The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-15 00:00:00

VICTORIA CHANNEL.

We have great pleasure in announcing to the public, and,
especially, to the shipowners and others interested in the
navigation of the channels leading- into this port, the im-
portant and gratifying intelligence of the completion of the
buoying and lighting of Victoria Channel. The annexed re-
port of the Marine. Surveyor to the Chairman of the Dock
Committee, which we have been permitted to copy, states
briefly, but fully, this interesting fact ; and it is not neces-
sary that we should add any thing to the information thus
given, unless it be to say, that the Chairman and several
members of the Dock Committee went, on Friday last, on a
visit of inspection of the channels, lighthouses, lightships,
buoys, lifeboats, &c., and were much gratified in finding
every thing in the most perfect order ; indeed, we should say,
that it would be difficult to improve upon the system of
buoying in the channels, which is no less remarkable for its
great simplicity than for its accuracy, utility, and import-
ance. We are sure great credit is due to the Committee, as
well as to their servants more immediately engaged in this
branch of the public service, for the skill, zeal, and diligence
with which the work has been performed. There is every
prospect, too, of Victoria Channel proving a permanent out-
let and inlet to the great port, lying, as it does, nearly in the
direct set of flood and ebb tide, and forming a western com-
munication of Crosby Channel, which will, no doubt, make
it the principal channel leading into the river and docks.
Little do we fear the prognostications of timid persons, that
the river will ever be choked up. No change of any import-
ance, can take place in any of the banks or channels, by the
shifting of the sands, without being immediately detected by
the exercise of the same vigilance and watchfulness the com-
mittee have hitherto shown over the objects of their charge
Before we give Mr. Lord's report, we may add, that the life
boat establishments have been materially extended and the
crews completed. Those belonging to Liverpool, the Maga-
zines, and Hoylake accompanied by the committee, went on
Friday, as far as Hilbre Island, and their trim, equipments,
rowing, and sailing qualities gave great satisfaction. The
committee also visited the Point of Ayr, and examined and
exercised the crew and boat of that station, and were pleased
with their performance. It cannot be too much to assert,
that at no part in the United Kingdom is there a lifeboat es-
tablishment on so large a scale or so complete as that belong-
ing to Liverpool. No doubt storms will occur, ships will be
wrecked, and men may quail and become timid in the hour
of danger, which should be the time of energy and enter-
prise ; but these are circumstances which none can foresee
or avert. It must, however, be satisfactory to the public to
be informed, that every preparation which skill can contrive
has been made to meet the extremest exigencies which may
occur;. but long may it be beforedisasters so melancholy and
painful as those of January last again happen!
MR. LORD'S REPORT.

" Steamer Hero, Oct. 10, 8, P.M.
" DEAR SIR,--T feel much pleasure in informing you, that
all the arrangements connected with the buoying and light-
ing of Victoria Channel are completed, without the slightest
mishap of any kind. I passed twice through the channel,
to-night, after dark, and found the lights to answer in the
most satisfactory manner. The Isle of Man steamer and the
Duchess of Lancaster also passed through about the same
time; also, her Majesty's small packet Medusa this morn-
ing. The facility of entrance to this port, by this channel,
will, I am sure, be felt and appreciated by every seafaring
man. We carried fifteen feet over the bank at low water.
" WILLIAM LORD.
"The Chairman of the Dock Committee."

Albion.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

The Freemason's Quarterly Review for this month con-
tains the portrait of the first female Freemason ever admit-
ted, Mrs. Aldworth.

About one hundred and twenty of the Christ's Hospital
boys at Hertford, have lately had the measles, of which seven
of them have died.
Hugh Hornby Birley, Esq. has been elected a feoffee of
the Manchester Grammar School, in
.the place of Colonel
Ford, of Abbey Field, deceased.
Orders have been received at the royal dock-yards at Cha-
tham, to build, without delay, two 80-gun line-of-battle ships,
to be called the Majestic and the Mars.
Lord George Bentinck has sold Gray Mounts to the Prus-
sian government for, we believe, £1,300.
- -

More than forty persons have becbm&bankrupts, in con-
sequence of the stoppage of the Imperial Bank of Man-
chester.

