The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1847.

KILLING ♦ HkNONANL—J. Bdey was, on Friday last,
convicted of killing Scott, the Edinburgh executioner. The
charge libelled on was that of culpable homicide, but sen-
tence was deterred.
EDINBURGH HEBREW CHAIR.—The Lord Ordinary has
refused to grant interdict against the induction of the pro
(moor elect. Should he be Metalled, it is understood that
the presbytery will raise an action against the town council.

profemional to interfere when another medical gentleman had
been engaged, but the friends of the patient wished him to
do so, as the man was in great danger, Mr. Lynch found
that " Dr. St. Pierre " had bled him in five or six different
places, as there were three punctures on his arm, ore on the
outside of his right foot, °neon the inside, and one on the
temple. Ho also learned, from the people is the house, that
he had set the poor patient up in the bed, dashed water
in his face, put salt on his chest and bowels, •
piece in his ear, vinegar in his eyes, and some yellow
powder down his
.throat ! Suck treatment,. Mr. Lynch
deposed,"
i wold
re" addmerdedlted ikataci'teelehr:r bledcr Its pam
iunenfitUa pale".
aces,
but put it to Mr. Lynch whether, from the puncture*,
situated at they were, three ounces of blood could be got.—
Mr. Lynch : Yes, I am of opinion that I could get it.—St.
Pierre : You think you could get it. Upon my word I
could not, although I attempted to suck it from him—John
M'Nslty detailed St. Pierre's treatment of the patient to be
similar to that which Mr. Lynch had heard. St. Pierre war
not called to see the deceased, but Came there of his own
accord.—James Traynor, who was in during St. Pierre's
treatment, said, notwithstanding the punctures, and that
deceased's feet had been put into warm water, not above
a table-spoonful of blood came away.—Ann Falkney, widow
of the deceased, spoke of the doctor "as a " nice man,"
who had attended her gratuitously since her confinement, in
July. She did not ask him to attend her husband, but
learning, when he called on her, that he was ill, asked leave
to bleed hint. Her husband wu in a dying state at that
time.—M'lsialty stated, in answer to a question from the
coroner, that, to the best of his belief, Dr. St. Pierre had " a
drop of drink in " on the night'in question.—The Coroner,
referring to the serious complexion of the case, ordered a
post martens examination of deceased, and adjourned the in-
quest till 12 o'clock on Monday.
ST. ANDREW'S PRESS I TERIAN CHURCH, Rodney-
street, Liverpool, which suffered seriously by the free church
seas ion, was yesterday brought to the hammer, and pur-
chased by the Wesleyan Methodists. The building, a hand-
some erection, coot 14,0001.: it sold for 4,0501.
InnuerniAL Scrwobs.—The relief fund committee
at Warrington having abandoned the establishment of in-
dustrial schools, the mayor, in accordance with hie statement
at the meeting, has himself established one in the room for-
merly occupied by the Mechanics' Institution, in Academy.
place, and it was opened on Monday se'nnight. About
thirty boys then presented themselves, and the number has
since increased to nearly a hundred, being quite is many
as the room will comfortably hold. Singularly enough, on
I Thursday evening, the Hon. and Rev. H. Powys, rector,
issued a notification, to the effect, that in consequence of a
requisition, &c., he bad determined to extend the industrial
schools, at present in operation in Church-street, in con-
nexion with the church ; and that, in future, the room at
the national school would be set apart for females, and the
upper room of St. James's Sunday-school, in Latchford, for
males, at which places " scholars of all dame.," desirous of
being admitted, are requested to apply.
