The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR)

to the sayings of the Mercury, except for the pur-
pose of reading to Conservatives a useful lesson.
At the last of the meetings, which we have reported,
Dr. Harbord referred to the fact, that only in the
previous week he had given an advertisement to the
Mercury, and that, nevertheless, he had been se-
lected as the object of virulent abuse by that jour-
nal, for which he' acknowledged that he was rightly
served. That Dr. Harbord had the slightest notion
of any political or personal favour to be derived
from the giving of his advertisement to the Mercury
we do not believe. He is too fearless a Conserva-
tive to make the attempt to silence a political oppo-
nent by such means. But the lesson to the Con-
servative public is apropos. That public FEEDS
that journal ; and their reward is the increased virus
and the increased circulation which they thus give
to its lying and spiteful calumniations.

But we have something more than this to say to
the Conservatives of Liverpool. We have to ask
them how long they will leave the voice of the Con-
servatism of Liverpool to be expressed by the Pro-
testant operatives of our borough ? Our aristocratic
party rely upon these poor, but honest and faithful
men, in their hours of difficulty. Do they support
them ? Do they encourage them in their loyalty ?
They do not this adequately. They leave these
" good lads " to battle for themselves ; and we tell
them this fact, that such conduct must no longer be
pursued, unless it is wished that Radicalism should
ride rampant in our borough, over that Conservative
strength for which we have hitherto been " the
observed of all observers." We must support our
operative Conservatism, which is the strength of
our borough; or cease to occupy our present posi-
tion as the only truly Conservative large constitu-
ency in the united kingdom !

MR. OASTLER, THE MERCURY, AND OUR.
SELVES.

A lying organ may do injury to the best of causes, if
uncontradicted in its falsehoods; and, on this account
alone, we feel ourselves impelled to recur to the charges
with which the Mercury has endeavoured to thwart the
efforts at present making for the release from his con-
finement of the persecuted Richard °ostler. In the
first instance, then, let us, in the performance of our
task, place ourselves., as well as Mr. °ostler, correctly
before the public.
The Mercury volunteered, or was prompted;. to bring
a charge against Mr.Oastler—never fairly enunciated--
connected with some supposed delinquency of that gen-
tleman, in the matter of a colliery rented by Messrs.
Rawson, Cousin, and Co., from Mr. Thornhill.. We
stated that we would inquiro int.) the matter ; and we
did so inquire. We did- inquire.. We learned nothing
as the result of such inquiry. Mr. Oastler's committee
had nothing to communicate.. What they did know they
did communicate. But when all that they knew was-
communicated, and it amounted to nothing, we were
asked by the Mercury whether we had written to
Messrs. Rawson and Co. themselves:" We had not done
so. We never pledbed ourselves to do so. We should
have thought it downright impertinence to do so ! And,
moreover, we were not furnished by the Mercury with.
the address of these gentlemen, other than that they
were lessees of " certain coal-mines belonging to Mr..
Thornhill." This is all the information which we have-
received from the Mercury-to this day..
Well,,so far as relates to•the coal-mines in question,
that transaction was referred to in a letter from Mr.
Oastler, contained in our last, publication, and is tho-
roughly explained in our publication this day. But
what was the reply of the Mercury on Friday ? Oh !
that was not the matter referred to after this,
impertinent or not impertinent, we decided to write to
the gentlemen above-named, their address-having been
furnished es by a party who was accidentally in Liver-
pool on Thursday last. We felt the difficulty of meeting
a charge, when that charge was not defined,. and when
our opponent was so shifty. We wrote accordingly to
Messrs. Rawson, and to that; letter we have, as yet,
received no reply. Should we do so early in the week,
we-shall,band the letter to cur contemporary,. in time
for his Friday's paper ; and should we not, perhaps he
will let us know to what transaction he does refer, that
Mr: Oastler himself may give us an explanation, if the
Mercury or Messrs. Rawson cannot. We shall not
keep on firing- in the dark, at so cowardly an•assassin as
our contemporary.

There is one thing which must strike every reader,
connected with this matter. Why cannot the Mercury
state his charge, if he has 0710 to state ? Does be fear
an action for libel? We can almost absolve him from
that fear. Richard Oastler would scorn to tread upon
snob a worm !'

