The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-07 00:00:00

notorious by firing six pistol shots at CHRYSTIE,
one of which struck him, wounding him in the
thigh. These facts being corroborated, the jury
took a lenient view of the offence, and found
CAMPBELL guilty of an attempt to do grievous
bodily harm ; whereupon the learned Judge,
Baron WATSON, sentenced him Jo be transported
for life.

Such are the facts of this truly fearful case.
They are only a short and single chapter in the
history of maritime offences. It is now notori-
ous the most daring and diabolical acts of bru-
tality, inhumanity, and cold-blooded tyranny are
committed at sea ; and it is no less incontrover-
tible that the greatest and most desperate deeds
of butchery are committed on board of American
ships. If any proof of this were wanted, we
have only to refer to the records of the Liverpool
Society for Assisting Foreigners in Distress.
The pages of those records will unfold tales of
brutality which would make all humane and
well-disposed persons shudder. But it is not in
Liverpool alone where such savage atrocities
come to light. Not long since a case of the kind
was tried at Devon, and the perpetrators met a
condign punishment for their treatment of the
unfortunate being who was their victim, a youth
only being the chief evidence against the
miscreants.

As regards the frequency of such crimes on
board American ships, a variety of causes com-
bine to produce these sad and fatal consequences.
Two faults seem to pervade their marine service,
namely, the fact that most captains are part
owners. This enables them to assume a more
haughty and defiant air, become more indepen-
dent of the complaints of their seamen, and
therefore better able to use every violence and
tyranny to compel the realisation of all their
wishes. The officers immediately under the
captain take their cue from him. If he, in a
moment of ungovernable fury, seizes a pistol,
they grasp a sword, or a blunderbuss, and thus
sally forth upon an unarmed crew, giving vent
to all the worst passions of their nature, and
inflicting serious, if not fatal, wounds, up3n the
objects of their displeasure. Again, the seamen,
too, are not entirely faultless. Unlike the British
mercantile service, they do not go through a
regular course of training and maritime educa-
tion, to prepare themselves for the duties, the
difficulties, or the dangers which always apper-
tain to the calling of even an able seaman. In
such cases it too often happens that men quite
unfit to work a ship obtain a berth on board.
Their incompetency irritates a "go a-head"
captain, words ensue, and, both belonging to the
" free and independent" Republic, results such
as took place on board the James L. Bogart
follow, In that particular case, however, the
cause of dispute was quite different, CERYSTIE
demurred to enter a service he never engaged in.
He was to go into a British ship, the property of
a British merchant, and was bound for another
part of the world, the voyage being longer, and
the terms of the engagement much more remu-
To compel him, therefore, to forego
that engagement, independent of the felonious
assault, was an offence totally intolerable in any

nerative.

civilised community.
On a review of the whole of this case, as well
as many others of a similar character, we must
protest against the laxity of American maritime
jurisprudence. Cases like that of the James L.
Bogart, are easily glossed over in the United
States, and in nine cases out of ten the delin-
quent, be he who he may, escapes that punish-
ment which is awarded in countries whose
people are more keenly alive to the feelings of
humanity, and who utterly abhor all deeds of
bloodshed and violence. Furthermore, it is un-
deniable that the American people are less care-
ful in raising up a proper mercantile marine.
Their sailors are brave and hardy, it is true, but
recruited from the fishing smacks or the whaling
vessels of the Union, it is not likely hey will
possess all those qualities, moral and intellectual,
which should be the boast and pride of the
mercantile navy of every country and every
clime. The records of the Liverpool police
court alone would furnish an appalling number
of cases of stabbing by American seamen. Such
offences are a disgrace to any country, and be
they who they may who commit them, they
should be held up to public indignation, and
their presence for ever after hid from society at

large.
Baron WATSON, in sentencing CA MPBELL,
dwelt upon the amount of the convict's guilt,
remarking that for some hours his life was quite
uncertain. May the judicious observations of
the learned judge have a good effect, and warn
the headstrong mariner to curb his passions, 'to
avoid aliacts appertaining to violence, and the
shedding of blood. May it also induce the
governments of all countries to devise such
well digested and benevolent laws for the
training and bringing up of seamen, as will for
ever after banish from the face of creation the
nefarious practices which have instigated these
remarks. We care not to what country the
captain or the sailor belongs, who will indulge
in tyranny and fiendish ferocity, like that which
took place on board the James L. Bogart, he should
meet due punishment, Bloodshed and brutality
are the characteristics of a barbarous and un-
civilized people; hence it is that we wonder that
so much of both should attach itself to such a
far-seeing and enlightened people as the
Americans.

