Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-14 00:00:00

THE EXT-2.,CT:TION CAPTAIN ROGERS, The following appeared in our Extra Edition of Satnr_ day . Death i 3 fearful to contemplate under anyecireuinstances. The mangled remains of humanity, after the terrific shower of grape ; the brokea limbs, ga'.hored after the fearful collision on some railway; the ghastly appearance of bodies taken front the coal pit, where the angel of death, through the agency of fire dame, has mein taiued his sway—ell are dreadful to contemplate; but the most app dung of all deaths is thea of legal strangulation. On the justice or propriety of banging human beings— even for the greatest crime that mast's fallen and debased 'nature is capable of plreetrating ;--ate arc net now called ton to pronounce ; bat even admitting the necessity for such exhibitions, a degree of horror must always be asso ciated with sech censernmation of refined cruelty; There sire crimes which shin oar natnre—e!rinees dark and dread ful, the perpetration of which should f ever - exile the author from the seciety of man—bat should that exile be death ? Thwever, as we are not arguing on the philosophy of patella execatioas, for crimes which the law says the perpetrator meat Ale, our duty to-day is simple, yet painful, being obliged, as public journalists, to describe the ex't from this world of a men in the full vigour of life, who a short tine sine,e, no doubt, looted forward to a long life of happiness and most likely nntieipated the - satisfaction of seeing his children gather round him in his declining years with true affec tion, and leoked through the future wit►t the bright eye of hope, imagining that his remains would be followed to an teanured grave, instead of an ignominous .end oe a scaffold, by the hands of tba common exe cutioner, and an unmarked grave within the:precincts of a .prison. How of-en has the nefortunate Henry Rogers, who died on the scaffold this day, read the details of the death of some one who forfeited his life for having imbrued his hands in the-blood of his fellow creature? How remote then, was the idea that he shell 1 one day be the subject of public discussion, and that he should die the ienomineus death, thecontensplation of which be nrnst have shrunk from with horror ? Yet such has been the case. The his tory of tae case that has depr:nted this man of existence, at a comparatively early stage of a successful life—that has left his - wife a widow, and hie five unfortunate children without a protector, is so well kno we, and so recently before the public, that it is not necessary for us to recapitulate (except as in our early edified) 'the facts more fully. - Very likely a difference of opinion will ever exist in regard to what is known as cv'ital punishment—the object, ,if punishment, must be a total fetlare, end if for example, and With the view cf detering others from the perpetration of crime, we boldly assert that the spectacle of a public execution is productive of much more evil than what it is meant to correct. The day will yet come when future generations will look with as much horror on oar present system of taking away life as we do at this Jay contemplate the faggot, the half-hanging, and then disembowelling of the yet living wretch. Torture to extract confessions, burning of witches, and other modes of taking away life, which we properly abhor, were merely the custom of the age in which barbarities were practised ; hanging is the refiaement of such cruelty, and in another century the present generation will come in for their share of deserved odium. The pubic mind cannot be compared to anything in its likings, or dslikings; it runs in this or that direction of the popalar compass, without much inquiry of the why or wherefere. A MAN TO BE HANGED, at Kirkdale, no matter for what offence, is sure to bring a crowd, composed of the lowest class of society; for no person pretending to respectability, or even common decency, is ever seen in the crowd that surround the gallows, when the d',ath struggles of some hapless being are gazed on, whilst, in most cases, brutal jests go round, at the moment the spirit of the doomed culprit is passing under Seal lodgment at the bar or eternal and everlasting justice. 'This is frightful, but it is true; every one who reads this is fully aware of its accuracy. The offence for which Henry Rogers died on the scaffold this day was considere 1 by the law, of such a nature as not to be forgiven by a human t ibunal; but will his death prevent others from acting more like brutes than men? That questioa remains to be answered. We are at a logs to know bow it is that when a person is to be executed that people collect, not only from the Immediate loo►lity. bat come from great distances, in order to witness the revolting exhibition, with as much gout as if attending a horse-race, and less thoughtlessness than if witnessing a dog-fight in the streets. Was it a yearning after morality that actuated the thousands who collected at Kirkdale gaol this morning to see an unfortunate creature dangling by the neck with a piece of rope, between Haven and earth, that brought that mass of human beings there? Was there one in that vast crowd, who beheld his dying struggles that felt the least sympathy for his fate? We should be afraid to answer "yes," for if such were the case, one and all, would have rem tined at home, and not dared to have intruded at such a moment to disturb the lest sigh or, it is to b 3 hoped, a truly penitent soul, not only for the offence that brought him to such an end, bat all the offences of his life. THE MORNING was fine and bright, end contributed to swell the number of persons present—about 40,000—and although the hour named fur the awful tragedy was twelve o'clock, yet land before that time crowds began to pour in towards Kirk. dale from all quarters. One would think that the labouring and male In classes of Liverpool, and the adjacear. might have been better ant; more profitably engazed on a Saturday, than atteudiog the strangulation of a fellow being, yet we are sorry to s:.y it was otherwise. Popular indignation, we are aware, ran high agai st the condemned criminal ; but, if vengeance caul I be pursued further than death, there might be some seeming excuse for the attend ance of the idle an i thoughtless; the labourer and the mechanic, and a host of others, whose morbid taste brought them to the front of Kirkdele gaol this morning. Had it been announced that a sermon would be preached, or a lecture draivered, how many persons would have attended? But we speculate not. Henry Rogers, a man in the prime of life, was to be hung up litre a mad dog, and that fright ful exhibition bad m ire attractive charms for the "millior,:" than wowed have been communicated by words of peace, consolation, and redemption for sinners. The preparations for the execution had been all made on Friday night. The fatal drop, with all its sad and dreary accompaniments, was placed in the usual position. &rune ,barriers were erected at