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND STATEMENTS OF PRI-
SONER9.—From the report of the chaplain of the Preston
gaol we give a few short extracts, to show that had paren-
tage, ignorance, drink, and.aasociation in gaol, are the great
sources of crime. To distinguish the different prisoners, we
affix a number to each individual :
I. Pulite fond of drink ; got a gait of going with boys about my
age, stealing apples and taking stuff off stalk. 1 bare known the
men sit in the :prison) yard and tell the boys how to [steal:, foe
hour after hour • • and when we got home, we knew more that
was bed there before we came to prison. 1 have Amp had a drunken
father, which in time brought my mother to like ale herself ; • •
et length I became es bad, • • through drinking lost my work 1
several naves • • when I have got work I have gone gaming my
wages, and hare lost them several time.-2. I sin 23 years ol age.
My mother died when we were young; my father began to drink,
and neglect both family and work. I never was taught to read in my
life before I came here. At 12 or 14 1 met with such bad
lads se myself; and oa Sculdays began towing, &e. As I
got into good earnings, I got to going to the a'ehorsee
and playing at dominoes and cards; these have been my
greatest evils,—[For two or three years he was getting 20s. te
255. a week; he vent 10s. or 12s. out of it in drink.] Often enough
spent all my wages, sad brought nought home. I have a wife
and three children.-3. (Aged IL) Mother died three years and
lather two years ego.—[lll4 master having no work, the prisoner and
his brother were turned oft and the orphans, lima begging, got to
reeding.] 1 often tried to be good in Liverpool, but bad lade enticed
me off again. - 4. [This wunitiee of a drunatrd we condemn.) At 19
he married; three months after, hie wife returned to her parents, and
be enlisted; was bought off; gave himself up to drinking to frightful
exam; with two companions. drank four gallons of rum and four of
gin raw out of cum, " until our flesh became numb, and all three
thought we were going to die." Ile became steady awhile and worked
and heed egain with his wife • but broke out again at Christmas, beat
Ids wife, and was committed for two months. When at age, he
received 2651., left him by h'a grandfether, and began businese as •
smell draper, having fire men working for him; but broke out
spin, spending 51. a day, beating his wife, and turning her eut of
doors at all hours of the night. • I drunk fifteen weeks, and ee her
went to bed sober." Ilia creditors sent him to Lancaster; hie wife
(nest her confinement) and child went to the workhouse. Again be
reformed for awhile, and took his wife and two children out of the
workhouse; but three months after he broke out again ; his wife re-
turned to the workhouse, and he was apprehended fur neglect of
family. His Meter left him 2361., which he epent in drink, and was
committed to prison for neglect 01 family within nine months Again
he was steady awhile, but on Whit-Mondey broke out again, and was
committed three months for beating hie wife. After an alternation
of bard labour and brutal excess, he committed • felony, and was un-
dergoing his sentence of sit months' imprisonment.; —3. When I went
into prison, 1 did Doering but cry the first two or three nights, but
after that I got hardehed there were all kinds of bedneas gambling,
fighting, canine, maiming, and telling about what robberies they bad
committed; in fact, It was worse than any public-house that a person
could go to. I slept in • room along with 20 more prisoners, as I
mktem went to sleep before 10 or 11 ; for they were singing, belling
tales, and puling the clothes off each other's beds, and some fightlng.
There were seven beds in the room, and western three in • bed. I was
in about eight weeks before trial, and I can safely say that I learned
more bedtime in that eight week. than 1 did in all my life before. 1
think, end! am sure, that if that prison had been like thin, I ebould
never have come within the walls of the Preeton House of Correction.
