The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-02 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINEI7IOI, SEPT. 30.
Mr. Ellice, M.P., hu addressed a letter to the Hon.
A. Kinnaird, one of the acting committee for the
Highland Relief Fund, is which a compuhamive
view of the state of the highlands is takes. The fol-
lowing paragraphs contain the gist of the assamtml-
cation :

What i• warded I or moth% oleos% awl War ropeelka of the
proelinas la re inner peters raw the sew perkw—or
rim seder re aid kw with the eire=i.etherlera,Pel
web byre err Idh.
riot esearktee arse =r Ora to employ eirseeetber
=liedhlribera d lbe preireg tram. hebeetrarkw
kr* ths etre dew prr be orb pork oar` oder
Sr these arra ft rid re met
past re dead eke espesiolads=el=. then will
lei Mbar 'kir et ablaribil sr reed Icor—
W•
M. my estries tesspery asieres =dor rasp.
rad elesershres, slim* set read is a serriart
Yurithe peeper. Ito eligilly red te hewer b the
si, bee wort dr* be wises/ kr Or the po-
rker te ohm sairres les bees stern by Ihe her the
pep= seder the provider et the derma set. Sr kierredher
ears reser rims rillealles rider Ss hor my be torepore-
rily 411, sedarble to provide kr Irk yea* sista er be the
oreekterpre at timeserver hem sr frisaL Urea thiedrike-
ee bothered *sr rho.* roe Workfare geed wilt rash
Irma_ lirdirdhpraAthe sed hi Ire& The wasedber did
me le Mere her Ids or hese ids
Sore elk =prig to lir lira-_Y
be ot thee say
spyllestisa et airmen* kr br eit
prormer ere awake et amtd lda at
be-
sealer e Nweelsi he Yrs-
him. of odd Ms sestret.
as dilibtere theritherdiaserreses et pro-
=They my be weslew sr Isinkwait. Thir oredllogs or
way Ire Se perer karot la the eerie The
wit lhat yeoperty dell her Ita proper
or MI les prow mai re tall or that, if the pre-
war am ••••114•111, www sal sew ospiial wait under-
take It. All rum Irak sod volasellag. Minot my Wi-
lli I ham aremi our day. I ell ft rate the
is ism e Oak oppeadig drew. Their ealy area ot
reaping Ur hie et lbek klaleolbraile by sew Midst the draw
In the Mr Doss wfts* breve *et, tbe weir baler pro-
perly r herd 111 Ihr prekerra Om peps seri ber been
in it. rare sera er rat Os perebrms at the hot belt century
wouti ad are swot err, kr thek rear Or the perk inkiest
to bars wrist the Imam et dr pride% eel we to bar need
it, by are emu edriater he as earl= et err dors so to
have Wired re pomp end old he seek la err reopettons
thsa aliftaY it Yak er is more h-
irer Mirka a eal War fell Or their we.• t Male on
ih=et I sere sit er ear with
err
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Eathe soon ensurer --e
reelly maw per pops sod la.
rail res Wave soar ft purr la Wren her. term kt
way be err boa the frortopes peers. remakes.
Mir pry roe reatsl ar kresseel—rope to
eort, rile. owl saireleal later arras vereardsollared
to err he prettiesey be the Ores word look:sea
rem whoa the Yew nadir wee oroseered it bens, hr en len-
=llet ark heeler rd be rise= hibmiabearers and sd-
-1:4 ossiety he sevest when ewers lard*, attars
elm alt klestry. Ilea or yew* err terra sr reerted,
rip the op ot Wes* or berwareese—er It they bar a our err-
lei. sr brag he brilioatt Irak% at &owlet ye--wore
ft esigarla The Mil sr writ, Year erl brie trithe
drat err a at arse; sea Ow are ewe* the air we
et Sr prekra rim rateppro ere err he
to
er by ararollor The peer berm sir
soma gesetle kelpie up he apedier ram the bared
W peed= edam ?ark kik kips ea hunk, sparse,
art rhos air arredsed et leek oesevespw lls to
Ere tbe hie of the oar
parallen. Mer perdetsreo
rosrit ea-
raft *kr lb era senora Nbe wed sat de it he
sow* eseerel, oar, sew lilt bawler kr re let la spa Sees
versier terry, re peels mode spa yerieret term orr
party pear le eirehle the pad res. It dr sesreler ore
earl Whom spersdre sire then err* * avoid
I sr Iles ppleressa et epees W thr era beard.
I rams dire r ear Ores or bikers ; bed, de rat they
▪ they wal ask arid burelaties ie as die or re ether
that
spots Iserteg essarkelowiedes be the rellsieerteree
mew direr the emery. The sahr ow Is to wry * the govern-
maws or sea paean smrsleir he 21•111114 1111160 reerteseemp of
balf-pq•Swee, why moil le rioter the dry
rawrild They word hoe peaks w serl Warr or lade-
give then •
d riper
sal Jakodsh sal be* mike he the Warr will
arra rim reponers lathe work of charity.
The northern counties have not yet done with the
food riots of the winter. The commissioners or supply
for Banffshire have refused to pay the expenses of the
sheriff for going down to assist in quelling the dis-
turbanees. Like most of the other principal sheriffs,
the sheriff of Banff lives in Edinburgh, and it was
held by the commissioners, that, according to the
act, sheriffs should reside in their counties " upon all
proper and reasonable occasion," and a period of in-
surrection befog deemed such an occasion, hence the
declinatare. e sheriff pleaded that the act referred
to was passed when he had four courts to attend to,
instead of eight per annum, as at present ; and bear-
ing all ordinary expenses, he submitted that the
county should shield him from those of an extraordi-
nary kind. But, although an excellent councillor at
the bar, his lordship, on this occasion, argued before
judges, who would not allow themselves to be led
away by arguments that went to unbutton their own
pockets, Zral:ordiyly their honours decided that
then was " no case.'

