The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-17 00:00:00

DeC• 17, 1844. LIVERPOOL WINTER ASSIZES, hi•s Tuesday, at three o'clock, Mr. Baron Gurney took seat on the bench, his Lordship having been detained later tha n was expected in Chester. The cale n d ar contains a list of 57 pr i soners f or t r i a l. The Grand Jury were called, and answered as follows : Sir Thomas Bernard Birch, Baronet, of the Hazles foreman. Richard Edward Whitehead, K.C.B. Uplands. Ed ward Alison, Esq., Park-bill. James Aspinall, Esq., Liverpool. Sohn Irel an d Bl ackburne, Esq., Hale-ha ll . •Pl9'rick Bankes, Esq., Winstanley-hall. J ohn Bai rs t ow, Esq. Preston. H ugh Birley, Esq., Didsbury. Xliliam Clayton. Esq., Lostock-hall. . - , l , ll e o n mas Bright C rosse, E sq , Sh aw -hill. -1;1 ry Paul Fleetwood, Esq., Preston. John Frederick Foster, Esq., the Priory. eter Greenall, Esq., M.P., St. Helens. Alexander Fowden Haliburton, Esq., Whitley-hall. Henry Hardm an , E sq., Chamber-hall. Henry Hoght,m, Esq., Bold-hall. ?, d atnes Lawr ence , E sq., M ayor o f Li ver p oo l, Park-hill, 441v erPool. Thomas Townley Parker, Esq., Cuerdon-hall. Royds, Esq., Mount Falinge. James Gillibrand Unsvyorth, Esq.; mp Hibbert Wanklvn, Esq. Crusall-hall. Thomas Horder ne 'Whitaker, Esq., the Holme. , a _ 411 e Grand Jury having been sworn, her Majesty's pro- Baron Gurney then charged the Grand Jury as follows : re gretted of the Grand Jury, it is very much to be that the state of the gaol of this county is such as to tnake it necessary to issue a special commission at this va eson the year ; but the number of the offenders, and „ever natu f re of the offences, made it imperative upon the ntnent, as it was cons id ere d, to issue this commis the • Gen t l emen, I have looked throug h a great many o f e de positions of th e ca l en d ar , and I find very few, in a• ca, that ca ll on me for any o b servat i ons b y way of di„ a fge• The offences are, generally speaking, of the or ,.:_`,"rY description which must have come under yonr con mueration in the discharge of the duty you are now called l t l i P n o n n to fulfil, and, therefore, you will require no instruc tt from me. There is one case of murder by poison, that e c ircumstances of which I shall forbear to enlarge, of :Il require your very particular attention. The cases quir urder by poison are very frequently obscure, and re am: a very diligent examination of the circumstances, r n the judgment of those circumstances your verdict, -' s r a ether your true bill, will or will not be given. There lanirther case of murder by violence—of a woman by the gul °f a man. Certainly, I cannot say that this is a sin ti ar case, but it is a very extraordinary one. The had been esaPpear to have been extremely good friends, who had an e ,A lat elY married, who had spent the day in harmony J O Y, and in whom there appeared to be hardly a shade of_ difference in the course of the day ; but something had °_eeurred in the course of the evening. It appears that the w tn ; a .. n had provided himself with a razor ; and one of the a....nesses spoke to a conversation in the street, immedi • L .,,T3 7 preceding the act, and, if he was correct, it undoubt edly afforded a reason, though a very bad one; but it did not of ° ,%,v_ a motive for the act. And it appears that the throat 1, the woman was cut in the street; that she fled to a " o use t and at last fell on the pavement, and that the ma n ti' afterwards wen t to the house where they had both i;fore been, and then inflicted a very serious wound on 'awn throat. If the evidence convinces you that he i i yas the person by whom the deed was done, then it will 6 "ur duty to find a true bill against him. There is another case where a woman has been murdered, and, it I tt all Fged , by a person who lodged in the house. There e circumsta nces , to b e sure , ar e short, and, as appears n the depositions, very s t ron g against the prisoner. A ' WI :In:Ian is left in the house, the husband comes home finds !he h ouse robbed, and his wife murdered. The prisoner I s Pursued and taken, and a considerable part o f the stolen t- - PevtY is fou n d upon , bim. Now that , un d o ubtedl y , is ry strong evidence to show that he was the person by whore the act was done. Gentlemen, if any difficulty Should_ occur to you in the course of the discha r g e of y our v eluties, Y o u will be pleased to refer to me , and I sh all be " 3 ' happy to afford you any direction or information. ,I ANSLAUG HTER .— RUSHB EARING AT OLDII AM. Ror Thomaswt Whiteley, age d 21 , an d w h o c ould neither read with havei•nwas arraign e d on an i n di c t m ent charging him James waigsbaat Pr estwich•cum-Oldharn, killed and slain a wake at Oldham , D 4 2d September last, there was which gav e r i se to 11% which parties of ro es the proceedings took place, occurrence in question. Two rival and the parties came into take ti collision.fr entered the town at the same time, with poles which were oea A fight took place in the course one of the carts; and shaw, of the fight theprisoner struck James Wal , one of the opposite a pole, and he died head with party, a blow on the fractureof two days afterwards in consequence of the • the skull, caused by the blow. On behalf of prisoner, two witnesses were called who gave him a good character. The jury found him guilty, but recom - Mended hi m to mercy. Sentence was deferred. CATTLE STEALING AT HEATON NORRIS. .f. Druce, 19, cou ld rea d an d wr ite imperfectly, was ' t ilL i ut o c hn ted for having, a t H ea to n Norris, stolen two calves , Property of William Wilke. The prisoner pleaded gutlt Y• It appeared that he had been twice before con victed,islordship and sentenced him to be transported f,,_ twelve years. N ,On th e plication of Mr. Brandt, the trial of Robert "• allalieu and Josiah Orme, charged with an assault, with "11 i ntent to rob, at Ashton, was postponed until n e x t ltssizes, on account of the illness of a material witness for :110 p r osecution.—At a quarter-past five o'clock the court '"i°urned. CARELESS DRIVING. ' lO5 . IV' e h Ilkinvon, 23, could neither rend nor write, was 1g months with causi ng the death, by negligence, of a child, It months old, at Wigan, on the 28th of September last. a ppeared that, on the day in question, the child was laying in a street, in Wigan, near its own house, when d, ° carts ca me p as t, one o f which knocked the deceased dow n and the wheel went over hi, head, and killed him wasthe spot. Th e p o i son er was the driver of the cart, and was at some distance behind the cart at the time of the accident. 4 r• JAMES, who defended the prisoner, called witnes ses, , Whose ev id ence ex onerated the prisoner from any charget, of negligence. The prisoner was found guilty. LORDSHIP, addressing the prisoner, said, he hoped 'vast had occurre d wou ld b e a lesson to him, and also to t i i rnl ec, carters, an d others driving through towns. They c uld understand that the law required them to be at their horse's head, to prevent accidents similar to that pleb had al rea dy occurred, owing to the negligence of e Prisoner. He was sentenced to fourteen days impri ' h'il°nrnent. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. _, James Cooke, 25, could read and write imperfectly, was charged with assaulting and robbing Mary Davis, at Rad ,Vfe, on the 20th of August last. The prosecutrix deposed ,at she was goin : through the fields towards Bury on the day in question, about half-past three in the after "on, when the prisoner came up and knocked her down, at the same time using great violence. He then ran away, when sbe found that he had robbed her of 2s. 6d. In silver, and 4d. in copper, together with some small ar ticles which she bad in her pocket. Information was given to the police, and the prisoner was taken into cus tody. He was found guilty and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation, STABBING. Richard Brindle, 33, could read and write imperfectly, was indicted for stabbing James Wright, at Formby, in August last. The prosecutor stated that he lived at Formby, and on the 25th of August last, he went to the house of a neighbour named Holmes. A person named „Meadows shortly afterwards came in, and they all sat d own. Prisoner then came in, and appeared to be drunk. Meadows went out, and on coming back tumbled over the prison er ' s l egs , an d th e y b o th fell down. The prisoner ; nl rnediately got up and stuck a knife into the prosecutor's aeg, and afterwards made another thrust apparently at his Et° raaeli, but which he (the prosecutor) warded off and a received wound in the hand. The injury to the prose ctlt°r was described by the surgeon as not of a very can assault. character. The priAiner was found guilty of an assault. 