The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-27 00:00:00

(No, 2.)

St. Anthony's, 21st April, 1841.
beg to observe, that I do not consider myself
under the necessity of replying to your note of the 20th inst.
I do humbly hope that the tender mercies of Heaven may
draw you to hear me, and give you grace to profit by the
example of several who, on hearing from me the pure Gospel
of the blessed Jesus, have renounced the errors of Protes-
tantism, and joined our Holy Catholic church.
I remain, sir, yilhur obedient servant,
THOMAS BUTLER, D.D.

Rev. J. Baylee

(No. 3.)
Stu,—l duly received your note of the 21st, dated from
" St. Anthony's," and, with reference to the invitation to
hear from you " the pure Gospel of the blessed Jesus," I
beg to observe, that a person who could mistake a Roman
chapel for a Catholic church could not possibly know, much
less preach, the true Gospel of the Lord Jesus.
Common report, from credible persons who have heard
you preach, declares that you challenged any Church of
England clergyman to meet you in discussion. I now accept
that challenge, and am ready to prove publicly-
1. That the Church of Rome has apostatised from the
true faith of Christ.
2. That Romish priests, exercising their ministry in this
country, are schismatics.
3. That the Church of England is the only branch of
the Catholic church existing in England.
If, sir, your addresses to the congregation of ,St. Anthony's
can bear the light of Scripture, you can have no objection to
bring them to the test before an audience too w,,11 instructed
in Catholic truth to enter a Romish chapel.
I beg to add, that, as it has been publicly reported that
we were challenged by you, I purpose to mak., this letter
public.

I remain, sir, your obedient servan t.
J. B AYLEE

Parkfield, Woodside, 23d April, 1811
Rev. Dr. Butler.

NEW CHURCHES.—Three new churches were last week
consecrated in the Archdeaconry of Gloucester.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—On Wednesday, Mr.
Cooke applied, on the part of Mr. W. J. Ham mond; cow-
median, and lately the lessee of Drury-lane ' Theatre, for
permission to give bail in a smaller sum than i: s required in
ordinary cases, on the ground of special and peci diar circum-
stancesr The judgment debts against the ins olvent were
about £1600., and bail must be given in double that sum.
Mr. Hammond's debts were about :08000. Mi.. Commis-
sioner Bowen, under the circumstances, said Mr.. Hammond
might be admitted to bail on two sureties for £2OOO.

MYSTERIOUS RAVAGING OF A FLOCK.—On Tuesday, eae
I,lth ult., the shepherd of Mr. I'. Cooke Burroughes, (-)f
Gazeley, on entering the sheep-yard in the morning found
nine sheep and twenty eight fine lambs had been destroyed'
during the night, and left lying in heaps one upon another,
hi one corner of the yard; the wool and skins of some were
torn in places, but no flesh taken off nor the blood drawn,
and many of the lambs were much bruised, and appeared
upon being flayed as if they had received a blow from a stick,
although it is supposed that some of the bruises might have
been produced, and some of the lambs killed, by the sheep
in their fright trampling upon and smothering them. None
of the remainder of the flock in the yard were mangled or
otherwise injured. Several shepherds who were afterwards
present, from examining the skins, and from other appear-
ances, were all of opinion that one or more dogs alone had
not effected the mischief. The case is at present involved in
mystery ; but the circumstances seem strongly to indicate
that some evil-disposed person or persons were cone•erne d in
it. The Newmarket association has offered a reward for the
discovery of the offenders.—Cambridge Chronicle.

EXECUTION OF BARTHOLOMEW MURRAY, FOR
THE MURDERS AT OVER-PEOVER.

CHESTER, Saturday night.—The last sentence of the law
was carried into effect upon the body of this unfortunate
culprit at the city gaol this morning.
He was locked up every night in the condemned cell by
himself, and is stated to have enjoyed up to Thursday night
sound and unbroken sleep. On Friday morning, the holy
sacrament was administered to him by the Rev. J . Carberry.
He then appeared quite resigned to his fate, and deeply ill) -
pressed with the urgent necessity of making his peace, with
God. On Friday afternoon he expressed a wish to see th e
prisoners who (up to the day of his condemnation) had been
confined in the same yard with him. He bade all an affec-
tionate and affecting adieu, and on shaking hands with the
man in confinement on suspicion of shooting a gamekeeper
at Huxley, near Tarporley, he said he hoped he would avoid
that fate which so soon awaited him. He made no other allu-
sion to his situation, further than a general expression of his
feeling both well and happy. Between eight and nine o'clock
in the evening he was revisited by the Roman catholic clergy-
man. He then went to bed, and taking his prayer-book in
his hand, with the exception of some short intervals, read the
contents with marked devotion throughout the night. He
dressed about four o'clock, and partook of a hearty break-
fast.

