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41.0YAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
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Week ending 7th October, . 2,188
Ditto 14th October .....• • • 2,162
Ditto 21st Oct ,ber .••••• • • 2,075
Ditto 28th 0ct0ber...... •• 2,241
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Dr. Jennings here entered the room, and said—Dr. Por-
ter and myself find, on examining the body, that there is
no doubt the man has been brutally murdered—his head
is a perfect mass of wounds. (Sensation.) Dr. Jennings
then requested that the members of the jury would once
more examine the body.
The jury accordingly left the room for this purpose, and
on their return,
Mr. Beausire's examination was resumed. He stated—
Over 1,5001. was found in deceased's office yesterday. I
had not seen him for some eight or ten days. The reason
of the amount being so great is that the Mullingar fair
was held on Monday and Tuesday, when there was a much
larger
thebank three
than usual.
times
week. o
Deceaseda as cashier,
n y ems
taedred lodg-
ments h
should have lodged the money for Wednesday, Thursday,
and part of Tuesday. He had a safe in the office, in which
he kept the company's money until lodged. It was gene-
rally known among the clerks in the office that there were
large sums of money in his office. Besides the clerks it
might be known to a certain extent among the porters,
because it was one of the porters, named William Macau-
ley,-who was in the habit of carrying the cash boxes from
the different stations to the office of the deceased. Mr.
Little was, in my opinion, a quiet, amiable, and unoffend-
ieg gentleman. I am not aware of his having a dispute
with any person' in the company's service or out of it;
and I am not aware that any person whatever bore
towards him. A lady called on me yesterday at half-past
twelve o'clock, and represented herself as the sister of the
deceased. She said he had not been at home all night,
and that she was-very anxious about him, as she feared
he h.d been taken seriously ill, and was unable to let
her know. She said, further, that he lived in the same
house with her, and added that she did not wish me to take
any steps until she had seen her friend, Mr. Bond. She
then left me and did not again return. Every Friday I
have to sign certain cheques which are handed to me by
,Mr. Bennett, one of the clerks. These checks were brought
to me yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, by Mr.
Bennett. I accordingly signed them. It was part of Mr.
Bennett's duty to hand those cheques to Mr. Little aft, C
they obtain my signature; and in about an hour after-
wards Mr. Bennett retarned to tell me that Mr. Little had
not been to his office that morning, and asked me what I
was to do. He suggested that I should send some one to
Mr. Little's house, in Waterloo road, to inquire about
him. I sent a clerk named Magee. It was shortly after
Magee left that deceased's sister called, as already stated;
and accordingly, under the circumstances, I thought it my
duty to make further inquiry in the office. When I got
to the deceased's office I saw his assistant, Mr. Chamber.
lain, standing in the passage. I asked him why he was
not in the office at his business. He said that Mr. Little
had got the key. I immediately gave orders for a person
at the works to come down and open the door. Before I
did so I tried the door and found it locked, and looked
through the key-hole, but the scutcheon was down, so that
I could not see into the room. Finding we could not get in
without breaking open the door, I gave orders to do so.
I changed my mind, however, and, as there is a window
in the passage, opposite the door of his office, by which
access may be gained to the roof of the station, from which
a person may be enabled to look through the window of
the cashier's office, I sent a boy named Hanlon out, upon
the roof, who attempted to look in at the window, but the
blind was down, and he came back and said all was dark.
Brophy, the foreman carpenter, then got out on the roof,
and first stated all was dark, but afterwards went back,
and looking carefully said he saw the gas-light burn-
ing. I then told him to break the window, or undo the
fastening that he might get in, as I was sure that Mr.
