The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-19 00:00:00

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ed something glistening like brass.
yards he saw a flash and heard a

The Coroner said he had made an application to tie
Secretary of State for the Home department that the
prisoner might be placed before him, undertaking that he
should be returned in safe custody to the House of Deten-
tion by three o'clock. He had not, however, received any

rh. Foreman of the Jury said he could hardly see how
r. The last witness
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murderer. He trgsted

'oroner would grant an adj ourn me

The Coroner having consulted the jury, and ascertained
that they „ _
an .
were unanimously and strongly of opinion that
the prisoner should be brought before. them, said he had
no 'alternative but to adjourn, and, after some discussion,
Monday next was fixed for the resumption of the inquiry.
Just. prior to the adjournment Mr. Mitchell, a solicitor,
said, that having. been a partner of the late Mr. Waugh, he
was anxious to correct some erroneous statements which had
gone forth tending to injure his memory. - He-had prepared
a statement, which he b.,gged the coroner would allow him
to read.

The Coroner said that it would be irregular in the present
state of the proceedings, but he had no doubt that if Mr.
Mitchell handed his statement to the reporters, they would
gladly give it insertion.

Mr. Mitchell said he would adopt that course, and
handed to the preis a most confused and illegible document,
of which the following is the best translation that can be
made:- _ _

I, Henry Sadler Mitchell, of 5, Great Present-street,
Goodman's-fields, vestry clerk of the parish 'of St. Marv,
Whitecbapel, state that I was on terms of very great inti-
macy with the late Mr. Waugh, with whom I was n
partner for seven years, expiring in March last. That I
was on terms of great intimacy with his family, and was
during the partnership a constant visitor at his house,
occasionally so since the partnership. That I was well
acquainted with the transactions between the deceased and
the prisoner. That the deceased, as the solicitor, and his
family, some two or three years ago instituted a snit in
Chancery, and by his ability and perseverance gained for
them an estate worth several thousands of pounds. That
attempts were made to sell the property, which were greatly
frustrated by the extraordinary conduct of the prisoner,
much to the annoyance of some, if not of all the rest, of the
family. That at length the prisoner was induced
—insult to sell his share of the property to some of the
rest of his family, and Monday last was appointed for the
completion of the transaction ; but again owing to the
,xtraordinary conduct of the prisoner, although the money
arniqhed to Mr. Waugh was ready before, it could not
settled. That ti, deceased had advanced the prisoner
,neys on account of his share, and had throughout the
-tion acted with great kindness and forbearance to-
glthough he had been greatly provoked by him,

prisoner's

'n is

;eased a

Bed hro'irht him before a
the charge severely

are, but as Mr. Waugh did not pre,.
o.riin3t him, the magistrate discharged him ,without corn
nellino• him to enter into his recognizance, nn his giving an
assurance that he would not again annoy Mr. Waugh. That
I have every reason 4o believe that Mr. Waugh did not
press the charge against him out of motives of kind-
ness, fearing that if called upon to enter into recognizarces
he would not be able to find a surety, and would ho incar-
cerated, perhaps, for some considerable time. That the
- —6dp by the nrisbner when taken into custody,
^r cheated him out of

I am ind

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to the memory of my dc

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the, late Mr. Waii2l

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one shilling he was

re this statement out
d friend, which may

tne statements of the prisoner. I may sap,
that I know him to have been a good husband,
indulgent father, and a generous and warm-

SPRING CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGI

T_,'S FOR

--4,,_..__

• On Thursday the Judges met in the Exchequer Chamber
for the nuOose of arranging and finally determining the
several circuits upon which they would proceed to hold the
general assize for the several counties throughout England
and Wales.

The following are the arrangements finally agreed

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Judges the Hon. Mr. Baron Mar-
tin, and the Hon. Mr. Justice Willes.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Judges, the Hon. Mr. Baron Platt,
and the Hnn. Mr. Justicc Crowder.
Noun( WALES AND CHESTER.—Mr. Justice Erie will
proceed on this circuit, and meet Mr. Justice Williams at
Chester.
SOUTH WALES.--Judge, the Hon. Mr. Justice V.
Williams.
MIDLAND Ctuctar.—Judges the Right Hon. Lord
Campbell, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—Judges. the Right Hon. Sir John
John Jervis, and the Hon. Mr. Justice Wightman.
HOME CIRCUIT.—Judges, the Hon. Mr. Baron Alderson,
and the Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge.
OXFORD Czacurr.--Judges, the Hon. Mr. Justice Cress-
well and the new Baron of the Exchequer, Mr. Baron
Bramwell.
Mr. Justice Crompton will remain in town as the Vaca-
tion Judge.

At.:Kertell, an attack was expected from the Russians.
The Hon. A. C. Murray left Teheran on the sth of
December.
There is no additional news in the Continental jour-
nals or, correspondence received yesterday. The
Paris correspondent of the Times reports, that at a re-
een!ion at the, Court of Vienna on the 9th lust, the
Panpet:or Franctsloseph declared to a memirr of the
Diplotnatic Corps, that the moment had at last arrived,
to getout of the situation they were in, one way or
another; and to the Swedish Minister he observed, that
the treaty of his government NNith France and England
had produced the greatest effect at St. Petersburg, and
would be powerful in hastening the termination of the
crisis.
ALLEGED Mtranzn.—On Wednesday Mr. Carter, coro-
ner for East Surrey, opened an inquest at the Crooked
Billet, Ham, on the bodies of Mate Ann Peacock, a
widow, lately resident at Kingston, and Eliza Peacbdk,
her youngest child, aged between two and three years.
It appeared that two men, named Jackson and Ford,
were in custody on suspicion of having caused the death
of the deceased by drowning. Jackson is the captain,
and Ford the mate, of a barge plying between Kingston
and London. Several witnesses having been examined,
the inquiry was adjourned. The evidence, so far as it
extended, showed that Ford was improperly in!imate
with the elder deceased, who occasionally visited him
in his barge at night, returning about two or three in
the morning. On Monday se'nnight, Ford went to her
house about tea-time, when a man named Elammerton
was there. Ford, apparently displeased at his visits,
ordered him to leave at once. Hammerton, who taught
the deceased writing, left soon afterwards, and Ford
then pressed the elder deceased to go to the barge.
She declined for a long time; but about ten o'clock she
fetchedi!h Ford
down
w t
hhoeurt
hnchildr
bonnet,from sayingupstai
that she wouldr s, and went out
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return borne shortly. The deceased and her child were
subsequently seen at an early hour on Tuesday morning
on board the barge, but they were never seen alive after
that lime. The prisoners have made s'atements widely
different from each other ; and Ford told the police
authorities that he never knew anything of the deceased,
and had never been in her company. The woman and
I:
her child were found in the canal on Sunday last,

On Thursday, long before the time appointed for the corn
mencement of the service, usual in matrimonial cases, the
doors of the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, 'were besieged
by ladies of aristocratic family, anxious to witness the
iaEre of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M
Emily'Hay, youngest d

I marr

The nup

Is were c

tiiiguished circle of th

Duchess of

ter of the.Mlrquis of Twee-
[ebrated by the Dean of Nor_

)bility, including the Duke and

Fred. Peel, 'Lord and La

corn, I

Lady Villiers

weedale, Right lion

Elizabeth Steel, L