The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-22 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMIVIERCIAL ADVERTISER.

Exports to Great Britain 71,000 117,000 81,000 121,000
„ France.. 9,u00 17,000 38,000 32,000
Pother for. ports 17,000 21,000 9,000 25,000
Total exports 97,000 155,000 128,000 178 000
Stock on hand
BREADSTUFFS.—On the arrival of the Africa, with
Liverpeol dates to the 22d ult.' an advance of 374 c. per
barrel for flour was demanded, but only very partially
acceded to. The transactions have been only to a mode-
rate extent, the sales in quantity cannot be readily made
at our quotations, which already show a decline of 122 c.
per barrel from Saturday's rates. Wheat has advanced
10c. to 13c. per bushel. Indian corn has regained the
decline of last week. Corn meal, $4,181 to $4,50. Rye
flonr, $4,75 to $5,50 per barrel.
PROVISIONS. —Beef rather inactive. Moderate sales
of pork were made at $15,75 fo $lB for mess and prime,
Lard in fair request. Ohio butter arrives freely, sales are
made at 114 c. to 15c.; State dairies bring 17c, to 21c. ;
cheese, 84c. to 10c.

CURIOUS CASE.

AT the Lambeth Police-office, London, on Wednesday, Mr.
W. B. Boddy, a surgeon, applied to Mr. Elliott for his assist-
ance to obtain possession of his daughter, 19 years of age.
It appeared that a fortnight ago the young lady, while
on a visit with her sister, had left the house at three
o'clock, saying she should be back in a short time, but had
not returned from that day, and her family were in a state
of great suspense and anxiety as to what had become of
her. 'ln the course of the inquiries made about her, it
transpired that she had been in the habit, unknown to her
parents and friends, of attending the services at the
Roraish Cathedral in St. George's-fields, and had ulti-
mately embraced the Romish faith. Her fate remained a
mystery until Monday, when information had reached her
father that she was locked up in a nunnery at Clapham,
which was under the supervision and authority of Dr.
Grant, the Romanist Bishop of Southwark, and the object
of his (Mr. Boddy's) application was to request the magis-
trate's authority to enable him to recover possession of his
daughter, who was still a minor.

NAVAL STOB

,--Spirits of turpentine steady at 09c,
sales ; crude turpentine is held at
4. Common rosin, $1,75 to

to 70c., with moderat
$4,871 to $5. Tar, $;

;2 to $3

$1,90; five ditto, $2,50 to $5

FREIGHTS.—To Europe Freights are firm. To Liver-
pool : Tobacco, hhds., 425. ed. ; Cotton, square bales, per
lb., 7-32 d. to id. ; Flour, per barrel, 3s. 9d. ; Rosin, 46. 6d.;
Heavy Goods, per ton, 40s. ; Grain, in bulk, per bush.,
124 d. to 134-d. London : Tobacco, per hhd., 60s

Mr. Elliott observed, that no jurisdiction in such
and therefore could not give the applicant any as-
sistance. His (Mr. Boddy's) only legal course was to
apply to the Court of Queen's Bench for a habeas corpus
against the persons detaining her, and this would at once
compel them to produce the young lady before the court.
He (Mr. Elliott), however, had no objection to send an
officer with Mr. Boddy to Dr. Grant. Accordingly
Lockyer, one of the summoning officers, was directed to
accompany the applicant to the residence of Dr. Grant,
who admitted that he had some recollection of a young
lady answering the description of Kiss Boddy asking him
some.questions; but assured them he did not know where
she was. He, however, added, that if she was in the
nunnery at Clapham, as had been conjectured, or at the
Servants' Dome, a Romish institution hi the same vicinity,
there could not be the slightest difficulty in getting her
out, as there could be no desire to detain her from her
father and friends.

per barrel, 4s. 6d. to ss. ' • Turpehtine, per 280 lbs., 6& •
Measurement Goods, per ton, 30s. to 35s ; Heavy Good:,
Oil, &c., 465. to 605.; Beef, per tierce,. 7s. ; Oil Cake, per
barrel, ss. 6d. ; Grain, per bush., 16d. to 160. To Havre :
Cotton, square bales, per lb., lc. ; Rice, I2d. • Whalebone,
&c., per lb., it. ; Flour, per barrel, 90c. to KC. ; Grain, per
bush., 24c. to 2.5 v.

NEW ORLEA,ISB, Nov. 7.—The sales of Cotton to-day
were 3500 bales, at steady prices. Strict middling is
quoted at 9c. Molasses 1500 hhds. sold at 2210 to 23c.
4000 bags of Rio Coffee sold at 194 c. to 11c. Rice• dull, at

sc. to s±c. Flour is declining
CHARLESTON, Nov. 6

The sales of Cotton on entur-
day were 700 bales, raflging from Bc. to 101-c.
ALBANY, Nov. 7.—The transactions in Flour were
limited to 1000 barrels, at previous rates. In Wheat ric•
sales have been reported. Corn, has been in good request,
at better prices.

