home in the afternoon, when she saw the prisoner by a
stile on the Wickham side of Farm-field. Sae loitered, to
let the man pass by ber, but as he did not do so, she turned
round and went behind him. The man got over the stile
first, and turned to the right. The prosecutrix then got
over, and turned to the left; and, as soon as she had done
so, the man followed her. He then took her and threw
her down, and attempted to take liberties with her, but
she resisted, and was twice thrown. On the second fall
her leg was broken. The man then snatched her watch
and ran away with it. The prosecutrix gave a description
of her assailant, which led to the apprehension of several
persons, and eventually of the prisoner. When taken into
the presence of the prosecutrix she said she believed he
was the man, and other evidence was given to show that
he was in the field and was seen running away, though,
when charged with having been there, he denied it. Mr.e.
r.
Cripps having addressed the jury, the jury, without ban
tion, found the prisoner guilty. Mr. Baron Martin said
the prisoner had been found guilty, on most satisfactory
evidence, of an offence of a most serious character, and
the sentence was, that he be kept fifteen years in penal
servitudes.,

THE ABOLITION OF THE VICE-I 1 )YALTY OF

IRELAND.

On Monday, a depatation of the core ration, merchants,
and brokers generally, of Dohlin, headed by the Lord
Mayor, waited upon the Lord Lieutenant to congratulate
him upon the defeat of the motion of Mr. R.tebuck. His
Excellency made the following reply
Mr LORD MAYOR AND GENTLEMEN,—In thanking the
L3-d Msyor, aldermen, and bargesses of the city of Dublin
for the address which they have been pleased to convey to
me, I may be allowed to express my satisfactioa that the
immediate cause of uneasinetzs which led to is adoption
has ceased to exist. It is, perhaps, doubly a matter of
delicacy for me to proffoe an opinion up en a subject which
has been under very recent discussion in the legislature,
and respecting an office which, for the time I the
great honour to hold. I do not myself subscribe to the
t-uth of the assertion that the high position of a Viceroy
of Ireland is inherently more exposed to intrigue
than any prominent post to which the dispensation
of patronage is attached, or that it is incompatible
with elevated aims and useful realities. I am con-
vinced that the continuance of the Viceragal Court
contribute materially to mr..ke our own capital a place
of increased resort and importance, and I cannot treat as
purely frivolous the influences that act upon the trade
and prosperity of an ancient and populous city, or believe
that they do net radiate to a far wider circuit. And
while I should be far from seeking to prejudge what
alterations of existing establishments the lapse of time or
change of circumstances may recommend, I still conceive
that the precipitate abolition of an office which, under one
modification or another, has now subsisted for nearly seven
centuries, which has preceded and survived a separate
legislature, and has engained itself into the laws, customs,
and fe,lings of an entire people, cannot be effected with-
out difficulties and complications which v,ry great and
obvious commensurate benefits should alone persuade us to
encounter. Taere is one point on which I feel yet more
strongly assured. We have perceived how small a fraction
of the Irish representation have voted in favour of the
abolition of the Irish 'Viceroyalty. lam clearly of opinion
it would he neither prudent, generous, or just to change
this ancient form of administration without a marked con-
currence on the part of the loyal and well-disposed portion
of the Irish people.

BRITISH SHIPS OF WAR IN THE CHINESE WATERS.--
At Hong Kong H.M.S Calcutta, Nankin, Amethyst, and
Racehorse ; steamers Highflver, Coromandel, and Hong-
kong ; gunboats Bustard, Forester, Haugluy, Opossum,
and Plover. At Macao—lL M.S. Encounter. In the
Canton River—H.M.S. Sybille ; brigs Acorn' Eik, and
Bittern; steamers Tribune, Cruiser, Hornet, Niger, In-
flexible, Fury, and Sir Charles Forbes; gunboats Starling
and Staunch. At Amoy—H.M.S. C Anus. At Folchow—
H.M. sloop Camilla ; steamer Sampson. At Sbanghai—
H.M.S. Pique.
RIILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR WOLVERHAMPTON.— TWO
crowded excursion trains started on Monday morning from
Birmingham to Liverpool, within live minutes of each
other. The fist train had to stop at the Stafford-road
Junction, a short dislance from Wolverhampton, where
then is no station-master, to take in passengers from
another train. IN hile there, it was run into by the
second excursion train, and the consequence was that
many of the passengers were severely shaken, four or five
received rather severe contusions, and oue man had his
shoulder blade fractured.