It is known that the late Prince Talleyrand left
memoirs of his eventful life, and it has hitherto been
supposed that he had left orders that they should not be
published until fifty years after his death ; but is is reported
in Paris that they will appear very shortly.
PASSENGERS, PER R.M.S. AMERICA, FROM BOSTON TO
HALIFAX AND LIVEEPOOL,—Messrs G Guth, A G Findlay
and lady, Mrs M Francis, Mr C F French, lady, and child,
Messrs PI Abbott, Rittu, W S Hassell, J G Doubleday,
E Herforth, R Hager, C W Bradley, R A Joy, Jose Galan,
Bernardo Rodrigues, R Gonzales, S Gamic, Charlea
Folsom, G Schwestering, L R Krambhaer, V Le Ceene, J
M Perry, Captain J Anderson, Mr H Cooper, jun, Captain
J P Holm, Messrs A H Evans, W J G Eschinann, E A
Mansfield, Captain W B Eceleston, Messrs John Park, L
Hermann, Captain Arftt and child, Messrs W F Strange,
John B Talcott, Dr A Huckle, Messrs A Bandacuf, Wm
Lunderker, E W Humphreys, S Rothschild, D Farquharson,
Mrs Elton, Mr Bloom.

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS•

The Journal de Constantinople, of the 6th, states
that the prospects of the harvest are most encou•
raging. Nevertheless. the dearth continues, and
the high price of articles of food has becoind
insupportableijn the Asiatic provinces, and espe•
cially in Syria.

TRIAL .FOR MURDER.

SENTENCE OF DEATH.

At the Taunton assizes, on Friday, the approaches to the
court, which was presided over by Lord Chief Justice Ccckbuin,
were crowded at au early hour, the utmost interest being
manifested to hear the trial of Thomas Nation, who was placed
at the bar on the charge of wilfully murdering John Aplin, at
Wiveliscombe, on the 23d December. The prisoner is rather
a good looking young fellow. He is the son of a small farmer,
and at the time of the murder he was living as a farm servant
iu the service of a Mr. Parker. The deceased was farm
servant to a Mr. Corner, and both had business in Wivelis-
combo on the day of the murder. Before going into
the town the prisoner's master enquired if b°
wanted some money, and being answered in the
affirmative, he gave him half a sovereign. He bad
also in his possession when in the town a carpet
bag. The prisoner and the deceased were seen going
into the town in the cart of the latter. They were shown t°
have been drinking together during the day, and about nine
o'clock at night they started home together, the prisoner
evincing great eagerness to drive, as the deceased was the
worse for liquor. Prior to starting, the deceased product'
five sovereigns, and counted them, under a lamp-post, int°
little bag. Two men, named George and Thomas Ali
had been drinking with the deceased. Thomas led the
horse some little way and then turned off. . George 111.
gone on in company with a female, and it was suggeel:
that to avoid meeting thew parties was the reason whir
induced the prisoner to return through the Langley tall:
pike gate towards Wiveliscombe. A few minutes st:te.
the return they again passed through the gate, and a cart Net 134
two men in it was seen going up a narrow cutting call%
Giant's lane. About half past nine a man and his wife iver;
passing down that lane when they heard a vehicle cousin!,
towards them at a furious pace, and on drawing aside, a hors
and cart apparently without a driver, swung rapidly past theta'
They listened, and shortly heard it stop. A man named Hart
who lived a little further up the lane, was going to bed, wit:
he heard the sudden stoppage of the cart ; thinking that tw;
cart had been ,turned over be enquired if an avid°.
had occurred. Receiving no answer, be went doll
and struck a light, but meanwhile a neighbour, 30—
Allen, had also been aroused, and had gone towards the
cart. In it was found the body of the deceased, nil!
warm, his throat gurgling and cut from ear to ear; there vr"-
blood upon his breast pocket, as though a bloody hand had be°
thrust into it; blood upon the outside of the breeches pocket;
a pocket knife without any blood upon it, and his moped
was gone. His head rested on the prisoner's carpet bag, an
the key of that bag was found in the prisoner's pocket. Ate
short distance from the place where the cart stopped a pool
blood was found in the road, showing where the murder'
must have been committed. Between this place and the
residence of the prisoner footsteps were found in lbe
red sandstone, and the boots of the prisoner exactlf
corresponded with them. Inquiries were directly luel
for the murdered man's companions . Thomas ec.„
George Aplin were found at a public house ; they we'
carefully searched ; no money was found on them,
any blood. The constables then went to the house of
the prisoners's father and found him not at home. Within
half an hour of the murder the prisoner was seen going
towards his own home in the direction from Giant's iaset
but it was nut until seven in the morning that he Wag,
seen passing into his house. He was at once arrested
and charged with the murder, and he simply
answered„ " Yon don't say so." Upon his persriel
was found a sovereign and tenpence. He was ask
if he had any more money about him, and he said he ha
Ai
not. In his pocket was found a knife with a bloody`
and haft. There was blood about his breeches pocket?
and blood upon his hat. He endeavoured to account for
the blood on the knife by saying that he had stuck I‘l.
bullock, but the blood had been analysed by Mr. Herapett
of Bristol, and found to be human blood. (This statement
caused great sensation,) After being further searclV;
three more sovereigns were found in his fob, 1;
establish the opening of the learned counsel, a variq
of circumstantial evidence was adduced, the hearing of %V
occupied the whole of Friday and Saturday. Mr. eel"' ged.
the part of the prosecution. The possession
then made an eloquent address to the jury, in whichdbeceingon
niously endeavoured to explain away the evidence ad u
a the money
found eta the prisoner was accounted for ; the father statingn.._
ho had given the prisoner three or four sovereigns 0 inw
hal
morning in question ; while the shoemaker who
hurl;
made the prisoner's boots, said ho had ma-de be
dreds of similar pairs, so that no case ould d
made out against the prisoner on that ground:
as strong evldance against the prisoner,
then the blood on the knife which had also been addue_e:
by the prisoner having cat off a slice from a large Piece $t
raw beef, as he was in the constant habit of eating ule
uncooked.
and
The father and the shoemaker were both called
6,
deposed to the facts named by the learned counsel ; with Ter,
spect to the identity of the shoe marks, there was howel.ci
no doubt, as the nails had been put into the solo diasni
fashion and one or two were missing. The inipre6si:jf,
made were clear and distinct, and corresponded exar'ire
When asked why the meat had been eaten raw the anew to
were somewhat contradictory, such as "Ho did not like of
trouble the people at the inn"--° He was in the liabtir.,-b
doing so," &c. Mr. Slade then briefly replied, after "jri,",
his lordship summed up, and the jury, after a short deltbeito
tion, returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner
sentenced to death. was accounted for