proper divances from the walls of the gaol, so as to prevent the pressure of the crowd, and a large body of police were present and stationed in proper places to preserve order. We have thus written up to el yen o'clock and the crowd still increases. The approaches to the drop were literally crammed with human beings, and amongst the vast crowd, we regret to say, there was a large number of women, both young and old, mostly well dressed, a great many cf whom held children in their arms. A great number of boys, apparen• tly of the lowest class, were early in attendance. As the time drew nigh, fur the strangulation, the crowd momentarily increased, and in the crowd, before the drop, M Edward Sumner, a local preacher, was addressing the people. There were also some members of the Town Atiakion present, and several psalms were sung. A respect ably dressed female was distributing tracts amongst the teoPle- The police force stationed about the place consisted of 150 men, eight inspectore, and superintendents Ride and Thyd, besides fifty men of the county force, under Mr. Sellers, and wren the latter came en duty, at six in the sinning, there were over 400 persons already collected about the scaffold. Now and then a laugh and cheer were raised at some rough jest, and the g -neral feeling appeared to be that of merriment and hilarity. Maly persons same from Old ham, Mancherer, Bu-y, and the surrounding districts. As was expected, a gre at number of sailors would be present, and thoy did come, in cansiderable force, dressed in their bat clothes. igt was thought that they would exhibit some hostile feelings towards the condemned suns, but up to this time nott.ing has taken place. A cheep train from Mai Chester added, at this moment, some hundreds of people to the crowd. several persons were engtged selling ginger-beer and ether things amongst the crowd, and a . confused noise was kept up alt through. THE NOTITHERN TIMES.--f-LIVERPOC POLICE INTELLIGENC,c --SATURDAY. LIVERPOOL. BMW{ Mit. MANSFIELD. ASSAULT VN BOARD AN AMERICiN VissEc.—Hirarn Trot, first mate of the American emigrant-ship Webster, now lying in the river, and about to sail, was brought up under a warrant by detective-officer Eaton, charged with an assault upon Thomas Kelly, a passenger-steward in the vessel. The steward was not present, being obliged to remain in the Northern Hospital, in consequence of the injuries he had received. It appeared, from the statements of witnesses, that on Thursday morning Kelly was coming up with some coals to the cook's galley. when the defendant approached him, and some words followed, which the witnesses did not hear ; and defendant then seized hold of Kelly by the collar of the coat and the trousers, and dashed him upon the deck. Other witnesses, however, stated that the defendant only gave Kelly a violent push, Kelly fell upon an iron railing, which covered a part of the hatchway, and cne of his ribs was fractured. Mr. Cobb appeared for the defendant. The defence was that the steward had been drinking whiskey with some of the wtssengers ; that there was considerable disorder on boa d ; and that the defendant haviag remon strated with Kelly, and told him to go away in vain, gave hint a push, without intending to do him any injury. It was stated by the surgeon that Kelly would be disabled, probably for about a fortnight, but it did not appear that the injuries would have any lasting consequences. Mr. Mansfield suggested that the defendant should give soma petunia-y conopeasation to the injured man, who would lose his ship, and be disabled from work for some time. The defendant consented to accept the sug gestion, and the parties left the court fir the purpose of making some arrangement. The case was subsequently arranged and the defendant was cEscha-ged. We under stand the injured man agreed to accept £2 as compen sation. A PUBLICAN FINED F 32 BEING DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. —William Rule, publican, Mersey-street, was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in the street, about nine o'clock last Friday night Mr. Duck defended the prisoner. The officer stwed that he believed the prisoner was some what out of his mind, and was frsquently very disorderly in his own house. Mr. Mansfield inflicted a'fine of 5s and , costs, and directed that the case be reported at the next 1 licensing sessions. ATTACK ON Two B llLlFFS.—Fre!eriek Bateman, a cabinet maker, residing in Great Crosshall-street, was charged with throwing heavy missiles at a bailiff named Charles Keenan and his assistant. It ap peared that the bailiff came to execute a distress warrant on the house in which the defendant was a sub-tenant, and the defendant, from a parer, window, flung out a block of logwood, weighing nearly half a hundred weight, and some smaller piec's oc wood, down upon the pavement, close to where the bailiffs stood. Mr. Bluck contended, on the part of the defendant, that the latter had no in tention to injure the baigiffs, and only threw out the logs to save them from the hands of the Philistines (Laughter.) Mr. Mansfield fined the defendant 203 and costs, or in default of payment one month's imprisonment. ROBB 3RY OP £517 IN PA RIC-L UR. —Thomas Pitnm, John Rice, and Louisa Pimm, were placed in the dock charged with having broken open a safe in the house of Mr. George Kearns, publican, Park-lane, and stolen £517. Mr Kearns' public house and spirit vaults are situate at the corner of Forrest-street, in Park-lane, and on the evening of Saturday the 29th of August, Mr. Keacns left the place about five o'clock, having locked into his safe, behind the counter, £517 in g )11, silver, and notes. The following morning it was found that the safe had been A pierced by means of some instrument, above the key hole, and forced open. The drawers in an inner office were elso broken open. 'I he money was all gone, and papers, &e., were scattered about. Informa tion having been given to the police, Inspector Murphy examinel the premises, aid cams to the conclusion that the robbery must have been effected by some . persoh concealed in the house during the night. The prisoners were arrested in a public-house in Bedford street, Chorlton, Manchester, by officers Sandford and Bateman, of the Manchester de•ective police. Several iron instruments, known to be such as are used in breaking open locks, were found in her possession. When the female prisoner was arrested, and told that she mast be taken to the Town hall, she said she had some money about her, and she took from under her clothes, a bag containing £202 10s. in gold. Information wts c)nveyel to Mr. Clough and Inspector Murphy and the prisoners were brought to Liverpool. Some of the implements discovered with them, were found by a locksmith to correspond with the perfora tions in the safe and drawers. Mr. Kearns identified some of the sovereigns by marks which he had observed before locking them into the safe El ward Lewis, a clerk employed by Mr. Kearns identified, among a number of other men, the prisoner Rice, as