The county authorities next conducted Murray to the lobby
adjoining the outer gate of the Castle. He was there hand-
cuffed, and the city sheriff and his officers being announced
as waiting for the culprit at Glover's Stone (the city boundry
mark), Mr. Dunstan conducted his prisoner on foot in that
direction. The unhappy man walked by the side of the priest,
still repeating the prayers, and the gaze of a crowd of some
thousonds did not appear in the least to affect him. On th
arrival of the county procession at the boundary, a black-
railed cart without springs (provided by the city authorities)
was in readiness to convey the culprit to the city gaol. He
was lifted into it, and manacles having been fixed to his legs,
the Rev. J. Carberry took a seat in the cart by the side of
the culprit, both riding with their backs to the horse, which
after the true Tyburn style was led by the hangman, a prac-
titioner from Staffordshire. The governor of the city gaol
headed the procession, and the sheriffs, under-sheriff, and a
large body of officers brought up the rear. The crowd was
was exceedingly dense, and the police constables had great
difficulty in keeping them back, so as to make a passage for
the cart. The number of females (many of them well dressed)
present was in a majority of at least two to one of the male
sex.

The procession reached the gaol as the clock struck five.
The cart was taken to the back door of the prison, and
Murray's manacles having been removed, he was conducted
through the chapel in which his coffin was lying, to the cell
at the foot of the fatal platform. The sight of neither the
coffin nor drop appeared to affect him in the least. On en-
tering the cell he directly knelt down, and continued his
devotions. The various services of the Roman church were
continued throughout the morning almost unceasingly.
Murray at no time lost that confidence for which he has been
so remarkable. On the arrival of the sheriff the room was
cleared of all persons except the chaplain of the court prison,
the Rev. J. Carberry, the schoolmaster of the county gaol,
the officers of the gaol, and the representatives of the public
press. The Litany was then repeated, and by the time of
its conclusion the executioner commenced his preparations.
The culprit remained firm and unmoved during the time the
fetters were adjusted to his legs, and his arms pinioned, no
visible change was perceptible in his countenance, and he
continued fervently engaged in prayer during the whole cere-
mony.

In answer to a question from Mr. Eaton, Murray at once
replied. " I have no declaration to make." He was then
conducted to the drop, and having ascended the scaffold with
a firm step, he knelt with Mr. Carberry on the drop. After
a few minutes spent in prayer, the executioner proceeded to
adjust the rope round the neck of the culprit. His pastor
then administered the sacrament of extreme unction, and
in an instant the drop fell, and he died with scarcely a
perceptible struggle. He was in the 19th year of his age.

In genuine esprit du corps we are glad to find that our
" order" is not everywhere at discount. We have the gra-
tification to state, that our friend and contemporary, Mr.
William Mulville Lomas, editor to the Preston Chronicle,
has been appointed chairman of the board of guardians for
the Preston union for the ensuing year.

AMATEUR PERFORMANCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
BLUE COAT SCHOOL.-It will be seen by the announce-
ment in this day's paper, that a few philanthropic gen-
tlemen have 7-lade arrangements for an amateur per-
formance, to take place on Friday next, at the Amphithea-
tre, on behalf of this very excellent institution. The per.
formances are under the patronage of the Mayor and seve-
ral families of distinction in Liverpool.
THE BISHOP BRIDGE MURDER.—On Friday last, at the
Glasgow assizes, the court was occupied the whole day with
the trial of Dennis Hart or Doolan and two others, for the
murder of John Green, on the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway, in December last. After the examination of many
witnesses, the court was adjourned until the following
morning.

A MONUMENT TO O'CONNELL.—It is nothing new to
hear indifferent spectators allege that a person may be a bully
and yet no fighting man, but it is something new to hear a
man make the assertion positively regarding himself. Mr.
O'Connell has declared at a crowded meeting 'in the Corn
Exchange—" I am not a fighting man, and yet I have bullied
England." It may be excess of candour, or it may only be
a peculiar taste ; at all events it is original. The admirers of
great men have been accustomed to think that the best mo-
nument to their memory was their statues, representing
them in some of their most distinguished actions. An artist
worthy of the subject might represent O'Connell delivering
the speech of which the above "memorable declaration was a
part. The reporter has suggested the appropriate moment
" A single shot,' continued the liberator, ' tired from a
hostile ball—one ball booming over the ocean from a hostile
cannon to England—then--.' Here the honourable
and learned gentleman placed his finger to his nose, looked
most significantly, and immense and enthusiastie cheering
burst forth from every quarter of the room." A goodly por-
tion of this year's rent would be well bestowed to enable
some Irish Michael Angelo (since Irish manufactures are
alone to be patronised) to eternise this sublime O'Connellism
in marble.—Speclator.

