Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-04 00:00:00

XI RIM ALE SESSIONS, 'I hese Befsions were commenced yesterda► morning, at the Kirkdale Court House The Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P., presided. The other magistrates present were Messrs. Hall, Benn, Campbell, Rosson, rheekuto❑e J K Green, Sandbach, ar d Captain Atpinall The court having been formslly opened, His Lordship took his seat in thy• private room, for the purpose of transacting the general routine bus'ness of the district. TIIN VISITING X 4GISTRATX . S RE PORT. This report stated !hat the building of the jail was in a most substantial condition ; the,: its sanatory state was most efficient; and that the g moral heal'h of the pri Boners was all that cyald be desired. The visiting magis trates were re-appointed. TUB JAILORS REPORT. Mr. Gibbs, the governor of the jail, reportel that during an past year he had had 2 407 prisoners committed to h's charge. On the present day there w,re 375 males, and 63 females, making a total of 4t3. This report was accompanied by a statistical pspsr, enumerating the classes of offences, but as it had not bean Lr warded to the Secretary of State, it was not deemed desirable to publish it. THE CUM? CONSTABLE'S REPORT. The repert of this officer showed that the Government Inspector of England hid, since the lest sessions, inspected the force under his charge, and after a most minute ex smioation, expressed it as his opinion, th t the force was mitt efficient and satisfectory. The Chief Constable ex preated his regret that so many of the men lutcl had to be discharged for drenkencess, an offence which he considertd of snob a serious nature, that it could not be orerlocked, at the Fame time stating it as his opinion, that he con sidered the tempta ion , ' in the way of police-constables were very great, and that the force was quite as efficient as any in the kingdom. The report went oa to state that the force corn isted of 657 n en, that during the past quar ter 19 h.td been dismissed for drunket nem', and 32 had resigned. These resignations were to be attributed to the constables getting better si:nations in other forcer. Tt farther appeared that the police had apprehended 2,682 persons, of whom 157 had been sent for trial 1,821 sum marily convicted, and 671 had been discharged ; by °the parochia' authorities, 2,191 bad b.ea sumcn Ted, 223 of whom had been discharged, 65 did not appear, and against six, warrants had been ssu d fcr their appreh nsion. The total cost of the police establishment had been £33 576 ls. The cost of clothing, £2,972 6s. 21. Total, £36,5407a 7d , which would make the quarterly aczount fcr the police, £9,137 12s. His Lordsh'p considerel the reprt extremely satis factory. TIIR CIIAPLAIN . 9 RE! ORT, This report WAR ordered , o beptinted:but it was such a valuable document that we m.ke the fallowing extracts : "In presentirg to the magistrates my eighteen' h annual report, I am sorry to hays to repeat the regret which I expressed on the last occasion of my addressing them, at the appearance of no inconsiderable iccrease in the number of commitments during the yea;. Low under review, over ihose of the previous corre•ponding period. That increase has been, however. solely in the u,nm .ry convic tions ; in the present instance, there hav 7 ng been, in fact, fewer commitments to the a.s:zes and tke sessions than in 185 G, as will be seen from the following comparative table : Total numbe r comm i tte d to 1850. the Winter, Fpring, and Summer Assizes 447 Do., four County Sessions 2{o Do., four Wigan k9efrsions rr Do, surnmsry comic ions, from Pct. 20 to Oct. 20 1676 Deduct decrease Total number in the two - - years reTective'y ...... 2357 .. 2520 .. 172 48 435 185 13 - .. 12 - .. 15 1896 . : 220 .. - - - "Our A size Calendars hive presented, as usual, a sad catalegee of crimes of the darkest chara2ter, no fewer than 28 persons having been charged with murder and murderous attacks ; 44 with violent assaults (most of them with dangerous weapons and iroolsments), witkout intention to rob those attacked ; 103 with street and highway robbery (exceeding by more than one-half those charged with sneh offences in 1856, and almost all of them acting under circumstances of g, eat violence and brutality) ; 17 wish manslaughter; with burglary ;13 with ripe ; and 15 with forgeries of various kinds. "In comparing the Sessions" Calendars of the two years, I find a considerable decrease in the thefts of watches, jewellery, and groceries ; ar.d in base coin transactions, and a sight decrease in the'ts of weerirg apparel and poultry. whilst there is a slight bat unnoticeable increase in several minor offetces, "With regard to the suernsty convictions, which. se I have remarked are considerably in excess of those of the previous year, I have to call the attention of the msgis trate; to the lamentable fact of the number of those com mitted for being drunk and disorderly havirg advanced fr.9.gt r 'il l oliriVt`tAnTr6 i tli:rs"ffas — iiC e el( d that of 1856 by 78, and that there have been 135 cent to us for being out late and sleeping in out-buildings (21 more den thr , se of the previous year). Although our Assize Calendar: confa'n so many charges of the most serious nature, I have had the painful duty of attending one man only to the seeffeld during the year. Henry Rogers, tle captain of a merchant vessel, who with his two mates. William 111Pes and Charles Edward Se' mour, was found guilty of caning the death of a seaman of the name of Rose, at the last Assizes. The evidence egainet these men was that of the crew, and was to the effect that the man had died in consequence f successive acts of cruelty during the paesege. The following is my notice of the execution in my journal . `• Sept. 12 : Captain Henry Rogers executed this day at noon. He had been most assiduously attentive to his religious duties ever since his condemnation, and died, I bal.:eve, a true penitent, and fill of hope that his soul would be saved throug'a ;ha merits of his Redeemer. He exacted from me a promise that I would make it known that he did not consider h'mself guilty of a single act which had conduced to the death of the seaman Roe:), end both he and the two males have through ut, in the most consistent manner, exp wined all the essential facts given in evidence against them, so as to divest them of all their atrocity, wirhou denying them altogether. So tr.thful did their statement appear to rue, that I felt it my duty to make it known to the Secretary of State through their attoiney who had a long, but— as far as the captain was conce.ri ed—a fruitless interview wish him during the past week. Rogers has left a wite and fire young children. On Friday merring I adminit.t, red the Ho'y Communion to him and his wife, and the two mates, and again to him and Mr. Wright, the well I nown prison philanthropist, immediately befne the execution. The truly Christian firmness with which the captain advanced to the scaffold was most extraordinary. At our last stopping plale, the old press room, he uttered a coherent end totrhing and whilst the rope was round his neck, he called me forward to ark me the exact words of the prayer of St Stephen, which we had agreed together that he should use at that awful moment. 