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disciplined hand and fine taste of our old favourite,
J. W. Calcraft, are readily perceptible. To this
succeeds a graphic memoir of Mr. T. C. Grattan,
under the head of " Our Portrait Gallery." It is
illustrated by a cleverly-etched likeness of Mr.
Grattan. The literary renown of this Irish
celebrity will be deemed ample apology for intro-
ducing to our readers the following short sketch,
extracted from the memoir illustrative of

POLICE COUR T.-YESTERDAY,

4

GRATTAN'S FIRST STAGE ON THE ROAD TO POPULARITY
Determined to push his fortune in the metropolis of
France, Grattan removed to Paris, and gave himself
heart and soul, to literature. Here, amongst other ad
Intages, he had the good fortune to become acqua:
li many of the celebrities of the day—with Moore and
--+on Irving. --,—with De

Imongst English write

Marehang;
He now wi

Beranger, Casimir de Lavinge, De Lamarti.
Pierre Le Brun, amongst French authors
a constant contributor to the English periodicals, writin
in, amongst others, the Westminster and the Edinburgh
Reviews, and the New Monthly Magazine, while edited
by Campbell. The genius and capabilities of Grattan ap-

pear to have been -thoroughly appreciated by one of a
kindred mind. Washington Irving saw that his friend
nssessed great descriptive powers—a quick instinct, that
Ibled him to understand all the mysteries of human
Lions, and a lively and life-like ability in ,^^-`
; added to these a gre
-.l' to be the vehicle of ins versat...
phase, whether of pathos, or humour, or sentimentality.
or moralising. By Irving's advice, Grattan reduced to
order the memoranda of some of his touring, and sub-
mitted the manuscript to a London publisher. But the
London publisher did not appreciate what was offered to
him, and three others of his brethren were not a whit

1 mastery of Lnn,ina

Tis a trite story in literature, and we

Icould illustrate it by u
where the rejected essaj
first sten of the ladder

Df the obseu;

in our own d

becar

eminence. But Grattan thought not of this. When four
publishers had pronounced his condemnation, he flung
the manuscript aside as worthless, and turned again to
his previous avocations. An accident, however, again
brought it to light ; and a literary friend was so convinced
of its merit, that he introduced the author to Mr. Whit-
GRAY.taker, the eminent publisher, who undertook to bring out

3ook ; anc

d By-Ways.

in due tim

the first series of " High-war*
) Washincton "Ervin, issned

Ifrom the pies's. The success of these delightful tales was
great and rapid. They were thoroughly suited to th
public taste, and to the t

at which they appeared,

shown with what

The " Sketch-book" of Irving had
he incidents of travel could be inve

Vowed

bat
of Ajax

in to institute no comparison between the two writers;
ssuredly Grattan may say of Irving, as did Ulysses
Non superatus. ab illo." There is a wonderful

charm in these volumes, which takes captive the imagina-
tion, the intellect, the feelings—one scarce knows how,
or stops to analyse ; lively, graphic, and wonderfully true

large quani

with them—the highest merit of all artistic works.- We
may say of the pictures of Grattan what a painter once
said to us, as we praised a foreign landscape—"C'est ne
pas un tableau, c'est la nature." Grattan's name was
now up. He had no need to court publishers. Several
came forward with offers for .imilar tales ; and the result
was, that two more series were quickly produced.

C'est le premier pas qui torte is an aphorism
the truth of which was experienced and illustrated
in Grattan's case, as it has been in that of many
another son of the Muses. Success, indeed, fol-
lowed,—but it is difficult to enchain Fortune to
the chariot-wheels of even the most dashing genius ;
and Grattan, eager in the journey towards affluence,
embarked all he had or could command in some
favourite speculation, which, like those of many a
less imaginative adventurer, resembling Jona's
gourd in the rapidity and magnitude of its growth,
resembled it also in the suddenness with which it
was shrivelled, and the bitter disappointment it
entailed. In short, he was ruined. Varied sac-

COURT ARID FAA }ll.

cesses and reverses continued to pursue his literary
career, till at last he was enabled to take shelter
in the haven, at least of literary taste, as British
Consul to the State of Massachusets, which appoint-
ment_he received in 1839. The second flight of

" A Visit to Happy-Land" will be found.pervaded
by a fine flow of genial humour ; while other tales

and sketches contribute their respective degrees of
excellence to support the reputation of this standard

The Commerce of Liverpool. Liverpool : Baines.
A valuable compilation by Kr. Braithwaite
Poole, containing many interesting particulars of
the several trades earned on in the port of Liver-
pool. It will, no doubt, prove very useful to the
local authorities, as forming a guide by which to
judge of the extent of business in the several
articles of commerce, and the mode in which it is
conducted ; but the statistics as to totals can only
be received as presenting an approximation to the
truth, inasmuch as they are compiled chiefly from
brokers' circulars and customs' entries, neither of
which can be depended on, in all cases, for strict
accuracy.

A _Dv.,ripeive Account of Ziverpoul, Ata it was
during the Last Quarter of thre• Eighteenth
century-1775 to 1800. Liverpool :J. Mawds-
ley and Son.

