Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-09 00:00:00

ST. GEORGE'S-IN-THE-EAST

Three lads, named Henry Wright, James Humphreys,
Curstin Cartjohn, And a woman, named Draper, were
charged at the Thames Police Court, on Monday, with
having taken part in the riots at St. George's-in-the-
East, on, Sunday night. After hearing the evidence,
Mr. Yardley said the case amounted literally to nothing.
He hoped the remarks he was about to make would
do some good, and that he should not again hear
of these frightful disturbances in a place set apart for
the 'worship of Almighty God. He was, however,
almost inclined to despair of it—he utterly despaired
of it. (Sensation.) He had said all he could in
the way' of advice, admonition, and remonstrance. The
strong arm of the law must be applied to put an end to
the outrageous proceedings in St. George's Church, for
things were carried on to an extreme.' If the, general
disturbances were ever so great, and whether persons
went to the church with one common design or not, they
ought to be proceeded against for a riot ; if it could be
proved they were' acting in, concert it would amount to
a conspiracy. In such cases accessories were liable to
conviction as well as principals, and whenever a case of
creating a disturbance in a church was made out, he
could answer for himself, and also for his colleague Mr.
Selfe, that the summary powers entrusted to them
would be put in force. It was not a question
whether the services as conducted in St. George's
Church were objectionable or not, but whether mob law
was to belolerated in this country. He could not help
thinking if the persons whose duty it was to preserve
i law and order n the church had 'exerted themselves
with more vigilance and zeal these scandalous scenes, so
disgraceful to the country, would have been long since
put down. - If any wicked persons went to the church
to destroy property, the "punishment was six months'
imprisonment an-4, hard labour, and they might probably
go further, and involve themselves in a charge of riot,
and subject themselves to two years' imprisonment ;
or be concerned in the partial 'demolition of the
interior of the sacred edifice, and then the punish-
ment would be penal servitude for life. He was afraid
things would go on from bad to worse, until persons
were brought before him on charges involving a sentence
of penal servitude for their natural lives. He hope'd the
peaceable and well-disposed would join the authorities
of the church in restoring peace in the distracted parish
of St. George,' and for ever putting 'an end to a state of
things which' every rightiv-coristituted mind must sin-
cerely deplore. •If it sboull happen there were any more
of these disturbances' in St. George's Church, he hoped
the ringleaders, theprincipal offenders, would be brought
- before him. The prisoners were then discharged.

TAximox IN SCOTLAND.—In the Scottish counties,
according to a late return, the amount of income-tax
was £616,337 ; the house tax, £17,142; the land tax,
£26,695; the stamps, £12,174 ; the Excise licenses,
£52,303, 44r.c., making the- whole of the direct taxation
£840,37.
The Sussex Advertiser states that at the interview of
the hop planters with the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
on Friday, it appeared that it was. not Mr. Gladstone's
intention to. touch the tax ; nevertheless he was fully
alive to its unequal pressure upon certain districts and
planters, with whom it rested to propound some remedy.
THE ALPACAS IN'IiCUSTRA lA.—The Sydney Morning
Herald states that about 200 of the alpacas and llamas
imported into Australia by Mr. Leger have recently
been shorn. The wool produced is about six cwt.
The fleeces are of three kinds—those obtained froM
pure alpacas, those from llamas, and those from hybrids
between the two breeds. It is intended to ship the
wool to England, to be sold at the London wool sales.
"'As the entire flock were shorn either just before
embarking or directly after landing, the wool is essen-
tially the produce of Australia, and will give an assurance
to the English manufacturers of the yearly augment-
ing quantities which they may
.expect from the colony.
Samples of the wool ' are being forwarded by this
mail to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and
to other mercantile companies, who are likely to regard
with interest the g.radual* development of this new
branch of producing industry, and to appreciate duly its
importance in relation to British Commerce. The alpaca
fleeces are characterised by the length and fineness of
the fibre. These qualities are particularly noticeable in
the lambs born in the colony, which Mr. Leger asserts
to surpass any he has ever seen in Peru of the same age.
One important feature' in the fleeces of alpaca wool is
the entire absence of the yolk,. or grease, the presence of
which diminishes so much the commercial value of the
staple of this colony."—A meeting was recently held in
Sydney, under the presidency of Sir P. Nicholson,
when it was resolved to raise a subscription for the
purpose of presenting. a testimonial to Mr. Leger.
A Tn-ELLTIsSoN WILL ' BEPORE THELLussoN.—The
Dutch papers are now discussing an extraordinary will,
made at Amsterdam 150 years ago, by an exceedingly
wealthy Mynheer, an Israelite, named Jacob Pereyra.
Out of file immense wealth left by him he only allowed
20,000 guilders annually to his widow and children. The
remainder, consisting of Dutch East India Bonds and
other securities—then considered as safe as valuable,—
he left in trust to the wardens of his synagogue, who,
after 150 years, were' to convene by advertisements in
the papers all his descendants, and after rendering
them an account of the stewardship before the judges,
were to devote 100,000 guilders to the endowment
'of a certain eharity, and then to divide the remainder in
equal proportion between the heirs. The 150 years will
expire in February,'lB6l. Meanwhile, the descendants
of Pereyra are summoned to appear before the Lords'
Judges in the Chamber of Justice at Amsterdam, on the
7th of June next, 'at eleven o'clock in the morning pre-
cisely, there to receive a full and faithful rendering of
the trust. The formalities of the law are of course com-
plied with, but it is well known, as in the. Thelusson
case, a sad disappointment awaits the sanguine heirs.
The accumulation of the immense wealth of.. Pereyra
will hardly be sufficient to meet the first charge
of the endowment. The greater portion of the
securities, which fo'r more than 50 years after his death
paid 40 per cent., have dwindled down into almost
worthless
.paper. The bankruptcy of the East India
Company in 1775, the revolution and French invasion
in 1795, the loss of colonies and tiade, the war taxes,
and the disastrous - annexations to France, have done
their work. The settlement of the national debt at, the
Restoration in' 1813 'completed the ruin wrought-by-the
previous calamities. The wealth of Pereyra, instead or
attaining. in 150 years the colossal dimensions 'expected
by the testator, has shrunk into a mere nothing, thus
pointing once more the moral so impressively taught by
the Thellusson Chronicle,