Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-13 00:00:00

SPOLLEN'S VERDICT.-SCNE IN COURT.

Immediately after the jury hal returned their verdict,
the primer, who was
,stan ling at the time, anddenlY
lifted his right band in a confused manner above his bead,
then struck the dock rail, and after one or two convulsive
s)hs he sank into the arms of the turnkeys behind hire,
exclaiming aloud, while the tears flawed copiously, " My
children ! my children." He was then seated, when 011f'
of the turnkeys di.onzugol 6.a n'..t'de and "it' 0011",
act' gave him a drink of water fram a tin can. The
prisoner, after he hid recovered a little, dipped his hand
karchief in water, and bathed his forehead repeatedly--
the turnkey assisting. He then rose and said, My Lords
and Gentlemen- -I find I am not exactly myself. MY
convictions are that I have stool before twelve of ref ,
countrymen with happy honies themselves. I thought
they would have taken my case into their serious con`
sideratior. I will not condemn a woman, but it is a
dreadful thing to be in the hands of a female tigress.
should return thanks to the two gentlemen, the pillars of
the law, upon the bench. I am too sensitive, perhaps, .
when I say the Crown blackened my character too much,
but I have esc Ted, thanks and praise to Almighty God.
My charatrer seems ir,etri,vahly impaired. If I can I will
retire to some colony, where I cars eke out a trifling sub-
sistence. I hops it will he in my pawer to d >sa. I return
thanks to the gentlemen of the press for the manner its
which they have bseu silent during my incarceration.''
The excitement and attentioi which were produced in the
crowed caurl, during this scene, w.s, it need no t be said,
very marked.

THE BIRMINGHAM ELECTION.

ADDRESS OF MR. BRIGHT, M.P.

TO Trim Euccroßs OF BI RMINOU AM•

GE NTLE3IILN —Your respected Chief Magistrate has in-
formed me, by telegraph, that he has this day declared me
to be duly elected one of your reFesentatives in Parlia-
ment; and I have learnTni tram other sources that such
was the feeling minifeeted in my favour that no other
candidate was presanted to yon at the hustings, and that
therefore my election has been withoat contest or opposi-
tion from any q _tarter. Whoa I aidrassed you two days
ago, I had no expectation or a result so speedy and so
tranquil of the then impending struggle. I accept it as a
conclusive proof of the bias of your I»litical views, and of
a confl lence in me which I shill striva to maintain undi-
minished. It is a matter of real regret to ma that I have
I shall hope, however, that on
not been able to be with yoa (luting the past week, and
t I nuy be permitted to meet you,
anl to become more intimately
some
mtyhoeeinrho ant sodthii
distant
tot hwoi dui
saiylsll;l,
ly
acquainted with a constituency fr An whom I have received
an honour as signal as it was unexpected, aad towards,
whom I can never entertain other feeling than those of
respect and gratitude. With heartfelt thanks for your
kintllLsa, which I trust I may have the health and the
opportunity in some measure to repay, I submit myself
very faithfully yours, JOHN BRIGHT.
It)chdale, August 10, 1857,

SERIOUS ROBBERY AT MA.NCBRiTER.—A. gentleman on
his way from the Bank of England Branch, at Manchester,
to the Exchange Arcade, yesterday afternoon, about two
o'clock, had his pocket picked of £1,020. He stopped in
the Arcade, to purchase a newspaper, only a few hundred
yards distance from the bank, and there missed the money.
There were five Manchester notes for £lOO each, numbered
39,496 to 39,500, dated 18th Jan., 1856, and two ditto
dated 27th Jan., 1857, numbered 40,251 and 40,252.
Fifty-five of the notes were dated Mar,chtster, 15th Jan.,
1857, and numbered consecatively from 5,634 to 5,689.
Four other no:es were f r £5 each, numbered N. N. 83,785,
N.N. 09,112, N.N. 99 770, ant N.N. 27,613.
THE POPZ AN) THE YAING Nuss.—Tbe Pope who is
no v accierating the period at whin, their solemn vows
are taken by the nuns, was not always of that opinion,
and souse years ago he was rather disposed to order the
novices to take their vows at a still later period than is
customary. The Congregatiou of Regular Bishops, there-
fore, investigated the question submitted to them, i. e;,
whether it were good to bind with irrevocable vows young
persons of seventeen or ca4la'eui years. The Congregation
answered that it was god, for three reasons ; firstly.
because it behoved them not to impede the prodigies of
effectual grace, which inspires and operates in an extra-
ordinary call ; secondly, that it should not los allowed to
be inferred that Rome had been in error for several
centuries in permitting the' monastic garb to be taken at
sixteen or seventcsn years' of age ; and, lastly, that the
present times were somewhat unfavourable, and that if
novices were not speedily subjected to the obligation of
their vows, there wou'd be a danger of losing the greater
part of them. Now, do not you think a congregation
which judges and decrees in this manner meet be the very
salt of the earth ? The third reason, especially, is as rich
as California. Even our sportsmen, who spread their
fowling nets at the paretago, will tell you that the
thrushes, if they are not caught at once, grow wary, and
cannot one of them be got into the net.—Letter from
Rome.