Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-18 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Nord publishes the following telegram :
The Russian Government has given orders for the Ist,
2nd, , 3rd, sth,, and Otis corps d' armde to be placed im-
mediately on a war footing, with the whole, of the artillery
and cavalry belonging to each. The reserves are to be
called in, and all soldiers on furlough to rejoin their colours,
to be ready to march within three months.

SUICIDE OP A NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR.—The Chel-
tenham Examiner announces the death, by suicide of Mr.
William lia.dley, son of Mrs Hadley, of Queen's-buildings,
and proprietor of the Cheltenham Journal. The melanchoy
occurrence took place on Saturday night in a bedroom
attached to that in which deceased had been in the habit of

sleeping, where he was found by his distressed and horror-
stricken mother suspended by a cord from the bed rail.
Sir .Tamsetjee Jejecbhoy died at Bombay on the 14th of
April, aged 76. He was at the head of the native
mercantile body of India, and was created a baronet by the
British government.
DEA.TII OF MR. W. T. PAGAN, M.P.—We regret to
annonnce the demise of Mr. W. Trant Fagan, M.P. He
was a merchant of. great repute in his native city, Cork,
which he was elected representative for in the House of
Commons in 1847. In April, 1851, he resigned his seat,
but was re-elected in 1852, and had sat in that assembly
ever since, and was returned at the recent general election.
The deceased gentleman was an advanced Liberal, but was
generally respected for his political consistency by all parties
in the Rouse of Commons. The hon. gentleman was in his
59th year.
APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE
rumoured that a marriage is on the tapis between Augustus
Saville, Esq., and Lady Evelyn Stanhope, only daughter of
Lord Chesterfield. The marriage of the daughter of Lord
Sudeley was announced to take place at St. George's,
Hanover-square, on the 17th inst. There is a marriage on
the tapis between Henage - Dearing, Esq., and Lady
Chatterton. We hear that a marriage is on the tapis
between George Allanson Cayley, Esq., the eldest son of
Sir Digby Cayley, of Brompton, and Miss Worsley, of
Hovingham. It is said that the Hon. Francis Byng is
about to marry one of the daughters of Sir Win. Miles and
Lady Miles. The marriage of R. Ferguson, Esq , M.P.,
and Miss Emma E. Mandeville will shortly be celebrated at
All Saints', Knightsbridge.— Cinol Journal ~
DARING ESCAPE OF A CONVICT FROM THE MODEL
PRISON. —On Saturday afternoon, between two and three

o'clock, a convict numed Henry Edmonds made his escape
from the Model Prison, Pentonville, in a way that •has ex-
cited considerable surprise. The prisoner is an American
by birth, bat he has been a resident in this country many
years, and once lived a respectable life as a commercial
traveller. He, however, fell into bad habits, committed
various acts of robbery at hotels, and in 1856 he was con-
victed at the Chester sessions of robbing a tavern in that
city, and sentenced to six years' penal servitude. He was
sent up to London to serve a portion of his time at the Model
Prison, and was learning the tailoring trade. It appeared
that his general condnct was good and which may in some
way account for the officials not, perhaps, having such a
watchful eye over him as other prisoners, and for his
thereby having the opportunity of making a jacket
and a pair of trousers out of the sheet or coverlid to his bed,
by which he was enabled so successfully to make his escape.
It is stated that he was not in good health, and on Saturday
afternoon, the day being very fine, he was engaged, with a
few other convicts, in performing some light duty in one of
she gardens of the prison. By some means he managed to
tteal away to the south boundary wall of the gaol, fronting
the North London Railway, and he then commenced
his perilous task of escape. Having possessed himself of
a rope, he secured the end of it to a piece of iron hoop,
which he'formed into a kind of a hook, and which he suc-
ceeded in getting over the top of the wall, which is
some twenty-five feet or more in height. He then
.got
two or three garden rakes or hoes, which he placed against
the wall, and, having divested himself of his mask and
prison garb, and assumed his new dress, he mounted the
wall, and, apparently without much difficulty, reached
the top. Here occurs what appears a remarkable part of
the case. The point where he got over is not more than
20 or 30 yards from the Caledonian-road, and he had to drop
into a side road along which persons are always passing
and children playing about. He was seen by several persons
when he came above the wall, but, being dressed in
white, he was thought to be some bricklayer or white-
washer employed in the gaol. It seemed that he had
some difficulty in getting the rope over the wall ; and,
to make short work of it he dropped down a distance, per,
haps of 15 or 20 feet, and falling on his hands, lacerated
them, and they bled much. For a moment or so he appeared
to have been stunned by the fall , he, however, hastily
got up and walked down the road by the side of the wall
into the Caledonian-road. He then hailed a cab ; and
telling the driver that he had some dispute with his mates,
and had got the worst of it, directed him to drive fast
towards London. The driver states that he had no suspicion
that the man, either by his dress or mariner, had escaped
out of prison. As they got nearer town, he directed the
driver to proceed to Greek-street, Soho ; and at a pawn-
broker's he pledged some false teeth (which he wore) for 7s,
paying the cabman 3s for, his trouble. Edmonds then dis-
appeared, and nothing has been heard of him since, Within
a short time after he had escaped, he was missed by the
officers of the prison, and on hearing what had been seen of
' his flight over the wall, active members of the police were
' sent out in all directions in quest of him ; but u o
p t
yesterday afternoon no trace had been heard of him. Re
is represented to be 33 years of age, 3 feet 8 inehe4
r height, alAil of swarthy conieexiM