'Are they,' he said, Lord Jeans, receive my thank.. ? ' and upon my setting him right, he calmly repeated the words two or three times, • Lord Jesus, receive my and all was over. "The two fall wing cases of murder, by insane persons, have cczurred during the year and excited feelinas of the deepest commisserwion wherever they have tecome known. " Tao 2 : Agnes BraTey (the wife rf a man in respec• table circumstances) c , mmitted t) the Assizes for the wilful mucler of her son, ten months old, by poison, in a fit of religieus melancholy. She labour under the impression that she has c:;mmitted the unpsrd ,- nable sin of the Gone!, and says that she took her child's life in order that he might g) to heaven, whilst too young to be guilty cf the same. "May 2 : John Gibbons, an Irishrn.n, for trial at the Assizes, for the murder of two children, by cutting their throats with a knife, anit afterwards attempting to murder his wire and a third child, in a Et of insanity, at Liver pool. "My journal is, as usual, fiiled with the criminal results of the all pravailng vice of intemperance. I shall, as usual, give a few extracts from various date., which refer to the most eeriols of those results• " Oct. 23 : J. B. a young married man with one child, committed to the Assizes, for a rape at Liverpool, up ma a girl whom he had persuaded to take a walk wick tam, whi 7 sl "Nov :D. W. for trial, for causing the dealt of a drunken woman at his beer-house, by pushing her down some steps. " Nov:18 : Two men, committed for being drunk and disorderly. tell me t . at there are two days in every month, the Monday on which they are paid, and the following day, when no work is done by the colliers in the neighbourhood of St. Hslen's,- and Ashton, and that these are very generally spent in drinking " Nov. 25 : Two men, for the ASSrZ?A, one of them a letter-zarrier, for abstractirg £5OO in Ba k Notes, and Bank Post Bills, from the letters which he had to deliver, the Dian hiving been laid at a public house the night before where the men were drinking. "Nov. 27 : An Irishman, charged with m ,nslaughter, for beg ing a man to death with a poker, at Manchester, at one o'clock in the morning. He had been burying a child that day, and carousing all night after with his friends ! Dec. 31: A moot respectable-looking otonemaxon, for manslaughter, at Halliwell, during a quarrel in the streets, after they had been drinking freely t gether in a public house. " Jan 10 : A married man with six children, committed for a rape Upon a child twelve years of age, at a public house at which he was drinking " G. B. also for wounding his cousin, whilst in a state of intoxication. "Jan. 20 : J. C., from Salford, a married man with a family, charged with beastiaaity with an ass when intoxi cated "Feb. 7 : W. C., an Irishman, f,r trial at the Assizes, for murder at Manchester. He had been drinking freely and quarrelling with the woman with wh tm the murdered man cohabited The quarrel with her led to retaliation on the part of the decea ed, and that again to the fatal blow given by the prisansr, with a Loin knife which he had gone upstairs to fetch March 7 : S J., a young woman, for trial at the Assizee, for stabbing her mother, because she would not give her money to buy drihk. Flea had been married that morning to a man with whom she had lorg cohab.ted, and had been drinking all the day after. March 20 : W., a station master on the East Lancashire Railway, the attempting t shoot a man, when in a state of intoxication. "April 13: A youth, 22 years of age, for committieg a rape upon his own sister, twelve years of agi, when drunk. " April 17 : An Irishman, for trial a' the Sessions, for bating off a piece of another Irishman's chin, when intoxicated, at Upholland fair. "June 20: 11. J., fifty-two years of age, a tailor. from Huyton, charged with an attempt to cat his own throat with* raz after drinking for a whole week. "June 30: Two boys, sixteen and eighteen years of age, committed for one calendar mcnth, for being drunk and di .orderly. "July 3: A man, for rnanslaughtr, by pushing another man down some steps both drunk! " July 4: Two brothers, for the assizes, for the man slaughter of a l clicaman, by k:cking him on the head— both intoxicated, "July 11 : A sailor, for the assizes, for stabbing his chief mate, at Constantinople, when drunk. " Oa- :A a omen, from W.gan, for breaking the win dews of a man with vet om she cohabited (87 years of age), in a drunken brawl. She herself is 27 years old " Oct. 8: Two men, fir the assizes, charged with man sl tighter--the oae, R. J., for killing his brother, at Liver pool, in a family quarrel, with a knife, when drunk ; the other J. W.. for causing the death of a young woman, whom he had taken up with hlm into a hayloft in a ba-n, by rolling oft with her to the flmr below, whereby his own arm was broken. He also was in a state of intoxication: " Such are some of the melancholy fruits and fatal Con. segeences of England's great sin, and England's great shame, intemperance, as presented in the crimhial annals of Scull Lancashire durerg the past year. Whilst our towns remain in thet demoralised state, which I am called upon 3ear after year to deplore, at d the gin vaults, the beerhonees, and the night houses are gaping on all tiles and at all hours f the night fir their victim); whilst music, and other exciting amusements, are divested from their innocent, and, even to my mind, desirable phignse of cheering the vac tnt h-_urs of the toilworu mechanic and made to pander to the vie a an I excesses of the gau it haunts of immorality, in which cur criminal population ere bred and tn atured, the scaoolatat ter may open hie doors to instruct in every street, the clergy may exhort and warn win all eareestness the gaol chaplain any strain every nerve to reel dui and, reform, but I feel c o nvinc e d t h,t t h e l a b ours ci f a l l, i f, which God forbid, they be not wh Ily fruitless, will, at least, be miserably. er ppled, and too often paid with bitter disappointment, Every earthly rod must hive some attendant evil and even that ehticest blessing of uefeet teeed freedom, which we erj ay as Riglishmea, is not without its alley. It is a vulgar seying, and ore generally considered true, that we ' cannot be dregeoned into reli gion or virtue;' and so the many are to be left in their ignorance and darkness in this Christian land to choose for themselves whether they will speed the hely Sabbath in the pure and sacred worship of God, and in a 4holesome use of ,the appointed meats of grate, or in an isle end dissolute abuse ~f its conre crated hour, whilst they may freely, and without check, indulge in those inimerel excesses which, if not always puaishahle by man, are, nevertheless, divir ely condemned as excludieg those who commit them from the kingdom of Heaven. Why should it t e ceneide ed an interference nit's the liberty of an Englithruan to oblge him to throw tiff those shackles which atone keep him in slavery ? Why should not our rulers be empAvered and eec ,ureg,d by the neanimous voice of air who have the weltare of their come amen at heart to drag on men,' if it cannot be done otherwise, into that which is for their own temporal as well as spiritual good - by enforcing a bet' er observance of the Sabbath, and by cLeccuntenaucirg ou all dsys, and in every place, all those vicious lures with which self-interest is ever courting the unguarded and unwary ? Why should not our public amusements be increased, and those which we have already be mead of - .3 woniw - prevent labourm 7 men from lasing a good night's rest ? I cannot St e anythlrg so Quixotic or impracticable mye elf in endeavouring to effect so whele some a change in the camfort, and plea hres, no less then the merel end opirhual gmd of he people; and