A GIANT IN TROUBLE.—At Barnard Castle easter fair,
on Wednesday week. there was a travelling caravan which
contained some rari's of the human species, but it had sus-
tained a great loss, owing to an untoward circumstance in this
world of change. It appears that, the day before, the said
caravan was journeying from Darlington to Barnard Castle,
when Geor-e Mallison, of Yorkshire, one of the "great ones
of the earth," espied some linen drying in a field, near the
road, and not properly distinguishing the laws of " meuni
and teum," he just selected a change of linen therefrom ; but
a person residing near, saw the transaction, and went and
informed the police-officer at Pierce-bridge, who followed
the culprit, and apprehended him with the linen in his pos-
session. The result has been that the said giant has been
committed to the Durham House of Correction for 3 months
hard labour, as a rogue and a vagabond.

CHILD MURDER..—The week before last a case of child
murder occurred in Worcestershire which would appear to
be so clearly proved in evidence as to render the infliction of

the extreme penalty of the law upon the perpetrator indispen-
sable. The criminal is a girl named Ann Morteboys, who
has been living with a respectable farmer, and was delivered
of a child, which she secreted in a box in the servant man's
room, and which on its discoveay was described by the con-
stable as follows :—Mr. Ward and I went into the room
where the servant men slept, and I found the body of a molt
child in a box, in the left hand corner of the room, under
some clothes. The box had no lid. I took the clothes off
the body. It lay almost on the face, with the knees bent,
and the legs drawn up. The arms were extended, and the
hand clenched fast. The mouth was wide open, and round
the neck and chin was tied very fast a kind of worsted hand-
kerchief, which extended also into the mouth. The navel
string was some inches in length. The jury on the eoroner'a
inquest found a verdict of wilful murder against the pri-
soner.

CASE. OF STARVATION.—The inhabitants of Heywo

have been within the last few days seriously shocked by ill
disclosure of a horrid case of starvation. A poor wonia
named Mary, wife of Thomas Frankland, agricultural lahuu
rer, resident in a back street, Gooden-lane, Heywood, a

recently reduced to extreme distress, which became so afflict-
ing as to be beyond endurance ; a short time ago her su►fer-
ings were increased by a state of pregnancy ; the family be-
longing to the township of Middleton were allowed 2s. Gd.
per week for about a year, but either owing to the negli4enee
of Frankland or the inattention of the overseer of Middleton,
the poor woman and her children, three in number, young in
years, were rendered miserable. Frankland himself is a
feeble man, having poor eyesight, and his wife of a weak
constitution ; the children are too young to render any as-
sistance to their parents, hence a scene ensued which beg-
gars description ; the man and his wife were thrown into a
state of starvation, he having been lately destitute of work or
nearly so. She expired on Monday week in a state of horri-
ble destitution, having been a considerable time entirely
without sustenance. She had been delivered of a child about
a fortnight ago, and it is still in existence, but is an object of
pity, being a diseased offspring. On Thursday week, Mr.
Dearden, the coroner, acting for the district, held an inquest
• respecting the cause of the woman's death, before a highly-
respectable jury, at the Wellington Inn, Gooden-lane,
Heywood. The affair received a searching investigation, and
evidence was tendered to the effect that the overseer of Mid-
dleton had not properly attended to the wants of the fanzily,

and observations were also made on the apparent indifference
of Frankland himself as to the necessity of obtaining prompt
assistance. The coroner and the jury adjourned the inquest
to Wednesday last, when they re-assembled. It appeared
that Frankland applied to the overseer of Heywood on the
evening of Saturday previous to his wife's death, stating the
case his family was in, but the overseer neither relieved bite
nor visited the family. It also appeared that the overseer of
Middleton had given them 2s. 6d. on the Thursday. M s,.s.
Leach and Taylor, surgeons, deposed that there was not a
particle of food in the stomach. The jury returned a vet diet
" That she died for want of food." The overseers were re-
primanded for not relieving and attending to the family,
The only bed in the house consisted of a few shavings, satn:,
straw, and a few old clothes.
A RECEIVING-HOUSE DiscoyEitnn.—Henry Whittle,

