Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-30 00:00:00

THE WINTER ASSIZES. The Winter Assizes fcr the Southern Division of the County of Lanceshire commenced on Saturday last. His Lordship, Mr. Justice Wightman, arrived by train at the Lime-street station, of the London and .North Western Railway. shortly after four o'clock, where he was met by the Under-Sheriff, and the usual staff of javelin men, who at once accompanied him to the lodgings in St. Anne's street. In the cow s° of the afternoon, his Lordship proceeded to the Ass'ze Court, in St. George's HAIL where the cemmissien was formally opened, and the Court was adjourned until eleven o'clock this morning, when the charge to the Grand Jury will be delivered, and the trial of prisoners will be at once proceeded with. We under stand that there arc the names of nearly one hundred prisoners in the calendar, for various offence; many of which are of a most serious character. Yew erday, his Lerd,thip At er:cl(id Divine Service at St George's Church. He was accompanied by the - Ceder- Sheriff, the Mayor of Liverpool (J. Helmet, Esq.), the Town Clerk, and several members of the Corporation. A very excellent and suitable sermon was preached. COUNTY MAGISTRATES' COURT.-SAMIDkY. BEFORIC MESSRS. BENN AND CAMPBELL SINGULAR CASE.—Henry Colter was brought up on a warrant, charged with having deserted his wife. The case was an a..,journed one, the defendant having, on the first hearing, pleaded that his wife had been guilty of adultery, and the case was therefore postponed, to allow him to produce evidence. Mr. C. bb appeared for the prosecu- tion, and Mr. Pemberton for the defence. Mr l'embertcn complained, in the first lactates, that the defendant had been arrested npon a warrant without any summons, although he was a respectable roan, in the employment of the Liverpool Corporation, who had a residence in iver pool, and was well known to many members of the Town Council. The wife s f the defendant, Adelaide Colter. was in the court, and - was a young and rather good-looking woman. Mr. Ccbb stated that the defendant had been in the habit of allowing his wife 5e a week for soma time after their ceasing to live together, and that he had coma to visit her several times at places where she was in service. The first witness celled by Mr. Pemberton was an elderly woman, named Ann Hale, who stated that she lived at Aigburth, and that in the summer of 1854 there came to her hots , e a Mr. Spurr, then of Williamson-squa. a, and who was related to her by his former wife. A female was with Mr. Spurr, whom she identified as the wife of the defendant. Ho took lodgings for her a smal parlour and bedroom Mrs. Gaiter remained there about two months, and Mr. Spu'r came out to her every other night. They always occupied the same bedroom. In consequence of having heard that Mrs. Colter was not Mr. Spurr's wife, witness would not allow her to remain in the house. In answer to Mr. Cobb, the witness stated that three of Mr. Spurr's children occupied the lodgings with Mrs. Colter. Mr. Spurr had, to witness's knowledge, several other children, who lived at his own house. Mr. Benn (vehemently) : I don't believe one word of this evidence. How improbable it is that this man should divide his family. Mr. Pemberton : But this can be cor roborated. Mr. Benn : Oh, tut, tut ; I never heard such evidence ; I don't believe one sentence of it. Mr. Pem berton : I must say, and I cannot help saying, that I never before saw anything so unseemly, coming from a magistrate on the bench, befo e the case has been heard. Mr. Benn : Very well, sir, that is your opinion. Mr. Mr. Pemberton : I have plenty of other evidence, and I am proud to say that I have the evidence of f 0 professional man to corroborate it. As to this woman, she will not only stead uncontradieted, but corroborated. I shall go on with other evidence. Mr. Cobb : After that intimation from the Bench ? Mr. Pemberton : Certainly; much the more strongly because of it. The witness stated. that on a former occasion an applieetion was made before Mr. Manefield, when she gave the same evidence. Mr. Mans field believed her evidence, and refused to make any order againat the present defendant Joshua Bally deposed that knew Mr. Spurr for soma years, and had lodged with bin for a lorp,. time. In the early part of 1854, Mr. Spurr lived in Williamson-square, and was a watch-dial plate maker. He subsequently went to live in Wild-street, Los don Read. Mrs Colter lived in the house with Mr. Spurr, from August, 1854, to about November, 1855. She was there daily. She lived with Mr. Spurr as his wife— there was no attempt at concealment. All the neighbours knew it, but they knew that she was not his wife. !Witness identifies her.] The witness also deposed that hs had, on more than one occasion, passed Mr. Spurr's bed-room early in the morning, when the door was open, and saw that the parties occupied the same bed. Mr. Samuel J. McGeorge, of Norton-street, surgeon, deposed that he had been in the habit of attending Mr. Spurr professionally for several years. In December, 1854, February, 1855, and May, 1855, attended him in Wild street. The woman now in court (Mrs. Colter) was then in the house. Witness elan s supposed her to be Mr. Spurs's second wife, and always addressed her as Mrs. Spurr in his presence. When he attended Mr. Spurr, the woman was always in the bedroom and acting as if she were his wife. Attended the woman herself also, when she was sick. She was in bel in the same room and in the same bed as Mr. Spurr had occupied when he was sick. Mr. Spurr was always in the room—on one occasion only partly dressed. Mr. Spurr rent for witness to attend Mrs. Spurr, and the person witness saw was always the woman now in court. Mr. Pemberton contended that he had now established the fact of adultery, although the first witness had been treated by one gentleman on the bench in what he would not hesitate to designate a very improper way. Ho had, however, other evidence if it was thought necessary to go farther. Mr. Campbell thought it desirable to go on with further evidence. William Colter, son of the defendant. youtganan 19 veers ofsge, stated that in July or August, 1853, before his father parted with his stepmother, Mrs. Colter, his father was in Bury for a few days. Mrs. Colter was in the habit of being out two or three nights a week while his father was from home. Witness often was disturbel at night by men coming knocking at the door asking for her. One night, while his sisters were not at home, Mrs. Colter and her sister came in, and brought a gentleman with them. They got some drink, which the gentleman sent for, and witness saw Mrs Colter sitting on the g entleman's knee. She sent witness to bed. He r sister had always been in the habit of sleeping with her, but when witness awoke in the morning he found the sister in his bed. She told him to get up and go at once to his work. When going out he looked in at Mrs. Colter's bedroom door, and saw a gentleman's clothes lying upon a chair. Went to the door and saw that the gentleman he saw the night before was in bed with Mrs Colter. To Mr. Cobb : Never told this to any of the neighbours, or to any one but his father. Mrs. Colter threatened that she would beat him if he