Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-04 00:00:00

manslaughter, at Halliwell, during a quarrel in the streets,
after they had been drinking freely t gether in a public
house.
" Jan 10 : A married man with six children, committed
for a rape Upon a child twelve years of age, at a public
house at which he was drinking
" G. B. also for wounding his cousin, whilst in a state of
intoxication.
"Jan. 20 : J. C., from Salford, a married man with a
family, charged with beastiaaity with an ass when intoxi-
cated
"Feb. 7 : W. C., an Irishman, f,r trial at the Assizes, for
murder at Manchester. He had been drinking freely and
quarrelling with the woman with wh tm the murdered man
cohabited The quarrel with her led to retaliation on the
part of the decea ed, and that again to the fatal blow
given by the prisansr, with a Loin knife which he had
gone upstairs to fetch
March 7 : S J., a young woman, for trial at the Assizee,
for stabbing her mother, because she would not give her
money to buy drihk. Flea had been married that morning
to a man with whom she had lorg cohab.ted, and had been
drinking all the day after.
March 20 : W., a station master on the East Lancashire
Railway, the attempting t shoot a man, when in a state of
intoxication.
"April 13: A youth, 22 years of age, for committieg
a rape upon his own sister, twelve years of agi, when
drunk.
" April 17 : An Irishman, for trial a' the Sessions, for
bating off a piece of another Irishman's chin, when
intoxicated, at Upholland fair.
"June 20: 11. J., fifty-two years of age, a tailor. from
Huyton, charged with an attempt to cat his own throat
with* raz after drinking for a whole week.
"June 30: Two boys, sixteen and eighteen years of age,
committed for one calendar mcnth, for being drunk and
di .orderly.
"July 3: A man, for rnanslaughtr, by pushing another
man down some steps both drunk!
" July 4: Two brothers, for the assizes, for the man-
slaughter of a l clicaman, by k:cking him on the head—
both intoxicated,
"July 11 : A sailor, for the assizes, for stabbing his
chief mate, at Constantinople, when drunk.
" Oa- :A a omen, from W.gan, for breaking the win-
dews of a man with vet om she cohabited (87 years of age),
in a drunken brawl. She herself is 27 years old
" Oct. 8: Two men, fir the assizes, charged with man-
sl tighter--the oae, R. J., for killing his brother, at Liver-
pool, in a family quarrel, with a knife, when drunk ; the
other J. W.. for causing the death of a young woman,
whom he had taken up with hlm into a hayloft in a ba-n,
by rolling oft with her to the flmr below, whereby his own
arm was broken. He also was in a state of intoxication:
" Such are some of the melancholy fruits and fatal Con.
segeences of England's great sin, and England's great
shame, intemperance, as presented in the crimhial annals
of Scull Lancashire durerg the past year. Whilst our
towns remain in thet demoralised state, which I am called
upon 3ear after year to deplore, at d the gin vaults, the
beerhonees, and the night houses are gaping on all tiles
and at all hours f the night fir their victim); whilst
music, and other exciting amusements, are divested from
their innocent, and, even to my mind, desirable phignse
of cheering the vac tnt h-_urs of the toilworu mechanic and
made to pander to the vie a an I excesses of the gau it
haunts of immorality, in which cur criminal population
ere bred and tn atured, the scaoolatat ter may
open hie doors to instruct in every street,
the clergy may exhort and warn win all eareestness
the gaol chaplain any strain every nerve to reel dui and,
reform, but I feel convinced th,t the labours cif all, if,
which God forbid, they be not wh Ily fruitless, will, at
least, be miserably. er ppled, and too often paid with bitter
disappointment, Every earthly rod must hive some
attendant evil and even that ehticest blessing of uefeet-
