The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-18 00:00:00

A LONDON NEWSMAN. AI so Is question is often put a score of times in the morning, and some are so unreasonable as to expect to be furnished with, at least the substance of, the particular news —or the numbers pro and con of a parliamentary division— who were the speakers—what time the house sat, &c., &c.; and all this, be it remembered, even before a paper has been seen. Sometimes he is enabled to gratify this curiosity and thirst for something new from resources peculiar to his voca tion. You rarely, however, meet with a newsman that may be termed a politician in its generally received sense; he leaves this to others whose time is less occupied; his employ ment is to dispose of the politics of every party, not to dis pense his own. Whilst a diminution of his profits has taken place since the reduction of the stamp duty in 1836, the labours of the newsman have been (especia:ly of late) much increased, owing principally to the establishment of morning mails, and the facilities afforded by the more expeditious mode of railway conveyance. The plan adopted at the different London newspaper offices for supplying,lthe vender is by alpha betical list, which is reversed alternately; if the master or his servants are not at the offices when his name is called, it passes on to the next in rotation, and by this neglect he is often put to serious inconvenience, and, if not assisted by the loan of a few papers from his brother tradesman, to loss. He is thus compelled, nolens volens, to be doubly active, diligent, and punctual. The morning business of a newsman is important as it re gards " town customers ;" but a vast quantity of papers are forwarded by coaches, independently of the conveyance by railway. This, every one must be aware, requires great at tention and promptitude, and, were it not that the men and boys employed to assist the master were generally quick, active, and intelligent, it would be impossible to get through his labours in a satisfactory manner. Soon after three in the afternoon the newsman, or some of his boys (for it is chiefly lads that are employed,) must be at the different offices of the evening papers; but, before he can obtain his requisite number, he must wait till the city newsmen have received their supply—these are chiefly for merchants whose offices surround the neighbourhood of the late Royal Exchange. Some of the first papers are hurried off to coffee-house and tavern keepers; then comes a repeti tion of the morning bustle, in the folding, packing up, and forwarding others to the country, either through the General Postoffice, or in parcels to the mails, or other coach-offices. Were a stranger to pass by St. Martin's le Grand a few minut7s before six in the evening (the limited time for the reception of papers, unless a halfpenny is paid upon each) he would be somewhat astonished and amazed at the bustle and anxiety of men and boys to get in their heavily laden bags in time, and the order and attention displayed by the parties employed by the authorities at the Postoffice. When second editions are published, or from other causes the papers are not ready within the specified time (six o'clock,) a considera ble sum is often taken in one evening by the additional half penny paid by the newsman; and if it should so happen, which is not so frequently the case, that the papers are not received at the Postoffice by half-past seven, they cannot, under any circumstances, be forwarded that night. There are two days in the week, that to the generality of newsmen are extra fatiguing days, viz , Monday and Satur day; for, in addition to the ordinary papers published and thrice a week, there are now about ten weekly on Mon day, and nearly thirty on Saturday. It is to be regretted that in London there are still so many Sunday papers in existence; this alone occasions the employment, at a mode rate calculation, of 1000 persons one way or another. Exer tions have been made by the more respectable class of news vendors, by petitions presented by them to parliament, to prevent so great a desecration of this day. Some little success resulted from their first petition, for prior to its being introluced the London Gazette, which was published on Saturday evening, is now published on' Friday, by which means the commercial world are acquainted with the names of bankrupts, &c. one day earlier, and without encroaching on the "Sabbath made for man." This alteration has induced many proprietors to bring out their papers on Saturday, and for every worldly purpose there appears no reason whatever that any should still be published on Sunday. Subsequent efforts have met with no successful result; the poor newsman may still be seen delivering his papers, and breaking the law of God by permission of government. It will perhaps startle many, to be informed that the news men are the principal capitalists of the London press; yet such is the fact, for although they are obliged to give credit, they are allowed none. 'I hey have either to pay ready money, or settle their accounts once a week, and the amount of cash thus transferred from the vendors to the proprietors of papers in one year, would be sufficient to purchase some half dozen of the largest estates in Scotland. It is computed that one daily paper alone receives from the newsmen about £BO,OOO per annum, and one weekly paper of large sale, full £40.000 per annum. The newsmen, adopting the maxim that " Union is strength," have formed a society, which has been established more than 40 years, for the protection of their trade, and the benefit of the widows or representatives of deceased mem bers. They have a chairman, treasurer, secretary, and com mittee, chosen annually. Their building, (called the News man's Hall) is situate in Black Horse -court, Fleet-street, and is very ill fitted for the amount of business transacted there. Of a morning between six and eight, there are inure than 100 persons all busily employed, reminding a stranger more of Bedlam broke loose, than of sober trading—boys and men running continually in and out, and up and down stairs —some engaged in folding, others in packing, or the masters hurrying off their lads to go their different rounds; and in the brief space of two hours at most, some thousands of papers are delivered to their expectant customers in London and the suburbs. When the morning business is over, the Hall is closed, and re-opened in the afternoon in time for the evening papers. The society hold their meetings in this Hall, except on extraordinary occasions when the trade at large are convened together. This has occurred frequently, and during the year 1836, when the unexpected change in the stamp-duty took place, numerous crowded meetings were held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, is order to obtain from the proprietors an equal profit, when such alteration was effected, as they had been accustomed to receive prior to the reduction of the duty. The result of their efforts was not, however, so satisfactory as they desired or expected. Though sometimes foiled, they have evinced courage and perseverance. When an attempt was made by the proprie tors of the London Press in 1815, (at the period when an in crease was placed on the stamp-duty from 2,1 d. to 4d,) to re duce considerably their profits, by not granting what they technically term " the sheet," the whole body of newsmen met together, with the view of establishing, by shares among themselves, two daily papers. A considerable amount was subscribed, and a number of most respectable and influential members of the society had given their names to become shareholders, when the proprietors took the hint, and yielded to their wishes. Subsequently the proprietors have generally found it to their advantage to keep on good terms with the venders; their interests being identified so closely one with the other. THE ALDERMAN AND THE OVERSEER. A CONTRAST. " (From the M o nthly Ch ron i c l e. ) The Court of Mayor and Aldermen of London has done itself honour by conferring upon one of its members a peculiar mark of distinction. We quote it in the form in which it has been voted:—'Resolved unanimously,—That this Court can not too highly appreciate the continued acts of kindness and humanity of their brother Magistrate, John Pirie, Esq. and Alderman, in administering his powerful assistance, by send ing home poor and distressed seamen of foreign countries, who have been improperly drawn away; and particularly in the case of the distressed boy, Richard Symons, who is about to be restored to his home and his parents, through the Al derman's kindness; thereby advancing the cause of hu manity, and upholding the honour of the City of London.' This tribute we believe to be deserved, a thousand times over, by a series of generous and disinterested kindness to the poor, rendered iu the name of that humanity, which they elevate and ennoble. Whatever ridicule may be ordinarily associated with the idea of a blushing Alderman, there can he none here; albeit the gentleman so honoured blushes to find his generosity fame. By way of contrast, we may cite the cheeks of an overseer, who has been figuring at the country end of the town, and who is evidently incapable of blushing when he finds his cold-hearted notions notoriety. A well-dressed young man, labouring under bodily affliction, his left arm and leg crooked and withered, crawled into a police-office, and related a story of almost incredible suffer ing and privation. He had travelled from Liverpool, in the hope of finding employment as a clerk—had failed of course —and was starving. As he had slept a night in St. J ames ' s parish, the magistrate sent for the relieving officer. That personage, a Mr. Bryant, having heard the story, said—' He says he has been walking about the streets several nights. He must, therefore, have committed a number of acts of v agranc y. What were the police about they they did not take him into custody, and have him punished r It was gently urged that punishment was not exactly what was needed by a starving man, with limbs withered up by a paralytic stroke. 'Oh!' exclaimed Mr. Bryant, 'his story is incredible. How could such a cripple suppose that he would obtain a situation in London ? I should wish to have him sworn to the truth of what he has stated.' The young man readily took the oath, and underwent a searching course of interrogatories. His parents, now dead, had long lived respectably in Liver pool; be and hie brother, the eldest not 18, had struggled after their death, sold the furniture, and lived upon the pro duce. The brother procured employment, but he, failing to obtain a clerk's situation in Liverpool, set off to London, with 275. in his pocket, hoping to be more fortunate here. He was set down in London, having expended his money in coach fares, &c., with the exception of ss. He paid for a bed three nights; but finding his funds rapidly decreasing, and having the horrors of famine staring him in the face, he gave up the bed, and from that time (11 days) he had been an outcast about the streets. And what saith Mr. 8., the Samaritan of St. James's? ' Mr. Bryant: And with half-a crown in your pocket you preferred walking about the streets to paying for a bed?—Applicant: I knew no one in London, and therefore I thought it would be better to keep my money to buy food with.' The magistrate thought the saved money, and the refusal to beg until reduced by the pangs of hunger, points in the poor lad's favour. Not so Mr. Samaritan Bry ant, who insists that the lad convicted of poverty is clearly guilty of perjury a l so .—' M r. B ryant : I must say his story is too incredible. Now, young man, as you came to get a situation as clerk, you say, I suppose, then, you have had some education?—Applicant: I have.--Mr. Bryant: And could not that education furnish you with sufficient sense to enable you to know that a crippl e lik e you stood no chance of getting a situation here, especially as you could not suc ceed in finding one in Liverpool? —Applicant : I thought I should have a better chance in London.' Mr. Samaritan Bryant is in the same story still. What he states is incre dible. I ask your worship to look at his crippled state, and then say if you think a young man in that decrepit condition could have come to London to obtain employment as a clerk ?' One of these Bryants in every parish would, in a few weeks, produce an insurrection indeed; the poor against the rich; the dinnerless against the dining classes throughout the land. Verily there is need of a Pirie or two on the bench, to coun teract the chilling effects of such ignorant and iron-nerved incredulity, and to keep alive a few warm hopes in the heart of humanity." Two coal-heavers once viewing St. Paul's cathedral, one exclaimed, (doubtless meaning a compliment,) " My eyes, Jack, what a sight of coals it would hold !" It appears from the last census made in Prussia, that the entire population amounted to 14,098,125 persons; out of this number there were 2,278,601 children frequenting the public schools; it results from this calculation that almost all the children in Prussia receive the benefit of a regular education. C HIPPENBAM.