I am quite sure the+, ustil there has la en some very essential charge produced in the moral atmesphere of our gam towns, no gaol system whatever will be a',le to work any extensive or permanent imprevement in the criminal population of the country. We have sent a great nunal er cf juveniles to Reforma tories during the past year (the particulars of which I have given in table x), at el have every reason to hop, that, in the gnat majority of ca-es, we may look for sue • cesa. It is a source of much gtatification to find these asylums increasing so rapidly in all parts of the country. " Our excellent Refuge for the Destitute, so a itnieably conducted by the present matron, Mrs Young, has also received eig l / 2 t of our dischvgel female prisoners, and, with one exceetion, they have all hitherto conducted themselves is a vary satisfac:ory mermen "We have als t sent a mart on hie discharge to the 2,efuge, in Great Smith street, Westminster, who professes at least, and I have no rea,wn to doubt his sincerity, to have teen reclaiated from iefilelify during his stay will us, an I who, from being mist r, fractcry and uumanage able, had become in every respect exemplary in his coo duct, and continued so for several months before the expiration cf his sentence. His autobiography, which he wrote for me in his separate cell discloses a most extra ordinary course of lice, and if he really be, as I hope, thorecgbly reformed, he may, indeed, bl.ss the day ihat brought him within our calls. " The only alteration within the bulling which calls for notice, during the mt. }ear, is the adapt,tion of a few cells to the pu-pose of separate coefinemeut in the female department. They have not yet been long employed far this purpose and there have hid:in-to been many reports of misconduct against the inmates for shouting to one another ; but I trust that. within a short time they will be found a valuable aid in our endeavours to render our worst characters amenable to di , eiplice, and to elicit whatever good feeling may still remain in their obdurate) hearts, with a view to their reclamation from their abandoned course of life. POLICE INTELLIGENCE -YJSTERDAY. LIVERPOOL. BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD. FIGHTING IN THE STREET AND ASSAULTING FEMALES.— Jnha Price and Isaac Thornton, tw3 powerful looking fellows, one a navvy," the other a ship ,carpenter, were charged with fighting in Spitalfields, and for having as eaUlted a female, named Margaret Wynn. The case was fully proved against Price, and he was sent to gaol for six Months. The other prisoner was discharged. Wipe DESERTION. - James Douglas, a chemist, who formerly had a shop in Marybone, was charged by Mr. Hughes, the outdoor parish officer with having deserted his wife and four children. The complainant (Mrs. Douglas), who is an exceedingly handsome young woman, said she had been married about eight years, but for the last four he was in the habit of treatit g her very badly, in con sequence of the drunken habits he had fallen into. Some time ag she was oblige i to separate from him, as he made several attacks on her life. He was to allow her 101 a weak, but he did not pay, and she had to resort to the parish for relief. Mr. Hughes said the prisoner was in good employment at Messrs. Babies and Coe , and could allow his wife and family proper support. The prisoner said he had invited his wife to two lodgings, that he had taken fur her, but she refused to go. She replied ie answer to that that she was afraid of her life A servant, who formerly lived with the parties, gave evi dence of the pthoner'e violence towards his wife. The prisoner was sent to jail for a month. STABBING —A very wild-looking fellow, named Thomas Champion, whose face was covered with blood, was charged with having stabbed a woman named Catherine Warren, in a public house in Scotland road. The parties were erinking in a public-house, when some quarrel took place between the• prisoner and another man, and then the prisoner drew a small knife, and struck the woman a blow on the forehead. Surgeon Smith, of St. Anne's, Diepen eery, said the wound eves 33 inches lopg, and very deep, on the left side cf the forehead ; it was not a dangerous wound, but would leave a mark for life on her. The prisoner was sect for trial THE ADVENTURES OF TOM Fox, 'roe MILITIA MAN ! —Tom Fox is a Militia man, and he lived in Sawney Pope street; d Pat Flynn keeps a beer-house in the some classic locality; and according to the story of Tom F. x, ho (Me. Flynn) keeps something more than a beer house, netnely the Mol y Mag,ires Club, and "by the same token" a 'ded Mr. Fos, "one can't look croaked over their ehoulthr, without getti n ' a p ou l t h euge i n t h e smush, or having the head glautned off him!" The said Tom Fox, being a Militia man, and mere than thy, be longing to the Royal 1 ancashire Arallery, and finding that his country needed his servicas, he resolved, like a good and faithful subject of our gracious sovereign, to go out to India and kill some Sep ys, and probably get killed himself ; but, as will appesr by the sequel , the latter event was nearly accomplisbed by the lit lly Vaguire 3 , without giving Tom Fox the trouble of a voyage to Calcutta. Tom Fox, according to the testimony he gave of himself, is an honest man—that is one man picked out of a thousand, but so it happened. Being an h , nest man, Tcm imagined it would b 3 a shame, and a scandal and a disgrace to go go out to k 11 Sepoys or to he killed whilsthe ow d anything to any one -and for two reasons. first it would not be honourable in an honest man to ran off from Nancy Whealan. the .provision dealer, and leers 2s. 20. against the debit side of his account cute ent for bacon, butter, cheese, and tobacco ; nor w .uli it be at all right for Mr. Flynn, the beer-house keeper, to be everlastingly looking at the chalked characters (an original sort of short hand, -invented by Mr. Flynn and called fifer his name, the Great Flynntonien eyston of B tok keeping) behind the bar door, vehicle showed that Tom Fox had from time to time, nloog wi h sevsral other " Theld S: jar b ye," imbibed an arnalgemeticn t f malt, hops, pik3 water, and other ingredients, curirealy enough called " sixpenny," tot tie amount of tellies - tee halfpenny -be the same more or less, or there shouts. The second reason of Tom's, for not departing either to India or the next world, in debt was as c gent as the first. If he thought "honesty was the best policy," why he wit bound +z> pay in honour, and besides thy, he was a soldier, and putting honesty out of question a soldier was bound to pay; and rot have the " curse of the crows" go'ng after him into the m-da murder, that was sure to await him in his fi st ruckshin before. or in the city of Delhi, if he ever got there. lie therefore, went to the paymaste- of the regiment, d ew as much tin" as squared all his accounts, left provision dealers, green-grocers, beer house keepers, and every other sort of huxters,'' in such a•state of financial ease (so far as he was concerned), that they wished him 'good luck intirely," and hoped that if he wasn't " k Ir," that he miglit come hack again, married to one cif Neva Sahib's d arghters. Having paid his " Scot and lot," and having a surplus of half-a sovereign and tro half-crowns, thought he would have a taste of a dhough-a-dhoroughts" with his neigh bours, and so he got "pretty decently drunk," bat knew well what he was ab ut. Hie pugnacious qualities being called into reqnisition by the po eer o 7 the stimulants ; he beganl , to es practice iug 6 t n ne t o h e e p first oys, „ i t/ e w r saoin onlywh oPaPt7liel Esq , and a tribe of the " Molly Maeuiree," he was "pitching into;" but, as numbers will do a great deal, so, in this inetanc a the "Me nye" gave poor Tom Fox the most " frightful ponndit-g" that ever mortal man dropped in for The end was, that the representative of the Flynn dynasty, in Bewley Pope Street, was taken to the Station on a charge cf having robbed, and nearly murdered outright, Tom Fex, the ilitieman. When Tom wag put into the witness box, he presented a fearful sprearanre ; that portion of the head hich usually represents the face, was one swollen mass of bruised flesh ;ey es, nose, mouth and cheeks were hardly rerrgnisable. It was worse than that, for he was bruised frightfully all over the body, and as for his Militia clothes, all the military tailors in Christendom, or out of it, could not doe - or them He swore that the prisoner Flynn, robbed him of hat'-a sovereign, and, with others kilt him intirely." Mc Btuck was for the epr g is u o i n re er m ay yt, called about a q u a r t er o f t h e tr ib e of ma swore hat the prisoner was not at tine plea). when the " shindy" tot k place, and this being proved beyond all -7oulet, as he was payirg his gas bill at the time, he was discharged, and on getting outside the Court, he W 43 met by " any quantity" of the tuba, who bore him away in I triumph. A. Loci, OF "AIWENT PPIRITS.—Mary Atkinsen, a servant in the public-house of Mrs Leigh, of Merybono wes ch.aged with having stolen 4s. 2 1., and a bottle of whiskey, and one of brande, the money and goods 1 f her employer. The barman in the house raid he was awoke about three in the mcrnit g by a noise, and thinking there was a bu-glar in the house, he jantrad out tf bed, and ran down the stairs, but, on reaching the middle cf the stairs he fell over a human b3ir g, whieh frightened him dread fully. On getting a light, he found the p iscner on the stairs helplessly drunk, and a bottle of whiskey and one of brandy under her head. She tried to get up, but failed, and in the effort she rol'ed from the stairs down into the cellar, where she was picked up. Ott searching her 41.23. was found; this sum had been taken from t e till out of the change left in it at night. The prisoner, it seemed, managed to get the key of the bar, f om where it eas left, and so entered the place. She was tent for trial. "Our previous convictions, which, be it remarked, com prise all those . who have b een comm i tte d b efore to any gaol (see table xiii.), have been, I grieve to notice, very numerous, and I fear that this has been •he ease all over the country This is, indeed, a lamentable fact, when we umsider the abundance of work, and 'the high prices given for labour of all kinds daring the year. Neither have I reason to believe that want of employment has bsen in very many cases the cause of these relapses into crime. Alt , a! these relapses • ave been too often attributable to a return to the immoral haunts rod vicLus clmpanions to which . .he earlier commitments were owing —haunts and companions whose name is legicn' in every town, I fear, in our populous THE INDIA RELIEF FUND, AND A FANCY DRESS BALL. TO TETE EDITOR Or THE NORTHERN dare say f4tv of your readers h.ve forgotten the Grand Fancy Ball at St. George's Hall Would it not be a good oppor'unity to get one up now in aid of the fund for the relief of ,h 3 India sufferers? Tne last one left a very handsome surplus ; but being held in Lent, a great many were prevented from attending it in eons•gnence. Trusting you Ail! give this suggAstion a corner in your paper, —I remain, A. WELL WISEI&E TO THE FUND. Liverpool, Nov. 3, 1837. " I have no remarks to make with regard to the conduct of the gaol during the past year, everything having pro ceeded in the same quiet methodical manner as heretof,re. My own duties have been discharged as usual, and I have endeavoured to the utmost of my abilities to lead each wandering sheep committed to my char. 3 to the Sh e ph er d and Bishop of hi s sou l, t o i nsp i re within him a true repent at ce of all the sins and follies of his past I fe, and to help him forward, by the grace of God, in the right way that leads h to everlasting life. Attached to this report is an appendix, containing some very valuable statistical information, from which it appears that the total number of prisoners under his care was 2,183, of whom 813 wete married, 1 220 were single, and 15e were widowers or widoveir; 557 had both parents living, 916 had neither paret t living, 275 had only fathers, 426 had only mothers. Of these, 883 could not read, 885 could read, 468 could read and write imperfectly, 406 could real and write well, and 45 had a superior education 1,119 were quite ignorant of religion 758 were imperfectly instructed, and 306 were well instructed. Out of this total 1,299 belonged to the Church of England, 728 were Roman Catholics, 73 were Dissenters of various denominations, 43 Pre sbyterians, 5 Lutherans, 17 Independents, 5 Baptists, 1 Quaker, 2 Swedenborgiane, 1 Unitarian, 6 Mormonitue, 1 Jaw, and 2 who professed no religion whatever." The Bridgemaster's report was confirmed, as was also that of the Finance Com mitte . Alters brief eon versation BOYS' CLOTHING MA ' E WI g GREAT TA'ITE. AT LEWIS and PA NI"S, Itaneiagli-atrect. THE PIER AND TDA PEASANT.—FYLVYION BY Fntx . - 01 , h, 6:h of June last, an iceuittious cotter, named Donald Murray, will his sist(r and two • lithe motherless girl, wi re sj c , ed from the hut which they had ccupi+l some rears. After lying for sere time in the open air, 'ha Rev. Mr. Macktl!ar, pari h minister of Cyr e, gave them the use of a cart shed, a hich they continued #o ecupy from the Ms of evictien till Saturday, th' 17fh of last month, their li'tle bi's of furniture mean whle lying in the rpcin air. In the meantime it was fuu- d that the Duke of 8 itheihn l had no right to the cot from which Murray and his family were *jetted ; end that it stood on glebe land, and a cae was entered in tha Court of t . ess'on• Acting under advice, Murray a: - ,cl h's famly again twig possession of the hut, along with part of their furniture, on the data: referred to, and iraniedia'cly on this being done the machinery was set in op ,, rati,'n for a second (Sic ion. accordingly, on the fk renoon of Tu:sday last public mien nail was attracted to a dense volume of stn ke rising front the mighbourhood of the manse of Clyne, and it was soon found hat Murray'a cribi>l was on fire, an: that w. rknien were actively emuloyed in the demoltion of its rude walls, The hut was razed to the gr( uml, and various articles of furniture were also d estroyed—Xothern Ensign. the magistrates adjourned until this day, when the trial of prisoners will be procaeded with, X xclnelyelyi for CLOTHING BOYS :from Six to Twenty Years LHWIS fa COMPANY, MAnelteltrettee At LEWIS & ONPA NY'S, Ranelagh•atreet, BOYS are CLOTHED from the Ages of Sig to Twenty Irelnt THE NORTHERN TIMES.T 2 LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1857 BOYS' CLOTHING MADE WITH GREAT TASTE AT LEWIS &Id , COMPANY'S, Ranologipstretit. meeting of the ratepayers be convened for the considera tion of the subject, with a view to the opening of the re quisite negociations, should the suggestion of incorporation be approved of by the meeting. "Signed on behalf of the committee, " THOMAS URQUHART, Chairman. " Committee-room, Oat. 17, 1857." THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY.- CASE OF CADOGAN v. EVANS. A public meeting, convened by the friends of Mr. Evans, was held on Monday, in the London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving suggestions and co-operation, with the view of obtaining a commutation of his sentence. Mr. F. W. Themes, auctioneer, took the chain, on the motion of Mr. Gammon, seconded by Mr. 'Tan Buren. The Chairman explained that it was the object of Mr. Evans's friends to obtain an expression of public opinion that the sentence passed on him was unjust ; and if the meeting were of that opinion they would go the Secretary of State to obtain a commutation of the sentence. They must condemn Mr. Evans for having given up his tnanu sc-ipt to Mr. Thorne ; bat they felt qu'te assured that he was not a party to any attempt at ex'ortion. Mr. Gammon (solicitor for Mr. Evans) made a state. ment of the case. He regretted that Mr. Evens, before answering the letter of Sir J. Carmichael, had not consulted his solicitor. If he had consult. d him he would have advised him to !eve the greatest publicty to the feels he was aware of, but not to do so in the way he had done. He referred to the correspondence that had taken place before Mr. Evans interposed, and a'so to the measures taken by him, and submitted that if that individual had intended to make anything of the letter, he would not have communicated to Mr. Mowbray Morris and Mo Sampom of the Times, on the subject, or put himself within the clutches of the Times, unless it was reelly his intention to publish the letter which he had written. A sogoas ion was thrown omit at the Old B iiley before the tr'a'—he did not exactly know hciw, but so it was—that it hie client weald plead guilty he would be let out on his own recogn 7 zaece to apnea- when called upon ; hut Mr. Evans declared that the f cts he had stated were true, and that be would net say they were untrue to get rid of any punishment he might receive. ln conclusion, he put it to t';:e meeting whether they thought that Mr. Evans bad bay intention 4 f making a profi; by writing the letter? (Cries of No, no.") M. Warren (solicitor for Thorne) stated that his client disclaime I al! intention to exeort, money, and denied that there was any collusion between him and Evens for such a purpose. Mr. T. O'B i.tn declared that, instead of punishment, Me. Evans deserved to be liberally rewarded. Me. Acl Ind moved the first resolution that, having heard the statement of facts male by the solicitors engaged for the defendants on the trial of Cadogan v. Evans and Thorne, some of the most important of which were encludd by the rules of legal evidence from the consider. ation of the jury, the meeting was deeply impressed with a conviction that Mr. Evans had been subjec'ed to unmerited punishment by the sentence passed upon him, and the meeting pledged it, elf to employ all such means as might he deemed expedient to obtain a remission of the sentence, and invited the co-operati on of the whole of the commer cial community in its Fife, t' to obtain that act ofjaistice, Mr. Saurria-s seconded the resolution. 1 -le had known Evans for some years pas', and was ideo:ified with hon in commercial trans lotion+, all of which had been carri-d out by him with strict honour and with the most up:dg'ot conduct. Tee resnLition cuts carried unanimously. 01 the motion of T. O'Brien, seconded by Mr. Van B ren, it 3 res , lyel th it a memo-ial should b? presented to Sir George Grey, praying for a c)minitation or remi3 sion of the sentence. It was arrant d that :a subseriplon slaonld be entered int-, to defray the necessary expenss. A vote of thanks w s passed to the chairraar, and the meeting separate'. GAROTTE ROBBERY AND MURDER IN ESSEX. I C 01.1 1 ,0 ENGAIVE, Nov. 2.—This retired village, situate a I few miles from the town or Halstead, has been the scene of a daring ribluery and murder, the death of the victim having probably resn'ted rather from fright than front actual violence. It appears that on Sanday morning, Mr. /vac Bucher, a farmer, residing in Csine Engaine, and former'y a cattle dealer, left home fur the purp .30 of attending Colchester naarke. lie was seen by several parties during Saturday ; and having transacted his ordinary burin 93 on the Cern Exaba - l i ze, he went to several shops Bar d made small purchases, when it was observed tdev he was in possousiou of a considerable sum of m ney, chiefly ii s vcreigns. Sion after five o'clock (-1 be was not drivkg his own vehicle) he returned towards his home ia company with Mr. Johnson, a dealer, of Eris Colne, in a ch-'ise belonging to that tyre - I/ma - wile/re' necesiary Tor Arr. Butcher to diverge from tho main line of trififlo, he desenuded from the chaise, and walked on towards the gate of Colne Park. About baT-past six o'clock a lad named Butler, son of the gardener in te e empley of Mr. Robert Hill, of Colne Park,. was p- weeding towards the park gate when his sttention was arrested by the stifled cries of some one in eistresP,. and le leard the exclamation "-Oh, don't!" or " , h,. dez,r." Ile passed throagh the gate, and had not proceeded far when he was horrified at discovering the body of Mr. Butcher lying in the road apparently dead. He immediately rushed back, and assistance being procured, the unfartunate man, who ga;ped but once and expired, was conveyed to his own home and medical help called in, but id vain. In the road, near the spat where the body laid, were found two pools of blood, and three small parcels of gods purchasd at Colchester were seAtered in different direcions, Strange to soy, upon an examin ation of the body the only external marks of violenc-, were contusions upon the no.te and motel], and those quite insufficient to tcdount for death; but the waisteo- t had to'. , en violently 'orn open. e, as t t di sver some of the butt.ons by wb'ch it had ben fas•ered, and all the dreased's p tparo, to,gether with the money reen in hie possession a; Co!eb , ,ster, bed be-n extracted from his pockets. The pr:stimp'iJa, therefore, is that the robbers placed !heir hands over his mouth to prevent his creating any alarm, and this together with the fright that ensuA, recasioned his de nth. lie was, moreover, aflUeted viith disease of the heart, Exclasively fur CLOTIIINI. 110Y3 from Six to Twenty Year LEWIS & 00 :IPANY, Ranelagh-street. BONA Finn: TRAY/ULF/V.—ln a case at Perth, before the Earl of Mansfield and o'h , r j . ..totiees, it has been decided that persons coming to church, from whatever distances, were not bona fide travt Vers. ANOTHER. FAILVIIB IN GLASHOIr—It was reporfel on Friday, that another ithporant firm in Glasgow had sus pended payment. The liabilities are state.] at .E.5u0,000. It to believed, howev, r, that a private arrangement with creditors will be rnade —Scotch Taper. SUICIHH OF A FRENCH RAILWAY OFFICIAL—The chief of the railway station of Al ntigny blew cut his brains a few days ago, in eonstquecce, it is slid, of his having eppropriattd to his own use, some of the money of the c impany, the discovery of %it ch he fearel. Hs has left a wife , nd several children. SUSPECTED. PoISoNI , 0 OF A lIIMBAND, WIFE, AND. CHILD.