The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-06 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS MURDER NEAR GLOSSOP.

On Wednesday morning last, the inhabitants of Howard
Town, near Glossop, were thrown into a state of great ex-
citement, by a report that a murder, of a most shocking
character, had been committed at a place called Coal Har-
bour, about a mile and three quarters from Howard Town,
and just at the commencement of the chain of hills over
which the road to Sheffield passes. It appears that about
half-past six o'clock on that morning, a man named Brooks,
a labourer on the road, on proceeding to his work, and when
Ire arrived at the last portion of enclosed laud, called the
"last intake," found a man lying on his face amongst some
stones, and a pair of shoes and a blue cloth cap lying close
beside him. Upon examining the man, Brooks found a pool
of blood under his face, anU then saw that his throat had
been cut [ruin ear to ear, and that a large piece of grit-stone,
about -11-lbs. weight, stained with blood, was lying against his
head. Brooks, observing a fellow-labourer coming up, called
to him for assistance, and sent for Mr. Shepherd, one of the
constables of Howard Town, who speedily repaired to the
spot, and examined the body. In addition to the gash in the
throat, there were two deep cuts, apparently inflicted by some
blunt, angular instrument—one over each eye: there was
also a severe bruise on the left temple, and the'back of the
head was beaten to a mummy, portions of the brain being,
strewed about the ground. 'there were no traces of strug-
gling, and the impression upon Mr. Shepherd's mind was,
that the unfortunate man was first stoned to death ; and that
the murderer, i❑ order to make sure of his victim, afterwards
inflicted the gash in the throat, which is upwards of seven

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aches i❑ length. Upon the stone were found portions of
brain, and a little hair; and it is quite evident that it was the
instr.unent by which the wounds on the forehead u ere in-

flirted. Shepherd caused the body to be removed to a cot-
tage near the house of Mr. Shepley, the Royal Oak public
house, which is about a mile front the place where the body
was found. The left-hand trowsers pocket was twit a little,
and, with the others, was searched by the constable; but he
could nut find any thing, except three bits of paper which
fitted wgcther, and which may probably lead to the discovery
of the name and connexions of the deceased. He appears
to be about 26 years of age, about live feet high, and wore a
round moleskin jacket, and trowsers of the same material; a
drab worsted figured waistcoat, with glass buttons, coarse
hire linen shirt, and blue worsted stockings. kits shoes lay
on the ground close to the spot where the body was found ;
and it is quite clear that they were taken from his feet after
he was killed, as his stocking feet were quite free from soil.
The paper found in his pocket had been written upon, and
appears to have been a note made nut by a party of reapers
employed by a Mr. Skill to get in his corn. The following
is a copy :
Mr. Skill, Dr. Edward Fegan and Co.

1838.
Sept. 3. reaping Ga. Ir. 30p. of wheat, at I Is.
per acre
To half surveying • • •

3 1-1 71
U U 1U

3 13 91-
Thomas Boot, jun. 2 3,1
On the other side of the paper were written, in a wretched
hand, the words; " Newark, Mansfield, Chapel-en-le-Frith,
Chesterfield, Warrington;" most probably beim; a descrip-
tion of the route intended to be taken by the party on their
way back to Ireland. No person could, for some time, be
found, who appeared to have the slightest knowledge of the
name or business of the deceased; but at length Mr:2John

Robinson, one of the chief constables of Howard Town,
stated, that he believed that the deceased was the man who
had called upon him a day or two before, and represented
himself as being a bricklayer who had been working at Staly-
bridge, and had been compelled to give up working because
he had refused to join the bricklayers' union; and, in conse-
quence of the threats held out to bins, he dared not stay there
any longer. He certainly bore the appearance of a brick-
layer more than of a reaper. Inquiries were made respecting
persons who had been seen going to or from the moors, but
to no purprise. Amongst the parties who carne to view the •
body, before it was removed from the spot where it was ori-
ginally found, was a man named John Blocksage, who came
down the Sheffield road about nine o'clock on Wednesday
morning, and, after just looking at the body, walked off.
Shepherd, the constable, noticing that this man had got
black eves, and several other tokens of having been recently
engaged in a fight, asked where he had been lighting. Block-
. sage replied, that he had stayed late at Sheffield the previous
night, and had been beaten by some bricklayers because he
would not join the union. Shepherd, suspecting that the
man had not told the truth, asked where he had slept. The
man replied, that he had slept at the Snake Inn, a public-
house about five miles from Cold Harbour. Thinking it
strange that the man should be in such a condition, and
thinking his account of himself suspicious, Shepherd ordered
him to be detained. He was afterwards liberated, but was
again taken into custody; and it was determined that a mes-
senger should be sent to Sheffield to inquire into the truth of
his statements. Blocksage stated that he was not a member
of a trades' union, but this is doubted. Gatley, the deputy-
constable of Stalybridge, went to view the body, on Thursday,
and declared his conviction that he had seen the deceased at
Stalybridge; and in this opinion he was confirmed by two
othei persons from Stalybridge. In the deceased's cloth
cap was found a red and white printed handkerchief, which
looked as if he had been in the practice of tying it round his
head • and under his shirt was found an old blue striped cot-
ton ;1611, which had been stained by the blood which had
flowed from his neck. The shirt was patched at the shoul-
ders with white; but there are no initials marked upon it, or
any thing at all calculated to lead to a discovery of the name
of the murdered man. We understand that an inquest was
held on the body yesterday, and adjourned to a future day
fur further evidence.—Manchesier Gnardiun.

