The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-19 00:00:00

FORGERY

John Barlow Love, a respectable looking man, aged 55,
was indicted on a charge of having uttered a forged- bill of
exchange to Messrs. Barlow and Co., leather-dealers Dale-
street. Mr. Henderson was for the prosecution, and Mr.
Ramshay for the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence,
that the prisoner called at the prosecutors, with whom he
had previously dealt, and purchased a quantity of leather to
the amount of £59 45., if paid in cash , promising to call
next day with the money. Next day he called, and brought
two bills in payment ; one for £3O, and one for £29 4s.
One of these (that for the £3O) was drawn by the prisoner,
and accepted by a Patrick John Tierney. The prisoner in-
dorsed the bill, saying that Mr. Tierney was a highly eminent
man in the town of Kells, near Dublin. It was received as
good, but was returned unpaid. The evidence of Patrick
Tierney, a gentleman retired from business, and residing with-
in six miles of Kells, which last town he well knew, said
there was no such person as Patrick John Tierney living
there, but there was a poor labouring man of the name of
Patrick Tierney lived in the neighbourhood, who was not in
a condition to accept such' a bill. The signature to the ac-
ceptance was not witnesss handwriting. The prosecutor
admitted that since he received the bill in question, the pri-
soner had paid him the sum of £2O towards the bill. Mr.
Ramshay ably cross-examined the witnesses, and addressed
the jury with great force and ingenuity in behalf of the pri-
soner. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after
being absent about ten minutes, brought in a verdict of guilty.
He was put down.
Mr. Henderson stated to the Court, that there was another
serious charge against the same prisoner ; and as a conviction
had been on the forgery, and there were a great number of
witnesses in the case alluded to, he wished to be guided by
the Court as to whether it would be necessary to proceed
with it ?
(The case referred to was a charge against the prisoner for
having received, in February last, two thousand three hun-
dred and thirty pounds weight of silk, the property of Samuel
Briggs and others, he knowing the same to have been stolen.
The circumstances were laid before the public at the time ;
and it may be added as somewhat remarkable, that the par-
ties who stole the property are not yet known, and (we learn)
that the wife of the prisoner has been offered £5O by the
owners, if he would give such information as would lead to
their conviction. On his being applied to, however, for that
purpose, he stated that he could not supply such informa-
tion, inasmuch as he was not personally acquainted with
them at all, and only received the silk to be sold in his
usual way of business as a commission agent—adding that
he could not point them out, though ten times the amount
offered were given to him.) •
The Recorder in reply to Mr. Henderson, said, that as the
prisoner had been convicted on the charge of forgery, it
would not be necessary to go into the other, and the witnesses
might therefore be discharged. Sentence deferred.
The recorder only sat for a few hours on Saturday, when
the cases having been gone through the Sessions terminated.

SKULL OF A FEMALE FOUND—Yesterday morning, great
part of the skull of apparently a female was found in the
privy of an uninhabited house in Great George-street, and
was conveyed to the coroner's office. The skull-cap is defi-
cient, and appears to have been removed by sawing on the
left side of the skull above the ear, and breaking on the
other. On the right side, near the temple, there is a semi-
circle inverted at the margin of the bone, evidently the lower
o
part of a circle made in trepanning with a circular saw.
Further back on the same side, is also the remains of another
but larger circle, probably also the result of a similar opera
t-
depositedin Nothingsoeh a
is yeptlkacneo.
Late en
as to whom this relic of mor-
tality belonged, or of the circumstances that led to its being
in.
en Wednesday night last two men were killed on the
Eastern Counties Railway, at Witham, pear Chelmsford, by
the falling of upwards of 300 tons of earth.

