Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-02 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NQIITHICIIN TIMES.

Sir,—Can you explain, how it, is that . a certain
officer of the police force is again on duty, having
been " suspended" by Mr. Samuel Holme, and Mr.
Shiel sitting with hits, so lately as Thursday, last.
Mr. Holnie said it " was impossible to do other-
wise." - Had not Mrs. Carney been well known to
many of the officers at the Central Police Station,
free quarters at the Main Bridewell must have
been her fate that night, unless she had succeeded
in meeting with bail.

When it is recollected that the suffering party is
known to be a very respectable woman, and that
the judgment of the magistrates. was based upon
evidence gii,en on' oath, the public may well inquire
how, or by what influence, the same officer is found
this day on duty on the same beat as before ? A
little judgment, I think, would have sent him to a
differeutpatrol, and he might then have escaped this
notice. Can you explain how it is the magistrates'
decision is so immediately after " suspended ?"
Surely Mrs.. Carney .entering several shops is not
sufficient cause for taking her up as a " suspicious
person ;".but doubtless you, or Mr. Samuel Holme,
will tell " the reason why" co yours truly,
30th June. _ _ ENQUIRER.

P.S —I am not without doubt whether Mr.
Samuel Hoiine. Should.. not think it necessary to
ascertain and state the reason •for his judgment
being so soon reversed.' 1 .

A BLOODY AFFAIR.-INFIDELITY OF A WIFE

A man named John Gallagher has been living here for
some two months, boarding in one of the flatboat taverns
which still infest our levee. He is represented to be a
hard-working, peaceable man. Some time ago he sent
for his wife, whom he left in your city, and it appeth`
that on her trip down she made the acquaintance of the
watchman of the steamer, and consented to run away
with him to St. Louis, when he should get ready to take
her. Gallagher heard of this. and applied to Judge
Cochran for advice. The judge told him he had better
take his child and let, his unworthy woman go. This
Gallagher concluded to do. His wife heard of it, an l she
called a man named Enoch M'Pherson, who is from
Covington, Ky., and who, having a raft, of lumber begide
the floating boarding-house, had made her acquaintance,
to assist her in retaining her chill. Gallagher took away
his baggage, and returned to get his child. He had picked
the little one up, and was leaving with it, when M'Pherson
said, " G—d you, let that child be, or I will cut you
all to piece." Gallagher paid no attention to hire, and
was still moving_ off, when M'Pherson plunged a knife
into him but a short distance above his heart. M'Pherson
ran. G allaghei.pulled out a revolver and fired. He shot
M‘Pherson three times, once in the arm and twice in the
back. M.Pherson, finding it impossible to escape, wheeled,
and, approaching Gallagher, gave a blow which knocked
him into the river. Gallagher swam to the raft, a
distance of twenty 'feet, come out, and both parties,
drawing their knives, went at each other. They fought
full ten minutes, lacerating each other dreadfully. A
number of bystanders looked on, and were so terrified
that nane dare interfere. Among the observers was Mrs.
Gallagher, who looked coolly upon the whole transaction
without evincing the least emotion. The bloody contest
was at last ended. Gallagher succeeded in plunging his
knife clear through M-Pherson's heart, and he fell at his
feet a dead man, without even uttering a groan. Gal
lagher was taken into custody. He is cut and hacked
dre Idfully, and his recovery is considered doubtful. The
coroner held 'an inquest over the body of Mr. M'Pherson,
and the jury returned a verdict implicating Gallagher in
the charge of murder. This proceeding is said to have
been a comic burlesque. Gallagher has consequently been
removed to the gaol. The affair has caused a gloom here
so dreadful are the details of this tragedy.— Cairo Cor
respondent of American Paper.

