The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-18 00:00:00

We are grieved to announce that a murder was perpetrated
in this neighbourhood on Thursday morning, marked by cir-
cumstances of the most fiendish atrocity. The victim is Mr.
John Green, a ganger or superintendent of labourers on the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The deceased had charge
of the works at that portion of the line adjoining Bishop-
bridge, about three miles from Glosgow, and was proceeding
to his duties about seven in the morning, before it was yet
light, when he was assaulted by two labourers as he passed
the wooden bridge at Cross-hill, which is a temporary erec-
tion over a part of the railway works, and so severely injured,
that he died within an hour. All the labourers on this por-
tion of the line, with the exception of one or two, are Irish.
It appears that, previous to Green's coming up, a large party
of Irishmen were assembled on the bridge, or its vicinity,
but before his arrival the most of them departed in the di-
rection of the smithy, as if about to commence work, leaving
two or three behind. Green crossed the bridge, making a
remark upon the weather as he passed, when one of the la-
bourers followed him, and, with a punch or iron bar, struck
him a cruel blow on the head, which forced off his hat and
brought the victim to the ground. Another labourer came
up, and jumped upon the body, whilst the first wretch con-
tinued to inflict repeated blows on the head and face of the
unfortunate man with a heavy iron instrument. The bloody
work was soon done, and the two murderers ran off in the
direction of Auchenearn, and •have not yet been taken ;
though we hope this will not long be the case, as the speed
and eye of the law are after them. Green was only heard to
exclaim, " Oh, God ! are you going to murder me ?" He was
picked up quite insensible, and, as has been stated, died within
an hour afterwardi. That the murder was actually a combined
and premeditated one admits of little doubt. Green had only
come to this superintendency two days before, but a report
had been spread that he was strict and harsh in the former
works which he overlooked ; and the determination to rid
themselves thus cruelly of one whom they might consider a
sharp taskmaster, is the only reason which can be given for
this heartless action. Another proof of it is, that the unfor-
tunate deceased was• attacked by a shower of stones on the
previous evening. Green was an active young man of thirty
years of age, has left a widow and small family in England,
and, so far as we have heard, there was no cause for accusing
him of harshness, unless a necessary degree of vigilance and
attention to his duty can be called such. At a late hour on
Thursday, Mr. H. G. Bell, Sheriff-substitute, waited on Col.
Fleming, C. 8., the officer in command of the troops here,
requesting military aid to support the civil power in the ap-
prehension of the parties suspected of being implicated in
this diabolical affair. The request, of course, was at once
complied with, and on Friday morning a company of the 58th
Foot, under the command of Captain Hutchinson, left our
infantry barracks, accompanied by Mr. Bell and a strong
body of police, and proceeded to the locality in which the
murder was perpetrated. The troops and police were con-
veyed in omnibuses. In the afternoon they returned with
upwards of twenty prisoners, who were safely lodged for the
time in Bridewell, preparatory to an examination before the
proper authorities. We understand that they offered their
c ptors no resistance. The labourers in custody are all na-
tives of Ireland, and no doubt is, or indeed can be, enter-
tained, that the murderers are included in the number of
prisoners taken. On this distressing event a number of idle
reports are afloat; but we deem it better for the ends of jus-
tice to refrain from giving them currency.—Scottish Guardian

ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY
INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Ozford Herald.)
Yesterday, John Hannah, 8.A., Scholar of Corpus Christi
College, was elected a Fellow of Lincoln College, on the Lin-
colnshire Foundation.
The Rev. J. Gould, M.A. of Balliol College, has been, on
own presentation, admitted by the Lord Bishop of Chiches-
ter to the Rectory of Burwash, Sussex, vacant by the death
of the Rev. Dr. Mackenzie.
The Rev. George Anthony Denison, M.A. late Fellow of
Oriel College, and Vicar of Broadwinsor, has been appointed
Rural Dean of the Deanery of Bridport, in the Diocese of
Salisbury.
The Lord Bishop of London has collated the Rev. Charles
Parr Burney, D.D. of Merton College, to the Archdeaconry
of St. Alban's, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Wm. Hale
Hale, appointed Archdeacon of Middlesex.
The Lord Bishop of Salisbury has appointed the Hon. and
Rev. C. A. Harris, M.A. late Fellow of All Souls' College,
to be one of his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains.
On the 2d instant, the Rev. W. Williams, B.A. of Jesus
College, Curate of Wigmore, Herefordshire, was licensed by
the Lord Bishop of Hereford to the Perpetual Curacy of
Elton, Herefordshire ; patron, the Lord Chancellor.

PROMOTIONS

Rev. E. H. Johnson, of North Lodge, Sussex, to be one
of the Chaplains of the Lord Bishop of Chichester.
Rev. H. Middleton to the Vicarage of Barton Stacey,
Hants, vacant by the death of Dr. Rennell ; patrons, the
Dean and Chapter of Winchester.
Hon. and Rev. G. T. Noel to the Vicarage of Romsey,
Hants, vacant by the cession of the Rev. William Vaux,
8.D., late Fellow of Balliol College; patrons, the Dean and
Chapter of Winchester.
Rev. George Elliott, 8.A., of Pembroke College, Cam-
bridge, to the Principalship of the Commercial School about
to be established at Southampton.
Rev. Stafford Browne to be the Incumbent of Christ
Church, Studley • patron, the Vicar of Caine.
Rev. James Bedingfield, 8.A., of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, to the Vicarage of Debenham, Suffolk ; patron, Lord
H enniker.

Rev. J. West to the Vicarage of St. Anne's, Dublin.
Dec. 3, the Rev. G. M. D'Arcy Irvine to the Chaplaincy
of the County and City of Bristol Bridewell. _ _

The Queeii has been pleased to present the Rev. W.
M'Kenzie to the church and parish of Dumblane, in the
presbytery of Dumblane and county of Fife, vacant by the
death of Doctor John Grierson.—Gazette.