SPECIAL MEETING OF THE TOWN-COUNCIL

Yesterday a special meeting of the Town7council_was.held

for the purpose of giving the necessary notices for holding a
market from Monument-place to Burgess-street, for the sale

of hay and straw, and to confirm a bite-law of the Finance
Committee substituting a coach stand in Stafford-street and

another in Burgess-street, for the one now used in London-
road. The Mayor presided.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said, the Finance Committee, for
the purpose of carrying out the wishes of the council, with a
view of removing the haymarket to Monument-place, had
meant to pass a bye-law, removing the present site of the

hackney-coach stand which now occupied that site to another
a little further down. In the Finance Committee was placed
the power of making bye-laws for this purpose, and they.

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considered they were justified in recommending the council
to discountenance the existing stand, and substituting in its
place a stand in Norton-street and Lambert-street. There

would be room for nine carriages ; and he moved that there
be a stand for nine carriages there instead of the one to he

displaced. This, however, was merely to afford room for the
experiment of the haymarket in Monument-place.
The TOWN-CLERK read the bye-law passed by the Finance
Committee. It stated that the coach-stand in Monument-
place should be discontinued from the Ist of May, and sub-

kituted the place already named.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE observed that this bye-law of the
Finance Committee related only to the coach-stand; and

that it was for the council to appropriate the land for the

haymarket.

The TOWN-CLERK then described the plan for the bay-
market. The land proposed for the new haymarket com-
,.

menced at a line draWn from the westward corner of Audley-

street to the western corner of Moor-place, which was above

the Monument. It Tan 34 yards westwardly until it was at a
distance of 18 yards from the eastern corner of Stafford-

street ; it then 'ran 69 yards, till
_it was 17 yards frornthe

east corner of Lambert-street; and from the line extending
from the west side of Andley-street to the west side of Moor-
place, to the distance of 19 yards from the west corner of
Moor-place, it ran in a straight line through London-road

for 127 yards, where it stopped 'at the distance of 15. yards

from the- east corner of Hart-street. At its termination it

would be 15 yards wide ; at its commencement above the

Monument, 50 yards

Mr. PARKER inquired what was the area ?
The MAYOR replied that it had not been computed yet

The DEPUTY TOWN-CLERK, after having inquired from

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the Surveyor, said it was 3,962 square yards.
Mr. Alderman EARLE asked how many carts it would

The TOWN-CLERK then read the document of appropria-

ion of the site for the haymarket.
Mr. PLATT asked whether it was intended to abandon the
;oath market.

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The TOWN-CLERK replied in the negative; it was the in-
ention to have three markets. -

Mr. H. HoLmEs.—lt is merely an experiment, is it not?
Mr. RIGBY thought the south market had abandoned

itself.
Mr. PARKER asked whether he was to understand that
the bye-laws just brought in were to have the sense of the
council taken upon them ?
The MAYOR said some one would, move them.

The TOWN-CLERK said the bye-laws as they stood for
coaches were passed by the, Finance Committee, under the
general authority of the council, and in pursuance of the
directions of the council that they should discontinue the

stand in London-road, and appoint another place. But with
regard to the appropriation of a market-place, that was an
act which rested altogether in the council. The council,
however, had determined they would appropriate a place in
London-road for this market.

The MAYOR.—As an experiment ?
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said this was a pro forma meeting

for that purpose ; and they could not discuss the question
whether the market should be held in that situation.

Mr. PARKER had not risen to discuss the question whether
the market should be removed, but merely to ask for infor-
mation with regard to the alterations of the coach stand.
The chairman of the Finance Committee had come down
with a plan, which was to be settled by this pro forma

meeting.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said the Finance Committee had
power already.
Mr. PARKER.—Then I shall say no more.

Mr. JORDAN begged, as an individual, to enter his protest
against the removal of the haymarket into London-road. Ha
had been a member of the Markets Committee ten, years
before the erection of his Majesty's statue in that place, and
he would never consent to it.

The MAYOR said the council had not now to discuss the
propriety of changing the market; they had decided that
already.

