The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-28 00:00:00

nit NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, 'TUESDAY.

RAILWAY MANAGEMENT.

The Eastern Counties' Company reckons many sharehol-
ders in Liverpool and the Lancashire district. Well, then,
let them understand that, again are its affairs in a state reflect%
ing the highest disgrace on Englishmen. The price is down again
to £8 or £9 per share ! The directory in that confusion expres-
sively denoted by the phrase " sixes and sevens," which (of
caurse) the employes feel less the onerous nature of control.
Month after month a host of petty shareholders will raise
themselves into importance by raising a dust," and then
subsiding► into their proper obscurity ! The victims are the
shareholders and the public. Will no Liverpool man arise,
as once was done on the " South Eastern" directorship some
years since, although a change to "speculation" was not then
foreseen P Wilt no one clean out the Augean stable of mis-
management, and, by a clean sweep of masters and
men, give the victims some hope of the fair and
just results which the lines really would produce ?
The bugbears of" Melina and C 0.," " Box and Cox," and all
the other farces, enacted year after year, meeting after meeting,
have produced no practical good. Committees after committees
have been appointed—board after board re-modelled—meeting
after meeting held, with the attendant guineas and dinners—yet
nothing results. Counsels are so closely kept, that not only is
nothing allowed to transpire legitimately, but even the officials
are pronounced inaccessible, and it is difficult to obtain audi-
ence of a secretary as it is of the Queen of Oude, unless a
clean breast be made to some " all rounder" clerk or youth,
who, "like master, like man," has swollen into the fabled
lion's skin size ! The press is affected to bo despised, and it is
forgotten that the service it renders is often more valuable in
withholding "grumbles" and personal matters than inhestow-
ing praise, which no one believes a railway to deserve.
Despite, however, of all this caution, no action has yet been
resolved upon by the Board as to the change of their members,
nor as to a change (so loudly called for) of the management.
Mr. Malin's requisition has not yet been " kicked out of the
room," although its legal status is doubtful. The shares keep
down—traffic is ill-conducted—the public growl, not loud, but
deep ; and, besides actual conveyances by road competing with
the railway, and the placarding throughout London of the
count mongers challenge, to run his donkey against the Eastern
Counties Railway train, to a twelve mile station, there is now
"looming in tho distance" a competing route to Colchester,
via Peto's Tilbury line. Such are some of the results of
management which twenty years' experience finds in 1856, as
infantile (we will not say as fraudulent, on railways) as ever.
To the press the public look for guidance, and for the ventila•
tion of railway matters. That is the " rod" which is now
feared. The Great Western felt it when, in 1845, Mr.
Russell said (in reference to the railway prosecutions, and a
compromise of them), " It will get into the press, and what
will the public think ?" It was the press which laid low Peter
Clarke and his " management," which excited so much ire
from the great railway banking Lombard street, towards the
prosecutor.of the railway gang of desperate plunderers. It was
the press which, by directing public execration or applause, and
opening the minds of shareholders and applauding and cheering
on the men in prosecuting gangs, in spite of the employers;
proved the terror of " misruanagers," and the deterer ofa greater
amount of dishonesty than is yearly returned, while the secrecy
observed at head quarters tends less to the stoppage of crimes
than any other event—the arbitrary, austere, or domineering
" manager" of a railway, finds that he cannot act the tyrant
with impunity, even though he have a titled name, and the
terrors of the press of publicity have more influence on reform,
and in good conduct, than most people imagine. Yet some
" railwaymen" affect to despise the press, and to withhold the
courtesies of information or assistance. Whenever that is the
cast

,e, the shareholders may believe there is " something rotten
in the state" of affairs ; and though 'he remark may not apply
to the Eastern Counties, it is one of almost universal applica-
tion to those corporate bodies which were truly said
to have no consciences, "no souls to be saved," and
who treat talented and zealous business servants with a
neglect which has doomed the railway establishments, and
other corporate bodies of this country, to the soubriquet of
tiospitals of Incapables." Let but the shareholders rouse
themselves a Utile, and, with the aid of the press, the wrong
men will give way to the " right men in the right places," and
" merit" alone secure the appointments, with the general
confidence of the public, over influence, cliqueism, and in-

capacity !

MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH OMISSIONS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—Knowing the interest which you take i❑ all matters of a
rely commercial character, I, through you, beg to call the

attention of the Committee of the Exchange News Rooms to
the very meagre and inefficent supply of market intelligence
which the Magnetic Telegraph Company furnish to these
rooms. When they contrived to obtain the contract of acting
as telegraph news purveyors to the Exchange Rooms, in place
of the old company, there were many bland and '• bright"
promises, that every species of information—political, mari-

. .
time, and commrrcial—would be supplied with regularity,
accuracy, and despatch. "Bright" and encouraging
as these promises were, they have not been_parfornaed.
In vain cla I look, ' although _ deepliji ior-siiita- 4.

in the grain trade, for report; of the leading earn
markets in the United Kingdom. Wakefield, a most impor—
tant one, has lately disappeared from the pillars. Glasgow
and Dublin are also unfurnished ; or, if they are cecasionally
posted, their inaccurate and meagre character render them a

laughing-stock. Limerick and Newcastle corn markets are
also important: why are they not posted? and, why should
the Glasgow pig iron and Cork butter markets be a mere array
of figures, as often wrong as right ? If subscribers pay three
guineas a year for obtaining such intelligence as I have'alluded to,
they are justly entitled to obtain it " full," " true," and " particu-
lar ;" and if the Magnetic Telegraph Company undertake and
covenant to supply, for a certain " Consideration," the committee
of the Exchange news rooms are bound to compel its proper
supply, or declare the contract null and void. I sincerely
hope that the keen and eagle eye of the active and intelligent
master, Mr. Warburton, will not let the matter pass further
unn,ticed. It requires instant reformation, without which
all trading members of the room cannot be satisfied. Apo-
logising for thus trespassing upon your valuable space, I am,
sir, your obedient servant, A CORN BROM.
Brunswick-street, Oct. 25, 1856.

PIRACY AND MURDERS ON BOARD THE
ENGLISH BARQUE, GLOBE.

PORTSMOUTH, Saturday.—Guiseppe Lagarva and Giovanno
Barsa/ano, Italians, and Motto Pettrich, an Austrian—three
determined-looking young men--were brought before the
Mayor and other magistrates, sitting at the Court-house this
day, charged with committing piracy on board the barque
Globe, and murdering Joseph Pattineon and Evan Evans,
English. seamen on board the ship. They were further charged
with wounding two more of the crew, Daniel Cullen and
Daniel Thomas, with intent to murder.
Mr. William Scotland, the chief mate of the Globe, was
examined at considerable length. Ho deposed that on the 4th
lying in the Bosphorus, close to
consisting of the three prisoners, two
Globec w was
other foreigners, and six Englishmen and a boy, including
Constantinople,of July
last,the crew
himself 'and the master. The foreigners had formed part of
the crew about three or four weeks. On the day named the
Globe got under weigh, and left the Bosphorus for Balaklava.
At half-past three o'clock on the morning of the sth of July,
witness, who had just gone below, having finished his
watch, heard the report of three pistols, he instantly
ran 'on deck, and called to, the master to turn
out. When he got on 'deck" he found Evans and
Cullen, two of the crew, lying on the deck, crying out that
they were shot, While witness and the master were standing
by.the wounded men, Lagarva and a man not in custody,
called Angelo, came up and snapped a pistel, one at witness,
the other'at the master, The caps went off, but the pistols
missed fire.' Witness and the master assisted tho men Wounded
into the cabin, and fastened the door. The wounded men
could he of no nee, but the master found a musket barrel,
which he contrived to splice on a stick. Witness and the
master then loaded it with powder and ball, and kept guard at
the cabin door, intending if necessary to discharge it by striking
the cap with a hammer. The witness entered into a long
statemet of the prisoner's movements about the ship, while
witness' and the master were for some hours in the cabin.
Ultimately, he said, the prisoners demanded money, and pro.
niSsed to leave the ship, if the master promised to give them
what money he had. Witness fotened eight or nine sovereigns
in a piece of paper to the end of a ramrod, and held it up
through the comptnien. Afterwards, by agreement with the
prisoners, witness and those in the cabin, retired to another
cabin, while the prisoners went down and ransacked the master's
chest, &c. Some time afterwards the prisoners and the
other foreigners left the vessel in a boat. 'Witness and
the master want on deck, and discovered Pattinson
dead, with his throat cut, in the forecastle. His head
was merely hanging by a piece of skin. David Thomas,
another of the crew, came up on deck out of the hold, with a
cut in his throat and a wound in his breast. Witness and
the master stood for the Bosphorus, and having anchored in
Beudley Bay, informed Admiral Grey of the murder, &c.
The Recruit gunboat was sent in search of the murderers.
The Turkish authorities acted very promptly in the !natter,
and the prisoners were captured a few miles inland from the
coast, and handed over to the British admiral, who forwarded
them to England for trial, according to the law of this country.
An interpreter, duly sworn, read over the 'above evidence to
the prisoners, and they were asked whether they had any
questions to put to the witness. Lagarva said he had nothing
to say or ask. All that was written on that paper, (Mr. Scot-
land's deposition) was untrue. Baraalano said that what had
been stated was untrue. He had nothing more to say,

