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TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 25, 1553.

ROMISH ENCROACHMENTS.

1 IN calling attention last week to the tyranny of the

Romish Church, as shown in the persecution of the
NIADIAI at Florence, and the proof that was
thereby afforded of Rome being actuated by the
same spirit which disgraced the worst period of her
history, we did but briefly allude to the necessity of

ual steps to restrain the extension
of Romish influence in this country. It is not that
we anticipate the slightest amount of good from the
present coalition Ministry. There is not one of
them on whom the slightest reliance can be placed
for real on behalf of the purity of the National
Faith; while the admixture of avowed Romanists of
the ultramontane school with men to whom any
religion is a matter of perfect indifference, would
show that the tendency is all on the other side.

1 taking more effect

This view is further confirmed by the fact that the
ABERDEEN Ministry must rely upon the support
of the Romish Brigade for a majority in the House
of Commons ; and such support can only be ob-
tained by making concessions to Rome, which must
etrimental to the interests of the Re-
formed Church. If we refer to the time of the
Reformation, we shall find that the wisdom of our
ancestors hedged in the Constitution with the most
agent guarantees against Romish encroach-
They positively forbade all intercourse with
Roman Court, denounced its doctrines as here-
and dangerous, and excluded all who professed
them from civil privileges, as persons who owned a
h precluded the possibility
eing loyal subjects to the British Sove-
is the Liberalism of modern days which

highly

'oreign allegiance wi

has broken down these barriers; and it becomes
our duty, as men zealous for the preservation of the

Protestant fait'.

to consider how far we should

ndo what has been so unwisely done, and in what

zy we should

return to the old paths, and wall

herein

The first important step in a downward direction

was the Emancipation Act Of 1529, by which Ro-
rnanists were admitted to the privileges of the Rri-

tish Legisigure ; and it may be interesting to recur

to the discussions by which that measure was ulti-

session of Parliament, since the act has been in
force, in which, for all the purposes for which it was
it has not proved a dead letter ?

designed,

This, however, is the case only as far as conceans
those Romanists who have been admitted, to Par-
liament; but there is equally glaring default against
the members of our own Government. They have
acted upon the measure as though it were designed,
not simply to confer civil privileges, but to promote
religious influence, and have thereby afforded to the
Romanist members some show of excuse for their
perversion of the oath. We are in no want of proofs
to substantiate the charge—for, unfortunately, they
are too numerous. The Charitable Bequests Act,
by which Romish Prelates were addressed by their
illegal titles, and appointed to offices to carry out
its provisions--the attempt of Lord JOHN RUSSELL
to appropriate part of the revenues of the Irish
Church to secular purposes, including Romanist
education—the consultation with DANIEL O'CON-
NELL on the terms of the Irish Tithes Bill, to pre-
vent any further exposure of which Mr. LITTLETON,
the Irish Secretary, was pitchforked into the upper
house as Lord HATIIERTON—the appointment of
Mr. SHELL, Mr. WYSE, and others, to places in
the Government, upon no other grounds than their
being Romanists—the suppression of the Orange
Society in Ireland, while Romish societies were
admitted to exist—the administration of the Marquis
of NORMANBY, who opened the prison door to
Romanist criminals—the order of Earl GREY, the

colonial secretary, to colonial governors to admit
Romish Prelates upon equal terms with those of
our own Church=-the permanent endowment of
Maynooth College, for the training of Romish
Priests—the application for the approval of the
Romish hierarchy to the statutes for the Godless
Colleges in Ireland—the advice to Queen VICTORIA,
when in Dublin, to receive deputations from Romish
bodies, and to reject one from a society because it
was exclusively Protestant—the measure to estab-
lish diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome,
contrary to the express provisions of the Constitu-
tion—and the palpable evasion of the popular
demand to redress the notorious aggression. These
form but a part of the evidence which might be
brought against the British Government, in con-
junction with English Radicals and Irish Romanists,
to render the Emancipation Act of 1829 a direct
encouragement to the encroachments of Rome.
It hasso long been the cry of the Liberalising party
to stigmatise every attempt to retrace a false step,
as something akin to a wish to restore the Saxon
Heptarchy, that it requires more than ordinary
moral courage to advocate so important a step as
the repeal of this obnoxious measure. These per-
secutors for reading the Holy Scriptures in Italy,
talk glibly in Great Britain about equality of rights,
when the slightest check is attempted to be placed
on their encroachments in the same direction ; but
it is the manifest duty of every man who values the
blessings won at the Reformation to lend his aid for
their preservation. It is not here a question of
ation, but of prevention—of intolerance, but