1-]iB LORDSHIP remarked that the practice of using the tihife had very much increased of late, and must be put t'n w „ n— if not otherwise, —by the sentence of transporta- A -1 . In the present case, however, the heavy part of the ixge had been dismissed, and he should only inflict a 614 Pnishment, namely, three months' imprisonnzent. FORGING A POST-OFFICE ORDER. for Edwards, 26, (could read and write well,) was fo r toed with uttering and putting off a forged acquittance Lab e Ed PaYmens. t of £5, with intent to defraud Stephen ward (with a PPeared from the statement of Mr. VENABLES, l aat, Z h ° lll was Mr. BRAS.DT,) that on the 27th June an 0 ,„ ) - "r• George Green, a draper at Abergavenny, gave St der, through Mr. lithe, for twelve boxes of cigars to . tla r ',..t e n Lane Edwards, a person carrying on business in kr-.Blton-stree, Liverpool. The cigars were sent t . o the ~,, Green, who immediately desired Mr. Blithe to remit a p o : c ineY to Mr. Edwards, in payment for the cigars, by stea"ffice order. Blithe accordingly took the necessary fr era ',and an order for the sum of £Blos. was despatched Phen th e Post-office at Abergavenny, addressed to Ste s. Edwards Edwards, Canning-place, Liverpool, where aPp ee ,. was in the habit of receiving letters. It hes e i 'eti that at that time the priso . ner Famed on busi the e„ n ,,... C anning-place, in partnership with a person of toil er l,'" of Smith, as shipbrokers, and owing to the si care, lof names, the order in question, by some mistake, Pris en ' l lto the possession of the prisoner. On the 28th the Wit " e ! Bent a boy named Calder. who was in his employ, We e t o b e orders to the post-office, with directions that he Wa g tt ° get the mon e y, and if any inquiries were made, he to hi, saY " Steph en L. Edwards." The money was paid °N e i'' , and h e returne d an d gave it to the prisoner. The ttire w ere signed " Stephen L. Edwards," which signa_ the ,: i v as said t o b e i n t h e han d wr i t i ng o f t h e prisoner. As nigh c 'lleY had n o t reac h e d i ts d es ti na tion within a fort a elle r er its despatch, inquiry was made, and the pri- A, L'etil let ,eoied all knowledge of the circumstances, but sub 'aitted",Y, On bein g closely questioned by his partner, ad teptoe offen ce c h arge d aga i ns t hi m , an d sa id he co u ld A „ what h a d tempted h i m to do i t. on th?olber of witnesses were called to support the case %bone Part of th e prosecut i on, an d it appeare d th at t h e 11•1 3? had been . paid over to Mr. .Lane in July last. Mr. b e I',_ t .he Prisoner's partner, believed the signature . to Ills (the •h • e cs o n prisoner's) handwriting. The witnesses "Non e ' B- examined by Mr. JAMES, the counsel for the left,. Prisoner was apprehended . on the 27th of Septem ti Mulb r. ter, erry-street, Liverpool. It appeared that a "sre to have been signed by the prisoner, and dated tb jsa4gOr Oc cur , was . sent to Mr. Lane Edwards shortly after 7,10 e. reiace, inclosing the amount of the orders, viz., „al " A mEs s dressed the • f tl risoner and jury or ses a to d his char acter. The prisoner _ was found guilty of uttering a forged receipt, knowing it to have been stolen, and his Lordship, after an admonition on the great enormity of the crime of forgery, which now subjected parties to transportation for life, sentenced him to twelve years' transportation. HORSE STEALING. John Ogden, 22, and James Nield, 25, (could neither read nor write, were charged with steal i ng a gelding, at Oldham, the property of John Radcliffe. It appeared that on the 14th of August the prosecutor missed his horse, which had been taken from Hoyton Moss, near Oldham. The horse was seen in possession of the prisoners on the 15th, on which day it was sold to a tanner at Newton, for the value of the hide. The prisoners were seen drinking together shortly after it had been sold, and upon that and other circumstances they were taken into custody. Both were found guilty. The court rose at a quarter to five o'clock. THURSDAY. His Lordship took his seat soon after ten. The Grand Jury ignored the bill against John Lomax, charged with the manslaughter of John Mulleneux, at Liverpool. MINT CASES. Thomas King, alias Kelly, 63, (could neither read nor write,) was indicted for uttering a counterfeit half-crown, at Liverpool. He had been previously convicted, at the Chester assizes, of a similar offence. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to twelve years' transportation. Michael Pickett, 43, (could read and write imperfectly,) was indicted for uttering counterfeit shillings, at Liverpool. The prisoner had been previously convicted on a similar charge. An ingenious objection was taken by Mr. James, the prisoner's counsel, as to the wording of the indictment, which was pronounced by his lordship as fatal to the case, and the prisoner was accordingly acquitted of the charge of felony. He was then tried for a misdemeanour on the same evidence, and sentenced to twelve months' imprison ment. Mary Monaghan, and Mary Ann Stanley, who pleaded guilty to a charge of uttering base coin, were sentenced to six months imprisonment. The Grand Jury were discharged at twelve o'clock. CHARGE OF RAPE. In the case of Edward Kynaston, cow-keeper, of Li verpool, charged with a rape on Catherine Catterall, Mr. VENABLES stated that a bill could not be found, owing to the non-appearance of the prosecutrix, who was out of the way. ATTEMPT TO SHOOT A LANDING-WAITER. Joseph 117` Caug hie. 40, (could read and write well,) stood charged with having, at Liverpool, attempted to fire off a pistol at John William Arkle, with intent to kill and murder him. There was another count charging him with the intent to do some grievous bodily harm. Messrs. Brandt and Paget were for the prosecution. The prisoner was undefended ; he appeared very much depressed in spirits, though, as the trial proceeded, he put some questions to the witnesses in cross-examination. Mr. BRANDT stated the case. The prisoner was for merly a weigher in the Customs, and Mr. Arkle, being his superior officer, had occasion, in the execution of his duty, to report his conduct, no doubt causing a feeling of revenge on the part of the prisoner, and probably that which had actuated him in the commission of the dreadful act with which be stood charged. It appeared that on the 12th of October last the prisoner went to the Custom house and said he wished to see Mr. Arkle, when he was told that he might find him at the Prince's Dock shed. He immediately proceeded in pursuit of him, and met him at the dock going towards the depot. It was about three o'clock in the afternoon. The prisoner then ad vanced towards him, and, when he bad got within about five yards, turned round and presented a pistol at Mr. Arkle, which however did not go off. He advanced with the pistol a second time, when Mr. Arkle called out for assistance, saying, " Don't you see he is going to shoot me ?" A man then came up, and, with the aid of other parties, the prisoner was eventually secured. An exami nation then took place, but no cap was found on the pis tol ; it was afterwards picked up near where the scuffle took place, being broken as though some one had trodden upon it. On comparing the cap, and fitting it with the pistol, it was found to be too large, and that circumstance had probably been the means of saving the life of Mr. Arkle, as the trigger would go down without discharging the piA)l, and that must evidently have been the case more than once, the pris oner having several times at tempted to fire. When the prisoner was taken into cus tody, it was apparent from certain statements which he made what his intentions were, for, being still under a state of excitement, he expressed his regret that his design had not been carried out. Mr. Arkle deposed to the facts of the case as stated in the open ing by Mr. e Brandt, in which be was corroborated by other witnesses. George Stamper deposed to seeing the prisoner shortly after the occurrence, and he said that Arkle had taken his bread from him, and that made him do it ; he added, " I am mad—l'm deranged." Morey, the police-officer who took the prisoner into custody, deposed to hearing him say on his way to Bride well, that he was very sorry what he had attempted did not take effect. The witness produced the pistol and ball. William Sumner, a person in the employ of Messrs. Williams and Patrick, stated that the pistol was brought to their shop ; it was fired off against a board, and a leaden ball came out. The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, entered into a long explanation (which he read from a paper) of the circumstances connected with his dismissal from the Customs. That he had been charged by Arkle with being in a state of stupor from the effects of drink, when such was not the fact, as he was at the time suffering from in disposition. Those matters, together