The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-23 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

John Tombs, Church-street, Westminster, builder.
Joseph Holland and Samuel Henry Holland, Birming-
ham, printers.
Thomas Harrison, Henley-upon-Thames, tailor and
draper.
John Morgan, Manchester, mineral merchant.
Edward James Hopkins, Fishponds, Gloucestershire,
draper and grocer.
George Curtis, Sandport, Hants, victualler.
William Revitt, Sheffield, cutlery manufacturer.
James Bury Blackburn, Norwich, carrier.
John Faulkner, Commercial-road, Surrey, cab proprietor.
James Hilton, Stone, Staffordshire, shoe manufacturer.
Walter Noak and John Noak, Droitwich, salt manufac-
turers,
William Hilliard, otherwise William Hilliard Bevis,
Burghclere, Hampshire, malster.
James Young, Highbridge, Somersetshire, draper.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
William Bedford, Middlesex-street, Whitechapel, baker.
Alfred Haslam, Manchester, coach proprietor.

NOTES ON DRESS.

(From Punch I

It is astonishing how much au old hat may be im-
proved by rain. It is a fact, that one which had been
nearly three years in wear, having Seen thoroughly
washed in a thunder-shower, and then carefully wiped,
presented, when dry, such a smooth and glossy appear-
ance that it was mistaken for new by a little boy.
A black coat, which is so old and threadbare that the
slovenliest philosopher would rather not go about in it
by day, will, if only ironed smooth, pass muster with
wonderful success by candle light in the crowd of an
evening party. A dress coat will last a careful man
through many fashions.
Trowsers should be black or blue, or of some other
colour as easily matched ; for they are too apt to wear
out in the bifurcation, and repeatedly require to be re-
established on a new basis.

Old clothes had better be kept laid up in lavender, of
which a few bunches will last many years.
Waistcoats should always button high. Shirts wear
out with washing.
Boots and shoes are, of all articles of attire, the most
temporary and fugitive. All holes in them not only
attract the animadversion of beholders, but also sensibly
inconvenience the wearer. There is a point beyond
which their mending cannot be carried consistently
with ease. Patches gall; and upper leathers, though
otherwise fit to be soled, often get uncomfortably trod-
den all on one side. You hardly economise in Bluchers
by wearing slippers in-doors ; you must walk for the
sake of your health ; and, besides, riding is more expen-
sive than shoe leather.

Cloves need be worn only in cold weather. They
should be dark.

A sign that a suit of clothes has lasted nearly as long
as possible is the circumstance that when the wearer
applies to take his place at a railway-office, the clerk
gives him a third-class ticket.

When beggars cease to importune you, it is time to
begin to think about purchasing new apparel. Some
respect is due to the opinion of others,
A sage once wished that he were clothed like the
trees. He was asked by one of his disciples how he
would like casting his leaves in winter.

It is said that Delaney, the murderer of Mr. Ely,
died last week of dangerous fever, in the Silvermines,
near Nenagh, where he secreted himself with the miners
since the perpetration of the foul deed.

A Wisconsin paper, after describing a farm which the
advertiser wants to sell, adds :—" The surrounding
country is the most beautiful the God of nature ever
made. The scenery is celestial—divine ; also, two
waggons to sell, and a yoke of steers."
Her Majesty's ship the Ajax, at present stationed at
Kingstown, has received orders to prepare to sail from
Kingstown in a few days to Torquay, there to join the
Channel fleet. It is expected that her Majesty's ship
London, 91 guns, will be ordered to replace the Ajax at
his station.

