The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-25 00:00:00

DEATH OIfMR. BIBBY.

On Friday last the prisoner was again brought up at the
office of Messrs. Laces, Clay and Myers, before Thornal
Birch, Esoi., Miles Formby, Esq., and John Faraiby,
Mr. Carson, solicitor for the friends of the deceised, stated
that he had received a letter to the effect that several parties
who were most important to the investigation would in all
probability be in custody in a few hours, and he had there-
fore to make application that the prisoner should be remanded
until these parties should be apprehended. He thought that
on Monday at latest, he would be prepared. He should give
Mr. Davenport, the prisoner's attorney, due notice of what
was to be brought forward. Meantime, he had no 'further
immediate evidence to offer. He handed the letter to the'
magistrates.
At the request of Mr. Davenport, a police-officer named
Tracey, was called. His evidence 'merely went to show that
he knew the prisoner, and had often, when going his rounds,
seen him going to his work in Mr. Bibby's brick-field, be-
tween four and five o'clock in the morning, during the last
two months, and that he was an industrious man, and always
one of the earliest. He did not see him on the morning Mr.
Bibby's body was found. The remaining evidence of this
witness, and also that of another officer who was examined,
arose out of an opinion entertained by Mr. Davenport, that
police-officer Ratcliffe, who has given the principal evidence
hitherto, has fallen into a discrepancy on one point; but the
evidence of the last 'Witness removed this impression. In
the end, Mr. Carson repeated his application,' to which the
magistrates acceded, remanding the prisoner till Monday.
FURTHER EXAMINATION.
Yesterday, in the magistrates' room of the Kirkdale Court
House, the prisoner was again brought up, before the same
magistrates, when Mr. Carson adduced the following evi-
dence, which we give rather with a view to satisfy the public
mind that every exertion has been made on the part of that
gentleman and the magistracy to sift the matter to the bot-
tom, and endeavour to discover the perpetrator of the sup-
posed murder, than from its bearing as affecting the prisoner,
which is indeed trifling, if not altogether nugatory :
Mary Mulhall, the wife of Richard Mulhall. I know the
prisoner. 1 live at Litherland. We live with Patrick Mul-
hall on the banks of the canal. I and my husband slept in
the same room with the prisoner and his wife. I lodged there
the day before Mr. Bibby's body was found. We went to
bed between nine and ten o'clock on the Friday night before.
I and my husband went up stairs together. Cullen was not
then in bed. I was hardly strippe when Cullen and his
wife went to bed. Cullen tooklis boots off in the kitchen.
I saw him take them off. I saw the Monaghan man about a
week after Mr. Bibby's death. He was sitting without his boots
or shoes in the kitchen. He (lid not bring either one or
other. up to the room. He had a pair of Sunday shoes.
Those he has on appear to be them. I have seen them in his
bed-room. I think Cullen and his wife fell asleep before me,
for Ilheard Cullen) snoring while I was talking to my hus-
band. I slept well. It was day-light when I got up. The
prisoner had gone to his work then. I did not.see him that
morning. I took no notice. I got up betiveen seven and
eight o'clock. Ido not recollect my husband getting up.
The prisoner and my husband had both gone to their work
when I got up. I recollect his sleeping at the house on the
Saturday. I saw him on Sunday morning. We are gene-
rally late out on, Saturday. We (I and my husband) gene-
rally go to Liverpool to buy our stuff on Saturday, but we
did not that Saturday, for•my husband did not get his money
that night. We went to Bootle only. I first heard of the
body being found in Patrick Mulhall's about five o'clock
that night. Patrick Mulhall went to Liverpool that night.
I left him at the house when I went to go to Bootle. He
had come home from his work, and was getting his tea be-
fore I went. A boy named Groves was in the house that
afternoon. He came in after his work, and Mrs. Mulhall
borrowed a few shillings from him to buy some things, as Mrs.
Cullen had not come in. I heard of Mr. Bibby's death from
Mrs. Mulhall, after I came back from Bootle. Mrs. Mul-
hall said there was a stoppage in the payment of the wages,
and, to the best of my belief, she said it was on account of
Mr. Bibby's death. She did not tell me how he came by his
death. My husband went to Bootle before me. He got his
tea after he came in from work, before he went to Bootle. I
got my tea with him. Groves came back for his money when
I was ioing to bed, and called for his money. I dined at
twelve o clock on Saturday with my husband, and there was
not a word said about Mr. Bibby. When. I left to go to
Bootle, Mrs. Cullen had gone to take her husband's tea to
the brick-field. My husband went first to Bootle, 1 followed,
and Patrick Mulhall was left in the house. Martin Cain
had gone to bed before I did. Walker used also to go to
bed sooner than us. I have not seen Walker since that
night.
It was intimated to the prisoner that as his law ad-
viser was not, present, he might either cross-examine the
witness, or leave that to Mr. Davenport hereafter, to whom
the depositions should be submitted.
The prisoner said he would leave it to his attorney.
George Groves being sworn, said. I live at Seaforth, with
my father. I was working at Mr. Waring's tannery, on the
Friday of the week Mr. Bibby's body, was found. 1 heard
that the body was found on a Saturday evening. It was at
Oldfield beer-house, at Litherland, between six and seven
o'clock. Mrs. Cullen told me in the front room. The back
kitchen was full of brick-men. Cullen was there. She
spoke loud enough for her husband to hear her. I asked her
for some money for Mrs. Mulhall. She said she had not a
farthing, and Mr. Mulhall must wait until they got some,
—and that Mr. Bibby had got drowned in a pit, and they had
gone for him, and she was waiting till they came back. I
then went direct to Mr. Mulhall's house. I think there
was no one there but herself and the two children. I only
stopped two or three minutes. I did not see Patrick or
Richard Mulhall, Walker., or Cain there. I delivered the
message in the way I got it from Mrs. Cullen, and told her
that she had told him that Mr. Bibby was drowned in a pit.
1 went further up the yard, and stopped till between 10 and
11 o'clock. I saw Conolly there, and staid in his house.
About dusk I saw Richard Mulhall and his wife, and Betty
Mulhall, belonging to the house. Not a word of Mr. Bibby
was mentioned. I asked her for 2s. from Mrs. Mulhall,
which I bad lent her between five and six that evening.
When I lent her the 25., Richard Mulhall and his wife, Patrick
Mulhall, and the man from the north of Ireland, were pre-
sent. When I went to Seaforth soon after five o'clock, I
left Patrick Mulhall there. I went a third time, about 10 or
or 11 o'clock, and got my money. I saw there Mrs. Mul-
hall. The rest might have gone to bed.
The magistratea here retired for a short time. Shortly
after their return, Mr. Carson re-entered the room, and said
he had an application to make, namely, that two persons now
