Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-13 00:00:00

DREADFUL MURDER BY A LUNATIC.

On Saturday morning Richard Empson, a keeper in the
lunatic ward in St. Martin's workhouse, London, was
murdered by J :hn Peon, a young man, aged 20, one of the
lunatics codfined in the place. The circumstances are as
follow

On Thursday evening the accused, who is a person Of
rather prepossessing appearance, accosted a policeman
of the F division in the Strand, saying that he had
been challenged by several persons with having been
guilty of unnatural offences, and wished to get into
prison. The constable said he could not take him into
custody, when he said he would do something which shouid
compel him, and, going up to the door of a tailor's shops
he caught up a figure with a coat upon it, and walked
away. The officer immediately stopped him, and took the
property back, when no oharge of felony was preferred ;
but as he seemed to be wanting in intellect, he was
on that charge detained at the station-house. On Friday
morning, he was taken to Bow-street Police-office, where
Mr. Henry, considering from his manner that he was
no doubt deranged, sent him to the workhouse. There he
refused to do some slight work he was put to, and
became so outrageous that it was deemed advisable
to put a strait-jacket on him. Upon examination of
the prisoner, at Marlborough-street, on Saturday, it
was stated that two persons, George Dixon and the
murdered man, Richard Empson, were appointed to take
charge of and to watch the prisoner. About twelve
o'clock in the day the prisoner asked for his bible and his
crone. George Dixon went away to get the bible, when
the prisoner tried to make his escape. The prisoner was
brought back and secured with a straigt-jacket. The
deceased Empson afterwards unloosed the fastenings,
when bed-time came and went to bed in the same ward.
The prisoner about five o'clock asked for some water
The deceased requested Dixon to get some, and to loosen
the other fastenings which secured the prisoner and pre-
vented him from doing mischief. Dixon went out to wash
himself. In a few min tres he heard the cry of murder•
He ran into the yard and found the nrisoner there. who
rushed at him with a shovel, struck him four or five times,
and would nave knocked him down, but he wrestled with
the prisee.er, got away, and fastened the door of the ward•
On looking about he found Empson lying on the floor in
a pool of blood. Empson was not then dead, but died in a
few minutes. The deceased had two wounds on the left
temple, and a poker, with which the wounds were in-
dicted, was lying in the room. William Doering, a pauper,
saw the prisoner struggling with the deceased, and after-
wards beat over the head with a poker. Some further
evidence was given, and the prisoner was remanded till
Thursday.

The bill prom .ted by the directors of the Great Northern
Railway to throw the cost of Redpath's frauds on
the preference shareholders, has passed the committee of
the House of Lords, to the astonishment of its opponentst
It will thorefore be forthwith brought up for its third
realing.
MR. BAss, M.P., AND THE DIJOHY OF LANCASTER.—
Some of our readers may remember that when a debate
arose in the House of Commons on Mr. \Viso' s motion for

a committee to inquire into the affairs of the Duchy of
Lancaster, Mr. Bass made certain observations. He com-
plained of having to keep game on the Duchy lands rented
by him in Staffordshire, for the benefit of the Crown and

its favourites. For that complaint, made by Mr. Bass, as
a member of parliament, he has been punished, we hear.
Lord Waterpark, axe-bearer to the Duchy, bears not the
axe in vain—that is, unless the rep-irt in circulation be
false. By virtue of his office of axe-bearer, he is vested
with authority over the Duchy estates, and in the exercise
of it he writes (gossip says) a letter of rebuke to Mr. Bass.
A correspondence ensues, and ends in the withdrawal from
Mr. Bass of his shooting privileges over his own leaseholds,
to the great depreciation of the property, leaseholders not
being willing to hold under the bon plaisir of Lord Water-
park. Why has not the honourable member brought Lord
Waterpark to the bar of the house for this unconstitutional
proceeding ?—Leader,

THE BISHOP OF RtroN preach :d a sermon on Thursday
evening, at Hanover Chapel, Regent-street, to a numerous
congregation, on behalf of the Society for the Aid and
Benefit of Dressmakers and Milliners, and the Early
Closing Association. The text chosen was 2nd Titus,
verses 1 lth and P2th. In the latter portion of his sermon,
his lordship, in a tone of earnestness, which showed how
entirely he had the subject at heart, very ably demonstrated
the inapolicy, as well as the utterly nuehristian character of
that system of business which involves the treatment of the
living, immortal agents, as so many senseless material
machines. In the course of his remarks, the bishop con-
demned the conduct of those votaries of fashion to whose
thoughtlessness in giving their orders much of the suffering
endured by the dressmakers is to be traced. He implored
them to be more considerate, and to encourage those esta,
blishinents in which regard is paid to the comfort and
welfare of the persons employed. A liberal collection
was made after the sermon.

ASSISTED EMIGRATION TO OTAGO.—A contract has only
recently beea entered into with the firm of Messrs. James
WAndrew and Co., of Danedin, Otago,
.for the conveyanceof 2,000 adults, which, including their famillu, will be
equal to nearly 3,000 persons ;. and Mr. James Adam, a
member of the Provincial Connell, oas also been appointed
by the Provincial Government to come over for the purpose
of furnishing catigrants to Otago with the necessary infor-
mition. Mr. Adam will commence his labours in a very
short time. His instruetions, we believe, are first to send
out those parties, the cost of whoso passage is guaranteed by
friends in Otagn ; and after thrise, who it is supposed will
amount to about 400 adult!,,,, have been accommodated, he
is to take measures to obtain the remaining number indis-
criminately, s , bot is strictly laid down in his instructions
and all assisted emigrants must be able-bodied persons,
whether men or women, and must satisfy him with respect
to their cP.paleilitie9 and moral character. The whole of
the passage mop.ev
is repayable within such a time as may
be agreed
u';
on on between the agent and the parties them-
selves, d will range, in all probability, from three to
four years, according to the number and age of the family.
Tb'e classes most required in Otago are farm servants,
especially females, and a few tradespeople. Capitalists,
both large and small, if prepered for the requirements of
colonial life, cad hardly fail to do well.--,Altstrallan and
Zealand Ga,:retee.

AUSTRALIA..

ing after some fellows who were gambling in a
retired place, when he saw amongst the crowd,
Peter Swift. It was somewhat curious there was
another man there, an honest lout, who had also
lost all his front teeth, except two, standing close
by the murderer. Mr. Singleton immediately
questioned the rustic, and after some inquiries,
asked if his name was not Peter Swift. On
hearing this, the real culprit stole off, conscience
struck, but was afterwards taken into custody by
the inspector, and brought down to Sydney. He
is now in confinement, and has confessed his crime.
It is almost startling to think, that after fourteen
months of security, and when he was not pursued,
the murderer should walk into the very hands of
justice. Murder will out, and punishment surely
folio Ns in the heels of crime.