STREET ROBBERY.—At the police-court yesterday, a
man named Jarnes Welsh was, charged with robbing an
old man named Richard Riley of his watch. The com-
plainant said that on Sunday evening he was going along
Highfield.street when the prisoner came up, knocked him
downouid having drawn his watch from his fob, made off.
He bad also lost his hat. It was proved that the priso-
ner afterwards %.-ent to a public-house, and called for ale
to treat these within, tendering for it, as he hadmo money,
the watch. Ile also gave a hat to a man present, and
being suspected was given into custody. The watch and
hat were identified, and the prisoner was committed for
trial.

RESIGN/MON OF MR. WHITTY.--It will, no doubt,
surprise many of our readers to learn that Mr. Whitty,
who has filled the situation of chief constable of this bo-
rough, since the- passing of the Municipal Reform Bill,
with so much credit to himself and satisfaction to the
public. has resigned his onerous and responsible post.
This, we believe, he has been induced to do in conse-
quence of the harassing and hazardous nature of his du-
ties, his, attention to which has, for some time, been
preying upon his health. We understand that Mr.
Whitty intends devoting himself again to literary pur-
suits.—Mercury.--[The Watch Committee, in accepting
Mr. Whitty's resignation, have passed an unanimous re-
solution expressive of "the high sense they entertain of
the valuable services rendered by him during the period
he has held the office of head constable of the borough ;
and that in the performance of his arduous duties, the
zeal, energy, and ability displayed by him were not more
conspicuous that] his uniform discretion and judgment,
combining, in a peculiar degree, decision of conduct with
the utmost courtesy and forbearance.!* It is said that
Me. Whitty intends again to be connected with the
journal whose. Lditorship he relinquished to become
head constable.]

TILE FUNDS: SATURDAY NIG/LT.—The satisfaction,
expressed in the city at the revenue return is greater than
has been known for some time past, the tact that the
greatest increase on the quarter is. shown by the item of
Customs being deemed very important. Had the appear-
ance of prosperity been kept up by the extraordinary
action of the income-tax alone, there would have been
less cause for congratulation, but now we have the signs
of a substantial improvement. The announcement in
yesterday's azetre of the application of the fourth part
of £908.500: (the surplus shown in the October balance-
sheet) to the purchase of stock and exehequer-bilk is
likewise interesting. The diminution of the national debt
by this proeess.is indeed very small, but even a beginning
is satisfactory. The stock markets did not close till four
o'clock this afternoon, in consequence of its being the
first day- for private transfer in the English securities,
which increased business; find induced the bank directors
not to shut their books h.,,fOre half-past two. At the con-
clusion of dealings, quotations, generally speaking, were
pretty steady, and did not materially vary from those be-
fore noted. Consols for money and account left oft 97/
ex. div..; Three per Cents. Reduced, 921 to 98; Time-
and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1028 to I; New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents., 104 to ex. div. ; Long An-
nuities, 121; Bank Stock, 186 to 187 ; India Stock, 272
to 274 ex. div.; Exchequer-bills, 675. to 695. premium ;
and India Bonds, 795. to 81s. premium.,

Tun INFIRMARY.—The annual meeting of the sub-
scribers of this noble institution was held in the Board-
room of that establishment yesterday mording, and was
attended by some of'the stanchest friends of the charity,
which we regret to say, though having indubitable and
primary claims on the support of the public, has not for
some time past, received that pecuniary support to which
it is so eminently entitled. Edward Gibbon, Esq., oc-
cupied the chair, and the secretary read an abstract of the
accounts, from which it appeared that the funds had con-
siderably fallen off during the last year, though several
handsome donations had been given. It appeared that
the inmates of the asylum, who had last year numbered
39, had this year increased to 59. On thanks being
voted to the Rev. R. Davies, who has for 14 years ad-
ministered spiritual and moral instruction to the inmates
with an assiduity and success beyond all praise, that gen-
tleman addressed the meeting at some length, showing in
a very affecting manner the benefits that had resulted
from the dissemination of divine truths amongst the in-
mates, though the pastoral duties to be performed were
onerous and beset with considerable difficulties, most of
the patients being of the poorer and unedue ited classes.
He had instituted additional services, a_ which, with but
slight exceptions, the greatest attention was paid by the
hearers, and he had reason to believe that many who had
contracted vicious habits, had been reclaimed. The good
effect of such auministrations had also been grati'yingly
evidenced even amongst the unfortunate inmates of the
asylum—so that not one was now under restraint. He
thanked_ those present for the kindness he had ever re-
ceived at their hands, and alluded especially to the worthy
chairman, who had for many many years been a firm
friend a the establishment. We refer our readers to the
advertisement of the proceedings in another column, and
shall probably next week furnish some interesting details
from a statement—not yet fully prepared by the board
for the information of the subscribers and the public
generally.