Pettrich gave a similar answer. Mr. Swanson, in answer to
the bench, said the other evidence must necessarily take some
time to take. The Mayor said, under these circumstances, be
would remand the prisoners until Tuesday. Tfie prisoners
were then remanded to the Borough Gaol. They appeared to
treat the proceedings very lightly. Pettrich and Barsalano
frequently smiled at various points of the mate's evidence as
the interpreter read it over.

THE EARL OF HARROWBY AND Slit
ROBERT PEEL AT STAFFORD.

A banquet has recently been given at Stafford to the officers
of the Staffordshire Militia. In the absence of the Lord
Lieutenant, the chair was taken by the Right Hon. the Earl
of Harrowby. Near the chairman were the Hon. Colonel
Talbot, the Easl of Dartmouth, Viscount Sandon, Lieutenant-
Colonel Dyott, the Hon. A. Wrottesley, Sir Robert Peel,
Bart., M.P., Rear-Admiral Mainwaring. General Sir Harry
Smith, Bart., G.C.8., Viscount St. Vincent; .the Earl of
Lichfield, the Right Hon. Viscount Newport, Viscount In-
gestre, and the Bishop of the Diocese. Lord Harrowby, in
proposing " The Army and Navy," remarked that he hoped
Englishmen would not be ungrateful—indeed, that was a sin
not common to our countrymen—(cheers)—and that they
would never forget the services the army had rendered them.
And while they remembered the services of their gallant army,
and with what anxiety they looked for intelligence during the
late struggle, he trusted that it would fill them with the deter-
mination to b prepared for another war, it unhappily they
should be compelled again to enter into hostilities. (Hear,
and cheers.) No false feeling of security, nor a feeling that
peace.would be lasting, should lead them to an unwise economy
its the measures necessary for the protection of their country
7-risliststre'cor4fiich at one time were in some degree lost sight
of 'bitt which be. hopel. would nee r- be the case again.
(Loud, clears.) When he spoke of an unwise economy,
'he "did not mean that care was not to be exercised
in the expenditure connected with the protection of the
country, hut what he would have remembered was that that
which was cheapest was not always the best, and that that
which was required to he done must be done, whatever the
cost might be. (Hear.)
At a subsequent stage of the proceedings Lord Harrowby,
proposing as a toast " The health of the officers, non commis-
sioned officers, and privates of the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd Regiments
of Staffordshire Militia," said—lndependently of the direct
services they had rendered the country, the three regiments of
Staffordshire Militia had contributed upwards of 1,500 men to
the regular army. Ile might say further, that the militia had
been the means of infusing a martial spirit amongst the people
of the country ; and for himself—he spoke as a civilian—he
should like to see the militia used more as a means of recruit..
ing the regular army. For some considerable time this im-
portant element of the national defences had been allowed to
rust in its scabbard, and after forty years' peace it was thought,
by some that this weapon, belonging to other days, would no
longer he fit to be called into use. It was thought that the
people had become so immersed in trade and manufactures
that it would be impossible to man the militia as wo did in
former times. But lie was happy to say that when the neces-
sity arrived it was found that the ordinary occupations of the
people did not detract in the least from their high public
spirit and devotion to their country. but men of every class
in life and of occupation abandoned their ordinary pursuits
and placed their time and their service at the disposal of the
country in her hour of need. (Great cheering). Sir Robert
Peel, M.P., in acknowledging a toast drunk to him, said he did
not know that he could with propriety refuse compliance with
the request which had been made, and he would endeavour to
