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CITY OF LONDON SESSIONS.

THE CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST THE
MASTER OF BREWER'S SCHOOL.

The City of London Sessions commenced this morn.
ing at the Guildhal, before R. Gurney, the Recorder.
The grand jury having been sworn,

The learned Recorder informed them that their ser-
vices would only be reqnired for a short time,
there being only one case of a peculiar charac-
ter to be brought before them— viz , a charge of
assault against the Rev. Dr. May, head master of the
Brewers' School, for an assault on one of the boys. The
learned gentleman then entered into the nature of the
case, as deposed to recently before the Lord Mayor when
the charge was preferred, the particulars of which have
been so recently reported, as not to need recapitulation.
The Grand Jury then retired, and after an absence of
about an hour, returned into Court with the indictment
ignored.

The Recorder said he entirely concurred in the opinion
of the Grand Jury. it was one of those cases in which
he considered the master had done no more than was
necessary to preserve his dignity and maintain the
discipline of the school.

The Foreman said that 22 out of the 23 forming the
Grand Jury voted for the ignoring of the bill.
Mr. Bodkin who had been instructed to defend Dr.
May, in the event of his being put upon his trial, said
that a large number of the boys who had been educated
at the school under Dr. May, and were now pursuing
their various avocations in life as well as many who
were now at the school were present to have spoken, if
necessary to the doctor's uniform kind treatment. They
also (as we understood the learned gentleman to say)
determined to subscribe together and defray the ex.
peaces which the doctor hal been put to.
Mr. Sleigh, who appeared for the prosecution, said
that the prosecutor had no desire to bring the case to
that Court. He would have rather it had been
decided by the Lord Mayor,
The Recorder said it was impossible for the Lord
Mayor to have decided it without the doctor had
admitted the correctness of the charge.
Mr. Alderman Finnis said that if the charge had been
preferred befure him he should have dismissed it.
Mr. Bodkin said that the Court of Assistants met a
short time since and came to a resolution expelling. the
boy from the school.

The doctor then laft the court surrounded by his
young friends, who cheered him heartily along Guildhall-
yard, flourishing triumphantly in the air the cane with
which the chastisement was inflicted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— (This Day.

WESTMINSTER.

A DESPERATE CHARAorza.—Mar; Flynn, a woman
of most forbidding appearance, without bonnet or shawl,
was charged with wilfully breaking tradesmen's windows.
Mr. George Legg, of 102, York-street, Westminster,
coffee-house-keeper, said that last evening the defendant,
as she was passing, jumped and wilfully dashed her elbow
through a pane of glass, the value of which was 2g. She
was a perfect stranger to him, and she had not been in
his shop.

Mr. R. Kennett, of the Hoop and Grapes, Broadway,
Westminster, said that the defendant came to his house
and conducted herself so badly, that he was obliged to
put her out. He had no sooner (lane so than she went
round to the other side of his house and broke a pane
of glass.

Mr. Arnold—Do you know anything of her ?
Mr. Kennett—She has repeatedly broken my windows
and been in prison.

A policeman said that after breaking the window at
Mr. Kennett's she ran fleetly, as it seemed, to Mr.
Lear. She was pursued after the second act of damage
and given into his custody, when she threw herself down
and conducted herself in the most indecent and filthy
manner, and the stretcher was sent for to convey her to
the hospital. She broke the buckles and straps by her
extraordinary violence, and it required six constables to
convey her to the station. She had only come out of
prison that morning after serving three months for like
oonduct.

Defendant coolly said that ahe did not remember
anything about it.

Mr. Arnold said that her conduct was most disgrace-
ful, and committed her to hard labour for six months.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Jan. 9.--.-Wind this day at noon, S.W; mo-
derate breeze and cloudy.
QUEENSTOWN, Jau. 7. —Wind S. E.—Arrived—Edward
O'Brien, from New Orleans; Kaloolah, St. John's, New-
foundland; Glencasse, Ibrail ; Henry Harbuek, from
Cardiff for Alexandria, very leaky, and with foremast
sprung; Dolphin, from Liverpool for La Guayra.
NEWPORT, Jan. 7.—Wind W.—Arrived--Libra, from
Antwerp for St. Thomas. Sailed —Helmirth Marie, for
Point de Galle ; Shakespeare, for St. Thomas's, after re-
pairing.