teeed freedom, which we erj ay as Riglishmea, is not
without its alley. It is a vulgar seying, and ore generally
considered true, that we ' cannot be dregeoned into reli
gion or virtue;' and so the many are to be left in their
ignorance and darkness in this Christian land to choose
for themselves whether they will speed the hely Sabbath
in the pure and sacred worship of God, and in a 4holesome
use of
,the appointed meats of grate, or in an isle end
dissolute abuse ~f its conre crated hour, whilst they may
freely, and without check, indulge in those inimerel
excesses which, if not always puaishahle by man, are,
nevertheless, divir ely condemned as excludieg those who
commit them from the kingdom of Heaven.
Why should it t e ceneide ed an interference nit's the
liberty of an Englithruan to oblge him to throw tiff those
shackles which atone keep him in slavery ? Why should
not our rulers be empAvered and eec ,ureg,d by the
neanimous voice of air who have the weltare of their
come amen at heart to drag on men,' if it cannot be done
otherwise, into that which is for their own temporal as
well as spiritual good- by enforcing a bet' er observance of
the Sabbath, and by cLeccuntenaucirg ou all dsys, and in
every place, all those vicious lures with which self-interest
is ever courting the unguarded and unwary ? Why should
not our public amusements be increased, and those which
we have already be mead of -
.3 woniw-prevent labourm 7 men from lasing a
good night's rest ? I cannot Ste anythlrg so Quixotic or
impracticable mye elf in endeavouring to effect so whele-
some a change in the camfort, and plea hres, no less then
the merel end opirhual gmd of he people; and I am quite
sure the+, ustil there has la en some very essential charge
produced in the moral atmesphere of our gam towns, no
gaol system whatever will be a',le to work any extensive or
permanent imprevement in the criminal population of the
country.
We have sent a great nunal er cf juveniles to Reforma-
tories during the past year (the particulars of which I
have given in table x), at el have every reason to hop,
that, in the gnat majority of ca-es, we may look for sue •
cesa. It is a source of much gtatification to find these
asylums increasing so rapidly in all parts of the country.
" Our excellent Refuge for the Destitute, so a itnieably
conducted by the present matron, Mrs Young, has also
received eigl/2t of our dischvgel female prisoners, and,
with one exceetion, they have all hitherto conducted
themselves is a vary satisfac:ory mermen
"We have als t sent a mart on hie discharge to the
2,efuge, in Great Smith street, Westminster, who professes
at least, and I have no rea,wn to doubt his sincerity, to
have teen reclaiated from iefilelify during his stay will
us, an I who, from being mist r, fractcry and uumanage-
able, had become in every respect exemplary in his coo-
duct, and continued so for several months before the
expiration cf his sentence. His autobiography, which he
wrote for me in his separate cell discloses a most extra-
ordinary course of lice, and if he really be, as I hope,
thorecgbly reformed, he may, indeed, bl.ss the day ihat
brought him within our calls.
" The only alteration within the bulling which calls
for notice, during the mt. }ear, is the adapt,tion of a few
cells to the pu-pose of separate coefinemeut in the female
department. They have not yet been long employed far
this purpose and there have hid:in-to been many reports
of misconduct against the inmates for shouting to one
another ; but I trust that. within a short time they will be
found a valuable aid in our endeavours to render our worst
characters amenable to di, eiplice, and to elicit whatever
good feeling may still remain in their obdurate) hearts,
with a view to their reclamation from their abandoned
course of life.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE -YJSTERDAY.