Lockyer, the officer, here remarked, that it was gene-
rally represented that no ordinary person app)ying to a
nunnery would be allowed to see any of its inmates, upon
which Dr. Grant remarked that it was not so, and, lest
there should be any difficulty or doubt in the matter, he
si;ould give Mr. Boddy a note to the principal at- the
nunnery.

IRE LA.Y.D.

-~f

TER WATERFORD AND LlMERitlfi RAILWAY directors
have purchased two beautiful glass domes in the late
Exhibition, to cover their new terminus at "Waterford.

Mr. koddy expressed himelf satisfied with the candour,
courtesy, and kindness of Dr. Grant, and it was arranod
that its the course of the afternoon Mrs. Boddy shoal,
accompaoy the officer to the! nunnery to identify her
daughter, in the event of her going by any other than her
real names

FIR& IN DrBLIN.- On Monday morning, a fire broke
out in a dwelling-house in Upper Dominick-street, Dublin,
by Whieh a large amount of property was destroyed.
Neither the premises nor the furniture -was insured.
Dtnnty EXIIIBITION.—The pictures and other objects
of art which Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert contributed to the Dublin Exhibition'weredeliTered
at Windsor Cistle, on Thursday last, by Mr. Jam C.
Deane, the assistant-secretary.

Lockyer,- accompanied by Mm-Boddy, first went to the
nunnery, where he saw the lady principal—Sister Maria
Theresa—who assured them that neither Mrs. Boddy nor
any person resembling her had entered the nunnery for
three weeks preceding ; but, at the. same time, recom-
mended them Ik' go to the " Servutits! Home," where,
perhaps, she might be. They accordingly went there,
and, on inquirin*from a Miss Rushworth> the lady who
had charge of the place, if Miss Boddy was there, she at
once and without hesitation admitted that she was, and
said she had been brought there about a fortnight before
by a woman. She also said she was merely kept there
until a situation suited to her age and capacity could be
obtained. The yoinng lady was here brought to her
another, when she at once declared that she•'was kept at
the:place at her own particular request, and that she had
not been restrained in. any way whatever.- She cried
bitterly, and seemed to' leave the place with. much re-
luctance, saying she was afraid she would notheullowed
to attend the church of her adoption, but she-was-taken
a cab to the residence of her sister.

4ANOTREET CifoLutrA Snti.—Another alarno tras• cau-
sedut Cork on; Friday, by the arrival of a Prussian vessel
with emigrants. at-Queenstown, on board of which-cholera
was reported to,bc-raging. This is the third skip having
the malady on board which has arrived in that harbour:-
GRAND ORANOR• LODGE OF IRELAND.—This-,body
assembled in Duhlin-on Tuesday, and closed its siftings-
on•Thursday. The attendance was large. The Earl-of
Enniskillen presided: Hislordsbip was assisted byliords
Dukrannon. A spirited- address, applicable to the• cir-
ctmastances of the Protestants ef the empire, was adOpteT•
PI..Oi3I'ECTS OF Tkt:SEAstdr.--The whole of last week.

was dry and cold, with' a sharp frost at nights, and the
wind ftum-W.N.W. The' accottets• from the country a*
generally favourable, and the farmers, taking advantage
of the open weather, are: Imisily" engaged in the sowing
of wheat.

away t%

MR, EA CH OF
MARRIAGE

PROMISE
--AMUSING CASE

THE MiarssivE EsTAvEs' of the earl of Mornington,
in Kiwi, and Queen's counties; and the counties of
Meath, Dublin, Cavan, and Westmeutk„ were sold in the
encumbered estates court on-Tuesdiy. 'The annual ren-
tal is £9,683, and the gross =Pa •realisect by the %alp was
£204,835, equal to twenty-tom and a half years' purchas.

IX' the rail Court, on Thrrsday, the case of Chalfont
7.-Hard was. tried before Justice-Crompton.
The- plaintiff was the widow of a small jeweller ;;the
dif4vidant was, a retired sergeant in the army, having.a
pension and seine small house property ; his wife had died
at the' beginning of the year, and in August last the
deginthmt offered to marry the plaintiff, and was accepted).
He vi4ited her daily, talked of settling £250 on her, and
purchased • the wedding-ring, and gave it her. He called
several :times upon her father, and obtained his consent.
He fia.ed Monday, the 19th of September, to be married,
but went andmarried another person
Timothy Stafford. —I am the father of the plaintiff, and
am a jeweller at Chelsea. My daughter is in the same
line of Business at Chelsea; she has been a widow seven
or eight years, I know the defendart ; he is something
in the army..—a. sergeant, I believe. We have known him
many years, luring at Chelsea. He had-some property at
Chelsea, but sold. it to a tailor for ab0ut...1:260. The first
time I 'mew, of his being acquainted with my daughter
was on the 6th, of August : during the life' of his former
wine his family and. mine were on terms.- of the strictest
friendship. His• wife died in this year: On the 6th of
Au gust I saw-the defendant in the evening—he went into
the subject of 'my daughter. He told me he had seen my
dau 'ghter sometime previously, and had got her consent
as a suitor, and he " axed" me if I woukl. be willing to
give my consent. I told him I was quite-surprised, and
mai id not think how he could think of such a thing, as
they e was a great disparity in their ages, but he persisted
in g etting is consent. I told him I should like to see
my i daughter first. He went on proceeding. about it till
hew as out of patience. At last he said it did not signify
whet her I consented or not, as he would. make her his
wife, otherwise he would not marry any one else. I then

