Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-11 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN iIiViES,---LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, iss7.

persuasion from sitting in Parliament. He said
that the g moral principle of our legiskttion,
was not to disqualify from legislative func-
tions or office on account of religious principle,
this principle had been established, both with regard to
Protestants, Dissenters, and Roman Catholics. The
House was also aware that there was no positive disability
affecting her Majes.y's Jewish subjects, and that their
exclusion from the House was owing solely to a construc-
tion put upon the oaths of abjuration That oath was
not originally intended for that purpose, and the 40,000
Jewish subjects of her Majesty were actually in the eye
of the law 40,000 recusants. On the face of it the oath
wakabsurd, for it obliged all the members of the House
to swear not to support the claims of persons who
had no existence. The bill of last year contained a
simple form of oath not similar to that which he introduced
in 1848, and intended to be taken by all the members who
were not of the Roman Catholic persuasion. That form
of oath he proposed to introduce on the present occasion ;
but he proposed to add to it, the words of the existing
oath—or this—l declare, on the true faith of a Christian.
The reason of opposing these words, was, that they had
bee .1 so long in use, as to have acquired, in the eyes of
many, a prescriptive value, and the right hon. member for
Bucks, and other influential m mbers of the house, had ex-

THE BRAMHALL MURDER.

VERDICT OF ACQUITTAL, AND GREAT

EXCITEMENT.

FROM OUR OWN REPORTER:

presse'd a wish that they should be retained. He proposed
to introduce a clause that, when her Majesty's sztbjects of the
Jewish persuasion bad to take the oath, these words should
be omitted. In 1847 he introduced a similar bill into the

House. That bill and all similar and subsequent bills on
the subject had been rejected in the other House, but he
hoped there was a fair prospect of the present bill being
passed. He had framed the bill in the most concilliatory
form. At the end of last year he was informed that the
Attorney-General was of opinion that the Act 5 and 6
William 111 , entitled the House to frame a declaration to
be taken in lieu of the oaths, if it thought fit. On hearing
that this was the opinion of the hon. and learned gentle-
man, he thought it right that this question shculd be
examined by a select committee. The House had agreed
to appoint the committee, and the question had been
fully debated, the result being an opinion opposed
to that given by the Attorney-General. The majority,
however, was narrow. A majority of one on the
original committee, and of two on the added members
of the Long Robe. Fortified by the opinion of the
Attorney General and the large minority, he still believed
that the Attorneys General was right, and should a neces-
sity arise, he should net think it right to let the question
drop without asking the House to say whether they would
or not adopt a declaration instead of an oath for the mem-
bers under the act 5 and 6 William IV. The House of
Commons had, he considered, been remiss in suffering the
question to be discussed in courts of law. It was hardly
a question for those courts to entertain. It was not com-
petent for them to decide whether a man had been properly
elected, neither was it comp tent for them to say whether
the oath had been properly taken or not ; and such was
the spirit on which the House of Lords had acted in the
case of Lord Wensleydale. They claimed to be able to
decide, after her Majesty had by letters patent created a
peer, whether that peer had a right to take his seat. S.
he believed, the Commons were competent to decide
whether a member had taken the eaths in such a manner
as to entitle him to take his seat ; and in bringing in the
bill, to endeavour to obtain the assent of the whole of the
Legislative, he by no means gave up the rights of the
Commons as stated by the Attorney-General. His lordship
concluded by making the formal motion for the introduction
of the bill.
Sir F, Thesiger said, it had been a-ranged that there
should be no opposition to the introduction of the bill,
and the noble lord had engaged that the second reading
should not take Owe until afreethe recess; and considering
the various shapes and forms on which bills had been
introduced, for- the admission of Jews to Parliament, he
thought it desirable that they should see what was the
particular measure proposed at this particular time, in
order to be enabled to decide upon the course
proper to be adopted. He could not help congra-
tulating the noble lord that he had resumed his
natural position on this question. The question since
the year 1847 had belonged exclusively to the noble lord
till he fell into the back ground in 1856, and he was glad
to find, that after his various plans on the subject, he had
come back to a constitutional course. The Right Hon.
Gentleman proceeded to refer, at length, to the various
efforts of the noble Ie rd to effect his object, ridiculing the
attempt to obtain the admission of Jews by the Act of
William Fourth, and stating his determination to oppose,
as steadily as he could, the measure which the noble Lord
now sought to lay on the table.
Mr. Dillwyn supported the bill, though he thought the
Jews could be admitted by a resolution of the House.
Mr. Bentinck strongly opposed the bill, and expressed
his regret that Sir F. Thesiger had not thought it his duty
to resist it at that stage.
Mr. Cox supported the bill, and hoped, that if the Lords
rejected it, the noble Lord would ask the House to admit
the Jews by a resolution.
Mr. Newdegate warned the House, by the example of
France, not to destroy the Christian charac'er of the
legislation.
Mr. Pease could not conceive how the Christian cha-
racter of the Legislative could be affected by the removal
of mere verbal guards.
Mr. Butt also supported the Bill, stating that he
could not vote to retain words which, while they x-
eluded Jews, would admit a Rochester and a Gibbon.
Mr. B. Stanhops warned the House against adopting a
principle which would ultimately lead to the admission
of Hindoos and Mahomedans.
Mr. D. Griffiths opposed the Bill.
Mr. Walter considered Christianity degraded by the
fear that the admission of Jews to Parliament would
injure it.
Mr. Adams urged the House not to incur the danger of
acting at variance with the court of law.
Lord John Russell then briefly replied. and leave was
given to bring in the bill.
Mr Cowper obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend
the Public Health Act, 1848.
SIR HENRY lIANRLOCK'S ANNUITY BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
. Mr. W. Williams expressed his entire concurrence in
the object, and eulogised the services of General Have,
lock.
Mr. George Bowyer declared his conviction that the
sum proposed was not sufficient. He contended that the
annuity should be continued to the son of General Have-
lock, and gave notice that in committee he would move an
amendment to that effect. (Hear, hear.)
Admiral Napier, Mr. P. O'Brien, Sir H. Verney Mr.
Clay, Captain Scott, Sir F Smith, and Mr. Richardson,
warmly supported the bill, which was then read a second
time, and the committee was ordered for to-morrow.
The House adjourned at half-past eight o'clock.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE BLUEPITS
RAILWAY STATION.

