Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-10 00:00:00

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Dr. Birt Davies. 'The List witness calico wee
Catherine Wilder, who deposed . I am the wife of Joseph
Wilder, who is a licensed victualler. About twenty
minutes before eleven on the night of Friday last, I was at
the bar. It is opposite the smoke-room. I saw the
deceased and Mr. Bugg come to the bar. Mr B
for a glass of gin cold, and a glass of ale. Thr
the bar door. I asked them to go into the

but theYwould not sit down. together
very friendly, but I did not hear what their conversation
was. I saw Amelia Jeavons go upstairs to fetch the gun,

They wet

stood by

talking

which was a usual thing. 1 saw her come
in about a minute, with the gun in her hand. She laid the
gun against the smoke-room door, and then turned towards
the door. I then went into the china closet, which leads
out of the bar ; and just as I was coming out again, I heard
--arcely a second. I

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was about the middle of the bar when I heard the r
the gun. . I did not see the flash. I ran to the h
when I saw poor Mr. Buggs standing before m(
exclaimed, " Good God, who has fired the gun;
the gun fall from his hands. to the
then turned the corner of the bar, and
on the floor. • Ile was lying on his right side, and blood
was flowing, but I could not tell where from. It seemed
toward. m. hpwl. It at first flowed in small quantity. Mr

hat par

round. I
young Payne

asserted corn

grounds of oomplai

half a centar

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Bugg said, " Where is there a surgeon ?" arid I called on,
of our men to go with him. They were gone about five
minutes, and brought back Mr. Hadley's assistant. Deceased
was then dead ; and I do not know how soon he died after
the report of the gun. The bar door is half glass, and there
is a window on each side of it You can see all that part of
the passage near the smoke-room door from the bar; per-
haps two or three feet on each side. There was no one in
the bar besides myself. There is a door at each end of the
passage. The street door was open, and the door leading
into the garden was closed. Two of our men and one waiter
were in the smoke-room, but there was no general com-
pany in the house. Immediately after the occurrence,
Mr. Bugg seemed sadly put about, and they could scarcely
keep life in him after the surgeons came. Ho fainted
away twice. they took him into the kitchen. I made no
observations. Police-constable Wilcox deposed': On Friday
night, about twelve o'clock, I was on duty in Great
Francis-street, and in consequence of something I heard,
I went to New Vauxhall. I found the dee
smoke-room on a table. He was quite de-

last elections,

the numbers of tho liberal

Ihesion, and, ir.

cessions had beet
nroeeeded to ana

the foreign policy (

ed divisirn

possessed w

ael Dickson de

was any comp

re to be made, if

down in oppo,

the governs

sympathies, denying tha

than i

policy pursued towar

with that of Lor

ore objectionabl

as Franc

of the nol

piracy Bill, and to hi

ased in the

to observe

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wound in his neck. I saw Mr. Bt
appeared to be in a very excited' state, and was walking np
and down the kitchen. I told him it wa

in the kitel

!esent Su.

a very linter-

tunate occurrence, and asked him how it. oc
said, "I was standing at the top of the entry, a

•i;(1. He

some beer for my wife's su2pe

.e (meaning deeeasec

came to me, andsaid, " Will you take
said, 'l' don't mind if I do.' " Mr. Btu
conveyed to me that he and the deceased
along the road to Vauxhall. The deceased ask(
he would lake a glass of ale. He (Bugg) said he did not
care about it Deceased said, "Have something else."
They then went to the bar, and. some gin and ale were
called for. While they were standing there the barmaid
brought the gnu down stairs, or from an adjoining room
She placed it standing 'against the wall. He added, " I
took It in my hand, holding it so," at the same time xhi-
biting his own walking-stick, which he held i early
horizontally, with the muzzle a little higher than the
butt. His right hand clasped the stick a little way fr-m
the handle, and was close to his hip. I cannot speak quite
accurately as to the position he showed me. Mr. Bugg next
said that when he took up the gun he exclaimed, " Dear,
how heavy it is," when the gun went off, and immediately
after he saw Mr. Payne on the ground. Mrs Cope, with whom
Bugg lodged, gave evidence to the fact that he, Bugg, and
his wife lived on most. amicable terms, and that there never
was any jealousy between'thern on account of .Payne. The
evidence of the surgeons was then taken as to the nature of
the wounds received by the unfortunate man, and there
being no further witnesses on behalf of the Crown, the
Coroner summed up at great length, explaining to the jury
the law of the case, and remarking that it had been suggested
that some feeling of jealousy had been excited in some way,
and imputations were made which were calculated to invest
the.case with a doubtful character. They had, however, at
considerable length, gone into that. point, •and had found
that there was no foundation whatever for a supposition of
this kind, so far as was known to those proximate and
nearest to the parties ooncerned. After a deliberation of
upwards of half an hour, the jury returned a verdict of
" Homicide by misadventure by George Bugg." The nature
of the verdict appeared to give much satisfactiuu."

a walk, sir ?'

further

Silk gowns are to be conferred on Mr. MPAQPalraer and
Mr, W, D, Lewis of.the Chancery hare,

from a change of Ministers
TMPERIAL PARLIAMENT..
1[
were accompanied, like Er

HOUSE OF LORDS.-YESTPRDAT

The Low of property and Triustees Relief Amenclinent

ther it

aovernment-to grant a charter to the Roman Cal

Derby said that themwas no present intention
th charter.

ended to in

e a bi

city of Edinburgh, parish of Canongate

)tice of a bill to amend the laws rela-

THE WANT OP CONFIDENCE IN THE MINISTRY

The adjourned debate on the address was.then resumeapy
lir. Deasy, who ironically congratulate& the Chancellor
liscioline into which he had

his party, and blamed the system of silence which
tv had thought proper to adopt. Adverting to the
he declared that there was no hope

and distrust under
ale country. The

the professional howlers

Roman Catholics had not been

e May elections. There were many
which the Roman Catholics had
• and its leaders, but these grounds

were not sufficient to warrant severance of a connection of
Many of the conservative party had passed

to all improvements

that they were in power, they had signally failed in all the

duced, excepting those which

we wer

xty, they had increased its
its strength Mutual con-

Recurring to

:ed that it

af the means of forming a strong

a obtained a

the camp of

'h n m th

our position either at hotne or abroad? The success of the
amendment would bring in a government stronger than the
preient, and more likely to be durable. If it failed, the
result would be only to enable the present administration to
clrac, on a painful and short-lived existence. For these

tion that

warmly

between t

Roman Catholics of Ireland, but they had been disgusted
with. the treatment they received at the hands of the other
party, and were willing to give Lord Darby a fair trial.
Mr. Duff Gordon impeached the foreign policy of the
eovernment, which had caused much mischief by its prema-
_ _

ure declaration of neutrality, and contended that a In
,ressure should have been put upon Austria to induce i

country to abandon its usurpation in Ital

Mr. S. Fitzgerald demanded by whom the concessions
•

armed by the opposition parties, upon the basis of mutual
Aneessions. Was the member for Birmingham to be

d to carry out in power the principles he had laid

.t from the cha

'ranee, or that the balance o

d ever been used tc

alitv had for a moment

a affairs, he vindicated

Austria

tially held

in every respect.

He contrasted th

I was, he contended

Assertinz,

rovernment was free from all bias towards Austria, he
, •

asked whether Lord Palmerston was free from

I to tl

intimate r(

nesent ruler of France,

neutrality wt

1 it was so

le quoted, amid t

eers of the

M. Gibson, one of the

of the noble lord,

what would be th

on his foreign po-

Lnces o

He demanded

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for the present Government that they should be allowed to
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