The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-30 00:00:00

SPORTING' INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER-TUESDAY EVENING.
DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
9 to 4 agst Mr. W. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury (tk)
65 to 20 „ Major Yarburgh's Charles XII (tk 70 to 20)
13 to 1 „ Mr. Thornhill s Euclid (offered last night)
100 to 6 „ Duke of Cleveland's Commodore (off at noon
100 to 5 „ Colonel Cradock's The Provost (tk)
100 to 4 „ Lord Westminster's Lord Mayor (off)
100 to 2 „ Mr. Dixon's Mountaineer (tk)
200 to 2 „ Mr. Newton's Tag-rag (tk.)
DONCASTER CUP.
20 to 6 agst Mr. Orde's Bee's Wing (tk)
sto 1 „ Major Yarburgh's Charles XII.
sto 1 „ Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway.
THE OARS.
4 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Crucifix (take 5.)

TATTERSALL' S—MONDAY.
The termination of the Liverpool trials has had very little
effect on the betting, the positions of the two favourites being
within a shade of what they were on Thursday last ; 5 to 2
was offered on the field, and 3 to 1 against Charles XII., and
both taken in hundreds two or three times ; the same odds,
however, were obtainable up to the close of the room. What-
ever may be the result of the " reserved point," there is no
longer any obstacle to Bloomsbury's starting for this race ;
and bets, we apprehend, will be decided as the horses come
in. Euclid was backed for £lOO in the course of the fore-
noon at 10 to 1, but subsequent offers drove him back a
couple of points. Hetman Platoff also gave way, nor were
The Provost and The Commodore in so much favour as- last
week. On the other hand, the Lord Mayor was backed in
good quarters at 20 to 1, and left off with a rising look. Of
the outsiders Meunier and Easingwold were most in demand ;
the amount, however, laid out upon them was small. Hark-
away was backed for the Doncaster Cup at 4 to 1 to £lO ;
and Launcelot, for the Derby, at 28 to 1 to £5O.

DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
5 to 2 agst Mr. W. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury (tk 55 to 20
, .

3to 1 -„
Major:Yarburfh's Charles ?CII:(tk 7 to 2

12 to 1 „ Mr. Thornhill's Euclid (off)
20 to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Lord Mayor (off)
20 to 1 „ Mr. Bowes's Hetman Platoff (tk and aft off)
20 to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Commodore (t & aft off)
20 to 1 „ Colonel Cradock's The Provost (tk & aft off)
30 to 1 „ Duke of Richmond's Meunier (tk)
35 to 1 „ Mr. Ramsay's Easingwold (tk)
40 to 1 „ Mr. Dixon's Mountaineer (tk)
40 to 1 71 Mr. tixon's Hyllus (tk and afterwards off)
DONCASTER CUP.
4 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway (tk and aft off)
THE DERBY.
28 to
.1 agst Lord Westminster's Launcelot (taken.)

MEMOIR OF ARCHIBALD BOLAM.—No. I

(From the Newcastle Journal)