LIVERPOOL.
BEFORE MR. MANSFIELD.
FIGHTING IN THE STREET AND ASSAULTING FEMALES.—
Jnha Price and Isaac Thornton, tw3 powerful looking
fellows, one a navvy," the other a ship ,carpenter, were
charged with fighting in Spitalfields, and for having as-
eaUlted a female, named Margaret Wynn. The case was
fully proved against Price, and he was sent to gaol for six
Months. The other prisoner was discharged.
Wipe DESERTION. - James Douglas, a chemist, who
formerly had a shop in Marybone, was charged by Mr.
Hughes, the outdoor parish officer with having deserted
his wife and four children. The complainant (Mrs.
Douglas), who is an exceedingly handsome young woman,
said she had been married about eight years, but for the last
four he was in the habit of treatit g her very badly, in con-
sequence of the drunken habits he had fallen into. Some
time ag she was oblige i to separate from him, as he made
several attacks on her life. He was to allow her 101 a
weak, but he did not pay, and she had to resort to the
parish for relief. Mr. Hughes said the prisoner was in
good employment at Messrs. Babies and Coe , and
could allow his wife and family proper support.
The prisoner said he had invited his wife to two lodgings,
that he had taken fur her, but she refused to go. She
replied ie answer to that that she was afraid of her life
A servant, who formerly lived with the parties, gave evi-
dence of the pthoner'e violence towards his wife. The
prisoner was sent to jail for a month.
STABBING —A very wild-looking fellow, named Thomas
Champion, whose face was covered with blood, was charged
with having stabbed a woman named Catherine Warren,
in a public house in Scotland road. The parties were
erinking in a public-house, when some quarrel took place
between the• prisoner and another man, and then the
prisoner drew a small knife, and struck the woman a blow
on the forehead. Surgeon Smith, of St. Anne's, Diepen-
eery, said the wound eves 33 inches lopg, and very deep, on
the left side cf the forehead ; it was not a dangerous
wound, but would leave a mark for life on her. The
prisoner was sect for trial
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM Fox, 'roe MILITIA MAN !
—Tom Fox is a Militia man, and he lived in Sawney
Pope street; d Pat Flynn keeps a beer-house in
the some classic locality; and according to the story of
Tom F. x, ho (Me. Flynn) keeps something more than
a beer house, netnely the Mol y Mag,ires Club, and "by
the same token" a 'ded Mr. Fos, "one can't look croaked
over their ehoulthr, without gettin' a poultheuge in the
smush, or having the head glautned off him!" The said
Tom Fox, being a Militia man, and mere than thy, be-
longing to the Royal 1 ancashire Arallery, and finding
that his country needed his servicas, he resolved, like a
good and faithful subject of our gracious sovereign, to go
out to India and kill some Sep ys, and probably get killed
himself ; but, as will appesr by the sequel, the latter event
was nearly accomplisbed by the lit lly Vaguire3, without
giving Tom Fox the trouble of a voyage to Calcutta. Tom
Fox, according to the testimony he gave of himself, is an
honest man—that is one man picked out of a thousand,
but so it happened. Being an h ,nest man, Tcm imagined
it would b 3 a shame, and a scandal and a disgrace to go
go out to k 11 Sepoys or to he killed whilsthe ow d
anything to any one -and for two reasons. first it would
not be honourable in an honest man to ran off
from Nancy Whealan. the
.provision dealer, and
leers 2s. 20. against the debit side of his account cute ent
for bacon, butter, cheese, and tobacco ; nor w .uli it be at
all right for Mr. Flynn, the beer-house keeper, to be
everlastingly looking at the chalked characters (an original
sort of short hand, -invented by Mr. Flynn and called fifer
his name, the Great Flynntonien eyston of B tok keeping)
behind the bar door, vehicle showed that Tom Fox had from
