The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-14 00:00:00

MANCHESTER AND BOLTON

First Manchester (Oldham-street, &c.)—John Rigg, John
Smith, 3d., William M. Bunting; Edward Gibbons, John
Thompson, W. 0. Booth, supernumeraries.
Second Manchester (Irwell-street, &c.—James Methley,
Thomas Dicken, Henry D. Lowe ; John Taylor, Josiah
Walker, supernumeraries.
Third Manchester (Grosvenor-street, &c.)—Joseph Tay-
lor, James Dixon, Peter M‘Owan, Benjamin B. Waddy,
William R. B. Arthy.
Fourth Manchester (Bridgewater-street, &c.)—Barnard
Slater, Timothy Ingle ; William Shelmerdine, supernu-
merary.

Altrtncham—lsaac Woodcock, who will change on one sab-
bath, in every three weeks, with the preachers of the fourth
Manchester circuit.

Manchester—(Welsh)—Samuel Davis, who will change on
two sabbaths in every three months with the Welsh preachers
in Liverpool.
Stockport, North (Triviotdale, &c
William H. Clarkson.
Stockport. South (Hill-gate, &c.)—Amos Learoyd, Louis

I—Edward Walker,

New-Mills—lsaac Dennison, Thomas 0. Keysell.
Glossop—Abraham Watmough, Richard Stepney.
Ashton-under-Lyne—John Raby, Samuel Leigh, Jams
Scholes.
Oldham—Roger Moore, Peter C. Horton, James Little.
N.B.—Brother Horton resides at Middleton.
Delph (Saddleworth)—Thomas -Ludlam, who shall change
on one §abbatli in every five weeks with the preachers at
Oldham.

Bolton—Thomas Stead, Sohn Bedford, John E. Coulson
James Hyde, Richard Allen, supernumeraries.
Rochdale—Richard Felvus, William Clough, Joseph Low-
thian (Brother Lowthian resides at Heywood.)
Burnley—James Heaton, Thomas Powell ; John Phillips►
supernumerary.

Bury—James Blackett, Thomas Jeffries, Joseph Heaton.
Blackburn—Thomas Armson, William Exley.
. Haslingden—Abel Dernaley, Jabez Rought, John P.
Lockwood.
Bacup—Benjamin Pearce. James Wilson.
Colne—William Levell, Joseph Mortimer; John Barritt,
supernumerary,
Clitheroe—Christopher Newton, James Houghton.
Leigh—John Hague, who shall change on one Sunday al
every month with the preachers at Bolton.
JOSEPH TAYLOR, Chairman of the District.
JoHN SMITH, 3rd Financial Secretary.

THE MURDER OF ONE OF LORD BALCARRES'S

UNDERLOOKERS AT WIGAN

The police force of the borough of Wigan, whose jurisdic-
tion, according to the provisions of the municipal reform, el-
tends to seven miles from the borough, have been active is
their endeavours to discover the perpetrators of the horrible
murder of Coulton, an underlooker of the collieries of Lord
Balcarres, in Haigh, near Wigan. This body, notwithstand-
ing the extension of a great force appointed under the countY
constabulary act in the township where the murder was com-
mitted, appear to have acted with promptitude and ability.
Two of the borough police (Neath and Smith) have apple'
hended three men suspected of having committed the mur-
der. They are what are called " navigators," and it bad
been discovered that on the night of the murder they were
not in their lodgings at all. Their names are George Swift,
William Almond, and Thomas Sharpies. Subsequent ia;
quiry has discovered, that on Saturday night, the 20th ot
July, the night of the murder and robbery, the prisoners re-
ceived their wages from the " guager," or railway contractor,
in whose employ- they were, and proceeded, in company with
a person named Halt, to Chorley. about seven miles from the
spot where the murder took place. There they remained
drinking until near midnight, and then left. (The murder wa4
committed about one o'clock.) They were next traced to a
place called Rawlinson-bridge, in the same neighbourhood.
There they arrived about two o'clock, and stayed in the cabin of
a boat, along with the boatmen, about an hour and a half.
They lay down to sleep, but the boatman observed that some'
thing was wrong, for they appeared very uneasy in their minds,
and could not sleep. When daylight appeared, Swift said
they must leave before any one saw them, and all three de'
parted. The boatman noticed that Swift looked downcast,
and more uneasy than the rest. He inquired where they had
been, and they said they had been drinking. When brought
to the Wigan lock-up, the chief constable asked Swift if lie
knew the nature of the charge against him ; to which he
" I suppose it is that Johnny Coulton's job." The)'
then further said, that on the night of the murder they were
drinking at Chorley until twelve o'clock ; that they then left
that place, and went to the cabin as above stated, and that
on leaving there they walked towards Wigan, and arrived at
Red Rock-bridge, near the residence of Coulton (the decess-
- about six o'clock. There they had some drink, and the°
left. After that they went to the Boar's Head, where thel
found Coulton. who was about being conveyed home. We,
should remark, that Coulton, on the day he was shot, state,'
to his daughter and a niece, that as he was passing along the
high turnpike-road he was met by two men, who attempted
to rob him ; that he fought desperately with them, and would
have overcome them, but that a third came up and fired at
him. He then became insensible, but had sufficient kuow-
ledge left to know that they robbed him. The man who shot
at him Coulton described as a tall man, which so far agrees
with the appearance of Swift, one of the prisoners. On Ss'
turday the prisoners were brought before the magistrates at
the Court-house, Wigan, and remanded.