Liverpool is not more a marvel for-the immense
extent of its commerce than for the great rapidity
with which it has risen from a small place, of
little or no importance, within living memory,
into being the great emporium and mart of all
nations which we now see it. This-extraordinary
rise has been chronicled in the work' before us by
Richard Brooke, F.S.A., with whom it has been
evidently a labour of love. He has not attempted
a history of Liverpool,—a task which has been
very ably performed by Mr. Thomas Baines, ,who
began at the beginning, and continued .the narra-
tive down to the time of publication,--but he has
confined his attention to the period mentioned in
the title, and given copious details of the several
events which have now become matters of history.
To every inhabitant of Liverpool there is much:
which will prove both curious and interesting,:
while the general. reader may derive informa-.
tion and entertainment from the numerous parti:,
culars which Mr. Brooke has tints preserved from
oblivion. The period referred to was one of rapid'
increase of trade, as shown by the returns of
shipping, the number of vessels,.. British and
foreign, entered inwards and • cleared outwards
having been 2,111 in 1775, and 4,371 in. 1801.
It appears that in July, 1784 the first mail-coach
was established between Liirerpool and Louden,
and then it required few days to receive a reply. to
a letter through the post-office, although: the
journey was performed in thirty hours from..the
Golden Lion, Dale-street, Some interesting- par-
ticulars are given sof the' Unanimous Society,
which was established in 1754, and comprised
most of the leading :men cf*Liverpool of that day,
one of them being the father of the Yen, Arch-
deacon Brooks. Ft is a. book which will:` afford
much gratification. to the- many who take interest
in Liverpool, and. particularly to those, who are
curious as to the manners and customs. of their
forefathers, the details.- being intermixed with
sundry allusions to more recent events, and the
contrast which they present to by-gone days. The
book is well got up, and. is embellished with
several well-executed engravings.

LIVERPOOL WINTER ASSIZES

PICKING POCKETS AT A ROHAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL. THE Courts opened for the trial of prisoners on Tues-
-George Pendleton, a young man about 18 years of age, day morning, at ten o'clock, Baron Alderson presiding
was charged with picking the pocket of Mary Bryan, wife over that held in the place usually devoted to criminal
of a labourer, on Sunday, in St. Peter's Roman Catholic trials, while Baron Martin occupied the bench in the other
Chapel, in Seel-street. It appeared that the prisoner took court. The following gentlemen were sworn on the
his seat beside Mrs. Bryan, and, while sitting, embraced
the opportunity of picking her pocket of one shilling and GRAND JURY :
sixpence. She felt his hand in her pocket, but on turning William Brown, Esq. (foreman), Richmond-hill, Liverpool.
towards him he made off. She gave an alarm, and he was Henry Ashton, Esq., Woolton-wood, Liverpool.
taken into custody. On being apprehended, he said he Henry Ashworth, The Oaks, Bolton.
would give up the money if they would let him go. He Richard Birley, Esq., Manchester.
had also picked the pocket of another woman, and at- Thomas Crook, Esq., Pendlebury, Manchester.
tempted to rifle the pockets of a third. In defence, pri- James Hilton Ford, Esq., Chester.
soner said that when apprehended he had offered to give Henry A. Grey, Esq., Liverpool.
up all the money he had, rather than be disgraced, but John Grimshaw, Esq., Audenshaw-lodge, Manchester.
he never admitted that he had stolen it, or that it was John William Harden, Esq., Liverpool.
the property of Mrs. Bryan. He was committed for trial James Collier Harter, Esq., Tetlow-fold, Manchester.
at the assizes. George Holt, Esq., Rake-lane, Liverpool.
ILLEGAL PAWNING. John Roberts, a porter, was Henry R. Hoskins, Esq., Liverpool.
charged by William Norman, Sawney Pope-street, with Henry Houldsworth, Esq., Oak-hill, Manchester.
taking a pair of blankets from his bed, and making off
John Buck Lloyd, Esq., Liverpool.
with them. The prosecutor said the prisoner and his wife
Thomas Edwards Moss, Esq., Roby-hall, Prescot.
lodged in his house on Friday night last; on going into Robert Needham Philips, Esq., The Park, Manchester.
prisoner's room he missed a pair of blankets which had not William P,athbone, Esq., Greenbank, Liverpool.
yet been found. Prisoner said he and his wife had lodged William Stuart, Esq., 1, Rumford-place, Liverpool.
in Norman's for the last five months, and during that Oliver Ormerod Walker, Esq., Chesham, Bury.
time they had frequently been in the habit, when pushed Charles Carrill Worsley, Esq., Platt-hall, Manchester.
for money, of taking articles out of their lodgings and Jas. Aspinall Turner,Esq.,Pendlebury-house, Manchester.
pawning them to buy food, but they always relieved the In his address to the grand jury, Mr. Baron ALDERSON
goods and restored them on the Saturday night. In this said that amongst the cases which they had to consider,
case he said the same would have been done if he had beets were a number of charges of murder, one of a very serious
allowed. Mr. Norman said several articles were missing, character, apparently resulting from that defective state
and that he never gave permission for any such use to be of the law, as he thought, which permitted burial clubs to '
made of his property. Roberts was remanded for seven exist as they did at present. The motive in this case, if
days. there were any motive, was to obtain a sum of money to

