The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-27 00:00:00

Nov. 14,—Proceeds with strong breezes and thick gloomy
weather ; 4 p.m., tacked ship to the southward ; midnight,
fresh gales and clear; small showers of rein at times and
hard squalls; 10 a.m., ditto wind rind weather, handed top
gallant sails and all small staysails ; 11 30 a.m., tacked
ship to the eastward, passed a ship standing to the eastward,
with fore top gallant mast gone ; noon, fresh gales and
threatening rain.

Nov. 15.—Proceeds- with fresh gales and increasing ;
6 p.m., moderated a little, set top-gallant sails ; midnight,
clear and a hard easterly appearance ; 8 a.m., ditto wind and
freshening withal, handed top-gallant sails; noon, fresh gales
and gloomy all round, dark threatening weather, a ship to
the north of tie standing to the north and east.

Nov. 18.—First part fresh gales and thickening into the
westward ; 7 p.m, commenced to rain, and wind hauling
gradually to the southward ; midnight, heavy rain ; 4 a.m.,
wind chopped into west, a long heavy roll of a sea from
south, set all sail from skysail studding sail down ; noon,
clear, pleasant weather and thickening into the eastward.
Nov. 17.—Proceeds with light breeze and dark gloomy
weather; midnight, clear ; 8 a.m., light showers of rain ;
noon, gloomy and dark threatening weather to the S.E., a
long heavy sea from S.W.

Nov. 18.—First part light, and dark gloomy weather
took upon deck, and bent 80 and 50 fathoms of bower
chains ; midnight, clear, with heavy clouds from west ;
4 a.m., ditto wind and weather • noon, dark gloomy
weather to the west, wind veering and hauling from west to
south west ; 4.50, sighted the old head of Kinsale bearing
E.N.E , distance 6 miles ; 2.30 a.m., passed Tuskar 1 mile
off; 11 a.m., Holyhead S.S.E. distance 8 miles ; noon,
Skerries S. by W. 3 miles.

TESTIMONIALS PRESENTED TO CAPTAIN

M'DONNELL,

To Captain Charles 11P:Donnen, C6,ilmander of the

fames Baines

Dear Sir,—We, -the undersigned saloon passengers on
board the James Baines, from Melbourne to Liverpool,
have extreme pleasure, on approaching the termination of
our voyage, in expressing our feelings towards yourself.
We admire your professional character as a seaman ;
the skill and ability displayed in the management of your
ship, which we can with confidence pronounce one of the
fastest sailing, easiest and safest vessel afloat. The
assiduous attention, and unwearied effort to seize every
opportunity for forwarding us on our course, the patience
exhibited under circumstances of unprecedented trial and
delay ; and the equanimity and judgment displayed on
occasions calling forth your energies and experiences, are be-
yond our highest praise. We contribute to the many pre-
vious testimonials you have had to your high gentlemanly
character, your courtesy, your agreeable bearing towards your
passengers, and your kind efforts to secure their comfort and
happiness. We also, before leaving you, offer you our united
sympathies in consideration of a long and very protraced
voyage. It is beyond the power of man to command the
elements, and when we reflect that we left Melbourne
confidently expecting we should be aided with winds in
every way favourable for a speedy voyage, and that in
proportion, as our hopes were high, our disappointment has
been correspondingly great, and that where we were
entitled from past experience to look for strong and fair
winds, we have been driven off our course by head winds,
or more frequently been delayed by calms—our wonder is
not that we have not long ere now reached our destina-
tion, but that you have been able to accomplish
what you have done, and that we have even now
the prospect of finishing our voyage so soon. In
bidding you adieu, we cordially wish you every
success and happiness, and our desires are for your future
welfare. At the same time, we request your acceptance
of the accompanying purse, for the purchase of a piece of
plate, as a testimonial, the inscription for which is annexed.
We are, dear sir, yours faithfully.
[SIGNED BY ALL THE SALOON PASSENGERS.]
Nov. 19, 1856.

To Captain M'Donnell, of the James Baines.
Dear Sir,—We, the undersigned second-class passengers,
on board this ship, now approaching the termination of a
long and protracted voyage, occasioned by unusual contrary
winds—unexpected at the season we left Melbourne—beg
to express our feelings, for your courteous and gentlemanly
conduct to all, during the voyage. The skill and ability
displayed by you as commander, is worthy of the highest
praise; anti we only regret that, we have not had more
favourable weather to test the powers of this fine vessel.
In bidding you farewell, you have our best wishes for your
future success.—We remain, dear sir, yours faithfully.
[SIGNED BY ALL THE SECOND-CLASS PASSENGERS.]
November 19th, 185 G.

To Charles 31Tonnell,_ Esq., Commander of the 11.31.8.