On Welneslay afternoon, an accident occarrel at the
Bluepits station, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Rlilvray, by which one el' the servants of the company
lost his life. On the arrival at that station, from Liver-
pool, of a goods train, a little before four o'clock, its
guard, a man carnal William Swallow, went between two •
of the wagger-I,', for the purpose of uncoupling !hem.
He called out to one of the porters to tell the engine
driver to back the train, so, as to slacken the spring
and chain. The waggons were accordingly backed ;
but Swallow prob,hly did not see that on the hindmost
of the two trucks there was timber prek cling
ft,rwards. The result was that his head was caught between
the foreorost waggon and the end of a piece of timber, and
E o dreadfully crushed that marks of blood were left upon
tle truck. When the wagons partially sepereed, Swal-
low fell between them, and it appeared that he had not
uncoupled them. The wheels went over his legs, which
were broken and shockingly lacerated. When taken up he
was found to be quite dead. The unfortunate man was
removed to the Directors' Arms, adjoining the station,
where an inquest will be held this merning. He leaves
bshind him, in Liverpool, where he resided, a widow and
five children,

FORMATION OF AN ASSOCIATION FOR THE
PREVENITON OF BOILER EXPLOSIONS.

On. Wednesday afternoon a numerous and infl )ential
meeting of manufacturers, convened by Mr. Edward
Armitage, of the firm of Armitage Brothers, was held in
Huddersfield, Johu Brooks, Esq., presiding, at which a
letter was read from Mr. Whitworth, secretary of the
Manchester As9ociation for the Prevention of Boiler Ex-
plosions, to the effect that if nine firms, having 35 Milers,
were willing to join that association, they would be glad
to receive them ; the expense of inspecting boilers
at a distance being such as to prevent the as-
rocistion receiving a less number. A chief inspector would
examine the boilers once a sear, and a resident inspector
in the district would examine them not less than once in
three months. A resolution based on these terms was
moved, and two amendments. one for a lccal association
for Huddersfield, apd the other for a West Riding associa-
tion ; but both the amendments were negatived, and the
resolution unanimously carried, accepting the offer of the
Manchester assoeiation, subject. to their 12. h rule—the
appointment of a resident sub-Inspector for the district.
Twelve firms, possessing 41 boilers, put down their names
to join the assoeiation, and Messrs. E. Armitage and J.
W. Carlisle were appointed to carry out the multaions.

evidence tended to show thela the prisoner must have desired the
prolongation of his father's life,- for if that life were shortened ruin
must come to the family. Mr. Warier had been called to prove motive,
and he was either mad, semi-mad, &Malignant. He bad never seen
such a phenomenon in the witness bol• before ; and his statements
wire, to say the leest, grossly and scandalously improbable ; whilst
his demeanour was so theatrical that he must inspire the jury with
disbelief of his assertions ; in fact, he wad' almost going to say he
would not ha g a dog on such evidence. He' asked, then, was the
man rase f If so, then his evidence was not worth anything. Was
Ito a fool ? Then his evidence was not worth a fig ; and if a conice
ton followed in this case, he was sure the jury would not find it on the
evidence of Mr. Walker, who so gloated over the prialner as he stood
at the bar, and gave evidence against him. The learned counsel
urge t the Immense interest at stake on the part of the' prisoner, and
sa d he felt sure the jury would be csnvinced of the manifold dis-
crepancies in the case, and that they would with firmness say that
the prisoner was not guilty of the crime which, of all otidere, in this
country, was the most abhorred. Moreover, the country- would be
saved from the degrading spectacle of the image of God being
strangled by the common hangman. From the bottom of his heart
he prayed G dto guide the jury to a correct conclusion. The learned
sergeant tken sat down, after having addressed the jury foi four
k mrs and a quarter.
His Lordship having stated she awful nature of the charge, he
said it would be quite unnecessary for him to bespeak their calm
and earnezt attention to the evidences that hai been given. It
would hardly be necessary to warn them to put out
of their consideration all that they might have heard of the
case oat of the Co-art. They must be guided to their verdict t
solely by a partial and calm consideration of the evieence
laid before them. That evidenee'vras wand was termed circumstantial.
It was known that offences of this kind were often committed evil n
no human eye was there to witness the transaction. But when direct
evidencefailed, if a train of circumstances was laid before a jury
such as to lead them to no other conelusionthan the guilt of the prisoner
it was for them to act up-,n the evidence, though not of a direct ten-
dency. But, though such evidence was to tee received, it was to to
deliberately and carefully weighed. A case of suspicion, even of
grave suercion, would not j 'stify a' jury in finding a verdict of
guilty; tout there must be evidence that led rationally to the
etraclu-sion that the prisoner was guilty. The fist quesa
tion that would arise for their consideration,- was one which
he did not think was attended with any difflealty, viz., whe- her the
deceased was murdered by any one, or whether he died by his own
haul. But referring to his habits of life, his age, znd the position
in which he was lying when fou, d dead. The evidence was such
8: seemed clearly to lead to the conclusion that the wound was not
inflicted by himself. tbe next question was, by whom was the
wound inflicted, and was it by the prisoner at the bar? The
:earned counsel had properly warned them, that that w,s
the only question In which their attention was to he directed.
But though that was the point for their consideration,
matters were involved in the Inquiry. ba'ause if they were faasfiel
that an attempt had been made to molest.the family, and that there
were robbers in the house, it would go a Rona way to enable them to
form a proper ennelustota His r ordship then vroceeded to give a
inute description of the house and premises. He then- proceeded to
read over the evidence, and to comment upon it. Referring
to the evidence as to the shot found in the house of the de
ceased, he said that the weight of them proved that they
were all of the same kind. The prisoner's counted, however,
maintained that no importance could be attached to- the shot.
His Lo dship, in continuation, dwelt upon the various facts as disclosed
by the evidence. Referring- to the evidence of Iklr. Walker, he
observed, without in the slightest degree desiring to cast any discredit
on that wanes ee testimony, he thought it was reasonable to conclude
that the statement made by the prisoner in regard to the occurrence
might be the true one. At all events, it was a fair question fa' the
consideration of the Jury. As regarded the paper or wadding found
in the deceased's- room, and also on the landing of the stairs near
where the prisoner stated he fired the gnn at one of the bu-glara
there could be no doubt that the evidence was strcng in support
of the hypothesis that they were fram the same sheet or leaf, but he
did not think it was equally conclu,ive that the No. 77 of the
Cottage Girl, as found in the prisoner's beirooma w.s necessarily
fr am the same number of the same publication as the paper tound
which form d part of the wadding. After having gone thro"gh all
the evidence, his Lordship conclu4ed by remarking that unless the
jury were positively convirced from the evident, that the prisoner's
was the hand that fired the shot they could not find him guilty. If
on the other hand, t ey were satisfied that the testimony given on
the part of the prosecution clearly and undoubtedly led to that
conclusion, then they must convict the prisoner of the crime imputed
to him. His Lordship occupied upwards of three hours in cha- ging
the j ery.
tout one o'clock, the jury retired to consider their verdict. and
were absent for a little more than two hours, during Which the
deci•ion of the jury absorbed the greatest attention and interest of a
densely crowded court, and the hundreds of spectators outs de, who
were unable to obtain admission. A few minutes after three o'clock,
thb jury r--turned into eaten, amidst a still and breathless silence.