having been drinking in the bar about eleven o'clock on the night in question. This witness also picked out of the 210 sovereigns one which he identified by a mark upon the back of the head, as having been givea by him to Mr. Kearns a day or two before the robbery. A police officer also identified Rice as a man whom he had observed lounging with some others near Mr. Kearns' door late on the same night, and of whose appearance, thinking it suspicious, he then took considerable notice The pri soners were defended by Mr. auck. Esther Smith, who lives in Bedford-street, Manchester, said the prisoners lodged with her, and on the Saturday and Sunday, when the robbery was committed, they were absent. They came home on the Monday very dirty The female prisoner said her husband was a carpenter. In reply to Mr. Bluck, the witness said the police brought her to Liverpool. She lives in a beeriouse. Daniel Povey, tool maker, of Park lane, said he was called on to examine the drill and ciDsel found on the prisoners, and the marks on the drawers, safe, &e., agreed with them, and he was convinced the instru ments now produced were used to open the safes, &c. To Mr. Black the witness said the implement was a clever invention. Mr. Bluck addressed the come . , and contended that the evidence was not sufficient to convict his clients. Mr. IVlansfield said the cate was not free from doubt, and some of the arguments of the learned gentleman pressed on these points ; there were other circumstances that he could not get over. He sent the prisoners for trial at the sessions. CLIARGZ AG tINST A JEWELLER.--Jacob HoMilder, a jeweller, residing in Great kliward-street, was chirgad with having a stolen ring in his possession. Teresa Sloan said she was at the General Post-office on Wedneslay night, whoa her pocket was picked of a parse and two sovereiAns and a ling, the latter of which was found in the shop of the prisoner. Mr. Dodd appes,7ed for him, and proved that he bought the ring, and he was discharged. FXritAOßDlgaltY CASE ABOUT A BANK BlLL.—Detective officer Scott brought up a respectable looking elderly man, named Samuel Acker ley, described as a gentleman, residing at Sefton. House, West Derby, on the follow ing charge The prisoner was dressed as a clergy:mix, and his appearance in the dock caused mach curiosity. The history of the case was as follows :—Mr. John Hunt, an attorney, residing at 15, York-street, Dublin, came to Liverpool in order to pay Mr. Thomas Green, brewei;, a sum of £2lO for a small property that he had sold in the county of Sligo. He brought two bills, drawn on the B Ink of England by the Bank of Ireland, one for £155 This bill, with a ten and five pound note, was in a pocket-bo)k, in his eic:e pocket. On the night of the 23,,h of August, Mr Hunt was in Back Castle-street speaking to a female, when a man came up and asked him the way to Cheshire. He add he was a stranger, and just at that instant the woman snatched his pocket-tpok from his pocket (his coat was op o), :and got clear away with it. On the 4th inst. .Mr. Hunt received a letter from the prisoner, stating that he had the bill, and that it was found on the West Derby-road, by an unfortunate, bat honest, Irish gentleman, and demanded £3O for its r storation. Several letters passed between the parties, and at last it was agreed that Mr. Hunt should exile over to Liverpool and meet the prisoner. 113 met him, by appointment, in Church-alley that (Saturday) morning, and the prisoner said he coull produce the bill in five minutes, but refused to do so unless he g)t £3O. Mu. Haut refused, saying he had lost £l5 already, and would not give any more. Tne prisoner said the bill was not drawn in duplicate, and therefore Mr. Haut could not get the money unless he got the bill. After some conversation, Scott, who was hard bye, was called, and the prisoner was g:ven into custody. Scott stated that he heard the conversation Mr. Mansfield said there was no doubt the case was one of larceny, and he would send the prisoner for trial, but it was afterwards arranged to remand him for a week. [lt is only right to say that Mr. Ackerley had advertLel the bill as found on the West Derby-road.] THE Ain. TRZASURIS EIIIIBITtON.—The e:mmittee of the lllaneheste:. Art Treasures Exhibition hare resolved to close it on the 15th of October next. THE INDIA RELIEF FUND.—On Friday the Lord Mayor received from ik ad Dalhousie a cheque for £5OO towards the fund fur the relief of the sufferers by the Indian rebellion. The adsices per the African mail steamer Gambia, states that the exploring expedition to the river Niger and its tributaries, in charge of Dr. Baekie, R.N , left the Bass river for the N gar, on the 10th July—all well. The expe dition is cr_smnosed of Kroomen, twenty.tive natives of the countries blr - Licrirg on tho Niger and Chadda, and four teen Europeans. It is said to be the intention of Mr. Macgregor Laird to form trading posts on the banks of the river, for the collection of cotton, butter, and other productions of the interior, provided the clip:lite offers no insuperable obstacles. L, MONDAY, .Si PTE THE LAST SCENE took pl.tc3 at twelve o'clock, when the executioner appeared for a short time on the dry, to try if the beam was all right. Prevlons to this the crowd became so great, that the barriers began to giro way, and props bad to be used to keep them in their cosition. At this moment there were various estimates made of, the number of pcop'e present—certainly there never was such a crowd co;!e:ed about li , rkdale on any like occa sion. The best judg&s confidently assert that there were frAn forty to fly thouFand persons at least present, and our own notion is that this is not over-rating the number. At the hour stated, the unfortunate convict came on the fatal. drop, preceded by the Bev. Mr. Apleton, the chap lair, reading a portion of the burial service, and the offi dials of the prison, the executioner, and Mr. `Wright. There was a strong impression amongst the crowd that tae unhappy man would address them, but in this they were dissappointed, as he did not utter a word. We are gl4d to say, also, that there was no demonstration on the part of the crowd —he stood for a second on the drop, whilst the rope was being adjusted round his reek, thee shook hands wi , h the parties oa the platform, raised his oyes towards Heaven., as if in prayer, and in a scaond more be was launched into eternity. He died without a struggle, and the d-ath of Andrewßose. the sailor, was this avenged by the shedding of the blood of the unfortunate Henry Roger , . The crowd then began to disperse and soon after the place was left without any mark of the tragedy that had been enacted. THE CVLPRIT'S DEMEANOUR WHELE INCAR CERATED. From the regular order issued b . , the Home Office, as to the treatment of criminals after the awful sentence of death•is pronounced upon them, they are forbid intercourse with any, -except their own immediate relations, and that, too, at only stated and short intervals. By this well regalited or