Little was inside. Instead of breaking the window he
raised the nails which fastened it and got in, followed by the
boy Hanlon; the engineer, Mr. Cabrey, the traffic manager;
Mr. Forbes, myself, and several clerks were outside the
door of deceased's office in the passage. We heard Brophy
say from within, "Mr. Little is here lying dead, and there
is no key in the door." The door was then forced in by
Brophy and Hanlon working inside, and by we who were
outside pushing. I went inside and found Mr. Little lying
on his right cheek and stomach and chest, his head in a
pool of blood, his right hand under him, and his left lying
upon the floor, with the palm upon the ground. The blinds
upon the windows were down, and the gas lighted, but not
full. All his papers were in perfect order, and his money
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in pounds. There was an empty basin on the desk, on the
.floor a jug, and beyond the jug a towel saturated with
oaut the slightest
knife
lying
mark the
of t ab
blood,l e
—a
and smalle
very small penknife in the drawer which was half open.
moanenmsteeintthfoart at
h
th Above where the body lay there was a pair of scissors on
the table. I searched for the key of the door vain. I
til medicalroat naosfn ,
deceaseda nd D r .
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sr Barker came.aed In thethle
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To a Juror—my
esvhaesel ind the o ffice sayingrase4tshelaltfelrwas
•ut all night from any
be
told
from the circumstance'
convinced that lb
he lei eevnendl
could
deceased
not
h be
of
uror—Did the ctlehrek
usual, and that the light was
rmnointgiv.e, and from the fact
thatseen in the office that morning—
of his not havina•
key
o f wasdeceased not ie nv
Another J
door ?
Witness—The lock was etrhelodeeketrhaes
previous, in consequence
fnot. put on till about five days
night before by a man
goion his being alarmed about a fort-
cash and asking where the g in
while he was counting the
quence of that a lock was engineer's office was. In conse-
fasten from the inside. put upon the door and made to
To the Coroner—Deceased was
in his office from pressure of bu..'sonsetimes obliged to stay
am not aware that he was ever i'iness until a late hour. a the office To meet the convenience of the after 9 o'clock.
then arranged that their evidenc medical gentlemen it was
order. e should be taken next in
Dr. George Porter sworn —I have e
deceased carefully, assisted by Dr. jexamined the body of
incised wound over each eyebrow. Thnenringi- There is an
higher up upon the forehead, three other se are
&°®
wounds
a deep wound above the left ear,
anetheroncithe left cheek,
front of the left ear. The pupil of the righteep wound in
rendered smaller than the left. There is als eye
has been
on the vertex, seven others on the back of the
and wound
of these being crucial. The tip of the right ear se hid' one
and attached only by a piece of skim A wound a:fsevered
about
five inches in length extends across the throat f
level of the left ear to an inch and a half beyond rona the
the me-
ga! line, removing the tip of the left ale of the th r
cartilage. The external and internal jugular veins oil it°lad
left side have been divided ; the carotid artery of the
same aide being partially severed, The cesophagus was cut

To the Coroner—A pedlar called on Thursday in Mr.
Little's office, about three o'clock. Mr. Little stood up and
opened the wicket in the counter. The man showed two
pairs of spectacles, and asked would he buy them. Mr
Little said he would not, as they were not so good as his
own. 1 never saw the man before. When he came in there
was money lying on the desk. I thought he was a Jew and
a foreigner, and so did Mr. Little. He stayed about a
quarter of an hour, and when he went out I said he was
very troublesome. Deceased replied that Jews were very
persevering.

Edwin Taylor, messenger, sworn and examined—l recol•
lect the circumstance of a Lean calling a fortnight or three
weeks ago. I was in the act of going out at the time. He
asked for Mr. Cabrey, and I told him to go up stairs and
turn to the right. He did so, and while he was walking
up stairs I looked after him, and the man turned round
and looked at me. I then went-out and saw-no more of
him. I had no suspicion at the time. He was dressed in
a glean fustian jacket. When I told the man to go up
stairs I was under the impression Mr. Cabrey had not gone.
A boy named Thomas Moore, messenger to Mr. Cabrey,
was sworn, and stated that ho did not sea any man that
night.

Anne Gunning, housekeeper, was next examined. She
said-1 reside on the premises with my husband. I know I
Mr. Little. His hour for going was uncertain. He some-
times stayed until near 10 o'clock, but always left the key
of the office in the door. My servant used to go round to
rake down the fires and clean the office at night. The last
time 1 saw deceased was at 10 o'clock in the morning of
Thursday. I went to Mr. Little's office door at half-past
7 o'clock. The door was locked, but on the opposite side
of the passage I saw the reflection of the light, which was
streaming through the keyhole. I turned the handle of
the door, but heard no voice.