time to time, nloog wi h sevsral other " Theld S: jar
b ye," imbibed an arnalgemeticn t f malt, hops, pik3 water,
and other ingredients, curirealy enough called " sixpenny,"
tot tie amount of tellies-tee halfpenny -be the same more
or less, or there shouts. The second reason of Tom's, for
not departing either to India or the next world, in debt
was as c gent as the first. If he thought "honesty was the
best policy," why he wit bound +z> pay in honour, and
besides thy, he was a soldier, and putting honesty out of
question a soldier was bound to pay; and rot have the
" curse of the crows" go'ng after him into the m-da murder,
that was sure to await him in his fi st ruckshin before. or
in the city of Delhi, if he ever got there. lie therefore,
went to the paymaste- of the regiment, d ew as much
tin" as squared all his accounts, left provision dealers,
green-grocers, beer house keepers, and every other sort of
huxters,'' in such a•state of financial ease (so far as he
was concerned), that they wished him 'good luck intirely,"
and hoped that if he wasn't " k Ir," that he miglit come
hack again, married to one cif Neva Sahib's d arghters.
Having paid his " Scot and lot," and having a surplus of
half-a sovereign and tro half-crowns, thought he would
have a taste of a dhough-a-dhoroughts" with his neigh-
bours, and so he got "pretty decently drunk," bat knew
well what he was ab ut. Hie pugnacious qualities being
called into reqnisition by the po eer o 7 the stimulants; he
beganl, to
es practiceiug 6tnnetoheep firstoys, „
it/ ewr saoin
onlywh oPaPt7liel
Esq , and a tribe of the " Molly Maeuiree," he was
"pitching into;" but, as numbers will do a great deal,
so, in this inetanc a the "Me nye" gave poor Tom
Fox the most " frightful ponndit-g" that ever mortal
man dropped in for The end was, that the
representative of the Flynn dynasty, in Bewley Pope
Street, was taken to the Station on a charge cf having
robbed, and nearly murdered outright, Tom Fex, the
ilitieman. When Tom wag put into the witness box, he
presented a fearful sprearanre ; that portion of the head
hich usually represents the face, was one swollen mass of
bruised flesh ;ey es, nose, mouth and cheeks were hardly
rerrgnisable. It was worse than that, for he was bruised
frightfully all over the body, and as for his Militia clothes,
all the military tailors in Christendom, or out of it, could
not doe-or them He swore that the prisoner Flynn,
robbed him of hat'-a sovereign, and, with others kilt him
intirely." Mc Btuck was for the eprgisuoinreer
mayyt, called about a quarter of the tribe of ma
swore hat the prisoner was not at tine plea). when the
" shindy" tot k place, and this being proved beyond all
-7oulet, as he was payirg his gas bill at the time, he was
discharged, and on getting outside the Court, he W 43 met
by " any quantity" of the tuba, who bore him away in I
triumph.
A. Loci, OF "AIWENT PPIRITS.—Mary Atkinsen, a
servant in the public-house of Mrs Leigh, of Merybono
wes ch.aged with having stolen 4s. 2 1., and a bottle of
whiskey, and one of brande, the money and goods 1 f her
employer. The barman in the house raid he was awoke
about three in the mcrnit g by a noise, and thinking there
was a bu-glar in the house, he jantrad out tf bed, and ran
down the stairs, but, on reaching the middle cf the stairs
he fell over a human b3ir g, whieh frightened him dread-
fully. On getting a light, he found the p iscner on the
stairs helplessly drunk, and a bottle of whiskey and one of
brandy under her head. She tried to get up, but failed,
and in the effort she rol'ed from the stairs down into the
cellar, where she was picked up. Ott searching her 41.23.
was found; this sum had been taken from t e till out of
the change left in it at night. The prisoner, it seemed,
managed to get the key of the bar, f om where it eas left,
and so entered the place. She was tent for trial.