in the_gaol, and.who have been in-the same place of confine-
ment with him,- should be exa.rainva. xx. -a
would state to the magistrates that the prisoner had made'
some admissiOns to them, waren Lc considered very impor-
.tant.
The Rev. Miles Formby said that they were, of course, bound
to receive all the legal testimony that might, be brought for-
ward, and it was finally agreed, as the prisoner's attorney
was not present, to take, the examinations in chief, leaving it
open to the prisouer's attorney to cross-examine on the fol-
lowing day.
Mr. Carson then called the following witnesses
James Acton being sworn, said, I am a prisoner here in
default of paying a ene for assaulting a police officer. I have
been confined in the same ward with the prisoner. I have
been in that ward since the 27th June last. I recollect the
prisoner being put into that ward. It was on an afternoon,
I think between a fortnight and three weeks ago. I was
with him some little that afternoon. I asked him what he
had come in for ? He told me he was taken up on suspicion
of the murder of Mr. Bibby. No more conversation passed
that evening. We had some conversation next day, in the
afternoon. Two more prisoners, Hilton and Griffiths, were
present. I sat close up to the prisoner, along by the wall.
Hilton sat close to me, and Griffiths on the other side of the
prisoner. He was asked by several of us what he was charg-
ed with ? and he told us he was charged with the murder of
Mr. Bibby. I asked him where he worked ? and lie said he
was wheeler for the brickmen. He told us he had been at
the races on Thursday, with his wife, and a man and his
wife that he lodged with, and that he got home by nine
o'clock, and was quite sober. He said they came together.
He said,—" In the morning, when I got up, I' came down
stairs, and the clock was striking four. As I was lacing my
boot, after I came down stairs, Martin came into the house.
Martin told me he had been to a pit for a spade handle that
had been broke on him by his (Martin's) foreman." Witness
went on to say—Prisoner also said that a farmer's servant had
appeared against hail, and"had said that he had seenlim go
from a pit, and go behind a barn. Witness asked the pri-
soner if he had to go by the pit to his work, and he said he
had. No further conversation took place that evening. On
the next day Griffiths and the prisoner and me were walking
in the ard together. I asked Cullen if any violent blows
were sound on Mr. Bibby, and he said there were not. I
asked him if he was drowned in the pit, or whether he had
been murdered and thrown in the pit. He said—" He was
throttled and thrown into the pit." Griffiths asked him how
he knew he was throttled, and he said " How the devil do I
know ?" I asked him if he was dressed in the same clothes
when he went to his work in the field. He said he never
worked in these clothes, lie said the trowsers he worked in
he had given to Attain, and that he had lent the trowsers he •
had on to a young man in the field, and worked in his drawers.
He was asked either by me or Griffiths what was the reason
Martin was gone out of the way, and he said he could nbt
tell. He believed he had gone a shearing. We then asked
him where the other two men had gone, and he said he sup-
posed they had gone a shearing with Martin. We had no
further conversation with him on the subject of Mr. Bibby's
death until Friday last, when he came back from his last ex-
amination. A dozen or more of the prisoner's friends got
round the house, and several of them asked him how he had
got on, and he said, " Oh, my boys, now. for the rope !"
Most of us said "We hope not." ' He said, ." They' are
bringing more and.more against me every- day.'P Griffiths
was present. He said that there was either a wheelwright
or a joiner brought against him, who had said that '
he met him that very morning as he was going to•'his
work. He has since told me that he did not know the pit at
all. I never saw the prisoner until I saw him here. I am a
wheelwright by trade.
Thomas Hilton, another prisoner in the gaol.—l am from
West Leigli, and am a silkweaver.' I was 'imprisoned for
walking in. a. chartist procession, ram in the same ward
with the prisoner. I recollect the prisoner being brought in.
I have had very little conversation with him. I have, sat
with the prisoner and the last witness in the yard. Ido not
recollect that Griffiths was present. Ido 't know the' hour
of the day: 'Acton sat on his left, I on the rightof the pri-
soner. I did not hear Acton ask Limn' any questions. I
don't remember hearing Mr. Bibby's 'death mentioned.
Something was said about a pit. The prisoner said he had to
go past that pit to his work. Acton and the prisoner were
conversing.when I went up. The prisoner said he was inno-
cent of what was laid to' his charge. This was after the dis-
course about the pit. I never had any conversation with the
prisoner relative to Mr. Bibby's death.
The witness Griffiths would have been called, but has been
discharged from the gaol, and was now in Chester.
Mr. Carson here intimated that he had no further evidence
then to offer, and it was for the magistrates to consider what
determination they should come to. It was, he added, but
justice to the person named Walker, whose name had fre-
quently been mentioned during the investigation, and of
whom the police had been in search, to state that he had
voluntarily given himself up, and from the satisfactory state-
ments which he had made, he (Mr. Carson) considered him
perfectly innocent,—a fact which he thought' ought to go
forth to the public. With reference to the name of Cain,
he had received a communication from. Leicester, written by
an officer who had gone in search of him, and he
,expected
another letter, or the officer and the man, to-morrow, (this
day.) He was not, however, prepared to say that his
testimony would go farther than afford some particulars as to
whether the prisoner was in the'house on the Friday night,
or what were his movements there. With respect to the
testimony of the two prisoners from the gaol, whom they had
just heard, he would only say that hehad learned they would
speak to the admissions that had been detailed. He thought
(though he admitted that evidence was somewhat suspicious
from such a (luarter), that it would be advisable to lay it
before the magistrates so far as it went. He had heard
also
that Griffith, who was in Warrington, could corroborate it.
It was therefore for them to consider whether they would
remand the prisoner for a day longer. He thought the most
grave part of the evidence this day was that which imputed
to the prisoner the expression that the deceased was throttled
and then thrown in.
Mr. Formby said, that unless Griffith could do more than
corroborate the evidence of this day, he thought it would not
affect his decision. They should proceed, indeed, on the
supposition that what the witnesses had said was true. Ad-
mitting that it were confirmed, the previous opinion they had
formed would scarcely be affected.
' Mr. Carson said he was not aware that Griffiths could
state any new facts.
The bench still considered that it would be desirable if
Cain could be brought forward, as also Walker, if that could
be done within a short time, as they did not feel justified in
detaining the prisoner beyond the next day.