6. r A Sunday-school teacher married a young woman also a teacher ;
bui two young men came to see him one Sunday ; they went drink-
ing at different publichomee, and when very drunk, he carried away
from one of them home. acme article, was apprehended, convicted,
and eenteneed to one month's solitary omflnement. He states that
the article stolen was of no great vette ; was not taken from want,
foe he was then getting 30e. • week, and had only • wife and child;
and It was nothing but drink that turned him to this evil, and brought
shame upon his family., 7. [A shoemaker, working nine weeks in
Manchester, lodged with one!. 11. who bad five others lodging with
him ; and when any of them bad to go to the shop fur work, or to take
it in, they had to put on J. B.'e shoes and coat; for none of the five
bad either, having pledged or sold them In a drunken spree.] C. (A
collier, aged 25, as soon he earned money, spent it in drink sad bet-
time; and often spent It. on the pay night; he spent 41. on one natur-
day night and Sunday ; spent meet of the Sundays drinking ; and on
one of them committed the °lrina) for which he was iniprlsoned)
9. A tailor, sap. " When I was an apprentice, the men took me to a
public-house ; I soon was as bad so any of them ; and Sunday was
the worst day of drinking. Drink caused me to enlist. • • •
There are vaults in Manchester and Liverpool where four waiters are
emp:oyed from four o'clock on Saturday, as hard. they= fill, until
twelve; they are kept open until Sunday morning. • • In Man-
-1 cheater, there was a great number oil dlOra turned to be socialists. I
wan persuaded to go and hear them one Sunday ; but had as 1 em, I
could not listen to them speak blasphemy. • • I know several good
workmen in Manchester, making good wagers, that have not • bed to
lie on ; only some straw in the corner of the room for their wires end
families. 10. A young factory hand says, " When I was twelve years
old, I went to the factory, and gore our folks so much • week; and
with having more money sot got bigger, 1 need to go out and play on
Sundays. In the summer time we used to ramble in the fields, and
take tobacco with us, and sit and smoke, and tell tales of all sorts; and
when we could not go out, we used to 'ramp" (assembled together
in a house), and get drunk about In the town. I began smoking
when I was fifteen pan old. It has rent me 15d. or i cede a week,
manilas., for tobsona, I have gotten 11. a week many a time, and
givers our folk 7a a week ; all the rest went on Saturday night
and Sueday. One Sunday, lot IL with flying pigeons; and then
1 went up stairs and Wiled them all. I used to spend 10s. or 12e. of
a eaturday night for twa years before I came here; I spent it all In
drink, and never hardly bought any clothes-1 1. J. 8., a rough, dis.
orderly muter, from Wigan, under summary on for one
manta, states that he was married about five mesas ago. His wife
had some money when they were married, oensequenty he his not
worked since. " But,. said he, " I've spent in Adak, and one way
and another, a hundred pounds this lam four months • and what's
worse, I've pawned about thirty pounds' worth of goods, liut made all
the money away."
We conclude with a few extracts relating to railway exca-
eaten or " navvies":

AnF.Tiglish;.en;;y" maimed D. told me that for many yaws Mge
thee be had spent lan weekly in drink. J. J., elao for trial, " I
had been steady six months, and bad mind more than 13f. fee my
wik and two children; but I then broke out, and spent It all in a
week." I. 8., formerly a spinner, latterly • labourer on the railway,
mid, "All the time I was getting thirty shillings or thirty-flee
Ilogs a-week tan shillings never waved me in drink." R. 8., a collier,
and a single man, more ignorant than would be believed those who
are unacquainted with the state of the eked
only 36 year., and awaiting trial fora robbery the pm in
a nubile-boom, mild to me—" I have bad these good (111 a. and
30x) for many years, "and might ha,. amid some suds ;
but I've spent regularly 15e. a week in dehlk, and Mont el y men-
yank... Window the same." H. D. Me rye bus
a deal about drinking. It brought nu hue, I had bun mew der seven
weeks, and got both money and elsthes, and Ikon I mkt sO to drink-
jog." • • J. L., a fine athletic "navvy, lid her at the railway
about three wtW earned 21.. weekly, aid now spent kap than 10.
in drink; the whole of them drink all Mak wok W. D., a
"perry," sere that he Vela regularly 10s. MM. middy ta drinking.
