The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE PROCEEDINGS
OF THE MAGISTRATES.

I think that, in the absence of the direct provision of
a place of refuge for those unhappy gentlemen who, though
anxious to display their wisdom in public, have been ig-
nominiously kicked out of the council chamber by their
fellow burgesses, the frequent summoning of the bench
appears capable of being made into a substitute. The
magistrates' room is not certainly so large a place to
figure in as the Torn-hall ; but a more fitting erection
might easily be provided, and, instead of his worship the
mayor presiding, we might have Mr. Edward Rushton as
" perpetual dictator," with en aristocracy ❑uder him,
ranking in authority, according to the number of times
each member had been rejected by his constituents.
These honours might be marked by stripes, or X's
upon their coat collars, or bells upon a pyramidical cap,
which Prince Albert would, perhaps, be willing to design
for their ❑se. William Rathbone, William Earle, and
Thomas Bolton would, from the number of their rejec-
tions rank high amongst the aristocracy. Perhaps the
former, from the number of his honours of the kind, and
his small quantity of coat collar upon which to display
them, midit be allowed a kind of belt, or wear an apron
hieroglyphically adorned. The new building might be called
" forum," in compliment to the classical tastes of Mr.
Rushton ; and the seal of office might bear, as motto,
the observation of Buhy Bottom—

" I can roar you as gently a, any sucking Dove.'
I think, whatever Mr. Rushton may think, that when
he said to Mr. Dowling, " you are either to obey the or-
ders of the magistrates or not ; if you decline to obey
their orders, the magistrates must be summoned," he
uttered, what most men would interpret into, a threat of
dismissal, unless they could bring themselves to regard
the magistrates, as men who were likely to resemble that
king of France who

" 'arched up the hill
With twenty thousand men ,"
and afterwards, nobody but himself knows why,

Straightway marched down again."

I think Mr Rushton's expression, " Ring the bell, and
send for Dowling immedia.ely," was scarcely complimen-
tary to that gent!eman. Mr. Dowling, the stipendiary
might remember, although " acting as head constable," is
a barrister, and, as such, entitled to be addressed as a
gentleman. I don't know, by the bye, who the prelimi-
nary, " r•ng the bell !" was addressed to, or whether the
mayor, or what other magistrate jumped up to execute
the mandate.

/ 'pink when Mr, Rushton asked the " acting head con-
stable" if " he believed that he had any hostile leeling
against him," and the latter authority said `• No," both
parties must have forgotten a certain collision which oc-
curred not a hundred years ago in the Police-court, and
was not calculated to leave behind it a conviction that
either of them could rely upon the good feeling towards
him of the other. I think that a gentleman, in whom the
stipendiary expressed such " perfect confidence" on a re-
cent occasion, had little occasion to have held out towards
him a threat of being reported to the magistrates in case
of disobedience to orders.

I think it never was sufficiently explained how Mr.
Dowling is to be whitewashed for not having read to the
police force that part of the proceedings of the magistrates
which reflects upon the character of Mr. Parker. The
matter at present stands thus. A portion of the resolm
bons of the bench—the concluding order, as to entering
them upon the watch committee's books,—was set aside
by Mr. Rushton's order ; another portion, the preamble,
was omitted reading to the force by the discretion exer-
cised by Mr. Dowling. Thus we have three parties con-
tending with the watch committee for authority in matters
reliting to the police force; viz. first, the bench of criagis•
trates, secondly the stipendiary. and thirdly the " acting
head constable." Which is pre eminent in authority?
How are we to reconcile their sliff,rence of opinion slid
superiority in discretion. This puzzles me, and I Mink
it will puzzle wiser heads.

On Sunday week the sum of £44 was collected at St.
John Baptist's Church, Toxteth- park, in aid of the
schools attached to that church, after sermons by the
Rev. T. Nolan and the Rev W. W. Ev,bank.
SAILORS' HONIE.-It will be seen from an advertise-
ment that subscription books lie at the usual places. We
trust every friend of such an excellent object will, as early
as possible, afford his aid to it.