On Saturday last, while a gentleman was enjoying the
sports of the field, about seven miles from Glasgow, he
brought down, among other game a snow-whife cock phea-
sant. The bird is prized as a curiosity.---Glasgow lfail.
LIGHTNING TRAVELLING.—Mr. Brunel, it is reported,
has succeeded in obtaining a railway speed equal to two hun-
dred miles an hour !! ! The story of the American mile-
stones will be realized.

A large number of Englishmen who had taken service in
Don Carlos's army have within the last few ,days,-passed
through Rennes, returning to England by St. Malo and
Jersey.—French Paper.
,
There is a man down east, rather.a facetious chap, whose
name is New. He named his first child Something, as it
was Something New. His next child -was christened Nothing
it being Nothing New.
The inhabitants of La Chapelle St. Denis yesterday
morning found that during the night some rogues had carried
off all the street lamps, within the Commune, not leaving a
single one remaining.—Galignani.

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE CONSERVATIVE BANQUET.—
Viscount Ingestrie, M.P., will preside at the dhmer at -Stone.
David Jesse Watts Russell, Esq., it is stated' will, fill the
vice-president's chair.-IVolrerhainpron Chronicle:
MUNICIPAL HONORS AT A DISCOUNT.A., correspondent
informs us that the Mayoralty of a neighbOuripg town, -not
a hundred miles from Penrvn, has been offered to one and
all of the town-council, and 'that all are alike unwilling to
accept so great an honour.—Falmouth Express.
The eldest daughter cf Maria . Louisa, .Archduchess of
Parma, by Count Neperg, with whom ,her imperial highness -----
contracted a morganatic alliance after the descease of the
Emperor Napoleon, is about to be married to an Italian gen-
tleman.
PACKING or SE GARS.—By Treasury letter, dated the 9th
September, 1839,—The regulations requiring .Segars, im-
ported into this country, to be packed WITHO:UT internal
packages, are to be dispensed with in all future cases.
A correspondent, at Castellamare, writing on the 27th ult.,
states, that he had just left Sorenta, where twenty English
residents have died of a pestilentia fever raging in that neigh-
bourhood, and several others were lying ill of the same
malady.—Galignarti.
Mr. Stokoe, of Corbridge Mill, piffled a turnip of the
globe kind on Wednesday last, which measured 3 feet 22
inches in circumference, and weighed ?Albs. It is very re-
markable that there is several of the same size in the field,
and some of the bullock description nearly as large.-.---New-
Castle Journal.

THE CORN AVERAGES.—The weekly average of the price
of wheat, made up on Thursday, is 745. 4d. The aggregate
average of the six weeks is 70s. 9d., which is a small reduc-
tion on the average of last week. In other grain there is a
trifling advance. The duty on foreign wheat is the same as
last week, 10s. Bd.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland sailed from
Kingstown on Sunday evening, for Milford. It is under-
stood that his excellency will remain in England for about
six weeks.

It has now been officially announced that the banquet to
the Earl of Eglinton is to take place at Irvine on Tuesday,
the 29th of October. Mr. William Gillies, Provost of Irvine,
is to be the chairman.

The artists of Munich are represented as being at this
time peculiarly active. Cornelius is saidto have just finished
his great painting of the last judgment, upon which he has
been engaged for four years.
EXTRAORDINARY TURNIP.—A turnip, grown in a field
belonging to G. B. Strutt, Esq. at Belper, was got a few
days ago, which weighed, with the top, 3011;s, and 241bs with-
out it. The girth measured 401 inches.. The turnip is sound
and handsomely formed. Another got from the same field
weighed with the top, 33 lbs, and 23 lbs without it.—Leeds
Intelligeneer.
The Tweed salmon fishings, we regret to state, continue
very unproductive. The number of what are called beach
trouts, which usually enter the river from the sea at this pe-
riod in great abundance, is this year remarkably limited. The
season, which closes on Tuesday week, will he found to have
been an exceedingly poor one throughout—Berwick Warder.
FOREIGN SUGAR REFINED IN BOND, REMOVAL COAST-

WISE IN A " CRASHED" STATE.—By Treasury letter, dated
3d September, 1839, referring to a former order,pormitting
the removal coastwise, under bond, for the convenience of
exportation, of refined and bastard sugars, the produi-!e of
foreign sugar refined in bond,—the like indulgence is ex-
tended to such sugar in a "crashed" state.

