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cently married, and he would go out ; upon which the pri.
soner informed him that Nice had refused to go out to Phila-
delphia, and he might go out on his own responsibility.
Witness went with the prisoner to the ship Caspian, and in-
spected the berths ; he saw the prisoner agree with the cap-
tain for a berth for Fawk and his wife for £l2. The £l2
was not to include provisions. When prisoner was spoken
to about it by witness, he said he had made it right with Fawk,
and that witness was to go and order a bed and some pro-
visions, which he did, but they would not cost more than £3.
Witness did not know what was to be done with the re-
mainder of the £5O, which would have provided provisions
for a man and his wife with the captain in the cabin.
Cross-examined by Mr. MURPHY.-It was his opinion
that the sum sent from America, from the transmission of
their friends, did not exceed £lO,OOO a-year. The regular
price for a cabin passage was £25 each. None of the agents
appointed had gone out to see whether they could realise the
amount promised. It was a usual thing for passage brokers
to have agents in America. He had known many persons to
commence business as passage brokers with very little, and
amass considerable amounts ; was not in the service of the
prisoner when he had vessels chartered, but knew that he
had chartered some.
John C. Grocott was applied to by Mr. Fawk to recover
£3B, which he had paid for a passage to America. Witness
went with Lieut. Lowe and Fawk to the office of the prisoner,
in the Goree, where he saw J. V. Hughes. Lieut. Lowe
presented him with an acknowledgment for £5O, and asked
him for the amount. The prisoner said he was very sorry,
but the money should be returned, but it never was returned.
Wm. E. Constant, in consequence of seeing an advertise-
ment in the newspaper, wrote the letter which he held in his
hand, addressed to J. V. Hughes, and to which he received a
reply. He came to Liverpool several times in consequence
of the business. About the 4th of September he came to
Liverpool, and called at the prisoner's warehouse, where he
saw him and had sonic conversation, and on the sth of the same
month he signed an agreement. He returned to Margate,
and on the 11th lie transmitted £5O, as part of the £2OO
which he was to pay as security. He ultimately arrived in
Liverpool on the 13th of October, and his wife and family
followed him in a few days. The defendant was to find him
a passage. The prisoner, who had at this time received £l5O
from him, informed him that he should procure him a pas-
sage on board the Siddons, but it sailed, and no passage was
taken ; the prisoner said there would be another sailing soon,
the Arethusa, but on inquiry witness found that it was only
a steerage paSsage, and witness remonstrated with the pri-
soner, and told him he would not then go. The prisoner
promised to return the money at different times, but never
kept his word, and he (witness) lost the whole of the £l5O.
The agreement signed by both parties was then put in and
read, by which it appeared that the witness was to receive a
salary of £l5O per annum, and a salary of £5O a year for a
clerk, and also a per centage of two and a-half on all his
business transactions • he was to have a passage, but it was
not described in the document whether cabin or not.
J. P. Nice saw an advertisement in the Norwich Gazette
last summer, and he in consequence wrote to J. V. Hughes
and Co. from Branston, where he lived, and received a reply,
and some correspondence which ensued was read, from which
it appeared that the witness was to receive a similar appoint-
ment with the last witness, and also the same amount of
salary, and a cabin passage. He paid the prisoner £BO and
a note for the other portion of £lOO, and signed an agree-
ment to go out to New York. The prisoner paid £4B to the
captain of the Arethusa, and he went to see the berth, and
afterwards went to the office of the prisoner, where he saw
J. V. Hughes. He heard Mrs. Scholes come in and call the
prisoner, Peter Hughes; and Mrs. Constant said that the
object of the prisoners was to get their money, for that the
prisoner, Peter Hughes, was an uncertificated bankrupt ; he
had frequently applied for the return of his mosey, but had
never been able to get it.
Joseph Lowe deposed than in consequence of an advertise-
ment in the Birmingham Advertiser he wrote to the prisoner,
and the usual correspondence took place. The witness came
over to Liverpool. The prisoner offered him an engagement
on the same terms as the others ; and told him that he might
go out in whatever ship he pleased, but if he chose to go out
in the Liverpool, steam-ship, it would cost him nothing, be-
cause he had an interest in that ship. The prisoner men-
tioned several other ships in which he said he had an interest.
There was no money deposited by the witness ; and, in con-
sequence of something he heard, it fell through.
Inspector Poole apprehended the prisoner on a Bench war-
rant in October last. In conversation the prisoner admitted
that the premises were his property. The prisoner inquired
what he was apprehended for, and the inspector informed
him that it was on a charge of receiving money under false
pretences. He also enquired what was likely to be the pu-
nishment he should get, and the inspector said he did not
know, that would rest with the court. The witness had also
a bench warrant against the prisoner's son, but had not been
able to find him.