told his father anything he had seen. His father parted from Mrs. Colter immedia'ely after that. Mr, Pemberton said it was then that the defendant was sum moned before Mr. Mansfield, who, upon hearing the evidence, refused to make any order. Mr. Pemberton then asked that Mrs. (Jolter might be produced as evidence. Mr. Cobb declined to place Mrs. Colter in the witness box. This concluded the evidence on the part of the defendant. Mr Cobb then proceeded to call witnesses to rebut the defendant's case, and to prove that defendant hod lived with his wife subsequent to his having charged her wi. , h adultery. Mary Anne Battey deposed that she was in the habit of visiting Sirs. Colter a few months ago in her lodgings, and that she saw the defendant frequently come visit. her there. Saw defendant give Mrs. Colter money, and saw him go with her into her bedroom. Another woman. named Mrs. Higginson, gave similiar evidence. Anne Wilcox, siater to Mrs. Colter, deposed that within the last few months she saw defendant frequently come to visit his wife at the place where she was lodging, and give her money. On one occasion, going suddenly into Mrs. Colter's bedroom, the saw that Mr. Colter, the def ndant, was in bed with her. In rep'y to Mr. Pemberton, this witness positively denied the statement of the young man, William Colter. She denied that she ever passed a night in the defendant's house, or ever saw any men there in defendant's absence. She stated that she never went into the boy's bed but once in Mencliester, several years ago, when ha was a child. The young man, Colter, was brought forward, and confronted with this wit ness. She persevered, however, in a positive denial of the whole of his statement. George Sloane, an old man, uncle of Mrs. Colter, deposed that he. several times within the last few mouths, received from defendant, mousy Rive to his wife. Mr. Pemberton said, if the law would allow him to put the defendant into the witness box, he could prove that there vas not one word of truth in ail these ,vitneFses had sworn. Ro again aomanaea that Mrs. Colter should be placed in the witness box. M , . Col b again declined producing Mrs. Colter as evident 3. This closed the case o n both sides. M r . P em b erton repl i ed, d ec l a ring the evidence produced for M rs . C o l ter, a v il e case of consph . acy. He said he could not h e l p once more expressing his strong opinion of the manner in which one of the msg:strates chose to conduct himself, in regard to the evidence of defendant's first witness—an old lady who had no object whatever to gain in coining there as a witness, and who had, like that magistrate himself, th ose grey hairs which were usually treated wan somethicg like respcf. To have made the observations he did, ws, on the part of that magistrate, unbecoming, as well as indecent, . That witness was a person, who, although a lower class of society, might, as regarded upright -11363 of character, be as deserving of respect as the magistrate himself. Why ' did not the magistrate attempt to cast upon Mr. Mac George the same stigma ? Exclusi►ely for CLOTHING BOYS frcra Six to Twenty Years LEWIS & COXPANY, ttanulaga-stteo r Why should the poor woman with grey hairs be denounced by the magistrates on the bench as one not telling a sentence of truth, when the evidence of Mr. MacGeerge, the medical practitioner, was almost the same in words and precisely similar in ,effect. Mr. Pemberton admitted that his client did, on one occasion, give his wife a few shillings in the street since the events described by his witnesses, because he was touched by her tale of utter starvation, but denied that there was a word of truth in the evidence given to prove a condonation. Mr. Cobb replied for the prosecution, declaring the wife to be au injured woman, and vehemently denouncing the dee fenclaiet as a vile conspirator and a heartless wretch. Mc. Benn sai i : We aro agreed as to the main point—that the adultry has not been proved. With regard to the evidence of the sen, he appears to ha ve told tio defendant of the adulterous proceeding, if such there was, before the separa tion took place, and before the arrangement was made with regard to the allovieince of so much per week. Therefore, if there was any adultery, he had a knowledge of it before he made any aernugement with her. We cannot see any reason why an order should not bs made for the allowance to be continued. Mr. Eaton, the magistrates clerk, explained that in the present case the magistrates had no power to make any order for an allowance, it being a criminal prosecution, in which they had the power of imprisoning the defendant. Air. Bean said he did not know before that it was a prosecution of that kind After acme consultation, Mr. Bann said the magistrates were somewhat doubtful about inflicting the whole penalty of three months' imprisonment. Mr. Pemberton : Oh, give us the whole term. We ask for no favour at your hands. Mr. Cobb said he must press for the whole term. Mr. Benn : Both parties, then, appear to wish for the whole term. Mr. Pemberton : Oh, by all means ;we will appeal to a higher court. Mr. Benn : Well, then, it must be for the full term of three months. I understand it to be the wish of both parties that it should be so. Mr. Eaton again rose and explained that the magistrates could not inflict an imprisonment cf three months, only for one month at the outside. Mr. Pemberton : I only wanted the worthy magistrate to make the order for three months This just shows the beauty of having those lay msgistaites who will make au order for anything. Mr. Bonn : I have no wish to deprive him of his liberty. Finally, the order was made for one months' committal. Mr. Pemberton gave notice of appeal. The Court then adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-SATURDAY. LIVERPOOL. BEFORE MD. MANSFIELD. ASSAULT. — PoIice-officer 197 charged a well-dressed elderly man, named William liobinscri, with having as saulted him. The prisoner was helplessly drunk in Great Homer stNet, when the officer took him for safety, but instead of being thankful, he at once assumed his legs in more ways than one, for he used them o:. the officer's legs very severely. The prisoner was fined XZ), or two month,' imprisonment. MUSICAL--A well-dressed person, named Mary Dodd Smithson, who resides in Limekiln.lane, was charged with having stolen an accordian, value 305., from Mr. W. F. Archer's music shop, 123 St. James's-street. On Monday last the article was st.,len and pledged by the prisoner at Mr. Woods pawn-shop, Whitechapel. On Wednesday Mr. Woods gat a notice of the article being stolen, and he sent word to the police. In the meantime the prisoner called to release the instrument, and Mr. Woods gave her into custody. The conduct of Mr. Woods was eulogised, an i the prisoner was sent for trial. FEMALE GAROTTl.RS—Elizabeth Clarke and Mary John ston, two well-dressed and wel.looking young women, not previously known to the police, were brought up by Police-officer Lynch, 142, charged with having garotted and robbed Mr. James Poole, of 31, la olney street,"of a gold watch, value £2O. The complainant said he was a merchant, and came over the river the previous night, and observed the prisoners on board the boat. They were going the same way as witness, and they went along towards Marybone, when they seized him, and dragged his watch from him. He called for the police, when Lynch came up, and saw Clarke hand some thing to Johnston, and on searching the latter ha found the watch: upon him. The prisoners were ordered for trial, and when the depositions were ala , ut being read by Mr. Garnett (the chief clerk), Mr. Poole was called, when Officer Lynch said he would not come forward. Mr. Garnett: Why not? Lynch :He says he is afraid of exposure. Mr. Garnett : Exposure ! Why the exposure is made, and he has lodged his depositions. Mr. Poole then swore to his depositions, and the prisoners were fully committed. BREAKING SKULLS.