with want and mi sery staring him in the face, and being embarrassed and in debt, drove him to madness, and he did not know what he was doing. When he loaded the pictnl, it wac for self destruction, but meeting Mr. Arkle, the injuries he had sustained wrought upon his feelings, and he went and presented the pistol; when, however, he saw the horror depicted in the countenance of Mr. Arkle (and which he could picture to his mind at that moment) Le relented, and thought what an awful thing it would be to deprive a fellow creature of life. While in the act of stooping down be took off the cap from the pistol and threw it down. Arkle ran away, and he followed, when he was taken into custody. He had no recollection of having used expres sions such as had been referred to. He concluded by a hope that what bad been stated in the newspapers would not have the effect of biassing the minds of the jury in coming to a decision in his case. The jury found the prisoner guilty of an intent to do grievous bodily harm. His LORDSHIP, addressing the prisoner, said the act of which he had been found guilty was one f a most mali cious and wicked character, arising out of a desire to be revenged on a superior officer in the discharge of his duty. He was liable to transportation for life, but he (the Judge) would take a more merciful view of the case, and hoped the prisoner would not abuse it ; the sentence was that he should be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for the space of two years. BURGLARY. George Jordan, 18, and George Wylie, 24, (could read and write imperfectly,) were charged with entering the dwelling-house of John Percival, and stealing a shot-bag. a shawl, and a coat. Jordan pleaded guilty. The prose cutor kept the Derby Arms, at Bootle, and on the night of the 26th of August last, his house was entered, and the articles above mentioned taken away. Jordan was seen by some persons, (who had occasion to call at the house about one o'clock in the morning,) to jump out of the window, and was immediately secured. Wylie was taken a few days afterwards. Wylie was acquitted : Jordan was sentenced to twenty years' transportation. ROBBERY. Charleg alias John Cunliffe, 16, (could neither read nor write,) was indicted for stealing a horse, the property of Edward Show, and a bridle, the property of John Orme sher. From the evidence of Mr. Chalmer, surgeon, it appeared the prisoner was of unsound mind, being afflicted with connate imbecility, and he was accordingly acquitted on that ground. SACRILEGE. William Simpson, 48, (could read,) was indicted for stealing property from Whitworth Chapel, near Roch dale, on the 20th of October last. It appeared that the chapel was entered on the night in question, and a surplice and hymn-book taken away, the latter of which was offer ed by the prisoner for sale at Rochdale a few days after wards. He was found guilty. There were two other indictments against him for robbery. The prisoner called a witness to speak to his character, when the following recommendation was elicited :—The JUDGE.—What do you know of the prisoner ? Witness.—He is a drunken dissipated character. Mr. HULTON.—What more do you know ? I know he has been previously convicted of fe lony. The prisoner was sentenced to twelve years' transportation. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. William Wylde, 24, and Charles Pilling, 23, (could neither read nor write,) were charged with robbing Tho mas Holden, at Tonge. The prosecutor lives at Tonge, near Bolton ; and on the 19th of October was on his way home, when he called at the Dog Inn, by the road side, and remained a short time, after which he continued his journey. He had proceeded about two miles on the road, when the two prisoners came up to him and knocked him down ; and while one of them held him the other rifled his pockets, and took from him three or four sovereigns. The prisoners during the evening were seen at the inn on the road where the prosecutor stopped, and the next day Pilling had in his possession several sovereigns. They were taken into custody shortly afterwards. The prison ers were defended by Mr. H. T. ATKINSON, in a very able speech. B o th were found guilty, and sentenced to fifteen years transportation. The Court adjourned shortly after four o'clock. FRIDAY. MURDER AT MANCHESTER. George Evens, 20, charged with the wilful murder of Jane Millen, at Manchester, on the 14th of August last. This trial came oni on Friday morning. Mr. Brandt and Mr. Whigham were counsel for the crown; Mr. J. Pol lock, and Mr. Sowler appeared on behalf of the prisoner. The prisoner had lodged for eighteen months in the house of tue husb an d o f the deceased. On the morning of the 14th of Au gus t l as t, the husband went to work a little after five o'clock, l ea ving the prisoner and the decease d in the house. At eight o'clock the deceased took her hus band's breakfast to him ; at twenty minutes past eight the prisoner and d ecease d wer e seen together in the house ; at nine the d ecease d was s een for the last time alive. About twenty minutes past twelve the husband came to his dinner. lie knocked at the door, but could not get admittance. Eventually he got through the parlour win dow, and found the body of the deceased in a cupboard under the stairs. The le - arned counsel proceeded to state several other facts, connecting the prisoner with the murder, after which he called Robert Millen, the husband of the deceased, and several other witnesses. Mr. J. Pollock addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, after which Mr. Baron Gurney summe d u p the case. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The Judge having placed the THIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. black cap upon his head, proceeded to pass sentence of death upon the prisoner, who stood unmoved, bowed to the court, and left the dock with a firm step. _ _ STABBING. James Pye, aged 45, was charged with stabbing Samuel Jones, at Sankey, near Warrington, on the 22d Septem ber last, with intent to maim, wound, or do some bodily harm.—Mr. Monk was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr. James for the prisoner. —It appeared that the wife of the prosecutor had left his house and was living with the prisoner, at Sankey Bridges, near Warrington, taking with her two children whom she bad by the prosecutor. One of these the prosecutor had apprenticed : and having obtained a situation for the other, he went on the evening of the 22d September for the purpose of taking his child away. When he reached the door, the prisoner made an attack upon him, and stabbed him in several places about the head and neck. The learned judge having summed up, the jury found the prisoner guilty of a common as sault only. Sentence, one month's imprisonment. BIGAMY. William Spilslury, 33, was indicted for intermarry ing Maria Hamer during the lifetime of his first wife. Mr. Brandt appeared for the prosecution.—lt appeared that on the 19th of September, 1831, the prisoner was married at Stockport to Maria Fowden, and that on the 2nd of September, in the present year, he was married to Maria Hamer, at Heaton Norris. The prisoner and his wife separated about ten or eleven years ago, and since then she had lived part of the time near the pri soner, and afterwards at Ashton. under-Lyne.—The pri soner in his defence said he did not know bis first wife was living when he married the second time.—The learned Judge summed up, and the jury found the prisoner guilty. Sentence—Twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. —The court adjourned at ten minutes before four. SATURDAY, INFANTICIDE AT EDGE-BILL. Mary Baxter, a ratler well-looking young woman, was indicted for baring, at Liverpool, murdered her new-born male illegitimate child. The case for the prosecution was conducted by Mr. Blair; and that for the defence by Mr. James. It appeared that the prisoner was a single woman, lodg ing at No. 26, Sydney-place, Edge-hill, in this town, and that, for about a month before the occurrence, which took place on the 28th of October, she had been residing in the house of Sarah Bennett, of that place. When first she took the lodging there was something in her appearance which attracted the attention of the inmates, who ques tioned her as to whether she was pregnant. She denied that she was, and there matters rested for the time. She usually occupied a room in the upper part of the house, where she shared a bed with Bennett, and in the same room a Mrs. Mary Hine. and her daughter also slept. On the evening of the 28th of October the whole of the in mates were in the kitchen, when the prisoner suddenly complained of being unwell, and retired to her room for the night. When Bennett and Hynes went to bed a few hours subsequently. they found her still awake, and upon