WHIG-RADICALISM, PAINTED BY ITSELF

The Liverpool Mercury of Friday last contains so
naive a statement of the probable doings in the next
session, and the present feelings of the Whig-radical
party, that we cannot refrain from giving it verbatim to
the world. Here is the precious morceau :
" It is not to be supposed that the parliamentary va-
cation has been passed in inactivity, or that the Anti-
corn-law League's new agitation, has not given a smart
shock to the political parties who, hut for it, would have
willingly relapsed into the repose of routine. To the
Whig aristocratic leaders it would doubtless have been
more agreeable to have tvo-ked Ireland as an instrument
to eject Sir Robert Peel, without stirring too deeply the
more personal matter of the corn laws; but Lord Spen-
cer's declaration on the one hand, and that of the Irish
repeaters on the other, have driven them, against their
will, to deliberate seriously upon taking some decided
line of policy, in the full belief that the future fate of
their party will depend upon their conduct at the opening
of parliament."
„.

Let the reader direct his attention, for a moment, to
the words which we have marked in Italics. First, "it
would have been more agreeable " to the vvhig aristo-
cratic leaders "to have worked Ireland as an instrument
to eject Sir Robert Peel !" Poor Ireland ! The aris-
tocratic whig party would fain have had thee, like some
porker of thy own rearing, under its arm, and "worked"
thee—squeezed thee like the bellows of a bagpipe
pinched thy delicate ears—until thy sweet howlings and
spasmodic struggles should have frighted and finally eject-
ed from office Sir Robert Peel's ministry ! " WORKED
IRELAND !" Oh, rare ! good Mercury, "roar again !"
The aristocratic whigs, however, have not had their
"working" propensities gratified, Lord Spencer, the
League, and Daniel O'Connell have baulked their wished
for exertions in this, their favourite, line of practice.
These fell marplots—Mercurius ipso loquitur —" have
driven them (the whig aristocratic leaders) against their
will to deliberate upon taking some decided line of
policy, (which, it seems, they never yet pursued,) in the
fall belief that the future fate"—of what ?—of their
country ? Oh, no ! "In the full belief that the future
fate of THEIR PARTY (!) depends upon their conduct
at the opening of parliament !" Never mind their
country ! never mind its prostrate industry ! geed not
the cry of its working poor ! " The decided line of
policy," to be taken up by aristocratic whigs at the com-
mencement of the coming session, has nothing to de with
these, Whiggery is going to dump Jim Crow, to• join
the Anti-corn-law League, or to do some other desperate
thing ; but it will jump and do the desperate only for ITS
PARTY Oh, rare ! good Mercury—but that it might
"create wild laughter 'neath the ribs of death"—we
should implore thee to "roar again.!"
Seriously,, reader, this is a very amusing and instruc-
tive confession. After this, why need we care what
aristocratic whigs or any other whigs may do, when their
object is so distinctly avowed to the world—as PARTY,
PARTY ? They would sell their country to its worst
enemy, plunge it into anarch and confusion, and finally
sell their own souls for—PARTY !

SAILING DIRECTIONS FROM PORT LYNAS
TO LIVERPOOL, BY COMMANDER H. M:
DENHAM, R.Nr.,.F.R.S.