„, • „
1 lIE IJVIC4?” OF BEDFORD LIS WCOIlle mi. Irish landlord.
He has purchased apart of Mr: lih4wanrit property in Gal-
way for £40',000. The total stma Irealised by the estate
was £88,850,. equal to 17k years! purchase. it is said that,
a few days before the 'sale took plade,•a sym. of £107,000
was offered kr 'this estate on the 'part of the Duke of
Bedford. _

DREADFUL Acct DEN T. CO4l3OlEl', NOV: rr. A
dreadful accident,. attended with lass-of:life, occurred here
last night. Asaxmanlims, belongirg.to4dr:.2d)arris of the
Eagle Hotel, Westport, was convsyhig-34, poor creatures
who escaped 11''rn. ;the wreck of the illtfatect California' n
packet to Sligo and -when turning mat o! this- town, five
infies from Sliteopthe two off-side wheels went to pieces ;
the vehicle of course was upset in a moment, mat the un-
fortunate driver (if Brien) was killed- Seven others were
more or less dangerously injured ; seats- of them have
been conveyed to,the Sligo infirmary-

THE EXHIBIIII*N, • ILDING.—It- appears. that this
great favourite orthe. DUblit public wiLk-not be lost tc
them for some tine- yet. Mr. Dargan'o.
act been exhausted;; and during the winteemontise",.after
the goods shall 11=e-been removed, the.hailding- will be
comrerted into a promenade, with military-bands perform-
ing. moderate- price. of admission will be • charged:
Both Mr. Dorgan araf the Dublin Socrety -co-operate in
tit* project, whiclustaf seem rather straw .at this, cokli
season of the year;..blit those who know 'the'. excessive'
fondness of the Dal:din—people for military., musie;. and
pvtanenades of this sort, w.it have no dotthb of its success,

,generosity has

ATTEMPT AT MAllKnzit.—On WedneAkty• morning,
between 1 and 2 -rtolctek-, ea the Rev_ Mr. Gratinle; of
ICZlevy parish, w. -sitting. nt the kitchen fire: of his
residence, a party Gf.lnen.earne to the rear of ,the' house
and fined through the kitchen window. I.le_ rev: gentle.
man was on a vet,- Map sent„ and this circumstance-saved