of liberty,---for it must be clear to every unpreju-
diced mind who will calmly review the facts to

which we have alluded, and compare the present
aspect of Rome with the humility which she assumed
when she was a suppliant for emancipation, that
conciliation has long since reached its limits, and
that every -concession is made a pretext for further
demands. The former warnings have been un-
heeded-; but the NIADIAI persecution in Florence

should once more rouse the cry of "\o peace with
Rome." She is essentially and without mitigation

antagonistic to Christianity, to religion, to civilisa-
tion,•and to humanity, " The tender mercies of the
wicked are cruel," and her mercies have ever been

TUESDAY,

JAN UARY

ENIIG.RATION DEPOT-BIRKENHEAD.

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WiTnorT entering into the question of the advantage

or disadvantage of emigration to the labouring classes, no
one will dispute the importance of providing, as far as
possible, for the spiritual and bodily welfare of those who
are sent from their native land as the pioneers of civilisa-
tion indistant:wilds. Last year the Government established
an Emigration DepOt at Birkenhead, and many thousands
have since been despatched from thence. The place for
the reception of the emigrants occupies a considerable
portion of a spacious warehouse at the end of the dock
immediately adjoining the railway, and has a wharf front-
age from which they can embark from the depOt to the
vessels alongside, appointed to convey them to their desti-
nation. The floors are very lofty, the upper ones being
divided into sleeping chambers for separate classes, fitted
up with berths similar to -those on board a ship. The
ground is divided into places for washing, rooms provided
with tables and forms for meals, and a warehouse for
storing luggage. As it was of the highest importance that
so many of our poorer fellow-creatures should not be sent
away without some portion of religious instruction, which
might prove of future benefit to them, a voluntary associ-
ation was formed, entitled the " Emigrants' Friends' So-
ciety," of which the Rev. Dr. BAYLEE, as Incumbent of
the district in which the depOt is situate, was chosen Pre-
sident. An appeal was made to the public for assistance,
and through the aid thus afforded a temporary church has
been fitted up with seats, and a reading desk covered with
scarlet cloth, where Divine service is performed twice on
Sunday, and three other evenings in the week, by the
Rev. J. W. WELSH, the Emigration Chaplain. The
scarlet covering for the reading desk and communion
table was presented by Lady Cusr, of Leasowe Castle,
who has also repeatedly supplied the depot with books,
knitting wool,':and other materials, an example which has
been followed by several other ladies. The church has
also a handsome font of marble, which was presented by
the Rev. Rector CAMPBELL, and as many as sixty-
four christenings have taken place in one day. A depo-
sitory has also been formed, from whence the poor emi-
grants are supplied gratuitously with Bibles and other
religious books, and the society is also fitting up a school-
room, in order that some elementary instruction may be
afforded during the short time they remain at the dep3t.
In addition to these advantages, the emigrants are pro-
vided with occupation in useful trades, so as to find them
employment during the voyage; and instruction is given
in tailoring, shoe-mending, straw-plait weaving, &c., so
that they ;may not he altogether without
when they arrive at their destination. In order to carry out
this object, the society is desirous of receiving donations
of old clothes, shoes, paper, needles, thread, cloth, and
other materials for this purpose, which may be addressed
to Mr. BARKER, the agent on the premises. The society
is also in want of pecuniary aid, in order to carry out the
benevolent objects for which it was established, and the
appeal is made to the public for support purely on the
ground of charity for the poor people to whom the
Government furnish a free passage to our colonies. It is
one of the mischiefs of general emigration, that people are
taken from a land where Christianity is the practice, to
one where the ministrations of religion are few and far
between. At no time probably is the mind of man more
peculiarly open to receive beneficial impressions than
when he is leaving his native country, perhaps never to
return ; and the society trust that, by sowing good seed
as far as practicable, some of it may bear fruit in distant
lands. The society is under the superintendence of a
committee of highly respectable gentlemen. and the cause
which they have in hand recommends itself to the sympathy
of the benevolent public.