Mr. JORDAN.—AII 1 wish is, that my opposition may be
recorded.
The MAYOR.—But we have already decided.
Mr. JOHN SMITH.—Mr. Jordan had better enter his pro-
test in writing in the minutes of the council.
Mr. JORDAN meant that he protested to the gentlemen of
the public press.
Mr. Alderman EARLE.—Hid you not an opportunity of
protesting against it at the last meeting?
Mr. JORDAN.—I had not, sir. It will be a disgrace to
the town to see hay and straw sold there. It is a street
entrance. _ _

Mr. PARKER said the last council had been completely
taken by surprise ; and he would like the chairman of the
Markets' Committee to tell them.what accommodatiOn there
was for the farmers. _ _

The MAYOR.—Why at the last council it was decided,
upon a division, that there would be.
Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE said that every question which
was then asked of the Market Committee they answered.
The MAYOR repeated that it was too late to re-open a
discussion on the removal.
Mr. PARKER.—AIIow me to say that I should have been
furnished with two or three memorials had that been known ;
but, of course, if I can do nothing, I must
Mr. H. HOLMES.—Sit down. (Laughter.)
Mr. GLADSTONE.—Mr. Mayor, are we to decide upon
this appropriation without hearing one single argument?

The MAYOR.—You had arguinents at-the last council,
and you then decided to make the experiment.
Mr. GLADSTONE thought there were a great many, and
decided arguments too, against the appropriation ; but if
they were not to hear arguments and reasons in favour of
the appropriation, he should not condescend to state his
reasons for opposing it. He would merely move that the
consideration of it be postponed.
Mr. JonnAw.—l second it.
Mr. ROBINSON said the council had power to post, one
the consideratron for six months> which would settle the

question.
Mr. Alderman EVANS contended that abundance of rea-
sons had been urged at the last council for the appropriation,
for the debate occupied a considerable time. A number of
gentlemen had come now in the expectation of not being de-
tained to discuss a subject which had been discussed already.
Mr. PaocTort.--Then I should like to know what we are
here for?
The MAYOR.—To carry into effect a decision of the last
council.
Mr. Alderman EVANS.—We are here to give a legal cha-
racter to the decision of the previous council.
Mr. PROCTOR said they were there as mere automatons, if
they were not allowed to discuss the subject.
The MAYOR repeated that the council had been called to
appropriate part of London-road for a market.
Mr. Alderman EARLS.-1 must protest against being
called an automaton. if the gentleman thinks hiMself one
it is very well.