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Mr. Carson said he certainly could not further pr
remand, or at least not beyond to-morrow, to allow timirrof-----
the possible arrival of Cain by the first railway train.
.After a short examination the magistrates concurred,—
remanding the prisoner till this day at eleven o'clock, at the
office of Messrs. Laces, Clay, and Myers.
The prisoner's wife, and his brother, a decently dressed
man, from St. Helen's, were at the Court-house.
In all probability the prisoner will be discharged this day.

CORRESPONDENCE.

ALLEGED NEGLECT OF DUTY bN THE PART OF
THE CREWS OF THE LIGHT SHIPS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—Having seen a letter, published by Will'amllughes,
master of No 1 pilot boat, in the Liverpool Mail of the 18th
'instant, in which he accuses the crews of the light ships with
neglect of duty, in not going to the boat he picked up on
Sunday, the 16th instant, I do not consider they have neg-
lected their duty in any way, and scorn the idea, attempted
by whom it may be, that would in any way impute neglect of
:duty to me at any time, but more particularly durine, my
'time afloat. Therefore, being one of the masters at this time
afloat, I deemit but justice to myself and crew to say that
'William Hughes is wrong in his statement. It would appear
he is qtilte ignorant of the equipment of the light vessels, and
the strict rules we have to obey. I should have thought he,
'being a master pilot, would have known the rules and regu-
lations of the light vessels. He says we have a life-boat at-
tached to the vessel. Here he is quite wrong : we have none.
We have a small common boat like their own : besides, the
light ship's boat is never to quit the vessel unless called by
signal from the tender.

I observed a boat at the buoy before they got to them, but
little suspected it was a boat in distress, seeing so many boats
hovering about, and frequently fast to- the buoys. There
were several vessels passed both in and out that day after
'high water. It is strange they did not try to get on board
some one of them. Had I seen them sooner, I should have
thought it very imprudent in me to send the boat and four
hands away, leaving the vessel with myself only on board, it
blowing strong from the S. W„ and strong ebb tide, particu-
larly not knowing their business there. Our boat would not
have been able to get back before next flood, which would be
late at night. Then, of course, the light could not be exhi-
bited at the proper time, for want of the men to heave it up.
The consequence would be, most probably, vessels getting
aground on the bank : the error would be the vessel had no
light up. If I were to send off every time I see boats hover-
ing about the buoys, it would keep me continually doing so,
and I should be breaking my instructions.
I think there is great neglect in keeping a look-out on
board the pilot boats, or they would not be getting foul of
the light ships as they do.
I trust the few remarks I have made will be quite sufficient
to clear me from what William Hughes has imputed to me.
By giving this a corner in your valuable paper, you will
much oblige, air, your bumble servant,
JOHN JONES,
Master Crosby Light Ship.

