Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-14 00:00:00

TaE BATH TRAGEDY.

The Coroner, Mr. Bruges Fry, commenced his inqeiry
into the cause of this melancholy occurrence, on Monday,
at a private house in the hamlet of Warleigh, the property
of Mr. Henry Duncan Skrine, of Warleigh House, and
adjoining that in which the bodies of the murdered people
lay. A great deal of evidence, confirmatory of the facts
already stated, and of the cpinion that the prisoner was
insane when he committed the fearful crimes with which
he is charged, was then taken. Daniel Hancock, labourer,
in the employ of Mr. 1-krine, deposed—Between eight and
nine o'clock on Saturday night I was seated by my own
fire and hail my boots off going to bed, when I heard a
scream, and my wife, who was outside, said, " Daniel,
come out." I put my shoes on and went out, and saw
Sarah Border lying on the ground. My wife and two
other women, named Bralfield, were w.th her. Out of
sham said "Tom Miller has done it." I ran after Miller.
and cried out " Tom" three times. It was pitch dark
I then heard Mr. Border say, "Daniel, Daniel, do come
and help me ; Tom Miller has been and webbed me.'
I went to Mr. B rder, whom I found standing in the lane
doubled up, with his hand on his stomach. I put my
hand round his middle to keep him from falling. I was
then assisted by Mr. Heard, the gardener, and we took
him home. As we were going along, he said " Where is
my dear wife ?" and bid me go and seek for her. After
taking him home I went back and found that his wife was
dead. The inquest was ultimately adjourned.

A POMERHCT WARRIOR.—We understand that General
Jacob, the founder of the famous force known as the
Scinde Horse, is a rativa of Somerset. This gallant
hero, who is one of the few great nEn of Italia. is a native
of Woolavingter, near Bridgwater. He left his home for
lodit at the early age of 16, and like a true coloniser, has
remained in his adopted eauntry ever since. General
Jae,t) is now 44 years o'd. He made himself thorouedy
acquaintrd with the character of the people amongst whom
he has lived nearly 30 years ; he underst,nds all the
Eastern languages, whila ia de ds he is worthy of standing
on the same pedestal as the gallant
Examiner.

Nor VERY ORlGlNAL—Everythi ng in America is on a
gigantic scale. Their Wes are taller than ours, their
forests and their prairies ten times as eaten-jar, their water-
falls the grandes' in the world, and their talk the biggest
'hat ever .vas beard. It is just the same with their specu-
lative manias. A town is the wilderness, or a railway
throagh the desert, springs up with ueheard of rapidity,
and a project which would be regarded 1i re as a magnifi-
cent bubble, would stand a chancy of being desplsed across
the Arlautic as altogether too modest fir Yankee espira-
tions. The Almighty dollar has been of en oiled the object
of American worship ; but though it cirrus in for a fair
share of reverence, it is not the fi -st deity in Uecle Sam's
pantte,n. The idea which is the centre of their prac!ical
worship is blgness.
MILITARY DEiERTION3.—This disgraceful off, nce has
now become so common in Canada, that the eemtnanders
in-ebief has prevailed on the authorities to offer reward
for the arrest of all delinquents, and to issue publi-
notices, wered,rg persona against employing such persons,
under certain penalties. Al American paper writes Esa
follows on the subject It is said that a principal cause
of the desertion we have alluded to is, that the regiments
have been ordered for service in India. We are loth to
believe this of even the meanest of Bri ish soldiers, for
want of coring,: has never bean their failing ; end this
would be neither mere nor less than atj cowardice ;
deserting in the presence of the enemy, and that enemy
the murderers and ravishers of their helpless country-
women. If any British sol liter can read the h irrible
atrocities committed in India, and, instead of wishing
himself on the spot, sneakingly seek safety in desertion,
rather than detain such a poltroon, we should say the
sooner he is drummed out of the regiment the better. LA
the soldier who canternpla'es desertion thick well on the
step he is about to take; it is one he cannot retrace; the
act is a self-imposed banishment from his country ; he is
disgraced for ever, and must not f ct to associa ein the
country of his adoption with any but the vile and lots;
fit no really res, ectable person cin esteem a deserter.
He may contrive to conceel his crime, but his conseieaee
will eternally upbraid him, fur perjury is nn trivial sin.
BRADFORD IV ATERWORKS.—EX CENSINE Sclizmz —Some
two or three years 1.-g ), the works of the Bradford Water-
works Cenipany were purchased at immense test by the
corporation. The company, however, c uld only supply a
limited vrtien of the town, ani this the lowest p redone
while the high lying. distric's were left wholly wi'hout.
One great obj et of the corporation has been to remedy
this, and accordingly, in 1854 and 18.55, application was
made to parliament for powers to bor ow money to the
amount of £150,000. Toe scheme, however, has been
found insufficient; another route, therefore, has been
pointed out by ihe engineer, and it has been resolved by the
c immittee to construct a I.rge reservoir at Stubder, on
Thornton Moor. The scheme will involve an outlay of
about £600,000. As already stated, the corporation pos3Fss'
the power to borrow £459,000, and of this amount,
£339,975 has already beea borrowed on the s curity of the
waterworks, water rates, and rents ; whilst up to August
31st, the amount cf capital expanded in the purchase of
the original company's works, &ea and actually paid, had
been £273,396. It WA., therefore, propose.] at a special
meeting of the council that the lyrre-eing powers should
be extended, by again pet.tioning parliament, which was
unanimously carri d.

