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717EDNEDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The man Jones, accused of the murder of his
brother, was yesterday brought up for further
examination at the Police Court, and after some
evidence had been adduced, Mr. Mansfield came
to the determination of sending the prisoner to
the assizes for trial on a charge of manslaughter.
The coroner's jury found a verdict of guilty of
manslaughter, and he hsa been accordingly com-
mitted for trial under the coroner's warrant also.
At Birkenhead, yesterday, the three men charged
with the murder of the man Drury, who was found
dead, with a number of wounds on his body, on
Sunday night, was brought up for examination
before the ma2istrates. The evidence did not
seem to be of much importance so far, and the
inquiry has been adjourned until Saturday. The
man who was stabbed at the same time is at the
Birkenhead Hospital, and yesterday made his
depositions.
The monthly meeting of the Toxteth Board of
Health was held yesterday, but no business of im-
portance was transacted. The Board will take into
consideration, on an early day, the proposition of
Mr. Boult, that Toxteth Park district should annex
itself to the Borough of Liverpool.
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The meeting of the Birkenhead Commissioners
was held last night, an ample report of which will
be found in another column.

At the fortnightly mee.',ing of the Select Vestry
yesterday, a conversation occurred in reference to
the recent dancing-rooms prosecution. The
general opinion seemed to prevail that the expenses
of the prosecution should not be paid out of the
poir rates, but as it was compulsory that such be
done, it was hoped that s::rne alteration would be
made in the law. Messrs. Radiey and Caine will
not rec3ive the amount they are entitled to for
in forming.
The charge brought against Nit. Ros-, in London,
by Sir R. W. Carden, for endeavcuring to obtain
money by threatening a libel, has fa len to the
ground, the magistrates deciding that there has
been some mistake in the matter.

A somewhat singular charge was brought against
a respectable female, at one of the London Police
CourLs, on Monday—v'z., for forging a telegraphic
message. She was discharged, after promising
not to repeat the operation.
The Committee of the Church Missionary Society
have pronounced upon the religious aspect of the
Indian question, and in a way which probably will
excite the surprise of politicians. The Society
commended the humiliation of tc- lay on the
ground that the revolt is a Divine:judgment, aris-
ing, as we understand their document, from this
Cause, that two generations of the teeming popula-
tion of India have been allowed to pass away
withou.:, being taught the truths of Christianity
The guilt of this, we aro next informed, is
to be divided between the Government of
British India and the Christian churches
of Great Britain—a steement that will be
interpret3d to mean that the State church prin-
ciple should have been far more upheld than it has
been in our Indian possessions. This is more
obvious from what follows, because the Indian
authorities are urged to avow themselves a Christian
Government, to introduce the Bible into the
Government schools, and to make the same moral
law which exists in England the moral law that
must be compulsory in India, The Committee
aid that all religious forms might be " tolerated,"
and that a proclamation should be made that no
" compulsion" should be used. The meaning of
the Church Missionary SN-tiety is clear enough,
namely, that to avert the Divine judgment for the
future. India should receive precisely the same
ecclesiastical constitution which we have at home.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has just delivered
a lengthened address on questions 'elating to the
present condition of the church. As to the Divorce
Bill, he was decidedly adverse to many of its enact-
ments, and he was glad to find so many clergymen
opposing some of the obnoxious provisions, which
opposition has met with success. Respecting
the church rate question, he is of opinion that
it wouid he unjust to abolish it, as only 5 out of 100
parishes had shown any opposition to the impost.
He congra •ulated his clergy upon the almost entire
absence of late of perversions—" he might call
them apostasies from the troth His Grace next
adverted to the S:riptures, and hinted that he was
opposed to any new verbion, and he concluded by
deplo:iug the spr,ad of Romish principles
and of latitudinarian speculation, together
with the indi&reuee and demoralisation of the
working classes, and a desecration of the Lord's
day, consequent on the introduction of railways.
On Monday, an important meeting of the Surrey
Ganiens shareholders was held. The directlrs
presentei a vindicatory report, which controverts
the various charges that have been preferred against
them. They state that they believe X 25,000 will
cover the whole of the demands upon the CJrnpany,
and they say that "if the simple contract creditors
will agree to accept preferential charges upon the
property of the Company for their debts, there can
be no difficulty in arranging for the future." They
advise the shareholders to discontinue the respon-
sibility of musical entertainments, but to let their
premises at an annual rental. A long discussion
ensued, and in the end a committee of investiga-
tion was appointed, a proceeding which the Direc-
tors themselves supported.
In alluding to the vacancy in the representation of
East Kent, consequent upon the retirement of Sir
E. Deering, a local paper of yesterday, speaks
of Mr Deedes, lately member for the county, Mr.
E. Rice, lately M.P. for Dover, and Mr. C. M.

Lushington, lately M.P. for Canterbury, as likely
to be brought forward. " Neither Tory nor Liberal,"
it says, " is as well prepared for a contest as might
have been the case."
From the Continent we do not publish any
striking intelligence this morning. The Prussian
Bank at Berlin has raised its rate of discount to
6 per cent.
In spite of the peaceful tendencies engendered
by the Stuttgardt events, the Emperor Napoleon
has too great a sympathy for his soldiers to allow
their school of war at Chalons to be broken up
again. The camp will be established as a perma-
nent one. We suppose the French will do the
thing cheaper and more effectively than we can do
it at Aldershott.
If certain statements contained in Belgian
papers are to be believed, the Sublime Porte has
taken the initiative in renewing the diplomatic
debates on the union of the Danubian Princi-
palities. According to these statements the
Cabinet of Constantinople has sent a circular
despatch to the representatives of Turkey at the
European Courts, wherein, in the name of the
integrity of the Ottoman empire, it protests
against the idea of a political union of Moldavia
and Wallachia.

Accounts from Antwerp mention a very singular
circumstance. It appears that the greater portion
of letters received by merchants of that port, from
Calcutta, had been opened. A correspondent of
the Independance Belge adds (or, probably, invents)
that several passages in the letters were scratched
out. Of course the authorities at Calcutta are
suspected by the continental press of having
tampered with the mail ; but this is impossibl,. It
is highly necessary, however, that an inquiry
should be made into the subject, as the fact of the
letters having arrived open seems undoubted.
The news from America by the Baltic does not
add much to the particulars already published
respecting the loss of the steamer Central America.
The brig, which it was expected had saved the
captain, and others, had arrived at Boston, but
without any tidings of any of the missing, and
there now seems an almost impossibility of more
being saved than 102, leaving nearly 4-10
to hive met a watery grave. The
Money panic at New Yurk had spread to Phila-
delphia, and two or three banks in the latter city
had already suspended payment, and it was ex
pected the whole of the monetary establishments
there would follow the same course. The Govern
ment were making every exertion to prevent the
departure of any fillibustering expedition to Nica-
ragua.

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