ARRIVAL OF THE JAMES BAINES.

The " Black Ball " clipper ship James Baines,
arrived here yesterday afternoon. She sailed from
Melbourne on Sunday evening, the 26th of April,
and has made the run in seventy-six days
She brings 60,314 ozs. of gold, valued at £241,266,
and 163 passengers. The James Baines passed
Cape Horn on the 14th May, crossed the equater
on the Bth of June, and from thence to Cape Clear ;
en July 7, experienced light and baffling winds.
The screw steamer Great Britian arrived at
Melbourne on the 19th of April. Sixty-one days
from Liverpool.
The Lightning arrived at Melbourne on the 17th
April. Seventy days from Liverpool.
The February Overland Mail had not arrived at
at Melbourne, although six days over due.

TASMANIA.
We have Hobart Town journals to the 16th of
April. The chief political news is that the ex-
pected resolution of " no confidence" in the
Gragson Ministry has been adopted. In com-
menting upon the incident, the Colonial Times

VICTORIA.
The intelligence by this arrival is one fortnight
later than that previously to hand, and is of some
importance. •

The O'Shannessy government, after a tenure of
about two months, had been defeated by a majority
of two to one. A vote of want of confidence had
been carried on the 22nd of April; the numbers
being—for ministers, 19; against them, 34. Thus
ends, says the Melbourne Age, the first chapter of
the battle of liberty against oligarchical monopoly
in the chief of the Australian colonies The same
Paper states that the speech of the night was
Charles Gavan Duffy's.
Everybody describes it as one of the most successful in-
tellectual efforts ever made in the Assembly. The touching
plaintiveness with which he related the sorrows of Ireland
--the manliness with which he vindicated his personal and
Political honor—and the proud disdain with which he
overwhelmed his slanderers, will not soon be forgotten.
!I's .t was b impression upon th.
Fellows
e writhing no anuage could realise.
beautiful to see under the proud
contempt of Mr. Duffy. When Duffy asked the house
not to let the petty commonplace of " a shallow lawyer"
compromise Australia with the noblest spirits of Europe,
everybody, even the Opposition, seemed tickled by the
felicity of the illustration. Michf,'s sour nature seemed
to brighten up under it. Poor Fellows tried to assume a
look of indignation, which rendered him more shallow
than ever.
On the 24th, Mr. O'Shannessy dilated that he
had that morning waited upon Nis Excellency
the Governor, and tendered him his resigna-
tion and the resignation of his colleagues. His
Excellency was pleased to accept them, and asked
him to stay in office until a new ministry could be
appointed. Mr. O'Shannessy had proposed the
name of Mr. Fellows as his successor ; but it
appears that his Excellency had a decided repug-
nance to that gentleman, and had not sent for
him. So the matter stood when the James Baines
left Melbourne.
We have to announce the death of Lady Bully,
Wife of the Governor of Victoria. She died on the
18th April, at Toorak, the melancholy event being
attributed to nervous exhaustion, resulting from
her recent accouchment. Seldom has any incident
.re.xcited so painful a sensation in Melbourne; for
"-MY Barkly had won the respect and affection of
all classes of our fellow-citizens, by her graceful
demeanour and benevolent disposition. If any-
thing could tend to alleviate the sorrow of her
illustrious husband, it might be the genuine
eSnThathy which has everywhere been manifested
°r his bereavement, Lady Barkley's many virtues
Will long keep her memory green among the people
"Victoria.
Another batch of the unfortunate Williamstown
einpvicts was ready for the executioner. Francis
'raccigan, William Browne, and Richard Bryant
Were put upon their trial, and the result was
their conviction and sentence to death. Bryant
Vehemently protested his innocence, and the evi-
dence was such that the jury strongly recom-
tended him to mercy.
We understand, says the Melbourne Age, that the
risonere previously convicted seem fully impressed with
their awful position. Immediately' of _er their conviction,
and at their own request, the Rev. Mr. Madden attended
them in the condemned cell. On of them has confessed
!.0. having been guilty of many frightful crimes previous to
ins being sent to the hulks, and has attributed the result
to the influence of the bad company he kept when a
Youth.

says :
the vote was against the ministers, and not solely
against Mr. GI egson. The only reservation made was in
favour of the Attorney-General, for whom everybody
entertains much symeathy, and deservedly so. He is
not the soundest lawyer in the House, but has other
claims upon public consideration and respect, which
ought not to be overlookel The ministry, in oar
opinion then should retira ; but will it ? The ministe-
rial penny trumpet has declared for a dissolution.
Happily f r the colony it res's with the Governor to
decide that point. He must act upon his own respon-
sibility in that matter at all events, and his Excellency
will look in vain for constitional grounds on which to
justify such a course to the colony or to the Parliament.
His Excellency marked his sense of the conduct of the
administration when he introducrd the concluding para-
graph of the reply to the addresses of both Houses for the
payment of the salaries of the officers of the goverment.
Who may become the successors of the ministry we do
not—and cannot—yet know, but we do know this, that any
set of men will better merit the confidence of the colony.
It is not likely that the former administration will yet
again be summoned to re-occupy the Treasury benches,
and so Mr. Gregson's friends may be easy on that point.
Their time must come notwithstanding; even Mr. Greg-
son's present friends will presently admit that.

NEW ZE GLAND.
We have later news from Nelson—viz , to 21st
March. C )ncerning the discovery of gold in the
vicinity of Massacre Bay, the Nelson Exaininer of
the above date says :
Every arrival from the other side of the Bay strengthens
the conviction, that a real'y remunerative gold-field exists
i❑ the Aorere Valley, and that it is calculated to give pro-
fitable employment to a large number of diggers. By
adders which have been received by a mercantile
gentleman in town, it appears that his corres-ondent
at Aorere bad purchased, since his former re-
mittance, about 100 ounces of gold ; and we
learn that another gentleman is also on the spot making
purchases for Sydney. If to the quantity of gold thus
known to have been purchased, we add 60 M. for what
has been bought by the gentleman last referred to, and
for what then remained in the hands of the diggers, we
may fairly compute the total quantity of gold found at
Aorere and not remitted to Nelson, as being little short,
up to this time, of 200 oxs. The improved success which
has attended the labours of many of the diggers has
induced a great many person to visit the Aorere for the
Purpose of " tying their luck," and our coasting craft
find brisk employment in running between the diggings
and Nelson.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
MEI.BOIJRNI3, APRIL 25.