CHESTER, THLTItsDAY
This morning' rne Cohn't sat at ten o'clock, when His Lordship
commenced his summing up, but, before giving an outline of the
learned Judge's address, we suyply a summary of Mr. Serjeant
Parry's speech on behalf of the prisoner, which occupied between
from four and five hours In its delivery, and which in consequence
of the want of apace, we were' unable to publish yesterday.
Mr. Serjeant Parry said—After this protracted, exciting, and I
might almost say, awful enquiry, because the death of ose man has
keen proved before you—one of your fellow-creatures has been
proved before yon to have been taken away by violence, and the life
of another of your fellow-creatures is-now, as it were, awaiting your
decision, it would be affectation in Me- if I were to pretend for a
moment that I do not rise to address you under feelings of the
deepest anxiety. I were to say that I have no anxiety as to the
result—the ultimate result—of the case, 1 should belie my own feels'
tugs. But I ouseit to say this—that the anxiety I feel arises, princi-
pally, from the position hi which I am placed, by no seek ng
of my own, but by the accident of my professional life, and
the thought that, to some extent, the life of a human being is
dependent upon my personal exertions. lam sure, therefore, that
you will believe me sincere in the expression of my feelings. and
believe that any man mutt. be callous to almost every feeling of
humanity, who could fill as I do—for I stand, as it were, between
the unfortunate man and the scatted), and !eel upon my energies
depended the life of the prisoner, without feeling a deep and most
earnest anxiety as to the mode in which I ought to discharge my
duty. And whatever my feelings might be, they could not be
presumed to compare with sour feelings, because upon your fiat,
upon the expression of your mention, the prisoner's lire wh
depends. Upon my exertions, if I fail in them, or in any way
inadequately discharge the duty which has been given me, I may
always, and should always, regret it ; but, gentlemen, the feeling I
have upon this subject cannot be anything as csinpared with your
own, because I know that any failure of ability on my part wilt be
compensated by you and by the learned judge who presides ; but,
if there were any failure, or, by any possibility, any error upon your
part, remember, gentlemen. that your judgment is irrevocable, and
that the life of a fellow-creature depends upon it. I cannot conceive
any more solemn duty cast upon a man than that he should sit in
judgment upon the life of his fellow men. I dare ray there is not
one of you who, prior to your entering the jury-box, knew
this young man. I dare say there is not one of you
who, when you came to perform the importnnt duty cnst
upon you at the assizes, dreamed it would lie your lot to sit in judg-
ment upon the life of this young man, whir, is, indeed, tl e most
awful, however exercised, throughout the whole of our institutions.
I cannot consider anything more awful, and I cannot conceive
anything more fearfully important. By one word of yours —the one
word " guilty"—Yon twelve gentlemen can deprive the young man
of the life that is now in him, and you have the ;tower of seeding an
immortal soul to a pr.maturejudgment. Gentlemen, do not imagine
that I wish here to introduce the thought into your mind of what
would be said elsewhere on this subject, if you believe it right to
exercise it or not. God forbid that should enter the discussion such
as I mutenoat enter, and to which yon must, and we must, all iletea—
that I should inir mince anything that is at ale irrelev nt. But I ap-
peal to you as educated men—as me aof experience—as men wholly
understanding the responsibility of this life, and having a hope of
the life to come. Is there a duty more fearfal than can bs cast
upon you than the duty every one of you now have to
discharge, according to his j odgment, upon the evidence before
you, of whether you shall declare that this young man shall live
or die? Gentlemen, my duty as compared with yours—l was almost
repeatine what I had said already—is nothing compared with the
responsibility which now hangs upon you. But, gentlemen. what is
my duty in this care ? I feel it light in order that I may be thorough y
understood hyyou, to state to you in brief but most real and emphatic
terms, what it is that I conceive to ba my duty to the unfortunate
man at the bar—unfortunate, if he be guilty ; doubly, trebly unfor-
tenate, if he be innocent. In order that there may be no misunder
standees; between u., and in order that you, as far as I can prevent it,
shall not be led to the consideration of any false issue, bat that your
minds siall be directed to the one single i one which you have to try
here to-ray, and that is whether this young man at the bar has been
proved, by retie-Me evidence, to be guilty of the vile and asrccious
charge hid to him, and in the desigeation of which I don't
at all differ from those terms employed by Mr. Welsby, who
has opeted this case with an impart a'ity and ability at which I
am not surprised, because I know him, but which I tee- it right
publicly to acknowledge. Gentlemen, I have said—What is
my duty? What is the duty of any man in the profess:on
to whico Ibelong, as advocate for one of his fellow-Subjects against
whom the vhole power and machinery of the state have been set in
operation? What, I a'k, is the advocate's duty, and what is mine?
It is not, as my friend told you, or half suggested, that I should point
out to you any other person that could have done this deed, or tb at
has done this deed. Gentlemen, no such duty is cast upon me—no
such painful duty is cast upon you; and when you retire to your
room, as you must do, if you begin to ask who else did it, gentlemen,
this is a ques ion which you will h eve no right to ask. Forgive me
for saying so. It is a question with which I will not pretend to
grapple, became I believe it is entirely alien from the legitimate
issue now before you for consiieration. I know, gentlemen, in the
history of our profestion, instances have occurred in which a ?vete item,
in their defencelf prisoners, have expressed their own solemn opinion
of their client's innocence—carried away, it may be, by passion, or
by strong and existed feeling—bat still they have done so. Geode-
men, this is an example I never have followed, and never will
/mew in any Oa'e, however trifling. It cannot be of any
impoitance to state what my opinion was. Those who have taken
thee- urse, in my opinion, have most seriously damaged the clients
whom they indiscreetly and wrong-head -diy sought to serve. Every
word I have o say I bog that you will seriously consider, anti, what
I desire most earnestly that you should apply your minds to is this ;
and this is the only question that I shall ask you, the on'y question
that I can ask you, and that I ought to ask you. And, gentlemen,
so strongly do I feel that I am right in my view of what should be the
question you should finally ask yourseivs s, and what should be the
principle as it were, by which you should be guided in coming to a
conclusion upon this intricate, involved, remarkable, and, to 'a great
*extent, mysterious ewe. So confident am I that lam not wronz in
the question which I am Mama to put into your minds, that I most
earnestly and respectfully invite my lord's attenti in to what I say;
and I verily bdieve his lordship will confirm and sanction that
principle when he comes to sum up the evidence which is
tally to guide ;mu —to sues it up in this calm, clear linen -
passsicned, and nude cted manner. I ask you not to tame away the
li'e of leis term man, unless yon are cm vinced, by the
various facts tint love been brought before yon—that unless you are
as stronzly mentallytenv-need that he did this deed, as though with
your own physisal eytyou ha I seen him do it. No mortal eye saw
this deed done, but the man who did it. No mortal eye saw this deed
done ; and you have tcsay, by a number of circumstances, more or
less important, that the prisoner at the bar did it: And, I ask, can
you censer from the evidence proved before you, to the result of the
prisoner's guilt by the tires' tible fact of a c mvietion teat shall
impress the scene rat the Med upon your minds so strongly and clearly
as if you yoursel "es, wehyour phys'eal eyes, hod seen it done ? Gen-
tlemen of the jury, you ale to come to this conclusion. By what
means 1 By the evidence hat has been adduced before you; and in
considering tke evidence yea c n may ask yourselves this one ques-
tion—not did any other man do it, not who else did it,
not how c. uld it have been done but is it proved to
your satisfaction, sitting it a court of life and death, minister',
as it were, of doom -is it proved to your satisfaction
that this young man did it' I loupe and believe you will say
he dalnot. Amid now, we mmt not travel out 'of this theory; we
must not embarras t our mind •tvi h any collateral inquiries. There
are mysterious (acts connectedeith the case 1 grant; but is that at
all inconsistent with the pristner's innocence? Wh7, there are
mysteries such as these whirl for thmsands of years have I een
fl -sting about tie world, sort never have beer,, and never can be,
solved by human ken. Gentlemsn knowing this, Ti am ture you
will not allow the mysteiies Omit this case to influence you in
deeieing ti at this young man dis tee des i ; and hope not to be
mistaken in alluding again to the, fearful responsibility dirt has
been place dio your handef to urge upon you the immense imeor-
tance that you shouldta'ow aside every collateral and irrevaleut
matter, ant get' meepiy and solely with the lasts proved before
you. Now, gentlemen, the evidentr is of a peculiar character