OUTRAGEOUS ACQUITTAL OF A MURDERER IN KANSAS.
—We learn from the Lawrence Republican of latest date,
that the murderer, Charles Fugit, recently on trial at
Leven worth City for the murder of a man named Hoppe,
has been acquitted. The murderer, it will be recollected,
made a bit of a pair of beets with a friend that he would
kill an abolitionist before the sue should set. To make
good his word he left town shortly aftenvards, in pur-
suit of an innocent, inoffensive emigrant named Hoppe,
who a few hours before had passed through the place
OR his way to the interior of the territory. He over-
took the unsuspecting traveller, shot him down in cold
blood, without a word of provocation, scalped him, and
galloped back to town, brandishing the b►oody trophy
as an evidence of the execution of his contract, and
claimed the boots which he had wagered.—St. Louis
D emocr at , June 23.
HORRIBLE!—We learn from the Halifax Journal of
Monday last that on Friday morning an inquest was held at
Fort Ogilvie, near the Point Pleasant Battery, by Dr.
Jeanings, Coroner, on the body of an infant about ten
days old, which had been exposed to die in the woods, after
having been nearly killed by violence.intretcd on the skull
and brain. When found by Mr. Travis, a gunner end
driver, the child was yet alive, covered with spruce bushes
and stones,and literally being devoured by black ants Every
attempt to restore the child was ineffectual, necessarily as
the post mortem examinatio❑ made by Dr. Sleyter, showed
a fracture across the crown of the head and extravasated
blood. The inhumanity of this act, adds the journal,
is unprecedented, unlesa we believe what Herodotus tells
of Amestris, wife of Xerxes, Wei at an old age, ordered
fourteen Bersian infants to be burned alive, in honour of a
Deity of the Country.—New Brunswick Paper.
THE QUEEN AND THE IMPETUOUS GENERAL.—It 18
whispered that the Queen's extremely grave look, on the
occasion of her state visit to the Manchester Exhibition,
was caused by displeasure at a little outburst of
temper on the part of Sir Harry Smith, which occurred
just as the Royal Dirty entered the building. He spoke
very hastily to one of the soldiers, and even raised his
sword, whereupon the Queen reproved him. After reaching
the dais, the Queen looked very hot, and almost nervous ;
at first fidgetted with her neck, took off a little handker-
chief, and then her mantle, and gave it to one of the
maids of honour.' She spoke several times to Prince
Albert, and Eotnetimes with a pleased look and manner, at
others rather decidedly. The kissing of hands amused
everybody much, several who had the honour were so vary
awkward in availing themselves of it.

TAB JOCKEY CLUB AND BLACKLEGS.—The annual gene-
ral meeting of the Jockey Ciub eels held at Newmarket on
Wednesday last. Present :—Lord Zetland, Lord W.
Powlett, stewards; Duke of Beaufort, Mr. S. R Batson,
r.ord Clifden, Mr. Greville, Mr. Lowther, Mr. Neville, Mr.
Payne, Admiral Rous. Vac stewards acquainted the meet-
ing that they had received a letter from the Earl of Derby,
in the object of which they fully concurred, but as a general
meeting of the club was so soon take place, they had thought
it better to sebmit the matter to this meeting before taking
any further steps, The letter was read :—" St. James'
Squire, June 30.—My Loris,—lt has become a subject of
several observation and regret that the number of men of
station and position who suppirt the turf is gradually di-
minishing, and that an increased proportion of horses in
training is in the hands of persons in art inferior position,
who keep them, not for the purpose of sport, but as mere
instruments of gambling. I am aware that it is not in
your lordships' power to apply a remedy to this acknow-
ledged evil ; but I conceive that there are occasions in
which it is within your power, and if so, I venture to
think that it is your duty, as stewards of the Jockey Club,
to exercise a wholesome iefleence upon the character and
respectability of the turf. You cannot debar any man,
whatever his p3sition in society, from keeping race-
horses ; nor do I recommend a vexatious and inquisi-
torial scrutiny into the character and conduct of those
who do so but •when among their number are found
those against whom flagrant cases of disgraceful fraud
and dishonesty have been legally established, it
appears to me clearly within your prov:nee to stamp
them with your reprobation, and to exclude them
from association on an equal footing, with the more
honourable supporters of the turf. Such a case for your
intervention has, I think, arisen out of the late trial of
Sidebottom v. Adkins, in which a sum of above £6,000
has been recovered from the defarlant, on the avowed
ground that it had been won by cheating with loaded dice.
I cannot but think that this is a case which it einicerns the
honour of the Jockey Club not to pass over in silence; and
it would afford me great satisfaction to learn that you had
taken it up in your official capacity; but in the event of
your declining to do so, I have to request that you will lay
this letter before the Jockey Club at their next meeting.
And as I am doubtful whether I may be able to attend the
July meeting, and certain that.' cannot do so on Wednesday,
I will thank you to give notice on my behalf; of the following
resolution :- That the Jockey Club, having taken into con-
aids ration the facts proved in the evidence in the late case
of Sidebottom v. Adkins, direct that Mr. Adkins be warned
off the heath at Newmarket; and that no horses of which
he may he in whole or in part owner he allowed to run
on any ground over which the Jockey Club exercise jaris-
diction.'—l have the honour to be, my lords, your obedient
servant—(Signed)—DEßßY.—To the Stewards of the
Jockey Club." It. was unanimously agreed " that the
resolution contained in Lord Barb ,'s letter be adopted,
and that his lordship's letter be published with the minutes
of this meeting." Resolved—" That notice be given to
Ignatius Francis Coyle not to come upon the race course
or exercise ground at Newmarket." The accounts of last
year, approved by the stewards, were presented and passed.
His Grace the Duke of Beaufort was appointed a steward
of the Jockey Club, in the place of the Earl of Zetland,
who retires by rotation. •

Caen AND Dun BOXES.—Tbe next important thing to the posses-
sion of (ash is, how (when you have got It) to keep it safely, either in
the Counting-house or at home. The same remarks apply to deeds
and other valuable documents. We have seen a large and varied
stock of both these desirable articles, manefactnred expressly for Mr.
E. T. Hall, of South John-street, that challenge attention. These
boxes aro made on new and admired principles, and possess patent
locks, which defy the ingenuity of any "pick-lock" in the world to
open, except with the legitimate key. To merchants, solicitors, and
others, these new safes, one small scale, must prove valuably ndeed
—Northern Daily Times, 21st Alay, 1667,