The political crisis has occupied the chief attention of
the city, and mercantile transactions have been very few.
The imports at the port of Melbourne for the week ended
the 18th April, amounted to the declared value of £252,338,
and the exports to £89,522. Tine escorts which arrived
yesterday, brought down quantities under the weekly
average, viz: 37,303 ounces, and £37,704 in gold. Gold
sells steadily at 76s 6d per ounce.
No other brands of BOTTLED BEERS are saleable than
Byass's. Almost every other, though offered at low prices,
scarcely meet with purchasers.
Medium brands of BRANDY, of good qualify, are likely
to establish a good price in consequence of the high rates
of Martell's, and United Vineyards. Martell's of the
1856 vintage is now being supplied at 12s 3d.
Rum is in rather better demand. Recent advices show
an advance on English rates.
PORT WINE is extraordinarily dull or sale, in Conse-
quence of the large quantities thrown into the market of
late. The article is entirely beyond quotation.
In reference to BUTTER we want a diminution, not a
cessation of shipments. The low rates which have lately
been obtained are not likely to continue, as though stocks
are large, and this is the best season for storing, it is
liable to deterioration in quality. This, with a fair demand
for really good parcels, is likely to advance prices very
shortly.
TEA has advanced fifty per cent in England. As this
is generally understood to be a fallacious move, holders here
are very firm.
The FLOUR market is dull. To-day we hear of sales
being effected at from £l6 lOs to £l7. Latest advices
from Adalaide show that shipments hither are being,
conducted on the same limited scale which has characterised
the events of the past month. Prices, therefore, are firm
in Adelaide, and likely to influence those here. Maize
(whole) 8s 91, cracked 9i—slow of sale. Oats, 8s 3d to
8s 6d. Bran, 2s id. Potatoes,. £9.

She brought one hundred and thirty-nine of Gene-
mil Walker's force.
The prevailing warm weather has developed the
pugnacious propensities of a certain class in New
York to an alarming extent. A local paper says—
At Hudson Park, near Spoytenduyvil creek, on Sunday,
a party of GAlnans, who were enjoying a pic-nic, were
attacked by rowdies, when a battle royal ensued, in which
several of the former were serioasly injure& The
Eleventh ward was the scene of a dangerous riot. A gang
of rowdies attacked Captain McKinney, of the Thirteenth
ward police, and nine of his men, and succeeded after a
bloody fight in rescuing a prisoner from the custody of the
policemen. Captain McKinney was, it is believed, fatally
injured in the melee, and seven of his men were dangerously
wounded. The riot grew out of the arrest by the police
of a fellow who was acting as a ringleader to a gang of
ruffians who were assaulting the members of Hose Com-
pany Nr,. 7. They succeeded in rescuing their comrade,
and heating the policemen. At Williamsburg the Germane
and Irish engag: d in a fight in which three persons were
stabbed. The firemen of that usually peaceful suburb
also indulged in a free fight on Saturday night, but without
any serious results. At Brooklyn two rival fire companies
engaged in a conflict. Stones, clubs, and other missiles
were freely used, and several persons were injured,
The missionary party, numbering fifty in all,
sent out by the Mormons, reached Omaha,
Nebraska, about the 15th June. They left Salt
Lake City about the let of May, and travelled the
whole distance on foot, over one thousand miles,
drawing their provisions and baggage in common
hand-carts, such as are used in the streets of cities.
They reported twenty feet of snow as lying in the
South Pass of the Rocky Mountains when they
came through it. The missionaries expressed
much indignation on hearing the repOrts of
Brigham Young having fled from his people.
By the arrival.of the Illinois, at New York, with
1,852.867 dollars in gold dust, we have advices from
San Francisco to the sth June. Defalcations and
politics were the principal topics discussed. There
was considerable talk throughout the State of
getting up another expedition to Sonora, to avenge
the massacre of General Crabbe and his com-
panions. The yield of gold is increasing, and
promises to be larger than ever before known.
Among the passengers by the Illinois was
Lieutenant Mowry, formerly in command of Fort
Yuma. He is the bearer of a numerously signed
petition for the erection of a territorial government
in the Gadsden purchase. There was a report
of a defalcation in the Mint department at San
Francisco, to the amount of nearly half a million of
dollars. The molter is charged with the crime ;
but it is said that the deficit can be accounted for
by reason of defective flues in the building carrying
off the sold dust in large quantities. There is no
news of importance from Oregon and Washington
Territories.
Our news from Central America is exceedingly
interesting. Great rejoicings had taken place in
Costa Rica over the return of a portion of the army
from Nicaragua. General Canas had remained,
with a portion of the troops, in order to reorganise
that country and government. The Costa Ricans
evince a determination to hold permanent posses-
sion of Punta Arenas, opposite Greytown, and the
fortifications on the San Juan river. We learn from
Honduras that the surveying expeditionary force
which some time since sailed from New York, were
Prosecuting their labours in a satisfactory manner.
All the members of the surveying party were in
good health.
We have important news from Cuba. The
Spanish fleet, consisting of five sailing vessels and
two steamers, having on board some two thousand
soldiers, arrived at Havana on the 25th ult. This
fleet is intended for operations against Mexico.
General Santa Anna had not arrived at Havana.
The health of the city and port was good consider-
ing the season of the year. The markets are re-
ported without change.
A correspondent in the City of Mexico, writing
on the 31st of May, reports that sixty of the per-
sons engaged in the late conspiracy against the life
of President Comonfort had been banished to
" Horse Island," after having worked in the city
sewers with the chain gang. Dr. Sontag and Mr.
Fcarn, Secretary to the United States Legation,
having started on a trip to the peak of Orizaba,
rode a-head of their servants and baggage—
the servants were robbed, but Dr. Sontag, aided by
a force detailed by General Portilla, captured
several of the bandits, and executed four of them,
0,41,1'1.6 4.h0 VOICIPMILIta,I (A./ FL 10,..1•

