Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-28 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1857.

THE LIVERPOOL FINANCIAL REFORM
ASSOCIATION.

At the weekly meeting of the cnuncil on Monday, the
President in the chair, it was agreed that half the
expenses attending the illness and funeral of the late Mr.
Malachi Donohue, should be paid out of the funds, in the
hope that the other moiety will be defrayed by the Reform
Association, for which body also the deceased officiated as
collector. The Secretary reportei that the private sub-
scription to enable Mrs. Donohue to maintain herself, and
her two young chiliren had only, as yet, realised £26,
towaris the £3O pr posed. As the deceased was so
generally known and respected in the to vn, there are
doubtless many of his friends and acquaintance willing to
contribute to the rel'ef of his family, who have not been
individually sDlicited to do so It may be as well, than-
fore, to intimate that persons thus unintentionally passed
over, will render essential s rvice to the widow and
orphans by paying their contributions to Mr. John
Smith, the Treaqurer, 33, Dale-street, or at the office of
the Association, 6, York-buildings.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT
NORTHERN RAILWAY.

THE MURDER IN LEIGH WOOD.

We stated, on Saturday. that,,Beale had been captured,
and was brought into Bristol in custody of Norris, inspector
of the Bath police. It appears that on quitting the train
th 9 mob rushed on him, and with difficulty the life of the
prisoner was preserved. He was at once taken before the
magistrates at Burton Union Workhouse, where, after the
evidence of Jones, superintendent of the Ashton notice, had
been taken, he was remanded till Saturday. He volun-
teered a statement denying his guilt, admitting that he
knew Charlotte Pugsley; she was a married woman, though
passing under her maiden nime On Thursday, the 10th,
after b-inging her from Freshford on the previous day, he
handed her over to her hu4bend, whose christian name was
George or Thomas ; he (lid not know the surname. They
ware to have seen him on the next day, but as they did
not come he returned to Daventry, taking with him de-
ceased's boxes, hoping they would be applied for. This
statement varies from the one made to his fellow-servants
at Daventry, whom ho told the boxes and contents belonged
to a sister who was dead, and to attend whose funeral he
obtained leave of absence "or a week. This is known to be
false. The prisoner maintained his self-possession, and
signed his statement with a firm hand. It• is supposed
that Beale was in Bristol on the Monday previous to the
murder, as he called at the shop of a tailor named Aplin,
in Wine-street, early on Tuesday morning, and saw a
cousin named Wood, a workman in -Mr. Aplin's employ.
In the course of conversation he asked his cousin to mea
sure him for a coat, and while Wood was so engaged
he discovered that Beale had a small pistol in his breast
pocket. On asking him why he carried such a weapon,
Beale said that he had always carried a pistol since he
was attacked near the lodge-ga'e of the house at which
he was living, and that he always kept it loaded and
capped. One of the workmen suggested that it was rather
dangerous to have a loaded pistol about one's person, to
which Beale replied, " Oh, no, a child could play with
it." Woo-1 saw him on Friday night, and again on
Saturday morning at the workshop. In the course of
conversation, the murder whi"h had been discovered on
the previous evening was alluded to, and the workmen
now recollect that, while talking about it, Beale turned
pale and trembled. No notice was taken, however, at
the time, as it was thought that Beale had been drinking
rather freely. Beale was a married man, and lived with
Pugsley at the Hon. Mrs. Hutchison's, at Dorset-house,
Clifton. After that lady's establishment at Clifton was
broken up, Pugeky went to live at Flora Cottage, Clifton,
with Beale and his wife, and in consequence of some
jealousy on the part of the wife, Pugsley left rather sud-
denly. Before taking his present situation, Beale lived at
Park's College, near Bath, and took frequent opportunities
of visiting Pugsley at Freshford. Mrs. Louisa Ford,
housekeeper to Mrs. Bythesea, stated that a day or two
before Pugsley left Freshford she withdrew her money
from the Bath Savings' Bank, and that she also received
£4 ss. on Pecount of her wages. It is believed the
deceased had about £lO in her possesion at the time she
left Freshford.

ExclnKrely for CLOTIIIIvG BOYS from Six to Twenty Tea,e
LEWIS & COMPANY, t-Lnelagh-etree

AN EL,QVENT JOURNA.LIST.—" We 1,1107 HAVelock in
that journey of splendid achiavemont, shining bright in
the imagination of every British heart as the toucl of
the horizon upon the sea; we accompany Lim on that
heroic ma ch whero the victories stand like milestones
fashioned into triumphant arches of white marble."—Bel-
fast News Letter.
Rt.' war ACCIDENT.—Ou Fridsy ni7ht, about five
o'clock, as the goode train from Liverpool was running
into the junction, at P atieeft fur Clifton, the engine ran
off the line, and cut up tha told fora short distance. The
traffic was stopped for about two ho-urs, and then all went
on as before the accident. No life was lost, and no ore
saitained the slightest injury. The accident is suppos:d
to have arisen from mismanagement of the paints.
DEATH OF GENERAL SIR JOHN DOVETON —A leter
from Vichy, of the 24th, eays—" An old distingaished
Indian officer, General Sir John aiveton, K.C.8., aged
74, of the Madras army, formerly nide-de-camp to tee
Marquis Welles!ey, died here yesterday. He was at th •
taking of Seringapataro, and sPrved afterwards with dis-
tinction as a eavilry officor. His remains will he taken
honce to-morrow nig'it, to be buried in the cemetery of
Pere la Chaise. at Paris."