asking her if she was better, she replied that she was. Bennett slept with her as usual, and nothing further oc curred until about daylight on the following morning. At that time Mrs. Hynes was awakened by hearing some one on the stairs, and, upon asking who was there, a voice, which she recognised to be that of the prisoner, replied, " It is I," and, in reply to a question as to where she had been, she said she had only been as far as the yard. The prisonar then turned into Bennett's bed a second time, and, about seven o'clock the same morning, got up and left the house, apparently for the purpose of fulfilling an engagement, which she certainly was under, to wash some clothes at the house of a Mrs. Duffy. In the course of the day, when Bennett went up stairs to make the beds, she discovered some blood on the floor; in a mug of water which was lying in the yard she noticed a similar appear ance; and then she was induced to go to Mrs. Duffy's, where she informed the prisoner that she either had been confined or was on the eve of being confined, and requested her to come home. The prisoner obeyed the request, and made several statements, about the admissibility of which there was some doubt, as the confession had, to some ex tent, been extorted. In consequence, however, of those statements, a search was made, and in the privy the body of a full grown male child was found, with a band, or cord, apparently composed of a piece of a cotton dress, fastened tightly round its neck. Mr. J. B. Nottedge, surgeon, then examined the person of the prisoner, and was of opinion that she had very shortly before been de. livered of a child ; that the child was born alive ; and that the death had been caused by the ligature round the neck. In reply to his inquiries, the prisoner admitted that she had been recently delivered, and that the child was born in the privy. This witness was subjected to a rigorous cross-examination as to whether all the symptoms he ob served on the body °l a the child might not have existed before it was fully born into the world ? At the close of his evidence, His LORDSHIP informed the jury that the foundation of the case altogether failed. The first thing to prove was, that the child had been born alive, in other words, that it had been entirely separated from the body or the mother, because, until total separation f rom t h e mot h er had taken place, the child was not born. There was no doubt that a ligature had been found round the neck, hich ligature would cause the death if the child had been born alive. But the question was, had it been born alive. It appeared, from the evidence of the surgeon, that the head might be born, and the chest also ' • and, if the head and chest were out, then th e c hild could breathe freely, although the remaining part of the body might be detained for ten or fifteen minutes. Under those circum stances, before they convicted the prisoner of murder, they must ascertain that there had been a living subject, that was, that the child was separated from the mother before the ligature was fastened. The case, therefore, failed in this resp et.. There was, however, another view of the question upon which the Jury might convict; for, within the last few years, the Legislature had made a pro vision in cases where mothers concealed the birth of their offspring ; and from the evidence there could be no doubt that the prisoner had concealed the birth in the present instance. The Jury, without hesitation, acquitted the prisoner of the murder and found her guilty of concealing the birth. She was sentenced to imprisonment and bard labour for two years. _ • INCENDIARISM AT BOLTON. Richard Leach, 28, was indicted for having, at Little Bolton, set fi:e to a building belonging to Thomas Gra ham. Mr. HuvioN and Mr. PoLtocx conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. MONK defended the pri• soner. . . It appeared that the prosecutor was a joiner and builder in the town of Bolton ; that his premises were situated at the back of Bridge-street ; and that Bark-street ran on one side of his timber-yard. The timber-yard was at the back of his dwelling-house, and was separated from bark street by a wooden paling. On the evening of the 11th of October, the workmen left the premises at eight o'clock, and in about two hours after the prosecutor went round and round all safe. There were at that time in the yard a great quantity of shavings and dry wood, and close to what was called " the erection" on the premises there was a " steer" of wood, or a pile of timber. About eleven o'clock the same night the servant of Dr. Pendlebury, who lived next door, was going to bed, and, upon looking through her window, she observed a bright light in Mr. Graham's yard, and two men, wearing caps, in the act of getting over the fence which divided the timber-yard from Bark-street. In doing so they knocked down a pile of timber. The noise roused the prosecutor from his sleep, and, on going out, he saw the steer of wood on fire, and found in the shavings, contiguous to where the fire origi nated, two stone bottles, containing a quantity of turpen tine. At a quarter after nine on the night of the occur rence the prisoner had been to a druggist, of the name of Scowcroft, in Bolton, and produced two stone bottles, which, in the opinion of Mr. Scowcroft's apprentice, cor responded exactly with the bottles found on the prosecu tor s premises. The prisoner had them filled by the ap prentice with spirit of turpentine. About four o'clock the next morning he was arrested by the watchman, and at that time he was wearing a cap. The motive which the prisoner had for committing so daring an act was at tempted to be accounted for in the following manner : A short time before the occurrence the prosecutor had oc occasion to turn off some of his workmen and to take two others, natives of Ireland, who belonged not to the saw yer's union. After that period the prisoner and another sawyer, named Davies, were repeatedly seen about the premises, and upon one of those occasions the prosecu tor's wife requested the former to leave. He refused, an altercation took place, a policeman was called, and the prisoner, who was taken before a magistrate and bound over to keep the peace, then uttered a threat that, before six weeks after, Graham should be sold up. The jury re turned a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner was sentenced to transportation for fifteen years. ARSON AT WARRINGTON. Samuel Great head, 18, was indicted for baying, at War rington, set fire to a stack of bay belonging to James Gibson. Mr. Drinkwater prosecuted and Mr. Brandt defended. The haystack was the property of James Gibson, a far mer, residing in Warrington ; and, about ten o'clock on the morning of the 10th of November, the prisoner was seen to stoop down by the side of the stack. Almost im mediately after smoke was observed to issue from the hay. and the prisoner, on being arrested at the spot and asked who had set it on fire, replied that lie had ; that he was starving ; that his father would do nothing for him ; and that he wished to get out of the country. About one cwt. of the bay was consumed. The prosecutor gave it as his opinion, from the sneering countf-mance of the prisoner at the time of the flames, that he was insane. His father, a schoolmaster and preacher, from Dewsbury, having very clearly established the fact of his insanity, The Jury acquitte4dOm on that ground. The JUDGE said thirlffect of the verdict was, that the prisoner would be confined for life and prevented from doing further mischief. FORGERY AT ORMSKIRK. James Clarkson, aged 32, was indicted for having forged a certain promissory note for the payment of £lOO, with intent to defraud James Peel and others. Mr. Monk conducted the prosecution, and Mr. James the defence. It appeared that there was a lodge of Oddfellows held at Ormskirk in the year 1839, and that the prisoner was a member, as were also several other persons. The pri soner made an application to the lodge at that time for a loan of £lOO, which it was agreed to advance, provided he gave a promissory note and two securities. He accord ingly proposed as security the Messrs. Rymmers, of Snape-green, brothers, and a day was fixed for them to come and subscribe their names. The day passed over, and they not appearing, it was agreed that the money should be advanced, provided the signatures of the pro posed securities were written in the presence of an attest ing witness, a member of the lodge. Shortly after the prisoner produced a promissory note, signed by himself, and purporting, also, to be signed by the two Rymmers, and John Clarkson, a member of the lodge, as attesting witness. The note was accordingly handed to Mr. Peel, the treasurer of the lodge, and the £lOO was lent. The prisoner paid interest for the money, but, when the prin cipal was applied for, it turned out that the note had never been signed by either the Rymmers or Clarkson. The prisoner was convicted, but not sentenced. BIGAMY AT BLACKBURN. _ John Jackson Morgan, 36, was found guilty of having, at Blackburn, feloniously married Elizabeth Southworth, his former wife, Matilda Allen, being then alive. He was sentenced to four months' imprisonment and hard labour. The court adjourned at ten minutes after four o'clock. LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL NEWS. Ann Harvey was on Thursday committed for two months, in default of paying a fine inflicted for stabbing a coloured man, named Samuel Veder, in Stewart-street. On Sunday week the sum of £65 4s. 6d. was collected at St. Andrew's Church, Renshaw-street, after a sermon by the respected incumbent, for the schools in connection with the church. The Harrington Water Company was, on Tuesday, fined 40s. and costs, for leaving open, in Oldhall-street, an excavation, by which a young lad lost his life, having fallen into it. • On Tuesday a poor destitute haggard-looking female went to the pierhead, stripped off her shawl and bonnet, and attempted to throw herself into the river. She was taken into custody, and handed over to the overseer. DEATH FROM EATING.