For some time past the employe's of the octroi at one of the
barriers had noticed an old lady, who daily went, out of Paris;
followed by a little dog ; but it was remarked that when she
returned, the animal was lying in her arms, as if the good
old lady was giving it a ride after the fatigues of its walk. A
few days ago, as she was entering the barrier, an eMploye;
who was eating part of a fowl, offered a piece of to the little
dog, and being surprised at its not taking it, leoked closer.
and discovered that it was a stuffed figure. This led to a
search, and it was found that the old `lady daily introthiced
in it, in a fraudulent manner, a quantity of the liquor
which she loved," whilst the dog, at another hour of the
day, followed one of her commdres into .taris:.—Galignani.
RAILWAY MILEAGE DUTIES.—A. table. appended to the
Report of the Railway Committee
.shows the auleprit of
mileage duty received from Rails ayS' 'Englanet'theY have
compounded for the duties. From this table it appears, that
the London and Birmingham Company have paid, from
July, 1837, to January, 1839, the sum of £10,995. 12s. ld. ;
the aggregate number of miles travelled during that period
being 24,111,560. The Grand Junction', from 4th July,
1837, to January, 1839, £17,032. 19s. 10d.; • number, of
miles, 32,702,384. The Liverpool and, Manchester, from
January, 1836, to January 1839, £21,397. 2s. ; number
of miles, 41,082,500. The London and Southwestern; frOm
May, 1838, to January 1839, £1,324, 19s. 3d. ; ininiber of
miles, 2,927,928. And the Great:Western, from 4th,June,
1838, to January, 1832, £2,229.,105. ; Munber,pf 'miles,
4,280,648.
THE GERMAN Ci:TSTOMS UNION.—It is stated Ina letter
from Berlin in the Swabian Mercury; that the labciiirS 'of the
commission of the German customs union" are -at-a-4mnd; 'and
that Dr. Bowring and the other commisMonqrs 441 ,quitted
Berlin. If we are to believe this lette,t,,Tver,y Jade horn
done by the commissioners; and DiAtottthietTit'sli6bd`t!old
that if Great Britain, which has, nothing 46 cfettillttikel 'the
competition of other states; really wise forairnbre,-litteral
system of customs in other cpuntries,• 5he:,51191,114..in.,hy
setting the example herself; whereas, while tree' is
,'in
month, the British parliament and 'teithinilat'are
acting in a contrary sense. The letter adds, thatisitteethe
departure of Dr. Bowring, M. de Brouckere has arrived from
Brussels on a similar mission, but that he haslio concessions
to expect unless he has some of importance from his own, go-
vernment to propose. A si