ITO
The Neufchatel Conferences are adjourned sine die''sst
Kern found it impossible to admit the pretensions (01
forward on the part of the King of Prussia in the tlle~
sitting, and has referred to his government for Is'
instructions.
AN INTERESTING CALCULATION.—AIthough "g, -etankl
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Stocks" are often announced to be sold off 11
Drapery Establishments, it may not be generally .stid
in what manner the drapers themselves buy them ;
the circumstances attending the recent purchase of °Or
considerable importance by a Liverpool firm are solver,
unusual, the particulars may be interesting. Whe,ol,l
case of a failure, or any other cause, a drapery stool,
to be disposed of by trustees or assignees, it is the C
to place the goods in charge of an accountant, wh°
an account of them at the invoice prices.,4l/
culars to correspond are then issued to the leading nitils
firms all over the country, and tenders invited, and
sildi9
appointed at which the sealed tenders are opened,
purchasers declared. When the stock to be sold 1 ots
usually large, it is divided into lots and classified, rod'
bring it within the means of a greater number of
001
and by so doing obtain a better price. Of counlieesctu
firm knows anything of the offer of another, and Oro
anxious to become the purchasers at the smallest Pc le
cost to secure the stock. In the particular instance Did
has prompted these remarks, the stock sold is that of 000„
White and Bathurst, 192, Regent street, Loneon---9ogir
ing at cost price to £8.844 1.3?. 9d., an unusually OP"
stock list is divided into three lots :
SO')
Lot 1. Consisting entirely of silk manufactures, 54.
ting to ,
Lot 2. „ of dresses, shawls, 34'
mantles, and general diapery..... £1,560 15s.
Lot 3. „ haberdashery, small-, 44'
wares, ribbons, &c.
£8,844 13s. io
The following is a list of the tenders from drapers :""14.5p
Stv.
Lot 1. Lot 2. Lot,
Per Cerir. OP"S1
Messrs. Frisby. Dyke. & Co., Liverpool 344 384 451 51
„ Jeffery, Nl9rrish, & Co.. Liverpool 364 424 4," i
~ Allan & Co., St. Pau.'s. London 354
„ Schoolbred & Co„ London 40 41 5'
„ Harvey & Co., London - dip
M „ eeking & Co., London 35 4?i 46
,„01
At first sight it might be difficult to those unaccuswof
such matters to decide who are the purchasers for
closely contested for stock, for any one tendering foI
separate lots and for the whole, must offer more iisellr,s,
whole than separately, otherwise it is obviouslY,
Upon examination it will be found that the offers ot,,
Frisby, Dyke, and Co., of Liverpool, for lots 1 allumies
that of Messrs. Shoolbred and Co. for lot 3, will
to the most money, and they are consequently accepted' t,s
best offer for the whole is 37-4 off, and submitted
firms—Frisby, Dyke, and Co., of Liverpool, and Pjefferrs
and Co., of London ; the next is that of Messrs.cid,foro‘
Morrish, and Co., Liverpool, 37-1 or within .£ll c 39-
stock worth £8,844; and the remaining (tiers otec, SS*
and 391 off respectively. Frisby, Dyke, and C,40040.
congratulate themselves on making sure of lots Zia cod
comprising tile silks, dresses, shawla, mantles, 80S'ot 3,0,,
sequence of Messrs. Shoolbred and Co.'s offer for:oa Cto
in the absence of this offer, Frisby, Dykes for
and Harvey and Co., would have equal claivi
whole stock, and one must have been di99Prs lett
It will be noticed that out of the six general dra'hele.pi
tender for this valuable stock, five tender for the wreferrj,p,
and out of the five, two are Liverpool firms. in if
to our advertising columns, it will be seen that stet toed
intention(
eoonfsMts
(consisting
Fe rei
islbkys,
tDyke,o the and Co.,
of t;4°.3:7f40,i 01
portion
mantles, shawlsdresses,eye
&c., amounting to £l,d6°l
this and following