EXTENSIVE SMUGGLING OF TOEICCO.—A case was tried
some days ago, before two of the magistrates of Leith as
justices, in which James Morrison, earpenter ; David Mur-
ray, steward ; Divid Burrell, bo ttswain ; Jelin Noble,
James Brodie, end John Lorimer, seamen ; and John Shaw,
fireman, all of the steamship flehrooi, were p osecuted at
the instance of Mr. Nanson, collect or of Customs in Leith,
for smuggling toly.coo. Mr. Beverly, a solicitor of Cus-
toms from London, conducted the prosecu ion; and Mr. P.
S. Beveridge, le ith, appeared for the defence. Mr Bert ply
stated that on the morning of the 2nd inst.:, after the steam-
ship Holyrood had arrived in Leith Docks, from Rolerdam,
certain officers of Customs had found 26 packages of foreign
manufactured tobacco, weighing 28 lbs , liable to sc-z ire,
concealed in the forecastle of said ship, where the defenders
lived, and that they were found on board. He then
directed the attention of the C curt to the terms of the Act
of 1855, aad submitted that if he were able to prove that
the defenders were on board of the Holyrood when the
seizure was made, he should be enti•led to a conviction.
Mr. H. P. Testrail, a tide-surveyor, and Mr. Mason, a
Custom-house boatman, deponed to fieding the tobacco and
the defenders on board of the Holyrood. The case was
then delayed till Thnraday last to hear some evidence fair
the defence. Mr. Beveridge then adduced several witnesses,
one of whom deponed that the tebecco belonged to a sea-
man who had absconded. The magistrates were, however,
of opie ion that the charge under the Act was proved.
Bailie Lindsay, in giving judgment, said it would, no
doubt, be a great hardship in some eases to apprehend and
fine every one found oe board of a ship 'where goods liable
to seizure were found ; but in the present irstance there
w, .s no great hardship, for only those who had been eating
and sleeping in the forecastle (the place where the tobacco
was foune) were before them, and it had come out in evi-
dence that some of the defendants had a guilty knowledge
of the tobacco being concealed on board. He fined them
£lOO each, with costs, and failing payment to be imprisoned
duriog Her s y's pleasure. On this case being con-
cluded William Dickson, another of the crew, was placed
at the bar on the same charge, and being found guilty, he
was also fined £lOO with costs. None of the fines being
paid, the parties were sent to prison. The Holy, °el was
placed under embargo, and it was not till the owners bad
placed a deposit in the bends of the collector of Customs
that the vessel was allowed to leave the dock.