PRODIGIOUS MICROSCOPIC POWER.--.--ODC'Of the greatest
optical curiosities that we have met with is a lens, inranted
by Earl Stanhope, whose name it bears. The inyention was
communicated by that nobleman to Mr. West, of Fleet-street,
to whose ingenuity the scientific world is Indebted for 'g,oMe
valuable improvements in various optical instruments. The
magnifying power of the lens is 4096 times, and the fieldpf
view is five inches. Objects invisible to the naked eye, such
as animalcule in water, eels in paste or vinegar, mites in
cheese, &c. are rent'ered so distinct, thaf-there;Nnb difficulty
in tracing their most minute anatomy. Theletris.magnified
to the proportion of a lobster, and the. piitTiseems to be a
most formidable Monster. The Stanhope lensd% fitted up in
a neat little cabinet, which contains 24 itit'ertainft'and appro-
priate objects, and the price is surprisingly vcheap.—The
Champion.
EARLY APPEARANCE OF WILD rowe.On . Thursday
.
evening last a large flock of wild geese were se'dn:to.pass over
Hendford-hill, near Yeovil, very near the grolinilVand which,
doubtless, took up their abode for the eight in the corn fields ,
at the top of the hill, as they were again, seen, early, the uex I
morning, winging their way to the soatliward: Several vita
ducks were also seen in the river bet Ween Lantrport and 11-
chester, on Sunday morning last. The early appeatanee of
these birds is generally supposed to indicate thesetting in of
severe weather in the north, from whence it is aLso inferred
that, in all probability, an early and severe winteewill he ex-
perienced here. We would therefore caution 'groweri eif Po-
tatoes to he on the alert; and store away these valuablvsup•
plies as soon as ever dry weather may permit more particu-
larly since the frosts of Saturday and Sunday nights have
corn*, ',-rely stripped them of the protection Which the -green
leaves and stalks had up to that time afforded them.-----,oer-
borne JournzT.
PRAYER.—Archbishop Seeker, when laid on his couch
with a broken thigh, was visited at Lambeth by Mr.,Talbot,
Vicar of. St. Giles's, Reading, who hadlived in great ihti-
macy with him, and received his preferment from him. " -y oh
will pray with me Talbot?" said the Archbishop, during this
interview. Mr. Talbot rose and went to look for a Prayer-
book. " That is not what I want now, (said the dyir- pre-
late) kneel down by me, and pray for me in The Way Clinow
you are used to do." With which command:,this scalZus
man of God readily complied, and,
,prayed iearne§tlyrfrpinthis
heart for his dying friend, whom he saw .n 9 104re.7--Countess
of Huntingdon's Life and TimeS, 2 Ardis.
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAlL*Al'.=—AspreeN general
meeting of the shareholders in this•concpailywas :held -'on
Thursday last, at the company's offices,,Hunt's.Banit, Man-
chester ; Mr. Henry Houldsworth, deputy-chairman; of the
board of directors, in the chair.—The ChaihnimsM.techAhat
the object of the meeting was to consider the prcifirletY of
availing themselves of the power in their new net to borrow
the further sum of £216,000, which theyiweke -hew entitled
to do, one-half of the capital of the ,company having been
paid up. A large proportion of the money-they wahted had
been offered them on reasonabloterms,,, which wa4littlieiea
son for borrowing ; but independent of that they ,were
ged to raise more money, as the works were proceeding more
rapidly than could be paid for, even by making the calls as
quickly as the act allowed. , The works were going bn very
favourably. Many of the bridges were completed, so far as
the arches were concerned, and the , others were all of them
so far advanced that the piers were above the surface of the
water, except four of the piers at one bridge. Of the summit
tunnel, according to the engineer's last report, there had been
146 yards completed in the previous month, being a consi-
derable increase over the month preceding. In every respect.
the works were going on very favourably. There was no
reason to fear that the expense would be greater than the
shareholders were already apprised of, and there was every
reason to believe that the work would be completed in less
time. Mr. John Brown moved a resolution,_ authorising the
directors to borrow the sum of £216,000, Which was seconded
and carried unanimously. The Chairman' said; the receipts
from traffic for the last week had been £B6B, and they had
gone on increasing every. week with the exception clone.—
Captain Laws said, it ought to be known that at the present
moment, the duty per mile on their line considerably ex-
, ceeded that of the Manchester and Liverpool Railway. They
carried more passengers for their 13 miles than that corn-
' pang did for their 31. Mr. Jellicorse said, the number of
passengers was 2,300 a-day and upwards. The Chairman
said, in making the comparison between the Manchester and
Liverpool Railway and their ownrin reference to the number
of passengers, the shareholders would be aware that they,had
a low class of fares, which induced a great number to travel
on their line, and who, of course, increased the duty paid.
But travelling at a cheap rate yielded-a higher profit than
travelling by the first class carriages.. .Thereason was, there
was so much less dead weight connected with the third-class
carriages, and the carriages themselves weighed so much less.
Mr. Brown said, that was a statement whiala the public
would not believe at present. The Chairman maid, he was
certain his statement was correet, from
„calculations lie had
made. Taking a first,classlearriage;Mid a thlrd:"ClaSS-ear-
riage, and assuming that they were each two parts full, he
found that the latter Yielded a higher profit per ton the mile
than the first class, the one being 84- and the other 7,1 after
the duty was deducted. After a few remarks from several
other gentlemen, a vote of thanks to the chairman was passed,
and the meeting separated:

THE DREADFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE
AT RUFFORD.