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RECANTATION OF SIX ROMANISTS
INTERESTING CEREMONY.

Tar, Church of St. John, in this town,

,e even-

- -
ing of Tuesday last the scene of a most gratifying and
impressive public ceremony—six adult converts having
on that occasion renounced the heresies of Rome, and
declared their adhesion to the Church of England. The
sacred edifice was crowded by a most attentive audience,
including a large number of the humbler class, to which
some of the converts apparently belonged. The evening
service having been read by the Rev. Mr. Matthias, one
of the curates, the converts were ranged around the altar,
and the customary questions addressed to them by the
Rev. W. F. Taylor, incumbent. Each of the adults
having replied to these queries without any reservation,
they were accordingly received into the communion of
the English Church. Eight children—some belonging to
the present converts and others to Romanists previously
converted—were then, at the express desire of their pa-
rents, likewise received into the Church ; after which.
Mr. Taylor offered up an impressive prayer, that the
converts might be protected from the revilings of their
enemies and the scoffs of the indifferent, and that they
might become instruments for good to their poor fellow-
creatures who still lived in darkness. After an appropri-
ate hymn had been sung, Mr. Taylor delivered a brief
and appropriate discourse, founded on Romans, xvi.
li-18:—" Now, I beseech you, brethren, mark them
which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doc-
trine which ye have learned ; and avoid them. For they
that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their
own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive
the hearts of the simple. In his opening remarks Mr.
Taylor announced that last year they had enjoyed the
pleasant task of receiving twenty-six Romanist converts ;
they had now made a beginning for the year on which
they had recently entered ; and he trusted the Lord might
graciously grant that many more might be brought out of
a Church sunk in darkness and idolatry, and their eyes
opened 'to the light of truth. Those who were led to
come out of that Church would doubtless be charged by
the unconverted man who remained behind with being
schismatics, and very possibly some plausible argument
might be adduced in support of the statement—perhaps,
amens others, they might select the passage he had cho-
sen as his text. But he contended that mere separation
from a Church did not constitute schism ; for, if such
were the case, then the Apostle Paul himself must have
been a schismatic, for " He separated the disciples" from
the Jewish Church. Nor does the mere fact of excom-
munication necessarily constitute any man a schis-
matic, for if the Church excommunicated a person
wrongly, then it was the Church which was guilty. This
was proved by the case of our Lord and Saviour, who
was excommunicated from the Synagogue, then the only
visible Church in existence. St. John, too, and other
ministers of Christ, were excluded from the Christian
Church over which Diotrephes presided—(vide 3d John,
9, 10.)—and yet they were neither schismatics nor
heretics. These cases were only the incipient manifesta-
tion of that spirit which was destined to germinate and
bring forth such terrible fruit in the shape of the Papal
supremacy. It was not enough that the charge of heresy
should be preferred : they must prove the point. Asser-
tion was one thing, proof another. And it had been the
case before now, that the true Church was charged with
heresy and schism by the dominant party. He next en-
forced the principle, that the Church which imposes un-
lawful terms ef communion is, from that fact, schismatic ;
because it either makes a man profess to believe what he
does not believe, or it drives him from the Church if he
is not willing to make the false profession. That this
applied to the Church of Rome, was proved by extracts
from the writings of Dr. Wiseman, the Pope's cardinal in
England, according to which there was only one way of
admission into the Romish Church—by " absolute and
unconditional submission to its judgment." But even
this provision had not been sufficient to preserve the
Romish Church from dissensions, and in its history they
found that rival Popes had at various periods broken the
boasted unity of Rome. He therefore rejoiced that these
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The Asu.—The British and North American mail
steam-ship Asia, with advices from New York to the 12th
inst., had not arrived when we went to press.
TESTIMONIAL. The workmen of Messrs. Walker,
builders, at Birkenhead, have presented Mr. William
Walker with a handsome silver tankard, on the occasion
of his marriage with Miss Thomson, of Birkenhead.
THE RIGHTS or CONSCIENCE.—We are glad to find,
by an advertisement in our columns to-day, that the
Society for Protecting the Rights of Conscience in Ireland
is about to be brought before the notice of the Protestants
of this town. It is a most valuable aid to the various
societies engaged with such signal success in evangelising
Ireland, having been lately founded by the Archbishop of
Dublin, after he had, by close investigation, become
satisfied of the depth and extent of the Reformation
movement, and discovered not only the utter falseness of
the bribery cry, but also the reality of the sufferings which
the converts almost invariably have to pass through.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND INSTITUTION.—In our adver-
tising columns it will be seen that the next lecture of the
present useful and interesting series will be delivered to
the members and friends in the newsroom of the insti-
tution this evening. We understand the lecture was
postponed in consequence of the meeting of the " Work-
ing Men's Church Association" on the evening first ap-
pointed. The subject is Nineveh, and the lecture will be
illustrated by a series of diagrams, exhibiting the most
remarkable of the antiquities discovered by Rawlinson,
Layard, and others. We have much pleasure in stating
that Lord Stanley has requested his name to be enrolled
on the list of life-members of this valuable institution.