SUPPOSED MURDER
AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT BIRMINGIIAY

A man named Abraham Holyoke, a file-cutter, in the em-
ploy of his father, in Meriden-street, Birmingham, about 20
years of age, is now in custody, on suspicion of the murder
of a young woman of respectable character, named Anne
Maria Evans, about 2:3 years of age, and who, up to the time
of her unfortunate death, resided with her mother, in Milk-
street, in this town. The circumstances of the case, as far as
we have been able to ascertain them, ore as follows :—Holy-
oake and the girl Evans, as we are informed, kept company
" off and on," for the last two years; and for two months
past, he is said to have been constant in his attentions. On
Monday evening, they went in company to a dance, at
the Malt Shovel, in Milk-street ; and it is said that, in
consequence of Holyoake bestowing more notice upon some
girl in the room than was pleasant to his intended, high words
ensued, and the following day Evans forbade him visting her
at the house of her mother. The quarrel, however, appears
to have been but of a short duration; fur, in the afternoon of
Tuesday, an apparent reconciliation took place, and they
spent the greater part of the evening together. Holyoake
remained at the house of Mrs. Evans until near one o'clock
yesterday morning, when, in consequence of the remon-
strance of the mother, the daughter left the house with the
intention, it is supposed, of seeing bins part of the way home.
They were last seen together at the entry en I, in Milk-street.
about two o'clock in the morning. A little before three, pro-
ceeding along Great Barr-street, he heard a cry for help,
apparently proceeding from the banks of the Warwick Canal.
The officer, in company with Wood, the watchman, imme-
diately hastened to the spot from whence time cry proceeded,
when they found Holyoake standing on the bank of the
canal, drenched with water, and apparently, from some
cause or other, quite exhausted. When Jones inquired how,
and under what circumstances he came there, and was found
in such a condition, Holyoake, in the first instance, replied
that he had been in company with a woman, but that she had
gone home. The reply was, naturally enough, very unsatis-
factory to the cfficer ; and he determined, for the sake of
having the matter cleared up, to take Holyoake to the resi-
deuce of the woman in whose company he stated he had
been. Accordingly, Jones and Wood proceeded to accom-
pany Hoiyoake to the girl's home; when on the way, the
prisoner, without promise, threat, or any inducement to make
a confession, voluntarily stated that the woman was dead—
that he had drowned her—and that her body was to he found
on the Birmingham side of the bridge, over the Warwick
Canal, in Great Barr-street, near the spot where he himself
was found and apprehended. After ascertaining from the
girl's friends that the parties left the house in Milk-street
together, Jones, accompanied by the watchman and others,
returned to the place where Holyoake directed them; and
haying procured drags, the body of the unfortunate girl was,
in the course of a few minutes, brought to the surface of the
water, and shortly afterwards removed to the house of Mrs.
Jackson, the Sailor's Return, in Great Barr-street, where it
now lies, awaiting the result of a coroner's inquest. Upon
his removal to prison, Holyoake, who had previously given
various accounts of the circumstances under which the girl
came by her death, stated that they had mutually deterinieed
to drown themselves, and that, its furtherance of this purpose,
she jumped off the bridge, and he afterwards followed her;
and it appears that when Holyoake was first seen by Jones,
there was abundant evidence that he had been over head in
the water, and had lost his hat. We understand, however,
that evidence will be brought forward at the inquest, which,
from present appearances, will go far to implicate Holyoake
in the charge of murder. A boatman employed upon the
canal states, that for at least a quarter of an hour he heard a
considerable bustle upon the banks of the canal near where
the body of the girl was found ; and the very circumstance
of Holyoake's giving various accounts of the circumstances,
anti himself being saved from the death which lie says was
mutually agreed upon, is at least sufficient to excite suspi-
cion, and to call for the most searching investigation.— Bir-
mingham .-Idrertiser.

