The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-19 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE

The first meeting of the Dock Committee since the election
of a conservative council, was held
.yesterday, at the offices,
Revenue-buildings. The newly-appointed chairman, Thos.
Sands, Esq , presided. Three out of the tour new members
appointed by the council were present—namely, Mr. Moly-
neux, Mr. Nicol, and Mr. Chilton. Mr. Shand was absent.
There were also present, Messrs. Horsfall, (deputy chair-
man,) Barclay, Holmes, Ripley, Tobin, Chapman, Bailey,
Aikin, Evans, Sandbach, Holt, Smith, and Middleton.

On the recommendation of the Sub-committee of Works,
an additional mooring buoy was ordered to be placed near
the south end of Queen's Dock, for the use of vessels moored
end on.

A letter from Mr. John Clint was read, complaining of
the want of stages on the dock quays; and suggesting that
additional ones be provided, such as are used at the graving

docks. The sub-committee' for the department of the marine
surveyor made a similar recommendation, and the commit-

tee ordered the requisite stages to be provided.
The wages of the captain and mate of the Point of Ayr
life boat, during the months of November, December, Janu-
ary, February, and March, were ordered to be 15s. and 10s.
per week. Some repairs wanting at the life boat house were
ordered to be made by Mr. Danson, of Voel Nant.

The transfer of the lease of the Holyhead Telegraph Sta-
tion from Mr. Evans to the committee, in consideration of
the sum of £2OO, was reported and confirmed. The rent of
this station will henceforth cease, except as to a mere nomi-
nal sum payable to Lord Stanley of Alderley.
A complaint preferred by Messrs. Eshelby, Rowett, and
gainst the North Harbour Master, and the Master of
the Co.,!Waterloo-dock of their ship Camien not being allowed
to dock on the 13th September, was investigated at consider-
able length. Mr. Rowett was heard in support of his com-
plaint, and Mr. Hodgson, the Harbour Master, in reply,
after which, some of the members expressed some dissatis-
faction at the matter having been allowed to stand over so
long. Eventually a resolution was passed, on the motion of
Mr. Horsfall, that the committee entirely approved of the
conduct of the Harbour Master and the Dock Master.
A letter from Messrs. North and Orred, solicitors, to
Messrs. Rankin, Gilmour, and Co., was read, stating that
they should take legal measures to recover the dues paid on
their ship, the Lady Falconer, on the ground that she was
refused enteranee into one of the docks, ali hough a written
order was prssented for it ; nevertheless, the committee re-
ceived the dues and refused to return them. As the letter
alleged facts of which the committee were not perfectly cog-
nizant, it was referred to the Harbour Masters' sub-committee
to report thereon.

The stationary cranes were ordered to be erected on the
north quay of George's Dock.
The river wall having been injured, as alleged, by the steam-
ships Adm;ral and Princess Royal, the sub-committee of
works was dirt czed to enquire and report.
Mt. Alderman Molyneux was elected a member of the
Finance Committee, in the place of Mr. Thomas Booth.
Messrs. Nicoll, Sandbach, and Middleton, were elected
members of the sub-committee of works, in the place of
Messrs. Holt, Quaile, and Sands.

Mr. CHAPMAN gave the following notice of a motion, for
the purpose of altering the present construction of the sub-
Committee of Works, and appointing a sub-committee to
superintend the dock-yard department. " The persons of
the present Sub-Committee of Works, consisting of six
members, take charge of and superintend the entire of the
Dock Surveyors' department, embracing the examination of
Plans of New Works, Alterations or Improvements,

ther with estimates of the cost. No contracts or purchase:
to be made without the previous sanction, and to be by open
contract or public advertisement, which it can be done with.
out prejudice to the works; to examine and certify • the
weekly bill of wages, and all other accounts in this depart-
ment, previously to being presented to the general commit-
for confirmation ; to inquire into all salaries and
together with all payments and other matters relati.
management and workiug of the granite quarry at h
trick.

PROPOSED ALTERATION.
A sub-committee, to consist of the chairman of the Doti
Committee as " chairman," and six members, to whom shal;
be delegated the superintendence of the Dock-yard Depart.
meat ; to examine and certify the weekly bill of wages, anc
all other accounts in this department, previously to being
presented to the general committee for confirmation, and lc
expedite the works ordered by the general committee,—the
present committee of works to be the members of thin
committee.