THEFT OF COPPER Moxer.—Ann Howard, servant bury two little children,—a motive which might well
with Mr. Murdoch, pawnbroker, in Marybone, was charged tempt a person of a bad mind to commit some offence,
with having, yesterday, goneinto his shop and stolen from or, perhaps, the crime with which this person was charged.
a drawer the sum of ten shillings and sevenpence half- It, therefore, behoved those who had influencein Parlia-
penny, in copper money. It appeared that in the morning ment,--and as he saw the foreman of the Grand Jury was
Mr. Murdoch had, on going out, accidentally forgot to one of the members for the county, (Mr. Wm. Brown,)—
take the key out of the shop door ; and in the course of he addressed himself to him to see whether he could not
the day the prisoner was seen by Mr. Murdoch's daughter propose an easy and simple arrangement to put an end,
coming out of the shop, where she had no business to perhaps, to-this crime. It seemed a most easy thing to him
be. On loking over the money, it was found that the to prevent it, by prohibiting persons from giving money
copper above-stated had been carried away. The prisoner for the purposes' of burial, Burial clubs should be
in the course of the afternoon gone to the shop of Mr. palled to perform the burials themselves. They might
Foster, a spirit-shop, and bought half a pint of whiskey, supply the funerals without any profit to members them-
which she paid for in copper. On being taken into ens- seltes. There would then be no surplus money handed
tody she had one shilling and fourpence• in copper in her over, and this temptation to crime would be entirely taken,
possession. Mr. Murdoch said the prisoner was in the away. Instead of giving money order that parents or'
habit of getting intoxicated, yet he had kept her fora con- relatives might bnry, the' clubs should be compelled tce
siderable time, although he had given her notice toleave ; furnish the undertaking, more or less sumptuous accord*
he had been so mach annoyed by new girls; as he found* ing to the contributions; but never be allowed to furnish
money. The Judge nett alluded to the' recent case of the
murder of a policeman; and pointed out that, if it were
established that the eflieerwas justified in making the
arrest, and was stabbed by the prisoner' in custody, the
case- would be one of murder ;. but if the prisoner was un-
lawfully arrested, it woulSbe manslaughter: Proceeding
to remark upon the crime' of stabbing, for-which there
' were seventeen committals- to the present. assize, he
lamented that statistics dick not bear out the statement
' that stabbing was an un-English offence; for;,out of Se
ninety-pine committed for stabbing in 1852 A-only nine
were forei:gners,—thirty being'natives of Liverpool, four-
teen only being from the' rest ofEngland, while flirty-facer
were from Ireland, and one each 'from Scotland and the
Isle of Man. He called their seriena attention to the pre-
valence of thii-crime, with a view' to putting a stop to it.
As far as he and his fellow-judges•were concerned';-they
would do their- best to make examples when cases -were
properly proved;: and, at the present assizes, they would
reserve the sentences on these cases-to the close of(the
business, when they would see the full extent of the evil,
and apply, as far'as they- could, the pruper remedy. Ad-
vevting to the boners rioting at Wigan, he said ;
" There is another class of cases, in which two or threei
per are aceusedjof a riot at Wigan, arising from that:l
unhappy difference o 5 opinion between the workmen ante-I
masters, which, I am sorry to say, has been so prevalent I
in this, county of late not, indeed, in • this county
alone, for this species off insanity is pervading almost all
labourers in England. It has extended even to the agri-
cultural, districts,- and with the agricultemi /abouter it
has as little good sense and as little reason,' as it has in
this case: The great waat of knowledge en the 'part of
the geneml body of the people of the real causes which
govern the rate of wages'- in the world is the principal
cause of this evil. If they did: but know a more of
that politlial economy whieh many people talk of and so
few understand, they woulsee that this is not the way
in which thn thing can be done, even if it were. desirable
to be accomplished. It is lamentable that it should be so ;
and one cannot helpthinking that it is from the want of
experience that this matter aril, for, from theshortness
of life in their,anufactueingdisihicts, the people employed
there are gmetvally very young,- The proportion, of the
experienced ttetheinexperieneed, then, is very small, and

that when he changed one for ill-behaviour, he'always got
a worse. The prisoner, who was represented as being re-
spectably connected, was committed for trial at the ses-

EXTENSTrE ROBBERY OF SCRAP IRON.-PRtritk-DtIRR;
a tall, gaunt looking man, dressed as a dock labourer,' was

scrap-iron,

the property of Messrs. A. and- G. Holme. It appeared
that on the morning of Fr day last, a flat, loaded' with,
scrap-iron, amonuting in all to. about five tons weight, and
of the valte of L'3" 1-os. per ton, was brought to the quay
of the Custom-house Dock destined for the Messrs.
Holme. A little before eight o'clock in the morning;
carts belonging to those gentlemen came for the iron,.
and it was discovered that it had just been removed,
by some one. On inquiry-, it turned out that a'
lad, named John Toole; a carter,. had been employed by
the prisoner and another man to take-the iron away, which
he did, delivering it, as-desired, at therpremises of a ma-
rine store-dealer, named' M'COrmick-. Monneypenny, the
detective officer, traced cut about threirtous of the metal,
and was successful in apprehending the- prisoner, but as
yet had not been able to, find his accomplice. The case
was remanded.

MR. DISRAELI, M.P., . is-onla visit at-Knowsley.
Tin; QUEEN has knighted Lieut.-Colonel Archibald
Bbgle, of the E. I. C.'s Bengal Establishment, Civil Com-
uthisioner in the Tenasserimand:Mataban%provinees.
Tin QUEEN has appointed Captain Sir Charles notham,
K.C.8., to be Lieut.-Governor of the tolOny of Vic-
toria:

THE Duc DE BRABANT and -his august consort were to
take leave of her Majesty mid Prince, Albert yesterday
morning, and travel, via Dover and Ostend, without any
stoppage; so as, if possible, to reach Belgium the same
evening.