MISCELLANEOUS.'

The Court is expected to remove from Windsor to Brighton
on the 15th instant.

COINCIDENCE.—It is remarkable, that the first burgess list
published in this town is printed by A. Burgess, a burgess.—
Manchester Paper.
Lord Dinorben expects to have the honour of a visit from
the Duke of Sussex, at Kinnell, on the 10th of December;
and it is expected that the duke will eat his Christmas dinner
at his lordship's house.—Chester Chronicle.
SECOND CROP.—A correspondent informs us that a second
crop of hay was got last week in a field belonging to Mr. Jona
Margison, of Calverley, in excellent condition, equal if no
superior to the first crop.—Leeds Intelliaencer.
The Right Hon. Sir Hen ly Ellis, who is spoken of as
likely to obtain the lucrative appointment of Governor of
Bombay, is half-brother to the Earl of • Buckinghamshire,
and was some time since sent on a special mission to the
Schah of Persia.-11foraing Herald.
We regret to learn. that Mr. Cutlar Fergusson, judge ad-
vocate-general and M.P. for Cuparshire, is dangerously ill
at Paris. We trust that the reports which have reached us,
as to his extreme danger, are exaggerated.—Globe.
LARGE ON lON.—Mr. Wm. M' Lintock, of Barnsley, has in
possession a large tripilo onion, which weighs 18 ounces, and
measures 131 inches round.—Leeds Intelligencer.
FAT SHEEP.—Mr. Matthew Veal, butcher, Richmond; ex-
posed for sale in that market, on Saturday last, a fat sheep,
which weighed 461 b. per quarter, and the shoulders weighed
241 b. each.—lbid.