ANOTHER FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.--011 Sunday
evening lest, •an engine, with a 'number of trucks con-
taining metal and ballast, was coming down from Hereford,
on the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester line, when, at a
place called Fawley, two women were seen on the line.
One of them, who it is supposed, observed the engine ap-
proach, endeavoured to drag the other off, who, it is
alleged, was deaf and dumb ; but before she could succeed.
they were knocked down and dreadfully mutilated. One
of them was killed and the other shockingly injured.
Medical aid was procured, and the surviving sufferer, one
of whoselegs was cut off by the violence of the shock, was
removed to the 'Hereford infirmary. The body of, the
other awaits an inqueq.
We find the following instance of an economical liber-
ality in The Lawrence Republican, a new and able Free-
State paper, just started in Kansas .---. We noticed, a (lay
or two since, an auction sale of several large boxes of
documents to pay freight and charges. The circumstances
under which these documents came- to be sold,
ance
informed, are these. Some time last year Mr. E. C''.
we ar._
~..r" A NaftLteldNtlcosorrnno.t—i
notice;
; nbewy
aasninidpvieerbyutining
bu'eeninsitti is always kept clear and fluid."—Northampton Mercury.—
Y., of Albany, N.Y.. made a subsceiption of $l,OOO stet at I, 3d 206 d, and Sc 6d each.—Alai.
engeinoluosusinkscontatrnivd has
toward the Kansas Aid Fend. Five hiradred dollars of IN FORMATION RESPECTING C AniNAD,
eA.—
The Canadian Governmen,
this he paid in these temperance documents. The freight;on
,: sheof
.alt
,clresourcesclasses
of
who C adnetetrset
elzrelitroliesped.
cat.", Lntsetroer
*et infogr thei inPdi til attr
'cha rg es amounted to a large sum, and, as last' year, some- to eml,:rate there. It has been
with the
al y
lecturescircitlat circulated
upon throughoutcanada,
thing more substantial than ld Prohibitioniits and the Cured Kingdom, together with
Campbellr of Montreal, in January last. Every
similar documents was needed by the struggling patriots of
di.iverednin Sc.otland has been supplied with a copy of both, together
Rattan, nobody. would pay fur them. They
,were kept cwiLi. theapartieulars of the Grand Trunk sYstem of Through. Booking,
along until the other day, when they were sold, being bid and a Map. of Canada, upon which all the Railways and their cotec-
'Of mainly for wrapping paper." tion with tile United States are shown 'these, and other documents,
gratuitously to all persona who apply for them,
continue tab i
THE MURDER AT CRINGEoRD HATCH.—On Monfay Mr.
C. 0-. Lewis, coroner for Essex, resumed the inquiry eitherway persoaniill7yueordby letter, at the offices of the Grand Trunk
Ol Broad-street, London, E.C.
Rail-
respecting the death of Mary White, housekeeper to M. , HAWICR.—AN INVOLUNTARY BATRE.—An Englishman
William Small, at whose house she was murdered on the residing in this town has, it appdars, been paying his
21st instant, while he and his wife were at church. After addresses for some time back to a young girl in her teens,
some evidence a knife was produced which was found in who received them with—so runs the story—more of the
the house, and evidence was given that it belonged to a ardour than the innocence of youth. But it so happened
Man who had been in the habit of, coming there, but as that John Bull, like many of his countrymen who settle
nothing arose out of this testimony it is not necessary to for a season or so in Hawick, had already a carasposa, and,
mention the name of the person. The surgeon examined- being something of a Mormonite, he wanted, it not another
duct
gl!ve his opinion that the knife produced waa not of such spouse, at least a concubine to boot. John's con ,
a defier' •
• • iPticni as was likely to. have inflicted the injury
which caused ho'verea, became known somehow or, other to a few of
the inquiry death. At the suggeiltion of the coroner, his better disposed countrymen, who, feeling that the
was post mortem
exam a:adjourned that- there might be another e..h,ahrna,cste.r,lof the Englishers was being deeply injured by
offered by govern'tion A reward of £l.OO has been J i . . U egal and immoral propensitis, they resolied to
murderer, inent for the apprehension of the administer a cooling draught in the shape of a bathe in the
TRH CROPS.--An excursion throughh several silver Teviot. With a view of doing the thing quite coolly
of the mid- three of them paid John a friendly visit on Sunday evening,
land and southern counties, to from ael kingly requested him eo take a walk with them, now
many other districts of the -0 ge• her with our letters
there is everywhere a manic.euntry, enable us to state that t'.at the heat of the day was over. John at once complied,
agricultural produce. re
, itieent promise of all kinds of and away they went, Cris goon friends at once directed.
•-ee wheat crop, now everywhere their s'eos to " Teviot fi)wery border," down which they
in ear, never, as a general rule, promised better an I hal preceded a short way, when leoking a-head John per
though, with the barley, it is beaten down in
places b ceiyed a party of bis countrymen right before .him, from
the thunder storms of the past ten days, both
bid fair tyo who"l, for reasons boat known to himself, he expecte./ no
yield well at harvest time. As to green crops, look uncommonly well ; a bulky and potatoes !, , .
a led so he. !stuck fast and would go no farther. But
above ground must be taLen for what it inay healthyyetae them, gone
th c) u gAh
gwroowrtthh, John soon' floafetwdattheartl'aleye
chlaodsealbreesaiddye
beautiful Iwo 0
Mal l
indicating a corresponding growth below. The mangf-1 r riev would Ina e preferred 'Horns' Bole, they could not let
Wurze •
, crop is now being generally thinned—the plants 'lil the c rtunity and therefore without any ceremony
from
'theeCom up satisfactorily. Turnips are suffering severely ~ k 7 ' Piii"Jobn headlong over head and ears into the
fly, and the usual remedies are being advocated '1
pis,,
d he rose to the surface, again and again
with the usual confidence, and tried, we must add, with the
'..-
"I't
Part,
an
d as
till he had got enough of it. They
usual failure. ' ~,,, eused him
h.o mat,
The work of haymaking is everywhere '
lvditate'On his just punishment,
vigorously , .aigth" left em o. .. proceedin and a heav crop is bein d
g,
his all over with nettles lest
under at pre a " -. :king care first to blister face .
It is said that the
sent the most favourable circumstance *""'• he should too soon forget the ducking.
From the Gardeners' Chronicle.
same fete awaits the young woman.—Kelso Chronicle,