A sub-committee of works, to consist of the chairman of
the general committee as " chairman," and the members of
the Dock-yard Harbour-master's Sub-Committee, to vhom
shall be referred the examination of plans for new works,
alterations, or improvements, together with estimates of cost;
also, the management of the Granite Quarry at Kirk-
naal;rick.

All new works exceeding £2OO to be let by public tender,
and executed according to plans and specifications.
The chairman of the general committee to be ee officio a
member of all other sub.committees.
Letters were read from the Chairmen of the British and
'North American Asssociation and the Shipowners' Assoeia.
tion,inchising resolutions of those respective bodies, to the
effect that Mr. Gage I=d explained his plans for the intended
new dock, arid .that the associations were of opinion that
which
they were superior to Mr. Hartley's.
A long conversation followed upon this subject, in which
the faits were much commented upon, that as Mr. Gage had
had at least three plans, the committee could not tell
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LINES ADDRESSED TO M Y DEARLY BELOVED. The town and neighbourhood of Burnley, in thi::
Wherever thou roamest, o'er land or on sea, county, were, on. Sunday evening last, thrown into a
My spirit shall wander, beloved one, with thee; state of great excitement and confusion, by a report,
I will hide with thee, e'en though for ever we part ; that an officer of the 60th Rifles, a private soldier, and
Oh never from thee shall my spirit depart. a female servant about the mess-house, had all been
Though hills mar divide us. and waves roll between, stabbed in many places, and had died of their wounds.
Though niGuntains may part us, and seas intervene, The sensation excited was intense ; and it was found,
1 still shall be with thee wherever thou art, that to a great extent the report was true, for none of
F6r in chains of affection thou holdest my heart.
Then go to the end of this vast boundless earth, the three wounded individuals survived beyond an
Leave thy sweet happy home, leave the land of thy birth ; early hour the following day. We yesterday sent a re-
But remememher, thou never cans't wander alone, porter over to make inquiries on the spot, the result of
For my thoughts shall be with thee, my lov'd one, my own.
Yes, wherever thou abidest my heart will be there. which we now lay before our readers.
Then why say farewell, since thou bindest me to thee—
The barracks at Burnley, erected in 1821, cover a
I must follow in chains till thou settest me free. large area, and are generally occupied- by both cavalry
Liverpool, Nov. 15, 1841. H. M. HANSBROW. and infantry. At present there are stationed there two
or three troops of the Queen's Bays, or Second Dra-
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- goon Guards, occupying the cavalry part of the bar-
racks; the infantry quarters are tenanted by two com-
ponies of the 60th Rifles, under the command of A Letter to the Right. Honourable Lord Alvanley. By .
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James Lord, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law jor Cockburn. The regiment quitted Windsor about.
London : John Richards and Co., Fleet-street. .
two months ago; and its present head quarters are at
Bolton, under the command of Colonel Sir John Mac-
The writer of the above is, we believe, well known to lean. The recent death of Lieutenant-Colonel the
many of our readers, as an able advocate of protestantism, Honourable H. R. Molyneux, of this regiment, must
in the study and upon the platform ; and his present effort, be in the recollection of our readers. The double
we are satisfied, is not calculated to lower him in the esteem murder and suicide occurred within the mess-house, a
of the public. The production which has called forth this detached building in the barrack-yard ; and probably
reply is one which, per se, scarcely deserved any serious the subjoined plan will make the places and positions
refutation. Quoted as it was, however, entire, by the Lon- more intelligible to our readers :
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In this diagram we have shown (and that but im-
perfectly) only the ground plan of one wing of the
building, the entrance being in one centre of the front.
A is the mess-waiter's pantry, where the unfortunate
officer was stabbed ; B is Lieut. O'Grady's own room,
in which, or at the door of which, the poor girl was
stabbed ; C marks the place where the officer fell in
the mess-room, upon the hearth ; D the spot where the
girl was found lying; and E where the murderer was
stretched when found. Fis a back door to the same
lobby.
The officers dine in the mess-room at seven o'clock; and,
on Sunday evening last, they had dined, when the unfortu-
nate officer, Lieutenant O'Grady, quitted the room about
eight o'clock, an earlier hour than that at which he generally
retired after dinner. About half an hour afterwards, Major
Cockburn, and several other officers, being still in the room,
they were astounded to see Lieut. O'Grady rush into the
room ; and, as he staggered towards the hearth, he exclaimed
—" Major,—Morris has murdered me." He then tell upon
the hearth, apparently exhausted from loss of blood ; for his
dress was by this time drenched in blood from a large wound
on the left side. He was placed upon the hearth ; and,
while the officers were crowding around him, loud screams
were heard from the direction of the unfortunate man's
apartment, and Major Cockburn rushed from the room, to
ascertain the cause of this fresh alarm. He saw the unfor-
tunate young woman whose life was the second sacrificed by
the murderer, in his fury, lying in the lobby, at the point
marked Din the plan. He also saw the murderer, whose
name is Robert Morris, brandishing a large carving knife,
apparently the weapon with which he had stabbed both the
officer and the female. Major Cockburn, with a view of in-
tercepting what he supposed the flight of the murderer,
turned round, and ran out of the front entrance of the mess-
house, and in front of the building, towards the hack door
to the lobby, marked F, calling as he ran, " Order the guard
out ; and, sentry, stop every body that passes." Having
reached the back door, Major Cockburn entered the build-
ing that way. and then found Morris, the murderer, stretched
on his back, at the point marked E, and apparently dead,
from self-inflicted wounds with the knife, which was lying
on the ground, at a short distance from his feet. All these
bloody deeds, must have been perpetrated within about two
minutes. It is impossible to describe the scene of horror
and confusion, from the moment it was discovered that
Lieut. O'Grady had been stabbed. People were rushing to
the spot from all parts of the building ; for it would seem
that the mess-woman, the mother of the deceased girl, was
in the mess-waiters' room when be stabbed his officer ; and
her shrieks and cries of murder, followed by those of the
unhappy girl herself, and of the persons who arrived in time
to witness the flight and suicide of the murderer, spread the
alarm throughout the barracks, and the officers' quarters
were soon crowded by inquirers.