PROFITABLE GRUNTER.--A sow belonging to Mr. W
Mitchinson, of Armathwaite, produced 86 pigs iu six litters
viz.—the three first twelve each, one of fourteen, another of
sixteen, and the last of twenty pigs.—Carlisle
Wooncociss.—On Wednesday last Mr. Harrison, head
game-keeper to the Earl of Lonsdale, shot three woodcocks
in his lordships's grounds near Melkinthorpe. What does
the early appearance of this bird of passage denote, as regards
the weather?—Carlisle Patriot
Shares -in the Penrith and Carlisle Railway, to between
twenty and thirty thousand pounds, have been takenl at Pen-
rith and its vicinity, within the last few days. The Earl of
Lonsdale has subscribed fur 100 shares.
MUNIFICUNT GlFT.—James Watt, Esq., at the last Rad-
nor Sessions, offered to contribute £6OO towards erecting a
stone bridge of a single arch over the river Ithoin, and mak-
ing the prhper appioaches to it, on the line of road through
the beautiful vale between Builth and Rhayader. The offer
was graejeusly received, and a vote of thanks passed.
THE STABBING CASE IN Hui.Ntu.—Philip Tone, who was
charged at the New Bailey on Monday with stabbing Thus.
Eddlestone on, Sunday morning last, was brought up again
on Wednesday, when Eddlestone appeared and deposed to
the facts stated in our last, and the prisoner was committed
to take his trial at the assizes.—Manchester Paper.
EXPORTATION OF POTATOES FOR NEW YORK.—Yesterday
morning the American line of packet-ship 41:ontreat, Captain
Griffin, sailed from St. Katherine's Dock for New York.
In consequence of the failure of the potato crop in America,
speculators are sending out great quantities from this country.
The Montrealcarries out nearly fifty tons. The American ship
K utu srjr is at present at the port of Jersey, loading a cargo
of potatoes for New York.—London Paper.
AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH.—On Sunday night, as Mrs,
Smithies, the wife of Mr. John Smithies, of the Woodman.
in Wood-street, Middleton, was conversing with some cus-
tomers respecting a neighbour's illness, she suddenly placed
ber hand on her bosom, and said, "Nobody knows how ill I
am just now," and instantly sunk back and expired. The
deceased was a remarkably strong and good-looking woman,
and had no previous indisposition.—Manchester Paper.
LATE STABBING AT ROCHDALE.—On Tuesday, Edmund
Lord, Thomas Mills, Thomas Taylor, and Thomas Kenwor-
ths, the prisoners implicated in the stabbing of James Dear-
den, were committed to Kirkdale by Messrs.Royds and Chad-
wick, charged with cutting and-maiming Deardeu with intent
to do him grievous bodily harm. The wounded man still lin-
gers ; and there is just the slightest possibility that he may
ultimately recover from his desperate Wounds.—Manchester
Paper.
The admirers of Shakspear will regret to learn that " Herne
the Hunter's Oak," in the Little-park, Windsor, was blown
down in the hurricane on Sunday night,—Globe. [This ap-
pears to be a mistake. It is_stated in the Quarterly Review
of the present month, on the authority of Mr. Loudon, that
Herne the Hunter's Oak was cut down many years ago by
the orders of George 111., who gave the order when in a state
of extraordinary excitement.—Morning Chronicle.
SUNDAY TRADING AT GREENWICH.—In conseouence of
the late convictions, few shops were opened at Greenwich
on Sunday last. Of those who did violate the law, five were
summoned before the magistrates on Tuesday, when four
pleaded guilty, and, promising not to offend again, had the
charge dismissed, while the filth, who said he was obliged to
keep open his shop, as he had to supply the hospital with
meat, was fined ss. and Its. costs. At the same sitting, the
landlord of a public-house was fined £5. for suffering drunk-
enness in his house during the hours of Divine service.
LONDON WATER —The new filtering reservoirs of the
Chelsea Company occupy a space of 48,000 square yards of
superfices. The -filtering bottoms consist of 12,000 cubic
yards of pebble, silicious gravel, and /Melly sand, and they
have been constructed at an expence of £57,000. The pipes
are laid eight feet below the surface of this bottom, through
which the water is filtered and cleansed before it passes into
the wells from which the mains are supplied.
STANDING ORDER OF THE HOUSE.OF LORDS, 1838.—The
House of Lords, in their standing orders just published, have
adopted the rules established by the standing orders com-
mittee of the House of Commons in 1837, and, in like man-
ner, ordered that the railway sections and plans should be
laid clown in juxta-position, after the manner invent( d and
recommended by Mr. Macneill, C.E., and now appearing in
a place, attached to the standing orders of either House of
Parliament.
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SOCIAL. OoAToRY.—A strenuous advocate of the Social or
Owenite principles, had returned front his mission as dele-
gate of the Salford district, at the late congress held at Bir-
mingham, and desirous that his friends and healers at home
should be acquainted with the works of the party, and its
consumtnation of the name of its character, delivered himself
of this gent of a climax, and very natural supposition of divine
favour to unscriptural believeisl Here it is:—" lithe arch-
angels of heaven had been there, they mould have said, ' ye
are Christians indeed! and charitable, ay, even to the back-
bone!' "—Manchester Courier.
llonnteLe OCCUIIRENCE.—On Thursday morning last, a
'young woman, named Falcon, a maniac, who was for some
time to an asylum, but latterly in the workhouse of Ellenbo-
rough, near Maryport, went to the house of au aged woman,
bordering on 90, of the name of Rosy, and alter pronouncing
a horrid threat, pulled out a large knife, and applying it to
the throat of the latter, literally severed the head front the
body. The infuriated wretch was immediately apprehended
and taken before the magistrates, her hapless victim having
died instantly.—Carlisle Patriot.
RADICAL DEMONSTRATION AT BOLTON--011 Wednesday
evening last, the town was visited by Messrs. O'Connor,
young Cobhett, and parson Stephens, the agitators of the
five points of Radicalism. It was announced that they would
enter the town by torch-light, at six o'clock, hut it was nearly
seven when they arrived. They could not make any great
muster of the working classes of Bolton. The principal at-
tendants were a number of young women, and a number of
Irishmen, from New Town. As soon as the orators arrived,
a procession was formed, and walked through the principal
streets. The parties passed by St. George's Church, where
the Rev. Hugh M'Neile was preaching, and gave a voiles of
groans and hisses. The authorities, as well as the military,
were on the alert, in case any mischief had occurred, but
every thing went off peaceably. Mr. Wood, late tea-dealer,
was appointed a delegate to attend the national convention.
—Manchester Courier.
IN mu v. STEAm.—On Monday morning much excitement
was created 'along the line of the Great Western Railway,
between Maidenhead and London, by the followitus occur-
rence :—On Sunday night, after the departure of the last
train front Maidenhead, eight carriages were placed on the
south line, opposite the station offices, preparatory to their
being despatched by the early train (half-past seven) to
town. They consisted of two open carriages, one of the
second class, and the remainder of the first-class. On Men-
day morning, on the servants of the company coining to
their duties at day-light, four of the first-class carriages only
were found at•the station. At a later period of the morning
it was, however, found that the storm of Sunday night had
forced the first four carriages along the rails towards Lon-
don. Men were instantly despatched down the line to see
that no accident occurred. On their arrival at Slough, the
first and second carriages were found to have stopped, and
were quickly removed from the rails: the other two carriages
were found at Wormwood Scrubbs, near twenty miles from
Maidenhead.
PENRITII AND CARLISLE RAILWAY---The popularity of
this project is daily increasing. At a meeting of the provin-
cial committee, held on Tuesday last, at Penrith, shares, in
addition to the sum which we mentioned last week, were
taken to a very great amount; and if we may judge front the
zeal already displayed by the influential landowners and gen-
tletnen in that district, there is ntidoubt of their wishes being
speedily realized. The undertaking is, we observe, noticed
by our London, Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle con-
temporaries; and when we hear of capitalists from thence
making numerous applications for shares, w.s. are fully justi-
fied in expecting that they will soon be at a premium.—Car-
tide Patriot..