August,'lBlo.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
attended the Crescent Chapel yesterday morning,
for the purpose of hearing the Rev. James Parsons. Upon
coming out, at the expiration of the service, I was surprised
to see waiting at the gate the carriage appropriated to the use
of the mayor for the time being. Stich a circumstance struck
me as being unusual, and I was racking my brain for the
purpose of manufacturing a reason for it, when a liberal
friend of mine jocularly remarked,—" Oh, Sir Joshua knows
on which side his bread's buttered !" I then saw at once,
sir, that this was a mere clap-trap, for the purpose of secur-
ing the good graces of those whigs who at one time did not
think Sir Joshua a fit person to be brought forward as the
reform candidate. Surely those persons who entertain ob-
jections to his worship are not to be gulled by such miserable
artifice as this !—I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Liverpool, August 24, 1840. ANTI-HUMBUG.

GYMNASIUM ESTABLISIIMENT.—In another column will
be found an advertisement of Mr. Harrison, professor of
gyinnastics, Great Newton-street. Mr. Harrison is, 4e be-
lieve, a very accomplished adept in the science, and parties
wishing to acquire it could not do better than avail them-
selves of his services.

THEATRE ROYAL.-Mr. W. Farren and Mrs. Stirling
close their engagement on Friday next, and we therefore re-
commend those who have not yet paid them a visit, to lose
no time. Many favourite pieces are announced for repre-
sentation in the course of the week.

KID GLOVES CLEANED.—We beg to direct the attention
of our readers to an advertisement in another column, which
announces that Mrs. B. Lomax, of Cases-street, and Mrs. J.
Lomax, of New Ferry, have been appointed agents for Messrs.
L. Bateau and Co., the celebrated dyers and cleaners of kid
gloves.

LAIDLAW'S MOVING PANORAMA.—We perceive that
this attractive exhibition will be opened to-morrow, at the
new building erected for the purpose, in Newington, near
Bold-street. It consists of a view of a ship sailing round
New York, a view [of the Huddersfield rescuing the pas-
sengers from the Huskisson, and another of the late fire in
York Minster. We hope our readers will avail themselves of
an early opportunity of visiting these beautiful works of art.
—See Adv.

ITALIAN OPERA.—We direct the attention of our musical
and theatrical friends to an announcement in another column
that, during three nights of next week, Italian Operas will
be produced at the Theatre Royal. The operas mentioned
are Smyth-amide, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Otello, and La Son-
nambula, and they will be produced under the direction of
M. Benedict, the celebrated pianist. The vocal attractions
are peculiarly strong. The list includes the names of Madame
Grisi, Signora Ernesta Grisi, Signor Brizzi, and Signor Tam-
burini—names too well known to require any recommenda-
tion. The management of the Theatre Royal are entitled to
great praise for this spirited effort to gratify the public, and
we trust the enterprise may produce ample returns.
THE ORIENTAL.—This beautiful and . powerful steam-
ship, left the river Mersey on Thursday afternoon, at two
o'clock, and reached the pier at Southampton at the same
hour on Saturday afternoon—thus making the passage in 48
hours. The distance, measuring from point to point of the
map in the circuitous passage road, is about GOO statute
miles; but as the vessel would necessarily give the land a
muail uat tat utumg the night, the CULL.. 3, iglu *Luta inUlJaUly
not be short of 620 to 630 miles—making an average throng +,
out of 13 miles an hour. This is what may be called crack
speed.
TESTIMONIAL TO CAPTAIN CLEGG.—MOSt of our readers
will recollect that, in January last, a most gallant action was
performed by Captain Clegg, of the ship Huddersfield,
whereby he rescued from a watery grave no fewer than 114
persons, who were on board the William Huskisson, steamer.
It will likewise be known to many, that a subscription was
set afloat for the purpose of making him an acknowledgment
for his intrepid services. The result has been, the collection
of a sufficient sum to make a very large silver salver, which
has been manufactured by Mr. Dismore, of Bold-street, in
whose window it is now exhibiting. It is surmounted by a
border, chased in scrolls of the time of Louis XIV. ' • the
bottom is likewise ornamented with scrolls, and in each cor-
ner is a very beautifully-chased nautical emblem. In the
centre is a copy of the picture painted for Mr. Horsfall, (the
owner of the Huddersfield,) by our townsman, Mr. Walters,
and which was exhibited in the Exchange. Beneath this are
the arms of Captain Clegg, and, above it, the following in-
scription :—" Presented to John Arden Clegg, commander of
the ship Huddersfield, by the merchants and other inhabitants
of Liverpool and its vicinity, (in restricted subscriptions of
five shillings,) as a testimonial of their admiration of his
gallant conduct, in saving the lives of one hundred and four-
teen of the passengers and crew of the steamer William Hus-
kisson, in Mid-Channel, on her passage from Dublin to
Liverpool, when in a sinking state, in a gale of wind, on the
12th January, 1840, at the imminent peril of his own vessel
and of the lives of those on board."—As a whole, it is a very
beautiful specimen of workmanship, and does great credit to
Mr. Dismore's taste and skill as the manufacturer, as well as
to the committee, for their judicious selection. We under-
stand that it hes been very highly praised by one or two
nautical gentlemen, particularly the centre design, in which
the effect of the water dashing over the vessels is very accu-
rately pourtrayed.