MUMS/ 'lt SEIZURE OF BRANDY.—A. beet containing
130 kegs of brandy was s:ized in the Beaulieu river on
Thurs lay morning, by the coastguardsmen of he Lepa
station. The smugglers had sunk the boat to await the
first oppertnniiy chat usieht present its.if for them to "ran"
the goods, but the booty was diacove-el at bow water, and
taken possession of by the revenue officers. The spirits
were depo ited in the a reen'a Warehouse in Southampton
Docks the same afternoor.
Dasezaous AND RrDICULOITS.— The Western Times
states that at a South Doyen railway station, a gentleman,
in getting out of a carriage, entangled his feet in a lat3'a
dress. He was is greet danger of being dragged under
the carriage, when the lady, reduce] to the I..st extremity,
blushed, tied moved some machinery; a rash cf air was
heard, the swollen garment collapsed, and the foot was
reless d, hut at the dreadful cast of reducing the unlucky
lady to a fourth of her former apparent size.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON TUE LONDIN AND BLACKWALL
RAILWAY.—We regret to have to announce the occur. nee
of a frightful accident on the above line on Thursday
evening last, by which Daniel Harvey Betts, a plate-layer,
aged 56, lest his life. As the unrortunate deceased was
returning fram his work about 6 p.m., and preceding up
the line in the direction of the Shedwell station, he was
overtaken when crossing the areh over Davonport-street,
Commercial-road East, by the 5.30 up trimn from Wool-
wich. The buffer of the engine first struck him and
pushed tim before it some dietaace al mg the line, until
being caught by the ;guard-iron of Vie engine wheel, he
was dragged under the train before the driver could stay
its prog ess, and frialrfully mtVilated. His death wits
instantaneous. We regret to aid the deceased has left a
wife and
MYbTERIOU'i DISAPPEARANCE OF AN ACTOR.—Some
short time since, a young man from Loud .n, named Bow-
tell, was engaged by Mr. Blanshard, the lessee of the
Wakefield theatre. On Saturday evening last he was
taking a part in the pert rrnanca, when, in consequence of
some impropriety in his costume, he was reprimanded by
the manager. We believe the cause of the manager's
anger was the appearance of Bowtell without a pair of
glazed leggings, considered, it seems, necessary to the
correct impersonation of the par,. Bowtall, remembering
that a brother per'ormer had a pair of leggings like those
in gees ion, went, in the middle of the performance, to his
lodgingste fetch them. Strange to stay, he has net been
seen or heard of since he left the theatre. Ths police
have made inqui'ies in every direction but without sisecosF.
He owed no debts, and has left all his clothes and a
quantity of luggage, amongst which are seme valuable
theatrical " properties," such as swords, pistols, dresses,
Sao. The chief constable has for the present taken them
under bis charge. Bowtell is described as being a very
quiet. unassuming, gentlemanly young man.
WOMEN AND PrtoyErins.—There is one thing that the
student will be struck with, the universal want of gallantry
manifested in the proverbs of all Languages towards the
female sex, " Wuman'e beauty, the forest eche, end the
rainbow soon pass away," say the ungallaat Germans;
whe further uncivilly attest that " Women and maa'ens
must be praised, whether truly or falsely." "Women are
watches that keep bad time," and that " A woman's ven-
geance knows no blinds." The Italians are not so down-
right damnatory as this; but their hints are almost as
strong as the Tentolic assertions. " Women's tears are
a fountain of craft," and " Woman always speak the truth.
but net the whole truth," says the Southern moralis's.
addieg the. " Women know a point mere than the devil,"
' ar.d that "Women: rouge feat thee may not blush." Then
come the slandering Portuguese grinders of maxims, ae'elea
they deliver according to this bad measure—" Your wife
and sheep early at home," and " Women and glass are
always in danger." The haughty Spaniard slates that
" Women, wind, and fortune soon change." Jerrold, on
the other hand, rather compliments the sex when he
lays down his maxim, in "St. Cupid," that "To fan
treason into a full blaze, always fan with a petticoat."
Atheneum.

INCENDIARISM IN THE COUNTY TYRONE.—We regret to
state that malicious burnings, of late, have become very
prevalent in the neighhourho dof Strabane, In all cases,
the sufferers are Protestants, which is corroborative of the
prevalent opinion, that the hurnings are the result of a
Ribbon conspiracy; and. therefore, rendering it more im-
perative on the authorities to disc.,ver the atrocious m's-
creants, who are thus bringing disgrace on a hitherto
peaceable neighbourhood. In adlition to former outrages
noticed in our columns, we have now to report the burning
of a stack of hay, the property of Mr. Creer, of Camus ;
which took place on Thursday night week, and had it not
been for the watchman of the Mem... Herdman, of Sion
Mills, who discovered the fire, the destruction of property
would have been immense. An attempt was also made
to set fire to the byre, where a number of cattle were
veiled. A lox tf lucifer matches wai found in the roof
partly ignited. On Sunday night last, about nine o'clock,
a fire was observed in the stackyard of Mrs. M'Farland,
of Ballyaolinag The constabulary, under the command
of Head constable Risk, and a great number of the inha-
bitants of Strabane, hurried to the place, but notwith-
standing their exertions to save the property, two stacks of
straw and corn were consumed.—Derry Sentinel.

At LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh•street,
BOYS Are QLQTHED from the Ages of six to Twenty revs.