GIRL BURNED TO DEATII.—On Saturday evening, in
the absence of her parents, a little girl of seven years,
named Margaret Hughes, was burned to death in her
parents' dwelling, in Kent-place, Cornus-street. She
had been left in the house by her mother, in company
with her sister Mary, aged 12, and Mary Allen, a neigh-
bour's daughter, about sixteen years. While in the act
of snuffing the candle, Margaret's clothes became ignited,
and the two elder girls, losing all presence of mind,
instead of affording help ran out for Mr. Allen, who
came and speedily extinguished the flames. She was so
severely burned, that it was deemed advisable to convey
the little sufferer to the Northern Hospital, where, after
enduring much agony, she died on the afternoon of Sun-
day, about two o'clock. An inquest will be held on the
body of the deceased to-day (Tuesday).

25, 18)3

POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY.

JUVENILE THIEVES AND THEIR AI3ETTOPS.4—PatriCk
Kelly, Edward Brannen, John M•Loughlin, and -Mary
Chambers, four children, were charged with having stolen
15 pounds of cotton; at tha same time Owen M`Cabe,
who purchased the cotton, was brought up before Mr. J.
H. Turner, and sentenced to two months imprisonment,
for his share in the transaction. It appeared that the
young thieves were found with the cotton in their posses-
sion in Stewart-street, and that they were subsequently
traced to the marine cellar of the man M'Cabe. Cham-
bers and Brannen were each sentenced to fourteen days'
imprisonment, their younger companions being discharged.
ROBBERY OF BANK NOTES.—Philip Smith, charged
with stealing three £5 Bank of England Notes, was re-
manded for seven days, in order that Lord Riddlesworth
might be communicated with.
A PICKPOCKET CAUGHT.—John Hestler, for attempt-
ing to pick pockets in Scotland-road, on Saturday night,
was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. The culprit,
it appeared, conducted his operations with other three
members of the light-fingered fraternity—his companions
jostling the ladies in the crowd, and Hestler doing the
manipulating part of the business.
A WORKHOUSE THIEF.—John Mundley, an inmate of
the workhouse, was sentenced to be imprisoned for one
month, for stealing a purse and 3d. from John Hickson, a
brother pauper.
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ROBBERY.—John Richardson was charged by Thomas
Kirkley with robbing him of the sum of 69. in a brothel,
on Saturday night ; both prosecutor and prisoner were
seamen ; but, from a total want of evidence, the case was
disch .reed.
A PAIR or PROFESSIONALS.--Patrick Kelly and
George Norris were committed to gaol for three months
by Mr. Turner, on a charge of picking pockets on the
evening of Saturday. Two detectives watched them for
some time endeavouring to rob a woman in the Old Hay-
market. One of the prisoners went up to the female, as
he approached her slyly mounting a pair of spectacles, and
then rushed violently against her, while his companion
came up and, before she had recovered herself, inserted
his appropriating fingers in her pocket. The rogues have
been pursuing a career of crime for a long time past.

