The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-07 00:00:00

DEATHS

On the 204 inst., at his residence. Chester, the Roy. Richard
Knal, in his 69th year. He rests from his lablurs, and his works
do toilow

On the 3rd !wt., aged 54, Mr. William Prescott, foreman to Mr.
Bunnell, car prop ietor, Norton-street.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths, are only inserted when sent

to our Office duly ituthentizatrd.

The offers of money:made:to Switzerland from France,
Germany, Holland, England, and America already amount
to several hundred millions of francs. The gifts are also
very c )nsiderable. A Swiss living at Paris offers a hun-
dred thousand francs to defray in part the expenses of the
war. M. Jules Mathey, a merchant at Havre, formerly a
member of the Swiss National Council, has sent two
thousand francs, and placed his own person besides at the
orders of the military authorities.
We read in a letter from Milan :—" A lady, whose name
I abstain from mentioning, decided to appear at court,
and commenced the necessary preparations of toilet, &c.
Some young people having heard of this, called upon her,
and with an air of deep regret said they had come to bid
her farewell. The lady, very much astonished, said she
had no intention of quitting Milan. The young people
replied that they had heard that Madame proposed going
to court, and as they regarded this as a long absence, they
felt compelled to take leave of her.' "
THE HULL OF THE LOST STEAMER ARCTIC.—We learn
that in June last, Captain Conly, of the schooner Mentor,
came to anchor in 45 fathoms water, in lat. 46 11, lon.
not remembered, on the western edge of the Grand Bank,
about 50 miles from land, and found that he had dropped
his anchor on a wreck. On heaving over the flit' lines
they became entangled in wreck matter at about four or five
fathoms from the bottom, and the particles found adhering
to the hooks appeared to be portions of rigging. It will be
remembered that the steamship Arctic sank in September,
1854, within a very short distance of the anchorage chosen
by the Mentor, and there can be little doubt that the
wreck discovered was that of the ill-fated steamship.—
New York Courier and Enquirer.
MURDER AND SUICIDE, AT WADOLEY, IN YORKSHIRE.
The quiet village of Wadsley Bridge, about three miles
from Sheffield, was on Monday morning startled by the
report of a horrible murder and suicide having been com-
mitted at the Hagg, a small place iu the neighbourhood.
Here resided in a little cottage, John Green, forgeman,
employed at the Clay Wheel, and with him the daughter of
his wife by a former marriage, named Betsy Jacques, an
unmarried woman sbout 25 years of ago, who had an ille-
gitimate child called John Henry, aged rather more than
two years. Yesterday morning, about eight o'clock, Betsy
Jacques called up her son and asked him could he go along
with her out of doors. Ile replied that he would, and they
then proceeded to an adjoining outhouse, formerly a work-
shop, hut now used as a pigstye, and there she committed
the horrible deed about to be related. There resides in the
house a lodger named John Redman, and Mr. Green's son,
George. It is rumoured that before Betsy left the house
she told these parties that she was going to hang her child,
but for the accuracy of this we cannot vouch. The son and
the lodger shortly after went out of the door, and heard a
shriek, no doubt proceeding from the child which was being
murdered. They went back into the house, and then they
proceeded to the outhouse, where a horrible scene presented
itself. The child lay stretched on the floor, covered with
blood, with its throat cut in a fearful manner, and quite
dead. They also found the mother. Betsy Jacques, in a
stooping position, with her throat cut likewise, but with
life not quite extinct. The bloody deeds bad been committed
with a razor, which was found close at hand. Mr. John S.
Roberts, surgeon, was sent for, but when he arrived the
poor woman was dead. The supposition is that the deceased
was again pregnant, and took this method of avoiding the
shame which preyed upon her mind.