-lt is a lamentable fact that, in consequence of the extravagant price of wheat, some of the poor in the vicinity of Chippenham are compelled to make bread from barley; an d even this cannot be obtained by many, so that potatoes for= their only food.-- Wilts Independent. The London Newsman's life is that of bustle, toil, and anxiety. He is a sort of nondescript —a punctual man by necessity; if otherwise, he cannot expect to meet with suc cess. His business must be done at the time—it cannot be delayed for an hour or so, or put off till the next morning: even bakers' stale rolls would be more acceptable than the newspaper a few hours beyond the ordinary time of its de livery. The occupation of a newsman compels him to rise early, winter and summer. He pays no regard to wind and weather, because he is aware that the coaches, and railway trains, and the mails are alike indifferent to such matters. You may see him of a morning in Fleet-street, near to the Hall belonging to the Society of Dealers in Newspapers, or in the Strand by Somerset noose, either waiting patiently (as the case may be) at the offices contiguous, or coming loaded with his morning supply, and wending his way east ward or westward towards his locality. His is no enviable life, when, by the late arrival of foreign mails, a parliament ary debate unexpectedly protracted, or a❑ article of impor tance in one paper exclusively, the printing is retarded and the publication delayed. Continually are his customers send ing to his shop w''' " "r* • THE LATE MURDER AT NEWCASTLE, (From the Tyne Mercury of Tuesday it . ). Mr. Bolam's wounds were but slight, and will be seen that on the afternoon of that melancholy day be was brought to give his evidence before the coroner. His face had an haggard appearance, which was to have been expected, what ever may have been his part in the previous night's transac tion ; but he was perfectly calm and collected. He was in the same dress in which he had been found in the morning, with the exception of his neckerchief and stock, which had been taken possession of by the police, and in their stead a silk handkerchief was carefully tied about his neck. The breast of his shirt was bloody, but it was so placed that but a small portion of the blood was seen; and his black coat and waistcoat exhibited numerous cuts and tears. The plaster on the cuts on the throat was very apparent, and this, toge ther with his being unshaved, might make him look more haggard than he otherwise might have done. He walked up the room to the Coroner with a firm step, and although the whole of the vast assemblage were on tiptoe to get but a glance of him, he never ventured to meet their gaze. but kept his eye steadily ssa the ground. On arriving at the head OF the room, he sat down on the chair that had been occu pied by the former witnesses, and confined his look t o th e Coroner. The room was as still as if no person had been present when the Coroner stated that it was his duty to cau tion him as to what he was about to say; but Mr. Bolam heard it without betraying any signs of emotion. When the Coroner asked him if he had any objections to be examined on the inquest, he firmly replied, " No, most certainly not." His answers to the qu.stions were clear and distinct, and with a deliberation which showed that he was weighing everythiug to which he gave utterance. On one or two oc casions he corrected himself, but generally he went on with out hesitation. After his examination he was taken to the Savings' Bank to view the body of the unfortunate Millie; he went without the slightest hesitation, but shuddered when placed beside the corpse. We may be excused for saying here, that this should not be taken as a proof of guilt, for many who could have no concern in the unfortunate transaction had done the like in the course of the day; and it might almost be expected that Bolam would do so, if his statement were substantially correct, for the scene itself must have been fraught with many painful reflections. He was taken from the Bank to the Police-office, in the Manors, and placed before Messrs. Dunn, Batson, and Potter, the magistrates. The police here made a statement as to the suspicions entertained concerning him, for the purpose of having him committed to prison. This statement was committed to writing, and on it being read over to him his courage gave way, and he broke out into a violent fit of grief. He was conveyed to the gaol, where he spent a most restless' night, being heard to moan most heavily. In the morning he had a most ca d averous look, and wa s examined by Mr. Baird, the surgeon, of Nor thumberland -street, This gentleman examined minutely the cuts on his clothes and stock, and compared them with what wounds there were on his person, and his evidence will be extremely important when brought before the coroner. In deed, from the very first it was seen that the best surgical evidence that could be obtained would be necessary; and we heard the matter urged by one who was able to judge. After the examination of Mr. Baird, the police procured for Bolam a change of clothing; and this no doubt has given rise to a report that a bundle of clothes had been seized, which would be important in establishing his guilt. Bolain's house was searched, hut nothing particular was discovered. It has been often stated that the housekeeper should have been ob tained at the first examinaiion, and it would then have been seen if her statement corresponded with her master's, before she could have become acquainted with what be said ; but due caie was taken o f thi s, an d i t was perfectly ascertained, on the evening of the inquest, what she had to say, and we believe she will not be an important witne ss , Mr. Millie was 5-1 years of age, but had the appearance of being somewhat older. Pie was a quiet, respectable-looking old man. He had his office sleeves on when found, so that he must have been engaged in his usual avocations when the attack was made upon him. Inspector Bell, one of the first persons that entered the bank, and whose evidence will be very important, will producea key found in the inside of the door of the large room, which can be identified as Millie's. He was interred on Sunday afternoon, at two o'clock, at the Ballast Hills. It is fortunate there is no stoppage in the business of the hank, which was proceeded with as usual on Saturday. ADJOURNED INQUEST—WEDNESDAY. (Abridged from the- Newcastle Journal.) On Wednesday last, pursuant , adjournment, the jury met the Coroner at the Blue PG -•;1, at two o'clock, when the inquiry was appointed to t :ke l.: ice in the New Police office in the Manors, which si.' e crowded to excess. The court having been ceeneo io the usual manner, the jury answered to their niir...se, arid the following witnesses were examined:— Elizabeth Millie, daughter of tile deceased, said she was 12 years of age. The deceased lived in the Croft-stairs. She saw him last on Thursday afternoon, about half-past one. He came to his dinner at half-past twelve, and left at half past one, to go to the Saivngs' Bank. He was a clerk there. He had a pair of black cotton sleeves on above his coat. He said nothing, but just bid them good afternoon. He never came back again. She was in the house all the afternoon. She went to bed about two the next morning. She is sure he never came back during that time. His regular time for coming to tea was between four and five. He generally came home to tea. She never took his tea to the bank. He never staid away from his tea. When he went from dinner he did not say that he would be later at the bank. She knows Mr. Bolam, who was in the bank with her father. He lives at Gateshead. She has been at his house. She went to his house to get pieces of meat by Mr. Bolam's desire. The meat was for her and the children. That was often the case. He was very kind with her father. Never beard of any quarrel between them. Her father dined at Mr. Bolam's house yesterday week. He came home at nine o'clock at night. Mr. Cree dined there with her father. No one came home with her father. Does not know very well who Mr. Cree is. Her father got no part of the meat which she got at Mr. Bolam's. He knew that meat was got from Mr. Bolam's. The Coroner then read a letter, dated Whitehall, Decem ber 10, which the Mayor had received from Mr. S. M. Phillips, acknowledging the receipt of the letter, containing the reward of £lOO. for the discovery of the murderer, and stating that Lord John Russell had promised her Majesty's gracious pardon to any one except the actual murderer of the deceased. Mary Walker said she was housekeeper to Mr. Archibald Bolam. He lives at Sedgwick-place, is Gateshead. She has been his housekeeper three years last November. On Tuesday morning last he left his house about nine o'clock to go to the bank. He did not say anything when he went out. There was no one there but her when he went out. He had dark checked trousers on, and a black coat and waistcoat, with shoes and black gaiters. He did not come back to din ner. He only sometimes came to dinner. She next saw him at two the same day, when she took his dinner to the bank. Was in the habit of taking his dinner there. She took some potatoes and veal put together in a white basin. She did not leave that basin. He took his dinner while she was there, and she took the basin home again. At the same time she took him some tea in a glass bottle. It was a wine bottle, and would hardly hold three gills. She left that bottle at the bank. Mr. Bolam used to put the tea on the fender to warm. She knows no other means he had of warming it. He had no teacups or saucers that she knows of. She took some bread in a paper. She did not take anything else. He had no knife nor fork at the Bank that she knows of. She took a knife and fork for him on that occasion, which she took home after he had finished his dinner. When she went away he said nothing to her as to his coming home. When she was over with his dinner he had a black coat on. He had no slist yes above his coat. He was formerly in the habit of writing • with sleeves on, but she has not seen him do so for a lon time. She has seen a blue office coat which Mr. Bolam b .J, but he gave that coat away. He gave it away in the last oack-end, after the throng time was over. It was this year, but she cannot tell how long since, it may be four or five months since. He gave that coat to Joseph Millie, the man who is inurdeiid. She saw Bolan give it to him at his (Bolarn's) house. No one was present but herself when it was given. She has seen that coat often upon Mr. Millie since. Millie carried the coat away with hint. He did not put it on there. There were yellow-ribbed buttons on it. She cannot fix the time when Mr. Bolam gave him that coat. She cannot say h,ov many weeks it is since Mr. Bolam's uncle died; but he has been in black aver since that time. Before he went into black he wore a blue coat. She knows where the blue coat is now. He has it on. He had no other office coat after he gave that one to Millie. That blue coat was at Bolam's house on Thursday last. It was sent for on Friday night by Mr. Bolam, who wrote a few lines request ing her to send - a suit of clothes. The lines were not directed to anybody ; but were brought to her by some of the police. Besides the blue coat and the black one, Mr. Bolatn has a teen coat, which is in the hou se . Si nce he gave the coat to illie he has had no other coat but the three she has men tioned. After leaving the bank on Thursday afternoon she called at her sister's house, which is in Swan-street, Gates head. Her name is Mole. She there saw her mother and sister. She did not remain long, perhaps an hour at most. She then went home. That would be about four o'clock. She remained at home all that night, and never was out till the next morning. When she went to the bank at two o'clock, she locked the door of Mr. Bolam's house in Sedgwick place. She took the key with her in her pocket. When she returned at four o'clock she found the door locked, and she opened it and went in. She had been in