lee, the urif)rtnnate• culprit has no inter course with the world, and therefore his dune and attention is entirely devoted to s?iriteal matters only; and, like:vise, by the same regulation, all that transpires within the precincts of the condemned cell is kept strictly private. This is as it should be, for it has a tendeccy to check the morbid curiosity that is but too frequently displayed by the public on such awful occasions as that in which the life of a henna being has to be stcritced by the laws of his c ;nary. flowerer, notwithstanding this pre cau}ion, there are little incidents • that will ouzo out, and from them we learn, that from the first moment that Henry Rogers was ap prised of the fact that the appeals to the Home Office for a mitigaiou of the awfal sentence of death had been un successful, and that the time for his execution was fixed for this day at noon, he paid the greatest attention to his religious duties, and frequently, earnestly, and fervently offered up prayers to the Almighty. On the day preceding the executi on, he wes visited by his wife ani three of the children, to bid him a final farewell, daring which the eulp'it partook of ttLe solemn ordinance of the secrement, is which be was joined b 7 the two mate?, Miles and Seymour. • Before taking final leave of his late com rades, he tried to impress upon their minds the necessi y of preparing for death whenever it should come upon ; them, and a sense of gratitude fur the favour which had been extended to them. The mates, in their turn, exhibited a very kind, warm feeling towards the • captain. After the separation from his wife and chi& m he was very much agitated for some time. But although through out his religious bearing and demeanour bat been most gratifying, he from yesterday morning seemed to have experienced a new, deep, and happy change in his feelings ; he felt more satisfied with himself; he !Olt assured that his contrite prayers were heard, aad that he would be 'forgiven. Re displayd no vindictiveness towa-da any one, and offered up supplications fur those who had in any way injured him. Sometimes he talked about the revolting mode of death which awaited him, and seemed to feel acutely the disgrace which his ignominioes end would cast upon his family. However, after the poor and unfortunate Henry Rogers was cut off, and while his lifeless body was still hangin g from the fatal beam, the members of Press, were, through the kindness of the Under Sheriff and Gaoler, admittel within the prison, where they were most courteously treated by the worthy chaplain, the Reverend Mr. Appleton, Mr. Gibbs, the the gaoler, and all the officials connected with the es ab lisnment. II q•etofore we have abstained from publishing any of the rumoured scenes that were alluded to have taken place unless from good au hor:ty, but we new give the following official account as to how the culprit spent the last hours of his existence on this earth, previously to his sufnring the extreme penalty of the law. This case. although one of the most painfel nature— the culprit being a man who has hitherto conducted him self in a way as to raise himself Worn the sphere of society in which he once moved, but the offence being of =nch a character. as scarcely to have its parallel in the annals of our criminal records—was somewhat different to many that has preceded it. .Than the great and ina2or t- ant question has been—has the culprit confessed ? But the tae's is this case were tou patent. There was the patent fact that the poor and unfortunate deceased, Andrew Ruse, died from the brutal and atrocious treat ment he had received while on board the ship Martha Jane, of which Henry R3gera was the master, and whom a jury had found guilty of his wilful murder, and who this day died an ignominious death. Therefore, it only now remaics for U 3 to to des - vibe the manner in which he passed the night previ -033 to his ex ,, cutim, and what ha stated will regard to his conviction. From the statement or the chaplain it ap peared that he retired to rest abaut 11 o'clock last night and after sleeping for abcut two hours prayed most fer vently and sclemly by himself. He then laid down and had anoner Short steer, and kept on, throighout the remaindar of the eigh, praying and bleeping alternifelr. A m)re penitent prisnner the chaplain never attended to such art awful end. Ha never made a - y ewer; I.ht against the witnesses who appeared for the prosecution or any other pars-in, but during his confilem-nt admitted that he had done many things wrong is the course of his life, and expressed a hope that he shauld be forgiven as ha forgave others. On his way fr►m the pressroom, after being pin ioned by Calcraft, the executioner, he was accompenied by the R.y. Mr. Appleton, chaplain of gaol, Mr. Wright, Prison Philanthropist - , Mr. Birehil, Under Sheriff of the County, Mr. Gtbbs, Governor of the Gaol and Mr. Fornby, the Deputy Governor. Rogers requested the chaplain to tell him what he should say at the last moment. The chaplain told him he ha l htttr say a short prayer; arid he said, ‘• Lord Jesus I thank yon." Wtl that a) The ch . aplain replied that he had. batter say " Lord Jesus rec Are ni 7 spirit." After the rfme was adjusted he requested C t'criat: to again a;k the chaplain what he was to sly, end the latter gentleman went and repeatel the words he h.i.d previously done, which the prisoner did also, as the drop fel'. P. itr to the fatal holt being withdrawn, he requested to shake hands with Calcraft, which was acquiesced in. Previous to ascending the scaffold, R ) , Yers inquired of the executioner if he thought there wouA n be any impropriety in addressing the assembled multitude. C dcraft advised him not to do so, as he was afraid the people would not hear him, and he consequently did not attempt to mike any remarks. His haying so profitably pissed his utne in attending to his reigions duties, and being so exceedingly penitent, at an early hour in the morning ilea sacrament was adminiater6a to him by the Rev. Mr. Appleton. Mr. Wright, and all the offiei Ili connected with the gaol, concurred with the fact, that they never before met with a person so truly penitent as the unfortunate man, except, as Mr. Wright observed, the man Pedder, who was recently executed at Lancaster, fur shooting his wife. Since his eundemuation, and e7en up to tho tine he mounted the sc,ffvld, Rogers conducted himself as de scribed by the under-Sheriff in a wanner that they might expect from the British sailor in meeting death, fur while he was firm, that firmness did not amount to bravado. Although Rogers had repeatedly prayed most fervently fur all parties, and partieularl.., the witnesses who were brou g ht against him on his trial, he more than (nee- cbservtA that he had n t committed a single act th it tel to the death of the man Rose, but never denied the justice of his sentence. Mr. Weight stn el that, up to the last moment, Henry Rogers had expressed the deep debt of gratin ide be owed to the Chaplain and the Governor, ;or their