(From the Preston Chronicle.)
Last week, we laid before oar readers, all the particulars
we were able to collect, in the short time which intervened
between the occurrence and our going to press, of this ap-
palling tragedy. We have endeavoured, by subsequent
inquiries, to place ourselves in possession of every minute
particular respecting it, and as the interest and excitement
which the horrid affair produced, is by no means at an end,
for it is in this neighbourhood scarcely diminished, we deem
it our duty to communicate all the information at our dis-
posal, and to enter into the most circumstantial details. We
find, that so far as our narrative of last week went, it was in
all leading and essential respects accurate. The only varia-
tions from our account, which our subsequent knowledge of
the facts have pointed out, relate to minor matters, not
affecting in any substantial sense, the general accuracy of our
report.
The scene of these melancholy transactions is a small
hamlet called Holmes Wood. situated about a mile and a
quarter from Rufford, on the Southport-road. The hamlet
consists of several scattered cottages, and a few respectable
farms, but all are detached, and at a distance of fifty yards
or upwards from each other. The house in which the mur-
derer Robert Dawson lived, stands back nearly a hundred
yards from the main road, and the nearest residence to it
is another small cottage occupied by his brother-in-law.
Further on the road towards Southport, at a distance of a
few hundred yards, the father of Dawson resides ; he is a
rather extensive farmer, and of respectable standing. The
immediate scene of the tragedy, Dawson's cottage, is a small
white building of one story, and consisting of two apart-
ments. The only door to the cottage fronts the main road,
but the windows are at the other side of the house—there
being no light from the side of the house next the road.
Adjoining the cottage, at one end, the shippon or cow-house
is situated, which, as our readers will remember, is the place
where Dawson hung himself. It is a small mud-looking
building, just large enough to contain a cow and a pig, both
of which animals Dawson possessed ; they were in the ship-
pon at the time when the murderer completed the last act of
the dire drama. Partly surrounding the cottage, is a large
and apparently very productive garden, which was in the
occupation of Dawson; he occupied both his tenement and
land as sub-tenant of his father. We were conducted to the
cottage by Jane, the eldest child but one of the ill-fated
deceased. Entering it, we found every indication of cottage
comfort that a poor man might be supposed to wish. Glad,
indeed, should we be, if all the labouring men in this
country possessed means of comfort to half the extent which
were within the reach of this wretched man. The apart-
ment to which the door opened was clean, neat, and amply
furnished. It contained an excellent chest of drawers, a
handsome eight days' clock, and several other substantial
articles of furniture. The sleeping-room is on the right
side of the cottage, from the entrance, and is separated from
the other apartment by a thin partition. This room, which
is of small dimensions, contained two beds, in one of which
Dawson, his wife, and youngest child, were wont to sleep,
and in the next, five other of his children,—the eldest of the
five being about fourteen, and the youngest three years of
age. Dawson had seven children in all, six girls and one
bov, but the eldest of the family was a servant, at her grand-
father's, and was consequently not in the house on the night
of the murder.
The murderer Dawson was, and had been for some years,
a weekly farm labourer, in the employment of Sir T. D.
Hesketh. He was a stout rob .:at man, of about thirty-six
years of age. It appears that his general character has been
that of a steady, sober, industrious, and exceedingly religious
man. Since the bloody transaction took place, however, we
have heard rumours, upon we think creditable evidence, to
the effect that he was uniformly an unkind husband, and that
he was constantly in the habit of quarrelling with and beating
his unhappy wife. As we stated last week, Dawson, for
about two years before his untimely end had been a rigid
member of the total abstinence society, and was also regarded
as an exemplary member of the Wesleyan connexion, the
class meetings of which body he regularly attended. He was
regular in his private devotions ; his daily prayers were
punctually said, and his daily bread was eaten amid all the
externals of piety ; each meal was preceded by a benediction,
and followed by a thanksgiving. In the evening, after the
labours of the day, he not unfrequently taught his children
to read, and the Bible wail almost their invariable lesson
book. He was a man of rather reserved habits, of a studious
turn of mind, and appeared, generally speaking, disinclined
to conversation. Phoebe Dawson, the murdered and mangled
mother of seven children, who are nrphaned by the double
butchery, was about forty years of age. She was a remark-
ably tall, stout, robust, and well made woman. Report
speaks of her as having been an exceedingly exemplary wo-
man ; a kind, careful, and attentive wife, a thrifty manager of
the little farming matters, an affectionate and tender mother,
and a much respected neighbour. Faultless she might not
be, but, poor creature, she has left behind her few in her