SHOCKING MURDER

AT HORNEY.

On Saturday, Samuel Adams, aged 35 .a ferocious look-
ing man, with club feet, described on the charge sheet as a
shoemaker, residing in Mary-street, Kingslaud-road, was
placed at the bar of the Clerkenwell Police-court, before
Mr. Tyrwhitt, on remand, charged with maliciously cutting
and wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm to
Martha Page, his sister-in-law, at Howard-road, Hornsey.
The poor woman being now dead, the charge resolved itself
into one of wilful murder The charge was first brought
under the notice of the magistrate on the 6th instant, but,
although sim was then in a dying state, her deposition has
not been taken. The facts-connected with thin distressing
case, as tar as they have yet been collected, show that the
prisoner not only contemplated' the murder of his- sister-in-
law, but that of.his wife also:. It would appear that, in
consequence of the lazy, dissolute character of the prisoner,
the wife, who is a hard-working, respectable woman, was
compelled some months since to leave him, and keep herself.
This seems to have very much annoyed the prisoner, and he
has several times since said he would be revenged, "it he
swung for it." On the morning of the sth, the prisoner
was seen by a female, who resides, in' the same house as the
prisoner, sharpening a shoemaker-'s knife, and he then
stated that before the day was out,. he would do something
desparate. He was then persuaded not to do so, but he
said he would, and placing the sharp, part of the knife in a
cork, so that he should not cut himself, proceeded out..
According to the facts, as ascertained by Inspector Langdon
of the N division, it would appear that the prisoner at once
proceeded to the place where the deceased was engaged
nursing a relative who was lately confined, and on knocking
at the door, was informed that ho could not see his sister-
in-law. Some time afterwards the poor woman left the
house, in company with a female, when the prisoner
followed for a few yards, and then on running in front,
plunged the knife into the lower part of the deceased's
person. The deceased, who was in her twenty-fourth
year, and in a weakly state of health, was conveyed to
the German Hospital, Dalston, when it was found by the
resident medical officer that she was suffering from a
severe wound in the lower part of her person, extending
through the skin and muscle. Some neighbours having
detained the prisoner until the arrival of the police, the
prisoner was taken before Mr. Tyrwhitt on the 6th instant,
when he was very callous about the matter, and was
remanded. On Friday, when he was brought up pro forma,
and was told tha' perhaps while he was there the woman
was dead, and that then he would be charged with the
capital offence, he merely said, " Well, a good job, too."
The deceased, who maintained her senses to the last,
died in the German Hospital while the prisoner was
at the court. The following is the evidence already taken:
Police-constable Bolton, 466 N, said that on the after-
noon of the sth of this month he was in the Howard-
road, when he heard a cry of "Police" and " Murder,"
and was called to take the prisoner into custody for
stabbing a young woman. The female was in a fainting
state, and said she was wounded in the side. When he
took the prisoner into custody he was told the charge,
and said nothing. He searched the prisoner, and found upon
him a sham knife, such as are generally used by shoe-