We now return to Lielit. O'Grady, who during the latter
part of these tragic occurrences, had been placed by his
brother officers on the hearth rug, and attended by Mr. Cohen,
the assistant-surgeon of the regiment ; the principal surgeon,
Dr. Fraser, being at the bead quarters at Bolton. The
wounded officer exclaimed to those about him, " Oh! I have
long expected this from that villain ;" and immediately after-
wards, he asked, "is that poor girl dead ?" Mr. Cohen told
told him she was not. Taking an officers hand, Lieut. O'Grady
said to him with much earnestness and emotion, " Oh, this is
a bad way to (be. Any way to die but this !" Mr. Cohen
then desired him to keep himself quiet ; that perhaps all
would not be so had 'as he anticipated ; and he endeavoured,
by holding the lips of the wound together, and compression,
to stay the blood which was now pouring from the wound.
Mr. O'Grady looked at him, speaking as if in pain and with
difficulty said; " Oh ! it is of no use ; I shall not live many
hours. This is the death of me." He was then placed on a
table, conveyed to his own room (B), and laid upon the
bed. By this time, Mr. White a surgeon, in practice at
Burnley (which is distant about a mile-from the barracks),
arrived, and, with Mr. Cohen, attended the unfortunate
gentleman during the remainder of the night. He lingered
till half past ten o'clock on Monday morning, and then ex-
pired.

When the poor girl was raised from the ground, it was
found that she was bleeding profusely from several wounds
inflicted below the shoulder on the left side and on the back.
She was conveyed to one of the rooms of her mother, at the
other extremity of the building ; and a medical man shortly
afterwards attended her. She appeared to suffer much pain;
and, twice in paroxysms of agony, she exclaimed, " Oh
Morris! Oh Morris!" She survived only till eleven o'clock
the same night, about two hours and a half after the fatal
deeds.