ave in to-linni- . I
Tb .e Judge..—Yon found him so very warm that you
gave in P—l teldg him, at last, that I was quite agreeable
to it. He stated.he would settle upon her all his -personal
property except_ his pension. He mentioned £250 at
allot' Ler time. Some days after this the defendant and
my d aughter came to my house together. He was very
anus iy for marriage, and wished to be married. I said,
"Ma y I understand Mr. Hard wishes to marry you? Do
you; think you oan love Mr. Hard, and make him a good
wife';" She said, "I can, father." He sprang-forward
and - put out his .right hand, and nay daughter runs upand
puts her hand smack into his. I presses 'em together like
that; ,as hard as I could squeeze them both together. I
said, " I see youare now both happy and pleased,. and I
hopi you will remain so; and, vartually speaking, Icon-
side r you are new. really married?' I saw there-was a
littl e move made; and a bottle produced, and somewine
and water was made. I took a little drop neat. He
urg ad very mnoh.for Monday, this being Friday. I was
the only persou.who overruled it, for he was so very.obsti-
thalerdeimt.aswonulodt
nTh atr
.eurseth.carrieddal
,re le,r e
intfoooo
tnlullloedlailv. a r
ebtc:ghhumeettwohhna
steaareoyb u. u glh
told
al
d himlicense,
tin le to draw the deed up—the marriage covenant. The
defendantTb
tee
an d
t wash: l
rsanfi
ixyhetaedhlfegoxtrht:,
rodan thenywg
e"marriage.nt tilltnawayivgehryt
; he muttered something about her net coming to
house 0 n thewi t
hl7mt 17th od
af Septemberue lr. e
meete hiinto the defendant's dilefeeenzdaPeetednes
accepted us freely and comfortably, and entreated us to
not id.
comel asked
Thgilittle
.teutltehnmi
wmeu ipcnfhu
defendant oe.r e
daauHnamatsuideeLseealah:::e
lielidt explanation
tofnr
not Hob asbe
me
-to
twiewnnkh
well,
tewilwh i
sa
Awdei
matter.d -
his pocket.. lieealled me and showed me • mcome •tax
rqoniseteupamanasedthbe,:inin
hcingtunraina
paper. Hathen put a ring in my hand, and asked me
if I thcogtt it a. good one. I took it to thelight and saw
the halt-mark- I said it was very heavy, and gave it him
again. He .s
again. bless you, Mary ; keep up your
little heart—here's the ring." She advansed to him, and
he planed kit ou,hee finger, and asked her, whether it was
not too Urge,: and she said it was. I said, as she was a
jewetkr she could take a little bit out, and make it the
righksiae, Heathen said, " We'll be married on Monday
morning:. My daughter, the defendant, and I left the
houte,,ansi went and looked at some houses, and the de-
fendant said oneof those was for them to live in, as he was
about to purchase two of them. We then.went to my daugh-
ter'shousa to tea. He was friendly till ten or twelve at
Right; very marry, and singing soap,. About ten o'clock
lie went out,, and returned with a lady in about half an
hour. He. said that was the lacky,the ring belonged to,
and it. DAY daughter liked to return that ring he would buy
hen a keener, and she should have, it when they went to
church to,be married on Monday. My daughter said she
would not part with the ring. The lady afterwards left.
with the deendant. The defendant afterwards came back
end remained some hours, saying it was his own housei,
IN, reference to this case,. the, John Bull, of Saturdaz..
says :—The issue which hes 'been raised, and which rs._,
and troublesome. He did not marry my daughter
reams, to be tried, is neither more nor less than ' and he should remain as long as he liked. He became:
on the Monday, but he married. some one else. I asked
Wlether the freedom of discussion, on religions as tvell.ae aPgrY
!lira, that night who the lad,y, was, and he said ittwas
on political topics, which.BEllish law has hitherto guaran- -
tee 4 is to be upheld, orb the it is to be suppressedlat-
Cookey Darling," his intended wife. I said I would .not
the bidding of the papery, and in furtherance of its do.
signs upon this country,. The principle has been set- tip
take that at all, for I knew it was not true. He turned
by O'Brennan, affirmed; by Justice O'Callaghan,
and, not• round to me with a bit of a.snarl, and said her name was
contradicted by the. Eerl; of St. Germans, that the, anT Mrs- Bailey. I said, " You have not acted as an,upright
man ; you are going to. he,. married to another. porson."
of. He was very abusive, andsaid it would not cost above £5O
aouncement of public discussions upon the points ife., con..
to compromise the. matter. My daughter is, under 34,
troversy between the. true Church and the Church
Rome,—even in tha.form of sermons preached in. a Pro,
and the defendant is 50:or 60.
Cross-examined.—The defendant is a Chelsea pensioner.
testant charch,—is, an offence punishable by the chit
magistrate. This...is, in fact, the identical principle on.
My daughter has one ohild lit her foer macriage. The
which the recent. law of the Grand Duke of Tuscany
defendant sang two or three le rivesongs, They were
against the dist:Oration of any writings impliugning. the
Popish system,. ; and if Mr. O'Ca aghan a de-
not exactly " Let es, Haste to the Weddings 7 or "The Sol-
cision is allowed-to stand, and to become a precedent, we dier Tired of War?s,Alarras," but something. between them.
shall soon be in-a condition similar to that of' l!russia, and Other witnesses were called as to the promise and
other Protestant countries of the continent, where the breach of it. The writ was served onthe evening of his
handling of questions affecting the controversy with Rome, marriage.,..
in the pulpit, is made a misdemeanour, on. the ground of dame Jury returned a verdict for the-plaintiff, with £5O
its being an,offence against a religion. recognized by the ges-
State andhaving a tendency to excite, the mmds of the
and
:having
one another.
That this is the consummation which the Papists are
driving at, eenuot be doubted. Ey,en, in England, as is
shown, by the recent occurrence at Walsall, where Dr.
Armstrong was prevented by the interference of a Popish
magistrate from giving a lecttkr.e on the Romish contro-
versy in the school-room attached to St. Peter's Church,
the. Popish Priests are invoking the arm of the civil
power, for the purpose of preventing the exposure of
their system of spiritual fraud and corruption. In Ire-.
land, while the distribution of a handbill by Protestants
is made penal, Protestant missionaries are knocked down
• and beaten within an inch of their lives with perfect ira^

his life, for some fragments- of a ramrod". wfth.whith the
gun was charged pssed. through his hat, struck:the wall
opposite, and entered' the floor. The miscreants them
effeeted their escape:rt. Mee scene of this snE•age the
county of Armaa.candi within' about 200 yards- of the;
residemce of Mr. Chbmbre, who narrowly escaped: with
his, life from the hands orastv..-Asins last year.:

This Exonus.—Harvest operations biihg eompieted,
the "rush from Ireland" has. set in with renewed" vigour.
The Limerick ReTarter •says The cry is still, they go,
Nothing can arrest.theirprogress. Fate dtires -them. on-
ward, and they arelleterntined to obey its.iinpnlsesi.heed-
lass of unheard-ef,;tatastropbes at sea—of -skknese—of
delvers such as are •:unparalieled in Iftery-7-of love of
country, which hua.wellimigh been eating Wished—of every
cue tie or affectimt which should keep pe?plo.iii: the: land
of their birth. It! was. exceedingly pasufaL to. witness
this morning, befathe -six e:clc.ek, crowds at the-Limerick
terminus ; these arowels‘ composed of emigrants and their
friends, parting; never perhaps to meet reore,--no less:than
forty-seven of theenumber bound for Melbournei in. Aus-
tralia, the othersefor, America; all of a comfortable• class,
which, under ether circumstances, might- dowat at home,
but which now flies front home as if it never possessed an
attraction for-them. A hale countrymanjoined: the train
at Bolter statiOn,sand;, loin? asked where -he was going,
replied, witinthe,- greatest possible indifference, and non-
chalance, 'Only.. ov.er to New York.' This, may afford
some idea of.the callousness with whit-h!the• separation
from Ireland regarded by the great: mtiority of emi-
grants. At Abs- junetion there was a great augmentation
to the nunaters, and as, the train passedftndrum, Goold's
Cross, andl Thurlesi. there were aalitionali emigrants
booked fir Australift or America. Effttfe are making in
several districts to: keep the people at home.; but until
! landlords leornwrednm it is vain to eißect they will not
leave Inelaud. no, raatter what the horrers- they must face
in doing so.. Among those who went this morning was
Mr. Fitzgibbon, We master of the -Bellerbuoy auxiliary
workhouse." The following is a return-, of the number of
emigrants ,front, Cork through Ettg,lielf porta for each
montle,of.-Ahis year,, contrasted witly„,the, corresponding,
weeks.ef _

JannorY
lavaArY
3,14;01,

11853. 1852. 1853. 1852.
1,067 1,214 July ; 3,776 3,477
2,183 1,706 Ault .. . .... ..3,521 2,572
3,378 2,902 Sep ember -.3,167 3,066
~5,140 2,625 Oeteller 3,076 2,961
.5,742 4,037
3,245 3,199

Total 33,265 22,657

TOR CASE OF THE TRACT DISTRI-

BUTOR IN;DUBLIN.

CURB !O CANCER.--The Augsburg Zeitung states
that Dr. Landolfi, physician to, the King of Naples, has
discovered a method for the cum of cancer, when not in
its worst and last stage. Dr. Landolfi had been sam-
monesl to Munich about three months ago to attend a.
lady of rank, whose cure to has effected, as well as that
of many others, during his visit to that city. It is ex-
pected that he will speedily publish a work on the subject
of his discovery.

LOLA VloiirTzz is still at San Francisco, where she has
been again married, and in regular categorical order again
applied for a divorce. The Debats gives the following
,
account of her manners and customs, from an American
journal Lola is an inexhaustible mine of eccentricities,
and, in one way or other makes everybody talk about her.
In the capital of California she is in the habit of playing
at bowls, which instruments are of very large dimensions,
and give the lady an opportunity of showing the specta-
tors that she has &strong grasp and a steady eye. She
contends against the most intrepid amateurs, and as they
assemble in a public place or main thoroughfare, the
entire population has an opportunity of admiring her
vigour and pirouettes. The countess has in the mean-
time invented a new means of obtaining money. She
has hit upon the idea of a series of conversations. Per-
sons solicit an audience of half an hour or an hour at a
time, and in consideration of a stated price, fixed, as at
the door of a theatre, they have the right of seeing and
conversing with her on things in general. She answers
all their questions in any language they please, and never
lets the conversation flag. The notion seems to have met
with great success. In spite of the attacks of the countess
upon journalists and men of letters, two Californian vau-
devillists have ventured to compose a very diverting little
piece, entitled Ce que c'est qu'une Comtesse.' Without
being Lola is cruelly treated, beingmentioned in the piece,but
she Eas taken it very well, and appeared charmed, indeed,
that it procures for her some addition to that celebrity
which she runs after with s 4 deplorable a perseveraucc."

punity. The grand jury of the county of Galway, con-
sisting, with one exception, of Papists, refused the other
day to find a true bill against two Papists, charged with a
murderous assault upon a Scripture reader in the employ-
ment of the Irish Church Missions. And ftem the same
county we have in the Galway Express the account of
a similar assault, committed with the avowed sanction of
the priest. In this case one Pat Coneely felled the Scrip-
ture reader to the ground with a blow from a spade,
kicked him while prostrate, and broke three of his ribs,
put his hand in his mouth with the intention of tearing
the flesh off his face, knocked out one of his teeth, and
would, to all appearance, have murdered him, but for the
timely interference of a convert. The ruffian who com-
mitted this outrage, declared that " he defied the law, for
his priest had told him the law was broken when any of
the preachers came on his land, or entered his house, and
that he might beat them till within an inch of their lives
with impunity.

AMERICAN RAILWAYS.—In spite of high wages and
high rate of interest in the United States, railway travel-
ling is much cheaper there than it is in England. The
fare from Montreal to New York, 410 miles, by express,
Is only 16s. Sd. From London to Edinburgh, about the
same distance, it is twice that sum by second class,

MR. BRADLEY AND MR. HODSOX.

THE following correspondence has passed between these

two gentlemen :

" Falkner-square, Tuesday Evening.
" Sir,—Your statement in Council on Wednesday last,
in reference to certain charges, was as follows:
" There were, he (Mr. Hodson) was sorry to say, two
or three more instances, not only in that Council, but in
another public body with whom he (Mr.• Bradley) was
connected, in which he had used the influence of his
position to carry an election.'
" I have to request from you—
" Firstly,—What other public body, besides the Council,
do you refer to that ' I am connected with ?'