TIKE-DUCHESS or OBLEANS.—The announcement in
the highest circles of Paris of the marriage of the Duchess
of Orleans has given another diversion to' the emotions- of
the week. The certainty of the event is established in the
minds of the Parisians beyond a doubt, although theTir-
_

aumstances are variously described: It is said.: that the
marriage; although long-suspected, had hitherto remained
unrevealed; until the idea of the fusion.was acceptedby
the Dec •de -Nemours, when, upon -being called .upon ifor
the reasons of- her refusal, to adhere to the terms propesed
on:behalf of the Count de Paris; the duchess had at once
declared -herself incompetent any longer to act-without the
concurrence of her husband! The attachment which has
led to the union is said to- date from the early -widowheod
of the duchess, when the delicate sympathy and Unceasing-
devotion of the late dukels aid-de-camp gradually won their.,
wayinto the heart of the young widow. The marriage,-,iti
seems,is no new incident, buttook place not long afterthe
revolution of '4B, when, the aid-de-campy following the
fortunes of his august mistress and hevehildren, left- all'
too umzu over -ner 11t1X.ctaf.t »u.l Llv rt-ee.,ax-
Alias.

DEPAILTIIRE OP lair AArrETCA.—OirSaturday after
noon the British and Xorth American Royal Mail steam-
ship America, Captairt W. J. C. Larim sailed from the,
Mersey for Boston an& Tfalifai, with the. usual mails;
passengers, and a large cargo. •. . - . .

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT.—At St. John's District
Church, Birkenhead, on Sunday, the Rgir:. C. J. Hamilton,.
the incumbent, in the-coarse of his sermon,-made an elk.--
quent and touching allnsion -to the melancholy death.: of
the late Mr. Hind, whe was killed by the:falling of a wall
in-South John-street,:last week. He said that one of -the•
respected members of the congregation, who on the previ-
ous Sunday had twice attended Divine-. Service there, was.
on the morrow suddenly called to surrender• his spirit to
the .God Who gave it;: but it was a consolation to his-sores
rowing relatives to believe -that his soul had wingoilt
light to a brighter ands happier world:.
SALUBRITY OF TEASSALL, NEAR -ORICSKIRIC.—II2,-,the,
year 1800 there were ten persons interred in the church-
yard of this parish; church, whose:-ages, in the order, of
their departure, was-as follows (the-deaths took place-be-
tween February 19th and May 14th):-74, 84, 37, 7.0,84,
70, 72, 62, 80, 90,_ The above yew must have been &fatal
one to old person:.
THE CHOLERA.—At the meeting-of the Health .Com-
mittee, on Thursday, it was reported that, although-. the
Workhouse Hospital was empty, _there had been eighteen
deaths from Cholera in the lower- parts of the town, all
the sufferers being inhabitant)... We learn, also, that
there were two-, fatal cases on, Sunday, one being Jane
Rogers, aged 60, living at 26,..Newsham-street; And the
other, Ann Rawin, aged 16, _lod'ging in No. 7. Court,
Hodson-street; in the centre of' one of the worsttrtstricts
in the town, known as " Little Ireland," from the fact of
its being densely populated by the worst part ol,,sur Irish
population.

Wirmr Tar ENDEAVOUR to make others laugh, take
care that :t is. with you, not at you.
A SEcTlcalled the Mennonites or Harmless Christians
in Ohio, have recently divided on the question of morality
of wearing buttons on their esats instead of hooks and
eyes. The buttonites wore longer tails to their coats, and
split the.tails with greater freedom than the adherents to
hooks and eyes.—Toronto,

it has been mynixtbrtunate .ee course oVm.y offi-
cial life, to come here and try:in-succession, pereens,of this
description, fir the same scrt: of offence. Every eight,
nine, or ten y-aare-a new gericistion arises : they have. net
the experience-or the sufferingsertibfiir predeceseens; aryl,
by their numbers, they overhear the more experienced,
and thus the thing arises framAtitne to time. 146114 see
how the thing ran be prevented;.unless by a more general
spread of soundedecation auweg.the people; thatis; the
only mode in which to my Wilt 111411e-reinedy eanixt,pro..
Tided. If we could do but that—if. we could teach; them
what was realk for their gos4.they would cease, to be:
the prey of empty-headed fellawsots,they at present, seem,
to be. These are. the only observations I have bo make,
en these cases- We• van only deel;witl, them as they are
saa.c.,thark.
from the commission of these-cffences, by that additional
experience which;.. from our ages -we possess, anflk by: our-
knowledge, Orville). education,which.we are wßling-le•
communicate to ourpoorerhrcilirett,if we could As it,
is; we can only repress the crimens.it kcaks out into. vie-
/once. We 51e..11.' ':do that, but of- course with a mercifili
disposition; bemuse, after all, we cannot help seeing that-
there are peoplemhabelieve themaelixes to be in theright,
although they `teak out into izsabordination which tends
to breaches of the- peace." _

Some bills were, returned in a: short time, and: theArial.
of prisoners was proceeded
RoßßEßT.—Elimbeth .Rowei,23i markslkreldine,
28, and Tons.:-Lewis, 25, charged. :with the robbery of
John Butchery in. this town,. on. the 24th September,
were found guilty. Sentence—Rowe, eighteen months'
imprisonment ;: the other privo. ners fiyar ,years' pond. lin-
prisonment. . _