A correspondent of the Aberdeen Journal, referring
to a statement in the Express, that the decrease
is salmon was principally owing to the beg-net,
remarks :

allbestig a mall **ate of tbs evil got am* boo
this and ma* al atagetisa, I at of 'slake but Ur rodamato
of 11* NW by prim **oft Ng upon
lbw dr Saha mom II ow, seal
vim Ss 1111 in at Os rim Sr
*a zagromi *a itiwo—o mob of Iligniadas old*, If
ast yet a Oup wals. balk Oa lib boa oar
argela at galitlaadonagragral. Thom* samilrlawasibr
Mat* kw *ea IleMiaa. be slew boa saint bet-
ported too lir the Islang ambra Mai% Arm 110 pilaw
tku it Mard *tab Mg tba *awls( slam OM via* bat
of We Irma mogisai~**NN• 6111111010 W Pryor. Day
ag..• is ming my fed aad agog down to die values olio,
mo, boo p.evlata to ma *a gam aad al my fat
*peel *lb tio mist if filk MOW OS by maw, bat
ggyognies ta...%beirat t2ilgoaralis
al rule 1=4=47 EFS* aro umnai aa *a
pool *ay ban do= I* ** NW VE ISM
sal ** mom lo moo thy
by *or *IL Theo* pound in MO* lbw low say
*ass et gob wawa *Ow ogisigg la *Eli sod San-
an vs sod mils sol* Oft So I*. .. Ma on bad to
aorPor, *Obi lbw* ofir *an me tomimig oar *ono •
We insert **shove the more readily as it was to
the fact of the rest dorms offish, not me snob that
the barn* was die sale or principal same of that
decrease, that ws viand to direct attention.
A respostable grain firm in Fife has booed their
annual circular regarding the crops of this season
and their report is to the following effect. Wheat,
61 to 64 lb. per bushel, and a fourth above last year's
crop. Barley, 63 to 68 lb. per bushel, and a fourth
above last year. Oats, three-fourths of an average
crop, and about the sane as last year in quality.
Beans and Peas, average. Potatoes, good crop, but
only about one-fifth of usual quantity planted. Tor-
nips, a very large breadth sown, but crop not likely
to be average.