A SUSPICIOUS CASE.—In consequence of some private
information, detective Russell went on Saturday and
examined the house of William Smithurst, beer-house
keeper, in Leigh-street. In a box in the possession of
Mr. Smithurst he found a vast quantity of jewellery, in-
cluding a quantity of gold rings and watch guards. Be-
sides this there were a number of pawn-tickets relating to
watches. Mr. Snowball appeared on behalf of the publican
when he was brought up before Mr. Mansfield this morn-
ing ; and, as there was no evidence to show that Mr.
Smithurst had acquired the valuable property in an illegal
manner, he was discharged.
Two SHEETS IN THE WlND.—Bridget Newmile, a
middle-aged little woman, possessing apparently a strong
predilection for the poteen of her native land, was charged
by a neighbour with stealing two of her most valuable
sheets, one of which she most disrespectfully lodged in
the hands of the pawnbroker, for the purpose of procuring
liquor with which to allay the cravings of a thirsty soul.
The magistrates stopped the prisoner at the commence-
ment of sundry voluble explanations, by awarding Mrs.
Newmile fourteen days imprisonment.
STEALING COTTON.—Ann Burke, brought up on sus-
picion of stealing cotton, was ordered to be imprisoned
for fourteen days.

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY IN SHAW'S BROW•—A fine
sample of young Liverpool,in the shape of Peter O'Donnell
and Francis Murray, were sentenced to a month's impri-
ment for attempting to steal lead in Shaw's Brow, on
Saturday right. A younger cousin of the lad Murray,
who was mixed up in the matter, was discharged with a
salutary advice.

A YOUNG HOUSEBREAKER.—A young lad, apparently
about fifteen years of age, was committed for trial at the
sessions by Mr. Mansfield, on a charge of breaking into
the house of Mrs.' Jane Roberts, Field-street, Ecerton,
about nine o'clock on Sunday night, and running off
with sundry articles of wearing apparel, including a
valuable coat belonging to the son-in-law of Mrs. Roberts.

How he obtained entrance is not known.
THE "EARL OF LONSDALE."--REFRACTORY SEA-
MEX.—Six of the crew of the Earl of Lonsdale were
brought up on a charge of refusing to proceed to sea, in
com:Aiance with the terms of their agreement. They
had already obtained one month's advance, and the cap-
tain had even offered to give them another half-month in
advance; but with less than another whole month's
they said they would not be satisfied, and accord-
went ashore. Mr. Mansfield placed before them
ernative of adhering to their agreement, or being
in prison, when they very sensibly resolved to go

lodged

CANDIDATES FOR PnisoN.—Jane Clarke, Catherine
Doherty, Catherine Holmes, and Jane Smith, four prosti-
tutes of not more than from fifteen to twenty years of age,
appeared on the charge of breaking certain windows at the
workhouse, with the desire, which, they openly avowed,
of being sent to gaol, where they are not compelled to
work, and where consequently they prefer to reside when
destitute of quarters more congenial to their habits. The
miserable creatures, who conducted themselves most in-
decorously while in the dock, were sent to gaol for 21

AMODEL MEMBER OF THE MILITIA.—WiIIiaM
Dnr-
barn, a militia man, for a brutal assault on Elizabeth
Lamb, committed in a fit of drunkenness, on the 29th of
November lest, was fined in 205., with the alternative of
going to gaol for a month if he did no'

CASE OF THE CALEDONIA.-SEAMEN
REFUSING TO GO TO SEA.

Yesterday, the case of the Caledonia, remanded
from Saturday, came before Mr. Mansfield. Twelve of
the seamen were brought up at the instance of the com-
mander, charged with refusing to go to sea, according to
the terms of their agreement. Mr. Owen appeared as
attorney for the seamen, and in reply to his queries,
Captain Richardson of the Caledonia deposed :—The ves-
sel is registered 789 tons, new measure, and twelve years
old : she is now laden with 1,050 tons of coal. I cannot
tell whether there are more or not. I signed weight un-
known. She is drawing 20 feet on an even keel. Mr.
Hamilton is the broker. I shipped the men, and I pre-
sume they were aware at the time of the cargo. The
Caledonia is going to San Francisco, California. The
owners are William Taylor and Son, of Sunderland.
Captain Banks was displaced by myself, in consequence
of the ship having passed into the hands of my owners.
The ship was classed IE, at Lloyd's, and she was making
two inches of water in fifteen hours when she was de-
serted by the prisoners. I have commanded four vessels
during the past five years. I have never heard of coals
choking up the pumps, although of course it is quite pos-
sible they might do so.
One of the men alleged that the ship had 2 feet 6 inches
in her when they left her ; but this the Captain flatly
denied, alleging that she had not drawn so much during
the whole time he had been in her.
Mr. Mansfield : It strikes me the seamen would only
be too happy to go to San Francisco, if they thought there
was a reasonable chance of their reaching their destination.
This is one of the things which seem to strengthen their
case.
Mr. Littleton, secretary at Lloyd's, deposed that the
Caledonia had at first been registered A 1, and that she
would remain the same from four to six years, so that it
was likely that her A 1 character expired at the end of
1847. She would then fail into the second class, fit to
carry dry and perishable cargoes, but not to or from any
place in the world. Our surveyor, on going on board,
(in compliance with the suggestion of the magistrate on
Saturday) found the leak was not increasing, but, on fur-
ther examination, it was found that the ship was defective
in some places. The surveyor had ordered all the neces-
sary repairs to be made. If not complied with, instruc-
tions would at once be communicated to London, and the
character of the ship would be struck off the books at
Lloyd's.