kindness to him during his incarceration. A. BOLD STROKE FOR A BREAKFAST. Breaking watchmaker's windows appears to have be• come fashionable in Cork now-a-days. It is only a few days since we had to record an offence of this description committed upon Mr. Tate's establishment. On yesterday a fellow named Sharp followed the example of Mr. Tate's friend with a view, as he stated himself, of securing a similar reward from his worship the Recorder. This Sharp, about ten o'clock in the mornir g delibefately walked up to Mr. Lovelt's window, Grand Parade, and thrust his fist into a large pane of glass, and in addition to sundry lacerations which he received in the performance of the operation, a valuable gold watch was so unfortunate as to attach itself to tie wounded hand. This feat having been performed, the ofrsnder waked into the shop with the grea'e.t sang froid imaginable and informed Mr. Lovell he had " d Ale it " Mr. Lovell detained h;s unwelcome customer while he was despatching a messenger for a policeman, and in the meantime the following colloquy took place :—Mr. Lovell : Why, sir, did you break my window ? Customer : Writ indeed, I was starving, and wanted to get where they would give me something to eat. Mr. Lovell: Sir, it was a c)wardly act; why dd you not gl to the Poor-house, where you would g:t S3mething to ets ? Sharp : Well, I did go there last night, and I was turned away. 31 , ?. Lovell: You rascal, it was a cmardly act. Sha-p : You lie, sir, it was not a cowardly act, and I tell you that although it is in your own house I am. Mr. Lovell: It was a cowardly and rascally act. Sharp: I say you are a liar, sir, and Ora me a pistol and I'll let you sae my cowardice. By this time a cowiderable number of idlers corgregato l about the shop-door, some of whom overbearing the angry discussion, ran in, and succeeded in putting a stop to its further progress, till the arrival of a pair of policemen. who politely removed the customer to durance vile. We understand Sharp is a returned convict. So much for the ticket-of. leave system. —Cork Reporter. SPIRIT OF THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Press feels it to be its duty most earnestly to impress upe,n the conservative body throughout the country at large that the question about the new Reform Bill is by no means at an end, and that it would be a political error of grave magni• tilde to jail into the trap that the measure is ad j3urneit. Ministers aro too deeply committed by their pledges on the subject to escape from it easily, even if they desired to do so; and there is a section of them most eager to have the measure settled. Only a small number of the ministers are officially connected with the actual management of Indian affairs ; and recollecting the immense amount of work that can be performed by Parliament, it would be a most rash and precipitate conclusion to suppose that Parliament was unable to deal simultaneously with the India question and with the New Reform Bill. Until the subject of a new Reform Bill be decisively settled one way or another —until it is either positively abandoned or frankly undertaken—it will be utterly impossible for the conservative party to feel any sense of security ; faeir political power and their social influence will be menaced ; and the conservatives, now fore warned, should be forearmed, and should not make the same error in domestic politics which certain official wiseacres, after full notice, have committed on Indian aff&irs Enormous delusions prevail about some portions of the subject of parlia mentary reform, and it is in the highest degree necessary that the public mind of the country, and that the adherents of the conservatives, should bo thoroughly familiarised with the knowledge appertaining to this ever recurrent question of " Reform." The Leader thus disposes of the originator of Mormonism :—" Bern at the very head quarters of Yankeeland, Joe Smith has all the ingenuity and energy of a northern man. He did not, as some are still doing, go into any branch of ordinary commerce ; he did not set up an Ohio Trust Company, or a bubble railway company; but he struck out another joint-stock enterprise, which has proved to be quite as successful, and much more enduring, than many other schemes in New York. There was no great originality in his plan of action. He ' saw visions;' he heard a voice call him into a wcod ; a great light coma upon him ; and he had the honour of an interview with two persons, one sitting on the right hand of the other, who gave him direct and specific instructions as to his mode of action. He found a cyst, or box, contain ing metal plates, inscribed with hieroglyphical characters ; he copied or burlesqued these in some more voluminous form on paper or parch ment ; and an original of the book of Mormon was exhibited to a learned gentleman. It proved to consist of some ancient characters more or less closely copied, - with Roman characters laid down on their backs or sides, as may be seen sometimes in bad printing, with other fanciful marks. The characters were ranged like those of some Oriental languages, in lines from top to bottom Subsequently Smith produced his own translation' of this mystic book, whereof a few brazen or paper leaves only have been seen by others In the meanwhile, he had procured witnesses' of these various stages—persons who attested to the accuracy of his statements on oath. This is certainly stronger evidence than some reli gions can boast. Many a prophet has neglected to procure for us an affidavit duly attested before competent magistrates by . respectable people. Besides the brazen leaves, visions, and other waifs and strays, Joe Smith seems to have found an un known fiction, by a Mr. Solomon Spaulding, a person who once lived in an obscure part of the State of New York, had alternated commerce and litera ture, and had amused the leisure moments of what seems to have been an unsuccessful life in composing a rather dull romance, which represented the origin of the indigenous inhabitants of the United States. This book we have not seen ;it appears in some degree to resemble the original machinery which introduces the " Peruvian Tales." It was, however, only the basis upon which Smith constructed his volume—only the coarse canvas upon which his embroidery was worked ; for the sacred volume bears the most manifest traces of Smith's own writing, in ludicrous faults of gram mar." The Leader goes on to observe that " certain leaders of the Mormons, headed by the well-known Orson Pratt, are over in this country collecting converts—sheep to stock the farm on which Brig ham Young and his partners are making hay while the sun shines ; and they aro succeeding. Emi gration to Deseret across the republic continues on an immense scale, and emigrants carry with them large stores of money and goods. The success of the Mormon propagandism remains a mystery only until we refuse to look at sufficiently obvious causes. In the first place, there are immense numbers . of the pcople uneducated ; not only