GLASGOW CIRCUIT COURT.
THE ADULTEILATED MEAL Cacti.—On Wednesday, Alex-
ander Bannatuu, grain-merchant, of Glasgow, was tried
for the adulteration of 1,000 loads of meal furnished to the
Glasgow section of the Highland Destitution Board is
March last, and sent by them to Oben, Skye, and other
pieces. The indictment charged him with having mixed the
meal with " thirds, bran, and barley meal." The
pleaded not guilty. Several objections to the
made by the pruoner's counsel having.been aver-
Mr. C. R. Baird, to the Highland Relingeriemi,
was called, and deposed that Mews. Bannatyne sad Ow
grain-snets, of which Arm the prisoner is the eldef,
sage offers to the committee to supply a certain kind of
esteeeal, which were accepted, for the transmimion of which
Mt he Highlands by the Aurora steamer witness made arrange-
mats. It was required in a great hurry, and was despatched
oaths 19th March. The meal was shipped to Tobermory,
Oban, and Portree, to be stored for the use of the destitute
Highlanders Hu so doubt it was known to the prisoner
that that was the
.purpose for which the meal was purehamed.
Witness wished it shipped next • , and urged upon
him it was necessary it should be deeps id as soon as pos-
sible, as the committee required to give orders epee Oben,
Tobermory, and Padres in favour of different heed aeme-
tees. It was understood to be oatmeal in the ordissey ass}
tation of the word. Mr. Brown, who had theme dthe
cargo, went with the vessel, to tike samples ot IM Met
with which he returned. These samples were alba in
the presence of Mr. Bannatyne, end admitted is he
had sent. After the vessel had bola sat, Mr. Beasseinerea-
dered his account,which sitassesseiaises as dist ornieralle.
It was from Mr. Brown's iesiasles at the asearst the
vessel was starting that essepiden was mirth lie beenght
in a sample which he said was Werke. It. use Ids duty to
check the quantity and quality of the osteesogiontsea lewd.
After his return from delivering the meal In es leelleds,
we sent him back again for munples. The all sample
which he brought in at the startmg of the send was ban&
under consideration of the committee alsegwith the seth
plea he brought from the Highlands. We bell asseinis, and
took evidence, and afterwards handed over ear notes of evi-