The TOWN-CLERK entered into an explanation of the exact
position of the question. At the last council the Markets
Committee reported as follows :—" Resolved, that it be re-
commended, as an experiment, to authorise the selling of hay
and straw in part of London-road, near the Monument, subject
to the usual toll." The council came to the determination,
upon a division, to approve of the recommendation of the
Markets Committee ; and then, by a standing order, the re-
solution of the council approving of the recommendation of
the Markets Committee could not be rescinded or varied ex-
cept upon motion, made by notice, which should specify the
object and refer to the resolution to be rescinded or varied.
Therefore, this vote of the council stood obligatory upon the
council, according to the standing orders, unless notice had
been given, specifying the resolution, and stating the object
to be to have the resolution rescinded or varied. Then the
object of the meeting to day was for the council to carry that
resolution into effect, namely, by adopting the arrangements
to be legally advised. Those arrangements required that
there should be a formal appropriation of the land to be used
for the sale of hay and straw by farmers, subject to the usual
toll. That was the business of the council to-day ; and in
order to clear the way for making those legal arrangements
with regard to the appropriation of the market, they were
furnished with bye-laws on the part of the Finance Commit-
tee, by which, under the power vested in them, they could
remove the stand for coaches in that place.
Mr. PLATT asked whether any time was mentioned for its
continuance, as it was only an experiment?
The TOWN-CLERK said, the period for the appropriation
was left blank.
Mr. G. 11. LAWRENCE said, that was not what Mr. Platt
meant.
Mr. BIRKETT could not see, with Mr. Gladstone, why this
subject should not he postponed for a month. If it could
not, he agreed with Mr. Procter, although he voted for it ; if
it could not be postponed for a month or any other time he
thought they had been called together to very little purpose.
It would enable him (Mr. Gladstone) or any other member
of the council to give notice, that the order passed at the last
council should be rescinded. He (Mr. Birkett) did not mean
to say he should vote for it ; but he wanted to know whether
Mr. Gladstone could move or not a postponement of the
question.
The TOWN-CLERK.—It rests with the council to proceed
with the appropriation or adjourn it, as they think proper.
Mr. BIRKETT.—Then Mr. Gladstone is in order.
Mr. GLADSTONE then moved, and Mr. JORDAN seconded,
an amendment, that the consideration of the appropriation
be postponed.
Mr. PARKER said, he should support the amendment on
the ground that the council had been taken by surprise.
The MAYOR.—You cannot say that, I think.
Mr. PARKER, in continuation, said, that had there been a
little more time given, he should have been put in possession
of memorials against the appropriation from the inhabitants
round the monument. There were between forty and fifty
houses there the rent of which was £3O a-year, which would
be destroyed by this experimental market. He was prepared
to prove that the experimental market would only accommo-
date about forty loads of hay.
Mr. KILSHAW.—That is above the monument.
Mr. PARKER.—It would only accommodate about 40 loads
of hay, while thousands of pounds worth of property would
be injured, for the private houses he had spoken of could
not be occupied as private houses when the market was es-
tablished. It was now an open square from the top, but
the owners of those houses must, if the market were brought
there, convert them into shops, in order to make their money
of their property. But, said the gentlemen who advocated
this, " It is merely an experiment ;" so in order to carry out
this " experiment," an immense amount of.property must
besacrificed, just to please the whim of the Market Com-
mittee. Now that was a great hardship. Had they come
forward and at once have said they intended to make into a
permanent market, the objection would not have held.
The MAYOR repeated that all this had been discussed be-
fore, and could not be again entered into. The simple ques-
tion was, whether this land should be appropriated or not.
Mr. PARKER.—Then I shall support the amendment.
The council then divided, when there appeared--
For the amendment..
... ... 22
Against it

Majority for the amendment.... ' 7
For.—Councillors Shaw, Houghton, Preston Edwards,
Blundell, H. Holmes, J. Holmes, Robinson, Wood, Birkett,
Gladstone, Procter, Parker, Trotman, Jordan, Platt, A.
Smith, jun., Mather, Harbord ; Aldermen Griffith, Chilton
and the Mayor-22.
Against.—Councillors Sandbach, Copeland, Priestley, J.
Lawrence, Cooper, Lloyd, Rigby, Kilshaw, J. Smith, G. H
Evans H.
Lawrence ; Aldermen Bulley, , Earle, R. Houghton,
and Molyneux—ls.
Mr. G. H. LAWRENCE said the next subject for consider-
ation was the particular day to which this matter should be
postponed.
Mr. ROBINSON suggested it should be this day six months.
Mr. GLADSTONE said his object was that what he had
stated the Council should carry out. He thought it right
that sheds should be put upon tho south market. They
might cost some £2OO or £3OO, but it wa due to the public
that the heavy outlay which the Corporation had been at in
that place should not be abandoned till it had had every pos-
sible chance. If, after having tried every means to make it
answer, it did not answer, he should be an advocate for try-
ing London-road or some. other place. He might as well
take that opportunity of stating that he thought it extremely

doubtful whether it was either now ascertained., or likely to
be ascertained, that two markets would not answer. One
great reason of the south market not answering was that it
was too far east; the north market answered very well ; and
if a situation could be found about Hope-street, or towards
St. James's church, he did not see why it would not answer.

Mr. Alderman EARLE thought it would be a great pity to
go to the expense of erecting sheds when the south market
was so likely to prove a complete failure. He was afraid it
would not do. He thought if this experiment in London-
road was allowed to be tried-

Mr. PARKER.--lou stopped me, Mr. Mayor, and I do not
see why you should hear Mr. Earle.
Mr. JORDAN.—It is no use talking now.
Mr. Alderman EATILE.—Mr. Gladstone spoke, and I wish
to speak too.