My friend, Mr. Weltby, delinecl that endence, and the nature of it,
in a few short words, to which I offer no ()ejection. hat it is evi-
dence that at ilinesenisieads, we all knew; ant he well knew. But,
gentlemen, I admit that, if evidence that coheres together, from
beginning to end, every fact, and every -ircamsts.nce—tant if drown-
st intial evidence coheres together from teginnin to end, leavirg no
gap, mush less any gulf, betweeti any potion and tha other, I admit
that it is evidence well worthy the cow:iteration of any men that are
fiveitigating truth. True it is (and ia acing this I do not moan to
doe r you from the performance of your suty); true it is that upon
circnmstattial evidence the lives of twee:: innoeent eeople have been
forfeited ; true it is that upon emitaistantal evidence,
the liberties
of many innocent people have, ere noe been curtsi:ed. Gen-
tlemen, if this were a ease in which, after your verdict was
delivered, and the sentence executed, a further inquiry coulel
take place, and if wrong had been dote, that the pr'soner
could be righted, I might not de-and from you such
anxious attention (although I have no done that every question
submitted to you affecting the liberties and haminess of your fellow
cre mutes would receive anxious attention) as - do in this case; on
whieh, if you deliver your verd.et, it (satinet be a. seed ; and, if wrong J. P. G. smith. Esq.
be done, it cannot be made right. lam aware, a rate or this kind Sim —I have reteivei bill of lading fro„ you for 7,007 bushels oi
which excite t a great deal of attsntioa, tee dente in the neighbour- Indian corn, per Southampton. sold tot Sissirs. John Bingham and
hood, end far beyond the neighbourhood where thieereib'e catastrophe Co , whose acceptance fir the amount will be paid to the le ink
took place,—l have no doubt thet private discussons amongst men opposite, by. acceptance for £l,lOO, whieh you hays guaranteed
in their so sal intercourse nave talon place. Pubic athatass:ans may I am, dear Sir, your's truly, JoaN BOnEaTr.
hare taken place in the press. It is the dnty of tie press to , sport
To Borough Bank.
these matters ; but, whilst rho minima is depend inget is not the duty . It seemed, as they would have observed in the first letter, that the
of the press to urge the until or innocence of tho prttes coiLerned. b Ils of lading were sent dawn front the different palates who held
it is their duty to lie by untl tae.guilt be proved or diarove 1, in order them, to the itoreug'n Bank ; &ad, upen the receipt of them, the
that no men's life may be imperrieed by their obsonationa. Irm Berousth Bank were in the halt of grantinz Mr. Dohetty's acceptance
perfectly ignorant wh ther anything of that kind ialien place in of somebody
ha se's draft ; aalmostd immediately after that, Mr.
this county; but, in any case, I beg of You, gentlernee to consider Doherty, who frequent ly sold- ois before they arrived, was
this case as if you Lever heard of it before, and n foliow the in the habit of going to the Bo! ough Bank with such a letter as tint
evidence alone that has beg' de:ailed to you during the swo days in- which came second in each of the cases ; anti upon the represen-
quirt,. Wow, gentlemen, I bode I have ma'-io myself uadostood as to tations which he had made, both in the first letter and the sec,nd,
the cznrse I shall pursue, and as to the questions to wheth I shall that the g lola had been sold t c a particular party, the Messrs.
direct your minds. In many of the obeervatons that I matte to you, Bingham, he would obtain a bill of ladlrg, to take away and deli er ;
gent'emen, you tray perhaps dis igoe—in some, of them I cannot but and the Borough Bank had sufficient confidence that he wall bring
hope yen will coneur ; and I think I shall be ob'e to demonstrate to back the price of those goo's. Th-y allowed him to take away the
you that it is not, that it cannel be, and that it ought netnetts te, veer bill of lading leteose he deposited the ace ptance with them. The
duty to take awe), this young man's life. I think I shall be able to charge made against Doherty was that he hal net in either case sold
demonst ate to you that, without doing ititwice to any humanising the goods to Messrs. 11 ngham—that by mea, sof a false pretence
—without violating the public justice of the country which yell are he obtained the bill of lading from the bank. That transachayti es
called upon to admiiiister, you may be spared the duty which many horn also upon the next one ; for it appeared,
that ng
of you never have been c lied to discharge before, and which Ia n sure made that false pretence to she bank, the bills had gone
it is your hope you may be never celled upon to eisebarge again—that down to Messrs. Bingham to be accepted ; and no goods having been
you may be spared the performance of the painful task which wonlo sold to them—not hoeing received any bids of lading, because Mr.
result inaverdiatofguiltyagainsttheprisoner. Now, gentlemen, there 'Doherty ha I not taken them. and, there'ore, having no t-ansiction
are, no doubt, a groat many circumstances that press against this
of the sort with him—they naturally did not accept. The bills sent
young man. There are circumstances:of suspicion, which I should. tavern by the bank r mained with them ; and, after a while, the
be mentally blind if I did not see, against him. Gentlemen, it may lank not getting them again, sent for Mg- Doherty. Mr. Doherty
be them ate circumstances of grave suspicion; but I say to you, and Went to the bank. A conversaticneastiedeand the tie. essity existed for
I know I shall be confirmed by higher authority in whtt I say, that Ail. Doherty to get the acceptance of Messrs. Bingham. Mr. Doherty
unless you have an absolute certainty Of guilt, yen must acquit this west down to the Messrs. Bingham, and had an interview wit a them,
young man ; that is, you must ray he is not proved to be guilty. and he told them that he wanted their acceptance to two b'lls for
Forgite me, if I hasp, as it were, too much upon cleat string ; but, Z 1,210 and £1,700 respectively, the.e being the amounts for which I,
gentlemen, in my short experience, and in a larger extent of reading hehaaauthorised the Borough Dank, to send dowel his bills to them.
than my personal exercise goes, I have known many fatal and set ious having had naeranseetion with hire of the sort he
errors commitet because the minds of men were not directed to the had staled, wanted some security. He offered several securities,
right point they had to consider. I hope you evil not think there wet a bill, not worth reutch ;an acceptance of somebody, ese's
I am wanting in appreciation of your intellect and jadg- and also LsMall bill of laning, which was totally inede
ment, when I over and over again reiterate that the amount for which he wanted to give theta security. Vaasa was al o
only thing yon have to consider is tae the ease a sman balLece in their Imelda due to him—all of whist:
h went partially
proved to moral certainty and demonstration inst the young to makeup tie securitet. But the substantial (Ulara to the
„ '4:of security which ho
man at the bar ? Grave suspicion there may be ; but in this country ffered them vas a bill of lodine ot 1, Mei brie. fieumper the Centurion.
we beast that no man's life, ro, man's liberty, can tie taken upon The jury wouli be aware with et gara bids of lading that when
suspicion We proceed mien sieve; absolute certainties.. Wo scan the goods wetep.ut on bearal atia, abroad the lads g his hands
them in the moral world as we seek them in the physical world. We to several billata ladinge b
s
After one was used, the others became
find out thus the laws of nature that are able me and universal by void at d imam. msneee
enne''..y, therefore, when one commercial man
phy deal experiment. We seek out a fact that is to be arrived at by offered to anothty Wt.
of lading for security, the understanding was
moral investigation. Both in the one case and in the other, in the that such bill
ci,f 'ydiang
was the flst of the set - that no other bill of
physical law as well as to the moral, we should never proceed except lading Of 41111.0 hal been mee use of, at all events with the
upon principles that are absolute and certain, and nothing less should knotillegeo 'se the prey who offered it. Therefore, the mere fact of
satisfy us when We sit is judgment upon a fel ow-crea'ure. Then, is ofegmen.,
a bill of lading as security, was a pretence that it was a good
:his young man proved to be guilty? I have admitted that there are a
.6r":fitY, ant that no ether bill of lading of that set had been used.
circumstances of suspicion against him. - I shall deal with tiletie Air. Doherty in that way pi etentlei to Messrs. Bingham that his bill
circumstancss seriatim,- step by step. I will not shrink from one lof lading was a good security. This transaction took place on the
of them ; and I shalt admit in detail, what I have admitted goyarally, 13th May. True. the Cinturion weft expected to come in, and it did
and I thick I shall be able to show yen that thefe is proved come in, in about a fortnight; and therefore little might be
before us, are irreconcilable wta the vaunts
• - man's guilt, said ab ,ut the improbisl ty of Mr. Doherty milting this false
The learned counsel then at great length prootedea, to analyse the pretence when he expectet the ship so soon. Now, some time after
evidence, and, in conclusion, he said that the n
e'.oseention had en- that, Mr. Doherty had has occasion for a guarantee of the same
deavoured to prove the motive which the TOP'
reh9ieq g( this crime, bat it had b alter had for the corn- nature. He bad occasion to deposit with a respectablm gentleman
nee -Adißlr 10'...aently proved that the in this WWII o)metblog 54 lietsa kluttbackt catehsiTely

