Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-25 00:00:00

TO ' kID !TOR OF Yf H. IcORTIIIRN TIMES.

beg to thank you for the promptness with which
you gave insertion to my last letter on this subject, and
also for the willingness you have at all times manifested
in opening fearlessly your columns for the advocacy of
right against might—the weak agaiest the strong. I per
ceive in last Saturrley's Chronic-le that lam to receive a
severe castigation in the next issue of that journal, fir at-
tempting, lamely and failed aisly, to prop up a bad and falling
cause. MY last appeared in your paper of 17. h inst., and
cats it for a Moment be imagined the learned pundits
of the C'hronicle require ten clear days to demolish the
fallacies and exhibit to the laughing gszeof this community
the lameness and shortcomings of a plain faint min. My
arguments, or rather the plain statement of facts-, pontainei
in my la?. was very probably not so logically arranged
and so forcibly put as a learned man weal have put it
I hope, however, I have made myself understood, and I
now challenge the -Chronic?e to controvert one solitary
statement contained therein, and until he dOes this his
wi ty quotations from Sidney Smith—rambling extracts
from provincial journals—and vague and sweeping con-
demnations, will be set down at precisely what they are
worth. I perceive our worthy scribe begins to think his
cause rather shaky, for in his twelve articles he,. strongly
eschews all compromise, and in his thirteenth he has no
ol:aection to a compromise. Now, if he_ has given a true
statement of facts—if the emigration laws have been
carried out in this port of Liverpool, as he eta es, not for
the benefit and protection'of the emigrants, but rather for
the encouragement of fraud and rapine; if our Government
officers have connived at this state of things, as he
insinuates,_ hev is it that, in the short space
of one week, he expressei a willingness to come to.
terms wi h them he has so foully calumniated, for,
as a body, I do say he has foully calumniated the license
brokers and runners of this town I have admitted before,
and I fully and freely admit again, that " there
are ' men am-ng them who are unworthy to -be
entrusted with a license and whose houses
are not adapted for lo aging emig .ants ; an. i
I do say, let the tares be separa'ed from the wheat,
let the bad men be eradicated, root and branch, and who
are so fit as (air Gevernment officers to make a proper
selection ? Certainly not the humanity-Monger of the
Cheoniele I wish, Mc E litor Tit coital inform us who or
what hels—if he he a large sh pow: er, or if he be one-whoa
has 1 rtg experience in the emigration trade; or is he an
-unfortunate emigren-ewho has been fl•eced, as he so pitee
ously discribes, at some time or other in this port? If,he
be one of those, his opinions and advice might be worth
something as it is, however, I fancy they will be received
as so mu h fustian.
'lf, Mr. Editor, those nOMPleints that have dinned our
care for the last three months had come from the injured
ernigrrnts, a might absy have deserved attention, and
surely had all those fretuls and fleecings taken place, our
government cfficers would have beets cognizant of the...
facts; fer they are the l'ast men through whose hands the
es/signet' 'pesses, previous to a ship weighing anchor
.Perhspe- the writer in-the Chronicle is not awe e of these -
,facts. I 'beg thenf els, to' inform him, that pee-
vious to` a ship -putting to sea, the . goternmeut agent
goes' on board to see that the ventilators, water, pro-
ris, Fghts, ladders, bulk heeds, water. *clisseas, meli.
eines; 'atc , are proper quantity and quelitY, .aecordieg to
law; and, that every paSeenges nn 130Ati is enterei on the
elestrence list and properly bunched and lastly whether he
has any complaints to 'make, either of the runner with
whom he loegal,*-the broker with whom he shipped, or
the ship. Is 'this not stringent enotsg‘a ? does this not
display a sufficient a-no-wit ct care and attention on the
part of the government- officials,, for the protection
and treatment •' of enalgrants sailing from this
port ? Any Unbiassed • mini, any man unpre-
judiced and unbought, will at once admit it. It does
Seem, sir, there is- something above and beyond the pro-
tection of the emig-ant peemptieg and actuating the dis-
interested writer of the Chronidle, and those in lenges
with him 'The 71 percent commission is ,the target at
which his shafts ere levelled if this were once diverted ,
into another source—if a few large brokers had not only
the shipping, but the 16dgiug and outfitting of all ;he
ea-Jigsaws passing thi,oizgli this port—then a would g
well. Have we n d mi idle nen, or men r.ceiving and
living by commission. in almo ,t every trade in, this town,
from the highest 'Merchant to the lowest chapman Yes,
the trade of this town is carried on upon that principle.
Why, then, mske a scepe goat of the p ,or emigrant runner ;
he earnshis money ashoneffly and as hardly as any other;
he waits at she pier heeds sndeailway stations, through cold
and Wet, night and day, for passengers coming to him;
and a pitiable sightemasy of them often ate after a deck
passage from Irelane, particularly in the winter, half
dead with sicknoss, filthy from having passed the night
among horses or cattle for, the sake or the wartn'h they
afford and to keep the od in circulation. Why do no our
philenthrophists go to esaliament to get bettor accemmo
dation for those poor de -k passengers coming from
Ireland There is nothing connected with the emigration
trade of this pert so necessary as that and the ereatioa
of a shed at the great stage for the protection from the
inclemency of the weather, of the emigrant end his losggige
going on board ships in the river, We have a decision of
Isslr, Holmes, given at leog h in lest Saturday's Caron:do, in
.a case brought before him by Lieutenant Prior,' in which
his Worship is made to say he considers the system of
paying commiesion, a system of plunder; and he uses the
word plunder advisedly, not knowing any other word to
convey his meaning. Although holding in great respect,
as I do, the judgment and eloquence of our worthy alder-
man, I must be to differ with hint in this instance,
as I cannot see the appropriateness of the wo d