the house about two hours before anybody came to it. Mr. Bolam then came in. He opened the back door with a sneck key. She was then in the kitchen, and he came to her immediately. He had no opportunity of going to any other part of the house before he came in to her. When he came in she asked him what he had come home to do, and he said, " I have come for a key which I had forgot." He said she was to shut the window shutters in and make all safe. He said he was only cautioning her lest any person should make an attempt to break in. He did not say why he was cautioning her. He did not tell her he had got an anonymous letter that day. She did not say anything after he told her this. The win dow-shutters of both kitchen and parlour at the time were open. Mr. Bolam's house is one of a row of eight or nine houses all close to each other; there are other streets close adjoining. He went out immediately after telling her this. Before he went out he went into the parlour. He was there only a few minutes—it might be five minutes. When he went into the parlour she went with him, with the candle. He went to his desk and opened it, but she does not kn o w whether h e took anythin g f rom the desk or not. He had the same dress on that be wore when he went away in the morning. On leaving his house he did not say what time he would be at home again. She sat up till two o'clock the next morning, and then she went to bed. From the time lie left, at six o'clock, till two, when she went to bed, she never saw Bolain again. There is a pane of glass broken in Mr. Bolam's kitchen window. She broke that pane on Wednesday night. No one saw her break it. She was putting up her window, and her band went through it. Nobody saw this broken pane before the Friday morning. Does not exactly know Mr. Bolam's age. Thinks he is about 40 years of age. He kept no company, except sometimes his relations came —his brothers and sisters. Millie, the deceased, she thinks, bad been thrice in Bolam's house; the last time was on Tuesday week, when he dined there in company with Matthew Cree, the door-keeper at the savings' bank; that was the last time she saw him there; she had riot seen him there for along time before. The last time before that was when he got the coat. The coat given to Millie had been used by Bolain as an office coat. She took it from the bank to Bolam's house. Mr. Bolam had no key by which he could get into the house whilst she was out. She has never said that when she went home on Thursday night she found Mr. Bolam in the house. She never said that Mr. Bolain broke the window in order to get into the house. She saw her sister Mole on Friday. She did not tell her that. She saw Mr. Bolain on Friday morn morning, between nine and ten o'clock. He was then at Mr. Glenton, the surgeon's, in Pilgrim-street. He was up stairs in one of the rooms. He came to her walking from another room. She asked him how he was, and he said he had had a narrow escape for his life. She said poor Millie was gone, and Bolam said yes. She asked what time of night it happened? He said Millie was on the hearth-rug when he came back from home. Bolam said he went into the bank, and that he was followed by a man, who knocked him down, that he got up and ran towards the window, and was immediately knocked down again, and seized by the throat. That was all Mr. B. told her, and he said she was to go home, and he would he at home in the afternoon. No one was present when this conversation took place between them. That is all the conversation she has had with Mr. Bolam. She has not had any conversation with any body else about the matter. When the police came to see her on Saturday evening, they asked her what Mr. Bolam had said to her on the Thursday night when he was at home, and she told them that her master said he had come for a key, and she told them that that was all he said. She also told them about the shutters. After she had told them that her master came for the key, no one put it into her head to say that about the shutters. There was at that time the old woman who lived with Mr. Bolam before, Jane Dees, and three po licemen, who had come to Bolam's house; they asked her no FRIDAY. The inquest was resumed at ten o'clock, the excitement in the public mind increasing as the proceedings advanced. 'l'. M. Greenhow--I am a surgeon in Newcastle-on-Tyne. Last night I we n t t o the gaol with Mr. Stephens, and Mr. Heath, surgeon, t o examine Archibald Bolan'. In my pre sence he was partly dressed in the clothes which I was told he had on when he was found in the Savings' Bank—his pantaloons, shoes, and gaiters were not put on—but his coat, waistcoat, shirt, and flannel shirt were put on, and his stock and handkerchief were tied ationt his neck. I examined the marks on the skin of his right side. I found sonic scratches on the skin which did not appear to have penetrated so as to draw blood. I think there were three running in a parallel direction, and one which crossed them in a direction rather diagonal. I did not observe any abrasion of the skin, I should think the scratches were about two inches in length— but perhaps hardly that—they appeared to have been made by a sharp instrument which had not penetrated the skin— certainly they had been made by repeated blows or strokes, not by only one blow or stroke. Any sharp instrument, and therefore a penknife might have made them. A penknife might have effected the appearances I saw. As the cuts on Bolain's body corresponded exactly in situation with the cuts on the cloths, I think it probable that the marks on the skin were caused by an instrument which passed through the clothes. It did not appear to me that the marks on Bolom's body were likely to have been produced by a violent thrust made against him. I also examined Bolam's neck. I found a cut on the left side—which was nearly healed; it was under the jaw bone on the left side, and it had been about an inch and half or two inches long. It appeared to me quite a su perficial wound. I also examined the stock. There was a cut on the front part of the stock which had cut throught it; the position of the cut on the stock did not correspond with that of the wound. I think it not probable that the same cut which cut the stock could have cut the neck, unless the had been in a different position from that in which it was. I had no opportunity of examining Bolain until yesterday. I think it quite possible that Bolam might have received a blow on his head on Thursday night about seven o'clock which made him insensible. And that he might have reco vered at the end of five hours without any medical treatment. I think it very unlikely that insensibility should have taken place a quarter of an hour afterwards, if it did not immedi ately follow the blow. If even insensibility had come on a quarter of an hour after the blow, I think he might have re covered at the end of five hours without medical treatment. If a person were returnir 7 from a state of insensibility caused by concussion of the hrss s—he might gradually recover Isis senses—he might have vssy much the appearance of a per son awaking from a deep sleep—his breathing might be some what labourious and oppressed, or it might be natural and calm, so much depends upon the extent of the injury. If a person were recovering from insensibility caused by the ef fects of smoke, in all probability his breathing would be very labourious—his pulse would nearly leave him altogether, and become feeble and oppressed. It is probable that the pupils of his eyes, would be much d i l ate d ; it would pro b ably be a considerable lenghth of time before he recovered his voice ; also, if insensibility had been caused by a concussion of the brain, and a person recovering his voice would not be effected in the same manner as if insensibility had been caused by the somke. It is probable that a blow on the temple suffi cient to knock Main down and cause insensibility for four or five hours would leave a swelling or other mark ; but it does not necessary follow that it would do so. The appear ances of the blood on the shirt, flannel shirt, waistcoat, and coat, would have led me to suppose that Mr. Bolam had re ceived the wound in she neck whilst in an upright position. I think if Mr. Bolain had received the cut on his neck whilst lying on his face or his back that the blood would not have flowed upon his clothes as I find it to have done. I have just now examined Mr. Bolam's coat and the lining of the right sleeve. There are stains of blood upon the sleeve near the wrist There are corresponding intuits on the lining inside. As faras my judgment goes there is some appearance of an attempt to wash out the stains on the cloth part. If the insensibility had been caused by a blow, and Main had recovered,and then be come insensible from the effects of the smoke, the symptoms on recovery would have been the same as if the first insensibility bad not taken place from the blow. Front the appearance of the wound I should think that no large vessel had been injured, but there might have been an oozing of blood from it for some hours. think it probable that the scratches made on the skin were made by the same blow which cut the clothes; that is a mechanical question which any one might answer. I have now examined the coat more particularly; it appears to me that the cuts correspond in direction with the diagonal scratch on Bolam's clothes had lie been on his face when he received the wound, and had continued to re main there. Henry Heath.—l am a surgeon at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. I examined Bolain last night in company with Mr. Green how. The coat, waistcoat, shirt, and flannel shirt, which I am told he had on when found in the Savings' Bank were put upon him. I then examined the scratches on his right side. I did not count them—they are several. They were in two directions, from above downwards, and from behind, a little higher up, forwards and downwards. I examined the cut in all the clothes corresponding in point of situation with those marks. The marks might have been made by any small sharp instrument passing through the clothes. I now look at the coat, and I think that the scratches on the body could not have been made by the same cut which cut the coat, because the cut on the coat is not in the same di rection as the scratches on the body, and because I think the scratches had been made by repeated scratchings with the point of some instrument. I observed several other cuts on the coat, but no corresponding marks to those cuts on the body. I also examined Bolam's neck. I found a wound on the left side just under the jaw from an inch to an inch and a half in length. It might have penetrated the skin, but not more. If Mr. Bolain had been lying on his face when he received the wound on his neck, and continued to lay on his face, I think the blood might have run down the breast of his shirt as it appears to have done. I also examined the right sleeve of the coat, and also the lining of the same sleeve. There are marks, which I think to be marks of blood, on both sleeve and lining. I think there has been an attempt to rub out th e bl oo d on t h e r i ght sleeve. I should think that the attempt has been made with water, and that the water and blood hail gone through the cloth and stained the lining. There is an appearance of roughness on the nap of the cloth on the outside. It is the appearance we often find upon our own coats after an operation, if we take a towel dipped in water and rub the coats with it. 1 think, from the appear ance of the wound, Rolam must have received the wound whilst he was lying down. If this wound bad been received at seven at night, I do not think that any blood might be oozing from it at two o'clock the next morning. I think it would be entirely dry by that time. The wound on the neck could not have bled many minutes. I do not think Bolain could have received the marks of blood on his coat and waist coat whilst he was lying on his face. I give my opini on as to the time the wound m i g h t h ave bled with considerable hesitation, the wound having been healed when I first saw it. Joseph Armstrong.