Mr. VENARLES said this was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. MURPHY then addressed the jury at very great length
for the defence. He descanted on the discrepancies in the
evidence, in very strong and indignant terms, and pointed
out those portions which presented any favourable feature for
the prisoner. He called no witnesses; and the Recorder
having briefly recapitulated the evidence, the jury, without
hesitation, found the prisoner guilty. The Court senteni e I
him to be imprisoned for two years.
After the sentence had been pronounced, the prisoner's fa-
mily, which were in court the whole of the day, gave vent to
the most melancholy burst of feeling, which they continued,
in spite of remonstrance, until they got out of the court.
The Sessions terminated on Saturday.

DANGERS ON THE CHESHIRE SHORE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—The utility of the press is never more eminently
ebserved than when exercised in the cause of humanity;
therefore I beg you will insert the following, in order that it
may attract attention from the proper quarter.
1 allude to the unprotected state of those walls between
Egreinont and the Magazines, over which people are com-
pelled to pass hours before and after high water, especially
after four o'clock during the winter months, at the risk of
life and limb. I believe upwards of thirty accidents have
occurred here ; in many cases the parties were most seriously,
dangerously hurt, and yet no means adopted to prevent a re-
currence, although the builder of the higher wall resides
within a few yards from the spot. Two accidents have oc-
curred within the last three months to my own knowledge ;
the one, a poor man, carrying corks, fell ; was found insensi-
ble under the wall, and, when raised, vomited a quantity of
blood ; he was borne to the Egreniont steamer by some men,
and, from his internal injuries, would most probably be pre-
vented from obtaining his livelihood for weeks. The other
was a poor fisherman, about five weeks since ; he was per-
fectly insensible when found, and, had he been left a few mi-
nutes longer, would have been drowned by the rising tide.
He was conveyed by a baker's cart to the Magazines, where
he resided ; on the following morning he was brought in a
boat across the river to the Seacombe Slip, and from thence
on a board to the hospital, where he remains, his hip dislo-
cated and thigh broken.
Surely, surely, something ought to be done to prevent a
recurrence. If the lives of rich and poor are thus to be en-
dangered by private parties—if the past. accidents are looked
upon by them with so much indifference, I trust the proper
authorities will have the place inspected, and compel a pro-
tection for the public safety.--I am, &c.,

EGRENIONT.
P.S.—The whole of the above can be substantiated by al•
most all the individuals residing at Egremont and Magazines.
January 13th, 1840.

THE LIVERPOOL, STEAM-SHIP.