The M AYOII, said the reason he had voted as he had was
that no experiment was necessary ; he was sure that both
buyers and sellers would go to London-road.
Mr. Alderman EARLE said if the votes were examined it
would be found that several members had now voted for the
postponement who had voted for the appropriation of the
market at the last meeting.
M r. Bi RKETT said he had voted for it because some gentle-
men thought the subject had not been sufficiently discussed,
but he would be no party to postponing it for six months.
Mr. JAMES LAWRENCE was glad that this decision had
taken place because it would show the public what little con-
fidence could be placed in the resolutions of the council.
A desultory conversation then took place upon the question
whether the postponement should be for a month or till the
next meeting of the council. It was terminated by Mr.
Gladstone saying that be would agree to the postponement
being only till the next council, and a resolution to this ef-
fect was unanimously adopted.
The council then separated, the proceedings having occu-
pied about an hour.

MR. R. M. RAYMOND'S FIRST APPEARANCE AT
THE HAYMARKET THEATRE, LONDON.

Mr. Malone Raymond, who has acquired some celebrity in
the provinces, made his debut on Thursday night as Major
O'Flaberty, in Cumberland's play of the " West Indian."
His performance was marked with much good sense, good
taste, and discretion, though it was not elaborated in all its
details. The tone of the character he had completely appre-
hended, and added to a perfectly gentlemanlike bearing the
delicate kindness of the good major, with a pleasant under-
current of quiet humour. His first important speech, where
he contemplates Charles Dudley as an object of compassion,
was given with so much feeling that it produced a favourable
impression at once upon the audience • and when, in his in-
terview with Lady Rusport, he pretended to weep over her
departed husband, there was so much drollery in the obvious
assumption of grief, in the very deliberate sorrow, that the
application of his handkerchief to his eyes was the signal for
a roar. He remained a favourite throughout the evening,
and though his points were quietly given, not one of them
missed fire.—London Times.

The " West Indian " was revived on Thursday night at
this theatre, for the purpose of introducing to a London au-
dience a new Major O'Flaherty, in the person of Mr. Malone
Raymond. from the Liverpool theatre, Mr. Holt taking (for
the first time) the part of Belcour. We have much pleasure
in recording the success of Mr. Raymond. He is an experi-
enced and a pleasant actor—one who stands every chance of
making a durable impression on the metropolitan boards.
His conception of the character of the major was a correct
one, and his execution of that conception was highly credi-
table to his abilities. Whimsical, comic, and full of fun, but
without caricature, the part in Mr. Raymond's hands never
waned into forgetfulness of his being an officer and a gentle-
mm ; and if, in the early scenes of the comedy, there was a
want of sufficient buoyancy, the concluding portions, especi-
ally the last scene, were so rich in the expression of genuine
humour, that we can only ascribe the comparative frigidity of
the first to the novelty and tremour that ordinarily attend a
debut in London. He was repeatedly applauded during the
progress of the piece; and when the curtain fell he was una-
nimously called before it, when he very modestly received the
congratulations of the house. A. similar compliment was al-
so paid to Mr. Holl. The comedy was announced for repe-
tition on Saturday next, amidst the cheers of the audience.
—Morning Chronicle.
Cumberland's excellent comedy, the " West Indian," was
revived at this theatre on Thursday night, for the purpose of
introducing to a London audience, Mr. Malone Raymond, of
the Liverpool theatre. The office of criticism is often painful
and vexatious, as the critic, in the exercise of his duty, may
be compelled to mar the budding hopes and fond anticipa-
tions of some aspirant for fame, on which his future pros-
pects may depend, be it as author or actor ; but no such ne-
cessity exists on this occasion, as we feel ourselves bound to
award unqualified praise. The parts were well conceived and
well sustained. Mr. H. Holl made a most mercurial Belcour,
and rattled through the part with all thegaieti de caul- of a
thoughtless, bustling, lively young fellow, who carried his
heart on his sleeve, in love with every bright eye that smiled
upon him, but, e'perdument amoureux of Louisa Dudley,
(well personated bf Miss E. Yarnold) the only daughter of
Captain Dudley. The Major O'Flaherty of Mr. Raymond
was a quiet, unostentatious piece of acting, in which the
broad humour of an Irishman was well sustained in the gen-
tlemanly deportment and bearing of an Irish gentleman and
officer. There was no rant, or vulgar swaggering, nor any
clap-trap attempts to catch the applause of the gods; but the
humour of the Irish blunders seemed to exude naturally from
the liveliness and honesty of his nature. The success of Mr.
Raymond was unequivocal, and we have no doubt that this re-
vival will have a long run, and give the actors in it opportuni-
ties of eliciting continuous applause. Mr. Raymond and
Mr. Holl were both called for at the conclusion, and received
the unanimous approbation of the audience.—Morning
Herald.