—l am one of the partners of the firm of Blackwell and Co., printers, in this town; and I act as cashier to the Savings' Bank. About a quarter before two o'clock on Friday morning last as I was coming out of the minting room, when one of our men called d own t h e yar d that the Savi ngs ' Bank was on fire. I immediately ran down. I saw a policeman at the head of the Arcade. There were two or three people coining to the Arcade at the tune. I was there before any of the fire-engines arrived. The outer door of the Bank leading into the Arcade was open; but the door into the Bank and the door into the waiting room at that time was shut. I did not at that time try whether they were locked or not. The flames were coining through the waiting room door. I then went into the street, and assisted to drag the fire-engines to the plug. After the pipes were fixed I went into the passage with the fireman, and directed him to play at the corner of the waiting room, where the safe containing the books was. By that time, Sub-Inspector Bell came into the passage. I believe he attempted to go up stairs to see if any person was there. Those stairs are no way connected with the Bank or waiting room. The flames were soon got under, and the firemen commenced removing papers from the safe. I received a parcel of papers from one of the firemen at the entrance to the waiting room, and in taking them into the Arcade I met Sub-Inspector Bell. I asked him where I should put them far safety. He told me to give them in charge to one of the police. I returned into the passage with Bell and one of our own workmen named Little. I then tried the large room door and found it open. I remarked to Bell that it was queer it should be unlocked. I believe I was the first person who went in at that door after the fire. Bell said we had better examine it. 1 am not cer tain whether he or I examined the lock first; but I think he did. We found the key in the lock in the inside of the room. I think that Bell and I were the first who went into the large room. Bell had his lanthorn lighted. We made two attempts to get in before we did get in. On account of the smoke we went cautiously into the large room, being afraid of the floor being burnt underneath. When we got near the fire-place I touched something with my foot. I said, "Good God ! here's a man." Bell was in the act of speaking at the same time. I did not see any other person in the room at that time; but after Bell had turned the body over, other people had coins in. We stood some two or three minutes over the body. I was not then certain it was the body of Millie. The candles by that time were lighted in the room, which I suppose was done by some of the police. On looking round the room, in company of Inspector Little, we came to the body of Mr. Bolain. He appeared as if resting on his left arm. I did not perceive any person near him at that time. Mr. Alder man Dunn came up immediately. The head of Bolam was not erect, but banging down, and I am n o t sure whether it did not touch th e groun d . On Bolan being turned up, I think by Inspector Little, he opened his eyes. H e appeared then to be i n a state bordering upon insensibility. He did not speak. I think Mr. Alderman Dunn said that lie was alive, and a surgeon bad better be sent for. I immediately ran for a surgeon. Mr. Glenton was the first surgeon who came in. I went into the Bank with Mr. Glenton. Bolam questions except did her master look any different. Mr. Briggs was then present. He did not say anything to her then about the shutters. Mr. Briggs had not been with her before the police came. He came in whilst they were in the parlour. She is sure Mr. B. said nothing to her about her master having told her to put up the shutters. Mr. Bolam has been very kind to Millie. She has known Bolam give Millie clothes besides the coat which she mentioned, and also meat. Mr. Bolam bought houghs of beef and she stewed them, at Mr. Bolarn's request, and Millie's children came for it. Bolam had been in the habit of doing this all last winter and part of the summer. She was in the habit of taking his dinner and tea to the bank. It was on the occasion of Millie being elected a clerk in the savings' bank that he dined with her master. When she broke the pane of glass in the window she did not cut her hand at all. When Mr. Bolam wen away at six o'clock on Thursday night he did not seem at all agitated. He always came in at the back door. They were checked, not striped trowsers, which Mr. Bolam had on. Jane Dees said that she lived at the end of Jackson-street, in Gateshead. She was Mr. Bolam's housekeeper for three years and a half, and she left him about three years ago. She was at Mr. Bolam's house on Friday last, and has not been there for six weeks before that. She went there in conse quence of hearing of Mr. Bolam's misfortune, and bearing that he was not come she continued there and is now staying there. When she went on Friday before dark she saw no one but Mary Walker. Welkt said she had seen her mas ter, and he said a bad job had ;appened, but she has so bad a recollection, and her is so dull, she often does not hear what is said to her. .:walker told her that Bolain had been at home on Thurs:.• v night for a short time. She did not say that he had 1..01en a pane to get into the house. She said that he had come home to caution her to shut up the house. She did ni - ,t Lst% the reason, nor did she say any thing about the letter on Friday night. Witness was there about an hour before the police came over. She does not know anything about Millie. The inquest was adjourned to Thursday morning at nine o'clock. THURSDAY. The evidence given by the surgeons to-day was very im portant. We extract the following passage from that of Mr. John Baird :—The cut on Mr. Bolam's throat was about two or three inches in length, and merely went through the skin. The cut in the neck is so clean a wound that I think any per son giving it could not have intended to do hint any serious harm. It the blood on the shirt proceeded from the wound in the neck, I should say that Mr. Bolam, after he had re ceived that wound, must have been either standing or sitting upright. The wound is in such a situation that a person cut ting himself would naturally cut on the left side, and not the right.—Mr. Baird stated that he had examined Bolaud's head and found no contusions upon it. Mr. Glenton, another surgeon, said that he observed a contusion, though not a violent one. over Mr. 13o1arn's tight temple, and three marks over his body, which appeared to be the effects of blows. He thought that if Bolam had been lying on his back the blood 'night have stained his shirt in the way in which it was found. lie might have lain insensible for four or five hours. Mr. Nesham, another surgeon, was of opinion that Mr. Bolam had been rendered insensible by smoke, and not by any violence he had sustained. The inquest was again adjourned to Friday. bad been raised up, and supported by some people. On Mr. Glenton's arrival I left, and went back to our own office. In about ten minutes afterwards I went to Mr. Glenton's, and found Mr. Bolam there. About three o'clock I returned to the Bank, and continued to go between the Bank and our office all the morning. When we found Millie in the morn ing, there was a little fire in the grate. I could just perceive it. I did not see in what state the candles were, but I sent a supply from the Courant office. I had known Mr. Bolam about sixteen years, during the whole of which period he had been actuary in the Bank. He was always very correct in his accounts with the Bank, and I have no reason to think there is now any incorrectness in his accounts, nor any de falcation in his accounts :—there cannot be, because none of the money passed through his hands. He might receive money from individuals, but it would be at their risk, and not at that of the Bank. I have not heard that he has received money in that way, and not accounted for it. I found the keys of Bolam's desk in the lock of the desk on the morning of the fire. It is the desk nearest the window. The desk was open. There was no money in thatdesk; but there was settle copper in the one adjoining, which was also open. I have known Millie for about 12 or 14 months :—during that period he has been occa s i o n a lly emp l oye d i n the Bank up to May last, and since then constantly employed. He had not, how ever, received his appointment as permaneet clerk until Tuesday week, when, at a inee•ing of the directors, lie was so appointed. I believe Mr. eaclain bad interested himself with the directors to get Millie the!. appointms ;t. Bolam and Millie were upon good terms, at least as far as I ever saw. I have seen Mr. Bolam wear an office coat at the Hank:—it was a blue coat. He has not lately been wearing sleeves above his coat. I cannot say how long it is since I saw him wear bis sleeves. Mr. Bolam had the charge of the keys of the safe; but there is a safe within the large one, the keys of which Mr. Cooke or I kept when any money belonging to the Bank was put into it. Mr. Bolam had the key of the inner safe on the night of the fire. The key of that safe has never yet been found. The inner safe has been opened, and amongst other things found in it were about £81) in notes, be longing to Mr. Bolam, and his own money. I was not aware before the fire, how many keys there were belonging to the door of the large room leading into the Arcade. I then learnt there were three. lam not aware that any key was taken to Sir Matt. Ridley and Co.'s Bank every night. About 10 or 12 months ago, I heard Mr. Bolan say something about an anonymous letter • but I do not recollect what he s a id a b out it. 1 think if h e clad said it contained a threat to take away his life, I should have recollected it. 1 am quite sure that within the last six months he has not said anything to me about any anonymous letter. A person passing from the Bank door to go to Mr. Bolam's desk would go within six feet of the place where Millie was lying. When I went into Mr. Glenton's about four o'clock on Friday morning, Bulain said that he had received some anonymous letters.—Mr. Blackwell then asked him if he had ever shewn any of the letters to any one—he said he had shewn one to Mr. Bulman —and moving his body towards me, said Mr. Armstrong you know about them. Ido nut know whether the letter he had shewn to Mr. Bultnan was the one he spoke to me about 12 months ago was the one he meant, or it was one he had lately received. Mary Bolam.--I am a single woman living in Pilgrim-street. I clean the Saving's Bank offices and have done so for nearly six years. To enable me to get into the offices I have a key which opens the door of the large room. I have also a key which opens the waiting room door. I cleaned both the offices on the morning of Thursday the 6th inst. There is generally water left in the jug for the use of the wash-hand basin. On that morning there was water left in the jug as usual. There were two towels hanging up in the closet, sometimes called the safe. There would also be two I think in the washstand drawer. They were what we call chamber towels. They were all of the same kind. lam quite sure of that. These towels were mucked, and the mark upon them was S.B. I did not mark them. 1 left the offices that morning after clean ing them about nine o'clock. Millie bad come to the. office before I came away. I had both my keys thatmorning. I keep them in my pocket. 1 use the large room key only; I take them both home afterwards. I have only one now; Mr. Armstrong got the other; the key now produced is that of the waiting room door leading into the Arcade. [The two towels found in the drawer of the washstand and waiting room by Inspector Grey were here produced and examined; one of them was stained with blood. A piece of paper was found at the same time which was also produced; it was stained with blood, as if a person had wiped his fingers upon it.] These towels are the same as those usually employed. 'Two other rough towels were also produced, having been found in the safe by Inspector Grey.] These rough towels are not the towels which I have just alluded to—they are used for another purpose. lam quite sure there were four towels in the Bank on Thursday. I do not think I ever saw that key before. The key is like the one which I have, and which opens the door of the large room. I cannot say that ever I saw Millie's key. The reason why I asked Bell to allow me to take the key out of the door was to see if it was Mr. Bolam's xey, which, I think, I have had sometimes in my possession. I was at inv own house all Thursday afternoon. I did not see Mr. Bolaen on Thursday afternoon. Mr. Bolam was not at my house that afternoon ; he has not been there for some weeks. I dill not see him at all on Thursday. I was always first in; the window shutters of the Bank at this season of the year are al ways put in—the bars on the end windows looking to Pilgrim street are always fastened. The shutters of the windows look ing into the Manor Chare are always shut; the bars are very seldom fastened. John Bulinan.