The i'd,rk of the Crown :hen addressed the foreman : Now say
yon; do you find James nr4uson Henderson guilty, or not guilty?
The F,reman : We find him " Not gulty."
The announcement of the verdict was evidently received with
amazement by the gre tt body of spectators present', although a
cheer from the beck of the court followed the decision. This
unseemly exhibition was a at once snpdressed by the officer of the
court. 'the prisoner himself, on the verdict being delivered, appeared
unusually ela.ed, and at the moment the cheering took place, he
lifted up his cap which be seemed ab nit to waive as if in triumph,
but was prevented from doing so by one of the officers in c'iarge of
him, and he was at once removed from the dock. In the evening, a
little before seven o'c ock. he was discharged, and o 3 leav ng the
castle, he was met at the gates by his brother Thom is, and a friend,
and in th! it company lest in a cab. Later in the evening he left
Chester by railway, and it was understood that he went to his home
at Hardy's Hall.
The excitement outside the court, and in all par's of the city, was
tremendous on the verdict being announce". The decision of the
jury spread in a few moments with the radidity of lightning, and in
alm• st every direction groups of people might be seen discussing the
result, and looking at each other in the greatest bewilderm nt The
general c •nclusion at which the public seemed to have arrived was,
that the speech of Mr. Sergeant Parry had had i4s effect.