Robert Morris was almost instantly raised, and carried to
his room ; he expired in two or three minutes afterwards,
having apparently stabbed himself with such desperation,
as to inflict two or three mortal wounds, besides others of a
less serious nature. He never spoke after the fatal acts above
described. The sergeant-major picked up the knife, which
is about a foot in length,—being an old carver, much ground,
and so thin that the back had almost as sharp an edge as the
true edge ; the point, too, was very sharp. 'The force with
which this deadly weapon had been used, in its too fatal suc-
cess, against three lives, was evident from the blade being
quite beat for several inches next the point, and the point
being also turned, as if it had come into contact with some
hard substance; probably the resistance of a bone.
As to the cause of this three-fold crime, though nothing
can be ascertained with certainty until after the inquest on
the bodies, we have heard enough to leave little, if any,
doubt that Morris was actuated by jealousy. There seems
to have been considerable intimacy between Lieut. O'Grady
and the girl ; and Morris was jealous of this, and desirous
that she should marry himself; strangely enough, for he was
aware that she was already married. On Sunday afternoon,
Morris and the girl (for, though married some years ago, she
had not completed bier twenty-first year) took a walk to-
gether towards the town; and it is said, that, during this
walk, Morris reproached her with suffering the attentions of
Lieutenant O'Grady, and threatened that he would be the
death of them both. On their return to the barracks, Morris
waited at dinner in the mess-room as usual ; but, when asked
by the mess-woman, the mother of the deceased girl, to come
to supper, as he had been accustomed to do, lie replied,
" I'll have no supper;" and walked out of the room: It is
known that Lieutenant O'Grady, on quitting the mess-room,
at eight o'clock, went to his own apartment ; and it is sup-
posed, that the girl had gone thither to wait for him, and
had then told him of the threats of Morris to take his life
and her own. It is conjectured, that, upon this intimation,
Lieutenant O'Grady immediately went into Morris's pantry,
;which, as will be seen by the plan, adjoins his own room,)
but, whether to demand that Morris should deliever up his
sword and rifle, (for he was a private in the regiment,) or to
order him into custody. or remonstrate with him, is not
known, though it may appear by the evidence of Mrs. Had-
den, the mess-woman, who was present at the rencontre,
and is the only individual who can throw any light on the
commencement of the transaction. Be this as it may, it
would seem, that, as soon 'as Lieutenant O'Grady had made
known to Morris why he had sought him, the latter, snatch-
ing up the carving knife, had commenced the bloody work
which has terminated so fatally. After stabbing Lieutenant
O'Grady, while in the pantry, Norris seems to have rushed

past the wounded officer to his apartment, where he probably
knew or suspected the girl to be. She, hearing the alarm
given by her mother, was about making her escape, when,
as is supposed, she was overtaken by the murderer at the
door, where he stabbed her repeatedly in the back and side,
a large splash of blood being visible on the wall near the
lintel of the door, between the doors of the two rooms B and
C. Such, we have no doubt, will prove to be the principal
facts of this melancholy catastrophe.
With a few particulars, as to the deceased persons, we
must close this account. The unfortunate officer, William
Sharman (or as the army list gives the name, William Staoner)
O'Grady, was of a large and somewhat distinguished Irish
family, being the nephew of the late Lord Chief Baron of the
Irish Exchequer (Baron O'Grady,) who, in 1831, was raised
to the peerage, by the title of Viscount Guillamore, and died
in April, 1840. The young officer, who has now come to an
untimely end, was cousin to the present Lord Guillamore.
Mr. O'Grady's father was one of the nine sons of Darby
O'Grady, Esq., of Mount Prospect, county Limerick. We
believe the deceased's widowed mother at present resides at
Dublin or Kingstown ; and, if report be correct, this will be
the second time she is doomed to mourn over the premature
death of a son. A brother of the deceased, we are told, was
shot in a duel, some years ago, with a Captain Smith—an
affair which at the time caused considerable sensation in
Dublin, where it occurred. Looking at the fate of two fine
young men by hostile wounds, there would seem something
strikingly remarkable in the family motto, " Vulneratus,
non vicins."—(Wounded, not conquered.) The deceased
officer was formerly a lieutenant in the IGth Lancers, and
was with that gallant regiment is India. He appears to have
joined the 60th Rifles on the 31st October, 1834, and at the
time of his death held the rank df first lieutenant. He was
in his 29th or 30th year.