Catherine Campbell examined—I am the servant of Mrs.
Gunning. I usually go round the offices to rake down tho
fires at a little past 5 o'clock,
when all the clerks are gone.
I went round at half•past 5
o'clock on Thursday evening.
I shook Mr. Little's door, which I found locked, but got
no answer. I came down stairs and went through the
offices, but I met no strangers. I saw two of Mr. Kirwan's
clerks, who told me to keep their fire alight, as Mr. Thorn-
ton, one of the two, had to come back. When in Mr. Cul-
len's office, which is immediately underneath the office of
the deceased, at a quarter past 7 o'clock, just, while the bell
for the mail train was ringing, I heard a footstep overhead
as if he was walking. When shutting the doors on Thurs-
day night, at 11 o'clock, I went to the door of Mr. Little's
office and found it locked. I had a lamp in my hand, and
did not see any light or hear any voice, though I shook the'
door. His general practice when I went to the door, to
see whether he was gone or not, if inside, was to say, "I
am not guns yet." I cannot tell when the clerks in Mr.
Kirwin's office went. I never knew Mr. Little to be later
than 9 o'clock. Ou Monday and Tuesday night he was in-
side at about 6 o'clock, and the door locked, when I passed,
but when I shook the door he answered me. On Thursday
night, when the key was not forthcoming, I thought either
that Mr. Little had taken the key with him, or that Mrs.
Gunning had locked the door. I was sure it was his footstep
I heard from the room underneath. I can swear that it was
his, which I knew very well. He had a peculiar step, and
his boots creaked very much. I am sure I locked the doors
of the house on that night about 11 o'clock.
Patrick Hanhury, station master, deposed—On Friday
morning, when passing on to the platform, at half-past six
o'clock, I found the door of communication open, and
thought Gunning had gone out before me and had left it
so. There is a policeman stationed on the platform every
night until about ten o'clock, when he is relieved by a
watchman, who remains until half-past six o'clock iu the
morning.

Bernard Gunning, clerk in the locomotive department,
and who also resides in the house, swore that the door
leading to the platform was open when he went out about
7 o'clock on Friday morning ; he thought it had been
opened by Hanbury. At 11 o'clock on Thursday night,
when witness was upon the platform, everything seemed
quiet, and there was no appearance of any person about
the premises.

James Brophy, foreman carpenter at the carriage sheds,
next gave evidence respecting the manner which, by di-
rection of Mr. Beausire, the apartment had been entered.
Ho said—On getting in I found a great quantity of money
lying in perfect order upon the table, a bundle of bank
cheques was lying on the desk, and the wicket in the
counter was open. The body was lying as has been de-
scribed.

Constable William Hughes, SO. D, produced a pair of
spectacles, glasses, a small key, a half-crown wrapped up
in paper, a penny, and a watch and key, with a small office
knife, which had been foand in the room, and upon the
body of the deceased. The watch was stopped at 20 mi-
nutes past 7.

The evidence having been concluded,
The Coroner, addressing the jury, said—ft is not neces-
sary for me to say much to you about the case, nor I think
to read over the testimony. Mr. Porter and Dr. Jennings
have told you that the skull was fractured, and that in
their opinion the dezeased was struck first upon the head
whilst stooping by some blunt instrument, and that the
other injuries must have been afterwards inflicted. The
office key and the instruments used have not boon found ;
but, as far as we can judge, the murder was perpetrated
between 7 and half-past 11 o'clock.

The jury, without any hesitation, returned a verdict of
wilful murder against some person or persons unknown.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

DUBLIN, JNIONDAY EVENING.
Some new circumstances have come to light, tending to
give an idea of how the crime was committed, and of the
escape of the murderer. It would appear from a careful
examination of the cashier's room that the concealment of
a person from the occupant of the room was totally im-
possible, and that further deceased was at his table, or in
the neighbourhood of it, when the assassination touk place,
for the marks remaining go to show that every act, so far
as can be conjectured, was committed within a circle of

Mr. H. BERKELEY, at the Anchor dinner, after some
remarks on local politics, spoke as follows :—What are
Conservative principles now ? It would puzzle any man
to tell. It is not for me to stand here and find principles
for Conservatives ; I can only rejoice that I can find
none to talk about. I find nothing to attack—nobody
to put down. (Laughter.) There is a rumour of a par y
which is to exist in the House of Commons ; there is a
rumour of getting up a war-cry. What is that war-cry ?
