Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-08 00:00:00

long required it, and which the voice of humanity

has often called out against-

-we mean the cruelty to
merchant seamen, cases of which are so frequently

brought under the notice of our local Police-court.

The punishment following such offences committed
on the high seas, should be swift, certain, just, and

Durse of the

attracted the attention of the inhabitants of Liverpool,

which was the great entrepot of that traffic"—that is,
between the United States of America and England.
The law has reached the cruelties committed on board

our own vessels ; and the severe, yet just, examples
which have followed these acts of ferocity and savage
barbarism have not been without their effect,—not-

withstanding the "undue sympathy which was

manifested upon the execution of the criminal,

HENRY ROGERS, who, with his two 'mates,

atrocious and diabolical cruelties towards an unhappy

,racted,

lingering, and painful death. The retribution of
the law has checked on board of English ships the
commission of such cruelties, from the expectation of

escape and impunity. Suppose a " skipper " leaving
any distant port of our own Antipodes, inflamed with

liquor and bordering on " ddiriutri tremens;

," takes a

dislike to, or to use a nautical idiom, has

a down "

upon some unfortunate seaman, perhaps because he
is not so smart as he desires, or because he is " metho-

section of

condign punishment which awaits him if lie in-
dulges the atrocities which his maddened brain and

passions incite him to,—well aware that, although
thousands of miles from home, on his
_return certain

retribution awaits him. The vigilance, the justice,
and the firmness of our magistracy in impartially
administering the law, if it has not altogether put a
stop to cruelties committed on the high seas, 'yet hai
greatly aided in preserving our seamen from the

xposure to those inhuman acts to which they were

subject previous to the exercise of the strong arm of EVANB'B, UPPER DAWSON-STREET.—We understand'that
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INQUESTS.—On Saturday F. P. Curry, Es 1.,
his part ; and we wish the subject was not one so much
Coroner, held an inquest on last,the boy of a boy named
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stated with difficulties. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL Mason, who was killed by a spring cart pas;irydioevtete-eheiis
stated that it had long and earnestly engaged the body,
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attention of the present Government ; and since there 35 years, a labourer, residing
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is in each country a desire- to adopt some measure was injured
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