—A pauper in the Liverpool Workhouse, named Robert Bickersteth, aged 85, died suddenly on Monday afternoon. The cause of death arose from excessive eating. SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL.—On Thurs day the Lord Bishop of Chester preached a sermon, at St. Peter's Church, in behalf of the above institution, from Rev. xxii. 3. The church was but thinly attended. The collection amounted to £27. The Wesleyan Chapel, Birkenhead, having been consi derably enlarged, was re-opened for Divine worship on Friday, the 6th instant, and subeequent days. The Revs. Dr. Newton, Dr. Raffles, Dr. Beaumont, and John H. James officiated on the occasion. The collection amounted to Xl4O. _ _ SWEEPING MACHINES.—The Watch Committee, on Saturday week, resolved to add fifteen sweeping machines to those already in use, making the total number in Li verpool eighteen. The cost will be about £lOOO a-year. but, for this-sum, the town will be in a state never yet witnessed as to cleanliness. The well-sinking in Green-lane, under the Board of Highways, is proceeding rapidly, and with every prospect of success. The shaft has now been sunk 172 feet, at which depth a powerful spring has been tapped, which throws up 500 gallons of water per minute. As it is not considered necessary to descend any lower, the excavation of horizontal chambers will be commenced forthwith. THE LIVERPOOL REPEALERS.—At the repeal meeting on Monday, " Capt. Broderick gave an account of his mission to Liverpool, where he had been to subdue the feuds, and endeavour to effect a conciliation among the Repealers. They arose, he said, about ' accounts,' and were now all happily settled. He brought over their weekly contribution of £9." FIRE.—On Sunday morning, about a quarter after seven o'clock, a fire broke out in a stable, at the lower end of Hart-street, London. road, in the occupation of a cart-owner, named Johu,.Burroughs. Two engines, under Mr. Hewitt and the fire-brigade, succeeded in confining the flames to the stable. The hay and straw were con sumed, and nothing but the four walls of the building were left standing. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a lighted candle being carried into the hayloft. THE JUDGE.—On Sunday morning Mr. Baron Gur ney attended Divine Service at St. George's Church, in the Crescent. His Lordship proceeded to and from church in the Sheriff's carriage, drawn by four horses. He was accompanied by the Sheriff, and, from the Town hall to St. George's, by the Mayor and Recorder, in their robes of office, the Town-clerk, Clerk oe the Peace, and the sword-bearer, mace-bearer, and other officials. The anthem was taken from the 75th Psalm. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Whittaker, vicar of Black burn, from Ephs., chap. 6, 5 v. :—" Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as unto Christ. ROBBERY OF PLATE.—On the of the 29th of October, the shop of Mr. Richards, pawn-broker, London-road, was broken into, and twenty-five silver watches, together with a large quantity of jewellery, consisting of gold and silver rings, brooches, guard-chains, &c., were stolen. Information having reached Mr. Dowling that a quantity of the stolen articles had been sold at Merthyr Tydvil by a person named Myers or Phillips, well-known in this town to the police, and last tried for being concerned in the tobacco robbery case, the commissioner ordered that party to be apprehended. On Wednesday he was brought up, and declining to say anything as to the charge he was remanded, in order to afford time for collecting the evid ence at Merthyr TydvilAwbither an officer had been sent. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—The Presbytery of Lanca shire met, on Wednesday last, at Wigan, for the pnrpose of ordaining the Rev. Samuel Cathcart to the pastoral charge of the Presbyterian congregation in that town. There was a large attendance of members, and no less than four clergymen of other denominations were pre sent in the church. The Rev. Mr. Welsh, of Liverpool, conducted the services on the occasion, preaching a most suitable discourse from Ist Samuel vii. 2, and thereafter presiding in the act of ordination. The newly-ordained minister was then solemnly admonished of his duties by the Rev. Mr. Fergusson, of Liverpool, who afterwards addressed the congregation ; and, at the close of the ser vices, Mr. Cathcart was most cordially welcomed by his flock. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS.—In pursuance of the object of the Liverpool Church of England School Society, a plan has lately been put into execution for giv ing a permanently good effect to the instruction afforded in its schools ; in pursuance of which a number of the girls educated in the South School. Cornwallis-street, who had left the school with credit, were invited to take tea with their teachers and some of their former school fellows, on Wednesday evening last, in the above schools. The number present was about thirty, and it was truly gratifying to observe the respectable and orderly appear ance of these young persons, several of whom brought testimonials from their employers, expressing entire sa tisfaction with their conduct and general attention to the duties of their respective situations. The Rev. A. Camp bell, the Rev. T. L. Pain, the Rev. G. Dover, the Rev. Henry H. Higgins, and other friends of the school, were present. The young people were addressed on the sub ject of the peculiar duties of their stations in life, with a view to their direction and encouragement. Several of their favourite hymns were sung, and having spent the evening very happily together, they all united in reading a chapter from the Bible, and in the short service used for the daily closing of the School, and separated apparently highly gratified with the attention thus shewn by the friends of the school to their welfare after they had ceased to be scholars. The meeting is proposed to be continued annually. DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY— Present, Messrs. Moore (in the chair,) Nicol, Evans, Aikin, Houghton, Wood,. Molyneux, Horsfall, Mann, Royden, Tobin, Ken dall, Chilton, Henderson, Sandbach, Middleton.—The Sub-committee of Works recommended that permission should be given to Mr. J. S. Leigh to make a communi cation from Sandhills-lane to the sewer about to be con structed at the new north works.—Mr. Hugh Evans, Su perintendent of Telegraphs at Holyhead, having been ap pointed by the Trinity Board to the command of o ne o f their yachts, resigned his situation under the committee, Ind recommended his brother to the vacant situation.-- Upon the application of Mr. Heys, of Frodsham, it was resolved to refer back to the Harbour -master's Sub-com mittee, the claim for compensation on account of damage wi ich had been done to the flat D ido.—An appli ca ti on from Arthur M‘Gea for compensation for the loss of a cow that fell into the river and was drowned, was ordered to lie on the table.—A valuation of the property at the north end, ordered by the Committee was submitted and referred to the Sub -committee of Wo r k s .—Th e stan di ng orders for the regulation of the Committee were then read seriatim, and underwent considerable discussion. It was decided, subject to the opinion of th e so li c it or as t o it s legality, that the Chairman should vote on all questions, and in case of an.equality of votes, that he should have a casting vote. PASSENGER-BROKING.