The same paper publishes the following para
graph :
There are at present in the female penitentiary one
Unwired and seventeen women, and thirty children ; the
Majority of the prisoners are confined for the commission
Of slight offences ; there being, out of the whole establish-
ment, only fifteen " long sentenced prisoners." Whilst
Upon this subject, we would suggest that the prisoners
might be employed at needlework, with advantage to
themselves and benefit to many of the charitable institu-
tions of this city. They might, for instance, be employed
to make shirts and dresses of different descriptions
required
by indigent patients in the hospital. They
would be glad to do it for a very small remuneration,
or even for nothing at all, as it would be a means of
beguiling the tedium and alleviating the misery conse-
quent upon a lengthened period of incarceration. The
authorities might give a little attention to this matter.
Our prison system has for a long time past been a failure
as regards the reformation of prisoners, and a commence-
ment of reform in the manner we hive described would
be a boon. Is this" maudlin sympathy," however ?
Gold buyers must be on the qui vine. It appears
that certain adroit gentry have recently been
practising adulteration on an unusually extensive
scale, and with considerable success. Ballarat is
the great scene of their operations, the inferior gold
of other localities being brought thither and passed
off as the genuine ore of the district. Everybody
knows that Ballarat gold is purer and richer than
that from most of the other diggings. "It has
been ascertained by assays frequently and satis-
factorily made," observes a cotemporary, " that in
part of the former districts the gold is impregnated
With foreign substances to an extent equivalent to
a reduction in value of 2s per ounce, as compared
with that of Ballarat, where the metal is found
in a purer state, so that while gold is there quoted
at £3 16s. to £3 16s 6d., at Ballarat it is rarely
below £3 18s. On Saturday, for instance, the
Prices Were—Castlemaine, £3 16s 3d. to £3 165.6 d. ;
Ben digo (according to the Advertiser of that day),
£3 15s. 9d. ; and at Ballarat, £3 18s. 6d. There
are many persons who take advantage of this dif-
ference in the following manner—they purchase
quantities of gold at Castlemaine, Bendi,go Jim
Crow. Maryborough, and other fi ads, take the
metal to Ballarat, and there mix it, in certain pro-
portions, with the Ballarat gold, in such a way that
the whole passes as the genuine produce of that
field."

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA:

The Royal Mail Steamer Europa, Capt. Leitch,
which sailed from Boston, arrived in the Mersey
at a late hour on Sataiday night, and has brought

The existence of leprosy among the Chinese at
Castlemaine had been established upon the most
Indisputable testimony. Dr. Preshaw, Local Officer
of the Board of Health, had presented a report to
the Tows Council of Castlemaine, giving not only
the result of his own experience, but that of seve-
ral other medical gentlemen, all concurring in the
statement that this terrible disease has been in
cxistence in Castlemaine for two years back. 4' It
is certainly not creditable to the journals who have
been attempting to keep the truth of this business
from the public. Now that the facts have been
13 aPsfactorily ascertained, the Government can take
adequate
steps to counteract the disease. With
hundreds of Chinese immigrants pouring into the
country every
lost." week, there is surely no time to be

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JUNE 30.
MONETARY AFFAIRS.—Money continues in good demand,
and with a fair supply offering, rates are steady. There is
more paper offering at the banks for discount ; call loans
are making at 7 per cent. Outside the banks, rates are
firm at 8 to 9 per cent. for good mercan' ile endorsed short
paper, and 9 to 10 for long dates; single names 9 to 12.
Foreign exchange is dull and lower ; we quote bills
on London 109 to 1094-, the latter an extreme rate.
Continental exchange is also lower and is un-
settled. Messrs. Dr. Coppitt, in their money
circular issued for the Europa, say :—" The downward
tendency in prices noticed in our last advises of 23rd
inst., continued throughout the past week, and in the
more speculative of the railroad shares became at one time
a panic. The transactions have been large, and the
decline very great. For investment there has been very
little doing ; as a consequence, operations in State Stocks
have been limited with very little alteration in prices. The
demand for money has been on the increase for the past
few days. We quote loans on call 7 per cent., and Bto 12
for business paper."

_
four days' later news. The Europa sailed from
Boston on the Ist instant, and had 148 passengers,

and 455,986 dollars in specie on freight. The
steamer Indian, from Liverpool, had arrived at
Quebec, and the City of Baltimore, from Liverpool,
at New York; also the North Star and the Hermann
at the latter port, from Southampton, and the
Niagara at Halifax, from Liverpool.
The news is of a most interesting character. A
despatch from Washington states that a treaty with
Nicaragua is under consideration, having for its

object the re-opening of the transit route. The
steamship commodores are, it is said, entirely ig-
nored as regards this matter. Another despatch
states that arrangements are in progress for the

speedy settlement of the questions in dispute be-
tween the United States and New Granada, upon
a basis perfectly satisfactory to the American
Government.

The instructions relative to the operations of
the troops now detailed for Utah have been com-
pleted. It is designed by the Government to
create a separate military department of the
Territory, under command of General Harney,
who will have a force of nearly three thousand
men fully equipped as an army in the field.
Mr. Joseph J. Keefe, Consul of the republic of
Venezuela at Philadelphia, in a card published in
that city, states that the report that the American
Minister at Caraccas, Mr. Eames, not being able
to effect a settlement of the guano claims, had
demanded his passports, is untrue. Mr. Keefe
has positive and reliable information that the
American Minister merely leaves Venezuela during
a short period, with the consent of his government,
in order to visit his family at Washington.
The people of Schuyler county are in arms against
an act passed by the Legislature last winter. It
appears that the Legislature located the county
seat at the town of Havana, after the Supervisors
had established it at Watkins. This proceeding
on the part of the Legislature has excited great
indignation, and the citizens of Schuyler county
have held a convention and repudiated the inter
ference in their local affairs in a series of spirited
resolutions.
From a New York journal, of the last date, we
take the following paragraph :
Yesterday afternoon two hundred and fifty United
States recruits took their departure by the New York
and Erie railroad for Leavenworth city, Kansas, where
they will join the command of 3,000 men that is to
accompany the new Governor of Utah to Salt Lake City.
These soldiers were mostly young men, and expressed
themselves pleased at the prospect of active service. Last
week one hundred and fifty recruits left thia city on a
milar mission.
The United Slates steam frigate Wabash, from
Pi4W4lll .rrived at New York on the 28th ult.