Dennis Makony, 26, pleaded; guilty to the charge of
burglary in the house of SamnelAshfield, at Warringtom;
John Gracry* ICN, also pleaded guilty to a burglary aL
Heaton Norris, ie the house aWilrvra Sandford; James
Forbes, 23, pleaded guilty to the. charge of killing Robert
Ball, at West, Derby, by pushing him darn-; scan
Hughes' 4.l,,,pleaded guilty to. the charge of-killing and
slaying Jcsoph .Boyle. Maliony and Grady were each
sentenced to six months iMprisonment. Rsorbes was
ordered to,;be -imprisoned three days ; Hughes, t one
week's solitary confinement,_.
CA.sEs aP, STABBING.—S*O4;4O: Woods,.. 16, inacted
for stabbing Martin Connolly, at Glasshouse-Tara, War-
rington, on, the 28th Anglia, was found guilty of unlaw-
fully wounding merely. Stntence, three mctutlie impri-
sonment 4.

The same verdict was also returned in the, case of An-
drew Cloldwell, an ostlers at the Clifton Arms, Lytham,
for stabbing a post-boy iLA the same empley!„ The prisoner
and the post-boy had been quarrelling, and: a fight was
the consequence, which _ended in the use:-.of the knife, as
stated:, Sentence, three•months' imprisonment.
James Barlow, 26,,vras found guilty of maliciously
stabbing Wm. Garner,,..a canal boatman, at Stretford, on
the-.llth September. A drunken quarrel between the
parties led to the deed Sentence, sic years' penal impri-
sonment. _ -

Josiah Ainsworth;, 53, was seuteneed to, one year's
,rooruent, with hard labour, fors burglary at Bury.
ROBBERY WITIL; VIOLENCE.—fgae Hickson, 17, Jok.n

THE- ENGLISHMAN',E, CAULN.--" Thee Englishman's
House(says the Proverh) is his Castle ;" and so it is, but
then it is a castle which- is subject to mnay attacks (such,
as the House Tax, Poor Tax, &c., &c.) and which requires,
for its defence no end; of shot. The expenses of its sup-
port. are fearful—so much so, that frequently is the castle,
swallowed up in its keep.—Punch.
THE Dunn's Pinta VICTORY.—Pahar it may inte-
rest the future author of the Life of the Duke of. Wel-
lington to be informed of his first victory. It was not in
India, as commonly supposed, but on. Donnybrook-road,
near Dublin, that his first laurels ware won. This appears
from the Freeman's Journal, Sept. 18, 1789, where we
learn that, in consequence of a wager between him and
Mr. Whaley, of 150 guineas, the Hon. Arthur Wellesley
walked from, the five-mile stone on Donnybrook-road to
the corner of-the circular road in Leeson-street, in fifty-
five minutes„.and that a number, of gentlemen* rode with
the walker-whose horses he kept in a tolerably smart trot.
When it is.recollected that those were Irish. miles, even
deducting the distance from Leeson-street to. the Castle,
where the original measurements were mule, this walk
must be-computed at nearly six English miles. OMICRON.
—Notes. and Queries.
A WORD ON COUGHING, IN Cnuncu.—We copy the
following from an autobiography which Hugh Millar is
now publishing in the Witness :—" A simple incident
which occurred during my first morning attendance at.
Dr. M'Crie's chapel strongly impressed me with a sense of
his sagacity. There was a great deal of coughing in the
place, the effects of a recent change of weather, and the
doctor, whose voice was not a strong one, and who seemed
somewhat annoyed by the ruthless interruptions, stopping
suddenly short in the middle of his argument, made a
dead pause. When people are taken greatly by surprise
they cease to cough—a circumstance on which he had
evidently calculated. Every eye was now turned towards
him, and for a full minute so dead was the silence that one
might have heard a pin drop. ' I see, my Mends,' said
the doctor, resuming his speech, with a suppressed smile,
I see you can be all quiet enough when I am quiet.'
There was not a little genuine strategy in the rebuke

611;;;:ke, 21, William Wilk*, 18, tiits,72tiliael Flynn, 15,.,
were indicted for assaulting Michael: Malley, and robbing
him of five shillings and a hat. The prosecutor is a pew; .
sioner, and belongs to Preston. On the Snd of November
he was in Liverpool, having come. here for the purpose of
seeing a friend. off to. sea. In,the evening, while w3lki."6.
along Great 'Toward-street, he.fell into the company of
the female prlsoner, who asked. him to treat her. She
enticed him down Vulcan-street, where he was suddenly
attacked by three men, one.of whom (Clarke) heldhim by
the throat, and the others knocked him down, and kicked
and abused, him, and robbed him of the article. named.
Evidence having been. adduced, the jury found, all the
prisoners guilty, with the. exception of Flynn, who was
acquitted:, -Hicks was sentenced to be transported for
fifteen years; Clarke andWilks, each to be imprisoned for
eight years.
BIGAMY,—Mary Jane Wild, 52, was indicted for felo-
niously marrying Jas. Marshall, at Liverpool; her former
husband, Joseph. Wild, being then alive. On the 3rd of
October, 1837, the prisoner was married to. Joseph Wild,
at Rotherham. She had previously attended the last ill-
ness, of Mr. Wild's first wife, and she married him some
months after. She represented herself at the time to
be a widow. They separated, and the prisoner subse-
quently came to live at Southport, where she became ac-
quainted with Marshall. The intimacy between them
commenced in January last, and. they were married at St.
Peter's Church, in this town, in July. Evidence having
been heard on the part of the prisoner, to the effect that
she believed her first husband dead, the judge sentenced
her to one week's imprisonment.—The court then rose.
(Before Baron Martin.)
About ten o'clock his Lordship took his seat, and the
business of the court proceeded.