—l am secretary to the Savings' Bank. I have known Archibald Bolam for several years. I cannot bring to my recollection that he ever told me he had received any anonymous letters. As far as my recollection goes I never saw any anonymous letters which he sheaved me. I have not the least reason to suppose that there is any thing wrong in Mr. Boletus accounts with the Bank. I know that Mr. Bolan interested himself very much to procure Millie the situation in the bank; he was uncommonly kind to Millie; no one man could be kinder to another. I recollect Bolam once sheaving me a letter front a person whose name he told me he could not find in the books—that however was not at all a threatening letter, but merely a letter to give notice for the withdrawal of money. Ralph Little.-1 am an Inspector of Police in this town ;on Saturday morning last, Mr. Smith, task master in the gaol, gave me the whole of Bolam's clothes, except his flannel shirt. They consisted of coat, waistcoat, trousers, shirt, shoes, and gaiters, and a pair of drawers • . I took off on Saturday morn ing Bolam's flanuel shirt myself; they are now all in the same state as when they were delivered to me, except the lining of the coat sleeve which has been cut up by the seam this morn ing for the purpose of examining the inside of the lining: When I searched Bolam on the Friday night I found a pen knife in his waistcoat pocket. There are no marks of blood on that penknife—and from the dust inside the haft I imagine it has not been cleaned—l also produce a pair of half gloves, which I found in Mr. Bolani's desk on Friday morning; there are two or th ree mar k s upon them, but I do not think they are marks of blood. I also pro :ace three keys which I found in Mr. Bolam's pocket; the sgest one Mr. Bolam told um was the key of the front dor, of his own house. John Smith.—l ant task-master at the gaol. About half past eight on Friday night Archibald Bolam was brought to the gaol. I took off his clothes that night. I left the flan nel shirt upon him. I delivered those clothes to Little, an inspector of police, in the same state they were in when I took them off Bolam. George Grey.--I am one of the inspectors of police. I pro duce two towels which I got yesterday iu the wash-band stand drawer, in the right hand safe in the wait ing.room. 1 had found the stand on Saturday last in the same state. It was locked away by Belt. I never forced the drawer until yesterday. It was not locked, but for some cause or other I could not get it open. The reason why I removed the wash hand-stand from the safe was because I saw some marks on it, which I then thought were marks of blood. I brought the wash-hand stand away from the bank on Saturday last and gave it over to Mr. Bell, who locked it up with the other things. I also produce two pieces of paper found in that drawer; there are marks upon these pieces of paper which 1 think are marks of blood. A very short time after Bolan was removed front the bank I examined the place where he had been found lying, and I found no blood on the floor— not a single mark. 1 examined the place the same morning by daylight. I found no marks of blood whatever. [The wash-hand stand was here produced and examined by the j ury°l William Armstrong, Policeman 72.-1 am one of the po lice-officers of this town. I produce a stock and handkerchief which I took off Bolam's neck on the morning of Friday last, whilst he was lying on the floor of the Savings' Bank. They are in the same state now as when I took them off his neck - . The blood on the outer handkerchief was rather damp but not wet. I did not see any blood flowing at the time trom Bo lam's neck. I saw no blood on the floor where Bolam was lying. Mr. Bolam never spoke during the time he was car ried to Mr. Glenton's. John Blackwell.—l am a printer in this town. On Friday morning last, about half-past two o'clock, I went to Mr. Glenton's, and found Mr. Archibald Bola there; he was lying on the table in the kitten. Mr. Glenton was adminis tering something, Ido not know what. When he came to himself the first words I heard him say that I ant sure of, were in answer to a question from Mr. Glenton; but what the question was 1 cannot say. His answer was, " Yes, sir." After th a t some ques ti ons were as k ed him, about how he came to be in that state? He said "It was the man who followed me into the bank." Some one said, " what man ?" He said, "a man disguised, his face was blackened." He was asked "if he knew the man ?" He replied "No." He was asked "if he suspected any one having -will against him ?" He repli e d " No, but he had received several anony mons letters." I asked him if he had shown those letters to any one. He said Mr. Bullman had seen one, then looking at Mr, Armstron g, he said, "you know a b out t h em. " John Blakey.-1 am a shoemaker in Newcastle. I knew Millie, the deceased, I have been well acquainted with him for the last 18 months. On the evening of the.loth of Octo ber last, Mr. Millie called upon tne to pay a small bill. We entered into conversation, after he had paid his bill about the Savings' B an k . I as k e d hi m "if he was likely to get appointed ?" He stated, that the person who was in the bank, or who had just left, was doing every thing in his power to prevent him getting the situation; stating that the same person had sent letters to Mr. Bolatt, defaming his character. That Mr. Bolam had behaved so honourable to him as to let him see two of the letters that had been sent. He also stated, that notwithstanding, these attempts to pre vent his appointment, he expected that, with Mr. Bolani's assistance, he would succeed. He thought it was very cruel on the part of the person who had left the bank to act towards him as he had done. Mr. Bolan did not show me any of the letters which he had received. John Turnbull.—l am a cabinet-maker in Newcastle. I knew Millie, the deceased, quite well. I have heard him say that he had been threatened by some one six or nine months ago. I heard him say that a letter bad been sent to Mr. Bolam about his character. He said he was afraid of having some harm done to him by the persou who was in the situation before him. I heard him also speak very highly of Mr. Bolam. He said that the person who had held th e situation before, h a d wr i tten to all the directors to try to get the situation again. I understood that Millie had obtained that information from Mr. Bolan). I understood from him, that the wife of the person who had filled the situation before had wrote that letter. He never told me that he had been directly threatened by any person. Anne Turnbull, (wife ofthe above witness.)—l knew Millie the deceased. I have heard him say that he had been threat ened by a man, whose name he did not mention. 1 under stood him to say that he had beard from Bolan that he was in danger of losing his situation. I heard him say it was strange that this person's wife could have taken part against him when she could have known nothing about it, except what was told her by her husband. I never heard Millie say that any person had to himself threatened to do him any harm. I heard him say that the person was malicious, and that he (Millie) was afraid. I have often heard him speak about this, so, I may say, I know much about it. The last time I heard him mention this was four or five weeks ago. Here the evidence was brought to a close, and the usual proclamation as to whether any other persons were ready to come forward, and give evidence in the case having been made, the Coroner proceeded to read over the depositions. Turning his face towards the Jury he said :—lt now becomes my duty before reading over the important evidence which has been brought before you to make one or two observations on this very mysterious case. That the crime of murder has been committed is a fact upon which there can be no ques tion; but a most important question does arise, and that is, by whom was that murder committed? It will be your duty carefully to examine the evidence, and to draw your own conclusion from that evidence, and from that evidence only. I need hardly tell you, and I am sure I need not caution you as to any reports which you may have heard, during the course of this enquiry, that those reports ought - to have no weight on your minds at all. Dismiss from your recollection all reports which you may have heard, and attend to the evi dence, and to the evidence only, because it is from that you are sworn to form your opinion, and to deliver your judg meat in this case. There can only be two verdicts which you can, from a consideration of the evidence, give in this case. One would be a verdict of Wilful Murder against some per son or persons unknown. Upon a full consideration of this evidence, should you be satisfied that Mr. Bolam is the man who has committed the murder, (because there is against no other person the slightest suspicion at present,) you will di rect your attention to the statement given by Mr. Bolam, and which will be afterwards read to you. You will con sider whether that statement can be true. You will examine the evidence, and see whether that evidence contradicts dais statement; and if it be contradicted in material points, it will be for you to consider whether or not the act has been done in a moment of madness and passion, caused by some thing which we shall never be able to find out. If Bolan). committed the murder upon Millie, we shall probably never be able to find out the cause, because it appears that up to the very time it was committed, if it ever was committed, Bolam was acting to Millie as a friend—almost as a brother. Bolam acted towards him with unmeasured kindness. That is a circumstance in favour of Bolam, for, generally speak ing, when a man commits murder, you are able to discover some motive for the act, and there is evidence of no motive that could have induced hint to do it. Therefore I call upon you, and caution you, not to suffer your minds to be influ enced by any reports which you may have beard, because there is no evidence upon which you can come to a conclusion on that point. I mention this to you because it is possible that you may have heard all kinds of reports--reports with out the slialitest foundation—reports which have been fully contradicted by the evidence which has been brought before you. Gentlemen, I have no doubt that you will calmly and dispassionately consider the evidence. In the absence of all motive you will be compelled to look well at the evidence which has been produced against Mr. Bolam before you say whether he is guilty or not; but if after considering► the evi• dente you come to a conclusion that the statement made by Bolam is not tree—that he has told a tissue of falsehoods— that his statement is contradicted by the evidence—that the appearances on his clothes and person could not possibly have happened under the circumstances which he re lates, then, however painful it may be, you will consider yourself bound to find him guilty of this murder. I would mention one fact, in my opinion of importance. There has been some contradiction as to the state of the door leading into the great room, and as to the parties who first entered it. One man had stated that he was the first perso❑ who went in, and that be found the door locked inside. We all know the anxiety of firemen to get into the front rank, but after Mr. Armstrong's evidence you will, 1 think, be satisfied that the door• was not locked when the parties first went up to it, but that it was open. This is important, as if the door had been locked inside it would have raised a presumption against Bolam. Now, Gentlemen, I will go through the evidence which has been laid before you, and make such ob servations as occur to me upon the subject. After carefully reading over the whole of the evidence, and commenting on such parts of it as appeared to bear strongly on the case, the Coroner addressed the Jury pre vious to their retiring, as follows :—Now, gentlemen, 1 have read the whole of the evidence over to you, and you will have to retire to consider your verdict. You will have to say whether or not the statement put forth by Bolam is alto gether founded in falsehood. If from a careful consideration of the evidence before you, and from your own inspection of the dress which was found upon Bolam, you are satisfied that the marks upon the body were not inflicted by h sharp instrument—if you are satisfied that he himself made those wounds, you will have no difficulty in coining to a conclusion upon the subject. 