-311 Tuesday, Mr. George Sherlock was summoned before Mr. Rushton on the fol lowing charge :—James Swift, a grown-up Irish lad, stated that he was a labourer, and that he had arrived in Liverpool on Sunday morning last from the county of Fermanagh, with the view of proceeding to America. He went to the Prince's Dock on Monday morning, and met a man named Wm. M'Cracken, who introduced him to Mr. Sherlock. The latter said that the fare to New Orleans for two persons (the complainant had a female companion) was £6 10s. Complainant told him that he had only £4 Ils. 6d., and that he wanted a portion of that to pay for a couple of nights' lodging, but that he expected a remittance from Ireland. Mr. Sherlock told him to deposit as much as he could, and that if the remit tance did not come to hand, the deposit should be punc tually returned. Complainant at first refused to comply, but at length made a deposit of £3. The remittance not having reached, an ineffectual application was made for the £3 to Mr. Sherlock, who said that either the balance must be paid at once, or security must be given that it would be paid at New Orleans. Mr. Sherlock gave a different version of the story ; but Mr. Rushton said he believed the lad. Mr. Sherlock promised to let t, e par ties proceed in the vessel to New Orleans, and trust to their honour for the payment of the balance, although he said he had lost £3OO by taking the word of people for the payment of money on the other side of the Atlantic. Mr. Rushton accepted the offer on the part of the lad but said that, as Mr. Sherlock's seemed to be a n unpro fitable business, he would relieve him from the loss of any more money, if cases of the present kind continued to go on. The following interesting communication was sent to Messrs. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-garden, London : —23, Mason-street, Old Kent-road. Gentlemen, —About August, 1839, my hair began to fall off, and in so rapid a manner that.in the space of a month my head was almost divested of hair. I tried several preparations for its re covery without the slightest benefit, when one d ay your circular, in " Collins' Memoranda," caught my ventured on the purchase of a small bottle of " R OWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL ;" after using which I found my hair was beginning to reappear, and accordingly I purchased a larger bottle, which, when finished, I felt satisfied that I had proved in m y own person all you p ro f ess as to its re storative qualit ies; in short, after two months steady per severance in its u s e, I had as good a head o f h a i r as at any time of my life ; for which permit me to offer my thanks. I have delayed writing to you for six months, (from the time of leaving off the oil,) w i s hi ng to test t h e permanence of its restoration. I find it continues as firm and thick as before it began to fall off, with every prospect of its continuance.—l am, gentlemen, yours obediently, JOHN FOSTER.—See advt. GALLANT CONDUCT.—The Queen, which left this side at nine o'clock on Wednesday night, was landing her passengers at Woodside slip, when one of them, an elderly female, fell into the river. One of the hands on board, named Thomas Win.tanley, leaped after her, and seizing hold of her, bore her up. Owen Edwards, another of the men, also jumped in. A rope was then thrown to their assistance, and all three were got out, without any injury beyond a bath, rather of the coldest. The person rescued was Mary Erden, who is between 60 and 70 years of age, and keeps a mangle in William -street, Birkenhead. BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—At the adjourned meeting of this body, on Tuesday last, it was announced that the pig -sties in Back Chester-street were being re moved. Messrs. Pim and Fry were appointed members of the Health Committee. Mr. Fry intimated that a public meeting would speedily be convened to consider the subject of extending the infirmary. A committee was appointed to advertise for plans for the new Town hall. The chairman (Mr. W. Jackson) deemed it advis able to postpone the sale of the land surrounding the Park. The township was not in want of funds, and a much higher price might be obtained when the beauties of the Park were more fully developed. The roads would be completely finished in May ; the whole of the Park would then be planted, and the spring grass would have made its appearance, so that people would then be better judges of what sort of a prospect the Park would present. The sale of the land on the 18th instant was accordingly rescinded. PAVING AND SEWERAGE COMMISSIONERS.—At the meeting on Thursday, Mr. Robertson Gladstone attended, for the first time, since his election, and took the neces sary declaration previous to resuming his seat. An ap plication, requesting the Commissioners to make a sewer io Regent-street, having been read, a reply was given to the effect, that no new sewers could be undertaken in that neighbourhood until the new north docks were completed. The surveyor reported that the severity of the weather prevented the workmen from continuing their work, and it was ordered that the surveyor, under the direction of the chairman, should enteavour to employ the men two or three days a week in clearing the gratings, cleansing the channels, in getting sand or in any other way advan tageously to the public. In reply to a question from Mr. Procter, Mr. Weightman said that six of the sewers or dered on the 14th of January, were unfinished, but that four of them would be finished next week, and the remain der as soon as possible.—An application from Mr. P. W. Brancker, requesting to be allowed to attach a branch pipe communicating to his warehouse in Dublin-street, to the main about to be laid down, was road, and referred to the Watch Committee, it being a question whether, if they allowed Mr. Brancker this privilege, they could re fuse other applicants. It was suggested that, as the ob ject was only to use the water in case of fire, they would only be carrying out the intentions of the promoters of the bill by granting the privilege. The chairman said the Watch Committee would get the opinion of Mr. Simpson before deciding upon the matter. The chairmaniSias au thorized to give, at his discretion, 20s. to a poor man who was injured at the new works, and the Commissioners adjourned. SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON ULVERSTON SANDS.—Since the opening of the Lancaster and Preston railway numbers of persons termed hucksters have been in the habit of going over to Ulverston, to purchase fish, poultry, cockles, but ter, &c., which they send off to Preston, Manchester, Bir mingham, and other inland towns, and the trade, which is very profitable, has recently much increased. Those en gaged in it start to cross the sands at all hours of the day or night, if the tide at all serve—one man having the care of two and sometimes more carts. About one o'clock on Friday morning, the 6th instant, several of them started to cross, having with them ten horses, and carts heavily laden. On arriving at Hest Bank, several of them went forward to Preston, leaving four of the party, young lads, to return to Ulverston with the horses and carts. Though they found the tide had passed up some time, and though a young man was recently drowned near the spot, they went recklessly straight forward, instead of making up to Silverdale, and were soon in deep water. Two of them endeavoured to turn, but were obliged to make a large cir cuit, the horses swimming the whole time. After despe rate exertions they got on the Silverdale side, but not be fore one of the horses was drowned. Two others of the drivers dashed straight on. One of them had three horses, which Ile could not manage, and they were all drowned. Being a swimmer, he kept himself afloat for some time, and was at length rescued from impending death by one of his companions, Moore, who got him into his cart. This occurred about four in the morning, but the sky was bright, so that they could see their danger, otherwise both men and horses must all 'nave perished. The loss of the korses will, it is hoped, prove a warning to all engaged in the trade. GENERAL MISCELLANY. Mr. Walsh, a solicitor of Oxford, was thrown out of his gig, on Saturday night, and killed. In England the proportion of illegitimate children is 20 to every 10,000 of the populati an, and in Wales, 43. Yesterday week four lives were lost by the overturning of a vessel in the river Parrott, just below Bridgewater. In the year ending on the 2d November, 1844, it seems the number of bankruptcies was 1,064. Last year. the number was 1,169 ; and in the preceding year, 1,373. On Tuesday week, Thomas Smith, a bookseller, of 2, King-street, Tower Hill, Landon, committed suicide by placing a pan of burning charcoal in his bedroom. On Wednesday last, Burgess was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Couxt, for his late robbery of the Bank of Eng!and. , The corporation of London have voted the f ree d om o f I the city, together with a s il ver cup, va l ue 100 guineas, to 1 Sir Robert Sale, and a similar grant to Sir W. Nott. Mary Gallop, convicted the week before last, at Ches ter, of the murder of her father, has made a full =ales /sion of her guilt, and appears sincerely penitent. The lighthouse on Goodwin is now above high-water mark; and may be expected to be illuminated by the Ist of January next. The light is to be a pale blue. On Thursday, a boy named Birch, aged 14, was killed at Chiswick, by the discharge of a gun which his brother and his cousin were struggling to obtain from him, in a dispute as to who was to fire it. , John Wall, charged with attempting to poison his sis ter, mother, and brother, at Leicester, was discharged on Monday last, the evidence being insufficient to bring the charge home to him. GOOD NEWS FOR TAE LOVERS OF SPRING.