THE CHAMPIOW--A very valuable:present for the
redoubtable Tom Sayers has been brought to England
in H.M. steamer Terrible by Lieutenant Sanders, R.N.,
from the officers of the Mediterranean squadron. It is
a gold medal, similarly inscribed to the Victoria Cross
medal, and bearing the words " For Valour."
RIFLE VOLUNTEERS FOR IRELAND.—A meeting of
gentlemen interested in the establishment of rifle corps
in Ireland was held on Wednesday evening at the
Northtimberland Tavern, Dublin. The law in Ireland
is clearly opposed *o such corps, but nevertheless, the
prevailing opinion with those who attended appeared to
be that Government would sanction the proceeding if it
were effectively adopted. A resolution was adopted to
the effect that it would be for the interest of the United
Kingdom that the Volunteer Rifle organisation should
be extended to Ireland. A committee was also nomi-
nated, whose object shall be to endeavour to obtain the
consent of Government to this movement.
SUICIDE OF AN ARTIST.—Mr. Bennett, a photo-
graphic artist, poisoned himself this week by swallowing
a quantity of cyanide of potassium. The widow of the
deceased gave a painful history of the antecedents of her
husband as to his 'habits of drunkenness. On the
morning of Sunday last he came home in a state of
intoxication. She called him a drunken brute, and
when she got into the room again he said, " Good-bye,
Betsy; I have taken it; God bless you," and died
directly afterwards. Verdict—Temporary insanity.
SHOCKING OUTRAGE IN IRELAND.---.-DUTing the week
investigations have been held into the circumstances of
a most barbarous occurrence, which took place at the
village of Rostrevor, some three weeks ago. John
Smith, a native of that neighbourhood, had got drunk
on the night in question, and was returning home at
an advanced hour. Overcome through the combined
influence of whiskey and hunger, he appears to have lain
demi, on the Kilbroney-road, where he was discoiered
by some persons unknown. Sulphuric acid was there
profusely applied to the poor man in his helpless moments,
and by this means his face and extremities were horribly
disfigured, one of his eyes being completely burnt out.
As yet nothing definite has been arrived at, beyond the
bare fact of the occurrence, but suspicion fixes the
malicious deed on relatives with whom Smith recently
had.quaryels about land. A fatal result is not appre-
hended, but it is quite certain that the unfortunate man
will be seriously injured for life. The affair has created
a good deal of excitement, and the unsophisticated
country folk in the neighbourhood scrupulously avoid
the scene, as they attribute this supposed outburst of
revenge to some supernatural influence, which is destined,
they believe, to perpetually hauni the locality.
LORD LYNDHURKS IVIENORY.—T4IIdIIg of auto-
graphs, when I was down at Cambridge the other day
I saw the MSS. sent home by Lord Lyndhurst nearly
seventy years ago, whew he was Travelling Bachelor of
the University of Cambridge. In that capacity he
visited his native country America ; his account of the
United States is most interesting and written in that
beautifully legible hand which—l speak from experience
—he still writes at 88. The wonderful old man still
enjoys life abundantly, eats heartily, and talks fluently
on every subject, thengb hie sight is beginning to fail.
I may mention, that only a few weeks since, he told a
friend of mine who called an him, that he well remem-
bered coming over from America to England, 80 years
ago, at the outbreak of the American rebellion, in the
same ship with my friend's grandmother, who was also a
'native of Boston, and whose playmate on board was the
future Chancellor. I need scarcely add that the vener-
able peer did not allow my friend to leave, before get-
ting from him a full and complete account of the for-
tunes of his old playmate's family and descendants
down to the present day.—Court News.
DEATHS BY DROWNING—LIEBTex..—A very mel-
ancholy occurrence, remitting in the deaths by drovining
of two young men, took place on Sunday evening, upon
the waters of the Upper Shannon, above Massy Mills,
at a spot known as " Hickey's Falls," a fayourite resort
of the lovers of piscatory amusement. It appears that
five persons were angling in a fishing cot on "the shal-
lows " but being inexperienced in the management of a
boat, and the locality being a dangerous one, they were
imperceptibly carried down by the current to the top of
the fall wi.thont observing the peril they approached
until it was tea late, when, unfortunately, the frail craft
was swept over the summit of the waterfall with great
force, came in contact with the rocks beneath, and being
r.t once upset, the whole party were instantaneously
struggling in the rapids for life or death. The scene
which ensued was painful to all who wj,tuased .the
frightful spectacle ; three of the young mien sticeeded in
gaining the shore, With considerable difficulty, in an
exhausted and almost lifeless state, while, sad to relate,
the other two perished, having been hurried along into
deep Water, and 4QOII lot night of,

LIFE •IN THE BUSH.-EXTRA ORDINARY
MURDER IN AUSTRALIA.