demos with the samples to the public prosecutor. The very
day we beard of the meal being adulterated, we wrote to our
agent in the Highlands to store it under protest. The
pert of the meal was afterwards returned to; the eel-
hr; a part of it had been used at Tobermory,:notwith-
our instructions.
C. W. Watson, the assistant secretary, deposed that a part
of the mid wee paid for to Mr. Bannatyne about six weeks
ago, being that portion which had been used in the highlands.
Th• price was paid as per contract, and, so far as witness was
aware. there we no question before the committee as to
paying the contrast. Of the number of loads of oatmeal
shipped by the Aurora eighty-eight were paid. Mr. Banns-
qne called upon him the week before last for payment of
the balance.
Bailie J. Honeyman wax one of a committee of the High-
land Relief Board with reference to supplies of grain. Re-
collects the offer made by the prisoner Bannatyne, and exa-
mined the samples with reference to the prices. That
selected wu a fau sound article. lie had no idea that they
were to be furnished with • mixed article. Would have re-
jected it had they known it to be mixed. They rejected a
wimple the lune day because it wu mixed—it wu a lower
price. A day or two after, examined sample. taken from the
Aaron, and the stores, and some were not so good, and some
were better than the sample.—Cross-examined : After the
date of Bannatyne's offer, witness sold him 470 loads of
oatmeal at 661_,
good and not mixed, so far as witness
knew. He sold it in Mr. Laurie's granary, and the place of
delivery wu there. He believed, though not from his own
experience, that it was common to mix flour or "thirds"
among the oatmeal. This is done sometimes by the miller,
and is quite well known in the trade.
William OR, storekeeper to Mr. Lawrie, Alston-street,
Oal.gow : Remembers Mr. Honeyman having oatmeal in
that store which wu sold to Mr. Bannatyne on the 19th
I March. Thinks there were 600 loads thus sold. It was
genuine meal that Mr. Honeyman mold. Mr. Bannatyne
'poke to him about the trade, and said he was going to put
some other meal in it. He said barleyroeal. He did not say
the quantity. Gardner came next morning. By the
Court The barleyrneal was brought in on the 18th,
mad was mixed previous to the removal of the oatmeal.—For
the prosecution : 87 loads of barlerneal were mixed with
10$ of oatmeal, making 480 loads altogether. There were
480 loads sent away by the Aurora. Has been a storekeeper
for thirty years. Never saw such a mixing as that before.
There were several men about the premien, and as conceal-
ment was attempted.—By the Court Did you say anything
to Mr. Bannatyne? I said it would be as well not to mix
it. He took his own way. He said it was nothing to me.
William Paterson, carter, was sent to Mr. Bannatyne's
store, in Union-street, to mix meal. He mixed thirds and
oatmeal. The oatmeal was lying en the floor. The oatmeal
and thirds were mixed with I shovel. There were 10 or 11
men employed at it. They began at a quarter past seven,
and they worked at it till half-past five in the morning
They also used bran to mix with the meal. All the people
employed about it were speaking of it. The prisoner came
in about 11 o'clock, aad saw what they were doing. Never
saw " thirds " used for human food, but uses it himself for
his horse. Does not know particularly where the mixed
stuff was going to, but believed it wee going to the High.
leads.

The mixing was farther proved by the several witnesses
engaged in the process, but no evidence bore out the charge
in the indictment that "bran" had been used. This closed
the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner's declaration was then read, in which he de-
aied having been guilty of any fraud whatever, or having
acted la any unfair way, or in any way inconsistent with the
rules of the trade. He held that by his contract he was not
bound to supply more than 667 loads of pure oatmeal out of
the 1,000 loads, and that he was entitled to supply the re-
maining 333 loads partly of barleymeal and partly of
" thirds." He also stated that the 1,000 loads shipped in
the Aurora were equal or superior to the samples, and that
as respects other 48 loads transhipped from the Duntroon
Castle to the Aurora, he had net had time, owing to the
hurry in which the shipment was made, of satisfying him-
self as to its quality; bet that on hearing of complaints re-
garding the meal, he had stated this fact to Mr. Watson, and
offered to supply oatmeal of better quality in its place should
it be proved to be inferior,
Witnesses for the defence were then called, who spoke of
mixing as • constant practice, more or less, " according to
price agreed on."
Alexander Isles, being cross-examined by the court in re-
ference to this practice, said he did not think persons ought
to be called on to criminate themselves. The Lord ChiefJua
tice Clerk said he could have no protection there, but must
answer the questions on his own responsibility. Examina-
tion resumed: It is the practice of the trade to mix the
meal. Had never known it done to such an extent uin
the period from September to May last
Wilson, miller : Has known oatmeal to be mixed, es-
pecially last year. He should say it is known to be done in
the trade. It is sometimes done in the mill, but not always
—sometimes in the store. _ _ _

The Advocate-Depute addressed the jury on behalf of the
mown, and was followed by Mr. Inglis for the prisoner ;
after which the Lord Justice Clerk insulted up the evidence
at considerable length.
The jury retired, and after • few minutes' absence re-
turned into court, and delivered the following verdict
" Guilty as libelled, with the exception of mixing with bran,
but recommended the prisoner to the utmost leniency of the
court, in consequence of the practice having been adopted by
other parties in the trade."
THE NICHOLSON-STREET UNITED PRESBYTERIAN