CHARGE OP FORGERY ATMANCIIEBTER.—LanceIot
Rainforth Gilbertson (aged 43), who had been remanded
from the last assizes, surrendered upon bail to take his
trial upon an indictment charging him with having, at
Manchester, forged the acceptance of Thomas Morris, of
Tarvin, Cheshire, to a bill of exchange for £.50. After the
evidence had been gone through, his lordship directed an
acquittal, on the ground that there was not the slightest
evidence that the prisoner had committed the forgery, or
had uttered the bill knowing it to be forged. His lordship
also directed an acquittal upon the second indictment,
charging the forgery of the acceptance of Joseph Smith, of
Nantwich, Cheshire, to a bill for £B4 10s.
THE ATTACK 'UPON DEEWORKS AT PENDLETON BY
TURN-011T DYERS.—Robert Snape was indicted forhaving
stabbed and wounded James Crompton, with intent to do
him some grievous bodily harm. The charges arose out of
the attack by turn-out dyers upon the works of Mr.
Crompton, at Pendleton, on the evening of Tuesday, the
2nd of August. The circumstances connected with the
outrage will be in the remembrance of our readers, as will
also the fact that two men were transported at the last
summer assizes for taking part in the outrage and the
assault upon Mr. Crompton. The principal evidence
against the prisoner was that of Mr. Crompton and a man
named Ditchfield. The former said he saw the prisoner
among those who rushed across the yard of the works just
after he had broken away from his assailants and secreted
himself in an out-house ; that the prisoner was also among
those by whom he was severely beaten over the head, after
the door of the out-house had been broken open ; and that
he heard the prisoner (who had been in his employment for
nearly three years). call out to those who were on the spot,
"B— him, kill him."—Ditchfield, who was in the engine-
house, confirmed these statements ; but Police-constable
Barlow, who went into the yard to quell the disturbance,
was unable to identify the prisoner as being present.—
The jury, after consulting a minute or two, found the

and, as cough lies a good-deal more under the influence of
the will than most coughers suppose, such was its effect,
that during the rest of the day there was not a tithe of
the previous coughing." _ _ . .

Tiffs FAVOURITE iiisam oa AUTRORS.—Dr. Rondelet;

an ancient writer on fishes, was so fond of figs, that he
died of a surfeit occasioned by eating them to excess. In
a letter to a friend, Dr. Parr confesses his love of " hot
boiled lobsters, with a profusion of shrimp sauce." Pope,
who was an epicure, would lie in bed for days at Lord
Bolingbroke's, unless he was told that there were stewed
lampreys for dinner, when he arose instantly and came
down to table. A gentleman treated Dr. Johnson to new
honey and clouted cream, of which he ate so largely, that
his entertainer became alarmed. All his lifetime Dr.
Johnson had a voracious attachment for a leg of mutton.
"At my aunt Ford's," says he, "I ate so much of a boiled
leg of mutton, that she used to talk of it. My mother,
who was affected by little things, told me seriously that

it would hardly ever be forgotten." Dryden, writing in
1699 to a lady, declining her invitation to a handsome
supper, says :—" If beggars might be choosers, a chine of
honest bacon would please my appetite more than all the
marrow puddings, for I like them better plain, having a
very vulgar stomach." Baron Maseres, who lived to the

age of ninety, used to go home one day in every week
without any dinner, eating only a round of dry toast at
tea. Aristotle, like a true poet, seems to have literally
feasted on fancy. Few could live more frugally ; in one
of his poems, he says of himself, "that he was a fit per-
son to have lived in the world when acorns Were the food
of men."—Salads for the Solitary,

prisoner guilty.—His lordship, in passing sentence, said
that the prisoner had been found guilty on what was, to
his mind, very clear and satisfactory evidence of having
engaged in the most violent outrage committed upon Mr.
Crompton. Admitting to all engaged as workpeople the
full right to judge for themselves whether they would
work or not, it must be obvious to everybody, that to
proceed to the works of Mr. Crompton, in the manner the
prisoner and his accomplices did —several men falling at
the same time upon Mr. Crompton, with sticks like con-
stables' staves, a more outrageous offence against the
law than this could not by possibility be perpetrated.
The sentence of the court was that the prisoner be subject
to penal servitude for four years. He might state--as
this was prob Lbly the first opportunity he or any other
judge had had, except in London, of remarking upon this
new act of parliament—that persons who were convicted
of offences would find that their sentences under this new
punishment would be entirely and fully carried out. In-
stead of working for himself, and thus earning wages to
support himself, his wife, and his child, the I
would be kept at work as a slave for the term of four years
CHARGES OF BURGLARY.—Richard HigginBon pleaded
guilty to having, at Whittingham, burglariously broken
into the dwelling-house of Peter Shorrock, and stolen
three loaves of bread in tin cans, and a meerschaum pipe:
Sentence, nine months' imprisonment.—Johnßiley pleaded
guilty to having, at Manchester, on the 3d October,
broken into the house of James Ryder, and stolen a silver
spoon, a silk handkerchief, and three bottles of wine.
One of the counsel engaged in the case said it was "

prisoner

freak from reading romances about highway robberies."
Sentence,one month's imprisonment.—John Dunn pleaded
guilty to having, at North Meols, stabbed Edward Cain,
with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Sen-
tence deferred.
ALLEGEDROEBERY WITH VIOLENCH.—Thonzas Darcy,
charged with having, at Manchester, on the 22nd of
October, feloniously beaten and assaulted William Tone,
and violentlystolenfromhimsix half-crowns;was acquitted.