LANCASHIRE WINTER ASSIZES.

engaged in the corn trade. On the 6111 of May. a week before the
transaction with Messrs. Bingham, Mr. Doh:rty wrote to Mr.
Hnbback as follows:

Dear sin—Enclosed yoB have the bills of lading asMaayrr6lnlglesd7..
You will much oklige me bi Prating your name on the enclosed
drafr, as Irequire it this evening to send to Landon. I hope yotm
ro eo
one
eof yours,sa
the
will net disapeoint me. I ascertained at your effix where you had
gone, and I take the liberty rf seraing this to you. A copy of the
bill h's been taken at the office, so al that is required is your name,—
JOAN 1)011ERTY.
m obfillinsoonfel:_dsiZgo
lafrogrethae Csntarion ; and the
nature of that transaction was the deposit of that bill of lading as
Very}lceuer ftcayll hs
forf edl
a lylarge
sum as to make the
ssecind bill of lading practically, as well as legally, of no value
whatever. Something.might le said about some possible mistake on
the part of Mr. Dotter y. In the first place, he (fr. A) should ask
them to look at the catheMe improbability of such a state of things
Did they think it towable Mr. Doherty, uncle? such circumstances,
could lect unaware he had received from Mr Hubback already large
advances en one bill of landing, and have so large a sum as to cover
the secon t bill. It might b said there was some mistake as to the
bill of lading to which that did relate. Ho shoulo be able to
prove convemaions with Mr. Hubback and Mr. Bingham, show-
ing, beyond all doubt, that tile intention in fella cases, was
to offer the identical same goods as security. Upon tlI
bill of lading Being offered to Messrs. Bingham, they consented .;
to accept the two dials drawn by Mr. Doherty upon them, which
were tendered to them by him. He' had obtoined them from the
'Borough Bank ; anal the result was, not that the bills were given
back to Mr. Dolienay, but sent by Messrs. Bingham's clerk to the
Borough Bank. Those were the facts. With reference. to, the
emend transaction, he drug d Mr. Doherty, by means oil falsely
pretending to Messrs. Bingham that thin bill of lading was available
security, and that no bill' of lading of the same set had been need so
as to maks it useless; Itat by means of that false pretence, which
was made—in fact it wasenot necessary it should be made in worths—
he induced Messrs. Bingham to accept those bills of exchange he •
then presented to them. Having sated the facts, he proceeded to
state what his (Mr. Aspinains) position was with retard to the
evid Wee and how fir he was in a position to prove what he bad
stated. With regard to the Mansur: ions with the Borough Bank, he
w is not in a position to say thatron the pa t of the prosecution, they
had, as they should has e expetra ',any hearty co-operation from the
Borough '2ank. He ahonl tee able to prove the letters ; arid from
tlae mouths of Messrs. Bi glum, that the representations made :
were false. But he was not able to produce Mr. Smith. There- •
fo-e he could only prove the pretence and its falsehood, and
that the bills of lading were after Met received by Mr. Doherty from
the itoronah. Bank. It was only by Mr. Smith's authorite that the
bills of lading rend be delivered no. He could not prove the cite
which operatedicn the mind of Mr. saatith ;;his Lon stilt. Surely
there is no difficulty in gettirg him. Mr. .a spinall: We have left the
subpoena in every direction, bat can oot lind him. The learn d coun-
sel then called his lordship's attention to the case. Queen a. Danger—
a decislo aof thin iii ;hest court of criminal appal. The decree was to
the following effect:—That although it is an offence beyond all doubt
under the statute to obtain by means of false pretences any money,
goods, or valuable 'securities from another person; yet, it is not a
false preten. e to obtain from a person a bill of exchange, which you
present to him ; s orenanst obtain from him security which is in his
own hands beforehand, and which is his property That was the
state of the law, but he coniessel he had Considered the matter, and
had the greatest difficulty in seeing the distinction tctween this case
and that. In the examination b fore the magistrate, it was thought
tat the bill had been handed back by Mr. Doherty, and that it hand
been previously endorsed by the Borough Ilantlyand w is the property
o' the Borough Bank—and therefore it might be sad to have obtaineri
avs nab e security on the property of the Borough Bank. Bur the
evidence was now that th bills were never- delivered to him ;
an he did was to incline tbo Messrs. Bingham, to accept the bills.
His Lordship : They never were in his hands at all. Mr. Aspinall :
Never, after acceptance. He thought it was del lorable such a state
of law should exist in a commercial c ,untry. Lordshi : This
case seems rather a fortiori; because it supposes the bill of exchange
atter the acceietance is r olivine, dto a person who delieers it. In his
hands it was nothing ; because, if it was obtaine I 9 f else pretences
he could not have enforced payment, In your case, it never
goes into his hinds at all. if that is so, I don't see how
you can maintain your grow d. I understarA tne difficulty
under w'.ich you lebo ,r, in the absence cf Mr. Smith. Mr.
Aspinall : My Lord, everything has been done to procure the
attendance of Mr. Smith. His Lordship: Except serving him
with a sunpeena. Mr. Aspinall : He was left almost to the
last because it could not to -apposed he would be difficult to serve at
aey time. ThD subpw a has be n left, both at his resid-nce and at
the bank. H s Lordsla said the case could not be proved without
him. Unless they had Mr. Smith they could not prove the false
pretence. This was the first difficulty. Mr. Aspinan :We can
prove the false pretence, but we cannot prove it was the fade
p eten e which induced Mr. S oilth to part wilt the bills of lading.
His Lordship : But that is tlae essence of the case—that any fslae
pretence was made to him to Induce him to pass the hi 's of lading.
It you cannon produce Mr. Smith there is no evidence. With respect
to the rest, it is an a forlio i case. The opening has, therefore,
occupied the time of the jury :et: no reasonable purpose. Yoa are
bound to acquit the prisoner. The prosecution not offering any
evidence, the jury returned a verdict of "not guilty,"nand Mr.
Doiserty was immediately discharged.
BURGLARY AT WARRING rON.—Peter Barnett, aged 22, p _inter,
James James Emery, 32, spinner, Francis Williams. 27, tailor, Ann Thorn•
ton, 20. dressmaker, ant Elea Williams. 23. char omen, stood
in Meted with having. on the 18th Novemb r last, at Warrington,
burglarious y entered the dwelling house of Jame i Wazstaff, aid
sto'en therefrom some provisions, a silver spoon, and other articles.