SINGULAR FORGERY.-At the Commission Court Dublin,
John Lockey Mills, a fashionable looking young man, of about
twenty-five years of age, was, on Thursday, convicted of
having forged or altered a note of the value of one pound to
thirty shillings, with int
Int to defraud the Governor and
Company of the Bank of reland. The prisoner was a clerk
in the cancelling department at the bank, and is stated to be
very respectably connected in the county of Roscommon.
The jury accompanied their verdict with a recommendation
to mercy. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment.

RUGBY SCHOOL.—The masters have recently established
six scholarships, for students at this institution, three being
worth £3O a year, and three £2O. Each scholar,hip is ten-
able for threw years, so that there will be a vacancy in each
class of ocholdt cvery yea, They are open to all boys
below the sixth form. At the first election, which has just
taken place, tile first scholarship Was adjudged to Smith,
minor, and the second to Smith, malor.
MURDER AT STOURBRIDGE.—A tinker, named Sampson
Shipstone, of Stourbridge, near Worcester, and living with
a woman, by common report the wife of another man, has
been committed for trial for the wilful murder of a child,
which the woman had by her husband.
SUICIDE BY BURNING.—A lunatic woman, a cook, resid-
ing at Paddington, London, committed suicide on Wednes-
day last, by setting fire to her clothes in order to suffocation.
The poor creature suffered dreadful agony, and said that she
had no motive for committing self destruction, but she
could not overcome the impulse to do so.
ALLEGED INSULT TO THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.—
There is not a word of truth, it appears, in the statement
that has gone the rounds of the press, of an insult having
been offered to Bishop Alexander since his arrival at Jeru-
salem. At a meeting of the Jew's Society, held in Dublin
last week, the Rev. Dr. M'Caul is reported by the States-
man to have thus alluded to the matter :—" There was not
a syllable of truth in all the malicious reports spread so in-
dustriously concerning the insults offered to the Bishop of
Jerusalem--These reports were not what people had heard,
but what they wished to hear, and they should be thankful
to God that their enemies had disclosed their malignity, be-
cause they would be able to avoid them. So far from the
reports having been correct, letters had been received from
Jerusalem from the 14th of February, up to the 9th of
March, from which it appeared that the Bishop had ;been
well received by the Turkish authorities, and orders given to
protect and afford him every facility, nay more, a procla-
mation had been issued to the effect That whosoever
toucheth the Anglican bishop, toucheth the apple of the
Pasha's eye. ' "

An extensive fire happened on the morning of Wednesday
last, at the village of White Roothing, near Hatfield, in
Essex. It raged with violence for several hours, and occa-
sioned the total destruction of six houses, the dwellings of
poor labouring families. The property is not insured.

POPULARITY OF THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT.—Addres-
ses of approbation of the measures proposed by government
are daily increasing in number. An address of this kind was
presented to Sir Robert Peel, signed by about 1,300 of the
inhabitants of Ashton-under-Lyne, including the most res-
pectable inhabitants. A petition signed by upwards of 1,500
of the working men of Carlisle prays the House of Commons
to " support the present administration, and to enact with
the least possible delay the various alterations in the import
duties which are proposed by Sir Robert Peel."