ROBBERY WTTIT VIOLENCE AT kANCHESTER.-
Margaret Warburton was charged with having, at Man
cheater, on the nth November, taken part in a, robbery
with violence, upon William Newton. Guilty : Si :=months
imprisonment.

CHARGE OF BURIPLARY AT CASTLETON. —Jaime
Geldard was charged- with burglariously breaking: and
entering the dwelling-house of John Buckley, at Castleton,
with intent to steal.—Acquitted.
UNLAWFUL WOUNDINfe. - Patrick Mc Grade was
for having, at liaulgl4 cut and wounded Michael
Tolan, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm.—

Guilty- of unlawfully wounding: Six months Impilsonmen

&ROTARY. —Dennis Mtatighill was indicted for
feloniously breaking into the. house of Joseph Mills, at
Oldham, and stealing therefrom-various articles of cloth-
ing. The prisoner pleaded guilty.--Sentence, nine months'
imprisonment.
The court adjourned shortly afier-five o'clock.

WEDNESDAV:
(B'efore Baron Alderson)

Tlie'coart met at a few minutes past nine. o'clock

SAt73l3&G' OsnELL.—Thoinar Clayton, charged
with cutting and stabbing William Glitsby, on the 22nd
Septeuber, at Orrell, near Wigan, pleaded. not guilty.
The prisoner and Glasby, along with others,. were drinking
in a public-house, when the prisoner became. quarrelsome,
and wished•to fight with. his (prisoner's) brother. Glasby
succeeded. iii quieting prisoner, and went out. He was
followed 155- the prisoner; who, in going out, .took. a sickle
from the Mt of a person,in the house. With • this sickle
he stabbed Glasby, and cut him severely oxt‘toth hands.
Glasby resiited, and knocked prisoner down, immediately
going off into the house. Clayton followed him; and again
stabbed and oat Glasby. Several witnesses were examined,
and the jury, after some deleration, returned wverdict of
piny of unlawfully wounding.—Sentence, eight months'
imprisonment

GAROTTE IrEMBEELY LIV.E.SPOOL.—Jas. Aiztirson,
26, was chargedwith having, onthe evening of the 31-d Oct.
last, along with others, not in custody, assaulted; and
robbed John Sktgeant of a mall sum of money,. about
kurteen shillings; and other articles, in Hood-street,
Liverpool. It appeared that the-prosecutor had been =per-
Ming at the Amphitheatre; and was going to.-the
Theatre-royal. H•was spoken to by two females,-and
then • suddenly set upon and seined by four or five men,,
who. held him by the throat, and prevented him from call-
ink out. They threw him down, pressed upon his person,
opened his clothes, and robbed him. of the articles referred
to.. The prisoner was alleged to beune of the assaulting,
part, and distinctly Identified by the prosecutor as such..
Thomas Bagley also spoke distinctly to the identity of the
prisoner as one of the assaulting party. Guilty—Sentences
Penatimprisonment for-five years.

RCREAT WITH VIOILENCE, NEAR. ASIITON-ITNDERA
la-NE:,--Rettben Towler- and Wm. Slater were charged:
with throttling, knocking down, and robbing Henry.
Buckley; carrier, on the sth of September last, at Mossley,
of a purse, containing ten .shillings and some shoe ties,
Guilty.- Both prisoners were sentenced to penal imprison-
ment fee eight years.

CHARGE WOUNDIN4, WITH MALICIOUS INTENT;.I
ON TH.M. Hum SEAS.—Nicholas Jackson Nattrass, cap—
tain of the Matanzas, was charged with having maliciously
shot at George Wake, a seaman on board that ship, at
Bahia, with intent to kill him. In stating the case, Mr. -
Monk, for theprosecution, wont over the particulars of the .;
ship's voyage to Rio, at which place the captain had had a
quarrel with .the apprentice, who was at the time acting ,
as mate. Here a number of 'the .crew left the ship, and. 7
some new, hands were shipped. The vessel left Rio and_,
proceededA.to Bahia, where she!was on the 26th June. She
had been short handed on the voyage from Rio to Bahia.
While there • quarrels took place between several of the I
captain, in the courae ~,dered
the anchor to be weighed, the prosecutor refused to do
unless some • more hands were• got to make up the full :•
complement of 'men. On this refusal, he (the caidain):
drew a pistol from his pocket and shot Wake, the prosecu-.
tor, in the' shoulder. Wake was so severely wounded that-
he was upwards of three months confined to the hospitaL
After shooting Wake, the captain said, " I may as well ben
hanged at first as at last," and, taking two more pistols ,
from his pocket, threatened other two of his men. Mr.:_'
Seymour Digby having addressed the jury on behalf of -,
the prisoner, the jury consulted for some time, and?l
returned a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was sentenced:'.
to eighteen months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
THROWING VITRIOL.—Ann Webster.pleaded guilty to'
throwing .quantity of vitriol upon Gabriel Webster, her,
husband. Sentence, nine months' imprisonment.
GniEvotrs ,BODILY INJURY.—Rose Ann Killow was ••
charged with maliciously stabbing Margaret Murphy, on ~1
the morning of the 20th November, in Park-lane, Liver-
pool. It-appeared that both prosecutrix and prisoner are/•
unfortunate-girls of the town. On the occasion in ques-
tion, the proseentrix, about half past' twelve in the morn.-
ins, opened the inner door of a public-house in Park-lane,

when tie ,prisoner came out, Ld, using an opprobrious
epithet towards the prosecutrui„suddenly stabbed her on
the forehead,. and also on the eye. The jury return.ed, a
verdict of guilty of assault, with intent to disfigure.
Sentele.e, eighteen months' imprisonment. . .