-It iS certain fact, that whenever we have very early and severe winters, like the present, the succeeding spring is invaria bly early and genial. On Friday night week, as a butter merchant was re turning home to Brecon, Cardiganshire, in his cart with about £7O in his pocket, the produce of his sales of but ter, he was shot dead by a highwayman, and robbed of all his money. AN OLD SONG.—The opponents of mesmerism, not convinced by the late literary cure, when spoken to on the subject, quietly hum the refrain of the ancient lyric, "All my eye and Betty Martin oh!" (Martineau.) — The Great Gun. A young man, named Jackson, who was sentenced to seven years transportetion, at the last Bristol assizes, for stealing a gold watch from a prostitute, has. since his conviction, succeeded to a property of seven hundred a year. ORIGIN OF KISSING. — PIiny, in his Natural History, says that Cato was of opinion that the use of kissing first began between kinsmen and kinswomen, however nearly allied or far off, only to know, by kissing, whether their wives, daughters, or nieces had tasted any wine. On Thursday, William Thomas Gallimore, a surgeon, of Chesterfield, was found guilty of causing the death of Mrs. Warwick, by ignorant treatment of her during par turition, and was sentenced to be imprisoned for s ix months. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—This magnificent vessel, on Wednesday, safely passed the locks at Bristol, and was taken in tow down the river to Kino"road, which pl ace s h e reached without any accident, a m id the cheers of thou sands who lined the river all the way down. THE JESUITS.—Among the rules suggested by the Jesuits of a former day for bringing England to the Roman religion without tumult," was the following : " Nourish the differences of the preachers which are in error, and let him so work that they -may often confer and wrangle." SINGULAR rASI OF MANSLAUGHTER.—At Leicester, on Saturday week, Berresford, a man aged seventy-three, was convicted of manslaughter, for shooting one of a num ber of boys who used to tease him, and who were actually throwing a volley of stones at him when he fired. He was sentenced to four months' imprisonment. An extensive robbery of notes and eold took place at Northwich, in Cheshire, on the 3d instant. The pro perty was stolen from the house of Mr. William Glover, of Whitton -street, and amounts in the aggregate to £9OO, consisting of £B7O in notes and bank post bills, and 30 sovereigns. DARING ROBBERY OF £215 IN OPEN DAY.—Mr. Vv Brownlow, a respectable corn dealer from Howden, was robbed in Hull, on Tuesday week, of two hundred and fifteen pounds, with which he was proceeding to the corn market. The pocket, it seems was completely cut from the waistcoat, together with the contents. AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Monday a sanguinary conflict took place in,the preserves at Langley, near Lan chester, the property of the Earl of Durham, between six of the watchers and five poachers—the latter armed with bludgeons. Two of the watchers were most dreadfully beaten. The prospects of the Staffordshire iron trade are now of a very cheering character. At the last qua r t er l y meet i ng o iron masters, a reduction in price was made, but par ties engaged in the trade held out forformer prices, and it is confidently expected that at the next quarterly meeting not only will previous prices be maintained, but that an advance will take place. MURDER.—At the York Assizes, on Tuesday, William Kendrew, a farm-labourer, aged 22, was found guilty of the wilful murder of Mr. William Inchbald, at Dunsforth by shooting him through the back. Mr. Justice Cole ridge, pronounced upon him the sentence of death. The wretched man appeared wholly unmoved, and left the bar in the most careless manner, exclaiming as he went " Thank ye, if that be all." , SINGULAR CASE.—A good-looking woman, aged 23, was tried, at York assizes, last week, for bigamy. It ap peared that she was married, five years ago, when only 18 years of age, to a man named Woodhead, who, at the com mencement of the present year, offered her for sale in the public market, at Leeds. She was purchased by Wm. Idle, to whom she was shortly afterwards married. The first husband was in court. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but strongly recommended her to mercy. She was sentenced to be imprisoned oue month. Mr. Bolestridge, of Nottingham, one cf the persons in jured by the late collision on the Midland Railway. died on Tuesday. Another of th e su ff erers li es i n a hopeless state. THE GLOSSOP BURGLARY.—At the Derby assizes, on Wednesday, George Swan, James Swan, and Samuel Swan, (brothers,) were sentenced to transportation for life, for a burglary at the house of Mr. Bennett, a respec table farmer, near Glossop, and stealing therefrom consi derably pr.,perty. The father and mother of the prisoners' were also at the same time sentencsd to transportation for ten years' for receiving the articles knowing them to have been stolen. The Unitarians of Hyde ar e now contemplating the erection of a cha r e l of more than uncommon magnificence; and judging from present appearatwes in the way of do nations, . the plan will undoubtedly be fully realised. The Messrs. Ashton. of Hyde, four brothers, have, it is understood. aiven £lOOO each ; Mr. Thornley, of Godley, £5OO, and Mr. Randle Hebbert £7_;oo, to say nothing of smaller sums. It is intended to raise, by voluntary sub scriptions, the large sum of £lO,OOO. WHAT NEXT ?—With the view of illustrating:, we ap prt bend, by an indi v id ua l i nstance, Mr. Ferrand's view of our present position as that of a " nation of humbugs," there is exhibited by a respectable chymist, in the neigh bourhood of Temple...bar, in his shop window, a variety of ugly, eumsy-looking metallic rings, by wearing which we are eravely told that afflicted individuals are cured of, and preserved from, "gout, rheumatism, tic-doloreux, paralysis, head-ache, c-ficieney of nervous energy, stiff joints, and persons subject to fits !" POLICEMEN IN TROUBLE--At Wandsworth Police csurt, James James, who was nine years in the M division of metropolitan police, and afterwards chief officer of the Banbury constabulary, was placed in the dock, before Mr. Paynter, for a final examination, upon two distinct charges of felony ; and Richard Tyns, described as a watch-case maker, but who was fur sometime in the Lon don police, was also finally examined upon a charge of endeavouring corruptly to obtain reward for the restora tion of the property stolen by the first -mentioned prisoner. They were both committed for trial. THE " NEW Movc."—Messrs. Cobden and Bright were at Bradford on Friday week, on their tour te.rough the West-Riding, for the purpose of influencing the next election by the creation of a large number of Free Trade electors. Cobden tempted the Bradford men by one of his usually exaggerated statements. " Savings' Banks (said he) only paid 3 per cent. at present ; but they could, by purchasing cottage property, get 7 or 8 per cent. ; and if they got free trade, it would increase 50 per cent." As to the intentions of the League he was very explicit. "They must," he said, " have 2000 more names on the register before the 31st of January. Leeds would add 500; Huddersfield, 300; Halifax, :'00; they would being 300 over the Hills from Lancashire; and be could not let Bradford off for less than 500." Loss OF ANOTHER WEST INDIAN STEAMER.