Robert Morris, whose age we are told by one person, was
28 or 29, and by another 24 or 25, was a Scotchman, a native
of Aberdeen, a private in the regiment, but also employed,
as we have stated, as mess-waiter. We believe he had been

about eleven years in the regiment. He was considered a
good, steady, trust-worthy man; and nothing had been
alleged against him, except some former quarrels with the
girl, to whom he appeared devotedly attached. , It is said
that Lieut. O'Grady once ordered him into confi .ement for
some neglect of duty, or act of insubordination ; but what
that was we could not ascertain.
Isabella Madden, as she was generally called, only com-
pleted her twentieth year ou the 21st April last. We learn
that this wretched girl, the fatal cause of all this crime, had
long been of indifferent character. When only sixteen years
of age, she married a man named Patrick Territt, a private
in the 97th regiment, then stationed at Burnley barracks.
She has.for four or five years lived separate from her hus-
band,who, we believe, s now with his regiment in Malta
or Corfu:
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and she was emloyed by her mother, about the
kitchen assisting in cooking, &c. She has left an infant, a
daughter, about two years old : this child was placed out at
nurse in Burnley or the neighbourhood.

COURT OF RXCIIEQUE

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the last Liverpool Assizes, before ti

Wielitnian, in which ti

plaintiff

Dck company, called the Lilierpool and Manch,

Coal Company, sought to rec

r from the defendant, a coal-

supplied. It was p►owed on the trial that the

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supplied in the names of the trustees, on behalf of the com-
pany, and that the invoices were always headed, " Bought
from the Trustrees of the Liverpool and Manchester Coal
Company." After the plaintiffs' case was closed, Mr. Wat-
son, the defendant's counsel, objected that the action could
not be brought in the names of trustees for a company, and
that all the shareholders ought to have been joined.
The learned Judge directed a verdict .to he entered, giving
the defendant leave to move for a nonsuit. • Mr. Watson now
moved and contended. that a joint stock company could not
sue in the names of nominal plaintiff's, but that all the part-
ners should be joined ; and he stated to theirlordships that
in this case it did nut even appear that the trustees in whose
names the action was brought were shareholders; and some
of them had never taken part in the affairs of the company,
which appeared to have been entirely managed by the di-
rectors.

The Court held that the receipt of the coals by the defend-
ant with invoices, making• him debtor to the trustees, was
sufficient evidence of a contract and dealing with them; and
that as the plaintiffs had proved that they were the trustees
there was no ground for the application.—Rule refused.

REMARKABLE CASE OF BIGAMY

It appears that acertain Edward C. Boling (son of the Rev.
Mr. Boling), about three years since married a Miss P-,
a lady of respectability, as we learn, and lived with her
nearly two years. About twelve months ago he left home
for. the purpose of studying the law in Greensborough, North
Carolina, leaving his wife behind. On his arrival in Greens-
borough he changed his name, and introduced himself to the
inhabitants of that town as, Sidney T. Smith, of Alabama.
He exhibited to the gentleman under whom he prosecuted
the study of law certificates, purporting to be from distin-
guished gentlemen in North Alabama, and which represented
him as the son of a wealthy cotton planter of that state.
He obtained credit to a large amount in the stores of that
place, and pretended that he was in daily expectation of the
receipt of a large amount of funds from his father, living as
above stated. Soon after he informed-his acquaintances that
he expected his parents in a short time to pass through
Greensborougb, on a visit to some friends living in South-
ampton, Virginia. Again he pretended to learn that his
father was dead, but that he expected a visit from his mother,
and, with a countenance indicating grief for his lost parent,
he entered a milliner's shop and bespoke for his mother a
costly dress of mourning, while he wore crape on his hat.
After this he succeeded by stratagem in becoming acquainted
with Miss E. B-, an accomplished young lady of Guild-
ford county, and daughter of a gentleman of high respecta-
bility and of enviable property. By artful and false repre-
.•