make a 'few observations on what he had witnessed in Russia.
He need not say, then, that the noble representative of Eng-
land'at the Court of Russia *discharged the duty imposed
upon him in the manner that was expected of him and in a
manner, too, which far exceeded the way in which other
embassies discharged their duties, and that he clearly enhanced
in the eyes of the Russian Court,
carrying courtesy to its utmost limits, was not anxious to
theße s
idecharacter
in
Granville, country
government had one who, though
impress the Russian Court, as another ambassador did, that a
different feeling prevailed towards Russia to what was really
the case. He had had the opportunity of conversing with
Totleben, the distinguished engineer, and a highly honourable
man; and he had seen Gortschakoff, Menchikoff, and a num-
personages, whose names were
almostbr o funpronounceable.
had seen assembled in Russia
120,000 of the finest infantry in the world. Those troops in
stature and appearance exceeded anything he ever before
witnessed, and he had been over the who7e of Europe, yet he
e other
had no doubt that the pluck of the English army would be
a match foi them. (Cheers). He had visited the fortress
of Cronstadt, and there was but one opinion, from
the Grand Duko Constantine down to tire youngest
" middy" on board the Vladimir, that had the energy of the
commander equalled the pluck of the British navy, that tortress
at the present moment would be crumbled in the dust. (Hear,
hear.) Sir Charles Napier had been through the whole of the
fleet and fortress, and lie gave it as his opinion that it was
impossible to destroy the fortress. It was certainly very den'
at this moment that it was impossible to attack Cranstadt with
success now, but when the war commenced the case was very
different, and if the man who commanded the
fleet at Copenhagen had commanded the Baltic fleet, or
if a man possessed of the spirit and capacity of a Nelson had
commanded that fleet, he had not the slightest doubt that as
the fortress at Copenhagen yielded so would Cronstadt have
fallen. (Hear, hear.) As he was most unjustly on his logs,
they would perhaps allow him to say that although peace had
been concluded, there was much to prevent them from relying
on a continuance of peace. They were on the edge of a
volcano, which might break forth at any time ; and among
the causes for disquietude were Naples and the Danubian
Principalities. Had the war continued, there was no doubt
that the resources of Russia would have been. inadequate to
cope with the resources of France and England, and that a
most effectual blow would have been dealt that power, from
which it would have taken her a long time to recover. But
peace had been made, and it was 'to be hoped that it would
continue. lie must add that there never was a contest in
which the people of a country were more justly engaged
than were the people of this country in the late war, or in
which the people had come out of it with greater honour
and distinction.

14ThnortATDIN.—We regret to be compelled to record an
increase in the tide of emigration this season. Numerous
batches pass every day through this town, on their way to
port!, of embarkation. from Mayo and the north-western
portions of Galway. The emigrants of this year, are all, for
the most part, the sons and daughters of apparently com •
fortable parents.—Team Herald.
BURSTING OF A CANNON.—A letter from Christiania,
of the 17th, says, that as a few days before, the crew of
the Norwegian steam corvette Noreen were firing from a
vessel at i a mark on a wall on the beach of the of
Osteroen, one of the guns, a 30-pounder, burst, and the
splinters killed on the spot the captain, M. Bonnevie, and
the first lieutenant Baron de Finn-Wedeljarlsberg ; they
. .
also wounded five sailors, one mortally, and the other
four very
saw) ured,seriously. The man who fired the gun escaped

I ATTEMPTED" MURDER_AT BERMONDSEY.