station of life upon whose fair fame searching inquiry would
leave so little to blame—so little of reproach.
On the night of the appalling occurrence, Dawson, as was
his custom, went home about half-past six o'clock. He
seemed in no unusual temper, and took his supper with ap-
parent satisfaction and relish. It was remarked, however,
by his children, that neglecting his usual devoutness he did
not on this occasion say grace either before or after his meal.
In the course of eating it, he asked his wife whether she had,
according to his request, sent to Ormskirk for some senna.
She replied that she had forgotten it, on which he rejoined,
" that if she had wanted it for herself, she would not have
forgotten it." No more conversation took place at this time,
and about half-past seven o'clock, Dawson went to bed, but
also omitted his regular custom of saying family prayers.
At eight o'clock, the five children, under the care of Jane,
the elder sister, went to bed, and Jane says, that as she
passed her father's bed, she is sure he was asleep. The
mother sat up to mend her husband's small-clothes, and
about half-past eight she and her infant child went into the
sleeping-room. Whether she had got into bed or not, the
girl does not recollect, for she appears to have been nearly
asleep on the entrance of her mother, and to have fallen fast
asleep immediately afterwards. ,A minute or two before nine
o'clock, Jane was awoke by the mother calling out twice, " get
up and light a candle!' The girl immediately got up and lighted
a candle from the embers of the fire, which was still burning in
the other room. On returning to the bed-room, the awful and
heart-sickening spectacle which met the poor child's view,
was her father and mother kneeling or crouching down by
the bed side, with their throats cut, and encircled by a pool
of blood. As soon as Jane saw this, after an interval of
horror-stricken silence on her part, she said, " father what
have you been doing with my mother." The father imme-
diately got up, but did not speak, and on the girl putting the
question a second time, he endeavoured to hang himself with
a rope which he had in his hand, behind the bed-room door.
On seeing this, the children all of whom were now awake,
shrieked out, when Dawson immediately left the room and
went out of the front door, where he appeared to be drinking
something, or washing his mouth near to the door. The
mother by this time had crawled into bed, and the girl Jane
being thus situated, immediately ran out of the house, and
called in some of the neighbours. Thomas Lea, who is the
brother-in-law of Dawson, and who resides close by, entered
the house in a few minutes, but on becoming acquainted with
what had taken place, and seeing Dawson and his wife with
their throats cut, he was so excessively terrified that he ran
out, and did not return again until he had alarmed several of
the neighbours, and induced them to accompany him. The
poor children being thus left alone in the ghastly house of
slaughter, and at a loss what to do, laid down again, and re-
mained in bed for nearly half an hour, during which time the
miserable Dawson went several times backwards and for-
wards, between the front door and the bed, all the time
bleeding at the throat. The children at this awful period,
appear to have been completely paralysed with terror, and
they do not recollect that either the father or the mother said
a single word either to the children or to each other. When
the alarmed neighbours entered the house, it was nearly ten
o'clock, and on their going into the bed-room, the dying
woman was found on the bed, weltering in her gore, evidently
fast approaching her dissolution. She, however, recognized
some of the persons who approached her, but she was only
heard to speak once, in answer to a question as to what had
been the matter, when she feebly said, that " she ought to
have sent for some senna, and had forgotten." Mr. Barron,
surgeon, was speedily in attendance, but, from the na-
ture of the wound, all idea of cure was out of the question.
The poor creature's sufferings were apparently so agonizing
that it was not thought proper to add to her torture by ask-
ing her any questions. She lingered on the awful balance
between life and death, until half-past three o'clock, when
the vital spark took its eternal flight, and the butchered vic-
tim of a ruthless hand sunk into the arms of death.
" She died, but not alone ; she held within
A second principle of life, which might
Have dawned a fair and sinless child of sin ;
But closed its little beir without light,
And went down to the gr. .e unborn, wherein
Blossom and bough lie wither'd with one blight."
We have stated that when the neighbours entered the
cottage, at ten o'clock, the wounded woman was laying on
the bed, and it remains now to follow the murderer to his
doom. At the approach of the persons who had been
alarmed, he went hurriedly backwards and forwards into the
bed-room, making a kind of gurgling noise with his throat,
and as they entered the door, he managed, during the con-
sternation and alarm, to escape out of it ' • after the first
cares had beed given to the woman, search was made for
Dawson, when he was found hanging on a post in the
sbippon, quite dead. Tidings of the appalling tragedy soon
reached the neighbouring villages for miles round, and as
may be easily imagined, the whole district became a scene of
alarm and excitement.