Lord John Russell and his lady are about to secede from
le Church of England, and join the ranks of the presbyte-

MURDER BY POISONING IN LEICESTER.—An inquest wa
held on Tuesday, at Leicester, on an elderly woman, name
Waring. From the evidence it clearly appeared that arsenic
had been wilfully put into the teakettle by two girls named
Mary Barnes, aged 18, and Charlotte Barnacle, aged 20'; the
water contained in the kettle was used for tea by deceased,
who was immediately afterwards taken ill, and died at three
o'clock the following morning. The mother of Barnes had
also partaken of some of the same impregnated water, and
lies in a very dangerous state. The jury returned a verdict
of " wilful murder," and the two delinquents were com-
mitted to the borough gaol by warrant of the coroner.
FATAL ACCIDENT EROM PLAYING WITH A KNIFE.—
On Friday last, a little boy, about two years and a haif old;
the son of John Mitchell, residing in Longcroft-place, ac-
cidentally cut itself with a penknife, and died on Sunday.
The mother had been peeling some onions, and on going out
a short time left the penknife on the table : on her return,
she found the child with the penknife in its hand, which she
took from it. In a short time the child said, " Mammy, I'm
hurt here, " pointing to its abdomen ; and, on stripping it,
she found a small incision through which its bowels protruded.
Mr. Steele and Dr. Outhwaite attended it, when it was found
necessary, before the bowels could be put back, to . maks a
further incision ; but, notwithstanding the endeavours which
were made, the child died on Sunday. It is supposed that
there was some internal injury, not visible from the exterior,
which caused its death ; and an inquest is to be held this day,
at three o'clock--Bradlord Observer.
THE LAW RELATING TO WlLLS.—Motions under the
late act are becoming very numerous in the Prerogative
Court. Inattention to simple directions is so continually
defeating the intention of testators that it may be beneficial
to persons making wills to be cautioned against the principal
sources of error. The 9th section of the act requires that,
after the first of January, 1839, a will shall be in writing,
and signed at the foot or end by the testator or some other
person in his presence or by his direction, and such signature
must be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence
of two or more witnesses present at the same time, whc
must subscribe the will in the presence of the testator. If
therefore, the signature is made anywhere but at the foot of
end, or if the signature be not made, or acknowledged in the
presence of at least two witnesses present at the same time,
or if these witnesses do not subscribe their names in the
presence of the testator, the will is worthless. Three wills
were last week refused probate because, although attested by
two (and in one instance by three) witnesses, neither of the
wills were signed by the presence of two present at the same
time. The 21st section requires that obliterations, interli-
niations, or other alterations made in a will shall he executed
in like manner as a will ; that is, by being signed by the tes-
tator; and attested by two or more witnesses present at the
same time. Alterations made subsequent to the Ist of Jan-
uary, 1838, in a will dated prior thereto, fall under this section
so far as regards the alterations, and in many instances,
wbere wills have been altered, legacies, intended to be merely
increased or diminished, have been entirely lost, the substi-
tuted legacy being invalid, and the original sum being tile-
Bible, in which case alone the alteration takes effect.—Na-
ional Advertiser.
The following are the receipts of the principal railways fen
the last week—that is to say, up to the date the respective
returns are made, viz. :—York and North Midland, £1,618 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, £2,100; Midland Counties, £2,552 ;
Great North of England, £1,338 ; South Western, £5,506 ;
Birmingham and Derby, £1,068
;
Northern
and Eastern,
£1,252; Great Western, £13,462; Birmingham, £16,802;
Croydon, £392 ; Greenwich, £894; Manchester and Bir-
Eastern Counties; £921; Hull and Selby,
mingham, £363 ;
£921; Birmingham and Glocester, £1,698; Blackwall, £748
and Brighton, £2,618.