The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-24 00:00:00

Not where the crimes of Palmer culminated, but where they

were first engenderer

is tha point on which the moralist

should fix his eye. The discourse before us seeks to ac-
complish something of this object. It is eloquent, earnest,
and impressive—in some respects painfully and morbidly
impressive. If one would criticise it closely, he must think its

ppeals sometimes too obvionsly designed to startle and to
horrify, and may feel some doubt whether exhortations produc-
ing only a sudden shock, a state of mind which cannot possibly
be long sustained, and must gradually settle down and

collapse, are precisely the best means by which the end they
desire is to be attained. The mind has too great a facility
for becoming used to these galvanic shocks, and the first
horror, too, after subsiding into indifference, and even by a
natural reaction, is metamorphised into a spirit of mocking
levity. There is much, however, in the sermon before u 8
which will secure to it better fruits. A plain and direct
earnestness is one of its principal and most valuable charac •
The preacher, too, addresses his hearers as an

teristics

ordinary speaker naturally addresses those whom he designs
to impress and animate—he does not follow the example of
too many of his brethren, whose idea of a sermon appears

to be a rhapsodical dissertation, couched in a peculiar
language, which no speaker out of a pulpit, no writer,
except what is usually termed a religious writer, ever dreams
of adopting, and of which the principal characteristic is a
pervading monotonous inflation. This sermon is the embodi-
ment of the genuine feelings as they came forth from a
heart filled to pain with its subject. The preacher
has wisely dwelt less upon those characteristics which
made Palmer unlike any other man, than on those
early tendencies is which he resembled, at least in some
degree, all other men. He has applied himself to discover
the point at which the path of the criminal. began to tend
downwards, in order• that other men shall watch their own
steps, and see that they be firmly fixed and rightly guided
Mr. Pollock has not spared some of the social habits which
custom pronounces respectable, and the higher moral feelings
must declare dangerous and degrading. He might have
gone much farther. He might have shown that the whole
..complicated wages of vice which surround the race course,
are but some symptoms of the moral disease which are every
day breaking out, to some degree, in every pursuit and
business of life where natural ambition and the inevitable
desire for progress are directed with the very earliest training
into the making of money and social position as the great
end—where the development of many human affections is
made secondary to every other object —where even religion
only presents herself usually as a kind of controversial
science, teaching little more than repulsion and antagonism,
it is not easy to see how any path of life is to be kept free
from those temptations which too often make men into
criminals. The little, however, which can be done by mere
repreSsion, may, no doubt, be aided by such warnings as
this drawn from the fate of such a felon as William
, Palmer.

trial.
THE PEREGRINATIONS OF CAPTAIN FRANCIS.—A young
man dressed in the first style, whose name was given on
the charge sheet Bettina Carne, alias Captain Francis,
was brought up by constable 650 on a charge of having
attempted to obtain goads from several tradesmen by The papers announce the death of General Ellice, colonel
means of false representations. Mr. Block defended of the 24th regiment.
the prisoner. The pfficer said, the prisoner was given The Washington Cabinet has consented to postpone, for
to him in charge on Saturday, in Scotland-place, by Mr. one year, the question of the Sound Dues.
Eastdale, draper, for attempting to obtain goods from MARSEILLES, Sunday.—There are yet, of all arms, 12,000
him by false pretences, but Mr. Eastdale was not now troops in the Crimea. Marshal Pelissier has fixed the sth
present ; there were in attendance, however, several July as the last nay for the evacuation. From that day all
tradesmen whom he attempted to swindle out goods. military protection, of natives or foreigners, will be with-
Mr. Block : Bat I want to know what the specific drawn.
charge against him is ? Mr. Clough For attempting to The Vienna correspondent of the Times states that the
obtain goods by false pretences. Mr- Bluak : It is not stagnation of trade in that capital is greater than ever. The
for -actually obtaining goods, then 1 Mr. Clough No. accounts from the provinces are also unfavourable, and a
Mr. Plummer, of the Crescent, stated that about three serious commercial crisis is predicted. At Brunn, in Mora-
o'clock on Saturday, the prisoner called at his shop, and via, which is the Manchester of Austria, many of the
ordered two bundles of cigars of 100 each, and two manufacturers are in serious difficulties. In other manufac-
bundles of 12 each, to be sent to the Commercial Inn, luring towns many spinning and weaving establishments,
Dale.street ; lie said he was going to dinner, but had no sugar refiners and factories, have ceased working. It is
money at the time, but to have the cigars sent to the inn explained that, since the improvement of Austrian paper,
at half-past three o'clock, and he would pay for them. the foreign purchaser has left the Austrian market, as he
Mr. Plaminer sent a boy with the cigars, and gave him can no longer realize a profit of 25 per cent. on the diffe-
special directions not to leave them without money. The rence between a good and a deteriorated currency.
boy went on his errand, but the captain was not known SUPPOSED MURDER OF AN UNFORTUNATE FEMALE.-
-lit the hotel, and the boy accordingly brought back the Some time between oue and two o'clock on Sunday
cigars. In reply to Mr. Black, the witness said the morning, police-constable 393 found an unfortunate female,
prisoner had a top coat on at the time ;he did not speak named Elizabeth Jones, lying dead in Alfred-street, and it
very bad English, nor did he'appear tipsy. Mr. muck was supposed that foul play had been used. On inquiry by
You actually lost nothing ? Witness : No. He directed Mr. Blake, the coroner's beadle, he ascertained that the
them-to be sent to Captain Francis, 15 room, Commer- deceased was a woman of the town, aged about 30 years,
cial Inn, Dale-street. Mr. Woods, of Castle-street, said that she resided in Ben Jonison-street, and that she went out
the prisoner ordered goods, shirts, and other things, to on Saturday evening as usual, but never returned. A
the amount of £5 Ils, and required to have some of them companion of the deceased states that the girl was ill-used
altered. The witness said he dirt not like his customer, and knocked down by a man in the garb of a navvy, and that
who stated he was Captain Frauds, of the Commercial when the informant went to look for a policeman,
.the man
Hotel ; he thought it right to make enquiry.at the hotel, got away, and upon her return she Lund the woman dead
and iem he found they were not aware of the in the street. The body was taken to the dead house, and
captain's existence. A !wenn from Mr. lll,Taggart's, an inquest will be held on the rereibis this day.