"Secondly,—The nature of the charges which you thus
prefer against me. _

" Thirdly.—When you will be prepared to substantiate
such alleged offences.—Yours, "E. BRADLEY.
_ _

19, Great Nelson-street North, 17th Nov

" Sir,—l decline to have any communication with you
on any subject ; at all events until the inquiry at present
going on by the committee at the Town-hall be finished.
" E. Bradley, Esq." " TnO3IAS L. H0D21041.

" Falkner-square, Thursday Evening.

" Sir,—As you profess in your remarks in -Council upon
the charges preferred against me by yourself, that your
only object was the public good, I cannot now understand
(excepting as an evasion of the question and shrinking
from the responsibility of your charge) that you now
decline to answer the subject of my note, as the decision
of the committee appointed by the Council can in no way
affect the charge you prefer against me relative to another
public body ; and therefore consider it due to the public
and myself to give publicity to this short correspondence,
that the public may form its own conclusion.—Yours, &c.
" Mr. Hodson." " ED. BRADLEY.

A CRY FOR " QUARTER" FROM THE

ROMANISTS
*

C'SPES', the well-known Salisbury pervert, has
written a letter to the Times suggestin% that, if less
acrimony were observed in religious contrc*ersy, religion
itself migEt be• al/ the better for it. Mr. Capes assumes
that his owti side has all the charity and an the truth ;
and he conciures by asserting that a Romanist does not
believe that aAPitfestant is beyond the pale or salvation,
if the said Protestant conscientiously reject tho Popish
system, after chwexamination.

- This- last assertion shows how much, or rather' how
little; Mr. Capes himself knows of the system into. which
he' has stumbled. As' for amity, it was a Popish+ sur-
plicad ruffian who gloated over, the " glorious idea" of a
Protestant massacre;: and,we believe that the munfa.' of
Prottatit landlorciv and. clergymen in Ireland may'be•
tracedlo the fiendis: epithets applied to them by Popisb
dignitaries at public: meetings: Only the night befcre;
last weeare 'told :

"As the Rev. Mr.• Graham; of Killevy parish, was
sitting at the kitchenffre44l his residence, a party of metct!
came to the rear of the house and fired through the kit-
chen windbw. The rev. gentleman was on a very low
seat, and the circumstanne saved his life; for some frag-
ments of g' ramrod with whieh, the gun was charged
passed through his hat, strock. the. wall opposite, and
entered the 'il&or. The mlieteants then effected their
escape. The's*ene of this outrage- is in the county of
Armagh, andtwithin about two hundred' yards of the resi-
dence of Mr. Cliambre, who narrowly escaped with life
from the han&of assassins lastyear."
Not one of these miscreantwwill be diicovere4t-' They
will resort to a- priest, get absolution, and willallteount
themselves as innocent men !

There are two' pints in the letter of Mr. Capes which
have been so well answered by Dr. Cumming, that we feel
authorized to quote the latter gentlerasnts words. Mr.
Capes has asserted- the correctness of theßotaanist ver-
sion of Scripture. Dr. Cumming says that
"St. Bonaventursis Psalter, accepted' 'liy' the latest
authorities of the clistreh, consists of the Psalms of David,
the Te Deum, and the Litany, all weeded of the name of
`Deity, and prayed and sung to the Virgin; anti is really
nothing short of blasphemy." The doctor then adds—
Mr. Capes seems to, repudiate 'exclusive' salvation.'
Shrely he cannot have forgotten that almost every canon
of the council he obeys concludes with anathema ; and
surely he does not forgett that in the creed he repeated on
his, joining the Roman Catholic Church, after asserting
transubstantiation, the supremacy of the Ripe, purgatory,
and invocation of departed saints, he himself closed with
these words, ' This is the true Catholic faith, without
which no one can be saved. "

We would remind Mr. Capes—who is, by the way, far
too amiable, honest, and sincere 'a man to be a Papist of
the assassin school of the Ultramontanists—thatr,when
his party cries out for less hard blows, they should 'refrain
from aggression.
Let him look at the case onliss Boddy, recorded in our
columns. A female Jesuit takes this young girt: to a
theatrical mass-house, subdues her judgment by its; gew-
gaws, and then shuts her up, nothing .lothe, in a ``Ser-
vants' Home !" The parents of this poor girl, wheels a
minor,: would never have heard of her again had they-not
bestirred themselves. When they did, Dr. Grant,:.the
Popish superintendent in Southwark? thought he, did
remember that there was some such person as Miss Biddy
in someplace of Romish refuge, and that it would be-the
easiest thing in the world for her distracted father -to
recover her if he desired it. Of course it would—the-law
would protect him. But, in the- meantime, the Pi,ah
authorities never thought it worth, their while to Worm
the father where his child might be found, nor cared to
ask if they might keep her with his-sanction. They were
only retaining her, it seems, until she was fitted 'for aims
situation.