lha pri sonar Barnett plaided sonny ; the titer pris• ners, not gully.
The prose utor is this case James Wagstaff, three in Fat clongh-lane,
a retired hart of the town of Warrington. On the night of the ' Bth
of Novi mber. before re iring to rest, he saw thaat all his decors -an'
windows were secure, but on getting up t e next morning, he found
that an env seance ha I been effected to the home through the scullery
w ndow, and two tongues, silver croons, a copper Ma kettle, a silver
cream jag, and other articles had been stolen. Information was
given to tee police, who, footsteps and other indications, at 'once
proceed, d to a cottons in which the p-isener Barnett lived, and these
they found all the prisoners. am I the pro erty stolen. The male
prisoners were tit, en into custody, and on the following day; the
two f-male prisoners were discovered endeavouring to seeret the
remainder. The juiy acquitted Francis Williams, but f iund Emery
guilty of burglary, and Ann Thornton and Ellen Williams guilty of
recent ig the property, knowing it to be sio en. Emery, against
whom a previous conviction was moved, and who having Been for
that offe ice sentenced to ten years transportation, but subsequently
libera cd on a ticket-of-leava. was pew sentenced to six years penal
servitude. Barnett, against who n also a previous conviction for
felony was proved, was se :lanced to tour years penal servitude; and
Ann Thornt nand Ellen Williams were sentenced each to six months
imprisonment, with bar 1 labour.
ATTEMPT TO PuISON A WIN a By A HUSBAND —John Guy, a
cart owner. anal 48. was paced on hi, trial charged with an attempt
to murder his wife, Mary Guy. by administering to her a deadly
poison. Mr. Simon and Mr. Bolton appeared en the prosecution. art
the prisoner was d fended by Mr. Atkinson. From the opening
statement of Mr. Simon. it appeared th it the prisoner was a care
owner in this tow , living in nheapolde, and that•he was married to
his present aril second wife obeli' fo r years aco. The marriage rid
not turn out a hapay one, and frequent altercations took place
betel, en them with reenict to a woman named Nelson. who had
excited the well-founded jealousy of th- wif'. Indeed, Gny openly
cohabited with this woman—eves trought her to his own house, and
encouraged her to abuse his lawful wife. On the 17th November, his
wife: felt in-isposed, and went to consult Dr. Gam as. That gentleman
was not at home, but. in his aaaence, his assistant suppled her wth
a b itt e oe medicine, which she took from day to day
up to the 21st of the month. She extierienced no ill effects
from the medicine, but on the contrary was benefitted by it. On
Sunday the 22nd, she and the prisoner again quarrelled. He lay in
bed until a late lour that day, and when she went no to the room ho
became very v olent, an i chased her dewn the stairs. She took none
of the medicine that diy.bue, the next morning she went to the bottle,
which she kept on the of the bedroom window, and to which the
prisoner had, of course, access, and took a dose of the medicine,
She was immediately seized with innem, and began to vomit. I:--
stector tinggim, who celled at the house sheltie afterwards, took the
bottle. the cup in which the medicine was taken, and the fluid which
Pars. Gay threw off her stotnacin and in all white art epic was dis-
covered. How or by whom the ars nit was put in the bottle could
not be proved, bat sutler-ion st once fell on the erimeer, and he was
taken into custody on the r barge. Tie following evidence was called :
Mary nu), ewcrn and examined—ls the wife of the prisoner Has
been married to bins about four years. Lives in Chemist:to, in Liver-
patl. Ou the 17th of November last she went and got a bottle of
mod eine from a shop. She took it home, and took two spoonfuls of
it. On the 21st the prisoner slept at home with me. Oa the follow-
ing mernmg she had some won's about not b isle at horn e. She saw
her daughter in the -,aril, and sent ler into the bedroom. The brittle
of medicine W,S kept in the bedroom, and was there at the time her
husband was in. bid. On the next day when she got up .he took some
of the medicine. She put it into a tea cup and the taste of it was
rather sandy. After she had tak-n it she felt rather unwell, and was
sick. After that she took some csfine. She vomited about a quarter
of an hour after she took the medicine. stn the Monday following
Inspector Dneg in came on sonic other business, and from what she
s ad to him, he tooe away the battle of medicine, and the jars contain-
ng what sloe had swim' ed. After that twin surgeons visited her. She
had sometimes lived on the beat terms with her husband, an I some-
times rather toeghly with him. Wileir they hart any words, it wes
about some women. About two years ago-there was s me arsenic in
the house. Mary Francis Shannon, the (laugher of the prooccutrix
a girl about 12 years of ace, was next colloid. She said her motner
and the pi 'rimier had not always lived on good term?. 1 hey quarrelled
because a woman used to go into the- market after her father. She
fail heord the prisons- c her bad names. She never recollected
her mother taking the medicine. She never saw any bottle. She
never saw the bottle produced. She ne:er saw hoc father do any
with a hoti le it the bedrooni. Ereye His 3 ordship stormedethe
case, as there was no evidence to prove that the prisoner had wthully
administered any arsenic to the aroseentrix, therefore it wee no .use
proceeding any furth, r. Thenery then returned a verdict of " Not
Galt,'," an I the prisoner was ab once discha god.
HIGU WAY ROBBERY AT Cease ay Chamberlain, egedi 28,
ouarrym in, Robert Leigh, 31, weaver, William Riding, 35; weaver,
William Chem, erlain, 50. and .ono Chamberlain 63, were chargel
will. robbing a female named Mrs. Hatchison, of seven half crowns
at Whittle, near Chorley, on the 27th nit In this case the prose-
cut-ix lived at Cherie; with her husband, who had left that place
for Liverpool. On the day in qussti n, the prosenutrix left her
home fur the purpose of going to raect her husband, and 1.4 do that
she had to go by traits to the station. On her way there she called
at the house of the prisoners Chamberiain, the father, mother, and
son, all of whom were pres at. when, as her dye's was being
adjusted, they had an opportunity of seeing her purse, which con-
' Mined tire money. After she had left and got a short distance on
the road, the. prinoner William Ch mberlain jammed over a hedge,
tollowod by soma other persons, and demanded her raeney which
they subsequently tonlinfrom her by force- Each of the prisoners
were 'dentine I by the several witnesses called for the orosecntien.
Tile jury could not agree, and were locked up for thranight.
'rile Court rose abant eight o'clock.