FAIIOUTH, Jan. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Riepe,
from Havana ; Kossuth, ditto, for Bristol ; Derma Sol,
from Antwerp far Havannah.
GLOUCESTER, Jan. B.—Wind S.—Arrived —William
Duke, from Cadiz.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. B.—Wind S.—Arrived--Nina, from
Rotterdam for Buenos Ayres.
CARDIFF, Jan. B.—Wind W.—Arrived—lda, from
Barcelona; Eujcole, Gibraltar. Sailed—George and Sarah,
for Havannah. _

OFF HURST CASTLE, Jan. 9.—Arrived—North Star (8),
from Now "York.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
Wind W.S.W. LWERPOOL, Saturday Morning.
Arrived—Australia, and Neptune, from New York.
Put back—Elena C., for Venice.
Off—Monro, Anglesea, and Oerd Van Ness.
The Royal Charter has not sailed for Australia.
Wind S. to S.W. WATERFORD, Jan. 7.
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BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Wind S.; tide two hours' ebb. moderate.
Arrived—Dublin Lass, from Guernsey; Belvedere,
Dunkirk.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Wind W.S.V4r.;
Passed—Bellona, from London for Malta.

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with the 1
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way so rapidly
proportion between the
LEVIATHAN (THIS DAY). —The arrangement'
towards
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domiuished to-day by the application of additional
Derby-
shire during the
, and at two o'clock this afternoon
was 4,000,000 tons;gone nearly six feet further
the opening of Sep
20,000 workrnen
THE COAL TRADE
1857, 4,510,000 tons.
a .—The production of coal in
st year has been largely increased by
operation is 240, employing upwards of
TEE IRON TRADE increase on
which
now
in 0 several new colleries, the total number of
in operation, and the production In 1855 the quantity of coal produced
in 1856, 4,500,000 tons; and in
trade of South 'Val: In Yorkshire there 343 colleries
the works have eroduction last year shows a con-
siderablehat of the previous year.
for the better, Wore
enable them to carry
country shall be fully IN SGHTm WALES.—The iron
s has experienced a slight change
confidence being shown. Several of
received as amount of orders that will
are fully engaged,good restored. The Tredegar works
the reviving trade of the
EFEIOIENT I' orders for rails being on hand.
OLD:lsuntil
The town-Council of Bradford
and that of Derby have
Home-office that the gir.eceived an intimation from the
are in such an efficient awe force in both those boroughs
of the cost of maintain' ate that henceforward one-fourth
of the Treasury to the mg those bodies will be paid out
credit of
tively. the two boroughs seance-
-01 A TaRMENDOUs IDEA. ._A
des Sciences of Paris, Who is also member of the Academie
has invented an apparatus which he thinks will enable
an eminent chemist,
human beings to breathe as freely at the bottom of the
sea as on the surface of the earth.
an association for collecting all the He proposes to form
at the bottom of the ocean, and treasures now lying
800,000,0001. sterling the harvest of treasure to be
estimates at about
gleaned on the route between England and India only.
—Paris paper
FRAUDS AND FORGERY la A SOL
On Thursday a warrant was
obtained from the magis-
trateslMTOß AT ASHTON.—
of Ashton-under-Lyne, on
clerk from the office of Mr. iriarrithe application of a
Man-
chester, against Mr. Mellor, a solicitor,
solicitor, at
but who has absconded, ebarging him with forgery. Mr.
itor, late of Ashton,
Mellor has occupied, up to the tune of his di-appearance,
a position of great respectability, but it has now been
discovered that he has committed frauds and forgeries
to the amount of several thousand
bankruptcy was presented against Mellor
A petition in
Mellor in the Man
cheater Court of Bankruptcy on Saturday last, and the
inquiries instituted by creditors haveA led to the discovery
of these serious delinquencies.
was Mrs. Clarke, of Bowden, who some other creditors
ome
in-
trusted 12,0001. to Mr. Reginboteh years ago
Ashton to invest in mortgages. am, attorney, of
Subsequently, Mr.
fleignbOtham was made a bankrupt and his business
and the investment of the moneys
were transferred
to Mellor. At various subsequent
furnished to Mrs. Clarke what purported
periods, Mellor
purported to be
mortgage deeds, „
by means of which got hold of sums
of 5001., 3001., and other moneys ;but an examination
of these istruments has shown that they are of no value,
the properties purporting to be mortgagednot belonging
to the persons whore names are inserted
in the de ds.
Mrs, Clarke alone has thus been defrauded out of some
-
thousands of pounds. It is believed thatMellor had a
considerable sum in his possession when
he absconded
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SUN OFFIC Six o'Clock.

THE NEW COURT OF PRORATE.

A supplement to the London Gazette of Jan..B, pub-
lished this evening, contains tables of fees to taken
on and after the 11th of January, 1858, by the proctors,
solicitors, and attorneys, practising in her Majesty's
Court of Prolate and by the district re gistrars,
and the proctors, solicitors, and attorneys pro,ctisiug in
the district registries attached to the said courzt.

