Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-22 00:00:00

FATAL ENCOUNTER BETWEEN GAMEKEEPERS

AND POACH: RS.

A. fortnight ago, a severe fight took place between sixteen
gamekeepers and forty poachers, on the lands of Richard
Corbet, Esq., of Adderley, which subsequently resulted in
the death of one of the former. The Shrewsbury Chronicle
of Friday, contains the fallowing particulars :—lt it
usual for Mr. Corbet's keepers to watch in large numbers,
in consequence of the extent to which poaching is csrr',ed
on in this locality. About eleven o'clock on the night of
Saturday week, they were assembled to the number o 16,
including the head keeper, when they heard guns fir.,ed in
the Haly•s'ell Cover. They proceeded thither, and stool
came up with a very large body of poachers, weathering
about forty. The head keeper asked them what 'hey were
doing there. He told them that they must consider
themselves taken, and called upon them to surrender.
They replied, "Oh I d—n your eyes, come on, we are
ready for you this time." The poachers then backed into
an open space, where there wore no trees, shouting
all the time threats and curses. The keeper loosed
his dog, and called to the deceased, George Norton,
the under keeper, to loose his dog. The keeper's dog
caught John Hughes, and George Bailey, one of the
watchers, want up and took him. The poachers formed
in line, and called to the watchers to come on and they
would blow out their brains. The keeper's dog then
went at the line of men, and they discharged five guns at
it. The keepers rushed forward and tried to take the
poachers, who resisted, and there was a regular fight for
about half an hour, during which another man,
named Richard France, was taken. The keepers
were armed with sticks and short flails, and the
poachers with guns and spears ; during the fight the
poachers shot at the keepers from twelve to eighteen
times, and nearly thirteen percussion caps were struck with-
out discharging the guns, At the close of the fight, the
men retreated into a road leading to Tibberton. and made
a stand there, with guns pointed through the hedge from
the road. The deceased, George Norton, was then found
lying on the ground, and was taken home ; he had a
severe stab in the lower part of the abdomen. Thomas
Speed, another of the watchers, was also shot from the
hedge in the abdomen and side, but we believe he is likely
to recover. On the keepers returning to look at the
ground, they found two men's caps, the broken
stock of a single gnu, a rocket handkerchief, a double-
barrelled gun, single gun, and the barrel of a single
gun, also a bludgeon with a bar at one end and a
spear at the other, about seven inches long, the blade
of a spear of a similar description, and a hen pheasant. Mr.
Godby, surgeon, of Newport, was sent for to the wounded
men, and attended to them; bat Norton died from the
effects of the stab about three o'clock on the following
Monday afternoon. The scene of the battle ground its
said to baft3.e description. Hundreds visited the spot the
following morning. Besides the guns, &c., described
above, there were large patches and clots of blood on the
ground ; clothes torn and bloody. All the small twigs
were shot off a small privet hedge, behind which the
poachers had stood and fired upon the keepers. Both the
dogs were killed with spears and shots ; the spears ware
most frightful instruments. On a stock, five feet long,
was placed an iron head, seven inches long, brought to a
tapering steel point ; on the other end was an iron screw,
on which was fastened a large iron nut, so that it might be
used either way. It was from one of these that poor
Nortcn, the keeper, lost his life. The two men, Francis
and Hughes, caught by the keepers, were handed over
about three o'clock in the morning to the police, who
took them to Drayton, where they remained till Monday,
when they were taken before the magistrates, and
remanded till Wednesday. On that day they were fur-
ther remanded till Monday last, when the above facts
were detailed in evidence. The jury, after hearing the evi-
dence, returned a verdict of wilful murder against the two
prisoners, John Hughes and Richard France, and divers
other persons to the jurors unknown Tho police have
been actively engaged in trying to discover the other
poachers, but at present they have only succeeded in taking
John Harris, who lives some distance off, and who says he
shall be able to prove an alibi. This man has the repute.
tion cf being an accomplished poacher, and the apparatus
found on his premises would certainly tend to urengthen
this suspicion. Hie head arid face also bare marks of
rough usage. He was taken to Drayton, and on Mon-
day last, he was with the other two alread named,
brought before the magistrates. After going through the
whole of the evidence, they were all fully committed for
the capital offence. Crowds came into Drayton during
the day to ee the culprits, and to have a peep at them as
they wore being drivau to Shrewsbury. Several of the
keepers were much injured, bat only the murdered and
another watcher, named Speed, were dangerously hurt ;
and Speed, wo learn, is doing as well as can be expected
and is likely to recover. The prisoners were brought to
Shrewsbury on Monday nie,t, and now await their trig
in g iol.