Henry Spencer, and Adam Trevit, were brought up at th,
Borough Court, Bolton, on Monday, having been remand,ti
from the previous Saturday, charged with stealing a calf. It
appeared that the prosecutor, Mr. Joseph Unsworth, has a
slaughter-house in a yard behind the Rising Sun public-house,
Church-bank ; and on Friday evening last, Edward Bell, a
person in his employ, put in the pig-stye four calves, which
had been brought from Preston. There was a wall round the
pig-stye, and the door to it. There was also a door way but
no door. In order to secure the calves, Bell took the door
from the wall, and placed it in the doorway of the stye, where
it exactly fitted, and then propped it with a piece of wood.
On going away to fetch some milk, he took the:wheelbarrow,
and placed it in the door-way, in such a manner that, had the
calves got out of the stye, they must have remained in the
yard. He returned in about a quarter of an hour, and found
a white calf missing, the door having been removed anti
placed against the wall, and the wheelbarrow also removed
from its place. In about half an hour after the robbery, the
prisoners, Spencer and Trevit, went to the house of John
llaslam, a butcher. Spencer called him out, and said 1 haveie
got a good job for thee ; and they took him into the . stable
occupied by the
spencer
for hire, and shewed him a white calf, for whichetold them,
prisoner Whittle, who keeps carts ansdlsot'rses
wanted 255., the real value of it being 50s.
that it was too good for him ;
we
to questions
meat as that he should be suspected. Inanswerditin Church-hank,
from Haslam, Spencer said, " I founth
's for it came front
and I believe it to be Joseph Unsw !
and that if lie He
to sell such
and thou can bring it out by a
"'Thou does not aced
until it is sold, a
tthowia)radys
forhis sittable. " H e furtheral said,
1 and Spencer and Trevit
bit at once, e_oac,wity,
,Ntv,ith the skin." Haslata
would not have anything
ittoed
and offered it to Peter Hodson,
then went to the Bay
Horse,
o—refused to buy it. This led to in-
formationand I'll make
another butcher, whoato
the prosecutor, and the prisoners
being givenapprehended;and, on Saturday afternoon, Mr. John
were
found the calf buried in a field, in two sacks,
Dean's garciner,
house. The calf was skinned, with the
to Whittle s
near and feet, .1 • h f •
of the head
exception
Spencer and Trevit were committed
were fully identified.
..
, but the magistrates did not consider the case suf-
ficiently trial ;
against Whittle I
ticiently strong . n a few moments, Whit tar.was again arraigned under two charges of felony, the police,
on searching his house, having found some fifty sacks, (sonic
of which were proved to be stolen,) together with a large
quantity of calico, malt, and a cart sheet. The last was
proved to have been stolen from a cart in Bowker's-row,
about three moths ago. Whittle was then also committed
icor trial.—Manchester Guardian,

