Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-27 00:00:00

L'ANGrELIEIt.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,-I hasten to inform you, for the benefit of
your readers and the public, that, having come to
Glasgow for the purpose of securing a correct
likeness of L'Angelier, I have succeeded in obtaln-

jag possession of the only photograph on glass in
Glasgow, at a cost of fifty guineas. I have engaged
- a first-31ass modeller to assist me in modelling the
figure from the photograph, and in a few days it
will be ready for inspection at my place in Lime-
street. I may say that likenesses which have been
before the public have no resemblance whatever to
the original now in my possession, and which was
taken a short time before his death. I have seen
Mr. Smith's house, in Blythswood-square, and
found not only it, but a great many adjoining.
deserted. Some mischievous fo]ks have been
carrying away part of the stone pillars, and I have
no doubt but if they could they would carry the
house away also. I visited Mrs. Jenkins,
L'Augelier's landlady. I went there for the
purpose of purchasing the clothes worn by him.
She speaks highly of him. —I am, sir, yours respect
fully, W. ALLSOPP.
Glasgow, July 24.

BOAT ACCIDENT IN ZETLAND—POUR LIVES LOST.—Ii is
our duty to record another of these painful accidents which
have of late been common among the Zetland islands,
and which have cast a melancholy gloom on all connected
with theie scenes of disaster. The facts of this distressing
case, so far as we can ascertain, are as follow :—On Friday
last, whilst the William Tell, North Isles packet—boat, was
on her passage from Yell to Lerwick, she picked up and saved
fro the keel of their boat, two men who were in a very
x the
elaunstir state. They related that, as they were m wino
a squall of wind backfilled their sail, and esps'z d
their boat.
They had been returning from haaf or deep-
'sea fishing, with a pretty good haul, all seen-e and safe,
calculating on the
pleasure of soon seeing their families,
when the sad accident occurred. As stated, two out of the
six hands only were saved ; and amongst those who have
perished were a father and son, who have left a large
family to deplore their sudden loss. It is said that the
other two were also married. This is now the fifth btatta
crew who have almost to a man perished since the com-
meeeement of this season's fishing, leaving behind them
many widows, orphans, sisters, and brothers, unprovide I _
for. Where we are to secure bread, clothing, and com-
forts for these husbandless women, fatherl±ss children, and ANCIENT PAINTINGS AT MANCHESTER —We have been
destitute relatives is a question. It is to ba hoped that asniered that even in Manchester ancient paintings are
those who have the ability will be sti red up to aid in manufactured to a vast extent, and at an incredibly small
laleviating their distresses.—John O'Groat's Journal. price, for th) American market. " You have °fain spoken
Semmes FIRE AT Itenumi WORKHOUSE.—During last to me of your father's gallery at New York," said an
Friday night, a fire, which was nearly attended with fear- English artist to an American traveller; "of what mesters,
ful consequences, occurred in the infirmary of Lambeth may I ask, has he specimens?' hMy father's gallery,"
Workhouse. The portion of the immense building in which was the reply, " consists almost entirely of Rephaels and
the disaster commerced was situated at the top of the Leonardos, but he has a few Correggios."—Quarteny Re-
western wing, in which the worst sick inmates were con- view, new number.
fitrned ; and it is hardly necessary to state that a Tree CONDEMNED CONVICT JOHN LEWIS.— CARDIFF,
re ein such a place caused the utmost excitement. Joey 22.—The warrant for the execution of John Lewis,
It appears that the discovery was made by one of the the man who was condemded to death at the recent Mitt-
sick inmates, who perceived a body of flame flickering summer assizes at Cardiff, for the murder of his wife, at
through the roof. A general cry of " Fire !" which Merthyr, in January last, has been received, and the
ran through the ward brought Mr. Piercey, the master execution of the unhappy criminal is to take niece in
of the house, and other officials to the place, and they at front of the County Gaol at Cardiff this morning, Since
once saw that a fire of no little magnitude had broken his condemnation Lewis has maintained a firm denial of
bodiedThemaster instantly had a number of the able his guilt, and still asserts that the death of his wife
the poor and every officer in the building brought to resulted from her accidentally falling down the stone steps
ward, and the sick persons were carried out in arm- during the struggle between them for the half sovereign.
Chairs and removed to a more distant port of the establish- On the strength of this statement he has entertained some
meat, \I- bile this distressing scene was going on, beds slight hope that his life might be spared. It is now
and any other article of furniture that could be laid hold of, fourteen years since the last execution at Cardiff.
were hurled out of window. Fortunately, the whole of vt es- n • & n
YALE TO e iNDIA. —.IA% 11. nonsite etommander of
the inmates were got out in safety. In a brief period, a
the Vernon, in a letter to a contemporary says : —ln the
variety of engines were at work, and by conveying the
debate on Monday night in the House of Commons on the
hose up the galleries the men were enabled to reach the
question of despaaching troops to India, Admiral Walcott
infirmary ward—at that time presenting a tremendous
is reported to have said that the quickest pass ige to
sheet of flame. The firemen kept to their posse, India ho bad ever heard of was by the Medusa frigate,
and some thousands of tons weight of water were orareci
which made the passage. out in 8,7, days, See., " but that
into the building, but the fire was not extirgruished
was an unparalleled eireumsnance. The gallant Admiral
until the whole of the spacious ward was gutted,
can. know very little of the ships which now sail to
the roof burned off, and serious damage done to the
remainder of the wing. The total loss is very considerable
