The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-10 00:00:00

WHAT A TICKET OF LEAP E CAN DO.

The social evils of the ticket of leave system have of lel
been loudly and widely commented upon and condemned, sr,
the questio veceala appears now to have taken its place arom
the settled convictions of the public mind, as a striking fill"
tration of Talleyrand's maxim, that a blunder is worse than
crime. Seldom, however, have we heard of a more perniciool
career by a ticket of leave than that of Thomas M'Kay, wb
was examined this week by the Sheriff authorities, Gla`e;
About 1843, M'Kay, who was then an unpromising tradesrns,"
in Gloucairn, ingratiated himself with an honest fartnerl
daughter, who subsequently was married to him much agaiegs
the wishes of her friends. Their foreboiings were 6°°4s
realised, and M'Kay Le came a profligate ne'er-ilo-weel.
a cohabitation of two years the heart broken wife in self prove'
Lion, returned with her children to her father's house. 1,1`.51,
went from bad to worse, was prohibited intorcouse with his 11;
and closed his career in his native parish before the Oirctn.
Court of the county, in 1852, when he was sentenced to saenti
years' transportation. Thereafter he was lost sight of,
soeicty was rid of a pest, till last summer, when Governmen,
sent him roaming among us again with a ticket of leave;
Landing in Glasgow, M Kay quickly forgot the arts of by
singing and eyo rolling, and forgot, too, the wife who
patiently battling against hardship and hoping ag.tinst loPe.
Worming his way to the heart of a buxom widow at the
Townhcad, who bad hitherto earned an honest livelihood by
the profits of a decent public house, M'Kay succeeded leb
convincing the lonely woman of the advantages of securing sue
a husband as he could make her, and at length persuaded her to
make her puncheons and herself his "by law." Banns were
proclaimed, and of course without objection, seeing that the 611,
wife and her friends were absent, and unconscious of what wa'
transpiring. The marriage was formally solemnised. Scarcelit
however, had the honeymoon run, when M'Kay
to show the cloven hoof. The charms of the widow 11°A
given place to those of her spirits. The new made husban`;
became the sottish burden, then the profligate rioter, abused
Iris widow wife when she attempted to remonstrate, and
length, f
among his pot-swilling companions, proceeded to prof
his marital power by rouping her to the door. Resistance, °,l
course, followed, and M•Kay was sent to the police office, an t
thence to prison sixty days, for breach of the peace. The 1°,3
of his first marriage transpired during his incarceration, a'l,
the authorities were prepared, on the expiry of his sentee`;
last Monday, to recommit him on a charge of bigamy. 13u
meanwhile his case had been reported to head quarters, trial',
the recent instructions respecting law breaking tickets of leaceci
and. on Monday two London officers relieved our prison ne
community of Thomas M'Kay, Who is now, we do not doubt,'
" dreeing" out the remainder of hii old sentence by the flu
fries Circuit Court. His first wife continues to bear the etligl"
and burden of her ill-starred match ; while the widow ewle,t,
the ticket of leave, for a disgraceful connection with a man s`",l
has made her and " her all" his own, till she can seek and fit!,
redress in the Court of Session.--North British Daily Ma"'

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

. LIVERPOOL,
HIGH WATBR--BIONI. 11 17-E
ARAI

JANUARY 10.
F,'ven. 11 40 —Height, 16 ft. 6 ifi'
MED.
Success Rio Gran
Maria .. . ..
Dorisana .. Debi;
fit Bit
Wm. Tapecott .........New •f°
~r,
'eriope ....
Bacchante Cacut,:
ficonderago
Anonima Bill)
Carl Alexancirl:
Hylton Maki Messir:
Essex. St. John, /S•P
lbert nallatin..... .... New Yea;
Tamaulipas (s.) ~.. ...... . Zan'
Wan sere: (brig) • ---'
Gloria
Celle (barque) ...-'

Jan. 9.
Jane Goodyear Smyrna
Malakoff Havre
Mohawk .. Alexandria
Candace (s.) Africa
Cliolarks llama
Andromeda Honduras
Westpaint ..New York
Shakespeare New Orleans.
Fidget
Segoria Monte Video
Fatima —.... Amsterdam
Ellen Rawson lchaboe
War Sprite
Britanqia ....Danzic
R. B. Sumner New Orleans
Vulant .............St. Michaels

SAILED.
Hound Buenos PI
Einccess Cape Town Governor Langdon . lg°li'l
Jan. 9. Lk. zy Alexando
Alps (s.s.) Havre Rome
Cleator (s.s.)
Lebanon (a.s ). ... Constantinople'

Jan. 8.

ENTBB.ED FOR LOADING.
!Juverna............. Pernamba:
Danzic Danzic,Roscoe
Balbec (a 5.)...............Havrett1ar0n0n1e te
Windermere Lisbon Centaur. ....... . Toots
Lady Mona.... Monte Video, &c. Neptune
Horizon New OrleansiNuevo Victoria
Phoenix... ......... New Orleans Eleanor
Rattler (s.c.) Oporto ..Cpureacurnaavoniaan.b?;
MARITIME EXTRACTS.
The Fingalton, Lighton, hence to Shields, is ashore in Duntiru°
Bay.
The Thomas Roydon, arrived at Sydney. Oct 2, from London
Had sprung her mainmast, and carried away foremasthead, &c.. og
the Cane of Good Hope.
Liverpool, Jan. 9.—The Rover's Bride, from Savannah for SO
port, with a cargo of pitch, pine timber. &c., seas abandoned at 0:
in a sinking state, Dec. 21. Crew taken off and lauded here by ttl
Shakespeare, from New Orleans.—Tha Bacchante. arrived here fro°,
Calcutta, encountered very heavy gales from N.E., 3rd and 4th. oa
Soundings.
The West Point, hence cor New York, after being ashore got ar
without apparent damage.

Jan. 8,