GIUGLINI.—This celebrated tenor returns to London the
week after Christmas, and will make a first appearance in
the " Trovatore." The verdict of the London public,
which has been so amply confirmed by the critical Ger-
mans, will be again appealed to. Report says hie voice
and style are even better than ever.
A GRAND BATTU/Z.—The Duke of Cambridge has been
shooting in &Ella, on the estate of Lord Huntingfield,
Ileveningham Hall. The party assembled to meet his
Royal Highness included the Earl of Stradbroke, General
Hall, and other gentlemen. The result of five days' sport
is estimated at 1,027 rabbits, 607 hares, 1,577 pheasants.
23 woodcocks, 5 partridges, and 1 duck, or 3,239 head
in all.
THE CUT OF UNGIMITSD PAPZR.—Within a certain
eircle, of which the Royal Exchange is the centre, lie the
ruins of a great paper city. Its rulers--solid and sub-
stantial as they appear to the eye—are made of paper.
They ride in paper carriages ; they marry paper wives,
and unto them are born paper children ; their food is
paper, their thoughts are paper, and all they touch is
transformed to paper. They buy paper and they sell
paper ; they borrow paper and they lend paper —a paper
that shrinks and withers in the grasp like the leaves of the
sensitive plant ; and the stately.looking palaces in which
they live and trade are built of paper—small oblong pieces
of paper, which, like the cardboard houses of our chile hood,
fa:l with a single breath. 1 hat breath has overtaken them,
and they lie in the dust. Let me collect the scattered
piecee, and build them up into such another variety of
trembling structures as they formed before ; as they form
now; or as, in a few years, they will undoubtedly form
again. Our first paper house is the firm of Collaps, Vortex
Docket and Company, general merchants. It is quiet and
unobtrusive in appearance, being in Tobacco lane, Fen-
church-street ; and its small office has not had its windows
cleaned for thirty years, which gives it a favourable
appearance of solidity. The leading peculiarity of this
firm is ramification ; and it is roma' kable for the harmony
and beauty of its complex machinery. The senior partner,
Mr, Collaps, is a merchant of the old school. There is a
fund of credit in his shoe- buckles, and i the heavy yellow
family coach that comes to fetch him of an afternoon. Mr.
Vort: x affeets-an-almost Quakerish severity of attire; he
attends to the discounting department, and the chairman.
ships and directorships of those important and choice pub'ic
companies which he finds so usetnl in consolidating the cre-
dit of the hou,e. Mr. Docket is a copy of Mr. Vortex, some
fifteen years younger; he attends to the working part of
the business, whatever that may be ; superintends the
clerks, answers troublesome inquiries, and is supposed to
buy and sell all the merchandise. The ramifications of
the house extend to most cities of importance in Ea ,land
abroad, and the colonies. In Glasgow there is the branch
firm of M'Vortex and Company, who have established
friendly relations with all the leading banks, and whose
paper, drawn upon the-substantial firm of 0 Docket and
Company, of Dublin, is "done" without a whisper, at
the minimum rate. The substantial firm of O'Docket and
Company, of Dublin, enjoys the highest credit that can
be obtained by a long course of regular trading in the
land of generous sympathies and impulsive genius ; and
their paper, upon the highly respectable firm of M'Vortex
and Company, of Glasgow, is much in demind, at
very low rates of discount indeed. Then there is
Alphonse Collaps and Company of Paris ; the great house
of Collaps Brothers at Calcutta ; V,ortex, Co laps, and
Docket, of San Francisco ; Docket, Brothers an I Collaps,
of New York ; Collaps, Collaps, and Company, of the Cape
of Gaol Hope ; Vortex, Docket, and Vortex, of Melbourne,
Australia; and Vortex, Brothel?, and Docket, of Montreal,
Canada. Tili33o all draw and feed upon each other as
their necessities require ; and the parent firm of Collaps,
Docket, and Company, of Tobacco-lane, London, watches
over its obedient children with a more than fatherly
interest, and trades upon their acceptances to the
extent of millions Formerly the great London house
used to stop payment during every commercial
panic—their credit preventing the necessity of their
doing so at any other time. Now, they have grown too
wise and important to do that. It is not that their trade
has become in any degree sounder or more legitimate, but
the accumulated liabilities of many years have swelled
their transactions into such gigantic proportions, that the
mere whisper of any difficulty to the governor and com-
pany of the Bank of England causes a representation to
be made to our paternal government, whose mission it is
to foster, protect, and accommodate trade; and it is agreed
that such a public calamity as the suspension of Messrs,
Collaps, Vortex, Docket and Co., must be prevented at any
cost. It is prevented by the suspension of the Bank
Charter Act instead; an extra issue of Bank of England
notes is authorised, with a .Government guarantee in case
there should not be gold to exchange for them, and
commerce—illetuted commerce--brasthee again.—House-
hold Words.