Ah I what situation would she be .fitted Tor after leaving
the " Servant's Home ?" We remember what adv.:ix-a
Popish priest gave to all. Popish servants in Protestant
families—namely, to report all that passed therein to .the
priests, and to do their best to steaLthe children from the
church or their parents. We, of course,: cannot say that
Miss BoddY was qualifying for a nursery-governess in a
Protestant household.; . but, when: we • think what the
Popish system is, against which Mr. Capes asks us merely
to "roar like sucking doves," we can :only say that, if she
were, we should in no degree whatever have been: sur-
prised at it:---Olittreh and State Gazette..

MADAME:DANTEENT'S CONCERTI' WAS, given on Tues-
day, in the. Music-hall, Bold-street, before a large- and
fashionable audience. The performers were Miss J. Ham-
mond, Madame. D'Anterny, MODS,. D'Anterny, Mr. E. L.
Hime, the popular composer, and. the .youthful pianist
Arthur Napoleon, Mr. H. V. Lewis conducting. The
pieces were svarmly applauded, and,most of them encored.
LIVERVO&L; CUSTOMS' STAFF.—Mr. Thomas• F. Fuller
has been promoted from second-class landing-waiter to
the first-class ' • Mr. Joseph T. Barton has been promoted
from thirthelass to be second-class landing-waiter -; Mr.
John Hargreaves has been promoted from fourth to, third
class landing-waiter ' • and Mr. Thomas Gale has been Tro-
moted from fifth to fourth class lauding-waiter. _

IMPORTANT TO PAWNDROKPRS:-011 Thursday:;. Mr.
B. Rowland, pawnbroker, of Vauxhall-road, was •.. sum-
moned for-the value of a shawl, &c.- The woman who had
pledged the articles paid the money to. 'redeem them, and
the goods were placed on the counter before her, but taken
up and.rurk off with by another person.. The magistrate
held there had been a negligent delivery, and heldthe de-
fendanCresponsible for the lass, ordering him also to pay
the costs.

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.—The, Rev. St. Vincent
Bees:hey is continuing his lectures .at this. institution, on
the " Moon and the Tides." Last Friday he went fully
into,tbe theory of the tides, examining the . various opi-
nions.which have been held upon the • subject from the
timecof Pliny to the present day, and proving, by a variety
of arguments and illustrations, the superiority of the wave
theory over all others. Soule remarkablelocal peculiarities,
a-;41 other tidal phenomena, were satisfactorily explained,
and a large amount of nseful information conveyed in a
very agreeable manner.
FICTITIOUS CLAIMS, Ili. BA.NKRUPTCT.----At the Bank-
ruptcy Court, on Moinlay, last week, in re. Peverelle, Mr.
Pemberton complained that one of the. creditors, Louis
'Peverelle, uncle of the bankrupt, had, made fictitious
'claims on the estate, a fact which was proved by Mr.
Peverelle himself, who said that, on being applied to by
Mr. Cazenove, the official assignee, fora his claim against
the estate, he sent,. in nine invoices, or- accounts of goods,
purporting to haw been delivered. to the bankrupt, the
gross amount being £412, lls. 21d, ;: but he now admitted
that these accounts were manufactured for the purpoie of
increasing his claim against the estate, the real debt due
to him being somewhere about £lOO. He said he fabri-
cated those ilivoices at the request of the bankrupt, and.
that he brought the amount up to, the desired sum of £4OQ.
by increasingthe price.and. theoriginal items, and adding:
others which, were fictitious. He altered his day-book,
but not the ledger, to correspond with this fabricated
account ; and he observed that, if his books were produced,
they wouhl prove the fraud', which he now admitted. On.
Thursday Louis Pevereileo.a. witness in the case, was sum-
moned before Mr. Commissioner Perry, to prodnae his
books sad somelettent having reference to the bankrupt's
affairs. He submitted his books and four letters 'written
to Lim by the bankrupt, dated August 21st, 443rd, and
24tL, and September 16th, 1853. The letters were written
in Italian but translations of them had hem obtained.
They all had reference to the witness increasing his. claim
ou. the bankrupt's estate from £lOO to £412, a fact which Le
.iwitness) confessed to at the former examination. The
r witness also produced his books, and pointed out the alte-
rations he had made, in order to give an appearance of
genuineness to the claim of £412 made on the estate. The
books were signed by the commissioner, and the letters
were given up to the court.
Suicznu or A HOIISEBICEAKEIL—On Thursday, the
house of Mr. Edwin Stott, farmer, Westholme, was en-
tered and robbed about noon. Suspicion fell upon a man
named Mills, who was believed to have committed
Many depredations in the neighbourbood, and he was
apprehended. He was brought to Oldham, and, along
with a man named Caughall,remanded till Monday. They
were placed in separate cells, and the regulations of the
chief-constable are, that all prisoners be visited every
half-hour, night and day. Sergeant Parker visited Mills'
cell about 20 minutes to five o'clock on Saturday afternoon,
and was relieved at five o'clock by another officer, whose
duty it was to see that all was right when he received
charge. This officer went down at five o'clock, and found
Mills suspended by his braces from a bar in the window
of his cell. He was instantly cut down, and he after-
wards groaned once, and seemed to breathe twice. An
inquest was held, when the father of the deceased stated
that no symptoms of insanity, weakness, or despondency,
had ever been observed in his son or any of the family.
The jury returned a verdict of felo de se. The coroner
explained that the law required that the body should be
interred within twenty-four hours after the verdict, and
between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock at night.
The verdict having been delivered before nine o'clock,
it became imperative that the interment should take
place that night. He, therefore, issued his warrant to
the police authorities, requiring them to see to its fulfil-
ment. The body was interred in the lower part of the
church-yard, about a quarter to twelve o'clock, without
any ceremony or observance whatever. The excitement
of some of the crowd at the time seemed so great that it
was feared that an attempt would be made to take the
body up again z but shortly after twelve o'clock the crowd
had dispersed, and no disturbance IN bateTer occurred.