"There MU more than 100 men working mar us I nott, one with
another, they spent quite as much In drink an DIM The
was of a Saturday night and of a Sonde
tfiV en ry In=
any money left en Monday morning, k mum
and spent it op. I came in hers alma.', Ibr I heil gent ell
among them chaps. They did not live Bb Cleklbee. 7107
thowt nowt about met but drink. I'll wank than no more. '
I am glad to be able to conclude these extracts Maths la the
carries with one of a more favourable character:—" I was gratified
by a visit from J. T., discharged a few months ago from a second
im-
prtwnmeet (twelve months) for a serious felony. He stated that, on
Is discharge, he obtained employ on a linefa coarse of formation
between Bolton and Blackburn ; that Ws wars are 3s. daily, end that
be eon frequently make eight days a week ; that he baa been able to
put two of kin .011$ into work, and has already made his family more
comfortable. From his amount It appears that the labourers on the
line in question pours, unusual advantages, which the felt as much
by the contractors as by the labourers, The Merl are paid weekly, in
money. Tlekets to "tawny" shape, or to beer-shops, are unknown;
added to which, any labourer may receive Is. of his day's wages when-
ever he has done a day's work. T. any. that on this line there is km
Irregularity and drinking than on any other he ban we,,, COlldlidell on
the usual and injurious system of monthly or fortnightly payments in
connexion with tickets for provisions and liquor. The name of the
contractor (for the whole line) who has established those fair and most
beneficial piano I. Evans.

CHASE OF A SHEEP-SLATER. Extraordinary
lessee have recently been suffered by the farmers in the dis-
trict north of Preston, from the remarkable cheep-killing
propensities of a large and fierce dog, which roamed over
the country at night, slaughtering sheep in every direction,
and escaping by some unaccountable means the numerous
snare§ which were set to comprise its capture, dead or alive.
Night after night did this mysterious brute pursue his
course, creating alarm in every direction, and seemingly de-
lying any attempt to check the mischief he was making.
No farmer's flock, is the wide district he selected as the
scene of his ravages, was safe from his attack ; while he
occasionally placed so great a distance between the various
points of his visitation, as to raise a doubt whether one dog,
however ferocious and determined, could accomplish to large
an amount of mischief. Oae morning the owner of a fine flock
would Ascertain that several of his choicest sheep were lying
killed in his fold, and himself some thirty or forty pounds
the poorer; and the next, a farmer so many miles distant as
to warrant his fancying himself out of harms way, would
discover himself in a similar position, from the totally unex-
pected visit of this ruthless destroyer. To such a height had
the ravages of the brute proceeded during an entire month,
that the "country-side" literally "rose in arms " against
him. Nearly a hundred sheep had he torn the throats of,
and though MC now and then at a distance, he never would

snow a single pereen to come within gun-shot range of him.
He wee understood to be dark coloured, of unusual size,
and swift of foot ; but that was all, and doubts were
entertained as to whether it really was a dog or
not, many being inclined to believe, from the de-
scription given of it, that it might be some wild
beast escaped from a travelling menagerie. Certain it is
that its appearance, in a country so thinly populated, and se
quiet and retired, and the destruction that attended its paitha
gave rise to many stories more creditable to the imaginatiem
than to the judgment of the narrators. The excitement
created naturally increased with every further account of the
animal's deadly visits; and at length the farmers of the die-
taict felt themselves compelled to set watchers ever their
flocks every night; or to house every sheep, at whatever in-
convenience, before dusk. Theee who know the country
of which we speak, the perfect security which is felt as
to any attacks on property, and the great difficalty the
farmers generally would have in obtaining assistance to
keep night watches, or in finding room in their int-
buildings at this time of the year for anything like a
dock of sheep, however small, will readily understand the
desire which was universally felt to rid the country
of a visitor who caused so much annoyance, anxiety, and
fear. Ia the early part of last week the amen of the
country turned out, far and near, to the number of uowaxds
of a hundred, armed with guns, pitchforks, &c., and com-
pletely scoured the district in search of their enemy, but
without effect. On Saturday night week it was found that
he had killed twelve sheep, at Beacon-fell-side ; and on the
Sunday following three or four hundred persons were on the
hunt for the destroyer. In the course of the day Mr. Logan,
of Barton, got a distant shot at a large dog by the side of
Barton-mill, supposed to be the one all were looking for,
but the animal escaped unhurt. That night he killed fifteen
sheep at Catterall-hall. On Wednesday, at day-break, the
brute was seen in the act of tearing a sheep's throat out
at Woolfell's-mill, having five others lying dead about him.