NEW SOUTH WALES.
We have 'files of Sydney papers
April. The following to the 20th
quoting are the only items worth
A • proclamation appears in the Government
Gazette, further proroguing the Parliament of New
South Wales, from the 28th of April to the 9th of
June.
On the 20th of February,' 1856, a man named
Peter Swift alias Apples, murdered one Daniel
Clarke, in a brawl in Little Bourke street, Mel-
b▪
ourne. He absconded immediately, and nothing
tad been heard of him from that time. There were,
l'")Nvever,several witnesses to the crime, and the man
Was well known, by reason of the loss of all his
upper teeth, and the marks of a wound upon his
-ifneck. Time passed on, he was published in the
hueAi 1 s Grid
cry, and the particulars, and the partic-
ulars him were forwarded, amongst
others,i to that indefatigable officer, Inspector
Singleton Lwerpod yesterday, Mr. Singleton went to the
Races, and wag sauntering about look-

THE NORTHERN TIMES.--LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1857.

since the Ist September 1
three years :

it, as compared

with the

previous

Receipts at the Ports
Exports toG Britain
France..
" other F. Ports •
Total-Exports
Stock on hand

1857. 1856. 1855.
2 873,000 3,427,000 2,620,000
1,356 000 1,532,0 41 1,379,000
380,000 472,000 403,000
389,000 487,000 250,(10(
2,725,000 2,791,004 2,032,000
182,090 177,800 175,000,

Of which during the past
Receipts at the Ports
Exports to G. Britain

week, included in the ab
6,000 13,000) 31,0001
38,00 r 45,000 17,0001
I 1,000

2,790,000
1,425.000
298,000
290,000
2 021,000
i 355,000

love :-
1 23,000
37,000
5,00,

JO
France. .. • • •••• ••I 9,030 , ~000
" other For. Pts
Total Exports. .. • •
SUHMARY.—Receipts—Decrease at the ports, compared
with last year, 554,000 bales ; compared with 1853,
299,000. Exports—decrease to Great Britain, 476,000;
compared with 1853, 262,000 bales. Decrease to France,
92,000; compared with 1853, 33,000; decrease to other
foreign ports, 98,000; increase compared with 1853, 59.000
bales. W. P. WRIGHT.
BREADS'TIIFFS.—FIour : The receipts have been small,
which has enabled holders to obtain better prices for
State Brands, but the market closes quiet at rather less
money than has been obtained in the course of the past
week, although at 15 to 25c more than quoted in our last
circular. Of Ohio, Indiana, &c., some supplies have come
forward, and these descriptions can be bought on rather
better terms. Western Canal and State, good shipping,
6 dols 40c to 7 dols per brl. Ohio, Indiana, &c , 6 dole
85c to 7 dole 50c. Canada, 6 dots 75c to 8 dole 25c.
Southern, 7 dols 50c to 8 dols. Faucles and High Extras,
8 do's to 9 dole 50c and 10 dole.
WHZAT.—With continued light imports from the West,
prices have remained steady : a few parcels of Red Mil-
waukee have been taken for Eneland, but the business
doing is very trifling. Senthern Whi e none; Genese and
Western, IPc. to 190 c. ; Canadian, 180 e. to 195 e. ;.
Western Red and Mixed, 152 e. to 170 c. ; Southern Red,
none.
INDIAN CORN : Has fluctuated, Mixed having sold during
the week as high as 92c., but closing yesterday at 83c. to
14e. owing to increased supplies. Yellow, 87c. to 88c. per
561bs ; White, none Western Old Mixed, 83c. to 84c.
WETHRRSFOON, KING-FORD, AND CO,
Hors are unchanged ; we notice sales of 70 bales good
first sort at lie, cash.
IRON :—Scotch Pig is dull and unchanged ; we quote
the range at 30 dole to 32 dole, fur lots from vessel and
from yard.
NAVAL STORM—The demand for Spirits Turpentine for
export continues 'to a fair extent, and we notice sales
to-day of 2,000 brls in shipping order, at 4513, cash, and
300 brls to arrive at 45e, cash, in merchantable order; the
sock here is reduced to a very low point, and we undee-
stand there are only about 5,700 brls on the way here
from Wilmington; as the trade demand is unusually light,
this supply, if it arrives soon, will probably be sufficient to
meet the various wants. Crude Turpentine is quiet and
nominal, there being little or no stock here. Common
Rosin is hardly as firm ' • we notice sates of 400 brls north
country to arrive, at 1 del 95c per 310 lbs, delivered ; a
cargo on the spot of smaller barrels was offered at a less
rate. Tar is quiet.
OILS : Crude whale and sperm oils continue quiet.
Linseed oil has declined, and sales are now making at 79
to 80 cents for casks and bbls.
Paovistoers: Pork is unsettled, but closes firmer; the
sales are 1,000 bbls at 21 dole 75c for mess, check to-day,
and 18 dols 85c to 19 dole (nominal) for prime. Bad
is heavy, with sales of 140 bbls at 14 to 15 dots for country
mess, 13 dole to 13 dols 50c for railroad mess, and 16 dols
50c to 17 doll for re-packed Western. Prime mess beef
and beef hams are dull and rota nal. Bacon is heavy ;
Western smoked sides are quoted at 121 to 123 cents. Cut
meats are firmer, with sales of 130 casks at 104 to 10'4
for hams, and 94 to 93- for shoulders. Lord is quiet, with
sales of 170 tierces and bbls at 14 to 111 e. Butter is
firm for prime qualities, but inferior descriptions are dull
and heavy. Cheese is selling at 6to 114 c for ordinary to
prime dairies.
FREIGHTS are dull. To Liverpool, we notice engage-
ments of 500 brls. Tar at Is.; 20 casks 011, 10s.; 350
bales Cotton per bale, and 500 Ms. Flour 2s. 6.1. To
London, 330 tons Oil Cake were taken at 12s. 6d. to 155.;
and 700 bags Ginger on terms we did not ascertain. To
Rotterdam, 546 brie. Rosin, 2s. ; 200 brls. Spirits Tur-
pentine, 3 cents ; and 100 blls. Ashes, 173. 61. To
Trieste, 30 tons measurement goods, 10 dols. To Bristol,
1,500 brie, Rosin, 2s. To Cadiz, culled pipe staves,
24 dols.