STA33I3I,NET,WITIE INTENT TO, DISEIGURE.—Patriek
Handtwas charged with having, on the 29th Nov. last,
stabbed Jane Simmons, wife of William Simmons, residing
in the borough of Liverpool. Poisoner, it appears,was
the habit, of paying what prom:aril: considered: improper
visits-to a female lodger, and she to his doing so,
In an, endeavour on the part of the prosecutrix's husband
to get prisoner down stairs, lie stabbed the, prosecutrix
on the forehea4 with a pair ofscissors. His Lordship eon,
sidered AND case by no means an aggravated:one. The
jury, after a brief consultation, returned a verdiet:of guilty
et-wilfully wounding. Sentence, imprisonment, with hard
labour, for six weeks.
The court then adjourned till next morning.
(Before Baron Martin.).

ASSAULT, WITH ATTEMPT. TO MURDER.--Thai:. Bird
was indicted for assaulting George Nickson, with intent to
murder. him. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of
resisting his legal a,pprAiension. It was urged that the
prisoner was suffering at, the time from, physical injuries
of the brain, and his_ lordship deferred his sentence, in
order to ascertain further particulars as to his then state
of 'mind.— Sentence, eighteen months' imprisonment.
MARSLA.UGHTER.—John Finnigan, deaf and dumb,
was charged with Wiling John Shanley, at Manches-
ter. Owing to the. physical mistrtune of the prisoner,
the mode of proceeding with the. case was unusually
difficult, and considerable discussion, ensued. Mr.
Andrew Paterson, the master of the Deaf and Dumb
School at Manchester, under- whose instructions the
prisoner had been for about three years, appeared as
interpreter. The only witness. for the prosecution was a
little boy, named Angus Thorley,. ten years of age and
from what transpired it appeared that the prisoner, the,
witness Thorley,. and another boy, were proceeding along
Garrot road, Manchester, on the. 17th of September last,,
and in the course of their walk they were overtaken by
the deceased, who attempted to take a stick from one. of
the boys,: upon this the prisoner seized the deceased, and
pushed Mm into the canal. Upon a search being made,
the body of .the deceased was found. Under the direction
of his. lordship, the jury acquitted the prisoner, on the
ground that the testimony of so young a witness was in-
sufficient to prove the charge.
BURGLARYAT CHTlMPSALL.—Davidllforriawasinclicted
for burglariously attempting to enter the house of Mr.
Henry, at Crumpsall, on the morning of the 29th Sep-
tember last. The jury immediately returned a verdict of
guilty. Sentence, four years' penal imprisonment.
FELONIOUS ASSAULT AT PRESTON.—Henry South-
worth was indicted for having, on the 17th of October last,
while at work, rubbed lunar caustic upon the nose of one
Garnett, with intent to do him bodily harm. The jury
returned a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was
discharged, after being admonished by his lordship.
BURGLARY AT MANCHESTER,.—Henry Burns stood
indicted upon two counts—the first for breaking into the
house of Mr. Armitage, of Long-millgate, and the second
for receiving two kettles and other articles, together with
six gallons of whiskey and six gallons of rum, knowing
the same to have been stolen. Thomas Hunt, who had
previously been convicted of felony, was also charged with
being concerned in the same robbery. The jury returned
a verdict of guilty of receiving the property, knowing it
to have been stolen. Hunt, against whom a previous
conviction was proved, was sentenced to eighteen mouths'
imprisonment, with hard labour, and Burns to twelve
months.

CHARGE OF FORGERY.—Francis Morris wascharged
with having fraudulently obtained the sum of £l5 from the
treasurer of the Brickmakers' Building Society, at Ashton-
under-Lyne, by means of an order which he had forged.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, but recommended
the prisoner to mercy, as they were of opinion he had
committed the offence in ignorance. His Lordship
said he fully concurred in the verdict of the jury, and
sentenced the prisoner to two days' imprisonment, which
would admit of the prisoner being discharged that night.

CONCEAL3IENT 01 Butur.,--Margaret Clegg, a young
woman, pleaded not guilty to a charge of concealing the
birth of her illegitimate child. A verdict of guilty of

the concealment was returned, and the prisoner was

tenced to one week's imprisonment.
CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH AT •WINDLE.—Jane Young
stood charged with concealing the birth of her illegiti-
mate child. A verdict of not guilty was returned, and
the prisoner was discharged.
LARCENY.—John Lort was charged with stealing
from the person of Mr. Jonathan Wadsworth the sum of
14s 6d. On the ground that a material witness could

not be found, his Lordship directed that the prisoner
should be discharged upon his own recognisance*, to ap-
pear, if called upon, at the next assizes.