—Two men named Thomas Howley, (father and son), who reside at 37, Oriel-street, were charged with having nearly killed a couple of bailiffs. Charles Keenan, one of the bailiffs, said, himself and his comrade went to the prisoners' place to execute a warrant for rent, when the prisoners attacked them, the youngest striking him on the forehead with a hammer, which laid his skull open. The eldest did the same to the other man, who was not able to appear. Two police officers witnessed part of the transaction. The prisoners were sent for trial. James Burns, a sailor, was brought up by Superinten dent Murphy, of the Sailor's some, charged with having fraudulently used a certificate of discharge, belonging to one Patrick Daly, for ihe purpose of obtaining a ship. The case was fully proved, and the prisoner was sent to gaol for three months, in default of paying a fine of £2O. CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD.—James Rus ell, the keeper of a public•house in Charles-street, and Francis Kelly, beer house keeper, Hatton garden, were brought up by detective officers Scott and Laycock, charged with a conspiracy to defraud Mr. Durroch, surgical instrument maker, who lives in London, near St. Thomas's Hospital, Borough, and also several other persons in England, Ireland, ar.d Scotland. Mr. Aspinall (solicitor) and Mr. Rely, of the Guardian Society, attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Bluck was for the prisoners. There are two other persons in custody, on remand, charged wi'h a like offence. Mr. Aepinall briefly opened the case, saying he would only ask for a remand to the day the ether prisoners stood remanded. It appeared that a large quantity of surgical instruments had been fraudulently obtained from Mr. Darroch, of London, and Laycock searched Russell's house and found fire cases of the property there, and in he got two more. Both prisoners told the offier that they got the property from another man. In reply to Mr. Biuck, the officer said the prisoners did not say that they got the property as security. Mr. Aspinall said there were a vast number of cases to be brought against the prisoner and the other two persons now in gaol, and as he could not proceed that day, he would ask for a remand. The prisoners were remanded accordingly. THE N ORTIiERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, MON DAT', NOVEMBER 30 1587 are you, and you are going to have me tried for the Russian's murder when we get to Liverpool ?'' I made no reply, when he said " I v.ill take good care you don't reach Liverpool no more than the Russian." Rod erigo had told me that Captain would kill him before going to Liverpool. Mr. Tyndall : For what ? Mr. Snowball objected, as that would not be evidence. Mr. Mansfield : You may go into evidence of motive, Mr. Tyndall. Witness : I asked him what the captain would kill him for? He said, "me saw him break Joe's head with the spy-glass (that was a man named Mitchell, who died previ ously)." I knew what he alluded to very well that time. Deceased said, " The captain afraid me speak to magistrate 'bout it when Igo to Liverpool." Mitchell died previously, and he declared to me on his death-bed- Mr. Snowball objected, and stopped the witness. Witness : Ido of know what the doctors would call the disease he died of, but he k welled all over awfully, and he declared to me - Mr. Snowball again objected. Mr. Tyndall: Had he any marks on him ? Mr. Bluck objected to this, as it was not evidence. Mr. Tyndall wanted to show a motive on the part of the captain. The witness then was cross-examined by Mr. Snowball : —Before deceased told me the motive, I told him the idea of the captain killing him was nonsense. I can't tell if there was any one present at that conversation, but probably there were some men in the forecastle . There were men named Frank Atkins and David Gileepie there at the time the remark was made to me. I think they were turned into hammocks smoking, but I can't swear positively they were in bed. They were watehmates of mine. I have not seen any of them here since I came to Liverpool. The night the mate kicked deceased was starlight but no moon. Began counting the kicks from the beginning. Did not count the captain's kicking de ceased. Cross-examined by Mr. Bluck :—I can't see very well, as I am near sight d for small objects. I can see you ve y well from this. I came here on a Monday, and went first to the Spanish Consul and lost a day finding him out. He told me I must go to the magistrate, and 1 went to look for Mr. Clough. Went to the Consul on the Tuesday, and to the police on the Wednesday. I met the captain in the street the evening of the day I arrived here. To the best of my belief I only met him onse. Did you say if he did not give you £5 you would make disclo sures about him. I asked him had he the address of the two men to send the money to their friends, and he answered that the money was paid into the Sailor's Home, and that some of the authorities must send it. I said to him, " now, Captain Christie, you gave me a black eye and broke one of my ribs, but I have no witness that you did so, as nobody saw you, but there are plenty of witnesses who saw you beat the Russian' to death ; " that is the substance if not the'words. I promised the man in his last moments to see justice done, and he said, I never killed the • Russian.' I said, you kicked him to death, when he said, I never struck him nor you either. I said, "I have no proof that you struck me, so I will let that rest, but if you will give me £5 for the assault you cenatnitteel on me, I leave to other hand to pursue the track of blood ; " those were the words, on my oath. Mr Bluck You mean to say, if he gave you £5, you would not be here to-day ? I did not mean that. I would perhaps not be the first to inform on him. The appren tice informed Mr. Tobin all about it first. I had a conversation with inspector Kehoe, and probably, had I got the £5, I might not have seen him. The captain said he would not give me £5 nor fivepeaco, or words to that effect. Had you got the £5, would you now be here? I might have chipped I suppose. I was a mete of a ship, and aas born in the County Limerick. lam at sea since 1839. I was in Australis, and came from Melbourne in the Lightning. I was out there two or three years working at printing. I aid a printer and earned money at it. Were you sent out to Austra!ia at the expense of the country? Witness: Of the country. Were y ou sent out at the expense of the country? tell me that sir? (Laughter.) Mr. Tyndall : He need cot answer