The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-25 00:00:00

THE PENRITH MthliEß.

Thomas Sowerby, alias Tommy Grey, who stands
charged with the wilful murder of a Jew, named Simon
Manassa, or Levi Davison, at Penrith, on Easter
Monday, made a confession of his guilt on Saturday.
From the evidence adduced before the magistrates,
it appeared that on Easter Monday night the
deceased, who had been staying a few days at a
common lodging-house at Penrith; *ItA de.rtkihg in the

Grey 'Bull Inn, *heice also *as the prisoner. The de-
teased left about eleven o'clock, rather " fresh in drink,"
and went in the direction of his lodgings, where, however,
he was unable to gain admittance, as the lodging-house
keeper feared that he would quarrel with a Scotchman,
who was sleeping there, and whO had insrilted the
deceased in the aftentooh by asking him what trade he
was. The deceased left the door, and returned in the
direction of the Grey Bull Inn. The poisoner left the
Grey Bull Inn half an hour after the deceased, in the
same direction as he had gone. About half-past eleven
a young man named _Atkinson saw the prisoner
walking doWn the street arni-in-dtm ifith a man, sup-
posed to be the deceased; and about three-quarters of an
hour later saw the prisoner coming over a stile which
leads to the field where the deceased was found, nearly
dead, the following morning. Near that place; in the
corner of a field, was a " hogesti" or qfcd ibr sheep
and young cattle, silbstance of the prisoner's
confession it that he met the old man, who asked him if
he could find him lodgings for the night, as he had
been locked out from the house where he had engaged
a bed. The prisoner told him he could do so, and
took him to some outhouses further up than the place
where the murder was committed, but they could not
there make themselves comfortable, so they went to the
"hogeet." 'Pie old man could not get up over the
calves on to the hayloft, and thereupon began to call the
prisoner names. They got iuto the field where the
murder was committed, and the old man threw his stick
at the prisoner, who seized him and "litittocked" him,
and when he was doirri took the old man's stick
and strdck him several times over the head. The
prisoner did not think then that he had done him any
very material mischief. He left him lying, and ran
across to the town, passing over the stile where he was
seen by Atkinson and the young girl who was frith him.
If this statement be correct, the ant Would not appear to
have bait premeditated. Both the prisoner and the
deceased were of very excitable temperaments.

Lord Stanley writes to the Times, stating, that he has
no connection with the Art-Union f Great Britain.

PUBLIC OPINION AT Ss. OGG'S-4f Miss Ttilliver,
after a few months of wellschosen travel, had returned
as IMrs. Stephen Guest—with a post-marital trousseau,
and all the advantages possessed even by the most
unwelcome wife of an only son, public .opinion, which at
St. Ogg's, as elsewhere, always knew what to think,
would 'have judged in strict consistency with those
reiults. Public opinion, in them cases, is always of the
feminine gender—not the world, btlt the world's wife ;
and she would have seen that two handsome people
the gentleman of quite the first family in St. Ogg's
—having found themselves in a false position, had
been led into a course which, to say the least of it,
was highly injudicious, and productive of std pain
and disappointment, especially to that sweet yoting
thing, Miss Deane. Mr. Stephen Guest had nertainly
not behaved well; but then young men were liable to
those sudden infatuated attachments ; and bad as it
might seem in Mrs. Stephen Guest to admit the faintest
advances from her cousin's lover (indeed it hid been
said that she was actually engaged to young Wakem
old Wakem himself had mentioned it), still she was
very young—and a deformed young man, you know !-e-
-and young Guest so very fascinating ; and, they say,
he positively worships her (to be sure that can't last!)
and he ran away with her in the boat quite against her
will—and what could she do ? She couldn't come back
then; no one would have spoken to her. And how
very well that maize-coloured satinette becomes her
complexion ! It seems as if the folds in front were
quite come in ; several of her dresses are made so
they say he thinks nothing too handsome to buy for her,
Poor Miss Deane ! she is very pitiable ; but then, there
was no positive engagement ; and the air at the coast
will do her good. After all, if young Guest felt no more
for her than that, it was better for her nut to marry
him. What a wonderful marriage for a girl like Miss
Tulliver—quite romantic ! Why, young Guest will put
up for the borough' at the next election. Nothing like
commerce 'now-a-days ! That young Wakens nearly
went out of his mind—he always was rather queer ;
but he'S gone abroad again to be out of the way—
quite the best thing for a deformed young man.
But the' results, we know, were not of a kind to
warrant this extenuation of the past. Maggie had
returned without a trousseau, without a husband—in
that degrade4l and outcast condition to which error is
well known W lead; and the world's wife, with that
fine instinct which is. given her for the preservation of
society, saw at once that Miss Tulliver's conduct had
been of the most aggravated kind. Could anything be
more detestable ? A girl so much indebted to her
friends,—whose mother as well as herself bad received
so much kindness from the Deaues,—to lay the design of
winning a young man's affections away from her own
cousin, who had behaved like a sister to her ! As for
poor Mr. Stephen Guest, he was rather pitiable than
otherwise ; a young man of five-and-twenty is not to be,
too severely judged in these eases—he is really ',TIT
much at the mercy of a designing hold girl, And it
was clear that he had given way in spite of himself ; he
had shaken her off as soon as he could ; indeed, their
having parted so soon looked-Teryblack indeecl—for
—The Mill on Ilse Flom