APPREHENSION OF THREE MEN

On Sunday Mr. Burcharn, the magistrate of Southwark
Police-court, was summoned from Cheam to Guy's Hospital,
to take the depo ition of a man who was supposed to be dying
in co'neequence of wounds ho bad received in a murderous
attack which was made upon )aim on the pretious evening. It
avears that on Siturday night, about half•past nine o'clock,
Sergeant James Coldman, No. 23 M, having heard that a
man had been stabbe 1, proceeded to the shop of Mr. Moore,
a surgeon, residing in Grange road, Bermondsey, where he
found 'a man, named Patrick Griffin, a labourer, aged thirty.

five years, who resided at No. 6, Black Jack alley, near the
Lon lon (loch, in a state, which seemed to leave no hope of

Ho had been conveyed there by Mr. Barratt, the
master of Marlborough-house School, Grange road. The police

recovery

Officer having made himself acquainted with the circumstance
of the case, proceeded to a house in St. "Thomas's place, am
apprehended Richard Burchell, the landlord, with two of hi
lodgers, named Patrick Ryan and Abraham Burchell, am
conveyed them to the station. Afterwards he searched tin
house, and found a large black-handled knife, covered witl
blood, of which he took possession. The three prisoners, wit
Patrick and John Griffin, had been drinking at a public.
house in the neighbourhood, when some differences arose be.
tween them ; but before they parted the quarrel between them
seemed to have been made up, and Griffin had no idea that he

was the object of malice on the part of any of them. Johi
Griffin west home with the • three prisoners to Burchell'
house, and shortly afterwards Patrick Gliffia went there, witl
a view, if possible, of inducing his brother to return horn

he quarrel

as renewed, when one of

which felled him to the ground

Lud while-in th

Richard Barchell plunged the knife into his 8'

By M

Moore's direction the wounded man was conveyed to Guy'
When Mr. Burnham, the mazistrate. attended 01

Hospital

Sunday morning, he was me

t by Mr. Edwin, the chief clert

Southwark Police-court, Superintendent Blandford, Inspector
Reid, Mr. Valentine, the house surgeon, Mr. Callaway, Mr,
Hill, and Mr. Archer. The 'prisoners were placed by the
wounded man's bedside, and he immediately pointed to Rierard
Burchell as the assassin. Mr. Burcham then took the ma•l's
depositions, which were as follow :—" My name is Patrick
Griffin. lam 35 years of age, and reside at 6, Black Jack-
alley, Loadon Docks. Yesterday evening I called on my
brother, John Griffir

who resides

walk, Bermondsey

We went to at

,cershop, and bad a pot or

two of porter. Some other persons were prose"...
John, afterwards went to Richard Burchell's house

went to.fetch him away, as he meant to have a quarrel, and to
persuade him to come away. He would not leave. I went a
second time to fetch him away, when I was struck over the
head with a piece of poker, a brickbat, or a stone, and was
knocked down. While I was on the ground there were three
persons over me beating me. My brother was present. I put
up my arms to defend my head, and when I was lying on the
ground I felt a knife enter my loft side. It was a long black-
handled knife, with a sharp point. I seized hold of the leg of
the man that stabbed me." At this stage of the proceedings
the man fainted, and restoratives were applied. When he had
sufficiently recovered, Richard Burchell was placed separately
at his bedside, and identified as the assassin. The magistrate
asked Burchell whether he wished to say anything to the
charge ? Richard Borchelt' (to Griffin)—Did you not say,
" I will be the death of you ?" Griffin : I might have said,.
" I will take your life." It, Borchelt : You had a handker.
chief tied round your waist .when you were in the public
house—what was that for ? Griffin : I took it off my neck
and tied it round my waist to prevent my losing it. Hr. Edwin
then read over the depositions to Griffin, who attested them by
his mark. The prisoners, who were thoroughly callous, where
then handcuffed, and sent back to prison in charge of the police.
Up to a late hour on Sunday night Griffin was not dead, but
he is in the last stage, and the hospital surgeons state that it is
utterly impossible that he can live beyond a few hours.