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

JVILIEY'S CONCERTS.

Monsieur *Millen, at three concerts advertised for the
evenings of sth, 6th, and 7th January, introduces to his
own townsmen Mr. Henry Croft, a new tenor. Mr. Croft
has only just made his debut, and has to depend on his own
anplication to the profession he has adapted for his future.
We have heard Mr. Croft sing in private, and may say he
possesses talent, feeling, and a voice unsurpassed in quality
by any English tenor, and few Italians, and with ordinary
pains must become an acquisition to the musical world.
We need hardly bespeak for him an extra share of
indulgence from the public on the occasion of his first
appearance here, as it is proverbially a more nervous
undertaking to appear where a certain portion of the
audience have known a debutante in a different character.

DELIVERY OF THE RESOLUTE TO THE ENGLISH
G OVERNMENT.

On Tuesday, the Arctic ship Resolute was delivered over
to the government by Captain Hartstein and the other
officers of the American navy. At one o'clock, Captain
Seymour, flag captain of the Commander-in-Chief, went on
board to receive the ship. At the same hour the Victory
hoisted the American flag at her main, and saluted with 21
guns. Cap'. Hartstein, surrounded by his officers, addressed
Captain Seymour as follows :—Sir, the closing scene of my
most pleasant and important duty has now to be performed,
and permit me to hope that long after every timber in her
sturdy frame shall have perished, the remembrance of the
old Resolute will be cherished by the people of the respective
nations. I now with pride totally at variance with our
professional ideas strike my flag, and give up this ship.—
Captain Seymour in reply said—l am sure, sir, that the
graceful act on the part of the United States towards this
country, and the graceful manner in which it has been
performed by yourself and the officers of the ship will ever
live in the memory of England. The American officers and
crew then left in the Sprightly for Southampton, from
whence they will sail to America by the mail packet Wash-
ington.

THE COURT, ,p,

WINDSOR, TUESDAY, DEC. 30. Prince Leiningen and
Prince Edward of Leiningen dined with the Queen yester-
day. The Earl of Clarendon and General and Hon. Mrs.
Grey had also the honour of being included. The private
band attended after dinner. The Queen, with the Princesses
Helena and Louise, and Prince Arthur, walked in the
Home Park this morning, and visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore. Prince Albert, accom-
panied by the Prilice and Prince Edward of Leiningen went
out shooting. Colonel Parker, Ist Life Guards, had the
honour of accompanying his Royal Highness. The Earl of
Clarendon left Windsor in the forenoon. The Earl of
Caithness and Lieut.-Col. F. W. Cavendish have suc-
ceeded Lord Rivers and Major-General Berkeley as the
Lord and the Groom in Waiting.

THE LIVERPOOL FINANCIAL REFORM

ASSOCIATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir,—ln your paper of Monday last, speaking of the
Financial Reform Tract just issued, you say that " great
credit is due to the Financial Reform Association for the
pains they have taken to show us how the national ledger
should be kept ;" and you add, "their last pamphlet is, in
a word, a most masterly exposition of our disgraceful and
highly criminal mode of dealing with the hard-earned
money of the nation * * • It leaves no item in the long list
of fiscal abuses ,untouched." Your testimony as to the
merits of this particular tract is valuable; but here your
commendation ends.

You have discovered, it appears, that "the Association
scarcely ventured to hint at the word retrenchment; "
that " they seem to have no comprehensive view with
regard to a speedy reduction in the national burdens
beyond what might possibly follow from an improved sys-
tem of bookkeeping ; " that their "satisfaction appears to
be complete when they find that the income may not have
exceeded £92.532,850 is 6d ; " that " this society evidently
thinks that if the state accounts were kept properly,
and a few trifles struck out of the balance sheet,
the Government could keep just whatever armed
forces they might think proper;" that " Retrenchment,
in a straightforward and comprehensive sense, is not
what the Association seek in their last publication;"
that they have no principle to propound with regard to
what ought to be the basis of taxation ;" and, to cap their
catalogue of demerits, that "on these subjects they are
as purely Whig and Peelite as though they had the Earl
of Derby for their President and. Lord Palmerston for
their deputy chairman.
' Now, Mr. Editor, all this' is news for' the:council, and
for all those who have taken the trouble to read their
publications, which you evidently have not done; for, if
you had, you could not possibly have fallen into such
misrepresentations. It might have occurred to you that
in a tract devoted;fto the public accounts, it was just as
well to keep principally to that subject ; and you will
find, on looking over other tracts, of which I send you
three as a sample, due prominence is given to the very
matters which you charge the Association with overlook-
ing altogether _ _ _