The steam-ship Liverpool, J. R. Engledue, R.N. com-
mander, arrived at her moorings in the :Mersey, on Saturday
last, at halF-past two, p.m. She left New York on the 15th
December, and has experienced a constant succession of tre-
mendous gales, and all of them adverse. On the 16th De-
cember the gale was so severe, with such an awful sea run.
ning, that it was considered prudent to put the vessel right
before it, and she scudded, under a close reefed foresail, for
24 hours, passing several vessels, during that period, lying
to under single try-sails. Oa the 27th December, when in
lat. 43 40 and lon. 36 30, and when within two days of Fayal,
Captain Engledue ran for that island to replenish her stock
of coal, the Transatlantic Company having, with great fore-
sight, formed a depOt there to meet contingencies. At the
time the Liverpool shaped her course for Fayal, the wind
was blowing a heavy gale from E. by N. Whilst running
for the island, she spoke the Lord John Russell, in distress,
but could not possibly render any assistance, in consequence
of the heavy sea: Captain Engledue advised the commander
to run for Fayal. The Liverpool remained in the harbour
three days, and during that time, the brig Caroline, of New-
castle, came to an anchor in distress, having six feet water in
her hold, and the American ship Maryland, from Alexandria
to London, also put in, having lost her boats, bulwarks, and
cambouse, and thrown 500 barrels of flour overboard to ease
the ship.
It appears, that, during the months of November and De-
cember, the whole of the Atlantic has been subjected to tre-
mendous gales of wind, and, in some instances, perfect hur-
ricanes, and generally from the eastward, but sometimes from
the westward. The Liverpool, on her passage to New York,
experienced so heavy a gale from the N.W., when about 300
miles from Cape Clear, that her powerful machinery could
not propel her beyond one and a half knot per hour ; and,
when she approached the American shore, the weather was
so bad from the N.E., with such a tremendous sea running,
that the full power of the >angines was required to keep the
vessel from being pooped. On the 21st December, at noon,
a whirlwind passed over the vessel, tearing away everything
that was loose, and actually lifted the foreyard out of its
stowage. On the 27th December one of the seamen was
washed overboard, but he fortunately succeeded in lay-
ing hold of a life-buoy which was thrown to him, and, the
jollyboat being launched, he was saved, though at a great risk
to the crew.
The result of the recent voyage of the Liverpool is another
grand proof of the power of steam and the safety of hulls
propelled by it : in hurricane, in raging sea, or in whirlwinds,
the urging power of the machinery being below the deck, and
not aloft attached to masts, a steerage way is given to the
hulls, under all circumstances of wind and weather, and any
course can be steered according to the emergencies of the
time, the loss of masts being of secondary consideration, and
being thrown on their beam ends an utter impossibility.
The passengers speak highly of the Liverpool's capabilities,
and in terms exceedingly flattering of Captain Engledue, as
the following letter addressed to him, will show :
On board the Steam-ship Liverpool,
At a meeting of passengers I Ith January, 1840.
held in the Main Saloon, Wil-
liam Rand, Esq., in the chair,
It was resolved unanimously,—That a committee of three
be appointed to address the following letter toi
Lieut. J. R.
Engledue, R.N.:—

On board the Steam-ship Liverpool,
11th January, 18-10.
PEAR SIR,---On behalf of the passengers, by the steam.
, from r oo ifn
theirN e‘v
ItYnoarnki Inaoi
ui and
ship Liverpool, on her present voyage
at their request, we beg to assure Y
and unqualified approbation of your conduct as commander,
and their respect for you as a gentleman. During this pas-
sage,remarkable as it has been fora continuance of adverse
winds and tempestuous weather, which rendered it necessary,
as well as prudent, to wake the port of Fayal, t() replenish
our supply of fuel, we have had many opportunities of ad-
miring your conduct under such untoward circumstances;
and we feel it but due to the ability displayed,
_and to your
attention to our comforts, respectfully to _
,tender you our
grateful acknowledgments and thanks. \\ e have much
pleasure in bearing evidence to the good performance of the
Liverpool as a seaboat, to the ample and excellent fare pro-
vided for the passengers,
and to
which it was served. the unsparing liberality with
Assuring you that you possess our best wishes for your
prosperity and happiness, we remain, dear sir, respectfully
y

(Signed)
GEORGE B. SYMES, of Quebec; Committee
P. J. CABANES, of Guatemala; of Passengers
WM. DAVIDSON, of New York. per Liverpool.
To Lieut. J. R. Engleduc,, R.N.,
Commander Steam-ship Liverpool.

FORTUNATE RESCUE.—John Johnston was lately appre-
hended, near the Custom-house, by George Braithwaite, a
policeman, on suspicion of having stolen 91bs. of beef. He
was taken to the vessel whence it was supposed he had pur-
loined the meat, when, suddenly, he jumped into the dock.
He remained in the water nearly fifteen minutes, when,
through the praiseworthy exertions of John Rivers, policeman
No. 502, who descended by the bow of a vessel into the dock,
at the great risk of his own life, the unfortunate man was
rescued from death. He was taken to the station-house, put
to bed,the hot air applied, and, by the efforts of the mcdi-
, cal attendant, he was finally recovered.