" SPLIT" IN THE CABINET.—We are enabled to inform
our readers, on authority which cannot he doubted, that the
rumours circulated during the week of the resignation of
Lord Gleoelg, are strictly true. The noble lord did resign;
and his resignation was accepted. Application was made to
Lord Spencer to take his place, who was invited to Windsor
Castle; but his lordship positively declined it, in spite of the
most pressing solicitations from a very high personage; The
Duke of Richmond was next applied to; but his grace also
refused office. We are not able to say whether the difficulty
has been patched up by Lord Glenvlg consenting to re-as-
sume his ministerial night-cap; but -there *cannot be the
slightest doubt of the cabinet being in a tottering condition,
and unable to hold together much longer.— lrestern Lumi-
nary.

FORTUNATE DISCOVERY OF THIEVES.—On Monday even-
ing week, Mr. Thomason, of York-street, Cheethaw, tra-
veller, was riding in his gig in the streets of Wigan, when
the gig was upset, and he was thrown out, and carried in a
state of insensibility to the NV hitesmith's Arms, and put -to
bed. In about an hour he recovered; and on looking to see
if his money was correct, he found it was, and he put it under
his pillow. I'he amount was about £B3, and amongst it was a
Bank of England note for £2O, cut in two, and the two pieces
fastened by a pin. When he awoke in the morning, the
money was gone, but no one knew where or how. Informa-
tion was given to the police offices; and on Thursday fore-
noon, Mr. Diggles, the deputy-constable of Salford, being at
the Bolton railway station, saw two men whom from their
appearance he suspected, and watched into the Unicorn Inn,
in Chapel-street, and afterwards into the Rose and Crown,
where he ascertained they had gone to get a note changed.
He was then joined by Nortnansell and Kenyon, also of the
Salford police, who followed the men to the old bridge, when
the men seeing themselves followed ran; the officers pursued
and caught them in Cateaton-street, and took them into a
public-house' where they searched them, and on - Massey
found a £2O Bank of England note, like that lost by Mr.
Thomason, and £4. ss. in silver ; they then conveyed the
men to the lock-ups, searched them again, and found on
them £4l. 15s. more, in notes anti sovereigns ; the notes
answering the description of those lost by Mr. Thomason.
The prisoners were brought up at the New Bailey yesterdan
when the above facts were stated, and the prisoners in their
defence said, they had found the money. They were com-
mitted for-ttlatanchesrer Guardian.

STEAMERS FROM BRISTOL TO THE EAST INDIES.—The
directors of the Great Western Steam-Ship Company having
been requested by a large portion of their subscribers, have
it now under consideration to put a line of large steam-ves-
sels between Bristol and Alexandria, which, with the arrange-
ments already entered into and in progress, will complete
the chain of communication between England and India.
The East India Company have found that the steam-vessels
they have already sent to India, to ply between Bombay and
Suez, are insufficient in size and power, and are consequently
now constructing larger and more powerful ones for that
purpose; and have expressed their entire confidence in thus
being able to overcome the difficulties of the navigation in
that quarter. A contract has been entered into (and is at
this moment in operation) between the Bombay steam coin-
mittee and Messrs. Hill and Co., of Cairo; the latter under-
taking to build an hotel at Suez, and to form a coaching
establishment, with suitable station-houses, between Suez
and Cairo; and they undertake that the journey shall be
accomplished in less than 24 hours. The Paella of Egypt
has already one, and is now about to put additional steam-
boats on 'the Nile, and the canal between Cairo and Alexan-
dria. —Bristol Journal.