Why, gentlemen, they are driven to enlist as proselytes
of the late Lord George Gordon—(laughter)—and have
got up a war-cry of "No Popery !" Well, I wish the
Tories joy of that cry. Bat my own opinions are these,
—that when we see Roman Catholics bleeding side by
side at Inkerman and Balaklava ; when we see
the glorious deeds of our Florence Nightingale
rivalled by those of the Sisters of Mercy—(hear, hear)—
then I say that if there be an excuse to be made
for the Roman Catholic I will make that excuse for the
man who died in the same field with the Prutestant, and
yields his soul to God for the honour of his Queen.
(Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, there is one great liberty
which we take as Liberals. We have various opinions ;
they don't amount to schisms, although our enemies
wish that they should. They simply amount to differ-
ences of opinion. One says you are wrong in your opi-
nion, while the other says no, it is you are wrong ; we
are right. But we never lose sight of the great principles
of the Liberal party. Now, I have touched upon this
question because it involves a difference between my
hon. friend and myself. We do not view the " No Po-
pery" cry in the same light. He is conscientious. I
hope I am. He is a good Protestant—his father was
before him, that I know, and I hope I am a good Pro•
testant also. Bet it has been said in this city that I am
not. Now, then, I will give you my idea of a Protestant. I
A. liberal Protestant is one'who worships God according
to his conscience—who abides by his principles and ideas
on the subject, and who accords the same liberty to every
body eke. Now I ant addressing myself to gentlemen of
vauious religious opinions, but I know they will bear
with me if they do not agree with me. I am a Church of
England man; I know my intimate, Mr. Coates, is a
Dissenter, and around me I see gentlemen who don't
agree with me, but still they will tolerate me as a Pro-
testant of the Church of England. (Cheers.) The Church
of England is now divided in such a way that its best
friends only pray that it may not fall. What do I
know about High Church or Low Church ? Fighting
for High Church or Low Church ? Ob, how every Die
center must laugh to see such division awl such dissen-
sion about matters which are in themselves so very un-
important. How they must see that the weakness of
the Church of England lies in these dissensions. Permit
me to say that I speak only my own opinions. I do
not trench upon those of any man and, moat particularly,
I do not trench upon those of my friend Mr. Langton,
whose opinions I know are most conscientious, and
whose opinions in the House of Commons are, for the
most part, my opinions ; and who goes with me, shoulder
to shoulder, into the lobby. We simply differ upon
points of conscience—points of conscience on his part,
but not on mind. I am not a Protestant, so I am told
at a meeting in this city—a meeting at which I cao prove
a canvass was attempted to be instituted for the only
Protestant member for Bristol, Mr. Langton—as if they
could separate me from Langton—(laughter and cries of
" No, no")—as if Mr. Langton could for one moment
doubt my being an equally good Protestant with himself.
! Now, these gentlemen who band themselves together to
pursue this course, and who have established a sort of
clerical and lay pack of hounds to hunt Roman Catholics,
have, in my opinion, taken a false view. Does this pack
expect to find a cardinal sitting?—(laughter)—to attempt
to get upon the track of a Jesuit 1 (Laughter.) Why,
if I were to go out hunting in that way I should expect,
instead of finding a sitting cardinal or Jesuit to start a
Puseyite parson—(laughter)—for really, gentlemen, be•
tween a Roman Catholic priestand a Puseyite parson I ee
very little difference. (" There is not.") Well, then, I
,ay, however had the religion of the Roman Catholic
may be, however much we may dislike the Roman Ca-
tholic religion, let us leave the Catholics in the consci-
entious enjoyment of it. Let them do their worst. If
the Church of England cannot oppose a bulwark against
Popery, depend upon it the Dissenting body of Protes-
tants in this country would never see a State church
formed of Roman Catholics. This country would run
from one end to the other with blood before that could
be done, and becomeaeain the scene of revolution in its
worst shape, and I confess that, with all tolerance for
Roman Catholics, I would rather draw the sword than
see snob a thing happen. Well, gentlemen, these re-
marks have been forced upon me because at a certain
meeting at which my friend, Mr. Langton, took the
chair, very naturally and properly with his feelings, but
in which a party of excited gentle ten, who were not at
either Alma or Inkerman, bat who reside at. Clifton—
one Colonel Crauford—l do not know whether Bishop
Davie was there or not—asserted, not that I was a Ro-
man Catholic, but that I was not the Protestant member
for Bristol. I know a clergyman in that meeting who
was canvassed for his vote against me, and for my friend
Mr. Langton, yet so well do I know my friend Mr.