The preceding portion of our narrative was concluded at
the period when Bolam entered on the situation of Actuary
to the Savings' Bank, in Newcastle ; and it may not there-
fore be out of place here briefly to notice the history of that
establishment. The Newcastle Savings' Bank was founded
on the 10th of January, 1818, when its concerns were en-
trusted to the management of a committee, consisting of 39
gentlemen, sixteen of whom have since paid the debt of
nature. ince the commencement of this institution up to
the 20th of November' 1837, the period up to which the ac-
counts were made, last before the murder and arson, when
several important documents were destroyed, 15,586 persons
have been participators in the advantages it offers, they
having paid into the Bank in the interval referred to; the
sum of seven hundred and twenty-six thousand, nine hun-
dred and ninety-four pounds, six shillings and eight pence;
and many of whom, or their representatives, having received
back again with interest, the sum of six hundred and nine-
teen thousand three hundred and sixty nine pounds, seven
shillings and ninepence. Thus the enormous sum of one
million three hundred and forty six thousand three hundred
and sixty three pounds, fourteen shillings, and five pence has
been' turned offer in this establishment within the last 20
yFars. The total number of open accounts on the 20th of
November, 1837, was five thousand one hundred and forty
nine; and the total amount of money, two hundred and
twelve-thousand one hundred and thirty two pounds, sixteen
.shillings, and Siipence, all invested in government securities,
exeolst One thousand one hundred and twenty pounds, four
shillitagg and five pence, then in the bank of Messrs. Ridley
and Co. These particulars will afford some idea of the
labor and'retponsibility which would devolve on Bolani, as
the Actuary of the Bank ; and when it is considered, that
tip to the very last, he maintained the confidence and en-
sured the respect of his employers, it may be inferred that
his industry and attention were not less in his new situation,
than at any former period of his life. It may however be
proper to state, that when Bolam entered on his engagement,
the duties of the establishment were much lighter than they
now are, and did not occupy the whole of his time. When
therefore his permanent appointment took place, on the 26th
of February, 1819, his salary was fixed at the small sum of
£3O a year. When the business of the Bank was small,
Bolam found employment as an accountant ; and was at one
period engaged with the late Mr. Walker, of The Courant,
where he performed the duties of a collecting clerk.
As the business of the Bank increased, an addition was of
course made to the income of the Actuary ; and at the time
of the murder of poor Millie, Bolam was in the receipt of
£2OO per annum, from his connection with this establishment.
During all the period embraced in the foregoing memoir,
he does not appear to have held intercourse with a view to
matrimony, with the opposite sex; but, when the last aug-
mentation of his salary took place, his thoughts evidently
turned in this direction, -.and it would appear from the sub-
joined extract of memoranda in the possession of the writer,
that there was one object at least which he contemplated with
tenderness, if not with affectionate regard. Bolam at this
time resided in Pleasant Row, Gateshead ; and he thus
writes :
" lam almost tired of single blessedness. I will ask Mrs. R.
to recommend me to some person, and to speak a good word
for me. I have been here nearly six years and a half. No-
body gets married in this Row. She will make a nice wife to
some happy man. I ant not tied up to a sum for house rent
now. My salary is £2OO a-year, and I have my own rent to
pay. £2OO a-year is about seventy-seven shillings per week,
or rather better than 10s. a-day."
Such was the methodical and business-like manner in
which a subject of this nature even was treated by Bolam ;
and it ought not therefore to excite surprise, if generally we
have found him reserved in habits, and little inclined to min-
gle in the pleasures of society.
In regard to Bolam's religious and moral feelings, we may
observe that from his youth upward he appears to have been
exemplary in all the relations of life, wherein he was called
upon to act. His early habits anti pursuits, as before re-
marked, were directed by the Rev. Mr. Paterson of Har-
bottle, at the religious services in whose chapel the parents
of Bolam were for many years constant attendants. After
Bolam's removal to Newcastle, he attached himself to the
congregation of the Rev. Mr. Mclndoe, who for many years
officiated in the Groat-market chapel ; and was elected an
Elder in the church, which responsible office he held with
credit to himself for some time. Mr. Mclndoe's name is
frequently mentioned by Bolam in his letters to his mother,
and apparently in every instance with that degree of respect
which a person ought to feel for his pastor and friend.
Bolam continued as an Elder in the Groat-market Chapel
until the death of Mr. Mclndoe, in the year 1826, when, as
not unfrequently happens in conventicles of dissent, a dis-
pute arose concerning the appointment of his successor. In
these proceedings Bolam took an active part, and the final
arrangement not having been satisfactory to him, he with-
drew at once from the office which he sustained, and from
connexion with the people. This step was, however, no
doubt, well considered on his part, for, so far from having
acted rashly on the occasion, he submitted a full statement
of the circumstances, in a private letter, to the Rev. Mr.
Paterson, of Harbottle. Mr. Paterson, desirous as a Chris-
tian minister, of restoring harmony and good feeling amongst
the congregation, opened his mind freely to Bolam on the
subject, and tendered that advice which he was so well qua-
lified to give, and which the relative situations of the two
parties both called for and justified. Unfortunately this ad-
vice and direction was not received in the meek and Chris-
tian spirit in which it was given, and the consequence was,
that Bolam and Mr. Paterson were never afterwards on those
terms of intimacy and friendship which had up to that period
existed between them, though upon the trial of Bolam, Mr.
Paterson, on being requested, came forward and gave his tes-
timony in favour of the exemplary conduct of the prisoner.
Mr. John Bolam and his uncle, continued to attend the
Groat-Market chapel after Archibald had discontinued; and
this circumstance led to some unpleasantness, as the latter
could ill brook at any time opposition to his wishes, and he
was desirous on that occasion to enlist his friends in the same
cause in which he himself had embarked. His conduct to
his uncle at this period is said to have been very different to
what might have been expected from an individual. such as
Bolam would appear to have been, taking into consideration
those parts of his character only on which we have enlarged;
but respect to the feelings of his friends prevents us entering
further into this part of the subject. We may remark gene-
rally, however, that Bolam was strong in his resentments as
well as in his friendships, and by no means scrupulous, as on
another point will subsequently appear, as to the mode of
compassing his object. Bolam once after this aitended di-
vine service in the Groat-Market chapel with his friend Mat-
thew Anderson, when the latter and his beautiful bride made
their first appearance after marriage, but with this single ex.
ception he was not known to have ever been in that place o
religious worship after the event to which we have above re.
ferred.