sentations he gained the confidence of her father; and by
warm and ardent professions of regard and attachment in-
duced her to become his bride. Soon after his second
marriage, Smith, alias Boling, told his new father-in-law
that he had been sadly disappointed in not having received
the funds from Alabama, which he had so long expected, but
still pretended that he confidently expected them to arrive in
a short time as he stated, moreover, that he had bargained
with a Mr. Edward C. Boling, of this county, for a tract of
land, and for which he agreed to pay Boling the sum of 3,700
dollars; and thus got his.father-in• law to endorse the pay-
ment of a bond of 3,700 dollars, which sum he borrowed
to pay for the land. Now Smith, alias Boling, pretended to
visit this Edward C. Boling, to ratify the land bargain. After
a short absence he returned back, and, 10, Boling had, by
hook or crook, defrauded him out of his money. He re-
mained with his wife a few days, and concluded to go and
see Boling again ; and such was now the length of his ab-
sence that his last wife, becoming uneasy, proceeded in quest
of him to the house of the Rev. Mr. Boling, of this county,
expecting to meet with him there, but she found him not.
Mr. Smith was not known to any of the family. While there
Mrs. Smith became acquainted with Mrs. E. C. Boling,
whose husband was absent also. The two ladies remained
together for several days, and mutually expressed anxiety
for the return of their husbands, never for once dreaming
that they were the wives of one and the same man. Mrs.
Smith, alias Boling, finally returned home without hearing
from her husband—but Smith arrived soon after her return,
told her a smooth tale relative to his absence, and still com-
plained of his treatment from Boling. The want of space
compels us to pass over many events of interest which tran-
spired after this last return mentioned, until his arrest. His
new father-in-law, enraged against Boling, and unwilling that
his son-in-law should brook such injustice, sought redress by
the force and power of the law. He accordingly had a writ
issued for the arrest of Boling, charging him with swindling
Sidney T. .Smith. On Tuesday last, Smith, in company
with a young man, a relative of Mrs. Smith, arrived at Yan-
ceyville, the county-seat of this county, on his way, as he
said, to Southampton, to take charge of several negroes which
he owned there, and to collect a large stun of money then
due to him ; but on his arrival at the Court-house he made
out to the young man that his horse was too lame to travel
further, and sent the young man on to Southampton, stating
that he would return, get another horse, and soon be with
him. Thus they parted, and the young man is now, perhaps
awaiting Smith's alias Boling's presence in Southampton, or
inquiring in vain after the property. We have said that they
parted—Smith pretended to go back. Colonel Lea, deputy-
sheriff, who had been on the look-out for Boling, was in-
formed that he was in the village ; on further inquiry he
learned that Boling had left town—some one had met him.
Colonel Lea mounted his horse and pursued him ; he over-
took Boling, who was on his way to the residence of his first
wife, and brought him to town. Imagine the feelings of his
new father-in-law, who wasin Yanceyville on that day, seek-
ing Boling's arrest, us he stepped into the Court-house to
observe the culprit for the first time, and at a glimpse ex-
claimed, " My God! that is the man who married my daugh-
ter ! " Boling having been brought before an examining
court, was required to give bail in the sum of 5000 dollars,
with two or more sureties, which, failing to do, he was com-
mitted to gaol, and the witnesses bound to appear at Guild-
ford Superior Court, where the defendant Boling will have
his trial before the Hon. Judge Nash.—Milton (North Ca-
rolina) Chronicle.

STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER, Nov. 17.—We regret to say, that, dis-

couraging as the state of business has been in the town for
some weeks past, it was worse yesterday than on any for-
mer occasion. Owing to the present severe weather, there
was an almost total cessation in the purchases of yarn for the
continent ; and the market was, consequently, exceedingly
flat, Kith a decline of ad. to id. per pound on many descrip-
tions of yarn. For goods, too, the demand was vety trifling,
and prices of most descriptions continue gradually to de-
cline.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Nov. 15.—There has
been little or no change in the flannel market during the last
three or four weeks ; the demand has been pretty good, but
prices still continue very low. This last week, a manufac-
turer has assigned over his effects for the benefit of his cre-
ditors; his engagements, it is supposed, willamount to a few
thousand pounds. There is no change in the wool market to
report.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET. Nov. 16.—This was much the
same unsatisfactory market day as last week, buyers being
few, and comparatively small sales effected. The principal
demand was in heavy, low-priced woollens. In other des-
criptions very little was done. Nevertheless, prices remain
firm, in the anticipation of an increased dbmand, as well,
perhaps, as from a continuance of orders to a fair amount.
Business in the warehouses is tolerable, and the merchant
looks forward with hope to a more stirring trade.

EXECUTION OF ROBERT BLAKESLEY

(From Monday .lyiyht's London Slandard.)

