The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-29 00:00:00

THE CONVICT PALMER.

In our early edition yesterday, we communicated to our
readers the fact, that as early as possible after sentence
was passed, the wretched convict was removed from
Newgate to Stafford Gaol, there to await his execution.
It may be premised, however, that before the judges left
the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, they signed a
warrant for the removal of the prisoner to Stafford Gaol,
and an order to the sheriff of that county to carry out the
sentence. The removal was thus effected. At twenty
minutes to eight o'clock two cabs drove up to Newgate,
one of them entering the gaol gates, and the
other remaining outside the governor's entrance.
In a few minutes after Palmer was brought out
of the governor's door, placed in the cab,
which, after the entrance of Mr. Weatherhead (the
governor) and two officers, drove off as rapidly as pos-
sible, scarcely being noticed. A great crowd, however,
had collected round the gaol gates, and when, a few
seconds afterwards, the second cab was brought out
empty, they saw that they had been deceived, and im-
mediately ran after the first cab, which, owing to the
crowded state of the top of Newgate-street at the time it
started, they succeeded in overtaking opposite Hatton-
garden. Several hundred persons collected here, and
hooted the prisoner in the most excited manner. When
the cab which contained the prisoner and his keepers
drove into the yard of the Euston Station the prisoner
alighted and walked through the large room on to the
platform. He was immediately recognised by some per-
sons who had seen him in court, and the news of his
being at the station spread rapidly. In a few maments
there was a tremendous rush through the station on
to the platform, and in an incredibly short space
of time the prisoner was the object of general cu-
riosity, although the fact of his removal had been
kept as secret as possible. H'e walked rapidly to the
train, with a gaoler on each side, followed by the crowd
which had collected. He was placed in the middle com-
partment of a first-class carriage, a gaoler being on each
side of him. When he was seated in the carriage the
crowd surrounded the window, eager to catch a glance
of one who had attained such an unenviable notoriety.
This was evidently annoying to Palmer, and the blind
of the carriage window was drawn down, much to
the disappointment of the curious. Palmer was
dressed in convict's costume (having been divested of
his own clothes within half an hour after the verdict was
given), his feet were ironed, and his hands handcuffed, a
cloak covering the whole. The prisoner left Newgate
with unabated courage, and with an expression of
reliance on the exertions of his friends and his solicitor
to procure a remission of his sentence. The prisoner's
brother, accompanied by Mr. Smith, the solicitor, called
at Newgate shortly after seven o'clock, but were not
allowed to see the prisoner, being told that ample
opportunities for an interview would be afforded
them at Stafford. It is stated that a memorial is
in preparation, addressed to the Government, show-
ing strong medical reasons why the sentence cannot
with justice be executed. Symptoms, it is urged, ought
not to weigh. Diversity in tetanus is as frequent as in
any other disease, and in strychnia poisoning the acces-
sion of symptoms is as ♦aried as in any other species of
tetanus. The pathological and physiological data upon
which the prosecution has taken its stand will be
rebutted.

DEATH OF SIR W. E. ROUSE BOUGHTON, BART.—We
have to record the demise of Sir Wm. E. Rouse Bough-
ton, Bart., who died on the 22nd instant. The deceased,
who was born Sept. 14, 1788, succeeded his father, the
9th baronet, in Feb., 1821. He married, March 24,
1824, Charlotte, daughter of Mr. T. A. Knight, of
Downton Castle, who died in May, 1842. Sir William
was a fellow of the Royal Society. Tlie late baronet
inherited two baronetcies, Rouse and Boughton, of
which the more recent was conferred on his father in
1791, who represented Evesham and Bramber in the
House of Commons, and was for some years secretary to
the Board of Control. The late baronet is succeeded in
the baronetcy and estates in Shropshire and Worcester-
shire by his eldest son Charles Henry, born Jan. 16,
1825, and was for some lengthened period in the 52nd
Foot.