--At two o'clock, on the molting of Friday, the neighbourhood ef the church or Bilhoe, about s:ven milea. from Cirlow, was in a state of much excit merit, occasioned by the rumen. that a man named Turnsted, his wife, an:l chili, were p isoned. A messenger was despatched at once fir Dr. Anderson. of Tinuffin, the nearest medical man, who at once proceeddd to the person iu question, and , on his arrival he found Mrs. Turnsted in, a state of collapse ) her husbend labouring under vi-lent aelon of the stomach and bowels, ottenee 1 with violent pains, and the ohild asleep,, apparently after having suffered iu a similar way. Dr. Anders)n at once prr c eded to administer the aritidetr's and restor:itives, but had little hope of being Lble !0 save Ms. Turnsten'e life. The husband is still in a precarious state, but the child appears to be convalescent. There are strone suspicions of arsen i ca l poisoning and that the poison has been wilfully a 'ministered by another person. --Silken,, , Journal " BAR I'—CA Damrs, of her Majesty's 3Zth Regiment, a King's County man, has invented a lock for securing the gaol doors in India, which will get him a bad nem.) with such humanitarians as the Nafion and the Dundalk Demo ' crat. Knowing that the first seep of mutinous regiments, after they have overpowered their officers, is to let loose ilia inmatts of the prison, and hound them on to de:ds of incendiarism and blood, the gallant effieer has caused a mine to be excavated under the prison of Ghi espore, intimating his intention to blow it up, wit all which it contains, at the very first application of a Sepoy crowbar to the outer doors. This will be making the engir:eer hoist. with his own petard, and we have no coubt Colonel Dames will be cl e I blown up in mmy quarters for thinking of it. Such a short and expeditious meth , d of breaking gaol would have: been invaluable at Cawnpore and Meerut; yet we shall not be surprised if the suggestion of our energetic countryman shall be sharply reproved by that Supreme Council of Nightcaps, whose wet blanket still floats over Calcutta, for the strangulation of everything practical, except the torturers and butch ers o f th e i r spec i es .—D u bli n Evening Mail. THE TOXTETH PARK COMMISSIONERS. These Commissioners held their usual periodical meeting Yesterday morning. Mr. Alp se presided. The other ommi shmers present were M sets. Urquhart, Rogers, Darsie, &e. Tne minutes of th-last. meeting were read a-d confirmed, after which, the proceedings f tire Finance and Sewarege Committee were adopted. The follerwinj special le e ort was alio read. REPORT. " Your Finance Committee hafng taken into their con sideration the important subject referred to them by the hoard at their meeting of 7th July, 1857, namely the de sirable ness of having tie rural district incorporated with the borough of Liverpool, bee to report as follows: " That in 1812, by 5 and 6 Vic., chap. 105, the extra earochial place of Toxteth-park was divided, for the purpose of sewering, paring, and cleansing, into two districts, in the larger and more popu'ous of which only the Commissioners under that act had power to exrchte drainage wo ks. Th t district was made a portion of toe hetnugh of Lit erpool by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, and in 1846, by 9 and 10 V c., chap. , commonly called the Liverpool San story Act, the powers of the commissioners of Toxteth-park within that district were transferred to the Heal h C immittee of the borough. In 1855, by 18 and 19 Vic., chap. 125, the B rard of Com missioners, the functions of whioh were restricted to the rural district, was transformed into t's existing Board of H alth. " The a et of the whole of Toxtelb-park, according to the ordnance surrey, is 2,351 acres, 3 roods 37 perches, of which on'y abou. 1,400 acres are i nc l u l e i in the rural di •trict. "The prrition and shape of the rural district are pecu liarly disadvantageous to the ratepayers, who are thus laid under the oh'igation of maintaining a large extent of road surface, including the Aigbue h-read, Smithdown-lane, Greenbank-lenh and part of 111 e -lane, the use of which is ell fly e - j •yed by persons whe reside without the dis trict, and do not in any way contiele its to the cost of main tenance. They are for the most part residents in the borough, and in the suburban districts of Gerston, Waver tree, Aileron, and Wo Jon, who pass over the ma's referrel to as they p oceed tr and from Liverpool. It appears worthy of c nasidera iin whether the B tari of Health of a district so situated should not be empowered to obtain from the borough and the raj ;cent townships some relief from the oppressive bar ens thus imposed upon the ratepayers. It the case under conside alion, the weight of tee burden could be reduced, if the area of rate conthbu lion be enlarge], by re-uniting the two districts into which Texts) h-p irk has been arb'trari'y divided. "Your committee hive been informed that the iespec tars of tie general board, v hen sut veying the limits of any district int a which the Health Act is to be introduced, are instructed to pay trip chit at ention to its local and physical featuree, in o der tha its limits may coincide as nearly as pchsible with those of the natural drainage area. Tito object in view appears to be that all the outfit! and other sewere may be entirely within the limits of juris diction of the heard, under whose authority they may be co - structed. It is remarkable, therefore, that the great southern ou'fall of the borough of Liverpool, for 3,346 yards of its course, lies wholly or pirtialy within the viral districts of • Texteth P irk. Commencing at the outfall on the strand of the ltlhrsev at the west end of Diaelf-fate, that part of the server thence to the junction of Lo lee-lane with Ullet-lane, a length of 2,091 yards, is on the boundary Inc between the borough and the rural dtitr'ct, and is therefore p in both. Fro n Lo - lane through Ullet-lane, an 1 across the Etrl of Slcon'a fields to Smithdew !lane, a lene h of 1 255 t a ar ls, th , sewer lies wholly wi hie the rural ihtniet. It is to be observed tat the Health committee of Liverpool ease it make any use of the latter r)rtioe of their sewers by lateral connection', without tray:l:slug sore p )rt of the nu e( district-ea coutingency aptly illustrated in the case Of th hr sewer now b coestructed for the drainage of that part of the borough hhirth herders upon Lodge-lane. It wes found most expe , lient to connect this sewer with the southern etrfall threugh the sewer in Grove Pak, belonging to the Toxteth Beard of Health. On the other hand, the only fe sih'e outfal for the drainage of Grove Perk was into Ihe Liverpool otit'al'. Where the southern outfall sewer Fes patei diet in the two districts it is semetimes found meet desirable that the prep-rty which is within the rued district and adjec nt to the sewer shoed I be drafted int ) that ()titian, as, for faimp'e, property on the southerly side of Ullet lane and that on the east - rly side of Lodge -lane. 'Thus the anomaly arises of property which lies in one district being drained into the s , .wer of another district, in the management of which the owner of that prop ray has no voce— a coniegenty which apecars t be wholly at variance wi 11 the spirit of th G 11 r_l h Act, and with the old cons•i ution .1 principle of loctel s Phgorernment. A farther preetie 1 disadrantage is entailed upon the owner of property thus drained ; he ii compelled to ray for the privilege in one sum, ace ordieg to the assessment for poo - tette, when, if his property were in the ` same district with la all, eeees e t .i try' 1,17 cca: Di falling entirely upon h i mself. tt In re-peel to police, the rural dlstrict is dereedent far die 'le en part upon the e. uety const titulary ; it is, however, dorbtfrd, c nsidering its close proximity to so large a town, and with the great increese, in those resi dences which offer strong temptatio a to the eyilolispesed, whether the pretecti hi thus aft , rded w 11 he suffl !hilt for aty ler.gth of time. It is prehab'e that any additional r itecion which may be required will ha obtained At the least cuss, a d at the same time most affihiently, from the borough police. "Ina fi .anc7al asp - et, it (I,es not appear that ine,r pnreion with Liverp.)7,l w ,, ulcl he Tn that part of 7,x' . , , th-park which is now included within the b)r,,ngh boundary, !Le ra',es fur t h y-2ar cudillg March 31, 1858, tire as folio IS3 s. 0. Lidfing and fire-nolies. . Pdving (includi ng ft ~gg;n -, cleansin , ,,&,:.) .... 