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF 'FOREIGNERS
IN DLSIRESS.

The annual meetinc of the• Society of Frien's of Foreigners in
Ticress, was he d in the Clareldon-rooms, at twelve o'clock,
ye,te,rday. The Mayor, James Fft:Mae,.Fsry., presided. 'The follow-
ing gentlemen wera present :---Itev. A. Sttinthall, 11. Loloyns, J.
Samuels°, J. Prange, G. A. Muller s, 0. Borchardt, C. Stoess, H.
Stolterfoht, S. Stolteriiht, W. Kanhardt, and F. Engel.
The Chairman tail two friends of the society having called noon
him to request him to take the chair on the present occasion, it had
given him Irma*: pleasure to secede to their wish. The otjects of
the stiety were so meritorious in them-elves, that he was sure no
comment vute required upon his part. If there was oust situation in
the life of A human being nhen he felt truly forlorn, it was whoa he
landed in a foreign country, unable to speak its language, and
without the mean. as was freu a. ently th. c,e, of procuring sinight's
lodging. This society, providTd 'or such cases, and he hoped that
nts i:1131 an log the g' eat commercial distress which now hong
t, ov
n•t er.. t
this country, the lands of the society would receive the sup_
or
ofonly
whofor felt's
s
located in
iawittihveth, rpowola,,,htsuot f ofth their
rll
fellowkin erCheartluratiesan
friends .

bute
of
""untsth.(.l
(Ilea", hear.)
Mr. Bencke, Treasurer, in reading
Mr. 9amuelson, Honorary Secre'sry, then read the report.
expre!sed some regret that Englishmen in Livzrpool did not aff4rd
the annul l tern Aat
thu society more support, and alluded toe he fact—as ant instance of
the good done by the society—
the that it not ohe soc'ety,
recent Vial of Captain Rogers for crip.-Ities indicted on an Eng-
lishman, would probibly never have taken Olen. He mentioned that
Lo)rejigtn:ervserneswidhienng
rienpLuivteearplyoolcawilluvmerym
;liabnedraplaildn sanphpiogrhtitnrig
to the exertions and services of Mr. Hartmann, the Assistant
Secretary.
The report and statement of amounts were unanimously adopted.
Mr. Prange was re-elected Vice-President, Mr. T. A. Hencke
Treasuter, and Mr. Jangtn Sal:011e1son elected Honoary secretary in
the r orn of Mr. Pieta, whet has ceased to reside inr Liverpool. '
Votes of thanks were passed to the officers and committee, and to
the Mayor for his kin@ness in presidiAg' °,l, after which the pro diP§q
terallWed, _ - . ,-- - .