but it is India, or ho would never have committed himself to such
mr.' a statement-. One of Mr. Green's ships, the Nile, then
understood the property was insured. t
?tem commanded by Captain Nisbet, of which i was the chief
beds reY' the master of the workhouse, bad a number of
officer, made the passage to India in 72 days; and in four
trnmediatel made u on the floor of a neighbouting
Ward, consecutive voyages, from 1850 to 1854, averaged 77
d, where the ' were accommodated.. for the morning,
and every. sick
kindness and attention were paid to them. Stich days out ; and this magnificent ship still continues to
a Painful scene has not been witnesssd at a metropolitan make the same passages. Other ships constantly make the
years. Some plumbers had been at work
fire for many
passage to India in less than 87 days during the season,
on the roof, and it is supposed that the fire they used so that the feat of the Medusa frigate cannot certainly be
dropped into some of the openings in the roof, ad so called "an unparalleled circumstance."
caused the unfortunane catastrophe. CONFORMACY TO CUSTOM ..--I whispered to Fritz (a tour-
ES(`APE OF Four, Pitasoexas FROM GAOL.—Considerable Mg' companion) how I had always understood it was the
excitement was caused in Newcastle-an-Tyne, on Wednes- proper thing in this country (Iceland) for travellers
day morning, by the escape of three desperate characters, departing on a journey to kiss the ladies who had been
charged with highway robbery, and the other with good enough to entertain them, little imagining he would
attempted murder—from the borough gaol during the take me at my word. Guess my horror when I saw him,
night. It appears that about half-past two o'clock in th with an intrepidity I envied, but dared not imitate, first.
Morning, a policeman named Telford was passing the eas embrace the momma by way of prelude, and then proceed,
end of the gaol, when he noticed several rugs and sheet in the most natural way possible, to make the same tender
knotted together into a rope lying under the wall upon the advances to the daughter. I was dumb with coast-rna ion ;
footpath, and suspecting that they belonged to the building, the room swain before me ; I expected we should next
and that they had been used by some prisoners to effect minute be packed, neck and crop, into the street, and that
their escape, he gave an alarm and aroused the gaoler and the young lady would have gone off into hysterics. It
turnkey. They at once identified the rugs as belonging to turned out, however, that such was the very last thing she
the gaol, and upon examining the cells they ascertained that was thinking of doing. With a simple frankness that
George Bell Winship, and Blackstone Hind, who were became liar more than all the boarding-school graces in the
awaiting their trial at the SS4VS for a highway robbery world, her eyes dancing with mischief and good humour,
upon a broker's clerk, from whom £230 had been stolen ; she met him half way, and pouting out two rosy lips, gave
William Beaumont Hays, a ticket-of-leave convict, charged him as hearty a kiss as ever it might he the good fortune
wittehmapgarrotte robbery; and John Harris, charged with of one of ns he-creatures to receive. From that moment I
at
temp to murder his wife, four desperate ruffians, determined to conform to the customs of the inhabitants.
and very powerful men, bad escaped. How they —.High Latitudes, by Lord Deerin,
escaped has been clearly ascertained. About half-past THE BELFAST BIOTS.—At the Befast assizes, on Friday,
sixoo Tuesday evening, Mr. Scaife, a solicitor, to whom John Magennis, and six other persons, were charged with
°)' hail entrusted their defence, came to consult with having been engaged in a riot on the 18th of July, at
Winshipth and Hind, and had conversed with them through Cullintree, near Belfast. Sir Thomas Staples, Q C., and
gate of their ward. The other two prisoners were in Mr. Kernan prosecuted, and Mr. Hamilton defended the
re
„ Yard with thou at the same time. The upper turnkey had prisoners. On the evening of the 18th July a body of
9ve of absence on Tuesday evening, and as Mr. Scaife was police were stationed at the Cullintree-toed, when forty or
likely to have a long consultation with the prisoners, and as fifty persons attacked them with stones, and drove them to
he imagined he was also retained by the other two men, and the police barrack. Mr. Tracy, R.M., who was there,
panted to talk with them, he asked the under turnkey to read the riot act, and the police put the mob to fright, and
lock them all up in their cells after Mr. Scaife left. This pursued them down the road. Several shots were fired.
official had forgotten to do so, and they had the full range The military were called oun and were obliged several
of their yard and an excellent opportunity for escape times, in the course of the night, to charge the mob.
during the night. They had got over the yard wall into Numbers of women and children aemempanied the rioters,
the jail garden, and thence escaped into the stone yard. The prisoners were acquitted ; and previous to orderine
They then clambered on to the roof of the workshops, them to be discharged, the learned judge told them that a
and baying- reached the main walls of the building, they very little more evidence would have induced the jury to
dropped themselves up-on the street by a rope made of find them guilt?, and if they had done so he-would have
their rugs. Three of the men were the jail dress when inflicted on them the severest punishment which the law
they escaped, and the police were scouring the country all would a...10w. He hoped that their narrow escape would
Weduesrlay in search of them ; but when our report was be a warning to them and others not to engage in such
despatched they had not been captured. 1
lawless assemblies and riots,

Dasiraos that there should be same mem)r*al here of the life and
labours of so dis inguished a maw, I am intending to beg throughout
the kingdom for two or threw hundred pound., to be expended in a
Horrock's Free Library, t.nd such other remembrances as may be
deemed most suitable by the committee.—l am, sir, yours very
rapectful:y, ROBERT i:II,ICKEL, Rector of Hoole.
Hoot°, n ar Preston, July 24, 1357.