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Mr. James Wilson, the Secretary of the Treasury, has been at Liver- pool during the week, a guest at the house of Mr. William Brown M.P. Deputations from the Chamber of Commerce and the "lockers " have had interviews with Mr. Wilson respecting the affairs of the port.

Mr. Peto M.P. has been entertained at a dinner given in his honour by the inhabitants and Town-Council of Beeeles.

The judges appointed to select a model for the monument to the Duke of Wellington at Manchester have decided upon a design by Mr. Mat- thew Noble, the sculptor of the Peel monument in the same town. There were forty competitors who furnished models, and sixty who sent in drawings. The judges were the Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Wilton, and the Bishop of Manchester. The monument will consist of a column surmounted by a colossal statue in bronze : the bas reliefs will represent the battles of Assaye and Waterloo, the Congress. of Vienna, and the Duke in the House of Commons in 1814.

An attempt to vote a church-rate at Langtoft has been defeated with- out a poll. The motion for the rate was met by an amendment to ad- journ for a twelvemonth.

The project for the creation of a Crystal Palace in Sutton Park, in the neighbourhood of Birmingham, with a railway for the conveyance of visitors to it from that town, has been set aside for the present. The Corporation of Sutton refuses to grant any of the land required for a longer term than ninety-nine years, or at a less rent than 11. per acre. The Birmingham Town-Council think that it would not be advisable to lay out large sums in the erection of a Crystal Palace upon land held by such a tenure.

The erection of public baths and washbouses in Durham will commence immediately. All the contracts have been taken.

The "lock-out" movement makes progress. Fifteen firms at Bury have closed their mills, there having been a partial strike, and the workers having subscribed to support the idle men elsewhere. The manufacturers at Glossop announced that they would take off the ten per cent advance given some time since : the men submitted.

It is reported that the Manchester and Salford manufacturers have de- termined to reduce wages ; leaving them, however, 5 per cent in weaving and 10 per cent in spinning above the rates paid at the end of 1852. The pay of the carders to remain as at present.

The Preston weavers have received more than 20001. subscriptions this week for their support—an increase over last week of 3001. Their speakers greatly rejoiced at this, and asserted that the amount would go on increasing.

The unemployed people at Burnley have been dismayed and exasperated by an announcement from their leaders, that as all the money that could be collected would be required for the struggle at Preston, no aid could be given to the other turn-outs.

Two strikes have come to an end. The "executive" of the Manches- ter dyers have announced that there are "no funds," and the men must now seek work. Sixteen hundred turned out : probably two hundred of the best hands may be reeng,aged, the other vacancies have been filled up by new men. The fustian-weavers of Royton, after a struggle of eight weeks' duration, have given in.

At a meeting of seamen held at North Shields on Saturday, two dele- gates from Sunderland opposed an intended "strike," with such cogent arguments that they turned the feeling of the assemblage, and induced them to support a proposition for a conference between the owners and the mariners to settle differences. The Sunderland men showed, among other things, that a strike to prevent the employment of non-union men would greatly advantage the employers of those men, while the owners who are more or less favourable to the unionists would suffer, and would be driven to oppose the men.

On Monday, a deputation from the seamen met the owners ; and a long discussion ensued. But it ended in nothing definite. The men ask nothing new for themselves, but object to the employment of strangers and non-unionists ; the owners object to the regulations imposed by the seamen, and say they will employ what men they please. It was an- nounced that a great aggregate meeting of seamen was to be held on Wednesday : the owners offered to meet the men again after this meeting.

The Shields seamen met those of Sunderland on Wednesday. The lat- ter adhered to their resolution not to strike ; and, as the seamen of other ports sided with them, and the Tyne men were left quite unsupported, it is believed that the great body have given up the idea of a turn-out.

Of late years a great increase has taken place in the number and size of vessels built in the ports of Devonshire. Bideford, Dartmouth, and Teigumouth, are particularly mentioned as exhibiting this advance.

The Bristol Chamber of Commerce have in hand a project for forming a railway round the quays of the city and communicating with the seve- ral railways that enter Bristol.

A more thorough investigation by the Police led to a belief that Hatto was the murderer of Mary Ann Sturgeon, at Burnham. They ascertained that the deceased had repelled his advances, while she favoured the suit of John Marsh, formerly her fellow-servant; and that she had seen Marsh on the night of her death. She usually removed the plate before retiring at night ; but on this occasion it was not moved, and none of it was stolen. Hatto slept immediately over the passage where the first struggle had oc- curred ; the passage above stairs, where there are marks of a struggle, runs past Hatto's room ; there had evidently been a desperate conflict in the bedroom of the deceased, close to Hatto's ; and no doubt, the victim screamed loudly : was it likely that ,the groom should have heard nothing of all

this but the sound of a fell ? These and other considerations induced the officers to arrest him.

The inquest was concluded on Tuesday. Hatto was produced in custody He is of small stature, but well-knit, and with a countenance rather pleasing than otherwise. He behaved with coolness, if not audacity. Mr. Good. win stated that he did not discover that some trifling articles of jewellery had been purloined till two days after the murder. [As many persons 11,,d been about the premises, it is not clear that the murderer was also the thief.] He concluded that the deceased had not completed her duties when she was attacked, as his bed-candle had not been placed for him, and the plate bad not been removed. Mr. Roberts, a surgeon, described a bruise on Hatto's head, and marks of burns on his hands : Hatto bad accounted for the one by alleging that a stake flew up and hit him, and for the other by the fact, as known to Mr. Goodwin, of his having burnt his fingers with naphtha. Roberts found a poker in the grate of the deceased's bedroom, which had a piece broken off ; and a few hairs, apparently human, adhered to the poker. There were eight spots of blood on the prisoner's hat.