YCATNG AMERICA IN WALL-STREET. Ey George
Francis Train, Author of "Young America
Abroad."- London ; Sampson, Low and Son ;
New York, Derby, and Jackson.
IT is but a vary few weeks since wo directed the
attention of the Liverpool public, to the literary
exploit of Mr. George Francis Train, entitled
"Young America Abroad" One might have thought
sufficient time had scarcely elapsed to allow a
commercial tourist to reach the quays of New
York and return, when, to our utter surprise, we
have laid before us a second work, vary nearly as
large, by the same author, and containing in its
advertisement sheets a long extract from our own
critique, with those of many other hands, upon the
former volume. The author has added to his
extent of travel, and his store of miscellaneous
knowledge, since traversing the vast space of the
world which supplied him with suggestions for his
first literary undertaking. A. note informs the
Public, that the volume now before us was prepared,
printed, and published in ten days' time. We
should not, by any means, feel disposed to praise
an author for a feat of this description, and
could easily point the moral of a warning agains';
such headlong, Rupert-like charges into a literary
stru,.,egle from scores of slight inaccuracies in this
book, which a very little care and labour might
set right. But, taking the work as it stands, wo
are convinced that most rea leis will lay it down
with feelings of surprise that so much gsneral
accuracy of detail, so much keenness of judgment,
and so much correctness of inference, could have
been exhibited by a writer who dashed off the
contents of a goodly volume, on some of the most
difficult and intricate: subjects, with as much appa-
rent ease and volubility as an ordinary tourist
writes a few letters to his friends at home, descrip-
tive of the often described scenes and used-up
curiositica, he has seen in his travels.
Although the " Young American," iu the
title of his volume, hails from Wall-street, the
greater portion of the work dates from Paris,
Horne, St. Petersburgh, and London. It is not
easy to give, in a few words, anything like a
precise description of the nature of the book ;
but it maybe briefly announced as a comprehensive
survey from almost all conceivable points of view;
of the present great financial crisis—its causes, its
extent, and its probable results. Being a temporary
resident of Paris in the close of 1856, Mr. Train
occupied his leisure moments by " diving down
into the archives of the Credit Mobilier, the Bank
of France, and the Bank of England.'' The result
of his examination was a conviction that there
were, in his own phrase, " breakers ahead," and he
finally came to the conclusion that a panic must
ensue in 1857, more terrific in its nature than any of
the commercial collapses which preceded. This, the
reader must recollect, was not one of those pro-
found deductions at which we can all sagaciously
arrive after the event has taken place. The first
article in which Mr. Train ventures positively to
predict the coming crisis is dated November 13,
1856, some twelve months before the news of the
convulsions in American finance vibrated with a
corresponding shock through this country. The
reasons which chiefly produced this conclusion in
Mr. Train's mind, he thus summarises in his open-
ing chapter :
I found overstocked markets everywhere, ruinous
competition and extravagant living in all lands; no
wonder it made me creak !—the riven was always "at my
chamber-door,—croaking, croaking, evermore!" When a
roan of sense and observation was thrown into my company,
I nailed him fcr a financial argument. I talked oa all
sides of a Panic, to get from different minds sound views.
Politics I discussed with the Herald, finance with Hunt,
and if I have foreshadowed what has come to pa's, don't
think I am so egostical as to take to myself any credit for
particular foresight on the subject. I only prnluced a
digest from the minds of others. I talked with older men,
—men who had notes to meet,—men, who could not see a
panic coming, In'cauae it was not their interest. Neither
was it mine. Yet I could not shut my eyes to the fact
that was staring me in the face. When making assertions
I gave the figures; when talking of a crisis, in the abserce
of facts, I argued Irons reason ; I marked the cause, and
saw the effect; such views led me to examine the
workings of commerce, and the more I sought, the less
confidence I had in the future. Most of the London
journals argu d exactly aeainst me; one of the leading
minds of the London Times told me he expected a ciisis,
yet the "City Article" went on the even tenor of its
way. Bennett NV s the only man who saw the approaching
storm, and boldly made the signal to take in sail; but
who regarded him ? Eren now there are many who give
him the credit of the whole disaster—just as though an
individual mind could break a solvent nation!
The truth is we are a fast people, bound to beat the
world, even in the abysses of our insolvency. The most
surprising thing to me is, that an intelligent cmmunitv.
a mercantile people, ceu'd march on with a steady
tramp to the brink of a precipice, blindfold their eyes,
recklessly advanne, deliberately step over, and fall into
