Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-22 00:00:00

TESTIMONIAL TO CAPTAIN LEITCH.

At a meeting of the cabin passengers of the screw
steamer City of Baltimore, from New York to Liverpool,
July 9th, 1857, held on board on Monday, the 20th instant,
Captain Thomas T. Ferris in the chair, Dr. Robert
Fletc

;her in the vice chair, the following resolutions were
adopted :—Proposed by the Hon. E. T. Dickey, Pennsyl-
vania, seconded by James Tarance, Esq., Montreal, and
carried unanimously : That we cannot separate without
expressing our high sense of the ability and efficiency of
the Captain, officers, and crew of this noble ship, in
which we have made so speedy and agreeable a passage
across the Atlantic ; and that we have uniformly ex-
perienced on the part of Captain Leitch and
his officers not only courteous and gentlemanly treatment
but a constant desire to deprive the voyage of all tedium,
and make it in every way agreeable to the passengers.—
Proposed by J. Hollins Rowley, Esq., Maryland, seconded
by Alexander M. Sullivan, Esq., Dublin, and carried
unanimously : That. a hearty vote of thanks be, and is
hereby passed to Captain Leitch and his officers ; and
that Captain Ferris, Dr. Fletcher, Robert Harlan, E-q.,
and John Tribble, Esq., be, and are hereby appointed a
deputation to wait upon Captain Leitch and convey to
him those resolutions.—Proposed by F. X. Leray, Mis-
sissippi, seconded by M. Henreich Funcke, Ham-
burgh, and carried unanimously : That the prompt and
assiduous attention on the part of all the employees is the
cabin department convinces us that the Liverpool and
Philadelphia Steam-ship Company have left nothing incom-
plete in their organisation for the comfort and convenience
of the passengers by their packets. Proposed by G. Lyons,
Esq., seconded by E. Allen, E.q , New Orleans, and carried
unanimously : That these resolutions be inserted in the
Liverpool papers. Signed on behalf of the meeting, Thos.
T. Ferris, chairman ; Robert Fletcher, vice-chairman ;
John Tribble, secretary.

ADMISSION OF THE JEWS INTO PARLIAMENT.

DEPUTATION TO LORD PALMERSTON.

Yesterday afternoon a very numerous deputation, com-
posed of members of the House of Commons favourable to
the admission of Jews into parliament, waited upon Lord
Palmerston at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, for the pur-
pose of formally making known to his lordship the result
of the meeting held at the King's Arms on Thursday
last. The deputation, which was headed by Mr.
Horsman, the chairman of that meeting, numbered be-
tween fifty and sixty members. It will be remembered
that the meeting decided in favour of supporting Lord
John Russell's motion for leave to bring in a bill to
amend the Ist and 2nd Vic , c. 108, so as to enable the
oath of abjuration to be administered to members who
wished it without the words " On the true faith of a Chris-
tian." The meeting also unanimously adopted a resolution
declaring —" That the fact that in the late division in the
House of Lords, all the members of the Cabinet did not
support the Oaths Bill, is calculated to cause deep pain
and disappointment to the liberal party." Reporters
were in attendance at Lord Palmerston's from all the
daily papers ; butt " by his lordship's express directions,
the gentlemen of the press were excluded from the inter
view." At the close of the interview, the members repaired
to Palace-yard, and there deliberated upon the results of
the visit to the premier.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF TWO

PERSONS.

GUILDHALL, CITY OF LONDON.-YESTERDAY.