that. Mr. Mansfield : Not if it criminates him, ho need not. Mr. Bluck : Well then I will put it broadly —were you ever transported, sir? Witness : I never was. Mr. Bluek : Were you over in jail? Yes. For what ? For being drunk. Mr. Muck : For anything else ? Yes. For what? Find it out if you can. Mr. Muck : I will find it out—what was it for, sir ? Am I bound to answer this? Mr. Mansfield : Yes you are bound to answer that. Witness : Then it was for being in a bed room. Mr. Bluck: What sort of bed room ? Why a girl's bed room. Was there any one in the bed room? Find it out if you can. Mr. Bluck : I tell you, sir, I can and will—who was in the bed room, on your oath ? I was in it myself. Mr. Bluck : Any one else? Yes. Who ?''The girl to be sure. Where was that? In Australia. Mr. Black : How did you go to Australia ? In an American ship —I am an American Citizen by adoption, and I am also American educated. Kr. Bluck : Was it in Melbourne the trifling affair of the bed roam took place ? No, two hundred miles from it, at Port Sherry. Mr. Black : What did you get for that ? Two months . Mr Bluck was it a criminal case ? No, persons don't get off for two months for such an offence as that. Mr. Bluck : What was it for, then ? Why, simply for being in a bedroom. Mr. Bluck : What, sir ? Witness: Yes, indeed, sir, simply for being there when I ought not to have been ; but only 1 was discovered, thera would have been nothing more about it. Mr. Black : Have you ever been in gaol ? Yee, for being drunk, but never in Liverpool. I came home in the Lightning last November. Mr. Bluck : You have been mate of a ship ? I have. Mr Black : Then I ask you, on your oath, sir, had not Captain Christie ono of the worst crews coming home that could possibly be laid hold of? I don't know that ; but I certainly do !;now this, that I have been in ships whore he would not have been allowed to commit murder, the same as he did in this ship. Mr. Bluck : I did not ask you that, air. Witness: I merely told you so for your information. 111 r. Bluck : Were not the on the outcasts of gaols and every other sink? I know nothing of that, that was the captain's affair; but this I know, that the crew wera very quiet. Mr. Bluck: Did you ever beat Roderigo yourself ? I might have tapped him with a knife lanyard, but nothing to hurt him. I never saw any of the other mon hurt or beat him. I never pulled deceased out of bed. That is false, before my God. Mr. Black : But if you had got the £5, you would not be here ? Wi ness : Well, now that lam here, I will tell the truth. I will not swear the captain wore boots, shoes, or slippers when he kicked deceased ; I don't know that he had so .e toes or feet ; I know he had the desire for blood, for he killed the man. The captain ordered that soft bread should not be given to the "Russian." I don't know who was present when the captain kicked him, but some of the men would be [named them], but I do not swear they were The steward was at the cabin door, and saw the transaction. I did not see the deceased beaten by any of the crew; never saw George Pollock strike de ceased ; he did not tell me he had ulcers from the time he was a boy ; never saw his feet, or heard him complain of them After he was beaten, and not able to help himself; ho got dirty in his habits, but not before. He was then lifted out of his berth. I heard that deceased, by some accident, broke the binicle lamp, and that was what caused the first kicking; he never went aloft after that. The man was beaten to death, that is true, putting my evi dence out of the question altogether. The captain had a sextant in his hand, but he laid it down before he caught the deceased by the neck the last time. I think the second mate was present at the heaving of the lead transaction To the best of my belief deceased never did any work after ; can't tell the day or data, but he died from six to ten days after. The captain mistook Ballycotton light for the TuskArp, and ran the ship whore. I understood that the captain orderod the deceased's head to be shaved and to have him washed, bat I did not sea it. He was buried, I suppose, as sailors are I saw the caps ;in drank coming up with a prayer book in his hand, but I was in my hammock. I don't know if the burial service was read. Mr. Bluek: Why did you not go and see your dear friend buried ? Witness : Why did I not go and see a drunken brute making a mockery of the word of God ? But you promised to see justice done ? Yes. Mr. Bluvk : But if you got the five pounds you would not be here ? Well, I told you all about that. In reply to Mr. Tyndall : We were all paid off in Cork, and it was to see this captain brought to justice that I came here. Mr. Bluck requested that this witness should not be allowed to communicate with any of the others who were to be examined, James Knaggs, an apprentice to Messrs. Tobin and Sor, on board the ship, was the next witness. He was examined by Mr. Tyndall at great length, and his evidence was a full corroboration of that given by the last BOY'S CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE AT LEWIS and COMPANY'S, Raneiagb.-street, THE CHARGE OF MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS FIRST EXAMINATION OF CAPT. JOHN ANDER SON CHRISM AND JAMES MILLARD, OF THE BARQUE "ELIZABETH," OF LIVERPOOL. On Saturday, the first examination of these persons, charged with the wilful murde.l. of Francisco Roderigo, on the high seas, took place, before Mr. Mansfield, at the Police Court. The court was crowded to excess, and amongst several well-dressed females, who seemed to take a deep interest in the proceedings, was pointed out the widow of the late Captain Rogers. Mr. Tyndall appeared, on behalf of the Treasury, to prosecute; Mr. Bluck was for the captain, and Mr. Snowball for the mate. The prisoners appeared flushed, and very anxious about the case, and paid the greatest attention to everything, as the evidence proceeded. Both prisoners frequently com municated with the learned advocates, and there was no mistake that they felt the importance of the position in which they stood. Mr. Tyndall said : I appear on behalf of the Solicitor of the Treasury, who has ben instructed by Sir George Grey, to undertake the prosecution of the prisoners in this case. I shall not trouble the court with any lengthy statement on the facts of this painful and very important case, as the statement of the case has been already opened to you by Mr. Inspector Kehoe i and so recently last week, that it must be quite fresh in the recollection of the Court, so I need not repeat or go through it again. I shall simply state that the prisoners are charged with the murder of Francisco Rodorigo, a Spaniard. and who was a sailor on board the barque, of this port, on the high seas. The evidence, upon which the charge is founded, is exceedingly long, ani cannot possibly be taken to-day, so that af;e: hearing a portion I shall have to ask for an adjournment to another day. In the evidence that I propose to lay before you, I think I shall be able to show you that the prisoners were instrumental in killing Roderigo on the voyage of the vessel home from Old Calabar to Liverpool. I shall. therefore, proceed with the evidence at once, and this wili put the whole case before the Court, and I