The knife had blood upon it. The knife, which
was concealed, had apparently been lately sharpened. The
prisoner, in an impudent manner, said he did not wish to
ask the witness any questions. Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds,
96, West-street, Bermondsey, said, on the sth of this month
she went to visit a friend at Kingsland, at the house of
whoM the injured woman was acting in the capacity of
nurse. She (witness) asked her the way to Abney-park, and
she offered to show her the way. Before they started the
prisoner came to the door, saw the injured woman, detained
her some time, and bad some very angry words with her.
She •(witness) left the house with Mrs. Page, and proceeded
but a very short distance when the prisoner came up, made
use of violent and disgusting language to the deceased,
and made three stabs at her with a sharp shoemaker's knife.
Alter he had done this the prisoner said with an oath, that
he would murder her, if riot now at some other time. The
prisoner wanted the injured woman to tell him where his
wife was, but she refused, saying, " lie was a very bad man,
that he had been parted from her for some time, and that

makers

-he was continually getting drunk." After he was taken
into custody he again threatened her, and said he wanted
his wife. The prisoner, who treated the matter with the
greatest indifference, and declined to say anything in his
defence or to ask the witnesses any questions was remanded
until Saturday next.

GENERAL PEEL AND SIR JAMES GRAHAM.
The following correspondence is published :
War Office, May 14.
Dear Sir James Graham —I have waited in hope that
you would have contradicted a statement reported to have
been made by you in your speech at Carlisle, on Monday
last, to the effect, "That, in order to influence the elections,
the War Department, by an act of prerogative, Parliament
not sitting, had increased the allowance to publicans for
soldiers billited on them from lid to 4d."
Now, this is not only untrue, but, if you stated it, I must
leave you to explain how it it was possible for you
not to have known that it was not true. In addition
to your long Parliamentary experience and knowledge
of everything connected with the army, you, when
First Lord of the Admiralty, must have brought in
the Marine Mutiny Bill, and must have known that
the allowance to publicans for soldiers and marines
billeted on them is fixed by the Mutiny bill. You must
also have known that last session a parliamentary committee
inquired into the billeting system, and recommended in
their report that the allowance should be raised from lt-d to
from 4d to 6cl; that I was asked publicly in the house on
the 7th of February, this year,' whether it was the intention
of the government to carry this recommendation into effect,
and that I answered that it was their intention to raise it
• to 4d, but that it could not be done until the Mutiny bill
was brought in ; that again on the 7th of March, on the army
estimates, I made the same statement,, and that parliament
voted the extra sum required for the payment of it, and
that on bringing in the Mutiny bill I pointed out that the
only material alteration in it was the increased allowance to
the publicans. The Mutiny bill passed before there was
any idea of a dissolution, and the 'War-office circular,
directing the payment of the additional allowance, was
issued previous to the dissolution.
Your statement about the castle or barracks at
Berwick is equally incorrect, but, although you made it,
I think you admitted that you could not say that it could
be proved.
I am not inclined to criticise too narrowly election
speeches, but when charges of this nature are made against
a public department, it is necessary that they should be
publicly contradicted, and I shall be glad to accompany the
publication of this letter with any explanation you may
have, to offer on the contents of it.—Believe me, yours, very
, truly, J. PEEL.

Netherby, May 15.
Dear General Peel,—Until I received your letter
this morning, I was not . aware that the increase of
billet money had been specified and sanctioned in the
Mutiny Act ; or that provision had been made for this
increase in the vote on occouut in the Army Estimates.
The statemenent, therefore, _ in the speech to which you
refer, respecting act of prerogative, Parliament not
sitting,' is an inaccuracy. You blame my ignorance. I
acknowledge it. A mis-statement made by me has been the
consequence. I am sorry for it, and you can give to this
acknowledgment the publicity which you desire. The fact
remains that a large increase of billet money has been made
at the instance of. the government, and was. announced on
the eve of a general election.
With respect to an- alleged promise of an outlay of
public money at Berwick, I said that I could not speak with
any certainty, and that I did not know whether the
allegation could be proved. I have been since informed
that it was not the restoration of the old castle which was
contemplated; but the reparation and the re-occupation of
the old barracks at that place.—l am yoursß veryGRAVAM faithfully,
J. .G. .
Major-General the Right Hon. J. Peel.