I have no doubt that, on finding how completely you
have misrepresented the Associaton, you will make
honourable amends; or that, in the meanwhile,, you will
give your readers an opportunity of seeing this protest.
—Yours, &c., C. E. MACQUEEN, Secretary.
Financial Reform Association, Dec. 26, 1856.

We understand that the remains of the late Edward
Langsdale, Esq., will be conveyed from the house of his
brother in law, T. C. Prior, Esq., St. Ann street, on Satur-
day next, at 10 o'clock, to the family vault, St. James's
Cemetery.
ST. SILAS'S WORKING MENS' ASSOCIATION,—At the
Christmas Tea Party of this association, hold in the rooms
attached to St. Silas's church, on Monday evening last, a
prize, consisting of " D'Aubigne's History of the Reforms-
iion," in four volumes, was awarded to George Daniel
Stephen, aged 20, of Everton, for his essay on " Woiking
Mens' difficultiee, and how to meet them."
THE ROYAL BARON of BEET.—The above great joint was
done to a turn at Mr. Morrish's yesterday, precisely at one
o'clock, and such a scene of animation as the rooms
presented we have not seen on a like occasion. It was
almost impossible to procure a seat in the ample and well.
appointed rooms, and many were content to waitaintil acme
more favoured person vacated a chair. It was really a scene
worth looking at, ss from one to three o'clock the influx of
gentlemen was enormous, all most anxious to get a slice of
the Royal Baron, People much older than we are, declared
the sight was hardly ever equalled in town before: There
must have been more than 1,000 persons who dined in
the rooms during the day. As to the quality of the beef.
it was of that • excellence which called forth unbounded
praise from all. The great Cape Sheep will form another
attraction in a few days. It is on show at present.
CORONER'S INQUESTS.—Yesterday the coroner held the
following inquests :—On the body of a male OW, found
by a police officer in Mill Lane, riff Islington. It appeared,
from the evidence of surgeon Bennett, that the child died
from want of nourishment, and the jury found a verdict to
that effect, as there was no other evidence. On the body
of John Benry M`Tigh, aged .5 years, who died in conse-
quence of having taken a large quantity of whiskey, under
the following circumstances :—lt appeared that the mother
of the child was buried on Tuesday, having died of con-
sumption. There was a bottle of whiskey got in for the
" wake," and the little fellow having got at the bottle,
drank a large quantity of the spirits, and died from the
effects, although every thing was done that medical skill
could devise. The jury found a verdict in accordance with
the facts. On the body of Amelia Newly, aged 89, who
died on Sunday morning, at 8, Court, Westmoreland street.
It appeared that about six weeks ago, the deceased had a
push from a woman, named Brownbill, and that her thigh
was broken by the fall, and, from the evidence of Surgeon
Sommers, it appeared she died of the inj ries ; but ou the
fullest investigation, it appeared that there was not any
blame attached to the woman, Brownbill, and the jury
found a verdict of accidental death. The coroner in dis-
charging the jury, wished them a happy new year, in the
kindest manner, which the jury returned to the worthy
magistrate, wishing him many happy years.

TUE MTS'ERIOUS RODBEEY OF TEA FROM
IIESSRS. EMU ONS AND CO.