The 49!1i Regiment, from 'Winchester, will succeed the
6ih at Chester and Liverpool.
On Thursday night, the office of a merchant in Goree
Piazzas was broken open, and bills and notes to the value
of £Bbo, together with some silver spoons and other plate
Were stolen.

The dinner to Sir Henry Pottinger w:ll take place on
Tuesday, the 17th instant. Several distinguished charac-
ters have already accepted invitations, and there is no
doubt that this will be one of the most splendid enter-
tainments ever give❑ in the Town-hall.
GUANO.—The arrivals of African are numerous, both
here and at the outports. The demand is exceedingly
limited, at 1:5 10s. on the spot ; at comet ling under this
rate there are large buyers. For forward delivery there
is rather more inquiry, but very little business doing.
Peruvian is without change.
ARMY MOVEMENTS.—The following removals of troops
are ordered to take place : Tne 56th Foot from Ireland
to England, the depot of the 14th Foot from Ireland to
England, and the 67th Foot from England to Ireland.
The 72d Foot embarked at Cork for Gibraltar, on the
27th ult.

SIR HENRY POTTINGER.—The gallant General, with
his aide-camp, Captain bane, paid a visit to Chester Gar-
rison on Friday last. The veteran hero was received with
military honours by the Royal Artillery and the 6th Regi-
ment of Frwt. Sir Henry left for Newton, near Chester,
the residence of Major-General Sir W. Warre, whose
guest the gallant officer was.
On Saturday list an inquest was held before the borough
cos otter on the body of Mrs. Standing, of Devonshire-
place, Everton The deceased was in her usual good
health on Wednesday night, and on the following morning
was found dead in bed. A post mortem examination of
the body was made by Mr. Jonathan Greenwood, surgeon,
Kirkdale, who found the cause of death to be enlargement
and ossification of the heart.

HAND BOOK OF BIRKENHEAD.—We last week paid a
well-deserved compliment to the typographical plan of
the Lancashire and Cheshire Railways, kindly lent us by
the proprietors of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD. Since
then our attention has been called to a pamphlrt with the
above title, to which is prefixed a " plan," issued with
the same newspaper, and composed entirely of moveable
types. It is more than double the size of last week's
plan, and executed with equal care and clearness. It is
certainly a great curiosity.—Railway Record.
On Sunday last, the largest and most respectable fune-
tal that has yet visited St. Mary's Cemetery, Kirkdale,
followed the remains of Mr. Joseph Onions, late foreman
to Messrs. Wils.n, iron ship-builders of this town. He
was universally esteemed by all who knew him ; he was
b-loved and respected by the men who worked under him,
for his kindnes, and humanity, which was plainly proved
on Sunday, by between 400 arid 500 men of various cal-
lings in the iron and foundry business paying the last re-
spect in their power to his remains.

DEMAND FOR WAGES.—On Friday, at the Police-
court, Captain Treadfoot, of the ship Sir John Beresford,
appeared to answer the summons of Peter M`Lellan, one
of his crew for refusing to pay him £9, alleged to be due
I.)r wages. The captain showed that during the voyage
the claimaet had not only shown ignorance of seamanship,
but had disebeyed orders, and had, in conjunction with
the mate, been insolent and insubordinate, putting him
(the captain) on one occasion in fear of his life. Mr.
Rushton reduced his claim by ss. per month, and said he
should also proportionately reduce the wages of the mate.
POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.—Some ingenious thief has
managed to commit a r ,bbery upon the Ely post office.
A packet, containing £350 in country notes, was posted,
it appears, at March, in Cambridgeshire, some time since,
and addressed to a banking-house in London, the postage
having been duly paid as upon an ordinary letter. The
packet was missed from the office previously to the making
up of the hag, and was net heard of for five days after-
wards, wren, strange to say, £290 reached the house in
London ; the thief having only taken £6O in Bank of
England notes.
THE QUEEN V. MURPHY.—The Irish judges decided
on Thursday, by a large majority, that the conviction of
Mr. Henry Murphy, the attorney, at the last commission,
for wilfully destroying documents relating to a cause in
Chancery, of which he had the conduct for a Captain
Richardson, was wrong, inasmuch as the document proved
to have been destroyed by the defendant was merely a re-
ceipt for rent—an exhieit proved at the hearing of the
cause, and that it was not such " an original document"
as was contemplated by the legislature when passing the
9th George IV., c. 55, under the 21st section of which
the prisoner was indicted. The result, of cours will be
the discharge of Mr. Murphy.
PROPOSED NEW CANAL.—It is now pretty generally
understood that a canal is about to be cut from Sankey
to Warrington, in order to connect the Sankey canal with
the river Mersey, the point of junction being near the
Warrington Bridge. By this arrangement vessels from
Liverpool will be able to come up to the town at all tides,
which they are now unable to do, by entering the canal
at Runcorn Gap. It will also directly connect St. Helens
and the coal district with Warrington and Manchester.
The necessary surveys have been completed some thne,
and the plan proposed has, it is said, been sanctained by
most of the landowners on its line of progress.—Chester
Courant of to-day.
CHESHIRE WINTER ASSIZE~.—The Commission was
opened yesterday (Merida),) at Chester Castle, before Mr.
Baron Gurney. We hear that Mr. Jervis, Q.C. is specially
.•etained to defend Mr. Winterbottom ; and that Mr. C.
Wilkins, of the Northern Circuit, will appear for Mr.
Port, the " Cancer Doctor." At half-past two yesterday,
the High Sheriff, Geo. Wilbraham, Esq., proceeded from
the Royal Hotel, with his carriage and the usual retinue
of officers and javelin men on horseback; to meet the
learned judge, Sir John Gurney, who arrived from London
by the Grand Junction Railway Company. The•cam-
mission was then opened with the accustomed formalities ;
and the business of the assizes will commence this
morning.

SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—About a fortnight ago one
of the dogs, named Libertine, belonging to the Lanark-
shire fox-hounds, disappeared when hunting at Jervieston,
and notwithstanding every search, was not discovered
until 11 days afterwards, when the pack were in the same
locality, and some of th• dogs stopped suddenly at the
mouth of a coal waste, and would not leave it. The
huntsman, in looking down the pit, discovere I a dog
which he supposed to be Libertine ; and having got ropes
and sent down a man, the missing dog was brought up so
little the. worse for having dropped down twenty fathoms,
or 120 feet, and been starved for eleven days, that he was
able, after acting some warm milk, to walk to the kennel,
And he is igain in good tunting trim.

KIRKDALE CituttcH.—The following collections were
made atter the sermons peached on the occasion of re-
opening this aural :—On Thursday evening, attcr a
sermon by the Rey. Hugh Stowell, £l9 Os. 101 d. On
Sunday morning, of r a sermon by the Rev. D. James,
incumbent, £33 lOs 61d.; and on Sunday evening, after
a sermon by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, £37 12s. Id.,
making a total of £lOO 3s. 6d.
LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRK, AND PRESTON RAILW
Of the many railway schemes now in progress, and in
embryo, there are few that have stronger claims on the
attention of the public, more particularly of the inhabi-
tants of Liverpool, than this line, forming as it will the
most direct communication between Liverpool, Preston,
the North of England, and Scotland. We have, there-
fore, learned with pleasure that the arrangements for car-
rying the bill through Parliament are proceeding with
every prospect of success, the requisite plans and docu-
ments having been lodged within the prescribed period.
:MEETING OF TIIE COUNCIL.-At the monthly meeting
of the Town Council, to-morrow, the proceedings of the
Finance Committee will comprise a recommendation for
the purchase of Mr. Logan's premises in Oldhall-street,
and a recommendation for the sale of the reversion of a
piece of land, in Upper Islington, for the erection of an
Irish Presbyterian chapel. The Mayor's communica-
tions amongst other things will comprise a letter from
Mr. Alderman Horstall, resigning his seat as a member
of the Dock Committee ; and a memorial of the Directors
of the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, praying for a
grant in aid of that institution.

THE CANADIAN REBELS.—The American line of
packet Switzerland, which left the St. Katharine's Docks
on Friday afternoon, for New York, had on board, in ad-
dition to a full cargo of British manufactured goods, a
large number of cabin and steerage passengers, among
which latter were upwards of 30 persons who were con-
cerned in the riots in Canada about four years ago. and
were in consequence taken prisoners by the British au-
thorities and transported to New South Wales. '1 hey
have recently received an amnesty for the offence in con-
sideration of having undergone a portion of their sentence,
and having arrived a few days since from Sydney in a ves-
sel lying in the London Docks, are now on their way back
again to their native country.
SERIOUS EXPLOSION AT ROCK FERRY.—At an early
hour on Friday morning, an ahrorinz explosion of gun-
powder took place in Limekiln-lane, Rock Ferry, on the
premises of Mr. Carrington, customhouse broker. Mr.
C. had a son who had returned from sea as mate of the
ship Fairfield, which arrived in the river from Ichaboe on
Thursday. The magazine boat, not having, as is custo-
mary, gone alongside to remove the gunpowder on board
that depository, the powder, consisting of one barrel, and
paper. containing in all about 321 b. of the combustible,
was deposited in an outhouse, as the ship could not go
into dock with any powder on board. The immediate
cause of the explosion is not precisely known, but it is
stated that a younger son found his way into the place,
and was handling the paper when the explosion took
place, and narrowly escaped with his life. The outhouse
was levelled with the ground, and the windows of the ad-
joining house destroyed. The boy and a servant girl were
severely hut not dangerously injured.

THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA-
TION COMPANY.—The proprietors of this company held
their annu (1 meeting in London on Friday last. The
report noticed the contract made with the Govercment
for the extension of the mail service to and from India.
The financial arrangements for carrying the object out
have been made by the directors, and the proprietors have
paid the first instalment of £5 per share on the 4,000
new shares of £5O each. The directors have entered
into contracts for four new ships of 1,300 tons each, and
one vessel Gf 700 tons, to be ready for sea next year. It
is expected that the new monthly line of communication
to Calcutta, Madras, and Ceylon will commence in Janu-
ary next, and the communication to China will be opened
as soon as the new ships can be placed on the line. The
company have at length purchased the Precursor steam-
ship for £45,000, and £5,000 contingent upon a mail con-
tract being obtained. Her original cost was about
£BO,OOO. An additional sum of £B,OOO has been ex-
pended in increasmg the accommodation of (he vessel.
Some arguments were used at the meeting in favour of a
railway from Alexandria to Suez, but the chairman (Sir
J. Campbell) explained that the company was chartered
for the purposes of navigation only, and could take no steps
in the improvement of the passage across the isthmus.
Toe profits of the last year (ending 30th September)
were stated to be £140,012 which, with the undivided
rrofils of the preceedinz year, makes a total of X 199,897.
The usual dividend of 3, per cent, was declared for the
s'x months ending Ist October, and (he undivided profits
after deducting this and the April dividend, were stated
at £72,020. To reduce the insurance the investment of
£lO,OOO was voted towards the formation of an insurance
fund.

On Sunday last, according to announcement, his I
Worship the Mayor, accomp nied by several members of
the Council and a large number of influential gentlemen,
attended divine service at St. Barnabas' Church, Parlia-
ment-street, where a sermon was preached by the
Rev Thomas Nolan, in aid of the Southern and
Toxteth Hospital. Among the gentlemen present we
noticed the following—viz., W. Shuttleworth, Esq., Town i
Clerk ; P. Wright, Esq.. Clerk of the Peace; Aldermen
Chilton, Houghton, Griffith ; J. N. Wood, R. Rigi.y,
T. Royden, G. G. Hornby, J. Aiken, R. L. Jones.
J. B Yates, J. Platt. Duncan Gibb, J. Wilkinson, Dr.
Dickinson, T. Robinson, T. Rinimer, J. Itimmer, A.
Browne, S. Martin, J. Ingram, D. Clarke, G. Barnsley,
A. Robertson, E. hitelegg, J. Cooper, Kendall,
John Lawrence, W. Wagstaff, T. Wagstaff, Richards,
&c., &c. At half-past ten the procession left the Town-
hall, preceded by the officials the Corporation, the
Revds. T. Nolan and C. A. Graham walking with the
Mayor. Upon arrival at the church, the Mayor, Town
Clerk, and Clerk of the Peace, were shown into a pew
very handsomely fitted up for the occasion, over the
entrance of which was erected a neat arch, with a beau-
tiful carved Liver on the top, for the purpose of holding
the civic regalia. The remainder of the gentlemen were
accommodated with seats adjoining the Mayor. After
the prayers had been read, in a most impressive manner,
by the Rev. C. A. Graham, the Rev. T. Nolan ascended
the pulpit, and took for his text the 13th and 14th vet sea
of the 9th chapter of St. M attliew—" They that be whole
need not a physician, I:ut they that be sick," &c. The
subject was discussed in the most eloquent, touching, and
energetic manner, well calculated to make a lasting im-
pression upon thase who were privileged to hear it. We
cannot refrain from expressing our delight at the manner
in which the service was conducted throughout, and par-
ticularly the musical portion of it which, we understand,
was performed by the choir belonging to the church. At
the conclusion of the service the handsome sum of £62
was collected.
IRISH SOCIETY.—SPLENDID DONATION.--The ad-
vocates of this institution made out so satisfactory a case
last week in this town, that the society is likely to derive
very substantial benefits from it. '1 he Rev. Hugh
M'Neile presented, in an intelligible share, the masses of
the Irish people, for whose especial benefit the society
was formed. He described them as cons:sting of three
classes. First, such as are altogether ignorant of the
English 1 inguage ; setoridly, such as are acquainted with
a few common-place phrases in English, but unable to
read, or understand the reading of an English book ;
and, thirdly, such as are so far acquainted with the English
language as to be able to read it a little, and to carry on
their traffic with the neighbouring market town by means
of it ; but who still think in Irish, and converse with one
another in Irish, and are wholly incapable of receiving
any moral or religious instruction, except through the
medium of the Irish language. The first c'ass be esti-
mated, from some documentary evidence, at above
600,1,00 ; the second and third classes at about 2,000,000.
For the instruction of this large body, impervious as it is
by the English language, nothing has been done, except
by the Irish soceity. All the public money voted for
education in Ireland has been expended through the
medium of she English language. Thus nearly three
millions of our fellow-subj eta have been left uncultivated.
After discussing the higher branches of the subject con-
nected with the salvation of the immortal souls of these
people ; after showing and urging the duty of giving
them. and teaching them to read, the Holy Scriptures in
their own language; and after answering, in a concise but
convincing mann-r, the objections commonly urged
against the perpetuating of a barbarous tongue, Mr.
M'Neile truly said that the people in question, being so
numerous and so neglected, could net fail to become
dangerous, giving physical weight to the will, however
arbitrary, of the priesthood—to the agitation, however
pernicious, of the demagogue.—We advert to this now
because we are requested by Mr. M`Neile to state that,
as a fruit of the case so made out, he has received for the
society, from a gentleman who desires, in very decided
terms, that his name may not be mentioned, a donation
of ONE THOUSAND POUNDS.
CHARGES 07 PASSING BASE COIN, &c. —At the
Police-court, yesterday, a man named Peter Bower, and
a boy named John Hampson, were charged—the former
with having in his possession implements used for coin-
ing, a•l the latter for uttering base sixpences. Mrs.
Francis, publican, Milk-street, Tithebarn-street, said
that on the 26th of last mouth the younger prisoner came
to her house, and gave her, in payment for a glass, a six-
pence, which, after giving him the change, she put into
a drawer in which were no other sixpences. After he
had gone she discovered that it was a bad one, and re-
solved to observe him if he came again. On Saturday
last he went to the house, and offered another bad six-
pence, when he was given into custody. On being
searched, there was found in his pocket a letter addressed
to himself at a house in Enerdale-street, and thither the
Inspector went, in expectation of finding some further
evidence in the case. The house was tenanted by the
elder prisoner, and he found in it, up the chimney, a
mould for making sixpences, a small quantity of PLster
of Paris drying in the oven, a peculiar knife, a file, some
lead amongst the ashes, &c. Bower's wife and family
lived with him in the house. and he was a mat-maker.
The younger prisoner said he had received the sixpence
from a young man, named Jones, who lodged there with
him, and from whom he had borrowed it—he having
always plenty of money. The elder prisoner said he cer-
tainly kept the house, but knew nothing of coining. The
other prisoner and Jones (alluded to) lodged there, and
always paid. He made mats for a living, and went out
part of the day selling them, Both p• isoners were re-
manded.—A man narned M'Leary was next charged with
uttering two base shillings. Mary Ann Moran, publican,
in Wapping, said that some days ago the prisoner came
in and tendered her a bad shilling, which she detected,
and told him of it. He said that it was not bad to his
knowledge, adding that if she would give it back to him,
he would go and get a good one for it. She was persuaded
by him to return it. On Sunday night last he came
again, with another man, and gave in payment another
bad shilling, which she immediately noticed, and bent it.
The prisoner very impertinently asked her to return it,
but she refused, and detained him. The other, man .made
off ; prisoner attempted to escape, but war scoured. Ho
was fully Untitled, sad was conagaittui roc Viol

Dec. 3, 18-14.

A BIT OF MERCURIAL BATHOS.

Our contemporary of Lord-street certainly gets moo
amusing in her dotage. In a leading article—or, Iporei
properly, a leaden article—on Friday, she informs us °,
the following striking fact, with respect to the reeet!
presidential election in the United States. Mr. Polk, It
seems, is a free trader, and, withal, an advocate for the
annexation of Texas, the seizure of the Oregon territollt
and other fire-eating projects of Brother Jonathan. Our
good old lady, however, maintains that Mr. Polk is likell
to put aside his free trade, or anti-tariff leanings, and to
base his policy upon the encouragements of tilt:tire-76"
projects in question. "If th's should prove true, rel.;
marks the Mercury, " and if the democratic party
leav the tariff untouched, we shall have gained" (11 4by
f
the ction of Mr. Polk, simply the imminent probabili ~
)e
ur of a rupture with America instead of th:it rtalization(?l
free rade and its glorious consiences which our ern"
neat townsman, Mr. Willia?, Brown, so ab'y odrocatel
in his letters to Mr. Wilson Patten, and so forciblY de
scribed in his speech at the Rochdtile meeting of IR Ant
Corn-Law League." Stupendous !! What a pity it
that we could not bring our dullness sufficiently to apPre.
ciate the ability of Mr. William Brown's " Letters to gr.
Wilson Patten," or his " forcible description" in his
speech at the Rochdale meeting of the Anti-Corn-LaW
League." When poor John Bull shall become the unii
fortunate victim of " a ruptur t with America," we 5113,,
have to write over his grave, died of a non-perusal cf I'.
Letters of our eminent townsman, Me. Wdliamro
Bwn,
and his speech at the Rochdale meeting
_ of the anti-
Law League !Carts.

ANOTHER DISCOVERY BY THE SAME

EMINENT AUTHORITY.

The Mercury has just discovered, " in a local print of
very moderate circulation"—(we presume the LiverP,°°a
Times is referred to)—" an official notice of an intruded
application to parliament for powers to enable the Grllin;
itui"e Junction Railway Company to form a railway, u'
with their present one at a point in the township of ge°
wick, near Runcorn, and terminating in the Liveruool,B%
Mattehet•ter Railway at Huyton." This discovery
little clever, if our contemporary first made it trl ,
columns of that " local print of little circulation, ',. the
Liverpool Times, which we doubt, however, inasmuch
we gave, a fortnight ago, both a description of the 01,`"
and a plan of the railway in question. We hope our cl;
temporary will not be visited by the Stamp-office, 84
Se'MS to apprehend, for such amazingly novel informatioe'
We agree with him, however, that ,omoanies such as ti!
Grand Junction should give "extensive publicity" torhe'
projects by adyerii:ing in papers which are everywhere
seen and read. For ourselves, we seek for no excloi:6
favours from this or any other company, and have alreal
been prepared to anticipate the reverse as an effort of toot
revenge for our advocacy of the claims of the publiC!
This studied " obscurity' wears, however, in our minds,o`,
in that of our contemporary, "a sugpicious aopearance•
It is not the straightforward way, or the way of see"
public confidence.