usable to read or write—many can do that who are uneducated— but unacquainted with facts, or with a sufficient number to draw practical conclusions. Some judge only too practically from limited fa 315." The- Saturday Review in an article on the same subject declares Mormonism to be political treason. People often wonder at the success of Mormonism. An incident of the past week affords, we think, the best explanation of this. The Mor mons held, and not for the first time, " an Aenual Conference" in London ; but it was certainly the first time that they announced this conference by placarding our streets with a preliminary announcement of their Sacred Synod. This shows what the English people so much ad mire—pluck. At the very moment when it is announced that President Buchanan means to take the field in earnest against 13;igham Young (though he postpones his crusade till next year), and while newspapers and railway novelists find the Polygamists of Utah useful for their respective purposes, the Mormons advertise themselves and their doctrines in the streets. This is what tells. It looks like the calm confidence of strength, as -we should call it, if we were friends of Mormonism —or sheer barefaced impudence, as we must stigmatise it, not believing in the Book of tho Golden Plates. But either way it comes to much the same thing. Shamelessness occasionally acquires -heroic dimensions. If prejudice, or even conviction, is rudely assaulted, it its often succumbs to the rude insolence as to the skill of the attack ; but knavery, to succeed thoroughly, must bid largely. Had not Mormonism been the most insolent of frauds, it would never have had a chance. It is not, on the whole, worth while for mankind to interfere with a Salt Lake Utopia, so long as it confines itself to its own borders ; but as soon as the waters of the New Jerusalem enter into the stream of settled society, there can he no longer mutual tolerance. An anti-social confederacy is only safe in the wilderness. Let it once touch a commu nity of law-governed men, and one of the two must perish. It is not, therefore, as a matter of religious liberty—the very narrowest view of the subject— that the " Mormon fanatid.sm" is to be regarded. Society has always in self-defence risen against all social revolutions of this sort. John of Leyden and the Anabaptists were impossible in Europe— Mormenisin is an equal impossibility in the United States. Either one or the other must go ; and, judging from all historical precedents, Mormonism will be put down, not as a -religious system, how ever detestable both in theory and practice, but as an organised treason against human society. The Economist pronounces the harvest to have been brought to a pretty general conclusion throughout England, and proceeds to consider its results, and its probable influence upon future prices, both here and in the other large grain pro ducing countries of the world. The wheat crop is remarkably good, of unusually fine quality, and the weight of the samples is fuily up to 6.-1 lbs per bushel. Notwithstanding .these important facts, there are no signs of discouragement on the part of the growers in reference to price. They freely admit that their prospects are good, and that a very low range of value cannot be antici pated. Alihoueh we have advises from Spain, Portugal, the Mediterranean, Turkey, and the Russian ports in the Black Sea, to the effect that wheat is gradually falling in price, there is no immediate prospect of unusually large arrivals from those quarters ; but the present high rate of exchange at New York, and a gradual decline in the value of wheat and flour there, naztY BETZ 14, 1857, induce extensive shipments towards the close of the year. Nevertheless, taking into account the high state of prosperity in this kingdom, the ability of the growers to hold back a portion of their usual supplies, and tho ;treat powers of consumption, it seems probable that those who are looking forward to a rapid fall in the value of wheat will be disap pointed. Prices may, it is true, rule somewhat lower than at present, in the event of money continuing high in the discount market, and of the importers being compelled to press sales, but not more so than the additional yield would appear to justify ; for certain it is that we have grown the best and most valuable crop of wheat on record; and, there fere, taking quantity into account, we have no doubt that farmers will obtain for it a fairly remu nerative price. It may, however, be right to add that the quality and weight of the wheat of this year's crop are so good as fully to justify an expectation that the price of bread may be reduced more in proportion than the price of wheat. The Dispatch takes a gloomy view of our present material prosperity. Wages are inordinately high, and a fair day's work is by no means supplied in the same proportion. Labourers are so " saucy," as farmers say, from the extreme demand for their services, that; employers are to a great extent at their mercy. At the s!ightest word they leave their employment, quite certain that they ma at once obtain a new engagement at not improbably higher wages. Let us go on, as we have begun to under take to conquer and rule by the sword, daily increas ing our territory and maintaining the armed attitude of conquerors, and we feel assured that the enfranchised operatives and labourers of such a country, strengthening their political power, will go on to that point which has invariably been arrived at by every nation which pursues a policy of aggression, conquest, pn.l military domination ; that every citizen will discover he is a gentleman, that labour is disgraceful, and the life of a soldier, sailor, or colonist, alone fitting the dignity of a freeman of an imperial state ; that slaves alone ought toksubmit to servitude and the lower employ ments of life ; and that Saxon blood is too precious for the drudgery of mechanical employment. At this moment our press is busily incur eating the doctrines that directly lead to this result. We are urged to swallow up China, and annex it ; we are told of the folly of leaving unabsorbed into our system a single rood or a single soul of the territory or popula tion of the Indian peninsula ; we are called upon to rule by the sword what we have " won" by the sword ; we are plainly told that, as the scimitar cut out the way for the Koran, the Nlinie rifle and the park of artillery are the only true propagandists of the cross ; that the civilising maxims of Christianity are impracticable cant and speculative mysticism, totally unadapted to the real business of this world ; that we must work out our ‘• destiny" by the means which former conquerors of the world have alone found to be practicable ; to treat patriotism as rebellion, and self-respect as proud insolence, and the love of liberty treachery, and the shame of the vanquished as ingratitude, and the devotion of others to their faith as ignorant superstition or priestly hypocrisy. Work out this—foster this spirit—accustom our people to