"Our previous convictions, which, be it remarked, com-
prise all those. who have been committed before to any
gaol (see table xiii.), have been, I grieve to notice, very
numerous, and I fear that this has been •he ease all over
the country This is, indeed, a lamentable fact, when we
umsider the abundance of work, and 'the high prices given
for labour of all kinds daring the year. Neither have I
reason to believe that want of employment has bsen in
very many cases the cause of these relapses into crime.
Alt,a! these relapses • ave been too often attributable to a
return to the immoral haunts rod vicLus clmpanions to
which ..he earlier commitments were owing—haunts and
companions whose name is legicn' in every town, I fear,
in our populous

THE INDIA RELIEF FUND,
AND

A FANCY DRESS BALL.

TO TETE EDITOR Or THE NORTHERN
dare say f4tv of your readers h.ve forgotten the
Grand Fancy Ball at St. George's Hall Would it not be
a good oppor'unity to get one up now in aid of the fund
for the relief of ,h 3 India sufferers? Tne last one left a
very handsome surplus ; but being held in Lent, a great
many were prevented from attending it in eons•gnence.
Trusting you Ail! give this suggAstion a corner in your
paper, —I remain, A. WELL WISEI&E TO THE FUND.
Liverpool, Nov. 3, 1837.

" I have no remarks to make with regard to the conduct
of the gaol during the past year, everything having pro
ceeded in the same quiet methodical manner as heretof,re.
My own duties have been discharged as usual, and I have
endeavoured to the utmost of my abilities to lead each
wandering sheep committed to my char. 3 to the Shepherd
and Bishop of his soul, to inspire within him a true repent-
at ce of all the sins and follies of his past I fe, and to help
him forward, by the grace of God, in the right way that
leads h to everlasting life.
Attached to this report is an appendix, containing some
very valuable statistical information, from which it appears
that the total number of prisoners under his care was 2,183,
of whom 813 wete married, 1 220 were single, and 15e
were widowers or widoveir; 557 had both parents living,
916 had neither paret t living, 275 had only fathers, 426
had only mothers. Of these, 883 could not read, 885
could read, 468 could read and write imperfectly, 406 could
real and write well, and 45 had a superior education
1,119 were quite ignorant of religion 758 were imperfectly
instructed, and 306 were well instructed. Out of this total
1,299 belonged to the Church of England, 728 were Roman
Catholics, 73 were Dissenters of various denominations,
43 Presbyterians, 5 Lutherans, 17 Independents, 5 Baptists,
1 Quaker, 2 Swedenborgiane, 1 Unitarian, 6 Mormonitue,
1 Jaw, and 2 who professed no religion whatever."
The Bridgemaster's report was confirmed, as was also
that of the Finance Com mitte . Alters brief eon versation

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THE PIER AND TDA PEASANT.—FYLVYION BY Fntx.-
01 ,h, 6:h of June last, an iceuittious cotter, named
Donald Murray, will his sist(r and two • lithe motherless
girl, wi re sj c,ed from the hut which they had ccupi+l
some rears. After lying for sere time in the open air, 'ha
Rev. Mr. Macktl!ar, pari h minister of Cyr e, gave them
the use of a cart shed, a hich they continued #o ecupy from
the Ms of evictien till Saturday, th' 17fh of last month,
their li'tle bi's of furniture mean whle lying in the rpcin
air. In the meantime it was fuu- d that the Duke of
8 itheihn l had no right to the cot from which Murray and
his family were *jetted ; end that it stood on glebe land,
and a cae was entered in tha Court of t.ess'on• Acting
under advice, Murray a:-,cl h's famly again twig possession
of the hut, along with part of their furniture, on the data:
referred to, and iraniedia'cly on this being done the
machinery was set in op,,rati,'n for a second (Sic ion.
accordingly, on the fk renoon of Tu:sday last public mien-
nail was attracted to a dense volume of stn ke rising front
the mighbourhood of the manse of Clyne, and it was soon
found hat Murray'a cribi>l was on fire, an: that w. rknien
were actively emuloyed in the demoltion of its rude walls,
The hut was razed to the gr( uml, and various articles of
furniture were also destroyed—Xothern Ensign.

the magistrates adjourned until this day, when the trial of
prisoners will be procaeded with,

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meeting of the ratepayers be convened for the considera-
tion of the subject, with a view to the opening of the re-
quisite negociations, should the suggestion of incorporation
be approved of by the meeting.
"Signed on behalf of the committee,
" THOMAS URQUHART, Chairman.
" Committee-room, Oat. 17, 1857."

THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY.-
CASE OF CADOGAN v. EVANS.