After Bolam left the Groat Market chapel, he was for a
long time unsettled, until at length he became an attendant
on the ministrations of the Rev. William Turner, but it does
not appear that latterly he was so strict an observer of reli-
gious ordinances as he had been prior to the time of his mak.
ing this change. Nor was his reading confined as formerly
to religious books, or those of good n:lpral tendency ; for, in-
dependently of the fact of more than dhe copy of the writings
of Tom Paine having-been-found in his library at Sedgwlck-
place, after the discovery of the murder in the Savings'
Bank, the extracts among his memoranda show that he had
read several works generally set down as favourable to infi-
delity. It is to be hoped, however, that their influence on
his mind was small, and that the manifestations of religious
feeling which he has exhibited subsequently to his appre-
hension and conviction, have been in truth dictated from the
heart.

As Bolam was not a person of expensive habits, he con-
trived to save money even when his income was small, and
when his salary increased, he was of course placed in easy
circumstances. He appears to have borne in mind the old
couplet-7.
__ . _

" If youth knew what age would crave,
Many a penny youth would save,"
and to have practised the moral lesson it conveys. He was
fortunate too in having succeeded to a legacy left to him by
his uncle, the late Mr. George Bolam, of Kirkharle, North-
umberland, who for some years preceding his death lived with
his nephew, Mr. John Bolam, the brother of Archibald, near
the White Cross, in Newcastle. Archibald lived with his
brother John at the same time, and had frequent opportuni-
ties of intercourse with the old gentleman, into whose favour
be completely ingratiated himself, by his kindness and atten-
tion towards him. Under George Bolam's will, Archibald
laid claim to a moiety of the estate of the late Cuthbert At-
kinson, of Little Harle New Houses, Northumberland, who
died intestate, upwards of twenty years ago. The circum-
stances of the case were these. Cuthbert Atkinson's next
of kin were his brother William and•sister Mary, and another
sister named Sarah, who was the wife of the late George Bo-
lam, of Kirkharle, who died at Newcastle in the month of
June, 1836. On Cuthbert's death, his property was divided
amongst his next of kin, but Sarah's share was never reduced
into possession ; she died before her husband, who gave Ar-
chibald an interest in it, in order that it might be looked after
when he was no more." Bolam entrusted the management
of this affair to Mr. Busby, solicitor, Alnwick, and was ex-
ceedingly desirous of bringing the question to a legal issue.
He made a journey to Kirkwhelpington, in order to procure
the necessary evidence, and afterwards to Hexham and other
places, in pursuit of further information ; but it does not ap-
pear that he succeeded in accomplishing his purpose. Mr.
Ridley, who was at that time assistant clerk in the Savings'
Bank, accompanied Bolam in some of these journies, as they
were at that time on terms of intimate friendship.
In the early part of the year 1829, Bolam and his brother
John, jointly purchased the estate of Hesleywell in Hexham-
shire, together with an allotment of Common, attached
thereto. In the settlement of the purchase, Hesleywell es-
tate fell to John, and the allotment to Archibald, who, in the
same year erected a dwelling thereupon, which he called by
the name of " Grouse House." Mr. Keenlyside, Solicitor,
of Newcastle, conducted the negociations on the part of John
and Archibald Bolam, and Messrs. Bell and Head, of Hex-
ham, represented the previous proprietor; Mi. Robert Forster.
Grouse House was let, in the month of May, 1837, to its
present occupant, Mr. John Graham.