John Buuce gave important evidence. After Hatto had roused him on the night of the murder, Bunce told him to remain in one spot while he went round the yard ; instead of doing so, Hatto went through a gate, and "guz- zled into a shallow pool of water somehow or other"—the pool was a mere puddle formed of the drainings from a dung-heap, and Hatto could hardly have tumbled in accidentally. The result was, that his clothes were so soiled that he had an excuse for washing them. Bunce saw him "messing" his hands in the filth. The trousers were subsequently taken to London to Dr. Taylor the chemist ; who found minute spots of blood, but the manure- water rendered it difficult to say whether the spots were of recent origin. Mrs. Bunce described Hatto as of passionate disposition. Deceased told her that she had said to Hatto "that either he or she must leave the place, for she could not live with him." Other witnesses deposed that Hatto accounted for his clothes being wet by his exertions to put out the fire ; and that he went out on horseback for some time late on the Thursday night—he said he expected a parcel at Maidenhead by rail. He was a long time making ready to leave the stable.

When the evidence was read over to the prisoner—to which he listened attentively—the Coroner asked him whether he had anything to say ? Prisoner —" I did not tell that carter that I was coming here for a parcel on Thurs. day night." [This was in allusion to a mistake already rectified.] Coroner —" We are not going into that matter now : what do you say about the murder ? " Prisoner—" Well, I can say that I am innocent from it." Coro. ner—" Have you anything more to say ? " Prisoner—"No, sir; I don't know that I have anything more to say." Coroner—"Don't know ? do you mean that you have nothing more to say ? " Prisoner—" No, sir; I have nothing more to say." The prisoner here signed his declaration with a firm hand, and withdrew in custody. The Coroner then summed up ; pointing out the different circumstances, but observing that there was no direct evidence. The Jury, in ten minutes, unanimously found a verdict of "Wilful murder against Moses Hatto." On the name night, the accused was committed to Aylesbury Gaol, there to await his trial at the ensuing assizes.

A girl named Cole, twelve years of age, has been murdered near Dunster in Somerset. She was found in a barn near her mother's cottage with her throat cut. Daily, a young man, is in custody : he had been seen to enter the cottage about the time of the murder.

The Magistrates sitting at Otley, near Leeds, have fined Messrs. Baldwin and Co., mill-owners of Yeadon, in two sums of 101. for not having properly whitewashed their mills after a Government Inspector had directed it to be done.

The people of Exeter show a strong determination to uphold the ancient festival of the 5th of November. They have latterly been accustomed to burn the effigy of the Pope or of some well-known " Puseyite" in the ca- thedral-yard, instead of a Guy Fawkes. The Dean and Chapter, de- sirous of putting an end to the vexatious display, issued notices this year that they would prosecute all persons making bonfires in the yard. To second their efforts, the Mayor got up a grand display of fireworks. But the mob were not to be cajoled. About nine o'clock they commenced opera- tions ; the police seized the wood intended for the fire ; the mob recaptured the wood, and made a bonfire. Many fights took place and many arrests were made. Once there was a talk of calling out the military. Before the evening closed, an explosion was heard and a house was in flames. Some boys had been making rockets ; the powder took fire, the roof was blown off, and one of the boys was pitched through a skylight into the next house.

Mr. Joseph Russell, a bookseller of Chard, has died at Bristol from eating monk's-hood root. He was on a visit to his brother William, a coachmaker. The servant was directed to dig a root of horse-radish in the garden : she took the wrong plant. The brothers remarked that it was "very bad horse- radish" ; and William ate of it sparingly, while his wife, who dislikes horse- radish, did not touch it. After a time both brothers became unwell, and Joseph soon expired : William had not taken a fatal quantity. A Coroner's Jury ascribed the death of Joseph Russell to the eating of " aconitum napel- lus " in mistake. This is supposed to be only the second case of the kind : Dr. Pereira records one.

A little boy was shot dead at Liverpool on Saturday night. Some youths had placed a marble in a toy cannon, and when it exploded the marble en- tered the child's heart.

An incendiary fire on Holme Park farm, Sonning, the property of Mr. Robert Palmer, the Member for Berkshire, has consumed produce valued at nearly 10001.

There has been a collision on the Midland Railway, at Killnurst, which must have had fearful consequences had a passenger-train been concerned in it. A coal-train was in course of being shunted ; while it was standing athwart the line, a goods-train dashed into it at full speed ; eight goods- waggons were smashed to pieces, and several of the coal-trucks Were damaged. At the first sitting of the Coroner's Jury on seven persons killed by the explosion of a boiler at Blackburn, the evidence exhibited the impression of the workers in the mill that the deceased engineer and stoker were in the habit of working the boiler in a dangerous manner.

The Elesonore, a French schooner bound to Dunkirk, was lost on the Goodwin Sands on Tuesday night. Boats and loggers put off from Rams- gate ; but the weather was very boisterous, and only the master and a pas- senger were rescued.

Thomas Hughes, third mate of the Eblana steamer, has saved two lives at Holyhead. While on board his vessel at eight o'clock in the evening, he heard the cry that a woman and child had fallen over the jetty. He imme- diately jumped overboard and succeeded in getting hold of the woman, and bringing her to the surface. She, at the time, had lost the child, who had sunk. He dived down after it, and held it up by his teeth, while he adjust- ed a rope round the body of the poor woman, who was hauled up by persons on the jetty; and Hughes afterwards brought up the child himself, with the assistance of another rope which was thrown to him.