William ,obinson and James Petty were severally
charged on errand, at the Manchester City Court on
Tuesday, will being concerned in an extensive robbery '
of tea from tie bonded warehouse in Salford. It will
be in the 'rcollection of our readers that the two
prisoners wre discovered in Oldham Road, in a cart,
with a quanity of tea in their possession, which they
said they hat transferred from their own cannisters, one
of them (Pety) keeping a provision shop in Moss Lane.
Some of thetea was in a coffee bag, that was subsequently
identified b Mr. Fryer of the firm of Binyons and Co.,
as the propety of that firm ; and that upon its contents
duty had ben paid on the 4th of December instant, at
the Custom House isi Salford. In the ordinary way of
business it vas supposed by the firm that the coffee was
emptied ino it on :he following day. The bag was
taken to tle bonded warehouse by one of the porters,
and delivered to a ran named James Dickenson, em-
ployed as warehouseman to the bonding company, and
also as locker-up to Lbe customs, and nothing more was
heard or seen of it intil it was found in possession of
the prisoners. Abent three weeks since a robbery of
tea took plice in Sl Ann's Square, being a quantity of
tea consigned by 'he Messrs. Binyon and Co. to a
customer o: theirs, and delivered by them to the carrier
of the Laicashire and Yorkshire Railway Company,
from whose cart it was stolen before he had left the
square, It was at first supposed that the tea in the
prisoner's possess'on, being of the same quality as that
lost, formed part 3f that robbery, and no suspicion had
arisen. of any ter having been stolen from the bonded
warehouse. WM], however, the prisoners were brought
up on remand, of Tuesday the 22d instant, the defence
of Mr. Roberts rested upon the difficulty of identifying
the tea. Mr. Maide expressed his disapprobation of the
nature of the lefence, and said he had expected
that the prisoners would have been prepared with
invoices showing from whom the tea had been
purchased. He was about to discharge them
in consequence of the technical difficulties in the way,
when Mr. Fryer asked for a farther remand, as he
thought he conld produce further evidence.--Mr.
Mande. thinking the case one of great suspicion, at once
acceded, and the men were brought up yesterday, at the
City Court, as before stated.—ln the interim, James
Djckenson, the customs locker-up and warehouseman
to the bonding company, has abscon led. He had
charge of the keys of the room in which Messrs.
Binyons' tea was bonded, anc it is presumed the guilty
parties must have bad the door of that room left
unlocked, and then that access was gained by means
of a ladder. Mr. Fryer vas recalled, and stated
generally the facts as alread3 detailed. He was sub-
jected to a long and rigid cross-examination by Mr.
Roberts, on behalf of the prisoners, but nothing
material was elicited. A man named Roberts, connected
with the warehouse was then put into the witness box,
and stated that he saw, on one occasion, about two
months ago, after bonding hoirs (four o'clock p.m ), the
man Dickenson and a man lamed Diamond together.
Diamond threw a bag to Dickenson, which he (Roberts)
presumed contained tea, fron a window adjoining the
bonding room of Messrs. Binyons, down into the
bonded yard ; and he believed that Diamond carried the
hag to the shop of the jrisener Petty, in Hulme.
Roberts went first to a beernonso in the neighbourhood
with Dickenson, and afterwards called with him at the
prisoner Petty's shop. At this stage Mr. Maude
expressed his opinion that there were many links
%venting in the chain of evidence to bring the matter
clearly home to the prisoners, although it could not be
gainsaid that the greatest amount of suspicion rested
upon them. He thought the case in in its present form
if sent before the grand jury, would break down, and
that it would be better, therefore, to discharge the
prisoners They were, accordingly, liberated. The
system of abstracting tea from the bonding room must
have been going on for a considerable time, as upwards
of 1,500 lbs are missing. The police are actively engaged
in the search after Dickenson, who, it is hoped, will
soon be captured.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT.- EXTR A ORDINARY

CASE

At the Worship street police court, London, on Tuesday,
Dr. Mitchell Wynn, the eminent physician, in Finsbury
square, was charged before Mr. Hammill, in conjunction with
Thompson Finlay, his servant, with having violently assaulted
and seriously injured Mr. Mark Benjamin Btmham, an attor-
ney's clerk, residing in the same house. The complainant,
who was evidently in a state of extreme suffering, and appeared
With his head enveloped in bandages, said : Dr. Wynn and
myself are j,iint tenants of the house, No. 1, Finsbury square,
and shortly after twelve o'clock last night, I was in the act of
entering my bedroom, on the second floor, when the doctor,
who sleeps on the same landing, suddenly rushed upon me
from behind, and struck me two heavy blows on the back of
the neck, which knocked the candlestick out of my hand.

instantly turned round to repel the attack, and, after exchang-
ing several blows with him, he grasped hold of my hair and
dragged my head forward in such a position that I was
incanable of further resistance. The doctor then called out
" Finlay," several times, and the other defendant ran up stairs
immediately afterwards, with some deadly weapon in his hand,
with which he struck me repeated heavy blows on the top of my
head. The blows were delivered with such force that I lost a vast
quantity of blood, and became partially insensible, but my
cries for assistance were heard by my wife and son, who has-
tened down from the nursery, and at lengli got me away from
theth. I was afterwards retnoved in a cab to the house of a
surgeon, who dressed my wounds, and was thence conveyed to
the station house, whero I found the defendants in custody, and
preferred the present charge against them. The complainant
added.that he was wholly at a loss to account for the outrage
unless it had arisen from a disputed right to the possession of
the premises. In cross-examinatio❑ by Mr. Solomons, who
appeared. for the defence, the complainant admitted that he had
been previously engaged in an altercation with Dr. Wynn, and
that while passing his chamber door at the time in question
he had certainly called him a swindler. Witness was induced
to use the expression from his belief that he did not pay his
way, and that he was connected with two bubble companies.
Ho denied that he had knocked down Dr. Wynn, although the
latter exhibited a severe contusion over the eye, and declared
that he acted throughout in self defonoo. The complainant's
wife and son were severally examined, and fully corroborated
the material portion of his testimony ; but the female witness,
who was reproved by the ravish ate for the flippant manner in
which she gave her evidence, positively denied that her husband
had called the doctor a swindler, which she declared
she must have heard it ho had used the epithet.
Police constable Wakefield, 133 G, stated that at an early
bour that morning he was alarmed by the spring of a rattle,
' accompanied by cries of " Murder !" and " Police !" from the
house in question, and after repeatedly knocking for admis-
sion, the door was opened by Dr. Wynn, and on entering the
hall he found the complainant, whose dress was completely
saturated with blood, which proceeded from wounds in the
head. Both parties were greatly excited, and tl cy voluntarily
accompanied him to the station house, where Dr. Wynn was
ultimately detained in charge. Witness afterwards returned
to the house, where he secured the other defendant, who had
locked himself in a back room, on searching which he die.
covered the poker produced with the lower part stained with
blood, as it yaw appeared. Mr. Charles Edward Jackson,
a surgeon, in Great Prescot street, Goodman's Fields, stated
that about half-past one o'clock that morning the complainant
was brought to his house with the blood streaming down his
face from two contused wounds on the head, which divided
the scalp. Be had evidently lost a vast quantity of blood, and
witness was decidedly of opinion that the poker produced was
calculated to occasion such injuries. Mr. Solomons, on behalf
of the defendant, assured the magistrate that Dr. Wynn had
been subjected to constant insults and annoyances from the
complainant, who had been the aggressor in this instance, but
as he presumed that the case would not be decided at this
court, he should reserve the defence for another tribunal. Mr.
Hammill said, that it was certainly his intention to send the
case before a jury, but he should accept the recognizance of
Dr. Wynn in £5OO, and two sureties in £250 each for their
future appearance.

THE CITY UNION FRAIL:UM—On Tuesday, in consequence
of the delinquents, Paul and Manini, who have absconded
charged with defrauding the City of London Union of up-
wards of £13,000, still remaining at large, defying all the
efforts of the police to effect their capture, a fuller descrip-
tion of them was furnished to the police, from which it
appears that Paul at one time carried on an extensive trade
as a corn dealer at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, having
offices at 37, Mincing lane, and was well known on the
Corn Exchange, and of considerable influence in the money
market until the year 1837, when he became a bankrupt.
Though upwards of 60, Paul is an extremely fine portly
man, standing 5 feet 8 inches, and to hide the ravages of
time dyes his hair, displaying a glossy crop of earls and
luxnriant whiskers, which are now no doubt dispensed with.
Manini's antecedents are more obscure ; he, however, lived
in good style for a poor rate collector, at 60, Torrington
square, and surprise is felt that some suspicion should not
have flashed across the minds of the guardians long before
it did, from the manner in which his establishment was
maintained. From the fact that there existed great inti-
macy between Robson, Redpath, and the delinquents, some
curious deductions may be drawn. It is suspected that the
whereabouts of Paul and Manini is known to certain parties,
who, however, hold back in hopes of an increased reward.

MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN BY THEIR
MOTHER, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF
THE MURDERESS.

On Tuesday evening, as Mr. Elliott, the Lambeth magis-
trate, had disposed of the public business, and was about to
leave the bench, Mrs. Martha Bacon, a married woman, 26
years of age, of mild expression of countenance, but with
something in the appearance of her eyes that cleary indicated
a disordered mind, was brought to the court in custody, and
charged With the murder of her two children, the one about
fifteen months, and the other about three and a half years of
age, by cutting their throats from ear to ear, and also with
inflicting several wounds on her own throat, with the intention,
no doubt, of committing suicide. Police constable Henry
Cook. 75 L, said that at about half past one o'clock on that
afternoon, he was on duty at the station house in Kennington
lane, when the prisoner and another female then present
called, and the latter requested that he would accompany them to
a house in Fouracre street, Acre lane. He went with them, and
on entering the house No. 4, in that street, the prisoner unlocked
the door, and he entered the house. On going into the back
parlour he found a child, a boy about three years of age.
Prisoner : Three years and a half. Witness : Well, it may
be that, sitting in a chair with his head leaning on a table
placed before him, quite dead and cold, and his throat cut
from ear to ear. He (witness) then went upstairs, and on
entering the back room in the first floor, he found another
child lying on the floor, with its face downwards, quite
dead, and its throat also cut from ear to ear. Mr.
Elliott : What was the age of that child ? Witness : Well,
sir, I should think it might be fifteen or sixteen months.
Mr. Elliott : On your way from the station house to her
residence in Fouracre-street did the prisoner say anything to
you ? Witness: I don't recollect that she did, your worship,
except that she did itot do it. Mr. Elliott : Well, go on with
yor evidence. Witness : Well, sir, on the bed in the roam
where I found the 3oungest child I found a woman's night
dress all over blood. The prisoner then said, " I did not do
it, a man came in at the window and did it." Mr. Elliott :
Was this all she said respecting the death of her children ?
Witness : Yes, sir, I don't recollect her saying anything else,
but the fact was, that there was something the matter with her
mind, and I avoided talking to her. Mrs. Harriet Payne, the
wife of William Payne, of No. 15, Anglesea street, Waterloo
Newtown, Stepney, said : I know the prisoner, and she is
married to my nephew, who is a whitesmith and bellhanger by
trade. On Sunday evening last, she and her husband came Co
my place to ask my daughter to come and stop a week with the
prisoner, as her husband was going to work at Reigate on the
following morning, and would not be at home until Saturday
night. I told them my daughter should come, but as she had
some things to take to the warehouse, she could not be with
the prisoner until late. My daughter left home for the
purpose, and called at the prisoner's house, but though she
knocked repeatedly, she could not make any one bear her, and
she was obliged to return. Not getting home before eleven
o'clock, and when told she could trot get an entrance into the
house, I became very much alarmed, so much so that had it
not been so very late I should bare gone to her house on that
night. This morning I went to her house, but before reaching
it I saw the prisoner who said she had been to pay her
rent. I then asked her where she had been all night, as my
(laughter could not get in on knocking, and she said, " I
have been in the house. A man has been in and murdered
the two children, and cut my throat as The prisoner
then unlocked the door, and on my going into the back
parlour I saw the oldest child sitting in a chair quite dead.
The prisoner mentioned to me that she had been quite
insensible all night. I was much shocked at seeing the child,
and I thought the best way was to come to the station house.
Mr. Elliott : Did you observe anything particular about
the prisoner on the Sunday evening, when she called on you
wth her husband ? Witness : I cannot say I did observe any
thing strange. Mr. John Bushell, surgeon, of Kennington
lane, said : On the afternoon, between the hours of one and two
o'clock, I was called in to attend the prisoner, who I found at
the station house. On examining her I found a long skin
wound in her throat, not at all of a dangerous character, though
it might have bled a good deal, and five or six other wounds of
a smaller description above it. When I first saw her, I asked
her how she was, and she answered, "Very poorly ;" and I
then asked her to let me look at her throat. Oa finding the
wounds, I asked her how they were done, and she replied that
a man got in at the window on the night before, at eight o'clock
and did it, and also cut the throats of her two children. Hav-
ing dressed her wounds, I accompanied the prisoner, the last wit-
ness, and the constable to the house No. 4, Fouracre street,
and there found, as the constable described, in the back parlour
the oldest child sitting in an easy chair, with his head leaning
forward on a table placed in front of him, quite dead and cold.
I made a hasty examination of the body, and found the little
fellow's throat cut from ear to ear, and the windpipe and all the
principal blood vessels severed, so that death must have been
instantaneous. Mr. Eliot : 'Was it your opinion that the act
had been committed where the child was found ? Mr. Bushell :

Oh yes; from the quantity of blood there, there can be no doubt
of it. I next went up stairs, and found the'yonnzer child lying
on the floor, face downwards, Trite dead, and its throat cut in
a very determined manner. From the appearance of the rooms
it appeared to me that the beds had not been made on the

Monday at all, and it is also my opinion that the younger
child had been taken out of bed, and its throat cut on the floor
where it lay. I observed the night dares of a female lying on
the bed in the room, which was deeply stained with blood,
particularly the lower part of it, and on the pillow there
was one drop of blood, and two others on the sheets ; and
on the floor, close to fha table, there were some marks of blood,
which were covered over with au apron, as if to conceal them.
There was also a mark of blood on one of the room doors,
which appeared to me to have been caused by some bloody
garment touching it. Mr. Elliott : What is your opinion as
to the time when the wounds on the prisoner and her children
must have been inflicted ? Mr. Bushell : They were evidently

done within twenty four hours, and I should think about the
time the prisoner spoke of, eight o'clock last evening. Mr.
Elliott : What state were the children in as to dress ? Mr.
Bushell : The youngest had nothing but a gown on, but the
elder, 1 think, bad more clothes on, but neither shoes nor
stockings. Mr. Elliott : Has any instrument been found by
w!iich these wounds might have been inflicted ? Mr. Bushel'. :
There was in one of the rooms a table on which there was
some food, and I think three knives, and one, which was apart
from the others, appeared to me to be deeply stained, and as
if it had been wiped a good deal, but stilt appeared deeply
stained. Mrs. Amelia Dale, the searcher at tha court, said
she searched the prisoner carefully, and could not find any
marks of blood on any part of her dress, except the upper part
of her underdress, and this she thought proceeded from her
own wound. W hile searching her the prisoner said a man
came in at the back window and killed her two children, and
asked if she (the witness) thought she should be locked up.
This being all the evidence, Mr. Elliott gave the prisoner the
usual caution, and told her, after this he should hear anything
she bad to say. The prisoner : The only thing I have to say
is, that I did not do it. The prisoner, who during the exa-
mination kept looking at the different witnesses, while giving
their evidence, with a vacant stare, was then remanded to a
future day, and Mr. Elliott humanely directed that her
husband, who is at work at Reigate, should be made acquainted
with his melancholy bereavement without delay.