(LATEST BY TELIGRAPII.)
NEW YORK, June 30, eve.—Ashes lower and unsettled
for pearl, sales 70 brls, pot heavy at 7 87, pearl 7 62 to 7
75. Cotton firm at as advance, sales 2,000 bales, N 0
mid 141. Flour closes very heavy for lower grades, sales
7,500 brls, com to straight State 6 35 to 6 45, Upper Lake
6 40 to 6 45, corn to good ()hio extra 6 75 to 7 50, extra
Genessee 7 60 to 9 75 ; Southern steady, sales 1,200 brls,
mixed to good 7 30 to 7 65, fancy and extra 7 70
to 9 75 ; Canadian quiet, sales 350 brls, superfine
nominal, extra 690t0 9. Oats heavy and lower, 60 to 65
and 66 to 67k. Corn closes quiet, sales 41,000 bus, mixed
o; ro 01, wuite no lo 90, yellow 87. Pork better, Bales
800 brls; mess 21 75. to to 29, prime 18 85 to 19. Beef
heavy, sales 250 brie, country mess 14 to 10, repacKea
Chicago 16 50 to 17, prime mess 28 to 30 Lard heavy,
430 brls, 14 to 141. Butter heavy, Ohio 17 to 20, State
18 to 22. Whiskay 32, closing firm. Leather quiet, oak
37 to 37, hemlock 26 to 271. Dr 3 cod firm, sales 2,000
qls ; mackerel inactive. Coffee quiet, sales 3,000 bags,
Rio 101 to 12, J Iva 16, Sugar dull, sales 50 hhds, muse
10. Linseed oil 79 to 80. Spirits Turpentine 400
brls, 45 to 46 cash ; 100 brls Washington tar 2124. Rice
dull, 100 tcs 4Q to 1 Tallow quiet, 12,000 lbs. 11k.
Freights to Liverpool firmer, cotton 32. flour 6d, nominal,
grain 2:1 to 20.

of the vessel could be seen. The
so that hardly a vestige
"‘•
Napoleon had stare ecident at a distance of about at same time with the Montreal,
and was at the time of the a,
'.
half smile from the Montreal), -sptain of the Napoleon
ed above that vessel. Probe-
bly from fear of taking fire, the a eh the burning vessel.
did not judge it prudent to rove". of this vessels, and
A large boat or batteaux was in tovf • with the proprie-
after some contention, as it is reported,. nasseogers from
tor, she went off to attempt to save the' x boats of her
the burning vessel. She also had two othere disaster.
own, which were despatched to the scene of sho-e.
There were also some boats which came from tle
but none of them could approach very close to the 04.. „ke'
so that every one who was saved was obliged tee ra.
some attempt to swim for their lives. Mr. Hayes, hies
self, after remaining, as he believes, nearly half an hour t
hangine on to the vessel's side, found it too hot to remain
there any longer, and struck out boldly for a boat which
he saw approaching. He swam to this boat, but as the
men on board saw a much larger number of persons in
jeopardy of their lives, hanging round the wreck, they
neglected Mr. Hays' calls to be taken in, and it was not
till he succeeded in clutching the boat and raising himself
up by his own muscular force that he felt himself safe.
The boats, with the persons who were saved, all went on
board the Napoleon, in which were received one
hundred and twenty-five passengers, and sixteen dead
bodies. Of the passeog,ers saved a great number were sadly
burned, and many of them greatly bruised. (Lee on
board, they were treated by the captain with every atten-
tion. Besides those who were taken ou board the Napoleon,
a few persons, Mr. Hayes thinks not more than twenty,
succeeded in swimming on shore or to some rocks in the
immediate neighbourhood of the beach. Mr. Hayes was
acquainted with none of the passengers on board the
Montreal, except Mr. Leslie, of Carter, Kerry and Co.,
and Mr. Phillips, of Norcross, Phillips and Co., neither of
whom were seen on board the Napoleon afterwards,
and as Mr. Hayes believes, were both of them
drowned or burned. Only three cabin passengers are
reported to be saved out of the whole number.
Mr. Hayes was so long in the water as to have brought
on excessive cramps, which caused swelling in the joints,
and sfilicted him with the most excruciating pain.
While in the water, either hanging on to the steamboat
or to the small boat by which he was eventually saved,
he was repeatedly grappled by unfortunate persons in the
act of drowning, and at the moment when he laid hold
of the boat's gunnel, he believes that six persons,
chiefly women, had boll of his skirts. These the
boatmen took in before they extended any aid and
comfort to him, and during this final struggle for
life his sufferings of mind and body were exces-
sive. These were increased by the dreadful cries and
shrieks of drowning persons going on in every direction
around him. These he described as being awful in the
extreme. Men, women, and children, were sufferirg the
tortures of fire and drowning. On one hand a poor crea-
ture would be seen perched on an outside part of the
steamer, where a resting place could be obtained only by
the closest hold with both hands and feet, and there hang-
ing in torture till, driven by the smoke and flames, he or
she had to take the fatal plunge into the river below.
In another direction stalwart men might be seen seeking
to secure themselves about the irons of the guards or the
paddle'. Some of them lost their hold and sunk at once. '
Others managed to hang on for a space, but at last they
had to give up from sheer fatigue, or by the pressure of
other sufferers seeking to secure the same refuge. Here
families were preparing and determining to die together ;
there the husband or the wife saw his or her partner
for ever serarated. Women with children in their arms
leaped into the water ; others held on to the, burning
wreck, until, losing their foothold, they fell, and were