AmrsEmEN-rs IN LIVERPOOL. Open front ten in the
morning until ten at night. Allsop's Wax-Work exhibition.
All the kings and queens, from and inclndisng, William the
Conqueror, down to Queen Victoria ; also, princes and
princesses, dukes, duchesses, lords, eminent statesmen,
warriors, poets, divines ; also all the most noted personages
of the past and present ages, &c. Allsop's sculpture galleries,
containing upwards of 3,000 statues, selected from all parts
of the world, varying from fire to twenty feet in height.
Allsop's dioramic, panoramic, cosmoramic, and stereoscopic
views of intense interest Allsop's musical promenade,
The above attractions are now combined, forming one large
establishment, in the immense. and magnificent building
known as the Teutonic-hall, next door but one to the
County Court, Lime-street, Liverpool, and nearly opposite
the Adelphi Rotel, and is open to the publio at 6d eaoh ;
children under ten years of age, 3d each. Mr. Allsop's
exhibition has been pronounced by the press of Liverpool,
London, and elsewhere, to be the moat perfect, superbly
-
wrnitlcent, awl largest establishmetxt in the world; a fact
In
*Ai cannot possibly be contradiOed. Be sure to ob e
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the name, ".Mlsop, ' at the cAtrauce. Sole )I'ourietof -1—
ITna. Allsop.—..eldvi 1, r.

LIVERPOOL POLICE INTELLIGENCE. - YlisTmeDAt.

BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.

VIOLENT ASSAULT.—lnspector Tomilson brought up s
person named John Crogan, on a charge of having violently
assaulted a young man named Win. Smyth, a compositor.
Mr. Black defended. It appeared that on Sunday afternoon
tho prisoner, without any provocation, struck the prosecutor
some Mows with a sling shot on the head, inflicted serious,
but happily not dangerous wounds. The case was Droved
by three or four witnesses, and, although Mr. Muck aid all
be.could to get the prisoner off for a fine, his Worship
thought it too serious a case to dispose of, and sent the
prisoner for trial at sessions.

:lispelieneekßrGEof orrazoßros:armniaade Anoet litolNshESae .Arthur Carney, a
but to sell) knives,
stockings and the like, about the docks was charged with
,
having robbed a Chinese, named John Frances;wie of
ifB. Mr.
Black woo, for the defence. Margaret Benson,
irl at
Hughes's public house, Waterloo-roact, stated talTaf.
prosecutor,. the prisoner, and a female entered' the
the
shop, and had some drink at a tat:le outside the
counter, when she saw the prisoner take ti..e watch out of
Mr. Chinamanis pocket. She went round and took the
watch from him and restore& it to the owner--the prisoner
saying, at the time, that he had the watch for seven days,
having got it mended for the prosecutor. They went
away, and, in about an hour after, the prisoutr returned
and took away a bag that he had previously left. Soon after
the prosecutor called ,nndsaid the prisoner had robbed him of
£B. The man was not drunk, but was near it. The prose-
.. _ _ _

cutor was examined,. and ou cross-examination by Mr.
Black, he denied that he was drunk, and he could not
swear positively that the prisoner took the money;- he,
however, said there was no one else to take it.
He admitted that be 3FIA, the prisouerrin the cabin of the
ship, and that he had, given him a watch to get repaired.
Mr. Bluck contended tbat• there was nor a particle of evi—
dence against the prisoners and his Worship, agreeing with
him, discharged the prisoner.
A BAD BOY.—Henry- Davis, a boy abed- sixteen years-
of age, was charged with having stolen £ll, the money` of
his aunt, Isabella Jones, the wife of a baher in Rose-valt-.
The prosecutrix said; she took the prisoner into her house'
out of charity, and the gratitude he showed, her was, to run
away with the money. £lO Gs. was recovard. The pri-
soner was sent for trial.

BEFORI MR. DIXON

UNWHOLESOME VEAL.—Market Inspector Jones,- charged
Henry Jones, of St. Martin's Market, for having, on-the
7th instant, exhibited 80Ibs. of bad veal for sale. The
same inspector charged Wm. Thwaites, of Scotland-road,
for having, on the 12th instant, exhibited 701bs: of bad-veal
for sale. Fined £l, and 4s. 6d. costs in each case.