THE NEW HOUSES OP PARLIAMENT.

Of late but little progress has been made in
works at the above large structure, as respects the
exterior ; but considerable activity has been mani-
fested in the interior, and the private residences in
the north and south wings of the river front are
now clearly finished, more especially the mansion (for
so we must call it) intended for the official residence
of the Speaker of the House of Commons. This
residence occupies the whole of the north end of
the river front of the building, and extends to what
is termed the Speaker's Court, the whole forming
in plan a parallelogram, which measures 100 feet by
85 feet. The entrance is in the Speaker's Court,
through an appropriate stone porch. A wide stone
staircase leads to the principal floor, where the great
reception rooms are arranged, all of which are entered
by a corridor, the ceiling of which is groined in
stone, the floor paved with Minton's encaustic tiles.
This corridor extends round four sides of an inner
court, which serves tolight the basement and ground
floors. The windows towards the court are filled with
stained glass, containing the armorial bearings of
past Speakers of the House of Commons. Entered,
as previously stated, from the corridor, are the re-
ception-rooms, four in number, which comprise
three drawing-rooms and a state dining-room, of the
following dimensions severally—viz., 33 feet by
23 feet, 37 feet by 21 feet, 33 feet by 23 feet, 45
feet by 23 feet, and all of the uniform height of 20
feet in the clear. Chambers are also fitted up in
a similar manner to the rest of the building, but
with finishing of a more than ordinary ornate
description. The ceilings are panelled and re-
lieved by gilding and colour. The state dining-
room has at one of its ends a large panelled recess
to contain the sideboard ; below and above por-
traits of former Speakers of the House. Adjoining
to the dining-room is what is termed a serving-
room, with a lift, hot-plates, dec. The bed-rooms
and domestic portions of the house are on a most
extensive scale, and are now progressing very
rapidly, with the view to the house being occupied
soon after Easter. In the south wing two
complete residences are being fitted up for
the " Black Rod" and the librarian of
the House of Lords. These residences are
being arranged with every modern convenience
and comfort, but in a much plainer style than the
Speaker's house, and are not so near completion.
Generally, the building remains in much the same
state as it was at the close of the last session, ex-
cept that the ponderous castings which are to form
the roof of the Victoria Tower are being hoisted to
their situations. We may remark that the four
turrets at corners of the Victoria Tower are now
complete, and have a highly-picturesque effect.
The clock and bells have not yet been placed in the
clock tower, which, however, is quite ready for
their reception.—Building _Yews.