ClitincE.—Sir,—ln the Express of Monday last in the
article headed " Scotland," your correspondent from Edin-
burgh, among other things, describes what he calls " a curi-
ous specimen of devotion and enjoyment," as recently di,
played, " not actually in a church, but in a hall adjoining
one ;" and then adds a selection from the programme which
he says "wi l show how, at the Nicholson-street United
Presbyterian Church Congregational wine, the sacred and
profane were ;tried up." He then gives the specimen,
which Ido not quote. Now, in reference to the whole of
this matter, I have only to say, that I have been upwards of
sixteen years minister of the Presbyterian Church in Edin-
burgh, known by the above name, and so far as it is con- 1
oerned I pronounce the whole statement a fabrication ;
neither in the church nor in a hall adjoining it
was any such scene ever exhibited ; nor was such
a programme as your correspondent professes to quote
from published by my congregation or by any part of
them. If there be any other " Nicholson-street United
Presbyterian Church" in any other town in Scotland, where
such a mixture of the sacred and the profane actually took
place, your correspondent ought to have named such town, I
and thus fixed the odium of such profanation—for profana-
tion I hold it to he—upon the parties who deserve it. I feel
that injury is done to me and my people by such a para-
graph, and, as an act of justice, I request that this denial of
the truth of the statement, as tar as concerns my church, be
inserted In the Express as soon as possible.—Gronon
JOHNSTON,

[Where Nicholson-street may be situated we do not know,
but will inunire of our correspondent, who cannot, we think,
have been imposed on, as he sent us a printed programme.]
RLILWAY ACCIDENTL—As the four o'clock train from
Dundee to Arbroath, on Saturday last, was nearingan offset,
the engineer and stoker observed that the switches were set
for the ending. Immediately the steam was shut off, the
whistle sounded, and the brakemen immediately being at
their poets, the train was slowed sufficiently to prevent any
accident to the passengers. A truck of yarn was ea the oast,
which threw the engine off the rail, but MOM 10
to It. The mail train, which immediately follows the
o'clock wain, was detained half an hour. We (Denise
Courier) understand that the company have adopted inky
precaution to prevent accident The key of the mite& was
kept by the porter at the station, and, as a check nem him,
the policeman was also directed to tee that the whin were
always kept set for the main line. Most uneeeenallik both
disgracefully failed in the discharge GM& very degle bat
it t duty. Both have been diendeeed,a.d we treat
will be otherways made nameable for their erielnal conduct.
—Oa Monday week, as the seven o'clock emir. pain from
Ayr neared Kilbirnis the engine came in with avow,
which had strayed through the insecure tense ptsaileg the
line. The cow was killed on the spot, and Ow linesman
was so great that the law five carriages went Goma off the
rails. None of the passengers were hurt, although one of the
=was knocked from the top of the carriage and slightly

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASHIRE.