The cry was immediately raised ; all within hearing turned
out, with such weapons as could be seised is the hurry
and excitement of the moment; and the start was cour
mewed with a determination to run " the risae"M Oa

death at every hazard. Numbers of others joined the pur-
suers as they swept across the country; and there then began
a chase, and arose a cry, such as the " Pikes" and " Fells "
of that district never witnessed, or echoed to, before. Across
fields, over hedges, ditches, and walls ; through rips, dykes,
and briars rushed the Range beast, and perseveringly fol-
lowed his pursuers, resolved to have revenge. The news of
the hunt spread on every side, and as those who had nut
longest failed for want of wind or strength, others supplied
their places. Before the chase had lasted a couple of hours,
many joined in it who had come distances of 10 and 12 miles.
At one time it was feared the sheep-slayer would escape into
the Fylde ; but, fortunately, at Whinny'-clough, and when
he was gaining on his pursuers, Mr. 7. Smith, termer, got a
shot at him. and hitting him in the hind leg, turned him
back towards Barnes lane. It was now past ten o'clock,
and the pursuers instead of slackening in speed or losing
strength, appeared to increase in number and in spirit;
while the dug, exhausted from his night's work, the severe
run he had had, and lass of blood from the wound in his leg,
showed evident symptoms of breaking up. At about half-
past ten o'clock, siemingly worn out and terrified, the brute
dashed into a house at Barnes-lane, an which was a woman
and four children. The alarm of the poor woman may lar
imagined ; but fortunately it was of rhort duration, for a
young man coming up, armed with a pitchfork, drove the
prongs through the ferocious beast; a second man named
lea-dale, then cut its throat. Thus ended this extraordi-
nary hunt, after a run of upwards of twenty miles. Upon exa-
mination, the animal was found to fall very little short of
the descriptions which had been given of it, exagge-
rated as they were thought to be at the time. It was of an
unusual size, and very strongly made, especially in the fore-
parts, its legs there being as big round as a man's wrist, and
the print of its fore-foot measuring full three inches and •
half across. Its death having been insured, a cart was ob-
tained, and the body placed in it was taken off in triumph to
Goosnargh, followed by nearly a couple of hundred farmers
and others.

NORTHUMBERLAND.
FEVER IN NEWCASTLE.—Typhus fever, which has
so many weeks prevailed to a serious extent in the wretched
districts into which the Irish immigrants and our own desti-
tute poor are driven, has not yet abated in amount or malig-
nity ; and the appearance of isolated cases in better built and
cleaner parts of the town is giving rise to a good deal of ap-
prehension and remark. Another member of the catholic
priesthood has fallen a victim to the ravages of a disease
which, though generally beginning in the midst of poverty,
in the end reads its solemn lemons to the rich and well-
circumstanced, and thus, as it were, provokes the adop-
tion of measures which ought long ago to have been
enforced Mr. Shiell, the medical officer temporarily
appointed for All Sainte' parish during the illness of
Mr. Newton, now lies exceedingly ill ; and his assistant,
Mr. Wilson, has also been assailed by the same dis-
ease. Mr. W. Turner, the officer for St. Nicholas's and St.