GREAT WESTERN STEAM SHIP.—A dividend of £l. 4s.
per share on the capital stock of the company, foe the half
year ending the 30th of June, has just been 'declared.—
Western Luminary.
The Duke of Rutland, at his own cost, has caused a road
to be constructed from Matlock to Bakewell, which adds
greatly to the beauty and convenience of the town.
Assam TEA.—The number of chests of Assam tea about
to .be shipped for England this season is 120.—Calcutta
Courier, June 1.
From the Boulogne Gazette it appears that during the past
week there arrived by London and Dover 974 persons ; de-
parted for London and Dover, 784.
M. Thiers has received the Grand Cross of the Dutch
Order of the Lion, on occasion of the commercial treaty re-
cently concluded between France and Holland.
Lieutenant-General M`Nair, C. 8., died at his residence,
near Southampton, on Friday last. He was one of the gene-
ral officers receiving reward pensions for distinguished ser-
vices, and for many •years commanded the 90th Light In-
fantry,

The great banking-house at Havre of Widow Mitchel and
Sons has stopped payment in consequence of several persons,
alarmed at the prospects of war, having suddenly drawn out
their deposits.

By the new arrangements for transmitting the mails to
India, the first mail vid Falmouth will be made up in London
on the 31st instant.

A marriage between the Archduchess Maria,' daughter of
the Archduke Regnier of Austria, and the Prince Royal of
Sardinia, is considered at Vienna to be decided upon.
An athletic young man, named Wilson, walked on Wed-
nesday 14 miles, at St. Leonards, in one hour, 58 minutes
and 30 seconds ; and it is said' that lie can perform the task
in even less time.—Kentish Gazelle.
A NOTE OF PREPARATION:A. correspondent at Waltham
Abbey informs us that the government, after allowing the
powder-mills at that place (the only government powder-
mills) to remain for several years in a very delapidated state,
have recently sent orders that they should be restored to full
efficiency in the shortest possible time. In consequence of
this order new machinery is in course of being fitted up. Our
correspondent adds that on Monday last an order was re-
ceived for the manufacture of a large quantity of cannon
powder with the utmost dispatch. He also says that the
small arm department at Enfield Lock is in full employment.
—Morning Post.
SOMNAMBULISM.—A most extraordinary instance of this
kind occurred a few days ago to Mr. Stephen Stone, of
Newcut. He was sleeping with his father, and in the course
of the night got out of bed and fell from his bed-room win-
dow; a diStance of sixteen feet. He afterwards (as ite sup-
poses) took a ladder and placed it against the window, by
which means he got into bed again, and did not discover till
the morning that in his fall he had dislocated his shoulder.—
Gloucester Journal.
Two brothers, natives of Holland, once entered into a con-
test to see who could smoke the greatest quantity of tobacco
at a sitting ; and they continued their insane competition till
they both fell down in a state of apoplexy, from which they-
never recovered—the one at his seventeenth, the other at his
eighteenth pipe. •
Lisbon is no longer to be an admiral's station. Indeed,
nothing but a desire on the part of the tlritish Government
to favour a political partisan would have made it one so long.
Admiral Ommaney is to be re-called, and the expensive naval
establishment, which has been kept rotting in the Tagus, to
be applied to some more useful purpose. The station is for
the future to be placed under the command of a captain, who
will. do quite as well, and not cost the country a third of the
money.—Standard.
SIERRA LEONE.--$y letters from Sierra Leone to the
middle of June we find that the yellow fever had again bro-
ken out in its most malignant form, no less than nine deaths
having occurred within a few days. Mr. Teage, ordnance
clerk, died on the 12th of June • Mr. Pyne, colonial survey-
or, on the 13th ; several of -the 'Church Missionary Society ;
as also the wife of 'Mr. Dove, of the Wesleyan mission. Col.
Doherty, the g6vernor, had a severe attack of fever, which
had decided him'on returning home in the Lord Wellington.
which was to sail in July. Great discontent and a general
feeling of disgust prevailed in the colony from the system of
favouritism that•existed, and placing military officers in act-
ing civil appointments, to the prejudice-of the old officers of
the departments.—Correspondent of the Morning Post.

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LORD SOUTHAMPTON'S SALES

(Fi•oin the Morning Herald.)
Our moneyed readers may he a little anxious to
know something in respect to the result of this im-
mense sale, with a view to ascertain if a previous opi-
nion "that the capitalists were entirely absorbed in
railway shares and foreign securities had any real
foundation." We think it will not be difficult to
prove, and demonstratively, that there are still left
some thousands of moneyed men who adhere to the

good old-fashioned principle of preferring real to ima-
ginary security. The great sale to which we are al-
luding has put this to the test; the public, who have

so long had their attention kept on the qui vice by the
continued advertisements of Mr. George Robins's an-
nouncement of this vast property, congregated in such
numbers as to make it indispensable to remove the
auction to the largest ball-room of the London Tavern
(the Auction Mart being entirely incapable of holding
half the number.) One thousand persons were each