THE CITY OF VIENNA.—The demolition of the ram-
parts of Vienna, and the filling up of the fosses of the
fortifications will commence in the spring. The ground
which will be sold will not have to be paid for imme-
diately, but on condition that the houses shall be built
within five years. The purchasers will have different
terms fixed for the payment for the ground, and will also
be exempt from taxes for 25 years. The Jews will have
a right to build in this new quarter of the Austrian
capital.
FIRE.—A large fire took place at Bradford on Tues-
day night last, causing the destruction of an extensive
wool and worsted warehouse and mill, and a valuable
stock of goods, wool, 60 Jacquard looms and other
machinery, &c. The origin of the fire is not known.
It broke out at about 10 o'clock at night, and the
efforts to check it, although prompt and extensive,
were almost unavailing. The premises in which it
occurred are known as the Fleece Mills, and are
situated on the Thornton-road. They are the property
of Mr. J. Booth, of Horton and Rawdon, near Brad-
ford. They cost about 2,0001., and were insured for
1,8001. Tho occupiers were five in number—Messrs. I.
Booth and Co., Mr. John Bottomley, Messrs. Bentham
and Wheater, Messrs. Priestley and Clapham, and Mr.
W. Isherwood. The property lost belonging to these
firms was worth from 8,0001. to 9,0001., about one-half
of which is covered by insurances.
STARVATION POINT.—If we cannot with any precision
say how long starvation will be in effecting its fatal end,
we can say how much waste is fatal. From the cele-
brated experiments of Chossat on inanition it appears that
death arrives whenever the waste reaches an average pro-
portion of o'4. That is to say, supposing an animal to
weigh 1001 b., it will succumb when its weight is reduced
to 601 b. Death may of course ensue before that point
is reached, but not be prolonged after it. The average
loss which can be sustained is 40 per cent. ; sometimes
the loss is greater, especially if the animal be very fat ;
thus, in the transactions of the Lira:teen Society a case
is reported of a fat pig which wan buried in 30 feet of
ohalk for 160 days ; his weight fell in that period no lase
than 75 per cent. Curiously enough, as an illustration
of what was just said respecting time not being an index,
fishes and reptiles were found by Chossat to perish at
precisely the same limit of weight as warm-blooded
animals, but they required a period of 23 times as long
to do it in. Thus, if the experiment be performed of
starving a bird and a frog durieg the warm weather,
although both will perish when their loss of weight
roaches 40 per cent., the one will not survive a week,
the other will survive 23 weeks.—Blackleood.
THE CHRISTIAN BISHOPS IN TURKEY. —Constantin ople
journals say that the high dignitaries of the Greek church
continue to cause much annoyance to the Porte by their
insubmission and their exigencies. Most of the arch-
bishops and bishops, while calling loudly for the due exe-
cution of the Hatti-Humayoum, refuse to submit to
such of its clauses as more immediately concern them-
selves. They seek to add to the advantages which that
document confers on them all the prerogatives and im-
munities which they enjoyed before its publication. They
will not admit of any modification, either as regards
their temporal power or their emoluments, which they
persist in drawing direct from their co-religionists.
Different councils have been held at the Porte to examine
into the question, but hitherto no satisfactory result has
been obtained. We also learn that an incident has just
arisen in Servia on the occasion of the consecration of
the Bishop of Belgrade. The Servian Government,
which has never recognised the nomination of this
prelate, although regularly made by the Pope, now
consents to do so, but on condition that the consecration
shall be made by priests of its own selection. This is a
pretension which the bishop refuses to admit, and the
result is a difference which the Porte will probably have
to arrange diplomatically with the Holy See.
WARNING TO BROKERS.—At a Justice of Peace Court,
held in Dundee on Monday, says the Courier, a case of
rather a novel nature was heard by the presiding justices
—viz., Messrs. John Sturrock and W. E. Baxter, M.P.
The following are the circumstances of the case :—Chas.
Gray, a French polisher, sued Isaac Peterkin, a broker,
for ls. ad., being the value of a pair of worsted stock•
ings, the pursuer's property, alleged to have been ille-
gally and unwarrantably carried away from his dwell-
ing-house on the 24th ult., by Flora Bremner or Gray,
his wife, and pledged with, or sold to the defendant
without the pursuer's knowledge or consent, the defen
der well knowing that the party from whom he bought
them was the pursuer's wife, and that the stockings
which the defender refused to restore to the pursuer
were his property. Mr. James Miller, writer, ap-
peared to support the pursuer's case, and maintained
that under the principle of various decisions in the
Supreme Court, no wife had any power to sell any
property of her husband's without his consent in virtue
of her prepoiritura; and that no consent had been given
by the pursuer for the sale of the stockings in question,
the sum got for which had been spent on drink. In
defence the defender admitted the purchase, but alleged
that he was justified in making it. The justices,
however, held otherwise, and continued the case till
next Court, to afford him an opportunity of restoring
the prisoner's property.
VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN
THE CIVIL SERVICE.—War Department.—Deputy-As-
Blatant Commissary-General Servantes and Commissariat
Clerk Brown have been attached to the Military Train
recently raised at Hong-Song : Deputy-Assistant-Com-
to Kingston, Canada, vice Assistant-Commissary,
Stanton, removed to Montreal. The Admiralty.—Mr.t
missary-General Irvine has been removed from Quebec
Lang, Superintendent of the Timber Department an
Woolwich Dockyard, has been superannuated
Thomas
na
allowance of 2801. a-year. Customs.—Mr.
Fuller has been appointed a Searcher at Newhavenntc!
Mr. Albert Wright has been appointed from seve
Mr.
sixth-class clerk in the Jerquer s Office, London ;to
William Donaldson has been proMoted from secondtent
first-class locker at Belfast. Inland Revenue Department
Birnie, Wall, and Souter, examiners, are
evnenue ahore-
employed in attendance at the Inland
(Excise Branch).—Messrs. Aylieff,
of Newent Ride,
tory. Mr. Andrew Turnbull, officer
appointed to
Gloucester Collection, has been specially
take charge of the Root Distillery about toi be opened at
Minty Wilts. Mr. John Standish,
,ate officer of
Falkirk First Division, has, by.
Boards
order of the
Saundersnown,
speciallye
21st ult,, been appointed clerk in Linlithgow Collection.
Ireland.—A vacancy has been caused in the transcribing
Thompson
class of the Registry' of Deeds Office, Dublin, by the
death of Mr. William Henderson. Mr. O'Flagan, Q.C.
g erng in the Queen's Coll has been appointed
has been appointed a commissioner of National Educa-
tion in the room of the Right Rev. Dr. Denvir,
Godwin,'
Civil Scrvico gazateJsiege'
Belfast, in the room of Professor
JamesE
nln e
Pr ersoigf ensest Civil
Mr.