•
This unhappy man underwent the sentence of the law at
the usual hour this morning at Newgate. An immense
crowd was assembled, and many persons waited near the
scaffold the whole of the night, in order that they might
be enabled to get a view of the awful ceremony. Some
particulars have already been given of the culprit's con-
duct since his condemnation, and of his violence towards
some of the persons who were employed in watching him ; but
although that violence was extreme and his appearance be-
tokened great excitement, still the opinion of the authorities
of the gaol, supposed also by that of the medical officers, was,
that he was only acting an assumed madness, in the hope
that it might assist the defence made for him at his
trial. This violence continued up to Sunday, and it vas
deemed advisable, in consequence, that he should not be
present with the other prisoners in the chapel. During
the early part of Sunday, he appeared in a very sullen
temper, and would not answer any questions that were
put to him ; and, after the service was concluded, the
Rev. Mr. Carver, who, since the unhappy man's confine-
ment in Newgate has paid him the most unremitting atten-
tion, proceeded to his cell, where he found the culprit in the
same mood. The rev. gentleman addressed him, and re-
minding him of the near approach of his last moment, be-
sought him to refrain from persevering in his present con-
duct, assuring him it could have no good effect, for that
competent persons were satisfied it was assumed. The blood
rushed into the culprit's face, and it was evident that he was
perfectly conscious of what the rev. gentleman said to him,
and almost immediately afterwards he entirely changed his
tone and demeanour, and admitted that he had been assuin.
iug the violent conduct, and that his only object for so doing
Was the hope of preventing his being made a public gaze of
in the chapel on Sunday. From this time the conduct of
the unhappy man was entirely becoming his situation; he
expressed himself resigned to his fate, and conversed with
calmness with the rev. chaplain. During—the night two-
turnkeys sat up with him in his cell. He did not retire to
bed the whole night, but spent the time in reading occasion-
ally, and also iii writing two letters, one to the Rev. Mr.
Carver, and another to his wife.

Shortly after seven o'clock this morning the Sheriffs,
Messrs. Magnay and Rogers, arrived at the gaol, and were
immediately accompanied by Mr. Cope, the governor, to the
prisoner's cell in the Chapel Yard, where they found him
in earnest conversation with the chaplain. Upon the Sheriffs
entering the cell, Blakesley turned round and shook hands
with them, and wished them a good morning, and soon after-
wards the executioner and his assistants entered the cell for
the purpose of pinioning the culprit. Before this operation
was performel the Rev. Mr. Carver, addressing the unhappy
man, asked him whether there was anything more that he
wished to say ? Blakesley replied, " I wish to say this—l
assure you that I had no intention to kill James 13urdon. I
intended to have killed my wife, and I expected to be appre-
hended immediately and brought here (Newgate) to suffer
for the deed ; but as I was making the blow (motioning at the
same time how he intended he should be understood,) Burdon
rose up with his handkerchief upon his head, and he re-
ceived the blow intended for my wife, but I solemnly declare
I did not intend to kill HIM." The Rev. Mr. Carver said
that the great Searcher of all Hearts could alone be aware
whether this was true, and Blakesley repeated his solemn as-
surance that it was nothing but the truth which he had stat-
ed. Blakesley then thanked the sheriffs for the kindness he
had received from them, and expressed his readiness to an-
swer any question they might put to him. Some question
was then put to him in reference to his violence in the gaol,
when he said that he had assumed it in the hope that his life
might be saved, from the impression that it would create that
he was not of sane mind. The Rev. Mr. Carver then asked
the culprit whether he thought God would pardon his sins,
and he replied that he hoped he had made his peace with
God, and that his soul would be saved, and he placed his
caief reliance on that hope.
At eight o'clock the culprit,

accompanied by the sheriffs

the governor, and Mr. Cope, proceeueu trout the cell. The
culprit walked with a firm step, and appeared perfectly com-
posed ; indeed, it was remarked, that he seemed to be the
most unconcerned of all who were present. He walked up
the ladder with equal firmness, and his appearance upon the
scaffold was the signal for a tremendous yell, which issued
from the mob, and which lasted during the whole of the time
the unhappy man was upon the scaffold, and until the bolt
was withdrawn ; indeed, it might also be said that he drew
his last gasp with the execrations of the multitude ringing in
his ears. The culprit, as has been before stated, was a re-
markably strong muscular man, and he appeared to struggle
severely for two or three minutes before he ceased to exist.
It should, perhaps, be stated that since the prisoner's con-
finement in Newgate he has been visited by his father on
two or three occasions, and. who saw him on Wednesday for
the last time.
At nine o'clock the body was cut down and taken to the
interior of the gaol, and it will be buried to-night by the side
of Curvoisier.