James Baines,

Sir,—We, the undersigned intermediate passengers, on
board the ship James Baines, from Melbourne to Liverpool,
beg leave to express our sense of your constant kindness and
attention during a long and protracted voyage, which, not-
withstanding its duration, we have passed in great comfort.
Of the sailing qualities and general arrangements of the
fine ship under your command, we can speak most favoura.
bly, as she has, at all times, fully borne out her former cha-
racter of a first class sailing vessel.—Wishing you every
success, we beg to subscribe ourselves, sir, your's faithfully,
[SIGNED BY ALL THE INTERMEDIATE PASSENGERS.]
Nov, 19, 1856.

REMARKABLE TRIAL FoR MURDER IN CANADA

An extraordinary trial for murder, at the late Toronto
assizes, has excited a very strong feeling in Canadian
society. Mr. Thos. Henderson, an attorney, had seducd
the wife of Mr. George Brogdin, of Port Hope, a member
of the same profession. Brogdin and Henderson were young
men, they had been schoolfellows, and pupils in the same
office. Brogdin, who is now 25 years of ago, was married
two or three years ago, and has one child. Henderson was
paying his addresses to the sister of Mrs. Brogdin osten-
sibly, butin August last he persuaded Mrs. Brogdin to elope
with him, and afterwards, in letters to his friends, boasted
that he had made her his mistress. He also told several
persons that he always carried arms, and that Brogdin
was a poor fool and coward who did not understand the
use of them, and that if they chanced to meet it would be
the worse for Brogdin. These remarks came to the
hearing of Brogdin ; indeed, the affair had got into the
local newspapers, much to Henderson's glorification. Some
weeks passed over before they mat. Henderson had
pistols about him whenever he went out, and often talked
of fighting with Brogdin. Arrangements were made by
Brogdin, after his wife went away, to settle an income
upon her, as he said he loved her too well to let her die in
a ditch, which she would do if she continued with Hen-
derson. When Henderson heard of this, he said he did
not care for anything Brogdin could do after that, because
he was perfectly satisfied that such conduct towards her
would preclude Brogdin from getting a verdict against
him in an action for crim. con. On the very next day,
Sept. 23rd, they met accidently at the steamboat wharf.
Henderson nodded insolently to Brogdin, and said, " flow
d'ye do, George ?" Brogdin immediately drew a pistol
from his pocket, and shot Henderson dead. These were
the facts proved in evidence, without contradiction, and
the Chief Justice told the jury that he could not imagine
"a plainer case of murder." " The law," said his lord-
ship, "does not admit that Henderson's conduct was any
excuse for murder." The jury, howevero declared that
Brogdin was "not guilty'' of the murder. The Toronto
Globe comments upon the ease in the following terms :
" This was the form of their verdict, but we all know that
their meaning was—" Guilty of the killing, but it was
justifiable." It would have been better if the jury had
rendered a verdict of guilty, with a strong recommenda-
tion to mercy. It is an alarming precedent to declare a
man innocent of all crime, who has taken the life of a
fellow-creature. But this is not the feeling of the com-
munity generally. There is a strong, healthful detestation
in the public mind of the seducer. There is no redress
against him as a criminal by law; and when the injured
relative of his victim takes the law into his own hands he
has the sympathy of the community. The jury at the
trial were, no doubt, influenced by this reasoning."

BODY FOUND ON THE RAILWAY NEAR RAINIIILL.—On
Tuesday morning, about one o'clock, the body of a man
who appeared to have been a corn dealer, was found on the
London and North Western Railway, at the Newton-in-the-
Willows viaduct works. When discovered, the body was
quite warm, and it bore no indications of external injury.
In the pockets of deceased were £2 75., and a pass for three
months between Liverpool and Rainhill. It is supposed
from this pass that deceased had inadvertently been taken
past the Rainhill station, and then jumped from the train,
with the intention of walking back.
FISHERMEN BEWITCHED.—The John o' Groat Journal
says that some fishermen who had been drinking in a public
house at Pulteneytown fell out, and being prevented from
fighting, " they gave vent to their wrath in curses loud and
deep ; and one made a threat, the fulfilment of which has
been the means of giving him an unenviable reputation
among all the superstitious old wives in his neighbourhood.
He was not yet, he said, done with t'other one ; he (the
other) had hitherto been successful at his white fishing,
but he woull not be so no longer—the first, second, and
third nights ensuing he would come ashore with his lines,
but, by the ' turning of a staney,' he would make safe that
he came not ashore with them on the fourth ! And, sure
enough, it did so happen that his words came true. On
the fourth day after the 6 row, when the man had his lines
all out, a gale came on, and he was compelled to cut and
run, to avert worse consequences—verifying thus the threat
of the other, who has been looked on with suspicion ever
since."

with light drizzling rain ; midnight, ditto wind and weather ;
8 a.m., light rain and thick hazy weather, tacked ship to the
southward ; noon, wind and weather as above. sea perfectly
smooth.

Nov. 13.—Proceeds with light winds, small rain and light
squalls, with dark gloomy weather; 7 p.m., tacked to the
eastward ; midnight, showery and clear ; S a.m., wind
hauled into south, veers and hank from south to ESE ;
noon, light and clear, experienced a NE drift ; 14 knots in
24 hours.