LIBEL ON A LADY.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 17

(Before Chief Justice -CempBELT„ Mr. Justice COLERIDGE,
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN, and Mr. Justice EARLE.)

CRIMINAL INFORMATION.— THE QUEEN (ON THE
PROSECUTION OF FRANK) V. WILLMER AND ANOTHER.—
Sir F. Thesiger said he took the earliest possible oppor-
tunity to apply to the court, on the part of the prosecution,
for a rule calling upon the defendants, Edward Willmer
and David Smith, printers, publishers and sole proprietors
of the Liverpool Chronicle, to show causes why a criminal
information should not be filed against them for a most
cruel and scandalous libel upon the honour of a lady, by
which the peace and happiness of a most respectable
family had been shamefully invaded. The gentleman, on
whose behalf he was compelled to make the application,
resided at Aigburth, in the neighbourhood of Liverpool.
In 1847, he married the only daughter of Sir John
Bent, a gentleman residing at Edge-hill, also in the
neighbourhood of Liverpool. Mr. and Mrs. Frank
lived together on the most affectionate terms, and Mrs.
Frank's conduct had been always most correct. Until
Saturday last, Mr. Frank had never heard an impu-
tation to the contrary, and on that day when he called
upon his mother-in-law, Lady Bent, he was startled to
hear that there were scandalous rumours current in the
neighbourhood, that his wife had been guilty of infidelity
with a servant formerly in his establishment; and he WAS
referred to Mr. Mould, at Liverpool, for further informa-
tion on the subject. He immediately proceeded to, and
saw that gentleman, who put into his hands the newspa-
per containing the paragraph imputing infidelity to his
.wife. The paragraph stated that " gossip " had' been
making free with two cases of conjugal infidelity, one of
them relating to parties who resided in the neighbourhood
of St. Bride's Church, and the other to a family residing
at Aigburth. The paragraph having entered somewhat
into descriptive particulars of the first ease, then drew
attention to the alleged case at Aigharth/ which it spoke
of as still more distressing from the position of the un-
fortunate lady, a position which rendered it hardly likely
that an action could be brought, from the fact that the
defendant was a servant, " not worth powder and shot."
The paragraph,- in further commentary upon the scan-
dalous report, added that the event had given great pain
to the husband- of that lady, who possessed liirge fortune,
" troops of friend's," and all that could make life desirable.
Mrs. Frank, who was thus cruelly maligned,. had- been
obliged to submit to- the degradation—for soy he must
designate it —of utterly denying that there was the
slightest truth in- the scandalous imputation upon- her
honour. He would prove the publication of the paragraph.
Lord Campbell—Do your affidavits show that the com-
plainants are the parties-referred to in the paragraph,
Sir F. Thesiger said that the affidavits on that point
were complete. The wanton of the father of the lady as
'a gentleman bearing a title:was itself sufficient; for that.
description did not apply to the father of any other-
married lady living at that" spot. There were, besides;-
affidavits of third persom• declaring that they had no'
doubt as to the parties to whom that libel related. He'
ought to mention that the paper against which this appli-
cation was made was published every Saturday. The
learned counsel then went on to%say that he would have
made- the application before, but that the parties had
thought proper to publish an advertisement in the Liver-
pool Standard of Tuesday 1114, headed "Scandalous
Reports." The advertisement set forth that the Liverpool
Albion of that day had alluded to' the paragraph which
appeared in the Liverpool Chronicle of the previous
Saturday, and explained that the slanderous imputation
contained in the paragraph had its origin, in the malignity
of asdiseharged servant ; and that the-Liverpool Chronicle
hactrnerely inserted the rumour amongst the " gossip of
the week." The advertisement regretted. the suffering
that hattbeen inflicted on a respectably family, and volun-
tarily-pledged. that a strict retraction of: the entire state-
ment, msting imputations on the ladY3s, honour, should
appear in,the next number of the Liverpool Chronicle.
It did nob appear to him (Sir F. Thesiger): that this was
sufficient iiva case of such seriousness, and. he therefore
deemed that he would not be discharging:- his. duty if he
did not appeal. to this Court for a rule to show cause why
a criminal information should not be filed, against the
parties who published the slander.

- Lord Cant bell was of opinion that the eotme proposed
by the partier-did not disentitle the learned- counsel to
take a rule, whatever might be the result of it. hereafter.
Rule nisi granted.