think it will bring the case home clearly to the Captain and also to the Mate. Henry Renshaw was the first witness : I was a seaman on board the barque Elizabeth; sailed in her from Liverpool about the 27th or 28th of January last, for New Calabar, coast of Africa. Captain Pickering was the master on the out passage ; whoa we arrived at Cal a ba r th eta was s ome misunderstanding , with the t ra di ng master, an d C apta i n Pi c k er i ng and th e Latter was sent home, and Captain Christie was made Exclusively for CLOTHING BOYS frcm Six to Twenty Yeurs LEWIS & COMPANY Ranelagli-street. master. The transfer of captains took place in July, and I think we sailed some time in August for Liverpool. Mr. Block : It was the 24th of August they left—the log will show it. Witne , s : Captain Christie brought three men from the ship Faith with him to the Elizabeth ; their names were Joseph Mitchel, 'Francisco Roderigo, (the deceased,) and another. Tile deceased and the other were able seamen. The three completed the crew, which consisted of twenty one souls, when the ship s a iled. We left for England with the mon named on board her. At the time Roderigo came on board, ho was in good health, stout, and robust, and very good tempered and good humoured ; he was, not labearing under any disease or accident that I am aware of ; he was about 27 years old, and he told me he was a. native of Malaga, in Spaic, and had his mother llaSng there. I never heard him complain when he came on board; he done his work willingly and cheerfully. I did not notice anything particular until we were from 40 to 50 or 60 days at sea, and then, one evening, from 6th to Bth Oct , I saw the captain seize him by the neck, and throw him with violence on the deck, with his face do wn. He kicked him repeatedly over vari ous parts of the b dy—head, breast, and right thigh— using diabolical language, and saying, " You worthless scoundrel and lazy blackguard, you shall never live to see Liverpool. I will kill or murder you." Deceased was calling for mercy to God and the Virgin at the time. I saw the captain lift his foot, and kick it down heavily on the small of the man's back. (Here ho described by action how it was done.) Deceased was the most inoffensive man in the ship, and he begged of the captain, for the sake of God and the Virgin, not to kill him. Ho spoke half Span ish and half English. I understand enough of Spanish to know what he said. The captain's exclamation was, " God d you, you worthless blackguard, I will kill you." Deceased came forward, partly crawling and partly walk ing. Deceased said, "I think I am all broke; I can't straighten my back ; something brcke there ; I wish (to witness) you would look at it." His words were, as well I remember, Ah, my God! Captain Christie want to kill me ; I think something broke." He was moaning all that night. He never walked or stood upright after that. He never went aloft, or done any laborious work, after, I examined his body that night, and he said, " Oh ! Harry, my back sore." I subbed it at his request, and he said, "Harry, rub easy, you hurt me too much." I found one of the joints of the spine sticking out through the back like a finger joint—this way (showing his finger). The marks of the kicking were all over his body and right thigh. He complained of being unable to turn out next morning. He to'd us all in the forecastle. Either on that or the day following the captain came forward and sung out, " You Russian, what are you doing there? Come out of that or I'll clap a watch-tackle on you, and bouce you out." " Russian" was the nickname deceased went by on board. He then came out on to she deck in a very feeble, lame, and stooping state. His face was disfigured, but not to any great extent. He complained of his teeth being loose by a kick, either at that time or some time after. He was spitting blood the previous night after the kicking Not to my knowiete did he spit blood previous to the kicking, but he did after. Captain told the second mate to put him to work, and ho gave him some light work The captain said, " You lazy rascal, if I catch you iu the forecastle during your watch on deck, I will serve you as I did before." The second mate then gave him some aeneit to make. He took his wheel after that, but com plained of being unable to do to Scarcely a day after that, that he did not get a rope's ending during the twenty four hours from the captain ; and I frequently heard him cry out when he was beaten. His expressions were pretty much the same as this always, " for God's sake." and "for God's mother's sake not to kill him." The captain replied always in the same strain as this--" G d— you, I will kill you ; you will never see Liverpool." These were the common words in his mouth. Probably about a fort night after the first kicking, the captain had another disturbance with him whilst lie was at the wheel. The captain was walking back and forward on the poop from four to nix, it was not yet dark, however, and he stopped and said. "G— d— you, why don't you keep the ship steady ?" but deceased made no reply. The captain continued walking and then spoke to him again, and said, " if I have to speak to you again, by God I will give you a little more of what you got the other night." After a few more toms he came in front of deceased and said, " G-- d— you, you will have it, then:" and he raised his foot to kick the mar, and the man stooped to see where he was to kick him, and he kicked him twice in the feet. I can't say if he had boots or slippers on. His (deceased's) lips were swollen, and ono of his eyes was disfigured, but I cannot say more He used the usual prayer, " For God's sake not to kill him." I cannot say I saw the captain ill use him that day again. I recollect the chief mate, the prisoner Millard, coming to the fore castle about ten days or so after that. He came to the forecastle door at twelve o'clock at night, when he was relieved by the second mate. He enquired if the look-out was relieved yet. He was answered "No." He asked whose look-out it was, and some person answered it was the " Russian's." The mate then said to the "Russian," " G—d d—n you, why have you not relieved the look-out ?" The man said. ‘• Me no able to look out," when the mate seized him by the neck, and flung him on the deck with great violence, and kicked him thirteen times, apparently with all his force. Deceased kept exclaiming for God's sake not to kill him, or, if he (the mate) wanted to do so, to take a hatchet and cut his head off at once. The mate said, " G—d d—n you, I will kill you if you don't keep the look-out." After the mate was tired kicking him, he said " G—d d—n you, now go and keep the look out." He crawled up the forecastle ladder, on his Lands and knees, groaning all the time He was not able to stand. I was a bit of a " chummy" of his, and took an interest in him, and went to him, when he said, "Ohl Harry, I no can see, for the blood all in my eyes —run the blood all my eyes, Harry." The first time I went up, he was sitting in the bit head, and I went up twice again, and found him half lying and half reclining on his side, and he was groaning all the time. I said, "If the mate comes, he will give you more kicking," when he said, " Oh ! Harry, I fall down two times ;I no can see—my head go round, round." He never stood upright after that. To the best of my belief, he stopped until relieved at four bells, and I helped him do wn the f orecas tl e l a dd er i nto his berth. 