day ass,

id the result was no less satisfactory
to -the public than the noble lord the proprietor. There
had been some previous diversity of opinion as to the
value of ,freehold ground rents; in this sale the rever-
sionary expectancy was prolonged to 90 years, giving a
pleasing, although a remote prospective view to those

families to provide for. The average price
2S to 30 years' purchase, and where the si-
tuation was more than usually seductive, many cases
occurred where they realised 50 years' purchase.—
These high prices appeared to have been the result of
Mr. George Robins's declaration that Three per Cent.
Consols at 91 were at an unhealthy price—and though
just old enough to remember them at 474

now, quoth our learned-friend of the rostrum, without
intending to alarm them too much by the threatened
war with France, this is assuredly the time to escape
from a doubtful security, where the principal may be
so materially reduced, to the positive certainty of
ground-rents, which, if influenced at all by another

Ir, would rise rather than take a retrograde motion.
Next in succession was the'vacant ground of the noble
lord, commencing at his park on Highgate-hill, and
terminating at the vicinity of the Regent's Park. By
dint of no ordinary tact, it was contrived to add ma-
terially to the value of the building-ground at High..
gate, by means of complying with the wishes of Lord
Mansfield, to sell him nearly 50 acres of the park
hich adjoins his own fence ; this reduced the number
and consequently diminished the means to
possess so many plots to build on as had been intend-
ed, and formed a portion of the proposed auction.—
The result was, not merely obtaining £5OO an acre
from Lord Mansfield, but it gave such an impetus to
the adjoining lots, from the knowledge they would still
have the beauteous park for their boundary, that the
land adjoining in many instances averaged £l,OOO per
acre. Another and a very important feature that in-
fluenced the prices from Haverstock-hill, arose from
selling to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests,
on the morning of the second day's sale, 20 acres of
land, which separated their property, and interfered
materially with the grand plan in their contemplation
to throw open to the public all the land from Primrose-
hill to Chalk Farm. By this fortuitous arrangement
the public will enjoy one continued park, beautifully
timbered with ornamental grounds, and consequently
'I the lots that will now have a park for their neigh-
r instead of never-ceasing houses, rose in value so
as to double the amount per acre given by the
;. Our reporter, who attended at this
resting exhibition, gives the result of the

of acre

sales at 120,000 guineas—this is -necessarily independ-
ent of the two large sales made by Mr. Robins to
Lord Mansfield and the Woods and Forests, which, it
has been whispered, was 25,000 guineas in addition.

STATE OF THE BRITISH NAVY,

(From the Alorning Herald.)
•stor► journal has ceased.to parade its catalogue
Is of war, as part of the available defence of the
en ships completely built. and actually launched
ecessary number of hands to man them, can be
_ aunutsulam _P e__

a large proportion of the ships, in the Globe's cata-
ve about as real a locus in our navy as the phantom-
ch some of our dramatists and novelists have con-
) a shadowy existence on the stage, and in the closet,
with pleasing terror the elderly children of the lite-

rari nursery. The French must be children indeed to be
frightened by a pompous enumeration of keels of vessels laid
down, or even by the unplanked ribs of what, in some half-
dozen or half-score of years, if whig economy permit, may
become mighty men cf war, wanting nothing but efficient
crews to navigate, and able officers to command them.

e state to which the whigs have brought the British
is such as ought to make Lord Palmerston and his ac-

credited perpetrator of solemn silliness in the Globe per-
fectly content with the realisation of their theory, which for-
bids a nation, threatened with hostilities by a great and pow-
erful neighbour, to put itself in a " decent posture of de-
fence," lest it should thereby irritate the state by which its
safety is threatened. England is, at this moment, at the
mercy of any great naval power that may choose to assail
her. The conduct of the whigs in this particular, whether
it be from incapacity or design, -is treason to the state, and
deserves impeachment.

It was well for England, in the days of a former Queen,
that Lord Palmerston's " cheap defence of nations" was not
understood. If it had been then acted upon, the Spanish
Armada would have beer► upon our coasts before the country
could assume a " decent posture of defence," and the chains
of a Popish tyrant would have been upon Protestant England
before m

,allant admirals could have found a fleet where-
ith to resist his gigantic armaments. But Elizabeth did
he heard of the fleet fitting out in the ports of
tin from making preparations for defence through
apprehension of thereby increasing the irritation
le power that menaced her with invasion.
what are we to expect of ministers who, instead of
to govern men, are themselves the dependent crea-
he " ladies of the bedchamber," by whose apron-
ley cling to power? Is the head of the ministry
but an indolent voluptuary and court fribble, the
lv of whose existence seems to be, to escape from

Spain, a

he business of the state to enjoy the animal indulgence of
n epicurean state of existence, and dine every day at the
lueen's table !

it is almost the first time, and we trust it will be the last
history of this country, which has seen the Prime
among dangling courtiers, and the last
How can a creature like this, only quail-
_ ,o play an inglorious part among court sycophants and
maids of honour, when the country is in danger and her in-
dependence is menaced—

the- first

-" Presume to lay biz hand upon the ark
Of her magnificent and awful cause."