'There are many points to which I have directed your attention, but from the manner in which you have listened to the whole of this important investigation, as well as from the attention which you have paid to the reading of the evidence, you will, I think, be able to make up your minds. You will be left to find a verdict, if you think proper, against some person or persons unknown, and if you have any doubt upon the evidence, that the statement made by Bolan is altogether untrue, then from the situation in which Millie was found, you will probably have no diffi culty in coming to a conclusion on that point. You will now, gentlemen, retire, and make up your minds upon the subject. The Jury then retired, and. after having remained in de liberation for about half an hour, returned into court, and delivered a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Archibald Bonin." When the vPrrlict was announced, signs of approbation were manifestrd by the people assembled in Q court, which, however, the Coroner instantly buppiesr.. PARTICULARS OF 1.13LA7!. We have not been able togather much ;11.;rnigtion relative to Mr. Bourn; hut we are given to undert:-:;.n.1 l_ , efore he ob. taineu his appointment in the savings' bank, he had prac tised some time as a teacher, in which capacity he was en gaged in Mr. Bruce's school, in Percy-street, and subse quently as master of the Royal Jubilee school, in this town. lie has held a situation in the savings' bank upwatds of six teen years, and a very high opinion has been formed of him by his employers. He appears to be about forty years of age. He is a native of Harbothe, near Rothbury, and has a brother residing there in good circumstances. THE DESTITUTE CHILDREN OF POOR MILLIE. It will be seen with much satisfaction by a❑ announcement in another column, that the directors of the savings' bank have, with admirable promptitude, taken upon themselves, not only to see that immediate want shall not be added to the sorrow and bitterness which have befallen the four young and helpless children of the unfortunate Millie, but to originate a subscription in their behalf, with a view to their being brought up and placed out in the world in a cre ditable manner. There never was an appeal made to the public more entirely entitled to the generous sympathy and assistance of the public at large than the case of these poor children. Let it then be responded to in a manner worthy a christian people. The subscriptions necessary for accom plishing the desirable purpose alluded to should not be con fined to the locality alone where the awful tragedy occurred; and we should hint that the public at large in all the neigh bouring towns would do well to aid such a benevolent object as the provision for the care and education of these destitute, innocent creatures. The children are four in number; a boy 14, and a girl 12, (these two have been examined on the in quest,) the others are a girl between 8 and 9, and a boy a years of age. And it may be stated, to the honour and credit of their parents, that thus far they have been brought up in the fear and admonition of the Lord. ARCHES' COURT, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12. DECISION IN THE TOMBSTONE CASE, BIIEEKS V. WOOFREY Sir Herbert Jenner gave his judgment in this curious case to-day. The learned judge having ~o ne over the wh o l e f ac t s, which ar e a l rea d y sufficiently well known, applied himself in the most elaborate manner to the consideration of the ques tion, whether prayers for the dead implied a necessary con nection with the catholic doctrines respecting purgatory. He referred to many authorities to show, that, long anterior to the doctrines of purgatory being adopted, prayers for the dead were used by the primitive Christians; and that in later times, down to Edward IV. the same practice had been con sidered a good and wholesome proceeding. It was not until the time of Edward VI. that prayers for the dead were omitted in the forms of the established church. The com mentators of that period, as well, indeed, as the acts of par liament establishing the Book of Common Prayer, referred to the alterations as having arisen in consequence of the Roman Catholics promulgating the doctrine that in our own church purgatory was assented, the prayers for the dead being a necessary implication that such was the fact. The learned judge went over a great number of authori ties, which had led him to the conviction, that although prayers for the dead were omitted in the liturgy and other .forms of the church, still no express prohibition had been made to the use of such prayers. No offence, therefore, had been committed by Mrs. Woolfrey in inscribing upon the tombstone raised to her husband—" Pray for the soul of Joseph Woolfrey. It is a good and wholesome thought to pray for the dead," 2d Mac. c. 12. v. 46. Wherever this latter passage was taken from, whether from the English version of the Scriptures or from the Romish one, it did not contain any violation of the doctrine of the church, nor was it contrary to Scripture, as there was no passage in Scripture against such a practice. The judge then proceeded to refer to the inscription on Bishop Barrow's tomb, which contained a prayer for his soul; and yet this prelate was well known as no advocate for the doctrine of purgatory. lie wasbound to say, that the articles exhibited against Mary Woolfrey were not sustained- by the authorities cited in support thereof; and the articles, even if admitted, could not subject the party to ecclesiastical censure. In the 24 article it was pleaders, that this tombstone was erected without the permission of the vicar of the parish of Carisbrooke, and this undoubtedly would subject the party to the admonitiou of this court ; but the erection of the tombstone was not adequate to the cita tion, without the additional offence of placing thereon an illegal inscription, and the inscription in his (Sir H. Jenner's) opinion was not illegal, and the court was bound on this head also to reject the latter article, and to dismiss Mrs. Woolfrey from the suit. Dr. Blake, on behalf of Mrs. Woolfrey, prayed for costs. Sir H. Jenner said he had no discretion; Mrs. Woolfrey must be dismissed, and with costs. The judgment, which occupied Sir H. Jenner nearly two hours in delivery, excited the most lively interest, and the court was much crowded. A slight murmur of satisfaction followed the close of the judgment. STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS.—The markets since our last have been very good, and all classes of manufacturing operatives are, generally speaking, in full employ. The price of wool still looks up. BRADFORD MARKET.—There was a fair demand for goods here on Tuesday, but the prices offered were not equal to the advance in the price of the raw material, which is still look ing up. The demand for yarn was likewise steady, and the prices firm. A good deal of business was done in the wool market, at improving rates. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—The demand for goods here on Tuesday was very brisk for the season, and nearly all the spring goods that were offered found purchasers. The clo thiers and fancy manufacturers are fully employed, and are expected to continue so during the winter. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, DEC. 14.--We have no al teration to report. in the state of the market for either long or short wool this week ; there is a fair extent of business doing in both, at firm prices. BLACKRD-RN.—A fair amount of business is still doing in the cloth and cop markets; yet neither of them quite so lively as they were a week ago. In the bundle market higher prices are sought after, but hitherto with little success, as to realiza tion. In hand-loom fabrics the same struggle is going for ward, and, to a great extent, similarly unsuccessful; vet, could the manufactuiers be sufficiently firm, it is hoped that, in consequence of the very light stocks which are on hand, a tolerable advance would, ere long, be secured. --Blackburn Standard. CHESTERFIELD WOOL MARKET, DEC; 12.—The trade still continues in a healthy,state; wool of all descriptions in fair demand, and buyers seem disposed to follow it up, being very busy; fine sorts still claim a preference. TORCH-LIGHT 'MEETING AT WAKEFIELD.—In the course of last week, the members of the Wakefield Working Man's Association issued placards, convening a meeting of " the Radicals of Wakefield, and its vicinity," to be held in Wood street, opposite the Court-house, at six o'clock in the even ing of Monday, the 10th instant, " for the purpose of sign ing the national petition for universal suffrage, &c., and adopting the best method of collecting their portion of the national rent, and subscribing towards the support of those gentlemen elected as delegates of the We s t Ridi ng t o t h e national conv en ti on a t t h e late glorious Peep Green demon stration." This announcement was speedily followed by the publication, in the form of a placard, of the letter from the Home Secretary's office, which we printed last w ee k, notify ing the illegality o f such meetings, and directing the magis trates to take measures for apprehending the guilty parties. A further placard was published, under the signature of Richard Burrell, Esq., the constable, warning the, people of the danger of attending the proposed meeting, and a detach ment of the 9th Lancers, from Leeds Barracks, were sent for to be ready in case of need. These precautions had the de sired effect. Late iu the afternoon of Monday, the miscalled " Working Men's Committee," issued a second placard an nouncing that the intention to hold a public out-door meet ing after nightfall had been abandoned, but that there would be a meeting at the appointed hour in their room, in the George and Crown-yard. The Chartists mustered their forces in Pincheon-street at six o'clock, and accompanied by flags, banners, and a band of music from a neighbouring village, marched through the town into Westgate, numbers of them bearing torches. On reaching Silver-street, the in formation came upon them that the soldiers had arrived op posite the Strafford's Arms, and the extinction of the torches was but the work of a minute. The scene was extremely ludicrous. The leaders retired to the appointed room, and there the speechifying was continued for some time. Mr. O'Connor, Captain Wood, and Mr. Crabtree, of Barnsley, had been announced as having been invited, but only Arr. Crabtree made'his appearance. After passing a series of re. solutions the small party dispersed peaceably, in good time, and the soldiers returned to Leeds on Tuesday morning.— Leeds Inulligencer. SECOND EDITION. Standard Office, Three o Clock. KNUTSFORD YEOMANRY BALL.—The above ball took place on Friday last, the 14th inst., at the County Assembly Rooms, George Hotel, and was very numerously attended, 203 persons being present. The ball was opened by Wil braham Egerton, Esq., with Miss Holland, and the dance was kept up with great spirit till nearly six o'clock on Satur day morning. Among the fasbionables present were Wil braham Egerton, Esq. (Tatt o n P ar k) , L a d y and party, Tattoo Egerton, Esq., M.P., and Lady, Ireland Black borne, Esq., M.l'., Mrs. Glegg and daughters, —. Townsend, Es —. Trafford, Esq., —. Leigh, Esq., Chas. Cholunondele q.y,, Esq., and daughter, Mrs. J. Shackerlry, H. Croft, Esq., and friends, C. Holland, Esq., family and party, J. Pownall, Esq., H. Long, Esq., Lady and party, R. Dean, Esq., Lady and party, Aines Iginson, Esq. (Liverpool), J. itoscow, Esq., family and party, &c., &c. LIVERPOOL MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, The week's supplies of Wheat are 2,737 qrs. from Ireland, 11,508 from London, and 1,850 from Europe, with 7,429 sacks and 1,302 barrels of Flour. Up to Saturday there had been little activity in the trade, at lower prices for every article; but the account received that day of some of the Mediterranean ports being closed for the exportation of Wheat, has caused more firmness, and at to-day's market there was a free sale for Foreign Wheats at 4d. per 701bs. above the rates of Friday, and 2d. above the value of this day week ; the best red, 11s. Gd. to 12s. per 701bs. We had a moderate sale for Oats at 2d. advance, and for Oatmeal, at Gd. above last Tuesday's prices. We have no improvement in the demand for Irish Flour; foreign has been sold at Is. advance. The week's supply of Butter is 14,303 firkins; there has been but a limited business transacted; holders are nut dis posed to accept lower prices for the best sorts. ARRIVALS OF CORN. From the 4th to the 10th December, 1838, inclusive. DESCRIPTION. COAST WISE. CA NADA. 'TOT Wheat Qrs Barley Qrs. Oats Qrs. Flour Sacks Ditto Brls. Malt Oatmeal Loads Rye Beans Qrs. Pease Qrs. Shelled Barley Qrs. Ind. Corn Qrs. Rapeseed Qrs 2737 1354 71:,1 5632 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. TESAY 18TH ind S.S.E. ARRIVED. U —Ste D wart, , HamiIton DECEMBEL— , from Nant W es—Tom Tough, frem Charente—Henry Bliss, —, and Marion, from Quebec—Hard ware, from Puerto Cabello—Speedy, Mills, from Cijon—America, from Baltimore. SAlLED.—Minerva, Marshall. Mobile—Britannia, Bonfellow, Malta—Elizabctli Moore, Moffatt, Hobart Town and Sydney— Neis. Gething, Constantinople and Syra—John Horton, Cunning ham, Canton—A rion, Barcelona—Bonanza, Cragg, Bordeaux Henrietta De Hondt. Antwerp—Bess, Maatin, St. Michael's—Per severance, Monnot, 0-tend—Emma, Noel, Marseilles. Evergreen, from St. John, N. B. that was on shore at New Brigh ton, got off last night and docked. Shannon, -, anti Thetis, Brown, from St. John, N. 8., off Li verpool. Hindostan, Pierce, and Prince Regent, Sterling, from Liverpool and Demerara, at Honduras Shannon, Wilden, from Liverpool and Jamaica, at Honduras Regular, Bond, from Liverpool, at Berbice Camerton, -, from Whitehaven. do Isabel, Greave, sailed from Rio Janeiro 9th Oct. ; Black Prince, Martin, 11th Oct., both for Valparaiso, and Frisk, Whiteway, for Trieste, 16th October Jack Tar, M•Gregor, from Liverpool and Athens, at Constanti tinople. Temperance, Le Grand, from Liverpool and Syra, at Constanti nople. John Lee, Scotland, from Malta at Messina, and sailed 18th No v , for Palermo and Liv er p oo l Spinster, Maxton, from St. Domingo, at Schelde Commerce, Kershohn, from Liverpool, at Revel, for St. Peters burgh. Jane, Vilet, Kcal, from Wyburg, and James Adam, Dickenson, from St. Petersburg, at Stromness, both for Liverpool Idogheten, -, from Liverpool, off Stromness, for Chrstian sand. Ceylon, ChafThe, and Stag. Burnham, from Liverpool ; Marga retha, -, from London ; Renown, -, and Maria, - New South W a l es; at Batavia, pr ev i ous t o 19 t h of August, , from Elizabeth Walker, for Sincapore, and Superior, for Demerara, sailed from Batavia previous to 6th September. Archer, Braithwaite, from Savanilla, at Crookhaven, for Liver pool. MISCELLANEOUS. It was confidently stated yesterday, that Mr. Maule is to be the new judge.— Times. Thomas Wyse, Esq. M.P. has been appointed a deputy lieutenant of the Queen's County. A recent order of the French government has forbidden that foreign vessels, carrying guns, shall engage any French sailors as part of their crew. The Kidderminster Messenger states, that at no period of time, since the establishment of the iron -works in Stour bridge, which have hitherto been so celebrated, has the de mand for iron been so great as at the present time. FuJENDLY NOTIFICATION. —At a house in the Han►pstead road a large painted board is exhibited, which stares that "all persons who attempt to enter these premises after dark will be shot.' OPERAVIVE CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY. —Another of these useful societies has been established at the villat , e of Dod worth, near Barnsley ; upwards of thirty sound Operative conservatives enrolled themselves at the first meeting. The ages of the present knights of the garter (twenty-(ive in number, exclusive of the Royal family and foreign princes) afford an average of 72 for each. The eldest is the Earl of Lonsdale, 81—the youngest the Duke of Buccleuch, 32. At the Wesleyan centenary meeting, at Bristol, on Mon day week, £6,473 IBs. were subscribed, of which one family, that of John Irving, Esq., gave 1500 guineas. The Watc.h man states that the total amount of subscriptions on Wed nesday was £67,000. Mr. Henry House, on Thursday last, took up in his father's garden, at Thurloxton, from under a stalk, 188 potatoes, weighing thirty pounds, the produce of one planted whole; the stalk measured seven feet in length.—'Taunton Courier. THE PEERS—LORD BROUGHAM.—The few Peers who are not Conservatives are chiefly Whigs; indeed, all of any mark, except the great eccentric thunderer, who has cracked his own altars with his own bolts, and left himself no chance of worship.— Times. WHIGS AND TORIES.—ThIS is just the difference between the Whigs and the Tories—that the Whigs, who can brook disgrace, retreat from difficulty —the Tories, unappalled by difficulty, shrink only from disgrace.—lbid. It is our painful duty to record the death of Francis V. Wayland, Esq. which took place on Wednesday last, in con sequence of the wound he received on the 7th of April last, ashen he and the late ever-to-be-lamented, A. Cooper. Esq. fell by the hands of assassins. Since that sanguipary period Mr. Wayland languished in great pain, which he bore with christian fortitude.—Clonarel Herald. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Wight man, Mr. Erie, and several other gentlemen, are spoken of as likely to obtain the seat upon the bench, vacant by the decease of Sir J. A. Parke. Should the solicitor-general obtain the appointment, Mr. Sergeant Wilde is thought likely to he his successor.---Courier. "WIG." UNDE DERIVATUR ?—The author of "Loose Lectures" in Alexander's East India Magazine, insists that it is derived (or, more properly speaking, corrupted) from the Latin Pi/us, Hair, through the Spani s h P e l s ( w h ence De luca, Wig,) the French Perruque, the Dutch Pernik, to the English Perwick, Periwig, and by abbreviation, Wig—Q.E.D. Slit JOHN COLBORNE.—Mrs. Jameson, in her " Rambles in Canada" (just published,) says, "Sir John Colborne, whose mind appeared to me to be cast in the antique mould of chivalrous honour, and whom I never heard mentioned in either province but with respect and veneration, was then oocupied in preparing against the exigency which he after wards met so effectually." Miss Clara Novello has been making a second visit to Berlin on her return front Italy, where she has been studying during the summer months under the immediate superintendence of Rossini and Pasta. On the occasion of her farewell concert at the Prussiau court, the crown prince and princess sent her a rich set of pearls and garnets, and autograph letters for the empress of Russia, to whose court at St. Petersburgh Miss Clara Novello is now on her way. BLASPHEMER. —An inquest was held on Saturday last, at Retondon, b e f ore C . C. Lewis, Esq., coroner, on the body of %V. Howlett, upwards of 70 years of age, and formerly lime-burner at Springfield. On the 59th ult., deceased, whilst uttering the most dreadful imprecations, suddenly fell to the ground, and instantly expired. He was a professed Deist.—The verdict of the Jury was, " Died by the visitation of God."—Chelmsford Chronicle. SIR WILLIAM JONES AND THOMAS DAY.—One day upon removing some books at the chambers of the former, a large spider dropped upon the floor, upon which Sir William, with some warmth, said, " Kill that spider, Day; kill that spider." "No, (said Mr. Day, with coolness,) I will not kill that spider. Jones: I do not know that I have a right to kill that spider. Suppose when - von are going in your coach to Westminster Hall, a superior being, who perhaps may have as much power over you as you have over this insect, should say to his companion, Kill that lawyer! kill that lawyer!' how should you like that, Jones? and I am sure that to most people, a lawyer is a more noxious animal than a spider." Captain Marryatt, finding that his correspondents are be coming too numerous, and that the postage on letters makes too great a havoc among his loose change, has resolved to adopt the plan of newspaper editors, to take no letters front the office excepting those which are paid. Hear what the captain says—" This has become a matter of serious import ance, and indeed I have sometimes been inclined to surmise that I have been deceived in supposing that I have so many secret well-wishers, and that the whole was a scheme of Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Amos Kendall to increase the somewhat defalcating resources of the country."--New York Whig. REMEDY FOR THE CROUP.—This terrific disease, fatal in so many cases to children, might have been arrested in many instances where it has proved fatal, if parents would have ready at all times a phial, containing two ounces of squills, forty grains of ipecacuana, one grain of tartar emetic ; and, wheu the disease is announced by a hollow ringing cough, resembling rather a bark than a cough, give a teaspoonful of the above mixture every ten minutes until free vomiting: ensues. The above prescription was obtained from an emi nent physician, and is published for the benefit, especially of parents and others in the country, not wino , ' the reach of immediate medical aid. It is but the common implike of humanity to save life when we can, even though tilt- pa ient be fated to endure in after life, " the thousand ills that flesh is heir to."—Batiniore Chronicle. "PHILOSOPHICAL" HINTS TO FA RIVERS AND LAND OWNERS.—ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION.—This associa tion, having resumed its weekly meeting, is steadily and satisfactorily pursuing its inquiries, by which it has already been enabled to accumulate a mass of information, which, as containing many new facts tending to place the iniquitous character of the corn laws in the fullest possible light, it is the intention of the chairman, Colonel Thompson, to publish in a series of tracts. Lectures are also intended to be given, a few weeks before the opening of parliament, by the lead ing liberal politicians of the day; so that the whole strength of the association and its friends being concentrated on the one grand object, little fear need be entertained as to the re sult. The farmers who have been consulted have, with scarcely any exception, expressed themselves favourably in clined. Sir Win. Molesworth, G. G ro t e, Esq., M.P. ; J. Hume, E sq ., M.P.; John T. Leader, Esq., M.P.; D. W. Harvey, E s q., M.P. ; W. Th eo b a l d, Esq., and . Tait, Esq., are among those who have promised their co-opera tion; and it is expected that Lord Brougham and other friends of the people in the House of Peers, with whom a correspondence has taken place on the subject, will render their aid in the good. cause.—Sun. A physician, who has recently published a " Statistic In• quiry into Fever." announces the following as one of the re• sults of his investigation :—" Medical treatment has a power. ful effect in lessening the danger or number of deaths from fever." Prodigious! THE QUEEN'S GIFT TO GRACE DARLING.—Grace Dar. ling received at Bamburgh, on Tuesday last, a letter written by command of her Majesty, who bad been graciously pleased to order 50 sover e i gns t o b e presente d t o her for her heroic conduct in assisting her father to save the lives of eight of the passengers and crew of the Forfarshire.--Newcastle Chronicle of Saturday. CANADIAN WINTER LANDSCAPE.—I think that but for this journey I never could have imagined the sublime deso lation of a northern winter, and it has impressed me strongly. In the first place, the whole atmosphere appeared as if con verted into snow, which fell in thick, tiny, starry flakes, till the buffalo robes and furs about us appeared like swansdowe and the harness on the horses of the same delicate mateo. ll . The whole earth was a white waste : the road, on which the sleigh-track was only just perceptible, ran for miles in a straight line; on each side rose the dark, melancholy nine; forest, slumbering drearily in the hazy air. Between us ant the edge of the forest were frequent spaces of cleared or half: cleared land, spotted over with the black charred stumps and blasted trunks of once magnificent trees, projecting from the snow-drift. These, which are perpetually recurring objects in a Canadian landscape, have a most melancholy appear ance. Sometimes wide openings occurred to the left, bring ing us in sight of Lake Ontario, and even in some places down upon the edge of it: in this part of the lake the enor mous body of the water and its incessant movement prevents it from freezing, and the dark waves rolled in, heavily plung ing on the icy shore with a sullen booming sound. A fe w roods from the land, the cold gray waters, and the cold, gray, snow-encumbered atmosphere, were mingled with each other, and each seemed either. The only living thing I saw in i! space of about twenty miles, was a magnificent bald-headed eagle, - shich, after sailing a few turns in advance of us, alight,: on the topmost bough of a blasted pine, a nd slowly folding his gr ea t w id e w i ngs, l oo k ed down upon us as we glided beneath hitn.—Mrs. Jameson's Letters from Canada. AMONYMOUS LETTER WRITERS.—This description °finis chief-makers is pet haps one of the most contemptible classes of villains in the community. An open slanderer possesses more courage, at least, and as far as that trait redeems his character, is superior to the fellow who shrinks behind acov cealinent, and thus confesses his cowardice and his guilt. There is one fact, however, which goes far to defeat the ano nymous slanderer. With the wise his communications and accusations go to naught, and are regarded as carrying a con' tradiction by the very mode in which they are asserted; Anonymous writers to newspapers are not always guilty et slander, even when their statements affect character. DO they are liable to such suspicion —now, even though they tell the truth, and though the public good may be advanced by the publication of their articles, they have no rigLt to suppose a newspaper will assume t h e respons ibi l i ty from which tbeY shrink.—Bo s t on G azette. SINGULAR PERF ORMANCE .—A n o ffi cer w h o served un d e r the Emperor Nap o l eon h as accomp li s h e d a s i ngular perform ance of patient ind us t r y, t o w hi c h h e d evote d three w h o le years. After th e f a ll of - Napoleon, having procured some of the hair of the Emperor, of Maria Louisa, and of the King of Rome, he formed a me d a lli on conta i n i ng t h e ad d ress of General Buonaparte to the army of Italy, on the summit of the Alps—" Soldiers ! we descend from these rocks like an impetuous torrent, and we will conqu er th e i mmense plains which meet our wondering eyes. Then shall victory dispense happiness to all." This little speech, which in the original French contains about 150 letters, is easily read with a good glass, although the sp ace occup i e d i s a l most i nconce i va bly small. To add to the interest that the little work alone would excite, several General officers, and among others General Bertrand, have certified that the materiel is the hair of the three illustrious personages mentioned.—French Paper. NEWSPAPERS.—A newspaper taken in a family seems to shed a gleam of intelligence around. It gives the children a taste for reading—it communicates all the important events in the busy world ; it is a never-failing source of amusement; and furnishes is fund of instruction which will never be ex hausted. Every family, however poor, if they wish to hold a place in the rank of intelligent beings, should take at least one newspaper; and the man, who, possessed of property sufficient to make himself easy for life, and surrounded by children eager for knowledge, is instigated by the vile spirit of cupidity, in neglecting to subscribe to a newspaper,_ deficient of the duties of a parent or a good citizen, and is deserving of the censure of his intelligent neighbours.-- American Paper. NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS.—The correspondent of a daily paper is, in nine cases out of ten, the most perverse and impracticable of all literary prodigies out of bedlam. When a gentleman is unanimously voted by his friends a simpleton " past all surgery," and a bore beyond all reclamation, be infallibly takes it into his head to become a correspondent. When he is proved, even to demonstration, to be utterly a nd hopelessly incompetent, be joins the sect of the Epistlearians. No sooner does he convince his family that his stock of opi nions consist of one only, and that a wrong one, than he flies to pen and ink to commemorate the fact. When he can do nothing at all, he writes a long letter to the editor of an (in variably) highly influential and widely circulated journal. It would seem from a close and regular perusal of eccentri cities, headed "To the editor of," &c., comm e n c ing with " Dr. Johns on h as very j ust l y observed," &c., and ending with " I am, Mr. Editor, } oar's, &e., Humanitas," or Vin dex, or Inquirer, or Veritas, or One of the .Old School—it would seem from such contributions to be the sum of popular wisdom or virtuous indignation, that people never dream of writing to newspapers but when they have exactly nothing to say. When they do not know exactly what iu the world to think upon a subject that agitates them, they sit down and write letters to public journalists.—From Notes of the Month in the Monthly Chronicle. CANADIAN MILITIA ON A FIELD DAY.—The whole house was in unusual bustle, for it was the4th of June, parade day, when the district militia were to be turned out. On a rising ground above the river, which ran gurgling and sparkling through the green ravine beneath, the motley troops, about three or four hundred men, were marshalled —no, not mar shalled, but scattered in a far more picturesque fashion hither and thither; a few loghouses and a saw-mill on the river bank, and a little wooden church crowning the opposite height, formed the chief feature of the new scene. The boundless forest spread all around us. A few men, well mounted, and dressed as lancers, in uniforms which were, however, any thing but uniform, flourished backwards on the green sward, to the manifest peril of the spectators; themselves and their horses, equally wild, disorderly, spirited, undisciplined : but this was perfection compared with the infantry. Here there was ne uniformity attempted of dress, but then appeared in their shirt sleeves, white or checked, or clean or dirty, in edifying variety! Some wore hats, others caps, others their own shaggy heads of hair. Some had firelocks ; some had old swords, suspended in belts, or stuck in their waistbands; but the greater num ber shouldered sticks or umbrellas. Mrs. M--- told us that on a former parade day she. had heard the word of command given thus—" Gentlemen with the umbrellas, take ground to the right ! Gentlemen with the walking sticks take ground to the left !" Now they ran after each other, elbowed and kicked each other, straddled, stooped, chattered; and if the commanding officer turned his back for a moment, very coolly sat down on the bank to rest. Not to laugh was impossible, and defied all the powers of face. Charles M-- made himself hoarse with shouting out orders which no one obeyed, except, perhaps, two or three men in front; and James, with his horsemen, flourished their lances, and galloped, a atter pered, and curved to admiration. * * The pare on e ended in a drunken bout and a riot, in which, as 1 was wards informed, the Colonel had been knocked down, an" or two serious and even fatal accidents had occurred ; b u t it was all taken so ver y li g h t l y, so very much as a thing of course in this half-civilised community, that I soon ceased to think about the matter.—Mrs. Jameson's Studies and Ram bles. THE COPYING CLERK.—Nine never struck but my band uplifted the knocker. After stirring the firethat didn't want stirring, and doing the hundred and one things that a man does to avoid commencing a hateful task, I stripped off my street, and mounted my office coat, (a copying clerk wears out six sleeves to one coat, a garmental fact that should be more extensively known,) I pounced my parchMent, for the skin is, even in its prepared state, unctious with the relics of mutton-ity (this isn't English, but I can't help it), and com menced lease, release, roll, or record. "Next day 'twas the same, and the next, and the next I" The blood stagnated within me; and I was rapidly becoming a mere thing of pen and fingers—a producing power — a copy ing machine. In a happy hour, I met a few youths stage struck, or moon -struck: nightly did I ponder over Pierre, or do havoc upon Hamlet; at last, by a desperate economy, 1 saved enough to purchase a character at a private theatre, and appeared as the Fifth Robber in the Iron Chest : the onerous duties of which consist in saving nothing, whilst the other gentlemen say the rest. My success was perfectly unequivo cal, for I was neither hisse'd nor pelted. I then assiduously applied myself to comic singing, and as I am allowed to have the faculty of making faces, horribly hideous, I am generally admitted to possess great comic powers. When the daily task is over, I repair to "The Pickled Eggs," "The Pig and Thunderbolt," or " The Cow and Compasses," their respec tive landlords allowing me eighteen-pence, and a glass of rum and water, for the pleasure of my company and the ex ercise of my capabilities. My mother, who took ill from dis appointment at my not becoming attorney-general at least, has left this world for a better. Jane (with . whom I quarrelled because she fell in love with a journeyman carpenter) is in Canada, where her husband's industry (for she married Chisel after all) has made his fortune. I find myself every day get ting older and poorer; I have every now and then odd twinges of rheumatism in my hands, awl my eye-sight is impaired: these are sad things where a man's eyes and bands are his fortune. I have been in the law a quarter of a century, du ring which 1 have been employed seventy-seven thousand and five hundred hours , pent in a dark o ffi ce , copy i ng the sense less absurditi es called law-proceedings. Transportation and imprisonment must be comparative luxuries. 1 have not -1 never had—a hope. Unless incapaciated by illness, and driven to the workhouse, I must, after all my labour, die as I have lived—a Lawyer's Clerk.—Heads of the People. A SHREWD GOVERNOR.—The following anecdotes of Capt. King, an early governor of New South Walcs, quoted by the Quarterly Review from Ross's _Hobart Town A lmanack, remind us of the sagacious judgment of our old friend Sancho' Panza, during his brief government of the island of Barataria : One day, at Parannatta, he was waited on by two prisoners sueing for pardon. One presented a petition signed by all the first men in Sydney, while that of the other was signed only by one, " How comes it," said the governor, " that you have only one name to your petition, while this has so many ?" " I have lived," answered the man, " with only one master all my ti me , s ir, and I did not k now anybody. The governor immediately gave the latter a pardon; but to the former he said, as he already knew so many rich friends he did not need one. At another time a country settler waited on him, requesting the loan of a man to assist him in shing ling his house. " Come to me," said the governor, ". in six weeks' time, when the harvest is over, and I will find a man for you " Accordingly,. at the end of that time, the settler, who does not appear to have been a man of much personal industry, again presented himself. "Go into that room," said the governor, " and von will see him." After a few minutes the man retured, saying, he could not find him, though he looked all about the room—even under the table and behind the sofa. " Not find him !" said Captain King, " how is that ? Come with me; I will soon find hi m for you." Th en l ea di ng h i m a second time into the room, he made him look into a large mirror that was over the mantles piece. "'That is the man to shingle your house," said he; take him with you, quick, and see that he does it." THE LA EA Mn, JUSTICE PARK.--James Allan Park, Esq., was a- King's Counsel, and many years a leader on the North ern Circuit,'being opposed to the late Serjeaot Cockrell, and afterwards to Mr. Topping. He had a strong lingering after a judgeship, and for several years before he received the hononr if ever a judge was indisposed or expected to retire, certain London papers invariably puffed off. Mr. Park as likely to succeed. At length in Michaelmas vacation, 1815, the late Sir Alan Chambre resigned his office, and was suc ceeded by Mr. Park, who shortly after received the honour of knighted and took his seat in the Common Pleas, and held it up to the time of his death. Mr. Park in early life pub lished a treatise on "Marine Insurance," which has been al ways held in repute and was considered to bold forth good promises of his future celebrity as a lawyer. Whether those promises have been satisfactorily fulfilled or riot is for the world to say. Some notice is taken of his Lordship on page 116 of a poem called „ The Bar," published by Robinson and Hurst, of London, in 1825, and a letter addressed to hint signed "Russell," (printed in 1818, by W. an d J. L own d es , 9, Brydges-street, nearly opposite Drury-lane Theatre,) both of which will now be read with some interest, particularly by the junior members of the legal profession. Notwithstanding his Lordship's long standing as a leading counsel oa the Northern Circuit, he lines not seem to have had very great attachment for it as a judge, for we do not recollect him more than twice, viz., Summer Assizes, 1820, along with Mr. Jos tice.Bayley, and Lent Assizes, 1830, along,with Mr. Baron Parke. Some interesting matter about his Lordship will be found in vol. 1., page 259, of the "Bench and the Bar," pub lished Ia 18N. -