" plunder" here, for " plunder_" in its primary sense,
according to one of our latest lexic grephersameana " that
which is taken from an enemy by for 'o: pillage, p-ey,
spoil." It did not appear in evidence that those etni-
grente lost anything in any way much less by " ferce
fraud, or spoil " Had they paid one penny beyond the
regularly
have
rate.of fares,- then, perhaps, the term
,would been in some way ape' ieable, but, on the con-
-Crary, they paid not rue fa thing more than those- in the
same ship, who engaged t eir hew s, and rent their
depOsits by letter - from the country, to Wilson and
Chamb?rs, without the intervention or interference of
runic -or man catcher Where, then, is the plunder—
where the pillage or the sooil ? LOG any impartial man go
on board any passenger ship sailing from Liverpool. and
inquire of any paesengee on board, where he took his
passage—whether from an agent in the ceuntrv, or by
let* to the head agent hero, or through the intervention
of one of our licensed runners —and if he do not find the
emigrants who employed the runner the better satisfied as
to the comfort of
_their berths and economy of expenses,
I shalt at once bec-ime a c-avert to the oplaions of our
reformers of the Chronicle
It-is a well knoiva and admitted fact by the paesege
brokers, that, but for the competition existing betwixt the
licen.eri runners, fares wotild 'r ate higher then they do,
because when a lot of emigrants come-together on the same
beat, perhatis bound fit America or the Antipodes, some
go to the runner-to whom they are recommended, o hera
go with other runners ; hence arises a struggle amongst
them for who can get 'his party off on the cheapest
terms and bast ship, -and by these means get his
character establishA in t!te p laq of - the country
front whence he comes. I therefore iffi-m that this com-
petition among the passage brokers and licensed runne s
have been the chief calve of elevating this port of Liver-
pool to i s present position as a port of embarkation for
emigrants. Do away with this competition, and leave ,he
emigrat'on c,f this port in the hands of a few broke*s, and
what will be the result? Instead of advancing any
'paculative opinions of my own, I shall give you a few
fact', and let my readers draw their own, conclusion.
We have only one line of pickets trading between this
port and BostoneaThis line is composed of ships not in
any way superior to the various lines trading to New York,
nor do the scale of provision's, comfort, or accommodation
differ by any mean§ The distance is much about the same ;
yet, how is it that the fares to the former pert rate at all
times £1 higher than to the latter? Because there is no
competition. To Philadelphia, also, we have but one line.
(Cope'e. The ship; of which, I assert are no better than
any of our New York line's yet the fares by this line
rate at all times 103 per adult higher thin any of our New
tYoortlchAlinrens, nnaend the ant
rlnore than
nfis of "this
vepor line
nent. have never
oomniission. virp
hiyd
is this? becau->e there is no competition
-Again, why is it that James Baines and Co., and Wilson
and Chambers charge £l4 for a steerage passage to Mel-
bourne, and only pay to the runner 5 per cent., when
Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., Mr.Thomoson, an-I Magee
andsk.iivieg.ton, who have always paid 7L charge no more
than £l4? Is it that the ships of the forther gentlemen
and their
,treateeent cf passengers ate better? Oh, no,
nothing of she sort ; the ships of the last-named "thecae
firms, and-their honest and just treatment of emig,ran s,
, will bear honourable comparison with-the ships and treet-
ineet of any other in this port or out of it ; but it is that
the eha,lotvof,.monopolyhangs rotted the ships of Baines
consequencet°P4siainlstoAfora
now
sshortyied time Ex.
and
deWn oilus
Royal Mail Perhaps the ships of those gentlemen are
like Moores vake-
You may break. you may shatter, the vase as you will,
Ye', the scent of the, roses will hang round it still.
usa li aof
andth e hhearveifnogre