George Cox, a man about forty-five years of age, de-
scribed as a commission agent, of No. 1, Harvey-street,
Hoxton, was placed at the bar before Alderman Carter,
charged with attempting to murder Caroline Cox, his wife,
and a man named E3mund Forty, by stabbing them with
a dagger, in a fit of jealousy. He was also charged with
breaking a pane of plate glass, value £7 10s., in the shop
of Alr.. Sillaerberg, of St. Martin's la-Grand. Edwin
Evans said :—I live at Homerton. lam a traveller. The
prisoner is a stranger to me. Athalf-past three o'clock
yesterday afternoon, I was driving down by the Post-office
in St. Martin's-le-Grand when I heard a cry of " Murder !"
Two men ran across the middle of the road to my
horse's head, and tumbled down, and the prisoner,
who was one of them, stabbed the other in the
shoulder with a knife. The prisoner then ran after a
a woman, and knocked her dowa by running against her
with great violence and, as she lay on the ground, he
stabbed her with the same weapon. I saw his arm go
up and down, but there was a crowd round them, so that
I could not see if he stabbed her more than once. The
prisoner was prevented from doing any further violence by
the crowd ; and a policemen coming up soon after, he was
taken into custody. Prisoner : Where was the woman
when I struck her? Witness : On the ground, against a
tobacconist's window, when you stabbed her. Alderman
Carter : Where did you first see her ? Witness : She
was running across the road with the man who was stabbed.
They were running away from the prisoner. Thomas
Bainbridge: About half-past three yesterday afternoon,
I stepped out of our side door into St. Martin's-le-
Grand, when I saw two men struggling, and immediately
after I saw one of them run away and call " Murder."
He ran towards me, and then I saw that he was
stabbed on the left shoulder. I saw the same man that
stabbed the other run after the woman. She ran away
from him into the middle of the street. The prisoner
caught a slight hold of her, but she got away and ran to
the cigar shop, when the prisoner made two or three stabs
at her with a white-handle dagger. He was immediately
surrounded and the dagger produced was taken from him,
and the policeman took him into custody. The prisoner
seemed in a very frenzied state of mind, and hardly
appeared to know what he was doing. Edward Evans
recalled : I saw a dagger in the prisoner's haul similar to
that produced- John Smith said : I am an extra porter at
the Queen's hotel, in St. Martin's-le-Grand, and I was
standing at the corner of Angel-street yesterday afternoon
about half. past three, when I saw a man run from the cor-
ner into the middle of the road, and he began hallooing
out. Immediately after the prisoner followed him. I
though they were going to fight, and when I saw the pri-
soner raise his arm, I saw he had a knife or something of
that sort in his hand. The man struggled a little, and
directly after the prisoner ran after a woman who was
in sight. She stopped at the corner of a court higher
up, and, as she stopped, the prisoner made a blow
at her with the dagger produced. She got away from
him, and got as far as Bilberberg's, the tobacconist, by
which time I followed him with several others, when I
saw him strike the woman again with the same
dagger. She was bleeding at the mouth, and called
out, "He has killed me ! he has killed me !"
The
man who was stabbed in the arm was among The
crowd, when the prisoner aimed a blow at him with the
dagger, and struck him on the arm. He raised his arm again
to strike, when some one in the crowd caught his arm, and
took the dagqer from him. I went to the station with the
prisoner. Prisoner: Whom did you see me strike first?
Witness : You went to strike the man first in the middle
of the road. Prisoner: Did you not say just now that I
struck him first? Witness : You went into the road to
try and strike him. Prisoner : Did you not say I struck,
him with the dagger ? 'Witness : No ; I said you had
your hand up with the dagger in it when the man parried
the blow. John Andrews, 107, said, about half-past three
o'clock, I gas coming through the entrance-hall of the
General Post Office, when 1 heard a cry of " Police !"
I ran into Sr. Martin's-le-grand, where I saw several
persons trying to secure the prisoner. I laid hold of
his right arm and the collar of his coat, and a
gentleman was holding up his left arm with the dagger
still in his hand. The gentleman wrenched the dagger
from his hand, and I took the prisoner to the station. The
wounded persons were taken to the hospital. I searched
the prisoner and found on him a knife and other articles.
I received the dagger from the gentleman who took it
from the prisoner, and I found the sheath upon him.
Prisoner : Did you observe if the gentleman had any
trouble in getting the dagger from me ? Witness : Not a
very great deal of trouble. Alderman Carter : Have you
seen the wounded parties this morning? Witness : Not
this morning, sir ; but I have obtained a medical certificate
of the surgeon. Alderman Carter :It appears these parties
will not be in a condition to leave the hospital for several
days, and I shall therefore remand the prisoner until
Saturday. The prisoner, who appeared to be suffering
severely, was then removed,