lost for ever. The Montreal was insured to a considerable
extent. We do not know whether sufficiently to cover the
loss. One policy we have heard of for $6,000, effected in an
American office, and we presume, if there are other insurers
they are also American. The batteaux which was in tow
of the Napoleon, and which did so much in the way of
s icing life, is said to have belonged to Mr, Hamilton, of
Kingston. Her captain, according to the reports on board
the Napoleon, was exceedingly unwilling that anything
should be done with her for the purpose of saving life, and
when the unfortunates from the Montreal were assembled
afterwards on board the Napolean, he was very naturally
the subject of loud reproaches on the part of those who had
witnessed his inhuman hesitation. It seems, from rumours
which were afloat on board the Napoleon, that the
Montreal had been on tire previously while getting up
her steam, and that precautions had been taken with a
view to any such casualty as that which finally
occurred ; but this is at present uncertain. After the
fire had been burning for a certain length of time there
was a kind of explosion, which destroyeed nearly all the
upper part of the vessel that remained after the catas-
trophe. It appears that there was no bolt on board the
Montreal which could be pat to the slightest use in saving
the passengers. Captain Rudolph and Mr. Wilson, jun.,
son of the owner of the Montreal, are said to have saved
themselves by swimming to shore. The emigrant passen-
gers were almost all Scotch, who bad arrived out in the
James McKenzie.
A telegraph despatch dated Montreal, June zv, says :-
rea. -4 nr;,-.o2nally geo Pmicrrantc4. Sixty nr
seventy of the survivors have reached here, and four stopped
at Three Rivers. Sixteen of the dead bodies were brought
here, and one hundred and fifty-seven taken to inniebec.
Among the latter are the Brothers Farr, potters, of St.
John, C.H. ; Mr. Leslie, druggist, of Montreal ; Mr.
McLaren, of Quebec, and Mr. Thomas Meikle, of Lachute.
The Coroner's Jury will sit to-morrow. The emigrants
are under the care of the St. Andrew's Society."
A paragraph in a Boston paper is to the following
effect :-" The Hon. Stephen C. Phillips, of Silent, is
among the dead by the burning of the steam-ship Mon-
treal. His body has been recovered. Mr. Phillips was
returning home from Three Rivers, where he had been on
a visit to his-son. The announcement of the death of Mr.
Phillips created a profound sensation of grief at Salem.
All the church bells were tolled, the flags of the shipping
and public buildings displayed at half mast, and touching
allusions were made to the public services and private
virtues of the deceased in the pulpits of the several churches
yesterday."
NAMES OF PERSONS SUPP,,SZD TO BE LOST.
1. Mr. Caldwell and wife.
2. Mr. Laurie and wife.
5. Four children of Mr. David Gilchrist.
9. Mr. Clark (husband of Catherine Clark) and four
children.
14. Three children of Margaret McAllister, besides the
three saved.
15. Mr. J. McKenzie (husband of Mrs. McKenzie
saved.)
17. A son and niece (E. Wallace) of Mrs. Margaret
Dickson, who is saved.
19. Two children of Mrs. Margaret Broomfield, who is
saved.
21. Mr. Broomfield, lives at Toronto, and is in the em-
ployment of the Grand Trunk Company.
22 Mrs. David Wilson and five children (husband
saved.)
28 Mr. Douglas (father of William, who is saved), Mrs.
Douglas, and a sister either of Mr. or Mrs. Douglas,
together with six children.
37 Mrs. Campbell (mother of John and Maria), and two
sisters.
40 Mrs. Laurie, Mr. Laurie (father and mother of James
and Jeanette, who are saved), and a girl.
43 Mr. Wylie (husband or Mrs. Jane Wylie) and three
children.
47 Mr. McAllister (father of Archibald, who is saved), and
two daughters,
50 Mrs. Haig, (wife of John Haig, who is saved), and a
child.
52. Mr. Nicholson (father of William), who is saved.
53. Antoine Gagnon (passenger for Montreal).
54. Michael Brennan (waiter, of Montreal).
55. James Sullivan do.
56. Robert Wilson and two sons.
59. Maria Wilson.
60. Hypolite Asselin, deck hand of Montreal.
61. Xavier Hamel do.
62. Francois Charron do.
63. James Watson, son ani daughter.
66. Cleophas Boudreau, passenger by Montreal.
67. Marie Loue (squaw), passenger by Montreal.
68. Mrs. 111.‘Queen, son and daughter. •
71. Mrs. Mary Hunter and five children.
77. Joseph McEwing, baggageman on Montreal.
78. Mrs. Christian.
79. Three Misses Maxwell.
82. Mrs. Mcßeth (wife of Alsrxander, saved) and child
84. Mrs. M‘Lean (mother of Hugh, saved) and sister.
86. Mrs. Wilson (wife of Robert, saved) and three
children.
90. James Colqnhouta.
91. The son of Colin Campbell, who is saved.
92. The sister of Andrew Adams, who is saved.
93. Mrs. Lachlan (wife of John, who is saved).
94. Mrs. Qw.en (wife of James, who is saved) and five
children.
100. Mrs. M‘lienzie (mother of Catherine) five sons
and two o.aughters.
108, 'Mr. Christian, two boys and two girls.
113„ Mr. Cowell (brother of William, saved )
/la. Peter Sinclair (son of Colin and Mary.)
115. Mrs. Milne and five children.
121. Mr. Terriokson (husband of Mrs. Terrickson,
saved.)
122. Three (daughters of Mrs. Mansell, who la save°.
Mr. Mansell residee in Ottawa city.)
125. Catherine and Margaret BrooMfie".
eid (daughters of
Magaret, who is saved.)
126. Mr. McLean (husband of Mary, who is saved.)
127. Mr. Thomas
of Lachute (thee father of the
above.)