John's parishes, has undertaken to supply Mr. Shiell's place,
the necessary assistance being provided by the poor-law guar-
dians. The fever hospital is full ; the vagrant yard has been,
and now iv, concerted into a temporary hospital ; and still
the great bulk of the sufferers are constrained to remain in
the pestilential atmosphere which is the main origin of the
evil, and thus to add to its intensity. At Glasgow and other
large towns which have passed through the ordeal now being
endured by Newcastle. tents were constructed in open spaoes
of ground to which good air had free access; and in Ireland,
where a similar course was pursued during the last winter
and ipring, it was found that the occupants of frail erections,
through which the wind had an unchecked current, recovered
more generally and more rapidly even than those who were
in the ordinary hospitah,whers the ventilation was lets com-
plete. Why not pursue a similar plan at Newcastle? Some-
thing, at least, should be done, to stay the progress of a dis-
ease which:has had its own way so long.—Newcastle Courant.

WAR,

SUPERSTITION IN 1847.—0 n the day of the ad-
journed inquest at Coseley, on the body of James Cooper,
who was supposed to have died from the effects of poison
administered by a young woman, the brother of the deceived
stated that the deceased, before his death, imagining he was
bewitched by the female in question, desired big brother to
steal si'ently and alone, at midnight, into a churchyard, and
take a handkerchief full of clay from a young maiden's
grave, to place under his head, to break the spell of witch-
craft that the young woman bad cut over him. Accordingly
the brother of the deceased went to a maiden's grave in a
churchyard, st 12 o'clock at night, and removed the clay in
a handkerchief, keeping his gaze during the whole of the
time rivetted upon the sky, according to the orders of the
sick man, under whose head he placed the consecrated earth,
and who confidently expected from this mummery that he
should speedily recover. Unfortunately, however, for the
credulity of the poor fellow, it did not break the spell of
death which was upon him, for, in the words of the brother
of the deceased, " it dain't do him no good, for soon after
he died."

THE BISROP OF EXETER ON CLERICAL DRONE EN-
NEWS AND PROFANE SWEARING.—The Western Times
says Bishop Pbillpotta gave judgment in the Chapter
House on Thursday on a case of which nothing more can be
published than may be gathered from the following report :
—The Bishop, habited in the lawn sleeves and rising, read
from a document, nearly as follows; This is a proceeding
under the act for better enforcing church discipline, against I
the Rev. Thomas Jones Landon, vicar of St. Breward, in
the county of Cornwall, for being, and for being publicly
seen to be drunk, in the town of Bodmin, on Tuesday, the
22nd day of June, and then and there repeatedly uttering
profane language. The c immissioners appointed under the
statute have reported that there is sufficient grounds for
further proceedings ; and Mr. Landon has submitted to the
judgment of the lsishop, in this stage of the proceedings. If
the circumstances detailed in the depositions warranted any
doubt of Mr. Lendon's having been guilty of the offence
charged, his submission must be taken as removing all such
doubt. I need not, therefore, incur the painful ta-k of re-
marking upon the several matters related by the witnesses;
but may content myself with dealing with the case generally
as proved. A memorial has been presented to me to favour
of Mr. Landon, signed by one of the churchwarden',
and • portion of the parishioners, not indeed con-
siderable, as compared with the whole. I wish the
grounds on which the memorialist' rest were such
as indicated either experience of uniform good con-
duct on the part of their vicar, or even a confident hope
of his future improvement; but I ant bound to record my
opinion, that they plead in his favour no other considerations
than such as do in truth aggravate the offence. What else
can be said of the very long period for which be has been
their minister, and of his advancing age ? But I spare his
feelings and my own, and will not remark on this most
heavy case. If the public exposure of himself which he has
made, and the shame of the investigation which has taken
place, be not sufficient to awaken those feelings which alone
can lead to amendment, I cannot hope that any words ermine
will have that effect. Be it enough to say, that the acts
charged being only of one day do net amount to the habits
of drunkenness or profaneness; and that in conformity, there-
fore, with what I rind to have been the usual practice of our
ecclesiastical courts in the case of offences of this nature, I
order that no other penalty than grave and serious admo-
nishing is to be the sentence for this offence; in the hope that
it may be the last, and as a means of exciting in him that
" godly sorrow which worketh repentance," we condemn
the same Thomas Jones Landon in the cost' of these pro-
ceedings.
KENT.
_ _

MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY SOLDIERS.—At the
Guildhall, Rochester, on Saturday, Joseph Syrne, a corporal, I
and David Carew, a private, belonging. to the 50th (Queen's
Own) Regiment, were brought up in custody, before the
mayor and magistrates, charged with • most unprovoked
and brutal assault on Mr. W. Stephenson, surgeon, riding
at Boley-hill, whose blackened eye bespoke the ill-usage be
had sustained.—Complainant stated that on Wednesday
evening, between ten and eleven o'clock, he was returning
home after visiting • patient. He proceeded through Two-
post-alley, leading from the High-street to Holey-hill, and
on pissing the stabling of the King's Head Inn, the pri-
soners suddenly rushed out upon him, the prisoner Carew
saying, "Come on," at the same time seizing him by the
collar of his coat and making use of the most foul
and disgusting language, and aiming at hint •
blow which fell on his jaw. A struggle ensued, and com-
plainant bay ng bold of Carew by his collar, with his right
hand succeeded in parrying off the blows, at the same time
calling out lustily for the police. Carew then made a violent
effort to get away, in which Mr. Stephenson had the nail
torn off from the forefinger of his right hand ; at the same
time, Byrne threatened him if he dared to call for the police.
Carew then ran at him with great force, and struck him a
violent blow on the right eye, exclaiming, with an oath,
" Take that you rascal." The prisoners then ran away,
and Mr. Stephenson, returning to the High-street, ob-
tained the assistance of two policemen, and the prisoners were
immediately apprehended at the gateway of the Castle-garden,
and after great resistance were safely lodged in the station-
house. The magistrates, who viewed it u a most outrageous
assault, observing there was nothing that could be offered in

justification or palliation of the offence, inflicted the most severe
penalty awarded by law, although they felt it was insuffi-
cient ; to meet the justice of the case would be to deal more
severely with the prisoners than the law provided. They
woes convicted in &penalty of 51. each, and, in default, to be
committed to Maidstone Gaol for two calendar moaths.—
The court then proceeded to hear another charge of
assault against Carew, equ►lly unprovoked, committed upon
Mr. George Ashdown, a gentleman residing at Stoke. it
appeared that a few minutes after ten the same night, as he
eras crossing Rochester-bridge, when about midway, he met
the prisoner Carew and another soldier, supposed to be
Byrne, but to whom complainant could not positively swear.
On coming up, Carew struck him a tremendous blow which
knocked him down. and for • time rendered him insen-
sible. On recovering, he found his hat was gone, and so
severely had he been hurt that he was compelled to keep in
bed the next day. For this offence the court indicted
a tinnier penalty, and in default to be committed fur two
calendar months, such term of imprisonment to commence
at the expiration of his former sentence. The prisoners, it
appeared, were quartered at l'pnor Castle, and broke out of
barracks on the evening the above outrages were committed.
Both prisoners were removed in custody.
THE CHANNEL ISLANDS.
MAJOR-GENERAL NAPIER. —The Oisernscy Star
of yesterday states that Major-General Napier has been, or
is about to be, removed front the command of Guernsey, and
that he will not return to the island. "W e have not been
able to ascertain," continues that journal, "through what
channel this statement has been received ; but, from a variety
of corroborative circumstances which have come to our
knowledge, we entertain no doubt whatever of its perfect ac-
curacy. We need scarcely add that this news has spread the most
lively joy through all classes of the inhabitants, and hasexcited
towards her Majesty's government the warmest feeling of
gratitude. These feelings are natural and commendable ; but
we trust—and, indeed, we are sure—that they will be in-
dulged in with moderation and scrupulous propriety. The
people of Guernsey have been long obliged to lire in an un-
fortunate state of hostility with General Napier; but the ter-
mination of his command, if it cannot efface the remem-
brance of past events, should, at all events, pot an end to
animosity, and not be sullied on the part of the inhabitants
by any unbecoming demonstration of triumph."