SOCIETY.—The seven-

teonth annual meeting of this society took place on Thursday
in the new Haymarket, at the north end of the town, the
use of which was given by the aspantion. The weather
was due, and the attendance alumnae Menreirmuestanoss
have aenurred to prevent a namoran dam a bulls and
cows, but several en_ the grouted Wall sensikst, sepodelly
that at air T. De Trifford, et Tvellinlke; au el Mr.
Boa, et 8 ; and that el Mr. flandisak. Mae woo
ear other prime waked MY Near
and belfirs. There were men kallens an tlegesmad
lad year, and several very sapsefweektak The 'trainees
Wmb, to Mews. Horbrid of Livarposk_ was the
beet. Another grey home, Wagftg to Me W. Ather-
ton. of Uphollad, is also a ine animal. There were
soeuel other good ad mad' house, and some
midi bald ebbe no to be useful, either
Ikt the kakis or polka Oa the lack,
then was • death& ksproknon be ossabialne so-
den Ida pewee, ssi ken kW to Ike Isms of this de-
nt* thee knee of Om *my malaria *ma a kw years
aim • flmr_geod broad mores, ink, and mart horses were
candled. The law dr.= were of prime breeds.
The eltaiwedispriffzers was vesy good, and, on the
whelk Par yang gs be •
ratto /Ir. krike,
_Of wen mid at 61. each.
Ma k, of Balked. atilblesd Noe of his prime
bread. Premiums are new aimed kr keskidaa but few
wen &own. Mr. W. AIWA, of Bank exhibited a
large sound root of maga wind of lath aim some large
ones of the prase year; a Sesta cabbage, weighing 401bs. ;
and several improad Swell& turnips. Several very large
var,===lingrowabyll. Littledale, Esq„ of Laud-
anontion. Mr. E. Cheehyre, of
Hoeing, war Werria_sten, exhibited twelve ample@ of
very ezelleat polkas. Twouteks of eery prime wheat were
shown. Thu* ems a key krge show of useful and improved
egriculttorl impaments. Mr. T. Whalley had a great
variety, and ansempt them the society recommended a port-
abls 'teaming apparatus, which had been used by the relief
society in Ireland; a churn; gardener's patent turnip
cutter, with thirty knives ; Howard's patent iron plough ,•
and a patent-lever wheel•rake. Mr. W. Thomas exhibited
a new light omnibus cab, to carry four or six ; very
light ; a light whitachapel ; a liquid :le pomp
end barrel, similar to a water out. The dimmer took t=
as natal at Lucas's Repatory,Great Charlottookat. A
two hundred of the leading agriculturists were preesst. Lod
Lilford presided. The usual toasts were drunk, and theI usual congratulatory addresses delivered. A long list of
sod rewards to labourers was read over.

LIVERPOOL MUNICIPALITT.—Yeeterday the seat
for the revision of the Liverpool 'municipal bargees list ins
opened by the mayor and his assesson. There were se
than 4,000 objections made by the respective partisans,
a great proportion of the whole. The court woe
crowded. There are 16 *lards, and it was arranged that
Renton ward should be taken first. The business of the
court had not proceeded far, when the mayor stated that
there were two military officers present who had been ob-
jected to, and as their immediate presence was required with
their regiment, he thought the arrangements might be
interfered with, and their dam be at once disposed of.
Immediately afterwards Mr4Beinbridge, a surgeon, who had
been objected to, nee and sesaplailed of being kept from his
patients. He and other pearesicsal men bad been objected
to on no other ground that It was supposed they would not
attend. He said the whale posassdiougs RIM most disgrace-
ful.--Mr. Yates, one of the sums" said he did not believe
that more than 5 per cent. of the whole objections were
otherwise than frivolous and vexations. The list was then
proceeded with, and the first ward was finished about tare
o'clock in the afternoon, several being struck off for non -
attendance. The business of the court will occupy a could-
derable time. We learn that the present step is preliminary
to a fierce party contest which is to be waged at the approach
ing election in November.
A CHARTER OF INCORPORATION has been granted
by the Privy Council to the town of Astiton•tutdsr-Lyle.
The document was received on Thursday night. It appoints
Mr. H. °onside, attorney, to prepare the burger lists, and
to conduct the necessary forms for the election of the first
town council, which will be elected in November, Rimul
taneously with those of the municipal bodies for other
boroughs.

TYPHUS FEVER AND THE PAROCHIAL AUTHORITIES
IN the Nownt.—During the last fortnight, a malignant
freer has spread with alarming rapidity in the lower parts of
Newcastle-on-Tyne and Gateshead, and even in rural locali-
ties in the counties of Northumberland and Durham- In
Newcastle, especially, its virulence is being felt in those
pieces where crowds of destitute Irish bane taken up their
temporary residence. Hundreds of that unfortunate class
ate at this moment the victims of typhus in its worst turn,,
and so the fever hospital is crowded with patients, the great
majority of the poor creatures are compelled to remain in
rooms into which nine or ten are frequently huddled. Two
of the medical officers, two Roman catholic priests, and
more than one of the subordinate parochial officers have
might the infection, and now lay in various degrees of den-
ger. What aggravates the difficulty is, that the authorities
of many of the Northumberland villages manage to
convey their fever patients into Newcastle, and
thus multiply disease where it already abounds.
The other day, an Irishman, labouring under typhus, was
taken from West Chevington to Newcastle, a distance of 22
miles, and there left to be provided fee. On the Durham
side of the Tyne, too, the danger is driving some of the au-
thorities into steps which are exciting a good deal of animad-
version. The Gateshead poor-law guardians, finding the ex-
pensiveness as well as the cruelty of allowing lever patients to
remain in the midst of large families, have taken a house in
the adjoining parish of Lamealey, and fitted it up as a fever
hospital. The Lemesley ratepayers, including Lord Ravens-
worth, protest against this coarse as unjust and illegal ' • and
a deputation, including the Hon. H. T. Liddell, have had an
interview with the North Durham magistrates on the sub-
hct, without, however, obtaining any redress. The matter
as been brought before the poor-law commissioner,, and
they also have declined to offer an opinion as to the legality
of the step which the Gateshead guardians have found it ne-
cessary to adopt. The latter functionaries are now threatened
with further proceedings by the Laniesley deputation.
_YORKSHIRE.

THE SWINTON lei Sellers, who
stands charged with the murder of Caleb Barker at Swinton,
has been brought up at the Sheffield Police-court —Mrs.
Elizabeth Barker, the widow of the murdered man, said that.
on the 4th of September her husband, who left home alone
and perfectly sober between seven and eight o'clock in the
evening, was brought home about eleven o'clock with several
wounds, his head being cut and bruised, and his left ear
almost cut off. He died the next morning.—Thomas Gore
said : About half-past ten o'clock on the eight of the 4th
of September I was passing close by Mr. Barker's potteries,
near Swinton, when a man walked put. We exchanged a
" good night" as we passed. When 1 had gone on a few paces
further I saw a man lying in a ditch, and got him out, but
he could not stand. John Heely and William Turner
happened to pus at the time, and we carried him
towards Barker's house, and called for alight. Barker's eon
came out with a light, and recognised the man as his father.
We carried him into the house. He appeared sensible, bat
did not speak. He was much cut and bruised, and looked
as if he had been knocked down.—John Healy said . I am a
potter. I lodged with Barker, and continue to lodge with
hia widow. Thu witness corroborated the statement of the
previous witness. He also had met a man coming from
where the body was found, but be did not think he could re-
cognise him again.—Thomas Raynor said: I live at Bolton-
upon-Dearer, and am a quarry-man. On Saturday night,
Sept. 4, I was going from Sheffield station to Swinton, and
got there at 5 minutes before 8, p.m. I got out at the Wath
Ration. I went in a thirdolua carriage, and in the same
carriage I maw the prisoner. He got in at Sheffield and out
at Swinton, and asked me if I knew Thomas Garland, and
other persona living there.—Mary Taylor, of Memborough,
said I was at George Hampshire's public-howe, the Canal
Tavern, on Saturday night, September 4. My son-ill-law
was there, and the prisoner sat next to him. My son-in-law
malted me whether I knew Sellars, and I said no. Prisoner
said, "I am Abigal Sellars' son. She had a child by Mr.
Garland, of' Bolton, and lam the lad." I said, "What do
/ma do for • living ?" and he said, " I go with my father
us ing dielling
beasts
named. RoZnasyontickteoot was k
it. there,
and Billy Blue—a
end the prisoner went out together. I bade them good
night, and did not see them any mere.—blargaret Simp-
son said: lam the daughter of the landlady of the Ship
Inn, Swinton-bridge. On Saturday, September 4, Caleb
Barker came to our house between seven and eight,
and had two pints of ale and pert of a three-
pennyworth of gin. He was sober when he came into the
house, and appeared to be quite sober when he left. I
noticed him then, because he asked for a pitcher with a quart
of ale and a pennyworth of pipes, which he took away with
him.—lnspector Aatwood repeated the evidence before pub-
lished of his taking the prisoner on Sept. 15, on a charge of
burglary. He said, on lurching him I found a butcher's
knife now produced, and took from him these trousers, on
which are marks of blood in several places, I found also a
pencil. Blood is on the legs of the trousers, on the nen, and
on the inside,—Mrs. Barker, on being recalled, said her
husband had a tobacco-box and a bit of black-lead pencil.—
Mr. Raynor here produced a piece of pencil, which Mrs.
Barker examined, and cried bitterly on seeing it, but
could not identify it.—Mr. Blyde, surgeon, went into
a long account of the state in which he found
the body; and added that, in him opinion, the death
of Caleb Barker was caused by a blow er blows
from a heavy instrument, the fractured pieces of the skull
being twelve in number. In defence, the prisoner said be
was in a beastly data of intoxication. Mr. Overend said the
prisoner had been seen going on the railway from Sheffield
to Swinton without any apparent object in view. He had
also been in that part of the country before, for the purpose
of committing two burglaries, and these circumstances made
all the people in the neighbourhood suspicious of him. At
the some time It must be confessed that there was not suffi-
cient evidense of his identity to commit upon the charge of
murder. Under these circumstances the prisoner would he
committed to York on the two burglaries.
LEICESTERSHIRE.
00IfICISSION BY LORD LIEUTENANT.—The Has.
H. D. Carson to be cornet in Prince Albert's Own Laws-
tosablra Yeomanry Cavalry.
oxprogarnrse.
THE BISROP OP OXFORD AND LURCH Accost°.
DATION 701 rim Pooh--It will be recollected that strand
vestry nmettags have recently taken place at Upton-cum-
Chalvey, near Slough, in consequence of nations alterations
which had been made in the church (priapally consisting
of the enclosing of some of the free-seam in the body of thin
bin and converting them into pews) having been op.
posed by the diocesan, the Bishop of Oxford. A long oar-
reepondanee earned between the bishop and the Rev. Mr.
Champnes and Mr. Atkins, the vicar and churchwarden.
At a agony held on .the 19th of August the following ►rem-
halos, which ham given great offence to the bishop, was
carried by a large mejority, in opposition to the views of the
diocesan :—"Tat this vestry confirm the resolutions of the
previous vestries, as connected with the alterations of the
church. and recommend the churchwardens to carry
them out; and that this vestry undertake to bear them harm •
low" In consequence of a letter subsequently received
by the churchwarden from the bishop another vestry wee
tolled on the 2nd of September, when a depilation was np-
pointed to wait on the bishop for the purpose el explaining
the wishes of the vestry, and of obtaining such information
from lide lordship as might be deemed ceeeseary. The
bishop laving &dined to naive the deputation until the
objectionable teselAties, pasted en the 19th of August, had
been ramalleled, Issas rosary was called for Thursday lot. fir the peimeee of taking into consideration
the rsetlndtn of *et telehttion, either wholly or in port.
At this vestry, isausal Latin which had plumed between Mr.
Atkins end the Mew of Oxford., were read, after which
Colonel TWINY prarwall, sad Sir. Dyson seconded,
motion that the resoletioa passed on the 19th August
should be rescinded ; but this was overruled, and alter much
discussion, an amendment proposed by Mr. Gilbertson, for
not rescinding the resolution, was carried. And the meeting
separated.