I think. however, that from the present aspect of
affairs, and the spirit of Freo-trade and open oompetition
infusing itself inro every branch of commerce, that the
prefix of " Ex-Royal NM" to th)se ships, will
not long eaable them to pocket 7s for steerage passengers

more than the three highly respectable firms I hard
named

Tie Chronicle. seems quite indignant with Mr. Lockett,
a highly respectable merchant and shi e-owner, whose
vessels have taken many emigrants from this port, and all
other members of the Dock Committee who dare to assert
the. the licensing system is a proper one to be carried
out, Its language is We think it -premature on the
part of any member of the Dock Committee, or any one
else, to affirm that the tcensing sysiem was a proper cue
to be carried out. for we have established the' con-
verse." Softly, god Arr. Chronicle The public do not
believe you have erahliehed anything of the sort,
except, perhap-, in your own jut gination ; and this same
public are a little more die teed to put ceifi lance in
statements and opinions of Mr. Lockett. and the Dick
Committee of Liverpool, than ire those of the nameless
entities of.`he Chronicle. Thome gentlemen who. have
been puling- their Lod of emigration grievances along
the town, seeno to take great craft to themselves for
having moved our emigration officers to take action in, the
cause. Let them not, however, lay such flattering unction
to their sours,. for I can assure them Captain &hone-
berg end his coedjutore are about as much in-
fluenced by them as the moon is by the yelpings of
sounany .puppy dogs. The move, Captain Schomberg
is now making; has been in contemplation long
previous to the appearance of those articles in the
Chronic'e. and I, who am neither broker,- runner, nor
outfitter, would say to him, God siesed ; lop off the rotetn
branches; let none but honest men have to dn with the
emigration trade, bat never pander to the selfish mono-
polising promptings of any, and, above all, never deprive
,he honest man of an honest living
A. few words, Mr. Editor. in my..next, with respect to
the: evils and ieju.t7ce ,likely to arms from the proposed
es'ablishment of-an emigrants' home in this town, and I
shall have done tir thepresent.—l remain, sir, withenucli
respect, your obedient servant, FRE g TdaIDIS,

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION',

REV: GEO. 0-ILFILLANS LECTURE.

The sirh lecture of the present winter course, ire
connecti,n with th, Liverpool Christian Young► NI-u's,
A=sociation, was delivered, in the hall'' of the Co'l.giate,
nstitii!iOn, by the Rev. Gacrge &Man, of Dundee,.
author of " Bards of the and many other well-
tnowa' worke. There was a lar.:e attendance. The
se.lpet of the lectr.re was; "The 'Comparative Influence of
Pa;•anicm; Modern triabselief, and Christianity upon
Li'e-aturc'."