7 He said, " All the time I spit, blood come ; all my inside broke this lime ; me never live to eee Liverpool —I die." He was moaning all night, and was not able to turn out next morning. The captain came to him either that or the fallowing day, I can't say which ; he was than in his berth. The captain used the same language as before. He ( leceased) crawled out, bast as he could, and sat down on some spars on the deck. The Captain said, "If I catch you in that fore castle again, I will give you some more," and he then gave the second mate orders to give him some work, and to keep him on the look out, if he could do nothing else ; he wee scarcely able to move, only to dr ,g himself along ; ho never took the wheel after that. To the best of my remembrance, the captain did not strike him for ten or fifteen days after that, but heard him tell him to move quicker, though he was not able to do so. A. fortnight after I was at the wheel one morning, from six to eight, and Roderigo was on the deck, employed, with the second ma e and another man, heaving the lead, and after it was hove, and the lino reeled up again by deceased, he was taking the reel across the deck on one arm, and was pulling himself along with the other, in a very weak and feeble state, and the captain was on the quarter-deck, and said, " God d— you do you come on my quarter-deck to act ? Move along quicker, or I will help you," and he then caught hol of him by the back of the head and flung him on the deck and kicked him. Could ho have moved quicker ? Quite impossible, sir, for the man was in a dying state then. Ho was kicked all over the body. I was relieved at the wheel, and the captain was st 11 kicking him, when I left and .sent into the forecastle. I saw deceased in ten minutes after. He was crawling along on his hands and knees, and every now and then he would f',ll down flat. He crawled into the foreastle, tried to sit on a chest, but fell down immediately. Some one said, " Ah, poor fellow, you have been catching it again." and he said, " Ah, my God ! captain kick me more this tipee ; he kill me." He was helped into his berth, and never moved out of it after, only as he was helped. Ere was spitting blood at that time; large lumps of blood came from his mouth, and ha moaned all day and night. He died some five or six or eight or ten days after. He called me one Saturday evening, and said, g. Henry, ms Catholic, you Catholic too, and my mother live in Malaga--poor woman ! father died—l think I die ; please, when you go to Liverpool, go to Spanish Consul, get my money, send it poor mother, to Marie Roderigo, Malaga ; I never no live to tee Live pool—for Jesus Christ anl the Virgin Mother's sake have justice." I told him I would ; and he told me to put my hand on my heart and promise before God to do so. [Here the witness became very much affected I did as he requested I then to cheer him up, when he said '• Oh Harry look at my back"—l did, and it was ail a mass of bruises right thigh was as big as two thighs, it pained him dreadfully; I used to rub him with ointment, and he cJna plained of pain very much ; the skin was not broken but bruised black and blue. He died sometime that night, for we found him dead after we went from the morning watch. We buried him on Sunday morning, and on Monday afternoon made land on some part of the Irish coast about 4 o'clock. I mentioned in the forecastle his dying request to me, and in three or four days after I was at the wheel between four and eight in the morning, when the captain came to me very drunk, stumbling on the quarter deck three or four times, and then he leaned np against this poop and said " Ab, * G—d----- you, you are a lawyer BOYS' CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE, atiLENVIS,:wI COMPANY'S, ReAellol-atreer. witness. He also added the following : I have seen the captain intoxicated several times. Mr. Bluck objected to this, as it was not relevant to the case at issue. The witness went on to state that on the night the deceased broke the binacle lamp he saw the Captain knock him down and kick him severely for three or four minutes. He called him a useless scoundrel and said he would kill him. Roderigo called for mercy, crying oh Captain don't kill me," Heard deceased complain of his back being very bad after, and that he thought he was killed. Saw the Captain frequently ropes end him at the wheel. Often heard deceased say when coming into the forecastle, " Captain has been roping me again." Recollected the mate going one night to the forecastle and asking whose look out it was ? and the reply was the " Russians ;" that was the deceased. This witness corroboroted the evidence of tl.e previous witness, and said after the last time deceased was kicked by the Captain, he heard deceased say " Captain, kick me no more, he kill me now." The witness was asked why he did not attend the funeral ? and he replied—The Captain was drunk, and I did not wish to see mockery made of the prayers. Mr. Tyndall : How long did he remain drunk ? Until three days before we got into Cork. Who had charge of th© ship then ? The mate, until he got drunk also. When did he get drunk ? When off Hook-light, abreast Waterford. The witness said, on Tuesday, the 11th instant, the day after he arrived here, he went and told the owners all about it. Mr. Tyndall : Did any one tell you to do so ? No, I went and told them the carryings on, and that I believed the captain and mate caused the poor man's death. I never saw deceased baaten by the crew ; but the day before he died there was a smell in the bunk and they insisted on his leaving it, but I never saw him ill-used by the crew. Cross-examined by Mr. Snowball. I was in the same watch with Henry Renshaw, and it is true that he rubbed deceased's back. The witness was cross-examined generally as to the correctness of Renshaw's evidence, and he said, so fir as knew, the former witness was correct a d told the truth. Mr. Bluck also cross-examined him, and, finally, the further hearing of the case was adjourned to this morning at ten o'clock. REV. J. K. GLAZEBROOK IN REPLY TO THE REV. MR. MACNAIYGHT• TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIDIES. Sir,—ln Mr. Macnaught's letter to the NORTHER N TIMES, November 20th, he says, "I. trust he (Mr. G.) will not, in his future letters, omit to notice so many important points of my argument as he has done in his first letter." For instance, with refe rence to my second paragraph, Mr. G. has not told us Ist—How, exc opt by fallible human reason, he purposes to decide what is the Rule of Faith ? and what is the true meaning of each sentence in the Rule Faith. Now, I beg to refer Mr. M. to my letter in the NORTEIERN TIMES of the 20th November, No. 2 paragraph, I have there said, " I have never objected to the right use of Reason in matters of Faith, (for this, alas, is not an Unitarian principle), in merely deciding what is the Buie of Faith, and what is its meaning," And then to place the question in a clear light, I expressed it in as few words as pos sible, in order that there might be no mistake or confusion ; and said, "In that case, it is the means of ascertaining the Ride, it is not the Supreme Ride itself" The charge then made against me by Mr. M , of evading this question, is utterly false, and- I hope it is not a fair specimen of the want of candour and truth which I am to expect in this discusssion. I wish it, however, to be remembered by those who favor Mr. AL's side of the question, that it may put them on their guard against believing his assertions without proof. But Mr. M. goes on to say, " Mr. G. has not told us-2. " If the fallible reason of man be a court of appeal, to decide what is the Rule of Faith, and what is its meaning, has not God, by making human reason, thus the Judge over all rules of faith, clearly declared the fallible reason of man to be superior to every Rule of Faith ?" Now the brief distinction which I made above between the " means" or instrument of (discovering the rule, and the rule itself, was intended to show the very glaring blunder which Mr. M. had made in eon founding " The Rule" itself with means of finding out what that rule is. The truth, however, is, that Mr. M. is fully aware that unless the principle that " the fallible reason of man is superior to every other Rule of Faith" be granted, the whole system which he defends must fall into utter ruin. That principle is indeed the " IrpciTov 45E1a0; " the fundamental error of the whole. And one more glaringly absurd, or more inconsistent with fact, it is scarcely possible to lay down. According to the practice of the Sophistical School, whose spirit Mr. M. has thoroughly imbibed, he has con trived to employ the word "Judge" in an ambi guous sense, as the means of drawing an irrational and absurd conclusion. His proposition, which he lays down as an indisputable axiom, is, that because "the fallible reason of man is a court of appeal to decide what is the Rule of Faith, and what is its meaning," therefore, " God, by making human reason thus the Judge," has made it superior to every other rule—that is, that it is appointed also, not only to ascertain the meaning of Scripture, but to accept or reject that meaning accordingly, as it approves or disapproves of it And this very principle is laid down by the injudicious friend of Mr. M., who penned " Thoughts for the Laity about the Mac naught's Controversy," in the Northern Times, whom he recommends " to adopt the Broad Church method," which he thus describes—" The Canon of Interpretation" of the Broad Church is, to try and reach the stand-point of each writer, so as to learn what he meant by his own words, and having thus obtained the original meaning of each passage, to apply or reject its principle according to its suitableness or unsuitableness, under presen circumstances ? Now, the privilege of dealing thus unceremo i niously with Holy Writ, is what Mr. M. and his school wish to establish for themselves as a right. In question No. 2, he lays it down as an axiom that because reason judges of the meaning of Scripture, that, therefore, of necessity, it has the undoubted right to contradict that meaning. Nov, these are two very distinct powers and functions, and so obvious is the difference, that I supposed it would be admitted immediately, even by Mr. M. himself, on its being pointed out. But, it seer. s, I was " reckoning without my host," and there is some peculiarity in his mental vision; some strange idiocyncraey, that not only prevents his comprehending this manifest difference, but has lei him to lay it down as. an axiom that one power necessarily involves and includes the other. The propriety of this inference (the I . CC3 consequantio) no correct reasoner can fail to deny. Since Mr. has repeated this false assumption, after I had so plainly pointed out the mistake he has made, I think I have a right to regard it, not as an involuntary error, but as a delusion. But since a plain statement of principles on this point, appears too unintelligible to Mr.. Macnaught, let us try what success an example will have. For instance, then, e. g , what would be thought of any one who asserted that, at the approaching sessions, Mr. Justice Wightman, in virtue of his being a judge, intended to exeraiae his undoubted right to repeal all the laws brought before his notice, of which he did not approve. This would be to confound the office of a judge with that of a legislator. The courts of justice are appointed fur the purpose of interpreting and administering the laws ; and no sane judge would ever conclude, that because he is appointed to the office of interpreting the law, therefore, he has an undoubted right to usurp the functions of a legis later and repeal them. Had not Mr. Maenaught interpreter of functions of the legislator and the as serted that the law necessarily involved each other, I should have thought it puerile end trifling to state in words at length, so obvious and so generally acknowledged, a distinction between the two. It mly be, however, that what I have attributed to the want of power to see plain distincions may have arisen from design. " When lam particularly dull, said some one, be sure there is a design under it.'' Mr. M. fights with his visor clown, and he may have thought it good policy to state his principl e o f t h e supremacy of reason over every other rule of faith, rather as a necessary con sequence, for which he could be answerable, from the nature of G o d' s appo i ntments . Thi s is, in fact, a pstitio principii, a taking for granted the thing to he proved. The utter falsity of this absurd assumption is, I hope, sufficiently plain, from what has been said above- The truth is, that the prin- At LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street: BOYS aro CLOTHED from the Ages Of Six to TWollYearl. ciple which Mr. M. attempts thus irrationallY t° establish, is one of the fundamental axioms Or u g Socinian School. That he belongs to that school .!1;4 scarcely a doubt remaining. In his present pos l i i. however, he cannot explain his sentiments olna. Instead, therefore, of honestly declaring . bi ß 4 hesion to the fundamental dogma of Socinglag he would rather assume the appearance of o rri 'at an inevitable conclusion corresponding w ith l eg li dogma by a process of reasoning which it is dip,' bri t to believe a sound reasonin mi n d could 1 1 ° L t io perceive to be sophistical and false. I have 11y library a copy of the works of Socinus, inoc".,„oilell may 06 as I esteem him a heretic ; but I extract fr° 93 . oo ei works entitled "John Frid's Staffers Instit atl 36s; Theology Palenucm Universee," Tom. 3, 1:1 0 ,01 1 "Da Socinianesmo," sec. 26, Socinians "T l l e ° o oo sung (textum Scriptures authenticum) ` facientes judicem et normam controvertsitoi theologiearum ; statuentes Seripturam sip° ' l3 toe ac singulari illuminations Spiritus Sancti re c to! ): salutariter intelligi passe; unde rationi in e% Ol enda Scripture tantum tribuunt, ut dogirav' t.s do ex plurcemurum Scripturi locorum consen c , l ll cael demonstrate, hoc pretextu repudient, rations non consistent, hoc est, ex ejus priP o oo. demonstrari nequeant, etiam in its rebus do c l„. constat, eas rei humani intellectus penetrL l. 4 l , passe "—i. e." The Socinians weaken the 'rose the Holy Scripture by making reason the itif f ial the,liule (let these two:words be noticed as sig n i i i d the distinction which exists between a Jll B O l 4Ol Law, or rule) of theological controversies; ',700 it down that Scripture can be understood 0 %01 and safely without the internal and extraorw t het illumination of the Holy Spirit. WbCOC 6 attribute so much to reason in expounding ScriPt 24 7 they reject the dogmas, or established p r inciples clearly demonstrated by the agreement of many Yr; of Scripture, under the pretext that th e y d o no t ag l lo reason, i.e cannot be demonstrat e d f rom th e prtf e abg reason, and this, too (eteam) in th ose thi n gs eo which it is certain that they cannot be comprehttoe the force of human intellect." This, then, is the •":„ o gil ledged axiom of the Socinian s c h oo l. - In st°,o there is no illogical attempt to c o nc l u d e thstut r d reason is the (index) that, ther e f ore , it is nee g— t)ii the rule of faith (norma.) This sophionlgo absurdity, was left to be uttered by M r . A.Te° l ?s, - tbi I have taken pains to identify M r . M. Socinian school, and to draw him out frc" - 8 00 obscurity under which he endea vou rs to eP o ilig himself from the consequence of o p e nly o c° his sentiments. I have a ri g ht t o k n ow ttir pit opinions on those points, closely conneetel l e the chief subject of discussion, th e infalliblitr t Scripture. If Mr. M. were a t o n ce t o deolarcite self a Socinian, this would c onc l u d e the O a t :fill° once with me, and very possibly w ith sore° - 00 0 present adherents. They would not then ba neY posedly surveying (faceles d es ce nsus due 00,1 dangerous principles of concealed Socinisoiiie they would start back in ho rr o r w h en the g ulf o s,o of that infidel heresy was disclosed to be 8 ,, ° to Mr. M would then be pl a i n ly di s covered 00 1 luring them to their ruin rath er th a n leading on to the enjoyment of a mill en i um o f uniall ade intellectual freedom, elevation and bliss. The Rationalist school are ac cus tomed to this mirage before the e ye s o f th e i r d e luded Pof O: era. It is the promise of Satan to Eve 0 ,11( " Ye shall be as Gods, kn ow i n g g o od and I am, sir, your most obedient servant. 01 0. J. K. Gr.a.zEpo - Lower Darwen, Nov. 25th, 1857. TO THE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN TIAINS• Sir,—Either Mr. M does not know the 02 ;1100 rules of the art of criticism, or he does not 4 00 0 to observe them. Is there no diff ere nce h . , 8 " ise comparing expressions and com paring ni w ' .,, Is Logomochy identical with Interpretatio• 0100 not Mr. M unfairly take "Logomochy en Vi p tiol partem," in a bad sense, but to signify col t % about expressions. In my letter of the L',. te le t have said that the expressions quoted by '",;/ the the purpose of rendering " the meaning sith e expression, " Thy Word" doubtful, are n o t tbg same. Mr. M. then here dexterously It"„ 1 t hee especial point in dispute, and substitutes sr e cl', a very common artifice of the Socinian ' o ots' and too well known by th e i n i t i a t e d, tn; o d tb. with them, how much so ever it ma y 0318.- generous public. A A Of ad, objected in my letter to the arti fi c e 0 00 . (lacing unlike expressions, in order to er,e 4 , 4 , as °, fusion and uncertainty. I complained of ti' o s 0 disengenuous tick-4 renew my coraP l9 . l te d the same dishonourable practice being rer Mr. M's letter. When I remarked l o re expression expression " Thy Word," is specifically u . oo' from the expression " the word," I did net s a y t he meanings are not the same, for I contenu oog iog are, and it, is part of my case that the exP r „ e logt " Thy Word," signifies, in scriptural phra s si,ioP " The Word of God." It was the "thir ti o v o criticism" of fraudulently substituting ° , 4 s pa - pression for the other, to which I deraurre!k o ttlt do yet demur. And Mr. M.'a last letter *i convincing proof that I was right in wattl e theological conjuror very closely. It vents Vl O a pitfall in reserve to catch unwary trave llers. on e esteemed friend, Professor Williams, had d i. tlß ool for him-deep, and la rge , an d d an g e rous--tn' o c many years. Had I n ot a roo ted die ti- f esr, Sociniane, the result, a l as , o f • come thoughts, I might have tumbled headlong be it, but I ha ve esca p e d, an d Mr. -N L 0 10 e unfortunately fallen into his dear friend s Of and pitfal. No where, says Mr. Williams, Lode Scripture, is the term " Word of God " equivalent or synony m f or th e Bible: I ' o l's; us keep in mind that the question betiveelogpi M. and Mr. G., is a ques ti on o f , 4 TeratO o P° and, therefore, Mr. Willi ams ' s rem ark ti ° , e nt , make against me, b u t i s so muc h wore! " . 1 Macnaught. The expression on whiem e o 13 _ 4 ' in depending, is " Thy W or d," an d this "', ten, labour under the same di sa dva n tages as t . e ,„," " Word of God "is s a id t o d o , f or the x - o ige l ' unquestionably eniploys this expression to the " Scriptures " of his day. Th e terra i d Word," then, having been once ernils 11 ,6 , an inspired writ er t o . signify the aggr 4 Y., RV' Writings, by parity o f reason i ng , we 0211 / 13ib; mately use them as a s y n o n y m f or " Th°olllso, So much for the pitfal provided by g.„fts into which I have no t f a ll en , an d 1 9 ' 1 t Mr. M. complai ns o f my t wo co l umn s, u" critifee much more reason to complain tha t ,io ll ,lll unfairness and blundering sh o uld have ° „ieS " t so much trouble. N ews p a p er contrever-i a p e not allow of delays and prolongation s, e at therefore, be brief to-day. ot of In conclusion, I must plainly deeia- - „bare„ Co - with truth (unmixed truth) recal nir - e isa" blasphemy, but will prove it, or my en,n3P the traitor, but I would beg W . .' ia . i O O understand that I wish to take his v a 'soc il l - tir abstract . as a synonym for certain o der - 0 $ opinions and mistakes, and that I shall • e d ohe to keep this abstract idea in my 11111 r ' tit, o ll, clothed with humanity, somewhat siei" - ig, & o n abstract notion of a Lord Mayor withent"bysip robes, and chain, which a practised rae t 'P o iblf of transcendental principles, might P,, t ieotß• himself able to form w ith u n clouded a'B 0 0 0%. —I am, sir, yours, obedi en t, J. K. Go zs Lower Darwen, Nov. 27th, 1857. - I 0 TO T EE EDITOR OF THE NORTIIEIV Ti gEl ;6o ll3 be Sir, - H av i ng waited long . to see an t l ,,bio t" your valuable paper about the needless tr", 01 Duty Clerk" at the Custom-house eausebtit°,. one d who pays him in gold, I have now th that 501; nty to bring the case before the public , i trot,',o thing may be done to save time and tutteavereig`r; h Whenever any one „Gives that gentleman s° l l . e vc e - t, calculate a e l w entries, l ia, weighs,refuse tat sfirsteh have vc e ce a e c pa h tui o tny f g them, and v a nodlgt Personas ig .,, e st o oi r c i t il e t,.ci - 4 : h e ill may be o f full weight, an d ,cho pays gocbuatce the amount required before 0136 03 1 tiPv-0 House; many do not take mere na°l3 blig ci AJ 0- 5 ., necessary, and must, therefore , be n ften er a r more sens a ib n l d e sovereigns, either at their offices die til e p t l b a r: e iard to exella n g ° t aai (1 0. or a y vit . 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