A Melbourne, paper, 17y the last arrival, contains the
following narrative :
.An extraordinary case of murder has recently been
tried at the Portland Circuit Court.
It appears that in the year 1858, two persons, Robert
Hunt and Mary his wife, lived near Casterton, a village,
about 70 miles from POrtland, and 250 miles from
Melbourne. The river Glenelg, Which in ordinary sea-
sons flows for nine months in the year, and even in
times of great drought contains large water-holes, runs
through the township. The Hunts and the prisoner,
who bears the name of Waines, lived about three quar-
ters of a mile from Casterton. The road from thence to
their homes ran along the bank of the river for abOnt a
quarter of a mile, till it came to a large water-hole in the
Glenelg, where the people in the district were accustomed
to water their horses ; the track then went across a hill,
on the other side of which, on two adjoining allotments,
one of 41 and the other of 44 acres, lived the Hunts
and the prisoner. The nearest hut was that of the
Barkers, at a distance of some three or four hundred
yards, and they were out of sight even of that. The
prisoner was a small farmer, and the Hunts were labour-
ing people, but were possessed of some small means, and
were living on land they had bought of the prisoner. On
the sth May, 1858, he agreed to repurchase it from
them, and an agreement to that effect was drawn up by
one Dugald Campbell, the purchase money being a
bill, with six months currency, for £139 15s. This
would have fallen due on the Bth of November, at
which time, therefore, the prisoner would have had to
pay the Hunts what was, in his station of life, a conside-
rable sum of money. It likewise appeared that a very
bitter feeling existed between the wife of prisoner and
Mrs. Hunt, the latter having spread reports prejudicial
to the reputation of Mrs. Waines. On 2nd August the
prisoner borrowed of John Killeen, a shepherd in the
employ of Mr. Edward Henty, at Muatham, the sum of
£lOO, stating that he wanted it to settle with the Hunts.
On or about the 29th of September he commenced
spreading reports that they were about to leave the
neighbourhood, always enjoining the persons to whom
he spoke to the strictest secresy. On the eveniag of the
4th October Mrs. Hunt was seen at sundown by a Mrs.
Barkee,,b,er nearest neighbour, walking in her garden,
and Hunt had been seen somewhere in the neighbour-
hood on the same day. This was the last time either
of them was seen alive.. In the early portion of the
same night Mrs. Barker, who was .in bed lying awake,
and waiting for her husband to come home, heard three
screams. On the previous afternoon the prisoner had
gone to the hut- of the Beaters (to whom he had'pre-
viously stated that the Hunts were going away, and
that when they had gone he would take them—the
Baxters—into his service). Waines said that he was
going to settle up that night, and produced a bottle of
rum or brandy, which he said he was going to take up,
in order to have a parting glass. On the morning of
the 6th October Baxter .went up to Hant's hut, and
saw the prisoner removing some goods in a horse and
cart. The prisoner stilted that the Hunts had gone
away, and that he had bought- all their goods at a very
cheap rate, excepting' the wearing apparel, which he
was to take charge of until they sent for it. At his
request Baxter assisted him to load the cart. At this
time there *ere _clothes hanging out to dry, and the
appearance of the place showed that the Hunts had
made no preparations fox their sudden diparture. The
prisoner accounted for their disappearance by stating
that they had gone away because Mr. Hunt was very
much in debt, and because he was afraid that be would
be proceeded against for shooting a horse belonging to
Mr. Kirby, a neighbouring squatter. The neighbours
remarked that the Hunts, who were notoriously
close, careful people, would lose as much by the
way they had sacrificed their property as their
debts would come to.. The truth, however, was that
the Hunts were not in debt at all, and that with respect
to the horse that had been shot at, it occurred six
months, before, and although the matter had been talked
about at the time, and the owner had offered a reward
of £2O for the.conviction of the offender, the whole affair
had been forgotten, and there was no proof whatever that
Hunt was the culprit. It was also very singular that while
according to the prisoner's own story he was assisting the
Hunts to a clandestine flight in:oreler that they might evade
their creditors, he had taken no receipt for the goods he al-
leged he had purchased. Some of the property left behind,
and which subsequently fell into the possession of the
police under a search warrant, was of a very peculiar
kind ; it was of a description which few persons would
leave behind them, under any circumstances of fight—
the certificate of the birth of Hunt, the certificate of the
marriage between Robert Hunt inni Mary Fretwell.
Was a woman likely to "leave behind her such a docu,
ment as that ? It was n matter notorious to every one,