PRIVATE PROPERfi?'r OF WAIL,

The following letter, expressing the views of
Preside 4 tuchanan on this pubject, is published
the Anieriean papers. It is addressed to the
Chaiiiiian of the Xsvi York thanlber of Coni-
mem

Washington City, March 1.
To P. Petit, Esq.—My dear sir,—Your favour of the
sth inst., enclosing the able and interesting report and
resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of New York,
in favour of "the perfect immunity " (from capture) of
all private property upon the ocean in time of war, was
duly received and referred to the State Department. It
has since ocearred to me that the respect so eminently
due to the chamber requires flint i shOttld address yen
a few remarks in answer.

War is a dreadful calamity, shocking to hilniatiity, and
iingl4l to be
'avoided byallherourahle means but While
niankind their preSent state it will grime-
times be inevitable. If, with the small but gallant
naval force of this country, we should be driven into a
war with a nation possessing a navy far more numerous
and powerful than our own, we should then be in a com-
paratively helpless condition without the aid of priva-
t4l4. We Might with almost as much propriety agree
id ribriiiciciti our system of I.rofuntee; militia, and trust
alone to the regular arms for out' afenCo the land,
as to deprive ourselves of the services of privateers,
which are our volunteers and militia upon, the ocean.
Besides, privateers may be strictly guarded from abuses
by law, and be restrained within the inles Which govern
out reittlar,naVy. ,
. ;
kelthei a&l,YdOirieti of nrw apinst mstate
property upon the ocean or itself a_dfd Olg end
security to our commerce. In order to accomplish this
object we must proceed a step further, and obtain the
consent of the powerful naval nations that merchant
vessels shall not be blockaded in port, but be suffered
to pass the blockading squadron and go out to sea. If

these should remain blockaded in our harbours, there
would be comparatively but little private property on
the °teen to protect. A poWetful.fleet, by blockading
th# rnoitth tottld
_effect daily preVen t
any merchant vessel fi'efti genig to ie4 tiod ahy tort in,
that noble bay or its tributaries. So in regard to New
York,- New Orleans, &c.

Tf the proposition to abolish war against private pro-
perty on the ocean were combined with a proposition to
secure to merchant vessels a perfect immunity from
blockade in any port, then the subject would be well
worthy of serious consideration.—Yours respectfully,

JAMYS BNCHANAN.

WHO ARE THE l7ll77itittv
CONGRESS ?

(From the New York Triburts.)

Doubtless the most repulsive scene in this series of
disgraceful exhibitions. was that of last Thursday, when
Mr. Lovejoy was addressing the Committee of the Whole
on the question of Slavery. Of course he did not select
this daintiest words when delineating the salient features
of this "reliC of barbarism:" But his language was not
' sharper, his pictlires More gratitic, his anathemas more
terrible, , than thole., Jetrersdn; tteilky,
Df'Do ells Pa ltin~ Breckeill'idge, and other 6olithei-ii
statesmen and divines -who spoke and wrote on this
theme, long anterior to the organisation of the
Republican party, or to the rise even of modern Aboli-
tionism. At all events his language was parliamentary,
as is conclusively_ proved by the fact that, though eager
to silence him; the *Negrocracy did pot claim that his
line of rerkiark was out cif oidei. And is it; die tone of
his speech it was calm and moderate compared with the
tirade of personal abuse poured out upon him and his
personal associates throughout the .first two months of
the session. •

Yet, although Mr. Lovejoy was injured," and-was sim-
ply repelling a series of bitter attacks upon him and his
side of the Chamber, some half-dozen members during
the delivery of his speech—we now refer to the period
after he took his stand in the clerk's desk—kept pouring
upon bim a steady teem a bunts, It3Hich not only
.ii.Blated all imrlianientary _rules, but outraged all the
canons of propriety recognised among decent men..
The persons who, according to the published report, seem
to have figured most conspicuously in this scandalous
proceeding, were Iho R. Singleton, of Mississippi, who
called Lovejoy a negro thief ; John D. Ashmore, of South
Carolina, who declared him a perjured villain ; Wm.
Barksdale, of Mississippi, who repeatedly stigmatised
him as a thief, and mercr .than the, lowest "pigger"
thief
,fn tioiith I Millatign L. boiihani, of Schith
Carolina, who dared Lovejoy to go South, where he
could be assassinated; and Elbert S. Martin, of Vir-
ginia, who told him if he would come into Virginia
they would hang him higher than they did John
Brown ; with much more of the like tenor from the
same and other lips.