—By the Avon, steamer, from the West Indies, the intelligence by which is announced elsewhe re , we have received the me lancholy news of the loss of the steamer Actseom belong ing to the West Indian Steam Ship Company, which ves sel was lost an the morning of Sunday, the 20th of Octo ber, about nine miles northward of Carthagena. She was rounding the Punta Canoa, at eight o'clock in the morn ing, the Popa or high land within the city being S.S.E. The Actaeon steering south, struck at 8.40 upon a sunken rock, supposed to be the Negrillo, but which, according to the chart, should have been nearer the land than the ship then wy. Immediately she struck the captain, with the view of lightening her, ordered the boilers to be blown off, but without effect, till about thirty minutes afterwards. A swell of the sea then lifted her off, when it soon became evident that, in spite of every exertion, she could not be kept long afloat. Sail was then made to force her on shore, or into shallow water. Precisely, however, at twenty minutes past eleven she went down in 6i fathoms. The captain, officers, and crew, on this trying emergency, be haved with the most praiseworthy courage. Every one was calm and collected, and the orders of the captain were obeyed with readiness and punctuality.' He was the last to leave the ill-fated vessel. All hands were safely got into the boats, and steered for Carthagena, from which they were about nine mi es distant. They landed in safety, and were hospitably received by the authorities. As soon as danger was apparent the mails were taken out, and duly placed in one of the boats, in charge of the mail officer. That gentleman, in his anxiety to do his duty, lost the whole of his wardrobe and other effects. A small quantity of stores was also secured. There were also three passengers on board at the time of the disaster. It was very fortunate that at the moment of the wreck taking place the weather was moderate. An hour previously, however, it had been bl ow i ng a ga l e. The Actaeon makes the fourth vessel lost since the establishment of the Royal Mail Steam Company, being a quarter of the number of steam-ships it has afloat. They are—the Medina, the Isis, the S o l wa y (i n w hi c h so many lives were sacrificed,) and now this unfortunate vessel completes the number. The Actaeon, however, was the smallest of the four, being only 600 tons' burthen. Her value, exclusive of stores, &c., was about £25,000. She plied between the various islands for the intercolonial mails. EASTER IN 1845.—There is a discrepancy between the calendar and the calculations in the almanacs' with refer ence to Easter Sunday, next year. The instructions in the player-book, given to find Eastar, say, that if the full moon that comes next after the 21st of March, fall upon a Sunday. Easter Sunday shall not be that Sunday, but the one after it. Now, in 1845, the full moon that comes next after the 21st of March, is on Sunday the 23d, at some mi utes past eight iu the evening; and yet that same Sunday, the 23d, i s E as t er Sunday, though, accord ing to the rules laid down, it sould be Sunday the 30th. The short explanation of this may be thus given, from an elaborate article in the Companion to the Almanac for 1845, where the curious on the subject will find it treated at great length. One part of the reason of the discre pancy between the Easter of 1845 and that of the calen dar is, that " the British legislature misunderstood the definition of Easter, used in the rules which they adopted, thinking that it depended upon the full moon ; whereas it depends upon the fourteenth day of the moon, the day of new moon being counted as the first. Now full moon never happens before the fifteenth day of this reckoning. The other part of the reason of this discrepancy is, that the legislature supposed the moon of the calendar to be the same as the moon of the heavens, which neither is nor was intended to be the case : the moon of the calen dar being not only made to vary from the moon of the heavens for conven;ence of calculation, but also to pre vent Easter Day from falling on the day of the Jewish Passover. These two errors very often compensate one another ; for though the fourteenth day is very often a day behind the calendar full moon, yet the calendar moon is also very often a day before the real moon ; so that the fourteenth day of the calendar moon is frequently the day of the real full moon. But they do not always do so ; and it should never be matter of surprise, if Easter fall on the Sunday of the full moon, whether real or calendar. It is not correct to say that Easter is made to fall wrongly in 1845 ; it falls where the legislators, who correctly copied the rule of the Roman church, intended it should fall, though they did not correctly give the explanation of the rule they intended to use. The last time that Easter Sunday fell on the day of the full moon was in 1818, in which year both the festival and the full moon were on the 22d of March, the earliest possible day. It excited some stir, that the definition of Easter, as contained in the act, should so palpably be violated, and an Oxford clergyman publicly protested against the observance of Easter on the (as be thought it) wrong day." The calculation in the almanack completely unfixes all the moveable feasts. Only one, instead of two, Sundays are allotted after the Ephiphany; but 27, instead of 26, Sundays announced after Trinity! Easter rarely falls earlier than the 26th or 30th of March, and by thus pushing it back a week earlier the greatest inconve nience may be experienced. How is this mistake to be rectified? Are the almanacks as authoritative as the let ter of the church rubric? ADVENTURES IN SEARCH OF THE BANK ROBBERS.-- Burgess and Elder, the perpetrators of the late Bank of England robbery, it will be remembered, left England in the steamer Britannia, bound for Halifax and Boston. As it was uncertain to which of these places they would go, Forrester, the police-officer, set off for Halifax first; but finding no trace of them there, waited two days, until the Britannia touched, on her homeward passage, at that port. He met with the captain, and from him learned that they had been passing by the name of Ellis, senior and junior, uncle and nephew, and that they bad made acquaintance with an American gentleman, resident at Michigan, who had landed with them at Boston, the two former having with them a very heavy portmanteau, to which they seemed to attach much importance. There boing no vessel to sail for Boston for some days, Forres ter instantly proceeded by land, a distance of 600 miles. He there learned that the fugitives and their new friend had proceeded to New York, whither he rapidly wont. He had been advised to go to the Astor Hotel, one of the best in the city, but finding an election crowd at the door, he drove to another and another hotel, until he found one whicn he thought likely, from not being so public. It is usual to keep a list of visitors at these inns, and on cast ing his eyes upon the list at that hotel, he found the names of Messrs. Ellis. He instantly procured a warrant for their apprehension ; but on further inquiry found they had left the city upwards of a fortnight. He then followed them, tracing them with infinite pains up to the town of Buffalo, about 500 miles from New York. He found they had been there, under the name of Ellis, but had gone, and he could obtain no information as to whither. The Falls of Niagara are about 80 miles from this town, and thither he went in hopes that they might have visited the magnificent scene ; and hewas right in his conjecture, their names being inserted in the visitors' book. They had stayed two days at the Cataract Hotel, but no one knew where they had gone. But they bad visited the Falls without the incumbrance of luggage, so that the inference was that they had returned to Buffalo. where they had probably left the bulk of their plunder. Forrester ac cordingly returned to that town, but could gain no tidings of them there. In this difficulty he resolved to proceed in search of the American gentleman who had been in their company to Michigan, and sailed for Detroit, (the capital of the state, on board a steamer on Lake Erie. The vessel encountered a terrific storm, and with great difficulty returned. In a few days, however, he set out again, and ultimately reached the gentleman's residence, 60 miles beyond Detroit. Here he obtained another war rant, as the first was unavailable in that state, and he had some hopes of pouncing upon the fugitives. In this he was disappointed, but learned from the American that the parties had invested the money they had brought, imme diately on arriving at Boston, having first impudently inquired of the British consul the character of the various banks before they would deposit their property. He also learned that they talked of going into Canada. The journey from Buffalo to the residence of the American and back exceeded 800 miles ; but with the information ob tained he set out for Boston, a further journey of 600 miles. He there set on foot the inquiries which terminated in the capture of both Elder and Burgess, in the m anner a l rea dy detailed to the public.