1 0 S-wer (uce half to be deduAcd from the owner out of rent) 0 5 Wat.er (for public purposts, extin4uir,hing fires, G-, & ner.il. c.) 0 1 . . WaTeli ,• 0 1 Museum. .................... ... ~ 0 2 To'al in 'he Irtrouzb The corresponding rates lo vied within the run! district I..tr the current, year are 113 fvllows:— El igh way... General dis trier CQun'y ( pGI ice, ) F. Ci. 0 10 0 8 0 9 Toerl in the rural district .. 2 3 T) the latter, hoeeeer, must be added .he cost of removine ni4ht3oil (ircluded in the b .rough rates), which, (ender the pr,seet system, is probably Oct less than Id. ; sod also the rate for sewere, which is only paid in those parts of the district in which s:-veers have been cons ruce:d. If Grove Park be taken as ar, illuerratver —it is the only one the diet ict at persnt offers—the rate there will b; for 30 year , exclusive of any to the g-meral rate, which may be r(eiulre I to pey the cost of maintenance. As the sewers of the district are likely to be largely r x te:.ded within a short period, it is prob b'e that the greater portion of the rateable p - operti of the district wll be hrooght under a charge si,vilar to that now impwed ueoe Grove Park. Adding the items estimated for sewers and r Wessell to the sum given. above as the total in the rural district, that amount will be raised to 2s. 911., or 41. in exce=s of the rates pail by that p.rtion of Toxtoth-prrk which is within the borengli. ft There are several w'tbin the diserict in which the highways a e susceptible 0' very great improvement; and fie-, board are empowered to tffdct s ;ch imprev..ments as they may c rrsider expedient, provided they have the consent of thos , re-reens whose property is.r(quired for the purpose. But, as before observed, a cen:ide•able part of those highways are chiefly used by people who do not re side in the district,. and consequently do not contribute to defray the expense. In many cases, therefore, it would be urj'sc to saddle the ratepayers with the Casts of improve ments by which they are but very partial'y benefitted The force of this consideration is greatly strengthened where iinpe,vemerts cannot be eff( eted except by compulsory powe s specially conferred by Parliament. The c , sts of an application for such powers would is themselves be a c )n -siderahle addition to the rates in any year, and swell the aggregate, expenses of improvements to an amount for which, ie general, it w .ull be unreasonable to tax the ra'e payers. however, these impree einents were usidntaken by the counel of the borough, the proportion paid by cash ratepayer would be insignifcant, as compared with the advantages conferred upon the community at large. ter These facts and considerations appear to show that . he segge‘ted incorporation with the borough would be in no respect injurious either to the owrers of properly or to the ratepayers. On the contrary, many minor advantages may to anticipated in seldifoe to those before referred to. as, for example; unity of enanagemsnt, additional foot crossings and lamps, the watering of the roads, &c. ; these latter c - nvenienees the Board Nave not felt justified in providing, though the cost is small, as the area of taxation is so limited. If it lel further considered that there is very great difficull in securing upon the Board the ser vices of the number of gentlemen specified by the act, your committee thick that the suggested itcorporation will emu to be very desirable; and that year by year, as the population increases, &ad the district bseomes more and more assimilated to Liverpool, the expediency of Etloti a measure will grow into an urgent necessity. " Tour committee, therefore, recommend that a special SELECT VESTRY. The fortnightly meeting of the Select Vestry W 5 in the Workhouse Board Room, at ten o'clock, yeate'r; The Rev. Rector Campbell presieed, and the °Mil members present were —Messrs. Woodruff, Ba st ? t h, Owens, Chesney, Jackson ,"Denton, Whitt ) +, Syers, W. Jones. Critchley, Hughes, Richardson, Mellor, Taylo rI Hand, Williams, and Luff. WORKHOUSE COMMITTFE. • c h it The minutes of this committee were read, from appeared that the number in th e vagrant sheds las t ,'. was 241 males, 97 females, a n d 24 children : to t s , The sick cases in the wards on the 29th ult. were ~:t including 49 fever, and 35 itch ca s es The total nuitt of paupers in the Workhouse on the same day were Mr. Ow.gx moved the confirmation of the proceecluwl which was seconded by Mr. Woodruff, and carried. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS' COMMITTEE The procee3ii.g4 of this committee were Miro appeared that there were on the 29 t h. ult. 914 chilu mn re the schools , of whom 60 wer e su ff er ing from " There were 6 itch cases. The proceedings were confirmed. FINANCE COMAITTEZ. ea the The proceedings of this c omm i t t ee contaio f oe following resolutions, " Resolv e d, th a t t h e o verseers ° tes te township of Birkenhead, Kirkd a l e , B oo tl e , and To a d park, be requested to meet t h e c h urc hwardene cio — c x overseers of the parish on Tuesday morning at 11 I .,e a tioti to take into consideration the propriety of an BO" - to to parliament for power under existing c i r cumstall render dock property char gea bl e t o t h e l oca l rates!, vi e the conference which resulted from this resolution , reso:ved that the - churchwardens and overseers of of pool, with the overseers and assistant overseerweii Birkenhead, should communicate - with the Town T u the ie and the Wallasy Commissio ners , w i t h a view to 000 ' ee etf co-operation in taking step s t o ren d er dock proles rateable. The re ocaedings of the Finance C omm itt e e alga eo tained a recommendation to alter some of the arrangto of the medical district, by which it would be u nne_ to make a new appointment i n t h e room o f M r Br a " deceased. f the Mr. WOODRU FF , i n mov i ng t h e conf i rmat i o n °mod proceedings ment i one d t h at app li cat i on had been ree t he from Messrs. Baines, Bremner, and Bell, to oceePloi position held by the late Mr. Wainwright. dolt Vestry, however, unfortunately had no funds at ge e disposal, and therefore could not take any in reference to the applications. Mr. "°, t 1 . 