THE CRIME A.—Advices from Sebastopol states
that in the camp everything remains unusually quiet.
There have been the number of parades, field days. and
inspection of regiments, brigades; and divisions, and the
shot collecting still goes on vigorously. The weather is
still changeable. The Sardinian army is rapidly disap-
pearing. Balaklava contains a large number of fine Eng-
lish steamers destined to take teem with all speed to
Italy, and the embarkation of the British army is sus-
pended for the present. The French soldiers who were
arrested for the murder of a sergeant of marines, for
wounding an English naval officer, and for firing on an
unarmed party of our men, have been passed before
a Council of War, or, in other words, have been tried
by Court-martial, and have been acquitted for want
of proof against the actual murderers. Whether
this decision is acepted by the English authorities
or not I am unable to say, but I have reason to
believe that the Commander-in-chiet is not satisfied to let
the matter rest here, and that some further measures will
ba taken to procure redress. Major-General Garrett has
received a fall from his horse, which has shaken him con-
siderably, and from the effects of which he is confined to
his bed.
CASE OF ARCHDEACON DENISON.-It was expected
that his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury would sit
in the Common hall, Doctors'-commons, on Tuesday to
hear the case of " Ditcher v. Denison." The Admiralty
Advocate appeared on behalf of the Archdeacon, who
was cited to be present at eleven o'clock, but, after
waiting upwards of an hour, his Grace not arriving, the
learned Advocate withdrew. It was understood that the
absence of the Archbishop was occasioned by the pro-
ceedings in the Court of queen's Bench on Monday, but
no official notice to that effect was received by the proctor
for the Archdeacon. The Admiralty Advocate, before retir-
ing. addressed Mr. Bathurst, the proctor for the Arch-
deacon, and said that he presumed all the proceedings
were abandoned. He could only regret the absence of
his Grace, because it prevented him from making a
prayer to he dismivsed with costs. He hoped that his
Grace would furnish an opportunity for that being done,
which was the invariable custom. This was a highly
criminal suit, and he must act on the legal presumption
that the proceedings against his venerable client were
abandoned,

NORTHERN TIMES.

IMPORTANT FROM

AMERICA.

By the arrival of the Liverpool and Philadelphia
Steamship Company's steamer, City of Baltimore,
we have received New York papers of the 15th
instant, being one day later than those brought by
the Persia. _ _

The City of Baltimore left the Delaware on
Friday, the 16th, and arrived in the Mersey yester-
day morning, making the passage in eleven days
seventeen hours mean time. She logged above 300
miles a day for the last six days of her voyage. SILt
brought home 107 passengers.
Although the papers are only one day later, they
contain news of great importance, inasmuch as
they convey from Washington the intelligence
that, on the 14th, Padre Vijil presented his cre-
dentials, and was received by the President as
minister from the Walker government in Nica-
ragua. The usual courteous speeches were inter-
changed. The President, in his remarks, signifi-
cantly said he would enforce the neutrality laws.

Senor Maecoleta is greatly disgusted. Secretary
Marcy acquiesces in the result. The President
would send a messase to congress on the following
day, announcing the recognition of the Walker

government, and giving the reasons influencing
that step. In the senate, on the same day, Mr.

Clayton brought forward the subject of Central
American affairs. He said :

He had seen in the morning newspapers what purported to
he an extract from a letter from the British Minister at
Washington, dated March 31, 1856, in which Mr. Crampton
says :

"It will be within your Lordship's recollection that Mr.
Clayton was informed by Sir Henry Bulwer, before the
Treaty. of 1850 was signed, that Ruatan was de
,lure and de
facto a British possession, and Mr. Clayton has on various
occasions since, in conversation with me, stated that he con-
sidered Ruatan a British possession as much as Jamaica or any
other British West India Island."
Mr. Clayton branded this statement as utterly untrue in
every particular. The British minister must have laboured
nnder a hallucination as strange as ever entered the brain of
any man to make such a declaration. Nothing like it had ever
escaped him in conversation with Mr. Crampton or anybody
else. Fortunately, the fact did not rest merely upon the
statements of Mr. Crampton and himself. Ho had a
living witness, and first, ho would call attention to
a letter written by Mr. Crampton, and read in the Senate on
the 12.11 of January, 1854, in which he (Mr, Crampton)
attempted to prove that Ruatan was not a dependency of
Belise, and was not exempted from the provisions of the treaty
of 1850. He then had Mr. Crampton's testimony on the
subject, and read it to the Senate. He would now read it
again to contradict Mr. Crampton's statement, which was made
known to him for the first time this morning, and of which he
had not the most remote conception. In this letter Mr.
Crampton said :

" The dependencies of British Honduras are, in my opinion,
distinctly enumerated in the treaty of 1786,"
He had made this statement deliberately, and the irresista-
ble conclusion was, that Ruatan was not included in these
d, pendenc!es. Mr. Clayton said while he was detained at his
lodgings by sickness in February or March last, he was
called upon by Mr. Crittenden, anti. while they were
engaged in conversation on Jr's subject, Mr.
Crampton came in to invite him (Clayton) to dine
with him. He (Clayton) was too sick to accept of the invita-
tion, but took occasion to ask Mr. Crampton if he knew any.
thing of the charge that he (Mr. Clayton) had ever admitted
that Ruatan was exempted from the operation of the treaty, and
Mr. Crampton, in most unqualified terms, acknowledged that
there was no truth in the report that he (Mr. Clayton) had ever
made any such intimation to him.

Mr. Crittenden c3rroborated Mr. Clayton's statement. He
could not pretend to give the details of a conversation at which
he was accidentally present, but according to his recollection,
the substance of it was directly contrary to the statement in
the newspapers, and sustained the account Mr. Clayton had