Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-16 00:00:00

alive, so

_O--, auu immetuately represented,
there is comparatively very little which those entrusted
with tha administration of affairs can hope to originate—.
they must expect to receive more from around

can impart fiOm above. lam fully fully conscious that if
I can hope to discharge my part with any acceptance to
among this people, it must mainly be by throwing myself
with the fullest and freshest sympathy, with whatever un-
equal efforts, into all that constitutes their national life, by
.by which I would not understand merely the progress of
their great national and material wealth, but their aspira-
tions for excellence in literature, in art, in arms, in virtue,
in piety, in all that has illustrated their chequered, but not
inglorious past,—in all that, I trust, will adorn their pros-
perous and brilliant future."

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT BATLEY.
A tall and idiotic-looking young man, named Charles
Gomersall, was charged at the York Assizes with cutting
and wounding Nancy Gomersall, at Batley, with intent to
murder, on the Bth of April last. The prisoner was =de-
fended. The prosecutrix in this case was the prisoner's
mother, and she stated that her son had always been silhipri: to fits. Ap .

- - uaa neen travelling about the country selling
tapes, thread, &c., and 12 months' ago he showed such un-
mistakable indications of an abberratiou of mind, that his
mother applied to a bench of magistiates to have her son
placed in a lunatic asylum. In this she did lint Ahnuf _ ,

--.. ...,. ..av COoGCLL. -.. weeKs before ,the day-on which V
UIVL
he com-
mitted the above offence, the prisoner went to live with
his mother; and in the course of a few days he har-
boured the impression that his mother favoured his
younger brothers most, and that she had taken money
out of his pocket. This caused him at times to ex-
hibit violent ebulitions of passion, and aggravated the
monomania with which he was affected, until his intellect
tblie nt
reatest was, completely overthrown. His hatred tawn,.d. M.
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mother appeared to be intense, and on the morning of the
Bth April,. he and his mother having got up early, when
sitting in the room downstairs, he suddenly jumped up
and made an attack upon his mother. He attempted
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Out she got away, when he followed,
threw her down, and, whilst kneeling across her body, he
seized a knife from the sink, and, with this he commenced
sawing backwards and forwards upon her throat. Mrs.
Gomersall cried out for assistance, and defended herself' as
well as she pn,,i,l ' ' •

doom the hands and 'fingers, two of the latter
being rendered completely useless. The prisoner's father
was sleeping in the room when these circumstances occurred,
and, on hearing, his wife's cries_
he ; Arrlnnad not of boa

lur assistance. Thereupon, a Mr Taylor came into
the house and seized the prisoner, who was making a fright-
ful iioise, threw him from the body of his mother, and dis-
armed him. He had succeeded in cutting about a quarter
of an inch deep into the mother's throat. As soon as he
was thrown off, the prisoner seized another knife, and at-
tempted to cut his own throat, but he was again disarmed.
He seemed determined, however. to arem-nnl;.i, I,;‘,
"

•• •-• •va ilbii ins erm, tor
ne seized another knife and then aC4,LUiI
pair of scissors, with
which he attempted self-destruction, and succeeded in in-
juring his, throat. The judge announced that the prisoner
would be kept in confinement during Her Majesty's plea-

'rioted for the Proprietor, by WILLIAM GRIFFIN, Of No. 6,
Brownlow Street, in the Parish of Liverpool, and THOMAS
SUMNER MCGRIE, of No. 10, St. Chrysostom Street, Everton,
in the Parish of West Derby, at 40 Leigh Street, and Published
by them at 13, South John Street, in the aforesaid Parish of
Liverpool.

JULY 15nt, 1859,