the love of arms, and our nation to the lust of conquest ; go on invading, intriguing, conquering, holding nations in subjection by large standing armies, and as there is a God in heaven to whom the oppressed are as precious as oppres sors, who is the Father of the poorest pariah as truly as of the proudest Englishman, and who has made the wretchedness of the vanquished as immortal as the mightiest victor, we shall share the fate which has in all ages overtaken that Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other, In the interest of the masses we give this warning. The S'atunlay Review pronounces against open air preaching. Considered in the abstract, it is certainly a thing which we have no right to con demn. Undoubtedly it may be an instrument of much spiritual good. It belongs to no particular system. It is as old as Christianity, and older—it is in favour with Roman Catholics, and with Dis senters and with churchmen of all sorts. In short, merely as a mode of communicating truth, or announcing opinions, open-air preaching is not a speciality of religion at all. It be longs -to politics as well as to religion—so that, theoretically, there is not a word to say against it. But everybody of °Ammon sense feels that, when it comes to be used in religion, it is a very difficult tool to use. It looks as if it could not be misused, but it is very apt to play tricks in unskilful hands Not one preacher in ten thousand is fit to preach to a mob ; and, in fact, as those who have paid any attention to the matter know, not one street preacher in ten ever gets fifty people—at least in Lonion —to listen to him. For our own part, we believe that, wherever tried—at least of late days—it fails egregiously in its object of converting the irreligious. But in default of what is called" reaching the masses," the experi ment, it has been thought by good sad worthy people might safely be tried. And so it was tried in the parks, until the apostles of blasphemy got the largest audiences ; and open air preaching is now a mere question of police. Still the thing is, in a certain sense, popular in the religious world. A very mild form of the complaint appeared re cently in Exeter Hall, where a course of sermons was delivered to a genteel audience,'who, however, happened to be anything but the working and ir religious men for whom the discourses were in tended. And now and then, we see paragraphs that, on "fine Suedays," wind and weather per mitting, an open air sermon will be delivered. Of course, this epedemic has spread to Ireland ; and there it has taken a very characteristic form. The John Bull says—" With a laudable desire to meet the spiritual wants of the dense populations crowded together in many distrie . ..s of this vast city, or rather this agglomeration of cities, and to rescue them from the moral and religious degradation into which they have sunk down, the new bishop of this moeister diocese is engaged in forming plans for a religious aggression. Fur this purpose he has surrounded himself with a council, composed of clergymen and laymen of his own selection, whose names have been made public in an official announcement. At this point, however, the matter has, appgrently, come to a dead lock; there is, evidently, a hitch somewhere. We now feel it to be our duty to the church and to the bishop to give expression to what we know to be the views and sentiments of a large portion, probably of no inconsiderable majority, of the clergy 'and the influential church laity in regard to this matter. An apprehension is abroad, lest the plans in contemplation should be deficient in that consistency with the ord©r and spirit of the church, without which it is self evident that no church movement can, or, indeed, ought to be successful. That apprehension is grounded to a great extent on the party-colouring which the bishop has contrived to give to his council, especially to the clerical portion of it; and in some measure also to what we fear we must call the injudicious experiment of the Exeter Hall services, with which Bishop Tait unhappily inaugurated his episcopate ; and the continuance of which, notwithstanding its notorious failure as a means of influencing the masses, and the offence which it has given to the minds of churchmen, is stated to be—though we still hope without autho • rity—part and parcel of the proposed measure of metropolitan evangelisation.° The United Service Gazette does not credit the report that a Foreign Legion for India is in con templation. " Whatever may be the intentions of government," it says, " in respect to the moans to be adopted far increasing the force at its disposal, we cannot believe that it meditates anything so suicidal as the employment of foreign troops in India. We have quite trouble enough on our hands with the people who have eaten of our salt, and have been trained to arms by ourselves, without in troducing a new element of danger in the shape of the soldiery of anoiher nation. Not sixty years ago Lord Wellesley found it necessary to disarm all the French officers in the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad, because there were manifestations of their intention to support Tippoo Sahib. But for the officers, Italian and French, admitted into the army of Runjeet Sing,we never should have had so desperate 4 foe to encounter on the banks of the . - Sutlej. The Portuguese officers who disciplinio the Gwalior force, gave us some trouble at Pun ll ,,, and Maharajpore, and it is at this moment 101; taro whether there be not Europeans in P;io directing the operations of the mutineers• not the General D'Orgoni (of whom the Fr i e ! i d papers speak as en, route to India to take 073 tage of the present disturbances) in the emPIN the Burmese monarch during the last war rt STREET PREACHINCt. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES/ Sir,—Hearing some slanders thrown out agt; the above subject, I beg that, if you have r in your paper, you will insert this letter, purport of which is intended for-perusal by „‘ amongst us, who hold unfavourabla impres„, to Street Preaching. First, then—its utiliq be ably argued from the fact that the °W e lt lawful, and to promote the happineEs and I" welfare of the people at large. Se ond, Its I, sity is plainly seen, inasmuch that it is th e )" way to reach the ears of those ignorant , hearted men who make Lhe street their sv and never darken the doors of the Churche,s Chapels throughout our town ; and, last effects acid strength to its object. Here is a he has been a sabbath breaker and a drt has often blasphemed his Maker, but engaged in sin and passing through one . 01 streets, he heard a person preaching. Cu, hear what was said, he left off sinning, fol . Limo, and drew near the preacher. By the of God, through the instrumentality of that, preacher, that man's heart was touched, .40 now as you see, an upright and godly man. A there not many instances like these ? Co' not . street preaching then, but rather ens those men who deny themselves the ph of a domestic fireside after a hard days' preach the Gospel to ignorant and erring Tell them to go forward, for He whom they is with them always. 