012 then said he f e lt i t hi s d uty to ca ll the st—acgr of the members to the resolution of the Finance mittee, authorising an interview of the churchwarde rl i ej of overseers of Liverpool with the overseers an d ofect - t be the township on the othe r s id e o f t h e water, as svel ll of townships adjoining Live r p oo l on thi s s id e. with the t wo of considering the propriety of bringing into eit 4 r e g e , of dock property, for th e re li e f o f t h e poor on b o th w e . ; go the water. He di - I not intend, at the p re s en t time, to into the reasons which induced the Finance Conoli t t eltt adopt this course, but he thought it more than Pr ° .," - t ee that, in the ensuing session of Parliament, some It te. " - pof would be adopted to secure t o th e par i s hi oner s a i. Pa o 4 share of the pa r ochi a l b ur d ens b e i ng b orne by t'6▪ 000 trust. He believed it was an admitted principle for.' off past, and that a great number of members of Parlieu l tio e during the late Parliamentary contest upon the (r e : the of town dues, were entirely under the impression til: tig le dock estate did cmtribute to the local rates of the b° - , 1 ,012 Mr. Woodruff mentioned that, in consequence of th e • 1a • of the late Mr. Brad haw, medical officer, some ehantr i el the arrangements had been found necessary, and A it e etl i proposed to transfer a p or ti on o f t h e l ate me d ic al °' - : e t dis . rict to Me. Norris, givin g a p or ti on o f t he deert the latter to Mr. Games, at an increased salary of Sefteo year. In conclusion, Mr. Woodruff congratulate bf Board upon the total ab sence o f c h o l era, as r eporw the district medical offieers. The Ceeteereer passed a high eulogium upon th e _A td Mr. Wainwright, who, h e men ti one d, h a d co ndoned render important services to the Vestry after they' ceased to give him any remunera ti on . I n his b ut , t o tolljudgement it was no t t oo l ate f or t h e V estry , a t ' offer the tribute of its sympathy to the surviving we; o ne of the family of an ind vidual whom all respecteat,ve whom he (tile Chairma n ) l ove d as a personal frie r ' b ig! man of the s ric:est and highest integrity, and evhS ais r.) rendered to that Boa r d th e most va l ua bl e serv i ce s. ( 'Jut - 0 The proceedings were c on fi rme d, M r . W oo druff g i l i er y notice of a motion, for the p ur p ose o f ma king the 94 , 00 11 tions alluded to in the a rr a ngemen t s o f t h e me dical districts. Mr. WOODRUFF movsd the 1)1lowing resolution f oil/ the Vestry, deeply sympathising with the sur viving 00 and frienus of the late Mr. William Wainwri g ht, req the Chairman to communicAte to Mrs. Wai n wrigu a heey expres'ion of their sympathy, and trust that she rota family will accept this as a blight te s ti m ony ° esteem " 1,0 • Thl , 4 Vtliallifb% Tfii hu mess. SINGULAR HERISCITAR Y BEQUEST. —ln a late nose' of the British Medical Journal, D r . Nlackind. , r, of „ o f borough, give s th e f o ll ew i ne interesting partieul''; els di ficiency of parts, .xtentilieg hroug,l: six generation 'lips, family named Smi:h, living at Gainsborough :—" lasts Thomas Chapman, of this town, on the 31st Mare' was attended in her confinement by my assistsnt'sefal Capron. In consegeence of an abse nce o f cer tain ° t ee . members of the bo.'y to be par e iculirised hereafter' mother was very naturally era's:us to know if h er m s ish had been modelled more in accordance with the Pur",, — ed prototype than with her imperfictly sculptured se lf ' a te, we can well imagine the parental jey on hearing tu a nd non-profes,imial observer:, her first-born daughter f rg o f readily pass muster as a fair specimen of the datieh te so rs England. .In the presein;e of Mr.. Ceproe's ol ec . e ly fie Mr. Sin , dlmen, and three generations of the fatni d , f cres!ion. I obtained the following particulars, Isla t ee will endeavone to give, in an intelliteible Ern:, traciloti generations leecewards :—Generetioe first : The in t o : P t he middle ehaln ages of the eight fiegers ate sv 3 `! v i o g the last phal e„,es arVeulaieng with the first, and g i l l s of peculler short and tapering appearance. The I ', 3 t - r id both liole fingers are abseat, and th it of the 140 ' 8 0° finger is abortive 'lh: kirs are all nearly of th e ta• length, and well suite a for the square-toed heots.-- 11 :d e ght tion s'z'canod : Tee m u hoe The middle phalanges fingers and all the nails ere absent. The first phalang e ;p 9 oet culete with the last, which are much sh_rter than ead l o pir and have the exact appearance of having undergone- • tetion at the middle o f e ac h thi r d p h alanx b y a tre,friseP fl •p. The fourth toe of each !oat hes only the first ph' the Mrs. Ch :preen is the ecnngest of a family of nil' the seven elder of who n and th e i r c hild ren wer e ° b ads' legitimat e con f ormat i on. Her brother, the eighth :both who was drowned, had the rine and little fingers e 1 s ils;- hands Minus the second and third phalanges and :bye and thse. fourth and fifth tees of ea c h f oo t were U nited o nly web.—GenerationTne grandfather possesse d bo tOf th e fi rs t phl anges of the eight finger:, the there „feet" flattened, and th e ph a l angeal nrticulations very irnp;ister tie had two brothers and ten sisters, of whom one had the eight middle phalanges and the nails wanti o ile. second sister had th e third- middle phalanges an d 1, 001 wanting. Anoth:r sister had the right index norw e s eV' seven fingers minus.the s.ccond and third phalang es le l a st ; nails. A b ro th er h a d the same m alformations as, t 0:1 14 mentioned sister. All the four h a d an irregularitll r Y i ,eete the toes. The other brother an d s i s t er w ere eit•O One of his brothers married, and had four daughter tlie floe': was properly f orme d ; an d the other three wan te d th°: second• phalang es and na i ls to all the fingers. %till/ families of the eth er b ro th er and sisters nothing i s ace (Aber known.— Generati on f ourt h . The grandfather's ni ne tb° and three of hi s ristere, like himself, wero all wi no ' second end third ph a l anges an d na i ls of the e i g ht "e B ra' and the second phalanges of the fourth toes-- - ` l rat ioe tion fifth. Hi s ma t erna l grandmother, and—gene sato° sixth—his. m•ternal great-grandmother had the her parts deficient as himself —Generation seventh- ot to mother was the soil which gaze such vigorous r e bag the unfortunate we e d. There were other branches' for o of the nature of th e i r d ev i ation from the regular ie be no reliable infunm ttion is at hand. Whatever the theory of learned plapialogists and profound ! lin o peers with reference to such cherelitory their abstract speculation will at once be diffo j i m eu ot b e t: vapour by the rationale of the infant's grauu„ r i a rch According to this veaerable lady, the foolish r" sc eielk of the six generation s had in his garden a tree t o re , bore a, single apple. Fur this he entertained the.F3';weak found respect, aed furoade anyone to pluck it. bee torale, ipto anct evil m,ment, beguiled by aeme unha'lowed. „roe. spouse put faith ter hand and stole the solitarY,ern he Mighty was the anger of her lord and snastern:_ipeot, be beheld the frtft'ess tree ; and, itt language u ''' o ff e neer nursed the thief, and prayed, for so heinous au t a ll a ll h e that the fingers which touched the apple inr an d in, chopped off. His wife, enceinte, feared rauc i in g 1 30 ; solitude poured oat her mournful regrets, bet . 01_, r . hour to to confers the crime. Alas! time passed bY ; her to confers the crime, Atas! time passed Y ' bad beeu° pain drew near ; the fearful prayeie too trnlY, " era w hich heard; a child was born; but sad to tell, the 614 -fraVg eil s.. ihe its father had wished to be amputated ha's ins of " - 0 torgotton to grow. Since the vi-itation of tho 8 mor e as be" full fathers to the third and fourth generation h t the than accomplished 'Jere, penalty of the misdeed has been paid, and thi' wit we will now hope . t _ h t ne eclitti formation will henceforth be discussed as a tel in time past." 10, ArLEWIS & COMPANY'S, Rao- 7. h-ems' /04 11 k 7. r.' BOYS aro CLOTHED from tkw Are of Siz -Ty I. , .4/ 134 it) Ty tli oltaii ____ a~ 4- \ `..l ,‘; .. 3=~~ ~, •.: .~: