Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-13 00:00:00

,g; from the

I ultimately ascertait
3., had been dispos

warehouse of Mr. Pitts, whol
street. Patrick asked to SE

lesale i

)f the Ti

Mr. Hooke, a partner
told the witness that all the paper had been 6,
a person named Wilson, between the 17th October and
3rd December, 1857 - 1

Gazette, &c., &c

t from

Patrick went on to d

)e what toc

15,,,,c lA,. 0 TT 11.,
Wilson at first denied all knowledge of t
afterwards said that he got the paper, &c., i
and sold it for him. He sometimes receiv

45., for disposing of it. Langan. when
custody, sent for Mr. Court, and acknowled
had Sold some waste paper ; that he had 1
by Wilson to tl^ ' -

(meaning a persen employed at the Underwriters) will."
He was very sorry for the affair, and hoped that the
matter would drop.—Mr. Court, secretary of the Under-
' Association, was next called. He said that the pri-
soner Langan was a clerk employed by the Underwriters ;
he had a salary of £BO a year, and had charge of all the
newspapers, kept some books, and attended generally to
overlooking the Subscribers' Room. Up to a short time
ago, nothing occurred which caused the slightest sus-
that anything wrong was going on. Lately,

writer*'

however, a number of
rooms. Even this failed to elicit anything fur
a passing remark. Some fortnight ago, a referer
was required. It was not to be found in the stox
A thorough search was made, but without succes

was observed that some 120 volumes of books and news-
papers had disappeared. This caused much annoyance,
and Mr. Court communicated with the police, the result
of which was that the two prisoners Langan and Wilson
were given into custody.—Mr. Hooke, a partner in the
firm of Messrs. Pitts and Co., stated that h
Wilson for a number of years. He bo

e had known
zht the

woks
lte of 18s.

and newspapers from *him at the
per cwt. .Lney were not bound when
them, and they had nothing on them to

xamined

whence they caae. This witness was cross-t.._
at great length by Mr. Bluck, who appeared for the k.
soner Langan. He said he would buy books and news-
papers, such as Wilson brought to him, from anybody.
He did .not think it necessary to enquire where ,they
came from, Wilson had been to his
about eight times. There were about
in the quantity bought.-Itenry Sandon
was in the employment of Mr. Pitts.
came to him and wished to know what
Wilson had received for the paper. This was the
time that Langan had been there. He never dispos,
of any paper.—Mr. Bluck then addressed the bench on
behalf of the prisoner Langan, against whom, he said,
there was not the slightest evidence, further than the
admission to Mr. Court, that he had done wrong. Had
it not been for that unfortunate admission, there would
have been nothing legally to convict him, and he would
have called for his discharge. As to the conduct of Mr.
Hooke, who stated that he would buy newspapers
and books from any person who chose to air
them, Mr. Bluck stigmatized it as most untra,l-
- It was an open door for robbery, am
tioned Mr. Hooke that if he persisted in dealing in tt,
manner he had described, he might find himself indicted
as being the receiver of stolen goods. It wc,-
terous for Mr. Hooke to stand in that box and say

30 lbs. of books
said that he

Langan

he cau-

prepos-

he did not know where the books ana newspapers came
from--he ought to have known—he must have known—
in fact he did know—and he was the greater culprit of
the three. Ultimately the prisoners were remanded for
seven days.

Old cruet frames, tea and coffee services, forks,
ewetlerv, re-electroplated and FM, all in the best
J. BilsbOrrow's, 66, Islington, Liverpool.
HOUSEKEEPERS.—The Coffee sold by Thomi_
Brothers, 5, Elliott-street, at Is. 4d., is better than you
pay Is. Bd. for at any other establishment.
A BIT OF ROMANCE.—The St. Peter (Minn.) Free
.Pass, of June 20th, contains the following :—A couple
of Scotch damsels arrived at St. Paul last week from
Scotland, en route for Lake Athabasca, in British
America, seventeen hundred miles north of St. Paul!
They go td the Red River by Burbank's stages, and then
.embark on the Ansbn Northup. These "Scotch dam-
sels" are sisters. They passed through Milwaukie some
four weeks ago, on their way to their destination in the
far North West. One of the two has been engaged to a
youing gentleman in the employment of the British Fur
.Company. He is secretary or agent at the company's
post on Lake Athabasca ;.and as he could not, without
losing his place, go to Scotland to marry his lady love,
she, like a true woman, resolved to come to '
and marry him. Having undertaken a journey of h ,
thousand miles, accompanied only by her sister, on this
errand of love, it is to be hoped that the bonnie Scotch
lassie will obtain a husband worth herself.
THE LATE BIGAMY CASE.—From the period of the
application at Lambeth police-court, and more particu-
larly since the apprehension of "Captain William Den-
bigh Sloper Harrison Marshall," Mrs. Hayes, the second
wife, or rather the lady who is supposed to be the second
wife—as it is supposed the spruce Mr. Sloper has been
married, if not three times, at least twice before—has
become the victim of the greatest annoyance by a per-
fect host of suitors for her hand and property. The
letters she has already received exceed fifty. Indeed
great is her annoyance, that she declares ths.:
letter she receives for the future she will deliver up for
publication. The letters Mrs. Hayes has received hare
been from tradesmen in "prosperous business," "trade-
men retired on handsome competencies.;" country farm-
ers with "well-stocked farms," country squires with
nice " little property," " gentlemen of the law," profes-
sional "gentlemen," half-Ray lieutenants in the navy,
non-commissioned officers in the army, and, in fact,
from persons of allssorts.

spoons, and.

manner,
slO

America

but as

hey need not

ly woo(

y were

not visited until the return trip.

ieferred to now

)strutted the path of t

zrn presented new and -exauis:

mne Indian fis
T

darting from is

of tho Si

Immediately on leavinz the lake Iv

)n Sug

I to this secluded spot and established
)ry of raspberry jam. The

Li Island a ii

quirethents of the aie." Since Mr. Church

ablishment, 1

has opened

is well.

The lake contrac

!ssecl" con-
t" 12 tons

it:lace their own adventures. Those
-r, of the party who remained visited the Jesuit Mission,
rhe route now lay situated a few miles up the river, and attended service in
nd on the north and the fertile and the chapel. The Indians at this mission reside in wooden
+he Isle of St. Joseph's to the houses, and are so far civilized as to have learned most
steaming of the vices of the white man, without his virtues. A
apparently fondness for intoxicating liquors appears to ba their
itely beautiful pictures of
every failing, and while the steamer was lying off the Fort,
1 now and then by the canoe numerous canoes stole out in the dusk, with Indians
from the Mission, in quest of whisky or brandy, which,.
land to island, we however, was never given to them, notwithstanding their
,y sleeping befoly most urgent petitions. At the Mission, an old Indian

s and reflected every cloud above it t and the purple
ills embosoming its shores, appearing just such a lake lei Orupwarrds of 100 years of age, was introduced to
us. Tie was attired in a scarlet coat, and a hat with a
- might have expected to stumble upon in the
Beauty. gold band round it. This magnificent apparel, mod-
elled apparently after the attire of one of her Majesty's
',ldea of 4.,,,,fincm_ i-e owes to the munificence of the government.

lie pagan

A visit was also paid to the wigwams of t
Indians encamped opposite the fort. The men were
found generally engaged in their wigwams in mend-

ing ne

s were preparing to start
for the night's fishink. Numerous children were
running about in a state of nudity, and fighting with
the snarling. curs, among the filthy offal scattered around.
Some older boys were seated OR the grass playing at a game
much resembling thimble-rigging—old mocassins doing
duty as thimbles, and a small stone acting as the pea.
Small pins of wood appear to be used as counters.
Young girls were lying listlessly in the doors of the
wigwams, and a bevy of anything but beauties were dis-
puting for the possession of a small mirror.
On the Ist inst., we sailed at daybreak for Isle Royale,
where we arrived at 8 a.m. The approach to this island
the east side is peculiar in the extreme. Two, and
a short distance three, rows of islets extend along

par, t of !:

le shore, forming long straight channels of the
-same width from one end to the other. For twelve miles
we steamed down one of tese streets of islands, if we
may so speak, in deep water, notwithstanding the
proximity of the land, and anchored near the light-

'Woodruff, Crellin, Rae, and Jeffery.
The returns showed that during the week 63,367,33$

gallons of water had been supplied from the Rivingtol
works, and that 27,541,725 gallons had been pumped
from the wells; making a total of 90,909,063 gallons.
Mr. DUNCAN, the water engineer, reported as fol..
lows : _

These are all in good working condition:---
The masonry foundations for troughing
k, over the goit, is now sufficiently ad-
portions of the
wofetrlkie
itsroaudgi,h,anbeeiinngg fixased:paeneddiltyheasothtleire
e
nature of the work will permit. At Brimscall-row, th
guage basin may now be considered finished and in action,
it now becomes necessary to fix a meter to determine the
yield of the springs separately taken; this I propose. t°
have set up and fixed as soon as I receive the relative
levels of the source and outlet. At Roddlesworth the
guage basin wcrks make fair progress, the greater portion
of the extra-sized stones have been brought on th.e
ground, and will shortly be in their places. There 15
nothing else on the works out of the ordinary course t°
call for observation. The rainfall for the week ending.
the 10th instant, was 1.03 inch, and the depth of water
in the several reservoirs under their respective over-
flows on the morning of the same day were as under
Roddlesworth, 1 ft. 4 in. rise ; Rake, 2 ft. 2 in. Ilse'
Anglezark, 21 in. ; Rivington, 31 in. -fall ; Pre:scoz
3 ft. 54 in. fall. Pipe-line :On the sth instant, 11,101
on the line of pipes was blown out, in a potato fieldl
near Plat-bridge; the repairs were completed, and th
water turned on Wednesday. All is now in good °°l3

Filters

White-coppiCe

Black-hrc

dition.
A conversation arose relative to the waste of water bi
shop-keepers, in washing their shop-fronts.
Air. STITT thought the people ought to pay for tl3'
water so used.
Mr. JEFFERY asked if it was for sanitary purpoEes

was used.
Mr. CRELLIN said he did not think that the washing
of the paint in shop fronts was for sanitary purposes.
Mr. JEFFERY thought that cleaning away dirt froai
any place was a sanitary operation.
Mr. CRELLIN was of a different opinim with respect
to that application of the water.
Mr. JEFFERY said he wished to ask the engi,leer?
through the chairman, when he proposed to test that
Rivington supply. They had the question as to test
the works were capable of supplyinm two or three tin.%
before them, but the engineer did nott think that was tbo.
proper time. The question was before them in sPrilTr
but that was not thought the proper time, as the suiiiilll
was coming. They were now entering on the autunfte
and he did not know whether that would be thought t°o
proper time. He thought it was of great importat!ct,
that the community should know what was the capacl
of their works. 'ea
Mr. DUNCAN said it was a subject that had occllPl
his
Mattention contiiraally.
r. JEFFERY thought the statistics showed that the
rain fall was sufficient to warrant their applying' the
test in October, without incurring any risk in that
supply to Liverpool. If that were so, he took it t
it was time they should know the capacity of the 114
ington Works.
The CHAIRMAN observed that they had the
given each week in figures. gnre°
Mr. JEFFERY said he did not consider the ted to
worth the paper they were written on. He wis
know when the capacity of the works could be testedoi
if they could be tested by that day week, or that
fortnight ?
Mr. DUNCAN said he would do it as soon as be
This was all the business;

THE CASE OF DR. SMETHITRST.—It would See Di 5i
the authorities at the Home-office are in great One cr,
as to the course that should be taken with this print
under the peculiar circumstances of the case, and 11°,;keli
slihtest' intimation has been given as to what 15 "„, to'
tote his ultimate fate. A good many persons aPP.ie"-.lf
think that, as the fact of his being reprieved neces`.ht
implies a serious doubt of his guilt, the prisoner lice
to receive a free pardon, but it is a very common pr3coo-
- cases where there is a doubt that the act Was coo-
in to
mitted by the prisoner, for the capital sentene
be commuted to one of penal servitude or tr 4 of
portation for life, and among many inat3nce- for
this there may be cited the- eases of Gettig,
the murder, of his wife in the Minories,
for the murder of his wife at Dublin by droW,ej at
and that of the woman Rutter, who was convielbod
the late summer assizes of the murder of her 1111345b-
by cutting his throat. In all, these cases the rr
ment of death was commuted to penal servitudeiote pr.
and if a similar course were taken with regaraith the
Smethurst it would be quite in accordance S_.'"A jag to
precedent that has been established. Aec°l;isoner
the gaol regulations, in the case of 'every Pof the
who is under sentence of death, the governor culpritprison is bound to have persons in charge of tbeeentioo•
night and day during the interval before the es
_teat
This was done with Dr. Smethurst until the,c'e
of the reprieve, but since then this surveill3,rdiaarY
been taken off, and the prisoner is treated as with
convict. He has no opportunity of assoeist,l.l4', be is
confined, has recently undergone extensive
other criminals, as Horsemonger-lane Gaol, wuttioas
alteTneineet,
order to carry out the separate system of eellurobii•
and he is in all respects treated as an ordinary
ebrotber'
Before he was reprieved he was visited by hr_owse-6
under a special order of themagistrates, but he.llLie
him, as any other prisoner would be visited, at,' ncrsoll
fixed by the visiting justices, and he is the onlY leePt
who has seen the prisoner since his coavictione, only
his attorney, Mr. Humplareys, wh°'.,
it
aPPetill coati'
saw him upon one occasion. The prisoner s . entire
hs
nues to assert, in the most earnest manncr, i
cosi.ll
_
igr
and absolute innocence of all participation re be very
the death of Miss Bankes, and there appe
with the
little doubt that he is strongly impressed
sse, severa.e,
that he will receive a pardon. He has address
eof the,,,
letters to the Home ot Pr°`c
communications it is said hestates t and
de. ,_
his innocence unless he is set at liberty, doively
-e co bas
that if he has this opportunity he will proeN,.
__bid, be
that he is entirely innocent of the crime 'NJ'
been convicted. alihdat inhe °Claw, !area