The chair was taken by the. Rer: Mr, Wright, who, in a
few *Words, introinced the author-Of. the "Gallery of
Literary Pertraits"'—the Res,: Geoege GiWigan.
Tee Rev.. Lecturer, who was leeeived with mrell
enthasiasm on cominz f trward, e*ned his address by
rem irking that it ,was obrions there must be same relation
n betweeo religie end literature. .Literat tre was the
Writte a out and mesicel w'r>hip of the beantifnl. This
erase-true, especielly of pee ry, which although, by same,
..tho'git the shallowest, he deerned-toebe the deepest form
of literatureso (leen-that it tnightlie called the link eon-
riee inn- the -dieiete in litea"nre, with the diviner
'and divirest wh-th w,s f ,ed hr Christianity. The
essetiee of poetry was ently:siastn;or alkouli.stk, directed to
nature or man. The essence of rtligi•tu was en'Llausiasm,
directed tii•Ged. I-1;s ohj et was then to show how the
s irit of literature was influenced -by the narrow posi-
tiieism of Page-cirri, and the wile blank negation of
101 l lelity, and -that she three diff-etiht modes of contem-
elatie'g the Universe • implied' iit Paganism, modern
infidelity and Chris lenity were eeleeaated deeply to affect
the whole eh rae4r of literature.- Paganism, even in its
hen- sense, as held by the people, and sung by the poets of
Greece and Rime, wash Wind ado-a ion of nature apart
faoni any moral purpose or spirituel Meaning,. and of God
as a'natteal power, beautified perhepS with liget and I.re,
but not j ,s,ice, mercy. truth,-'holeness, aril love. Having
givetea. general defi iti4r ot the character of Paganism,
and of, that which he remarked was fir mere difficult
to be defined—modern infidelity)--he reminded the
audience that, whatever (141,ra-ice -'might exist among
Christian b ,dies, there were- seine greet in ciples upon
which they all agreed, ante .g which were the insufficiency
of :natural light and the necessity of Div'..ne revelation,
the reality of the siariosal world and the emietence of a
feature state. In consithling 1114; spirit with which
Pateetnism contemplated nature, the lecturer differed with
Mr. Ruskin e lain. that eloqu ut writer declared that land-
scape seemed to have exercised no strong indaence upon
any Pagan nation -or Pagan artist. He cited a number of
passages tram Homer and from Horace to prove that these
p :eta felt an I were moved by the beauty and the power of
n ctore,, and spoke of her in langeav and with epithets
whiih showed that they apareciated her on tward e'larecter.
At the same time, he IV.), agreed with Mr. Ruskin, that
the Hebrew ,poets felt much more 'deeply the impress of
nature ; but this he though' was less for the reasons stated
by Mr. Riskin thin because the Hebrew poets saw the
symbolism of . nature, .and its cornneetion wi:li, and
depeedenea up-ern God. There were three great
views in which to look at nature, the in aerie!, the ideal,
and the mediatorial. While Paganism held the one view
and modern intl le7ity the other, the last and iefinitely
greatest view, which looked on all nature as symbolic,
was known in its fulness by Christianity alone. Tip,
instsilieeney of mute, eternal nature:to satisfy the soul or
the• meaeing of Gee, he ilinstrati.d by a paseigi from
-holly, whom he described as the mast spiritual and sincere
of the modern_ poetic unbelievers, t‘ We want," cried
C trlyle 7ately, when some one illustrated to him upon the
beauty of nature, "some hug ILt.er than gra,s." Such
passages from Shelley and trona (Attire, proved that we
want something better thaa granite or.hea h or everlasting
snaw, and that toe catt 'gees humble hymn had more•
power than mountains or stars. He referred to the modern
po tic unbelievers'. idea of Gad. Thal poetic worship of the
molern schools was faint and cold when it was not over-
strained and fantastic. God was to such minds a shadowy
being call dby o-e the " Over Soul," by another the
" Spa, it of Beauty," and 4y a third the " Personifieatit n
or Justice." _ SoJi was the idea of Emerson, of Sh lief,
ef Ca•iyle ; and with these-ideas he e:ntrasted the exalted
and s Acing idea of God as contemplated by the Chrisian.
Another deeply lin* tint conside a ion was the manner
in wh ch P. gaeistn, infidelity, and Christianity affected
the Pets of man's character and destiny The Pagan
viewed idle men as a somewhat sublimated animal. Tte
infidel viewed man now as a grandebil 1 of the ourar-
outang, and now as ap rt of God. But the Christian
viewed a man as a fellow-being, standing in darkness
i.olced, but a darkness whase edges were coloured by two
lights—one radiating back from the innocent morning of
the world, aid the o. her darting forward from the "good
time coming." the glotioes evening o` which Ras
before mankind. In this vew alone c:aill man's
portrait be tru:y dramr, or the depths of his heart
smira 'el. : ,He referred to the character a modern F.ench
novels. ' and many modern, E tglish poets. He c'aimed
`.O • Christianity the greatest authors in the several depart-
ments of all literature. Tile Go;!.liqs, ocl:tillers, .littllefs,
Carlyles, and Ent 'rsons, were Either in their work negative,.
or morbid, or undeniahly pernicious, or entirely areistie,
and he
But
fr m applying. the name great to any i.r.
them:. But he poibted to the works of Christians, such as
Isaac Newton in seience,•John.Locke in philosophy, Addi-
san, 'J !tans an, and Foster as essayists; "l'hompsoe, Heb3r,
Young, and James Mon'gomery as poets; Coleridge as a
deep thinker and a fire t poet ; D. Qnincey—whom he
knew to be a g'eat believer in Claris:lenity—the Afars
princeps of British statesmen, and the greatst of political
writer© ; the profound prophet soul of Edmund Burke;
rile father of modern ecieeen 'Francis Rico ; Dante
and Milton, the greatest epic pee's ;. Cervantes, Scott, sand.
Sh tkspere, she greatest novelists and dramatists—to
these and many whirs, all Christians,
.he pointel as the
leaders in their dapertments of science and literature. The
leetne-, nevcrthel as, urgel that young men should not
be influencel by the cowardly teaching cf many ins r eetory,
wh a say,uld deter them from re.adngh.3' works of m .dery
infidels. He ret onmerided his hearers to, read the works
of Carlile, Shelley, Emerson, end eve n Holyeaki ; and if
they did so, with 'the light of the B ble -to guide them, be
fearlessly staked their belief in the doctriues of Christianity
up -n tine result. The lecturer concluded amid enthusiastic
arplanse.
the OttAIRINN arnouncel that the next lecture would
I be given by the Bev. Dr. Cumming, oa Melancthoa.
The proceedings closed with the doxology.