Mr. Owen here drew attention to the fact that coals
were calculated to imbibe a great quantity of water, and
that the cargo of the Caledonia had doubtless done this.
Captain Richardson begged to state that half of the
crew still remained on board, and were willing to go with
the ship. He at the same time intimated that he would
telegraph to his owners the fact that the repairs must be
done.
Mr. Mansfield said he believed, if the men were not
seriously alarmed, they would make no objection to pro-
ceed on the voyage ; for seamen were generally anxious
to seize the opportunity of proceeding to San Francisco,
well knowing that they might almost name their own

terms in engaging to come hoMe, and always being sure of
lucrative employment if they decided upon remaining
in that country. Ho was sorry to see that one of
the most :conspicuous :faults he found in the seamen of
this port was, that they did not in general seem to
regard the sanctity of an agreement into which they had
entered. But in the present case he had requested a sur-
vey to be made, and the result of that examination is,
that certain repairs are required, and that if those are not
made the ship will lose her character at Lloyd's, and the
insurances which have been effected on her will be made
void. From the recent case of the Seringapatam,
in which the seamen refused to proceed to sea, and
which had subsequently been found to be rotten
from stem to stern, he was desirous of arriving at
a cautious decision. Were a magistrate in such a case to
put the seamen in prison, or compel them to proceed on
the voyage, it might afterwards be a very great source
of sorrow to him that he had been a party to the
injustice. From the result of the official survey in the
present case, it is quite clear that the ship is not in a
proper state to go on her voyage, and that there is no
excuse whatever for the seamen being retained in custody.
If the ship were repaired and could safely go—and that
were proved before him—then, of course, L should think
it his duty to hold the seamen to their agi cement. But
in the meantime they must be discharged.
The prisoners then left the dock.

A RETURNED GOLD-DIGGER.—Daniel ISl`Carthy, who
returned from Australia in the Marco Polo, with gold dust
which he sold for £5OO, has had the whole of it taken
from him by a relative, and now has not-a penny left.
BuTcitcres' PROFITS.—In the adjourned examination
of William Lowcock, a butcher, at the Bankruptcy Courr,
on Friday, the bankrupt endeavoured to show that the
profit on £5,500 worth of stock was only £6l 14s. 5d.,
and that the retail butchers of Liverpool were not paying
their expenses.
MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT TO A YOUNG
MARINER.—About 9 o'clock on the morning of Tuesday
last, while the schooner Margaret was sailing in the Irish
Channel, John Walls, aged 21 years,, a mariner, fell from
the top-mast, and was so severely injured that he expired
in less than an hour. The schooner came into the King's
Dock, Liverpool, on Friday ; and on the following day
an inquest was held on the body
,of the deceased, when a
verdict was given of "Accidentally killed."
ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF A FIREMAN. --
week a fireman, about forty-five On Sunday
Years of age, named
Edward Duffy, belonging to the Nimrod, plying between
Liverpool and Cork, fell into the No. 2 Sandon Graving
Dock. In consequence of the injuries he received he was
carried to the Northern Hospital, where he lingered in
great pain until Thursday, when he expired. At the in-
quest, which was held yesterday, before Mr. Coroner
curry: a Tudict to accindance with the factg wad retUrlaqd.