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" - -•---.l._______ 13.0 01'..T . n3ay. . i,...0 . inso l " ' , l ' . N lusted 0 , . nd to . fl •''' o,isme .: kith Asides owke o' 4 4 se a it ' s tile 1° ' •14)stli,': hue Lsiog ..,"?4,,14,,fenrri ltiog . .4;::,,letar-81 it h the' ' s '`..< o CU )se fsh, sit .-:., , g , 1%101 -7 , , -x sD uo t c . rer ob i , -,1 ; 41\ vooali . tr! 5. ~ to sPe.' Nas,ththe, „fed fil Attk,tte.Pd or F , ', t d een, Livert 18,4-pol'art,i,, sit dot' etr e 4re f r ,, r fert lone O t l y thti,.t., th( 5 (Or 1 1008 Or 7 111 1 Solt sthi 'ollr ata, w-it &!.!.. ,t,a ° A BIRKENHEAD JUSTICE. TO THE. EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TlgE g ' Sir,—l have been forcibly struck by a ler your paper of the 2nd of Jane last, where, ference to the Birkenhead police, you say tithe of what wo have heard of this sink of ll is true, the sooner the whole concern is set to the winds, the better it will be for the tc, and the country at large." Now, Sir, wb' lately occurred to me will singularly illustrate remarks, and by inserting this letter you'll' the means of saving some other unlucky from persecution. On Saturday, the ,t9th of August last, making my way from Birkenhead Ferry to C' street ; and when I came to the Post-eifice. occasion, I turned round on this side of the and was passing over the small piece of land at the rear, to regain Conway-street, ' policeman seized me by the collar, wanti ? know what I did there. I told him that conduct was quite uncalled for, and that I' go and report him. I then looked for his upon which he forcibly struck my hat off, arl took from under my arm an old pair of wrapped up in paper. I then said, "As you shoes, I don't want your number,' and made at once to the Police-Offiae, where I saw the ins, and preferred the charge. In about fifteen 10 the policeman came in, and, to quash my they charge me, on suspicion, after having enquiries about me of a lendlady of an hote l said she had known me for ten or eleven that I had formerly been in business in Birl (1846 and '47) ; that I occasionally slept had my letters addreased there, and that she considered me a very respectable young Int ie the station house I was used in the most in s ' manner ; and, even whilst Answering 4 1/ ,., e h (too satisfactorily, I conceive)was rouglaly ' to a seat by the insreztor, I exp ec t, to pr° 4 l lo ' assault. Could the magistrates have seen v . o g or five myrmidons in that office private letters, and have heard the insult' marks, it would have weighed more with than a thousand illustrations could de—desel l could not form the picture. After this f l thought advisable to lock me up, and on I‘ l , ° ' I was brought before a magistrate who thou( tho advice of those below) that my answer where I slept some ten days ago was equivoeft' put me back till some one should come to f for me ; and 02 Tuesday I was discharged sundry admonitions, a gentleman from Liv' having privately seen the magistrate and sa, him of my respectability. What is this done For gain —as I had to pay nine shillings fc' f , accommodation in brilewell for three nighta, eo was regaled with tea the last evening, and Oil ea the morning, previous to my departure. 1 1 ,0 0 case been heard before Mr, Yardley, Mr. COLI - 00 4 or any of the London magistrates, or your, beach, where would have been the position o ' , officers ? tL r Surely, sir, such a eats of things ought Otpr exist. My friends tell me they doubt not but .e I have my remedy. True ; but that may be pensive.—l am, sir, your obedient servant. GEORGE A. N - 0 31° ' 75, Hopwood-street, Scotland-road., September 9th, 1857. A FasNca VETERAN.—Among the veterans who 1 1 presented themselves at the Chane e ll er i e o f th e Vei t) Honour to claim the St. Helena medal, was one ; 11 ,. ° 4 habits the village of 81 Dennis. Hs is 107 years of t y arid still walks firm and erect, wearing a white bear d descends t) his wais`. IMPORTATION INTO FINLAND.—The Bard of Trade ba r through the secretary of State for FJ r ,;5O, Affairs, a copy of a d es p a tch f r o m h er Mejesty's u°ot at Helsingfors, reporting that the Imperial Senat' f id Finland has notifaid that rye, corn, oats, meal, and g o t! of those cereals, pe as an d potato es . ma y b e irnporte",, t el free into th e G ran d D ac hy o f Fi n l an d un til t h e 31 " December sex'. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN ST. MARTIN'S HO.'" meeting of the Society of Friends—convened for tbe roe, pose of divine worship—was hell on Friday night, i tl t Martin's Longeecre. It was celled at the reqtle A 9 Dr. Thomas, of Baltimore, a minister of th e b o dy, al l "„b 1 , public generally were invited to attend. A consider-jdo number of persons rot belonging to the society respo ll i e to the call, and even Mr. Spurgeon himself, or those c ol gymen of the establibliment who have departed frai l jott old church routine, and eudeavoured to make religoo popular, might be satisfied, if their efforts produe,e44 numerous a congregation. The b o dy o f t h e ball 00e, crowded, and on the platform were seated Dr. Thornae hr in some other gentlemen, an d a f ew l a di es. Af ter a "o. interval of silence, D r . T nomas rose, arid impressed U P r 1 his hearers the propriety of directing their minds to h it object for which they had assembled, namely, to . r 1 3,10 Almighty God. Having subsequenVy offered up a Pry he addressed the meeting at considerable length, in Phig and un stectetious language, which, by the general d ;j4 of the peop'e pr esen t was li s t ene d t o w i t h bee°""ie. attention. The proceedings closed about a quarter to o'cleck with an imp re s s i ve p ra y er f rom a f ema l e m iniste r 01 FROM (lEWSLLER3' SROPS.—During the r, l O O wedr a ttatnt.er of robberies have been committed at var . .. s ll towns between Lond m and Yorkshire, by a young'd and young woman, resreetably attired in mournilhelf good address, and genteel appearance generally. a dd operations, w hi c h are i n a ll cases t h e same, wer e de brought under the notice of the police at Derby, s t farsO u r at Doncaste r , an d su b sequent l y a t Leeds; are', it je 6 0 1 ) Eo ed, they hare carried on their depreJations in Ee l oef otht r town 3. Their mod us o p eran di i s this ..—TheYiewle; a jeweller's shop, and r e qu est t o b e s h own some ar,..,"lpe' generally a gold watch, awl after a lengthened exew,,"%f tion, they make a scleetior, tell request that a name 7, 0 be engraved on the caw, having half a sovereign 7,ief deposit and promising to call again. Of course they 11 ;0 8 return, the shopkeepet's suspicions are ay.eakene l t st l olt• then finds himself minus a valuable watch, a gold e ar ot or a costly trinket. The quiet way in which these s 0 OP E thieves go about th e i r work, throw the ahopkeePte their guard, and they are thus easily plundered; 619 : 0 140 them to a greater extent than they are even after^ aware of.