A handsome octavo volume under this with the
addition of " charts, coast-views, river sections. tidal
courses, and tide gauge table. for navigating the D e and
Hersey, including the latest alterations." has just made
its appearance, and cannot fail to be highly acceptable to
commanders of vessels, and more especially to those who
are strangers to our port. The gallant and experienced
author„ it will be generally known, was employed for a
series of years, from 1833- in making a survey,- with
sextant and lead-line, of the outward banks, and the
channels leading to the Mersey and the Dee ; and had the
honour at an early period of his labours, of so demon-
strating the advantages of the new, or " Victoria Chan-
nel"'as a half-tide entrance, that at an early period orhis
labours, ail doubt and speculation were laid aside, and it
was immediately lighted and beaconed, and has since been
of the utmost value to our shipping. From his long and
careful surrey has emanated the present volume, in the
preface to which he throws out a number of suggestions
for further iinprovemenr, perfeceing, and preservation at'
en adequate depth of this second highway to our harbour,
including screw-pile beacons, screw pile refuge fabrca;.
constant dredging at points liable from deposits to become
shoal, &e. These more immediately invite the serious
consideration of the conservators'of the navigation of our,
port, and, so far as we can judge, appear to be dictated
by sound judgment and a due appreciation of theirim-
portance. We have as yet been enabled only to dip into
the body of thiS volume, which is- replete with useful di-
rections, laid dBwn in so clear and readily accessible a
manner, that "'he who sails may read." His grand ob-
ject in this work will, we doubt' not, be eel ieved—
namely "'to bring the stranger, who may be driven up,
and have missed the pilot-hoatsi into port-anchorage,
with chart and book, by night as well as day." Prefixed
to the work, which is typographically exceedingly well
got up, is a chart of Liverpool 13,7, with the channels,
banks, beacons. &c. outwards ; the Mersey up to East-
ham, and the ree to Mostyn—the soundings minutely
marked throughout.. This chart presents ill the changes,
corrected to the close of 1843. The coast views are very
numerous and distinct; and there is an outline chart of
the relative position of the lights in the navigations be-
tween Liverpool, Ang!esea, Dublin, the Isle of Man,
&c. The directions apply to all circumstances and ex-
igenoies. and to aaviat in reference, there are varied page
titles,.and marginal notes. The book', indeed, should be
added to the library, large or small, otevery ship-master.

hrbssrs. Phillips and Sons, togetherwitb their full qua-
drille band, performed several sets of quadrilles, waltzes,
&c., to the satisfaction of the whole company, last Tues-
day evening, at Sir John Gerards, Newhall.
THOMAS'S.SOIIOOL, TOXTETIVPARK. —On Thurs-
day last the children in.theseschools„amounting to nearly
three hundred, were entertained with tea and buns in the
school-room attached to St. James' Church which had
been kindly granted by the Rev. Hampton, the in-
cumbent. In the•evening a number of the congregation
of St. Thomas's assembled in the same room and partook
of tea, &c. with the Rev. Mr. Butler; their pastor, when
very, gratifying reports of the state of the schools and
district were read'hy the visitors. Mr—Butler and other
clergymen addressed the meeting. The• progress of these
schools has been extremely satisfactory, and the neat ap•
pearance and orderly behaviour of the children, reflected
great credit on those who superintend them.

ORPHAN ASYLUM.—It will be observed by
our advertisement columns that on Sunday next St. John
the Evangelist's Church, in Hope-street, is to be re-
opened, on which occasion sermons-are to be preached on
behalf of this popu!ar Institution. The church which has
been closed for the purpose of making alterations, is
fitted up in a style of great neatness and convenience.
An interesting:circumstance connected with this Church
and the Female Orphan Asylum cannot he too extensively
promulgated, as exhibiting beneficence of no ordinary
character. An arrangement has been made with the
proprietor of the Church, by Henry Winch, Esq„ by
pews
arranged
which, after making provi.ion for the necessary expenses,
e
the profits are to be appropriated,to the use and benefit
of the Asylum. In this benevolent design he is joined
bwy.ethnendßeresiya.nd Thomas
enMtsacofiltiie r gratuitously takn
i''
who
charge of the Church, and will he the evening preacher
most reasonable scale, and we cannot doubt that a large
oes
_ a
and respectable congregation will be speedily coil cted.
Added to the comfort which they are certain to acquire
they will enjoy the additional satisfaction of contributing
to the support of an asylum sheltering and instructing the
poor girl bereft of care and affection.
A SHEOND DEATH FROM, BURNING AT THE GREAT
FIRE` ?1,1 HArtatNaToN-s-ructer.—An inquest was held
yesterday, before Mr. Curry, the borough coroner,. on
view of the body of Hugh Jones. Robert Edwards,, a
labourer, residing in Mathew-street, said he knew the
deceased, who was 21 years old. Witness and deceased
both worked at Messrs. Branckers' sugar-house._ Last
Thursday week they went to work in the morning• in the
same room, and during breakfast time, which was about
twenty minutes past eight o'clock, an alarm of fire was
given. They were in what is called the " piece-room,"
which i, in the sixth story. Deceased was close to wit-
ness. Witness ran down stairs directly, and on getting on
to an iron bridge that went over the boilers, heard the
deceased speak to him, saying—" Oh, Robert, I am badly
burnt; what will I do?" The room was full of smoke.
Witness made his escape, and saw nothing more of the
deceased until Saturday night last, when h saw him in
the hospital, and he was dying. He died in a few minutes
after.—Robert Roberts, a labourer, with whom the de-
ceased lived in Mathew-street, and who also worked at
the sugar-house, said that he was at work there on that
morning, and heard an alarm of fire. His house was
just opposite the gate. He ran out directly into the sugar-
house yard, and saw the deceased an the iron bridge
leading over the boilers. He went up to him and carried
him down, and took him home directly. He was severely
burnt from his head down to his middle. He was soon
after taken to the Northern Hospital. Witness afterwards
saw him there.—Mr. John Frederick Behn, foreman to
Messrs. Braneker, said he had gone to breakfast in the
house adjoining the premises; he heard an alarm of fire
given, and directly after smoke and afterwards flames
burst out from where the boilers were. Witness saw
nothing of the deceased. Before be went to breakfast
the place appeared all safe. He could not tell how the
fire originated.—Mr. James Doyle, officer of Customs,
was on the premises, and when he heard the cry
of
some one came and asked him for the keys, which hefire,
gave
him, and he went and opened the stove door. The fire
appeared to have originated there, and there was a great
)
quantity of smoke. Witness ran
u stairs to save his
ai great blaze of fire,
book and papers, but was met by
and was obliged to return.
He then saw several of the
men in the mill-room, which was full of smoke. He had
riot the keys at the
time to let them out, but ran and got
engines. and handed it to the men
a hammer at one of the -
When
window. he went for the ham-
merinside through a
t the last witness carrying the deceased out he net
whole building was enveloped in flames.
Soon after t
Themen e-caped through means of the hammer, with
whichthey
broke off the staples and lock of the mill-
door. Witness said he had not the slightest idea
room
the fire originated.—Mr. Parker,
howhouse-surgeon of
we Northern Hospital,- said that the' deceased, when
brought to the hospital, was severely burnt, but
not, it
~,a4 at first supposed, dangerously. Every thing was
done for him, hut he died on Saturcla in consequence of
the burning. The jury returned a verdict to the effect
ti-at tl e building caught fire from some
that the decease d wascause unknown, and
accidentally burnt, and died from
the injuries he received.

Jan. 9, 1814

JUVENILE MENDICANCY IN LIVERPOOL•

We detest, as cordially as need be, that cold-blooded
philosophy which would close the hearts and the hands of
Englishmen to the appeals of suffering humanity, and which
teaches that the extent of a man's char;table contributions
to the supplying of the wants of his fellow-man should be
the amount of his poor's rate. We are not prepared to
say the provisions of the law, as regards mendicanefr
should be strained so tightly that the authorities who ad-
minister it should resemble, in their harsh watchfulnesSr
the paid officials of " mendicity associations," and represS
entirely the supplications of casual want to the ready band
and the open purse of those who are willing to obey the
divine injunctions to remember the poor and the afflicted.
But there is a limit to the extent to which we would earl
the forbearance of the law, and classes of objects to who'll
we would apply its strictest provisions. The sturdy beg-
gars. who pester every passer by for money to lavish is
low debauchery ; the impostors who offend our eyes by the
exhibition of self-caused deformity or pretended bodilf
affliction ; these should be swept from our streets, and
would be so swept from them, if our police would do their
duty, and must be, unless access is to be denied (to peace-
able and timid people) to our markets and our public
thoroughfares, in which they abound to such an extent ee
to constitute an intolerable nuisance.
There is one kind of mendicancy, however, which we
are bound to suppress rigorously, if we would be just and
humane to the wretched objects by whom it is pursued. i
We allude to juvenile mendicancy—to infant mendicancy. •,
Let the reader, on any evening, between dusk and mid-
night, and in any weather, visit some of our leading tho-
roughfares,
and especially the neighbourhoods of the prin-
cipal
theatres and other places of amusement, and, unless
accustomed to the sight, he must be shocked by the num-
her and wretchedness of the tattered childreu, who dog
the steps of the passers by, to importune them for contri-
butions.
Or let him watch the same description of
children in their nightly rounds, from tavern to tavern, to ,
pick up a few halfpence, by singing and other acquire- I
ments suited to the tastes of frequenters of tap-rooms, and
then let him ask himself—is it real charity, or even hu-
manity,
towards these children to encourage the vagabond
life which they lead ? Who are the parties who drive
them to these demoralizing practices ? Is it by their own
choice, or for their own emolument, that infants of tender
years, half clad and half starved, brave the extremity of
the winter's cold and the midnight storm—shiver in the
most exposed localities, or run barefoot upon the hard 1
pavements ? For a solution of these questions, follow
home the little outcasts to the wretched dens, where a
brutalized father, or a half starved and wholly dissolute
mother, waits to receive the scanty rewards of their mid-
night wanderings. There is the source from which ema-
nates the stream of pollution which defiles our streets, and which provides for the law to punish, a race of pick-
pockets
of crime.
A striking instance of the horrible effects of this kind
of mendicancy has been mentioned to us by a friend, as
having come under his observation during the past week.
A half idiotic little- boy was observed by him at a corner
of a street 1)11-gaining earnestly with two parties fora
le-alfpenny ; and he was induced to ask the particulars of
~
his occupations and his parentage. The wretched little ;-
being had acquired—at some of the low theatres and con-
cert rooms, no doubt, with which our town lately abound-
ed—the words, the tunes, and the necessary grimaces, for ,
singeng what are known by the name of " nigger melo-
dies,"
streets by his mother, andgenerally remained out of doors
until two or three o'clock in the morning I As the climax,
of the cruelty, thus practised upon him, be was provided .
with a snuff box I from which he took plentiful pinches,
from time to time, as he described it, " to keep him from
sleeping.!' What, we ask, must be the sufferings of such '
a life ? What must be the horrible depravity,. or priva-
tion, or both, which could lead -a mother thus toqlevote to
certain ruin her wretched offspring ?
This species of mendicancy ought promptly to be put
down ; and we appeal to the Watch Committee to do their
duty by in suppression. We ask for no punishment of
the poor children themselves, but rather for theirprotec-
lion from the profligate parents- who devote them to de-
the making of a few examples, will effect.
struction ; and this a strict prevention of the practice, and

We are I-et-It:rested to caution the public against a set of
men who are going about the streets in the evening and
stripping children of their clothes.
We understand that Dr. R. Hibhert Taylor, Percy
street, has been appointed one of the medical officers of
the School for the Deaf and Dumb, in the room of Mr.
Neill resigned..
SURGEON TO TOE WORKHOUSE.—At the last meeting
of the select vestry, Mr. Nightingall, who had retired
from this office, but subsequently,had expressed a wish to
be reinstated, was reappointed by the board, in compli-
ance with the request of the poor-law- commissioners.
The Observer states that, up to a late hour on Saturday,
no final determ:lnation had been come to at the Home
Office, on the case of the unhappy men now under
sentence of death for the murder of Lord Derby's game-
keeper.

Sr. LUKE'S CHURCH.—The Mulleneux,
who has for a short time held the curacy of Bebnington,
has been appointed incumbent of St.. Luke's Church,
Liverpool, on the presentation of the patron, Sir Joshua
Walmsley.

QUADRILLE PAIITIES.—In another column will be
found an advertisement of Mr. Parker's band. At this
season, when balls are so numerous, it would be well for
those who have their management, as well as private par-
ties, to secure Mr. Parker's services, as the celebrity and
talent he is known to possess are such as cannot fail to
give the highest OR tisfactio”.

STREET THEINT.'----A youth, named George Dodson,
was, on Saturday, charged before Mr. Rushton with,
having, on the previous day, stolen-a chair from a cart--
load of furniture, at the door of Mr.. Morgan's, Imperial
Hotel, St. John's-lane. He was seen to take it, in broad
day, and walk away with it down by the wall of St. John'i
Church-yard. He was committed for trial.
ASSAULT AND-CUTTING CASE.—Three men, Michael
Corkin, John Kenna, and Patrick Gilligan, were, yester-
day, charged, by a keeper of a disorderly house in John-
snoi
night,
rdeetanwdi thiigfdorric,iibkl,y
andentering
severely
his
assaulting
oltinngSantiunard;_ay
one of them with a clasp-knife having cut off the tip of
his nose, and inflicted two other wounds on his face.
The case was proved, and they were committed for trial
at the sessions.