Langton, that I am sure be would be no friend of his
who gave such a vote. (Hear, hear.) What was that
clergyman's reply ? " I came here to hear something
about Popery, unci pot to condemn Mr. Berkeley, after
so many years' service, as net being the Protestant mew-
ber for Bristol." That was thertVv'
and
fair one. Now, gentlemen, if there is an;
I think it a ver
thing I reveroy
it is the Protestant service of the Churelt ;14"
rendered according to the appropriate form. fir elke every
gentleman to hold such religion as he may believe to
best, but there is to me something so beautiful and s 3
sacred in our cathedral service, well rendered, the beau- •
tiful music echoing through the old arches, that I coo- •
fess it affects me with devotional feelings such as I
feel in no other place. Now, I see, a gentleman named
josZe or Jose—(a laugh)—at a late examination of the
Colston boys, lamented that the lads were not allowed
to join in the chanting, and that the Rev. Canon Girdle-
stone, also,
was in favour of the boys raising their
voices, as he called it. If they do, then there is an end
of our cathedral service and of that beautiful, solemn,
and sublime, and ancient music which has come down
to us from the days of Henry VIII. If this is to be
broken in upon by tie!, howling of schoolboys, away goes

our cathedral service, and we shall have a sort of Dutch
concert instead--(a laugh)—and if our cathedral service
is -abolished, many may think that deans and canons
could also be dispensed with. (Hear, and a laugh.) I
will now, if you will suffer me, touch upon one or two
other points. During the last session of Parliament
very little has been done by way of legislation in the
progress of reform, and much blame has been attri.
buted to Parliament for that reason, I think without
a cause. You must please to recollect that her Ma
jeety Queen Victoria has been mounted on a great war-
horse, which she has ridden boldly with the people io
full cry at her heels. What follows ? She has ridden
that war-horse. to the destruction of the supremacy
of the princtral Power of Europe. A blow has
been struck—morally, if not physically, struck—
which will be long remembered by that Power. I be-
lieve that that war was extremely popular, and no doubt
exists in my mind but that the people of England were
determined that England should take her place among
the nations ; that England should have a voice, and, if
necessary, that England should have an arm—(cheers)—
and Queen Victoria has carried that determination out.
It would be unjust in us to deny to Lord Palmerston the
merit which I think and which you think, I see, belongs
to him for having been—to use an old expression so often
applied to William Pitt—" the pilot that weathered the
storm." (Cheers.) To Lord Palmerston, with his deci-
sion, his energy, and hie great capabilities, I bow with
every reverence ; but I wish Lord Palmerston was more
of a Liberal. (Cheers.) He has well maintained his high
position in dealing with the affairs of the war, but we
wish him now to turn his attention to moral progress
and the retornaation of abuses. (Cheers.) Will he do that
remains to be proved ; it will be for you to judge of him
,by his acts ; I am sorry to judge of him by his antece-
dents. Among the questions of the day arose that of
the final-administration of certain departments of Go-
vernment' during the war. Mr. Roebuck asked for a
committee, as he does on all occasions, daringly,
b Ally, and with ability. He obtained that committee.
It is not so very difficult to obtain a committee,
because it binds the House of Commons to nothing.