ACTION FOR CRIIL CON.

HUDSWELL it. TILLEY.—This was an action brought in.
the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, before Lard
Campbell and a common jury. The plaintiff is a clerk in
the office of Messrs. Quarles Harris, and Co., wine mer-
chants in the City, to recover compensation from the defen-
dant, a coach painter at Edmonton, for having debauched
his wife. Hannah Maynard, was the first witness
examined :—I am fifteen next September. I entered the
service of l%ir. and Mrs. Hadswell in January this year.
I remained with them six weeks. Taey were then living
in Tottenham. I know Mr. Tilley the younger.
h'e visited my mistress often while I was in their service.
He ,s'ime on Mondays; and she used to go to meat him on
wednm-lays and Saturdays at Woodford. On Mondays
t hers w
The upper sash of the window was let down.
by my mistress about half way. Sometimes I pulled
down the sash blily'oa
from hms
e a signal to let him know that Mr. Hudswell` was
.
mistress's direction: that was after
Mr. Hudswell had gone. Mr. Tilley then used to come
in—generally between ten and eleven, and he stayed
until four in the afternotan. He dined ha the house, Mr.
Hudswell carde home from business at six o'clock. Weatt
Tilley was in the house, the. sometimes had spirits. Thee_
blind of the parlonr was always pulled down when they-
were there. When Tilley went away at four o'clock, Mrs..
Hudswell went with him, if it was tine weather. I
sometimes, at her request, roet h r on her return.
home. Oa one occasion, when Tilley came, I was-
sent to an empty house next door. 1 got through a
gap in the garden rails. My- mistress directed me
to go and play with tha boy in the next house:.
That happened every Monday. I staved away about an
hour. I have seen my mistress and Mr. Tilley in the
psrleur together. He had his arm round her waist. Shes
sat sometimes on a chair and sometimes on his knee. (The
witness then described what she saw in the parlour on
one occasion, which left no doubt that a criminal inter--
course had taken place between them.) I made some-
remark to Mrs. Hudswell about his dress on that occasion,.
and she said he could not get any buttons sewn on his
trousers, and that she told him if he would take them off,
she would sew buttons on for him, Mr. Tiley gave me a
sixpauce, twice, not to tell any one that he same to the
house' Cross-exmined He gave me the sixpence on a
Monday, when l e was going away. I think it was on the
first Monday after I entered their seraiee. Til!ey vaned every
Monday—about six times altogether. On the Wednesdays-
and Saturdays I went to meet Mrs. Hudswell. I took the
boy with me. We went about a mile down the lane. The
parlonr door was closed when my mistress and Tilley werer
together. On the occasion when I caw his trousers un-
buttoned the door was closed, but I saw him when I opened
the door. Woodford is about six miles from the house. I
received 15s. from the plaintiff for my expenses in coming
here, I got 10a of it yesterday week, and ss. before that.
It was about 12 o'clock, when I observed Tilley'e dress.
The house at Tottenham contained only four rooms.
I knew Tilley welt to work at Woodford. He
left on Monday morning and came home on
Saturday night. On Wednesdays and Saturdays
I met Mrs. Hudswell near a public house on
the high road to Woodford. She used to quarrel
with her husband. He n vor began the quarrel. I have
never seen him strike her and knock her down. I did not
hold a basin after he had thrown a knife at her and struck
her on the arm. I have seen her throw a knife at him. I
know the witness Eliza Baffey. She was in the same
railway carriage with me when I was going home yesterday.
I had no conversation with her about this case. My mis-
tress and Tilley always had a regular dinner when they
were together. The child could talk and run about well.
He sometimes dined with them. The window sash was not
put down because the chimney smoked. Re-examined ;
The 15s. was all I got to pay my expenses. Every Monday
I took the child into the empty house next door for an boar.
James Jobbins: I superintend the business of the Horse
and Groom public-house at Edmonton. I know the,
defendant Tilley. His father's place of business is oppo-
site our house. " Tilley and Son "is over the door, and
the son is generally believed to be a partner. They are
very respectable people, and have a very good business.
There is a coach-house and a little piece of ground. They
are not carriage builders but carriage painters. They
sometimes employ an extra man. This concluded the
evidence for the plaintiff. Mr. Clarke, on the part of the
defendant, did not call any evidence, but said he was
instructed by him to reiterate his emphatic denial that he
was guilty of the charge imputed to him. It was wholly
impossible for the defendant to procure evidence to rebut
such testimony as that which had been adduced by
the plaintiff. Not a shadow of evidence had been
given to show that the defendant had abused the
plaintiff's hospitality by seducing his wife, and bringing
destruction upon his formerly happy home. The plaintiff
and his wife had been married six or seven years, and yet
the evidence as to the termsesig yvphOLtkv pm fir
%.• a
own witnesses admitted that he was in the habit of abusing
his wife ; that on one occasion he knocked her down, and
that the protection of the police was asked against his oat-
rageous conduct.' It also appeared that he was addicted to
habits of intoxication, and was altogether not a hus-
band who in such a case as this could ask for heavy
damages, even supposing that the guilt of the defendant
was proved, which, he contended, was not. Such a man
as the plaintiff was more likely to trump up a charge of
this kind in order to get rid of his wife, and mulct
the defendant in damages, because he knew how utterly
impossible inwould be for him to disprove such a charge.
The fury ought, therefore, to look upon the evidence with
great suspicion. Lewd or improper conduct on the part of
the wife was not sufficient; they must have evidence which
would clearly show that an act of adultery had been corns
mitted. He submitted that a weaker case had never been
brought before a court of justice, and that looking to all
the surrounding circumstances, the jury could not find a.
verdict against the defendant ; and thus place a stigma upon
the character of one who, in point of years, was a mere lad,
and whose conduct had been hitherto irreproachable. Lord
Campbell, in summing up, said he lamented that there was
such an action known to the law of England as that for
criminal conversation. He had long thought it a reproach .
to the jurisprudence that there should be an action for
damages where damages could be no compensation fur the
wrong sustained ; but could money be any compentiation
to a husband for the dishonour of his wife ? The
action was attended with many objections, and among
others, that the wife might be innocent and a victim, and
yet she had no opportunity of vindicating her innocence,.
For these and other.reasons, he hoped that this might be
the last action of this sort which he should be called upon
to try. A bill abolishing the action had passed ons branch
of the legislature, and he trusted it would pass the other,.
and receive the royal assent, and that our jurisprudence
would be freed from this stigma. But while the law
existed it must be put in force, and the jury would find
their verdict on the supposition that the action was.
a proper one. The first question they would have
to consider was, whether the act of adultry had,
been made out to their satisfaction. The express
evidence of an eye witness could not be expected,
was very rarely offered, and all the law required was, thah..:
such evidence should be laid before the jury as woulde;'
lead any man of sense and of the world to the conalusim
that the act had been accomplished. The two female
witnesses in this case—Baffey and Maynard—gave very
strong evidence in proof of the adultery. They seemedea
to be very modest and well-conducted girls, disposed tee
tell the truth, but on that matter the jury would toren
their own opinion. They were wholly uncontradinred,
and nothing had been proved which went in the sligFatest
degree to their discredit. With regard to the quest ion of
damages, his lordship thought there was no grerend for
giving a large amount. No evidence of deliberr.te seduc-
tion had been brought against the defendant. The plain-
tiff's wife had certainly been reduced to a TP,ry depraved
state. It was suggested that they
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had *lived happily
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she was not alone to blame, and in estimating the
,unbfuotrtuonfattehlayt.
damages they must consider what hat', been proved against
her husband. One witness saw th4e plaintiff knock her
down three or four times, and akso saw him come home
tipsy. Nothing could justify or palliate such conduct..
The jury would, therefore, probably think that the dam-
ages ought not to be exeessi:ce, but still there was no such
misconduct on the part of the plaintiff as perhaps would
induce them to say that., the damages should be merely
nominal. They could vof upon the evidence give damages
to mark their opinion that the plaintiff had mheonducte
himself and brought his own dishonour on himself. The
jury retired, and, rafter a brief absence from court, returned,
with a verdict f',,r the plaintiff—damages £2OO.

TESTIXCINIAL EY Tr
o'istry ...r: 4.0
RESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES TO AN EN
received by the :tom CApTAIN.—A letter has been
owner of the Ann Pitcairn, Captain
C,talPtain Sharpe (Mr. A. Henderson), from the General
of London, requtesing information as to the
v:he...
-:eabout, of that vessel, as the President of the United
S' at
"c---f'' desirod to present its captain (Sharp) with a
February last. The following is Captain Sharp's report'
of the occurrence. "We had 16 storms off Cape Flom.
An American ship, the Cathedral, of 2,000 tons, thundered
close to us. February 18, off Cape Horn. 'We saved 34
..
takingur o no mo ef
ft e r
the and
crewa gooil dt
he chain,A m e
r foriAmerican
servicessh ip craetnhdeedrreadl in
of crew, 27 of which we landed at
alparaiso
captain, doctor, stewardess, and by
hands went down
—O, I:
with the. ship IMEIN
...
,IT . '`i- The
—... $