that a woman, particularly in the humbler walks of
society, would prise her marriage lines as she did her
life. She likewise left behind her a few articles of jewellery,
the last things which would have been sold cheap, because
they were so extremely portable. Her wearing apparel,
her best dress, her best bonnet, were also left. In con-
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frequently characterises criminals, the prisoner was
always conversing about the mysterious disappearance
of the Hunts and told all sorts of contradictory state-
ments 'with reference to his share in it. Sometimes he
said that he saw them go away, at ether times that he did
not. As a matter of course, the affair created a great deal
of excitement in the neighbourhood, and by degrees the
prisoner became suspected of having murdered the
Hunts. In a conversation he had with a Mrs. Diwell
on 2nd June, 1859, the subject matter being that he was
talked about as a murderer, the prisoner said " harm
might come of it ; he might be taken up and hung on
suspicion." Mrs. Diwell replied, " they cannot do
that; they must find the bodies first." The prisoner
seemed very much relieved when he was told this, and
said if that was the, ease., he would very soon put them
all at defiance. Again : when Mrs. Diwell recom-
mended him to advertise for the Hunts, he stated that
that would be of no use, they would not answer to
their names, but that if he wanted to find them he
could do so in a couple of days. All this time the police
were taking active steps to find some clue ta the where-
abouts of the Hunts; their description was inserted in
the Police Gazette, and inquiries were made in the
adjoining colonies. .Bat the authorities were completely
at faifit, and at last the matter was placed in the hands
of the itetective police, and on the 10th of October, 1859,
an officer named Charles Towneley Brown arrived at
Casterton. The first thing he did was to engage him-
self as a labourer at the Glenelg Inn, kept by Mr.
Chaffey, and there he worked in various capacities. All
this time he wassecretly making inquiries, and succeeded
in making the acquaintance and gaining the confidence
of the prisoner. At last, as an artifice, Brown got him-
self apprehended as a ticket-of-leave holder out of
his district, and consigned to the look-up, The
following day, the 11th of January last, a con-
stable named Desmond was sent to the farm of the
prisoner, with instructions to bring him to the township.
On their road, it was necessary to pass by the waterhole
referred to above. On coining to it Waines asked Des-
mond to walk ott and allow him to water his horse.
The constable Consented, and he rode down to the
waterhole, being for some minutes away. In this hole
the human remains were subsequently found. On
arriving at Casterton the prisoner was taken formally
into custody. and put into the lock tip,. On seeing
Brown, who was in. an adjoining epll, anti who was of
course believed by him to be in the same plight as him-
self, he called out, " Charley, can we not get into the
same cell."

When Brown was put in the cell with the prisoner,
they began to talk about the possibility of effecting
their escape, and after looking about for a weak- part
of the cell, agreed upon a plan of operations to be
commenced as soon as Brown was at libigthiwhifh
it was expected would be in a few. days. On the
following morning he was taken out to work by, the
police, and on his return in the evening told the
prisoner that he had been employed in searching for
the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Hunt. Waines asked
where the search had been made ? and Brown said,
about the house and farm. The prisoner laughed
at this, and said, " Well, if they dig all over the farm
I shall be able to put in my crop without ploughing."
For two or three days Brown was taken out every day, '
but on the evening of the 14th he told the prisoner that
there was another move on board--that blacks were
going to be sent for to search the river Glenelg. Waines
then became very uneasy, was about to say something, and
had got out the words,
" Will you remove a bundle fOr
me," when a policeman came to the door of the cell, and
he became silent. The following evening Brown pre-
tended not to be anxious to talk, and to be sleepy. Waines
again asked him, " How about the bundle? If you will
remove it you'll save my life." Brown said he would. 'N4
prisoner replied, "I fear you have not lime. enough?'
" I've nerve enough for anything, k)gt pitch and toss
to manslaughter. I, kiew. 'Oat you want clone," was
the rejoinder. Tbe prisoner upon this became violently
excited, azta said, " Charley, you won't betray me--I
murdered the Hunts. I made away with them both,
excepting one piece, awl, as I was passing the river
with the constable the other day, I saw that one piecq
had got out of the bag, and was at the bottor4 of the
river looking white like mutton. U. 1110 were away /
would not care a d for them all." In consequence
of this confession Brown communicated with' the senior
at Casterton, who went with him to
constable
the spot indicated by Waines, and there they
found some ' human bones, with a pi.:0031
of flesh adhering to them. bey Were care
fully removed, and exaniiixled by two medical men, Drs.
Wylie and Z,adford; tali these gentlemen unhesita-
tingly stated' they were the remains of a white feniale.
• 5410 the disooTerl of th4se bones; the prisoner had

made several other confessions, to both Mr. and Mrs.
Chaffey, Constable Desmond and Comyns. On neither
of these occasions was the slightest inducement held out.
The confessions were all voluntary, and were, therefore,
entitled to admission, and they all dovetailed with the
circumstantial evidence in a very remarkable manner.
There was another circumstance entitled to some weight.
The Hants, who were childless, had a favourite dog ; it
was, at any rate, to be presumed that this animal would
have accompanied them, but instead of that the poor
brute was seen about the farm after they had gone away,
and was eventually poisoned by the prisoner. The jury
returned a verdict of guilty, a point of law being reserved,
as to whether the prisoner's confession, in addition to
the circumstantial evidence, was sufficient proof of the
death of the Hunts and the identity of the remains.