A public meeting, convened by the friends of Mr.
Evans, was held on Monday, in the London Tavern, for
the purpose of receiving suggestions and co-operation, with
the view of obtaining a commutation of his sentence. Mr.
F. W. Themes, auctioneer, took the chain, on the motion
of Mr. Gammon, seconded by Mr. 'Tan Buren.
The Chairman explained that it was the object of Mr.
Evans's friends to obtain an expression of public opinion
that the sentence passed on him was unjust ; and if the
meeting were of that opinion they would go the Secretary
of State to obtain a commutation of the sentence. They
must condemn Mr. Evans for having given up his tnanu-
sc-ipt to Mr. Thorne ; bat they felt qu'te assured that he
was not a party to any attempt at ex'ortion.
Mr. Gammon (solicitor for Mr. Evans) made a state.
ment of the case. He regretted that Mr. Evens, before
answering the letter of Sir J. Carmichael, had not
consulted his solicitor. If he had consult. d him he would
have advised him to !eve the greatest publicty to the
feels he was aware of, but not to do so in the way he had
done. He referred to the correspondence that had taken
place before Mr. Evans interposed, and a'so to the measures
taken by him, and submitted that if that individual had
intended to make anything of the letter, he would not
have communicated to Mr. Mowbray Morris and Mo
Sampom of the Times, on the subject, or put himself
within the clutches of the Times, unless it was reelly his
intention to publish the letter which he had written. A
sogoas ion was thrown omit at the Old B iiley before the
tr'a'—he did not exactly know hciw, but so it was—that it
hie client weald plead guilty he would be let out on his
own recogn7zaece to apnea- when called upon ; hut Mr.
Evans declared that the f cts he had stated were true, and
that be would net say they were untrue to get rid of any
punishment he might receive. ln conclusion, he put it to
t';:e meeting whether they thought that Mr. Evans bad
bay intention 4 f making a profi; by writing the letter?
(Cries of No, no.")
M. Warren (solicitor for Thorne) stated that his
client disclaime I al! intention to exeort, money, and denied
that there was any collusion between him and Evens for
such a purpose.
Mr. T. O'B i.tn declared that, instead of punishment,
Me. Evans deserved to be liberally rewarded.
Me. Acl Ind moved the first resolution that, having
heard the statement of facts male by the solicitors engaged
for the defendants on the trial of Cadogan v. Evans and
Thorne, some of the most important of which were
encludd by the rules of legal evidence from the consider.
ation of the jury, the meeting was deeply impressed with a
conviction that Mr. Evans had been subjec'ed to unmerited
punishment by the sentence passed upon him, and the
meeting pledged it, elf to employ all such means as might
he deemed expedient to obtain a remission of the sentence,
and invited the co-operati on of the whole of the commer-
cial community in its Fife, t' to obtain that act ofjaistice,
Mr. Saurria-s seconded the resolution. 1-le had known
Evans for some years pas', and was ideo:ified with hon
in commercial trans lotion+, all of which had been carri-d
out by him with strict honour and with the most up:dg'ot
conduct.

Tee resnLition cuts carried unanimously.
01 the motion of T. O'Brien, seconded by Mr. Van
B ren, it 3 res,lyel th it a memo-ial should b? presented
to Sir George Grey, praying for a c)minitation or remi3
sion of the sentence.

It was arrant d that :a subseriplon slaonld be entered
int-, to defray the necessary expenss.
A vote of thanks w s passed to the chairraar, and the
meeting separate'.

GAROTTE ROBBERY AND MURDER IN ESSEX.

I C 01.11,0 ENGAIVE, Nov. 2.—This retired village, situate a
I few miles from the town or Halstead, has been the scene of
a daring ribluery and murder, the death of the victim
having probably resn'ted rather from fright than front
actual violence. It appears that on Sanday morning, Mr.
/vac Bucher, a farmer, residing in Csine Engaine, and
former'y a cattle dealer, left home fur the purp .30 of
attending Colchester naarke. lie was seen by several
parties during Saturday ; and having transacted his
ordinary burin 93 on the Cern Exaba-lize, he went to
several shops Bard made small purchases, when it was
observed tdev he was in possousiou of a considerable sum
of m ney, chiefly ii s vcreigns. Sion after five o'clock
(-1 be was not drivkg his own vehicle) he returned
towards his home ia company with Mr. Johnson, a dealer,
of Eris Colne, in a ch-'ise belonging to that
tyre-I/ma-wile/re' necesiary Tor Arr. Butcher to
diverge from tho main line of trififlo, he desenuded from
the chaise, and walked on towards the gate of Colne Park.
About baT-past six o'clock a lad named Butler, son of the
gardener in tee empley of Mr. Robert Hill, of Colne
Park,. was p- weeding towards the park gate when his
sttention was arrested by the stifled cries of some one in
eistresP,. and le leard the exclamation "-Oh, don't!"
or " ,h,. dez,r." Ile passed throagh the gate, and had
not proceeded far when he was horrified at discovering the
body of Mr. Butcher lying in the road apparently dead.
He immediately rushed back, and assistance being procured,
the unfartunate man, who ga;ped but once and expired,
was conveyed to his own home and medical help called in,
but id vain. In the road, near the spat where the body
laid, were found two pools of blood, and three small
parcels of gods purchasd at Colchester were seAtered
in different direcions, Strange to soy, upon an examin-
ation of the body the only external marks of violenc-,
were contusions upon the no.te and motel], and those
quite insufficient to tcdount for death; but the waisteo- t
had to'.,en violently 'orn open. e, as t t di sver some of the
butt.ons by wb'ch it had ben fas•ered, and all the
dreased's p tparo, to,gether with the money reen in hie
possession a; Co!eb,,ster, bed be-n extracted from his
pockets. The pr:stimp'iJa, therefore, is that the robbers
placed !heir hands over his mouth to prevent his creating
any alarm, and this together with the fright that ensuA,
recasioned his de nth. lie was, moreover, aflUeted viith
disease of the heart,