Her Majesty is expected to visit the Duke of We
ton, at Strathfieldsaye, the week after next.
THE CABINET.—The Duke of Wellington does 1101
leave town for some days. Sir Robert Peel departs for
Drayton Minor to-day, and Lord Stanley goes to the
E irl of Derby's seat in Lancashire to-day-to meet 148°1
Stanley and family. Lord Wharnrliffe, accompanied bf
Lady Wharneliffe, leaves Curzon-str-et in the course °I
the week for Wortley Hall, near Sheffield. The Earl et
Haddington, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Sir Jon"
Graham remain for the present in town.
The Hon. R. Otway Cave, M.P., for Tipperary, die
on Friday, at Bath, after a short 'Ss.
Lord Nugent has fractured three of his ribs by Olio%
from his horse.
On Thursday Mons. Sallior was tried at St. Omer for
the alleged murder of Mr. Thorn, at Calais, the part °U.
lars of which we gave at the time. He was acquitted.
The Monmouthshire Merlin of Friday last contain 9 ao
account of an explosion of fire damp. by which upwards
of fi.ty lives were sacrificed. Considerable doubt Oh
however, entertained as to the truth of the statement.

A little boy was killed in Cork a few days since, in con'
sequence of having drank a quantity of sprits hou3,s
decanter, which his mother had imprudently left withili
his reach.

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The coroner's jury, at the inquest in the case of 141%
Dean killed last week by the collision on the Midlan,c:
railway, have returned a verdict of " manslaughter
against Mr. Lightfoot, the regulator of the trains.
TH E FIRST BISHOP OF New BRUNSW
Rev. Prebendary Medley, Vicar of St. Thomas's, in the
diocese of Exeter, has received the aepointment to 106
bishopric about to he constituted in the province of NO
Brunswick, in North America.

The parties charged with the riot and attack at Stone-
leigh a few weeks since were tried at Warwick on Satur-
day, and found guilty. They were twenty-eight in num-
ber, and were sentenced to terms of imprisonment varf-
ing from three years to three months.
Sir William Stanley's splendid pack of fox hounds Will
meet at Birkenhead Hotel, on ThursdHy morning, at half-
past ten o'clock, where they will be joined by a ~,,,vber
of influential gentlemen from Leiceeter,lire and ofile!
place... The hounds will then proceed to tire Prentou
ana
Storeton covers.

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The Gazette of Saturday last consists of no less than
eight sheets and a half. The first article in it is the COPY
of an order of her Majesty in council assigning distrieth
under the 16th section of the 59 Geo. 111., cap. 134, to
e.xht chapels, all in the parish of Rochdale, in the coun-
ties of Lancaster and York.
GROSS DEPRAVITY.—Ann M'Cormick, a domestic
servant, was t onvicted, at the Central Criminal Court, on
Thursday last, of having stolen a s,,vereign belonging to a
fellow se-vant, and of having attempted to entice her
master's daughter, a little girl ten years old, for the pur-
pos,t of introducing her to a life of pro,titution. She was
sentenced to seven years' transportation.
THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM SHlP.—The first ex-
perimental trial of the engine of this vessel took
place on
Wednesday last, in Cumberland basin. The screw made
36 revolutions, at about half speed. The trial was per
satisfactory. The Great Britain will lave the
basin on the Tlth instant. She will remain in Kingroact
for a short time, whence she will make a few experimental
trips ; after which she will proceed to the Thames.
AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Friday night last,
about seven o'clock, an affray took place at Wollaton, near
Nottingham. between a gang of poachers and the Iteevera
of Lord Middleton, of Wollaton Hall. The keepers ((oar
in umber) had apprehended two poachers, when about
sixteen or eighteen of the accomplices of the latter carne
up, released the offenders, and brutally beat the keepeFl•
One of them had his mouth shockingly torn, another lies
in a very dangerous state. All the poachers escaped.
Two FACTS.—In the Rev. Mr. Trench's nationsl
schoo! of Cloughjordan, where no Protestant religion call
be taught to objecting Romanists, there is not a sine
Roman Catholic male child. The schoolmaster of Ore
school, our readers will remember, was murdered, haviuf
been denounced from the altar by the priest. In the nes'
parish—Shinrone--a school of the Church Education
Society, in which no Romanist child can he without being
instructed in the Scriptures, nearly one-half of the cbll'
dren are R.,man Catholics.—Dublin Statesman.