The conservatives in parliament have a great deal to answer
• in allowing things to come to this state, by permitting
,rd Palmerston and his imbecile tools to mismanage the
'cign policy of the country as they pleased, without ever
iously calling them to account ; for at no period of our
tory has the foreign policy of England been sogrosaly mis-
.naged by the party in power, and neglected by the party
opposition, as during the last ten years.

While armaments are sent to ravage the coasts of China in
support of the contraband infamous traffic in opium, our own
!oasts are left defenceless ; and a government journal is or-
lered to tell the British people that they must not be put in
ure of defence, lest France should be irritated,
)uld instantly inflict upon us that subjugation
of Napoleon failed to accomplish !

for " England's glory,

CommuNicATioN.—From- the "Appendix to
,ith Report from the Select Committee on Railways,
,spears that the number of trains which arrived wit .
me at the Birmingham terminus of the London and Bir-
mingham Railway, from the Ist of November, 1839, to the
19th of March of the present year, was 754 ; the whole num-
ber that ran being 781. Of the 27 trains that were over thne
within that period, 14 were under 30 minutes, 11 under 60,
and two under 90. The causes of delay seem to have been
principally trifling derangements of machinery. Of the 781
trains from Birmingham to London, 686 were within time,
95 andover time. Of the latter, 74 were in connection with
the Grand Junction. From the Grand Junction returns it ap-
pears, that, from the Ist of October, 1839, to the let March
last, the total number of trains on that line, arriving at Bir-
lingham, was—first class 889, second class 314 of which the
Irn hers behind time were 230 and 128 respectively ; arriving at
'verpool 888 first class, and 314 second, class, of which 212
3. 151 were behind time ; arriving at Manchester the same
iber as at Liverpool, but with 263 and 128 trains respec-
v behind time. The majority of detentions are attri-
to derangements in machinery, high winds, &c., and
iys at the junction with the North Union line. It is
that the second-class trains take up or set down pas-
at more than 30 places between the termini. The
Liver and Manchester Railway returns show the total
umbe, ---t-elass trains, from the Ist of October to 31st
Mar, 1,806, and second class 1,674, of
^.ll 2 037 respectively have been late, most of them
th i 5 minutes. A large proportion of the delay:
rihuted to head winds or small defects in the machi-
On the Great Western Railway, the mail trains
enced running on the 4th of February last. The
. number of trains from that day to the 10th of March
.s 72. of which 69 arrived within time. In two of the
iree cases of failure, the delay was less than five nn-
*es. The total number of passenger trains on this line,
the Ist of October to the 10th of March, was
if which number 1,876 were before time, and 2,337
Tl•-- were deli -I from sto 15

.11, to have t

es after

...sere were delayer
a9O, and from 15 to 30 minutes 185—heavy loads
nd high winds being the principal causes of dela/. The re-
-ns of the South-western Company are more concise in
but at the same time more detailed in substance, than
F the other, companies. It appears, that from the Ist
`o the 31st March, 2,582 passenger and wail trains
`A, of which 234 were behind time, viz., 149
59 by less than 60 minutes, and 26
.id upwards. The causes are of delay are stated
.-25 late starting, owing to late arrival of mails
plies ; 21 detentions at stations, taking in stage
Js, private carriages, &c. ; 42 by failure of engines; 4
,xcidents to carriages ; 84 by strong head winds and slip..
ng of engines ; 13 by goods and ballast trains ; 34 by slips
of embankments or cuttings ; and 11 by various other tuns.
,—Railway Times.

30 minute

coach

Felix M'Quilliam, a young man of squalid and distressed
appearance, and evidently in a bad state of health, was placed
before Messrs. Rushton and Roskell, on Saturday, for hav-
ing solicited alms at several houses in Pembroke-place. The
police-officer on that district stated, that, having seen the
prisoner thus offending against the law, he took him into
custody. The officer produced a number of papers which
he found in the prisoner's possession. These were principally
certificates of the distressed state of the prisoner and his
family, and begging petitions. One of them was a certificate
in the following terms, purported to have been written by
the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, the signature, and the body of the
note, being all in the same handwriting :—" I believe the
bearer, M'Quilliam, to be a proper person and deserving ob-
ject of charity : he has been recommended to me by Miss
Ward, 4, Pembroke-place, who has visited him. I have also
made further inquiry, which has been satisfactory. He has
been afflicted with paralysis, and is totally unable to work at
his business. He is a land-surveyor, and has a wife and three
children in great distress.—August 13, 1840.—Rev. Hugh
M'Neile, St. Jude's Church, Liverpool." There was also a
certificate in the same hand, signed " Hugh M'Neile," that
" Ann M`Williams" and her husband Felix had placed two of
their children, through him, in the Church of England School,
on 17th May last. Another of the documents was signed
" J. Roose, Bedford-street." It set forth, that Felix
M'Quilliam was a fit object for charity, and that he was a
land-surveyor, and afflicted with paralysis. Another note,
signed Felix M'Quilliam, written in a good hand, was address-
ed " Madam," but there was no name or superscription, so
that it might serve to send in to any lady. The charitable
disposition of the party for whom it was intended was highly
lauded, and the petitioner indicated his want of £2. 15s. 6d.
to release his goods from pledge, upon compassing which he
stated his intention of taking his family to Scotland. A simi-
lar note, merely soliciting alms, without any superscription
or address, commenced " Rev. sir." A more formal and ge-
neral petition, setting forth the distress of the memorialist,
had at the foot the following names :—Mrs. Radley 105.,
Lord Derby £l. 10s., Rev. Hugh M'Neile £l. ss. There