Exclasively fur CLOTIIINI. 110Y3 from Six to Twenty Year
LEWIS & 00 :IPANY, Ranelagh-street.

BONA Finn: TRAY/ULF/V.—ln a case at Perth, before
the Earl of Mansfield and o'h,r j...totiees, it has been decided
that persons coming to church, from whatever distances,
were not bona fide travt Vers.
ANOTHER. FAILVIIB IN GLASHOIr—It was reporfel on
Friday, that another ithporant firm in Glasgow had sus-
pended payment. The liabilities are state.] at .E.5u0,000.
It to believed, howev, r, that a private arrangement with
creditors will be rnade —Scotch Taper.
SUICIHH OF A FRENCH RAILWAY OFFICIAL—The chief
of the railway station of Al ntigny blew cut his brains a
few days ago, in eonstquecce, it is slid, of his having
eppropriattd to his own use, some of the money of the
c impany, the discovery of %it ch he fearel. Hs has left a
wife ,nd several children.

SUSPECTED. PoISoNI, 0 OF A lIIMBAND, WIFE, AND.
CHILD.--At two o'clock, on the molting of Friday, the
neighbourhood ef the church or Bilhoe, about s:ven milea.
from Cirlow, was in a state of much excit merit, occasioned
by the rumen. that a man named Turnsted, his wife, an:l
chili, were p isoned. A messenger was despatched at once
fir Dr. Anderson. of Tinuffin, the nearest medical man,
who at once proceeddd to the person iu question, and, on
his arrival he found Mrs. Turnsted in, a state of collapse)
her husbend labouring under vi-lent aelon of the stomach
and bowels, ottenee 1 with violent pains, and the ohild
asleep,, apparently after having suffered iu a similar way.
Dr. Anders)n at once prr c eded to administer the aritidetr's and restor:itives, but had little hope of being
Lble !0 save Ms. Turnsten'e life. The husband is still in a
precarious state, but the child appears to be convalescent.
There are strone suspicions of arsenical poisoning and that
the poison has been wilfully a 'ministered by another person.
--Silken,, , Journal
" BAR I'—CA Damrs, of her Majesty's 3Zth Regiment,
a King's County man, has invented a lock for securing the
gaol doors in India, which will get him a bad nem.) with
such humanitarians as the Nafion and the Dundalk Demo-
' crat. Knowing that the first seep of mutinous regiments,
after they have overpowered their officers, is to let loose
ilia inmatts of the prison, and hound them on to de:ds of
incendiarism and blood, the gallant effieer has caused a mine
to be excavated under the prison of Ghi espore, intimating
his intention to blow it up, wit all which it contains, at
the very first application of a Sepoy crowbar to the outer
doors. This will be making the engir:eer hoist. with his
own petard, and we have no coubt Colonel Dames will be
cl e I blown up in mmy quarters for thinking of it. Such
a short and expeditious meth ,d of breaking gaol would
have: been invaluable at Cawnpore and Meerut; yet we
shall not be surprised if the suggestion of our energetic
countryman shall be sharply reproved by that Supreme
Council of Nightcaps, whose wet blanket still floats over
Calcutta, for the strangulation of everything practical,
except the torturers and butchers of their species.—Dublin
Evening Mail.