PIA-mourn, 3ionday.—The Austria, steam transport,
which left this port on the 14th instant, for Kurrachee, with
the 94th regiment, reported to have foundered, 400 miles
west of Plymouth, when at 3 30 a.m., on the 16th instant, The
crank ,f the engine broke, causing the piston to burst
through the cylinder. She arrived off here at five o'clock
this morning, and was towed into the Sound this aftertElon-
by two Government tugs, The Austria will be detained
upwards of a month. _ .
NATI: att. Cu RIOSITY. —There.is at present in the shop of
Mr William Reid, b )okselier ,what is considered
by naturalists a great curiosity.. It is a beautiful specimen
of that 'exceedingly rare British visitant, the glossy. Ibis
Pal COLI ellus. It was shot in the neighbourhood of the town
on the 4th of September last, and fortunately fell into the
hands of Mr. Beojsmin Ilewisori, accountant, who has had
it preserved by ea.r. Charles Hubbard. Thi,, so far as we
can learn,
, T
is the first
late Professorrstepecimen ma
of this kind
ray,in in hisdeverob tained
I in seworks
on British Birds, states that several specimen; of the bird
have been obtained in England, but he seems not to have
known of any instance of its 11,8vin over been ter with
Scotland,

Tidial4

POLICE INTELLTGENCE—YEsTzEDAy.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MIC MAN,FIELD.

ATTEMPT TO RESCUE Detective officer Carlyle, brought
up a fellow named Thomas Stewart, a cooper, charged with
attemptirg to rescue a prisoner from him. He said he
was coriveyirg a man named Guy, who was charged with
an attempt t.) poison his wife, to the Station-h use, when
two carters (Guy being a master carter, living in Caeapside)
and the prisoner followed him. The prisoner asked him
where he was going ? and he told him, when he swore he
should not take the prisoner, and caught hold of him.
He was drunk at the time and witness took him into
Ott tody. The prisoner was fined ss.
ETR2ET Rensear —A well dressei young woman named
Mary Anne Snahh, (not previously known to the police)
was charged with stealing a gold pin, value 12s. from Mr.
Edward Trenton, of 22. Lontion.road. The complainant
was passing along West Derby Road, the pse,ious
might, -about a quarter before e`ev;.n o'clock, when
the prisoner accosted him, and asked him to see her safe
home, as she resided is the neighbourhood. He ielesei,
when she passed her hand rapicly across his breast and
he instantly missed his pin. He caught hold of the pri-
soner, and called a gentleman who was passing to assist
him, and that gentleman piekel the pin off the ground
where the woman was standing. The prisoner was orclerei
for trial, when Mr. Clough asked his Worship to eeman
her, as there was a gentleman at the A.-elphi Hotel whom
the prisoner was suspected of robbing. She was remanded
accordingly.
THE BAD " ArtZEL."—Robert Angel, the Prussian, who
was remanded on a charge of having obtained £8 from a
Gernaan by means of false pretences, the details of which
case were published in our paper of Monday, was
brought up. Mr. Burcheret, the Prussian Consul, proved
that the prisoner had not lodgei any money with him.
The prisolier was sent for trial.
DECL'ELtATM ASSAULT.—EIIen O'Brien wee brought uo
on remand, chinied with having violently assaulted
Elizabeth Loftus, in Simpson-street. The prisoner struck
the complaisant a desperate:blow with a can ilestick on the
head, which -endangered her life for some time. Surgeon
Pope, of the Southern Hospital, said the patient was much
itjured. She had had erysipelas, but it was now past.
The prisoner was sent fir trial.