was also a memorial addressee" To his Grace the Earl of
Sefton," stating the distress of the writer and his family, and
soliciting relief. At the foot of this were the same names as
above, but opposite to the words " Lord Derby," instead of
XI. 10s., only XI. appeared. The remaining document was
a lottery ticket for a sixteenth share, dated 1798, and signed
by Mr. Bish, formerly of great notoriety. The officer said
he had called upon Mrs. Radley that morning, and she knew
nothing of the prisoner, nor had she given him any money.
He had called upon Mr. M`Neile and Miss Ward, but they
were neither of them at home. Mr. Rushton (to the pri-
soner): "What have you to say, sir ?" Prisoner: "Nothing."
Mr. Rushton : "This is a forged signature." Prisoner : "No,
sir, it is not." Mr. Rushton : "You don't mean to represent
this as the signature of Lord Derby, because I know that it
is not ?" Prisoner : " No, I don't say that it is Lord Derby's
signature." Mr. Parkinson, in reply to a question from Mr.
Rushton, said the prisoner was not known. Mr. Rushton
ordered that he should be committed to the House of Correc-
tion for a month.

LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN
COUNTIES' RAILWAY.

An accident, of which the most exaggerated statements
have been circulated, occurred on this railway on Wednesday
evening, in consequence of the obstinate misconduct of the
engine driver. The 7 o'clock train from Brentwood left the
station with a considerable number of passengers on the above
evening, and in proceeding down the inclined plane, which
commences at Brentwood-hill, the driver, contrary to express
and repeated orders given to all the engine-men employed by
the Company, neglected to shut-off the steam, by which
means the train descended with such immense velocity, that
by the time it had travelled about a mile and a-half, it began
to rock from aide to side in the most frightful manner, and
alter proceeding about 150 yards further, tearing and twist-
ing the rails the whole of the distance, the engines finally ran
off the rails, together with the tender and the whole of the
carriages. The engine-driver and the stoker were thrown
under the engine, and were most dangerously injured; and a
labourer, at work on the line, was killed on the spot. Seve-
ral of the passengers were seriously injured, one of them so
much so that he is not expected to recover. Medical assist-
ance was immediately procured ; the sufferers being consider-
ably scalded and burned with the water and coke from the
engine. Considerable damage is done to the engine and also
to the carriages. The part of the line where the accident oc-
curred is perfectly straight, and in the most perfect and solid
condition, and previous to the accident the rails were in the
most complete order. The accident is entirely attributable
to the gross misconduct of the engine-driver, in disobeying
the orders given him. One of the passengers stated, that
finding the train going at a most rapid pace, he endeavoured
to count the beats of the engine, but found them so quick
that he could not estimate them ; the velocity therefore must
have been immense ; for the gradient of the line being about
53 feet per mile, the train would descend by its own gravity
alone, at the rate of at least 20 or 25 miles per hour. The
greatest possible attention was paid by all the officers of the
Company to the sufferers immediately on the accident be-
coming known; and every thing was done which humanity
could suggest, to remedy as far as possible, the effects of so
sad an accident.

The following are the names of the unfortunate persons
who have suffered by the accident :—Scalded, with concussion
of the brain—Mr. Ebsworth, passenger. Slightly wounded
in the face—Mr. H. Corbold. Severely scalded—son of
ditto. Concussion of brain, slight—Mr. Pierson, Bruised,
not much hurt—son of Col. Tyler. Bruised, not danger-
ously—Mr. Brown, of Colchester. Scalded and bruised, do.
—Mr. Tozer. Slightly wounded—Collar, the guard.—(Sun,
of Thursday.) Mr. Ebsworth and Mr. Austin have died
since, and Mr. Foster is not expected to live. An inquest
was held, on Friday, at Brentwood, on the bodies of Mr.
Geo. Eastman and Mr. Ebsworth. The witnesses examined
gave very contradictory accounts as to the speed of the train
at the time of the accident. The guard, who said he was
sitting with his back to the engine at the time, had not per-
ceived any increase of speed. Some men, employed on the
road, and one of the passengers, also gave similar evidence.
The policeman, stationed near the spot, said the train was
going so fast that, instead of saluting it, as usual, he was
obliged to hold his hat to prevent it from being blown off by
the current of air caused by the velocity of the motion. A
gentleman, who resides near the place where the accident
happened, also confirmed the evidence of the policeman.
The rails, after the engine had passed, were, as the police-
man said, " twisted like a snake." Mr. Braithwaite,
that over-speed-a7ihe•Caa that he
Pethwpasae,ditrluelnderdlYal opinion
of the road where it occurredu there is an inclined plane, and
the engineers were ordered to turn off the steam at that point.
Foster, the engineer, had been employed by the company in
that capacity for about two months, and had been found very
steady. The inspector said Foster appeared perfectly sober
when the train started. The inquest was adjourned till Wed-
nesday.

The Sun, of Saturday, states that a man and a boy were
killed, on the same road, on Thursday night.