But what did that committee actually do ? It pieced
4r. Russell, the Times' correspondent, on a pinnacle,
for it proved every word of his correspondence to be
true—that he had not overdrawn the abuses which
existed. (11, ar, hear.) Mr. R iebuck's committee was
of the greatest consequence to the Times. But what did
it do in the House of Commons ? Nothing. There was
no response to that report in the house. It caused an
extraordinary feeling throughout the country that ad-
ministrative reform was necessary; so much the com-
mittee did. But then, what is administrative reform !
Who can tell me ? I never saw the man who could. I
can see no hope of any administrative reform without a
reform of the House of Commons. ("No, no.") Certain
remarks, I think, were put forward by the Administra-
tive Reform As ociation, that there is in the House of
Commons a set of aristocratic dummies, and that you at
the next election must remove them. Aye, it is all very
well to say you must remove those dummies, but how
can you remove them from the House before 3ou de-
stroy their influence in the country ? (Cheers.) How are
you to remove the nominees of Peers and of the money
oligarchy from the House of Commons, when the elec-
toral power of this country, taken as a body—of course
there are exceptions—are dummies of the aristocracy
and moneyocracy ? (Hear.) How is it to be done ? lam
for administrative reform—l go every length the Ad•
ministrative Reform Association wishes me. But how
is this to be done ! You cannot remove the aristocratic
dummies from the House of Commons until you
free the electors from their influence. So long
as the aristocracy and landocracy can send 500
or 600 men to vote as they please, without even
taking the trouble of asking them to give a vote but
through their stewards or underlings, how can you ex-
pect these men to speak the truth of their own con •
sciences at the polling booth. (Hear, hear.) You can't
do it. It is impossible, so long as the aristocratic influ-
ence remains, that you can do it. You care have neither
arrie, svform nor any other reform, so long as the great
majority of representatives are elected by the aristocracy
and money oligarchy. (Hear, hear.) How loon the
people may please to demand the first step towards re-
form, the leading step to reform, how soon they may
demand the ballot—(cheers)—is a question not for me to
resolve. I know this, that were the concentrated essence
of the sense of Daniel Defoe, Evelyn, George Grote, and
Lord Durham in the House of Commons, aristocratically
formed as it is, it would be of no avail until the people
move out of doors. Then what is to move the people
out of doors ? Nothing will move the people to reform
the House of Commons but great disasters. When these
disasters are at their doors, when they find themselves
overcome by taxation, with halt representation—(hear,
hear)—then they may move once snore, and until then
we who earnestly and honestly go into the House of
Commons and lift up our voices for this reform will have
to stand and be sneered at; not overcome by argument,
for that I defy, but to be sneered at by the Times, as
men having a crotchet, attempting impossibilities, and
all that sort of thing. To take the Times's argument
ia this very question, and what was it f It was
so weak and so miserable that, as I stated in the
House of Commons, there is no puny whipater of
an editor situated either in a Scotch border or the
top of a Welsh mountain who cannot master the Times
in argument upon this subject. It has been said, gen-
tlemen—and perhaps they think I am a nervous man—
that lamto be put down. No, gentlemen, lam not to
be put down. (Cheers.) lamto be put down by you,
but by no other body in England. (Cheers.) I trust to
bear honestly and boldly the shield which you have in-
trusted to me ; I intend to return that shield to you as
spotless as when you entrusted it to me, and allow me to
say, that I intend to be under it. (Cheers.) Now, gen-
tlemen, as regards other questions with which I have
been more or less concerned. There is that atrocious act
of Parliament called the Corrupt Practices Preventive
Bill. Well, the Times newspaper entered a very clever
protest against it. It stated it to be most miserable, and
I was very happy to see the Times say so, for nobody
caa doubt the power of that paper. I ventured to say
as much in the House of Commons in opposing that act
when the Times, which in 1855 bad said that it was a
pompous slum, and meant te be inoperative, in 1856
turned round, lauded the bill, and wondered that Mr.