CHARGE AGAINST A CAPTAIN —William Paolo Carruena,
captain of the ship Emanuel Tayliaforro, from Constanti-
nople, was -charged by a tide-surveyor, named David
M'Clure, with having concealed 4 lbs of cigars, the va'us
of which was £2 2s The cigars were found concealed in
the cabin, and the captain said it was an apprentice
who put the cigars where the officer got them. He was
fined £2 3e., which was paid.

BIRKENHEAD.
I,STZALING 3 COiT.— George Butler, a navvie, living at
the Dock Cottages, was charged with stealing a coat, the
property cf D.;.vii Dowd, a fellow labourer. The case was
short, the prosecutor proving that he saw it safe on his bed
side on Monday morning last. Abraham Barr, a pst,vn-
broker's assistant at the North Ead of Birkenhead, pro-
duced the coat, which had been pledged by the prisoner,
for Ss, directly after the robbery, a.:d Inspector Davies,
said that he apprehended the prisoner on the same evening
at a public-houee in Bi,ker.head, who admitted that he had
taken the coat and pledged it for Bs, bet it was only done
as a joke ; Davies., however, thought it was not such a joke
as ought to be allowed at this season of the year, and
locked him up. Upon searching the prisoner, two other
Fawn-tickets for coats, besides the one for the coat in
-question, was found upon him, which had been ple 'gad
within the last two mon:hs The prisoner, in answer to
the charge, said, "I did pledge the coat, but I meant to
take it out again on Saturday and return it." Committed
for trial.

PREnTiTATION Os A PIECE OF PLATE —.Harriet Williams,
a respectahy-clad young woman, was brought up
under the Lltowing circumstance. During Monday after
noon she went to ihe shop of Mr. Bolt, a jeweler, in
Chester street, and offered the handle of a silver :etspoon
for sale. The handle was bent double, and the bowl
appeared to have been very recently broken off, added to
which, the initials "G. 8.," were engraved on it. Mrs.
Bolt, to whom it was offered for sale, questioned her about
it, and from the very strange answers she received she
thought it her duty io retain it until she could corn-
muu:cate with the police, and to enable her to do so she
made some excuse and told the women to call again. She
did call again, and Hodgson, the detective officer, asked
her to walk to the police office to give an account of it,
. which she did by saying her mother and Mrs. BilFngton,
residing at Sutton, had given it to her. Yeste: day morn-
ing the n.other was in atten,lance, and stated a nurse girl
who had nursed the child of some lady residing in
Queen-square, Liverf 001, had given it to her, after
she had left that lady's service, and she (Mrs. Billington)
had given it to her dau,hter. The spoon handle Wa,
ordered to be detained, that ingo'ries mght be made, and
the prisoner was allowed to go at large, the officer stating
that he should have no difficulty n finding her if wanted.
Loss OF TWO VALUABLE Ho n SlM—Joseph Leach, a
labourer, employed by Messrs. Thompson, at the Great
Float Dock Works, was charged with misbehaviour while
in their service. The prisoner was engaged as a driver of.
two horses, used in drawing ballast waggons, and while so
employed on Monday afternoon, left the hors s standing on
a railway siding, while he went some 30 or 40 yards t the
harness shed. Shortly at er a lecomotive engine, used in
drawing waggons, was coming on a line of rails, the c-m-
-trary way to which the horses were going, and when it got
near to the horses, one of them saddenly turned round,
and its hind quarter came ill contact with the engine, and
some of its harness having got entangle in the wheel, they
were both dragged along and killed. Committed for 21
days hard labour in the house of correction.