an almost universal bar kruptcy, without being aware of it
themselves !
Mr. &evens, Mr. Appleton, Mr. Leavitt, say they have
never seen such tim,s. Indeed ! what a remarkable
disccvery ! How, for a moment, can as intelligent man
compare this panic with that of 1837 ? Our commerce
was then in a nutshell, now it covers a world.
These were my arguments in centieental Europe, in
England, and in America, viz.: that the credit bubble
to-day has been inflated in proportion to the progress
the nation has made since that day. Torn Thumb and
the Belgian giant are very poor comparisons. -At that
time Biddle and the National Bank were the scapegoats.
Yet large as were their trans actions, the Illinois Central
and another Western railway or two would swallow up
the entire Biddleisms of that day. Eastern lands in
1837 comprised a few thousand square acres in Maine.
Western lands to-day are in the hands of several gteat
States, each competing with the other to see who can
speculate the most wildly !
Our financial leaders seem to have forgotten that our
twenty-five thousand miles of railway have been con-
structed since that day
'Fhet our immense steam fleet has been sent to sea
since that day !
That our gigantic shipping interest, comprising' some
five millions of tons, has been launched since that day !
That our extensive manufac:ories have been erected
since that day !
That our enormous dry-goods trade with England and
Europe has been proportionately expanded since that day!
That tke marble palaces on Broadway, and the brown-
stone houses on Fifth Avenue, have sprung into existence
since that day !
That silks and satins, lanes and crinoline, hoops and
diamonds, fast horses, clubs, and brandy smashes have
been introduced since that day!
That steam, the telegraph, and patents for everything
in Christendom, have come into life since that day!
That three millions of foreigners have arrived amongst
us—sonic three millions, who displaced some two millions
of Americans, who were forced to gain their living by
their wi s—since that- day !
That we have imported some three million tons of
rails t 3 employ the workmen in building the roads
—the iron in the hold, the passengers between decks,—
the transportation of which (together with Irish famine
and Mexican War in 1847, Call'orria in 1349, nevi-
gaiion laws in 1851, Australia and Gnana in 1852,)
has given a startling impetus to the shipbuilders of
New-Eeeland and the mechanics in their various trades
employed in this way, at the same time that the railways,
canals, factories, and palaces were being completed, creating
a great demand for labour ; hence that heavy staple of a
nation's wealth has become as much inflated as the works
which labourers' hands have completed, since that day!
Gilded churches for gilt-edged sermons, aristocratic
colleges and institutes for aristocratic children of aristocra-
t:c parents, who live in aristocratic avenues, and aristocra-
tic ci'ies, have been brought upon the scene, since that
day!
And to sum up in a word, all this astonishing progress,
in everything, and everybody, could not have been made,
un'ess finance hid hen reduced to as much of a clipper
science and a clipper system as the clipper ship, the clip-
per railway, the clipper factory, the clipper church, the
clipper government, the c'ipper merchant, and the clipper
banker, since that day ! the memorable mile-stone year of
eighteen hundred end thirty-seven !
These arguments may be said to serve as the
text on which Mr. Train founds the lengthened
confident, acute, dashing, and singularly clever
discourse which fills up the volume. He
illustrates his views by close and able surveys
of the commercial and financial position of
England, of France, of America, of Austria,
and of Russia. His remedies for the present state
of affairs are hard cash," full free trade, and
economy. " Hard cash is what we want to restore
confidence. Credit is based on faith, but to-day
there is no faith." We cannot do more than recom-
mend to our readers close pernsal and study the
lengthened and elaborate statiffties by means of

The 't Compromise Tariff" expired in 18-12, and the
" Protective Tariff" run on to 1846, all the intermediate
panics were only the breaking out of the old disease—as
Matthews would say, " it was the same drink !"
First of December, 1846, this tariff wen: into operation,
and expired June 30th, 1857, when we put in the first flee
trade wedge.
The total imports into the country dur-
ing the ten years and seven month;
amounted to
Averaging in round numbers, per annum.. 240,000,000
Exports, same time, amount to
AvA.aging, say,
The tonnage employed in foreign com-
merce was 1,800,000, earning some 225,000,000
I hse gone somewhat into details to show how absurl
it is to expect for a moment better times fur months and
months.

If the liabilities arising out of that panic amounted to
500,000,000 doF., will not the liabilities extending over
tha slmo length of time, run up to 2,000,000,000
The total value of real and personal
property in the United States, January
Ist, 1853, amounted to
Even fwent,y-fice per cent. depreciation
would give the pretty aura of ..
We do not think of following Mr Train through
his atzuments, which are thrown off with such a
variety,9f fact and figure illustration as makes one