Berkeley should oppose it. However, Lord Palmerston
considered the bill so faulty and its details eo miserable
that upon my making opposition to it he promised it
should be submitted to A committee this year, and we
have now to see what the committee will do. That
committee will do what every other committee does
—make a report, but when such report gets into that
rotten House of Commons they will to it, "We
are not going to be gagged, we will say what we
like to our dependents ; stuff and nonsense, let us go
to the vote." Then they will go into the lobby, and
away goes the report of the committee. We, in our
efforts for reform, have to undergo a good deal of re-
proach, but we look to our consciences and our friends,
we rely upon our constituents, and likewise we look to
the public press, and I thank God that the press of
England is not limited to tee Times. Even in this city
we have a press which is able to point out to our con-
stituents that which we really have done. It is very
true that the Liberal party has no girty press ; you
may just as well attempt to govern soloany mad bulls
As the editors of Liberal papers, and I am perfectiy de.
lighted that it should be so. The Tory party have a
party lzress which will say anything which tends to the
advantage: of their own particular party. Now, gentle•
men, there is one other question in which I confess
myself to be deeply interested, and on which I think I
can congratulate ye3l. It is a question not positively
won, but which I thick is within the precincts of vic-
tory, and that is the abortion of church rates. (Cheers.)
Now, gentlemen, the Disse;.,ters of this country suffer
under church rates as much a,
the Roman Catholics do
under the Protestant church in Ireland, and if I sym-
pathise with the Roman Catholics of that country it is
race. (Hear, hear.) Church rates have, I believe, because I hold and believe them to bas a trampled upon
re-
ceived their death blow. (Cheers.) I believe there is
throughout the country a feeling sufficiently' strong to
overcome the difficulties thrown in the path of Sir Wm.
Clay. Mr. Miall has deserved the gratitude of the
public for the course he has pursued upon this questuen-
(Ceeers.) Church rates are, I believe, doomed and can-
not much longer exist. (Cheers.) There is one thing
much in favour of their abolition—that is, there is excite-
merit upon the question out of doors. You do not let it
slumber, and that is the secret of success in all reform
measures whicbjhave ever been achieved. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Berkeley then apologised for the length at which lie
had trespassed upon their attention, and expressed the
hope that he "night again be permitted to meet them and
others on the recurrenoe of this glorious anniversary.
He thanked theta for the confidence they had reposed in
him, and which he had endeavoured to enjoy by a con-
scientious discharge is
f his duties, even when those
duties jarred upon his own feelings. Be. wasparticu-
larly lucky in such matters; .as regards politics, in which
he always felt at home, but he found a great- difficulty in
steering clear of the rocks and shoals of religion. As
an Anchorite he had to expretee his thanks to Mr. Lang
ton for so kindly and promptly taking. the place of Sir
A. H. Elton, and also his hope that the same success
would attend their next meeting as the present. He
concluded by again thanking his cons tituents for their
support, and assured them that if it plea used God to allow
him health and strength they would fin, ti him not less a
devoted representative than a true and firm Anchorite.
The hen. memher resumed his seat amid nuch applause.

THE TRADE OF LIVERPOOL—LIVERPOOL, i MONDAY.--
The Customs Bitl of Entry, published ti its morning,
gives a return of the number and tonnage of the ships
that have entered inwards from and &eared outwards for
foreign ports in the week ending the 15th November,
1856, as well as the corresponding wee of 1J35!;. It ap.
<, that during the last week 52 ships,, of ao ,aggregate
pea,.
,of 25,979 tons, entered inwnrt
%ge
of
-Is, age tinst 133
tonnageships, 71,08; tone,, in 1855, being a descrek_ _
,o,
nBsliinn :all:
number of ships, ai_nd a
rdecreaseceosfou4t,,to.3 t
',via d uring the
tonnage ; the number o. clearances
52,082wt‘c
week, 80 ships of a tonnag, inc, .ease of 4
being an
ships and 52060 tons in 185 b, \ns, a, gaingt 84
The tot al n umber of
ships, and a decrease of 22 tons, .
ort, w al uing the
ships reported inwards from foreig_rierp__. 1 3,840, with
present year, up to the 15W IsTorsmth_,_,,w; ad 1.,848,626
a tonnage.of 2,166,047 tons, again
.iaii it.,o of 129 Oips,
tons in the year 1855, showißg an I cry"
and 317,421 tons.