mittance they found, on- searching about, some pieces of
wax candles, and Halton being previously prepared with
lucifer matches, they were not long in obtaining a light.
Meanwhile Mrs. Wheeler, having been awoke by th 6 noise,
immediately rung the servants' bell, but that not being an-
swered, she opened the window and rung outside a larger
bell which she had in the room, in the expectation that some
one might hear it—though the house is some distance from
any other—and come to her assistance. The fellow outside,
however, threatened to shoot her if she did not cease ring-
ing. The three thieves inside wore, during this time, look-
ing into the several rooms, but found them tenantless.
However, they got to Mrs. Wheeler's room door, which was
locked inside, and demanded admittance, promising not to
injure her if she immediately complied. The door was opened
and her money demanded, when she handed them her purse.
This one of the fellows took, and taking out the money, re-
turned the purse, but insisted on having more money. Mrs.
W. gave them her keys, but she was immediately told she
knew much better than they where the property was, and
that it must be immediately forthcoming. She then un-
locked the drawer, and gave them, as she believes, ninety
pounds in bank notes. These they threw on the bed, say-
ing they should not take them, but that they must have more
gold ; and on her telling them that they were Bank of Eng-
land notes, and as good as gold, one of the gang pocketed
them. They next visited the servant's room, and demanded
her money, but on her telling them that she had none, one
of the fellows went to overhaul her box ; but he was told to
let it alone, for that she was only a poor girl, and it was no
use taking her clothes. Their next application was for some-
thing to eat, and they went down stairs into the pantry,
(making the servant accompany them,) and there demo-
lished a quantity of cold beef and bread, and some eggs,
cracking their jokes at the same time they were cracking
their eggs. They then departed, and went into a field near
Plungington, and divided the gold and silver, Halton re-
ceiving for his share twenty-three shillings. The burglary
took place between twelve and one on Saturday morning,
and the same was made well known during the day, in course
of which one of the men again went to the Wool Pack, and
then offered to treat the brewer with a glass of rum, to pay
for which he took out of his pocket some money, which the
brewer observed consisted of both gold and silver ; and he
soon afterwards made known what he had seen, and also
the suspicions which the conduct of the men excited. We
believe these misguided men cannot urge any extenuation
of their guilty conduct, inasmuch as they were all fully em-
ployed at their respective trades, and as to Challoner, his
employer stated that he considered him one of the cleverest
workmen in Preston. They were all at the conclusion
of the hearing committed to the House of Correction to
take their trial at the next sessions. On Wednesday a per-
son named Edmund Metcalf, retail beerseller, Spittals' Moss,
was taken into custody on suspicion of having received some
of the stolen money, when he at once acknowledged that he
had two £lO. notes in his charge, which he said he got at
the house of Moore's mother, by his directions, on Monday
last. This Metcalf was brought before the magistrates at
the Town-hall, on Thursday, and after the enquiry had been
gone into, he was allowed to put in bail for his appearance at
the sessions. It seems that a £2O. note was found in a cess-
pool in the Old Cock Yard, which Challoner admits to hav-
ing thrown there, and it has also been ascertained that the
servant at the Spread Eagle public-house was sent by the
prisoners with a £lO. note to get changed at Mr. Helmes's,
grocer, on Saturday, which note Mr. H. subsequently paid
to a commercial traveller from Liverpool. The prisoner
Halton also confesses that there were seven sovereigns in
gold, and some silver among the property stolen. These
sums however only make a total of about £5B. while Mrs.
Wheeler is quite confident that she was robbed of nearly
£98., viz., in two £2O. notes, five £lO. notes, seven sove-
reigns, and nearly a pound in silver ; what therefore may
have become of the missing £2O. and two £lO. notes is at
present a mystery, for the men persist in saying that they
only brought away the four notes, and the gold and silver.
which they have accounted for. The apprehension of this
gang is a most fortunate circumstance, as there is too much
reason to believe that they have been connected with the
other robberies which have been committed in the neigh-
bourhood, indeed it has been stated by a person in the House
of Correction, under sentence of transportation, that two of
them were actively concerned in the highway robbery on Mr.
John Wilding, of Hankinson House, in Myerscough, which
took place a short time ago, between the Black Bull, in
Broughton, and Broughton Church, when he was robbed of
nearly £2o.—Preston Pilot.

COMBINATION.—The Irish labourers employed in the
works on the Shannon have entered into a regular combina-
tion according to rule and under the Ribbon system, to wage
war against the English workmen sent over by the company.
" True," says Mr. O'Connell, " I am anti-English."
" When shall we be at them, Counsellor ?" ask his follow-
ers. The present time is always the best, responds the Coun-
sellor, whereupon the Irish peasantry rise in a body, and
maim, and beat, and nearly murder the unfortunate Sassen-
achs. An inquiry has been instituted under the superin-
tendence of Neal Browne, Esq., . stipendiary magistrate, and
trials had, the result of which has been that thirty-two of the
finest peasantry in the world have been committed to Gal-
way gaol for a period of four months, and hard labour, and
nineteen to Tullamore, for a similar term, and with the like
accompaniment.

ATTEMPT TO MIIRDER.—On Tuesday morning last, about
seven o'clock, as Mr. Joseph Wignall, butter factor, was
passing along the highway between Buckden and Hawes, in
the North Riding of Yorkshire, he met two men at a place
called Stake, about four miles from Buckden, one of whom,
whose name is said to be Dickinson, from the neighbourhood
of Grindleston, near Sawley Bridge, Lancashire, discharged
a gun, or gun-stick, at Mr. Wignall, and wounded him in
the forehead and face, but fortunately without effect. The
name of the second man is Briggs, and he comes from the
same neighbourhood as Dickinson. A reward of £lO has
been offered for the apprehension of both the men ; and
Dickinson is described as dressed in a light coloured round
jacket. Briggs, who is taller than the other, has a very red
face, and was dressed in dark clothes, his coat being of a
brownish colour, and made with pockets on each side. Both
the men are said to be desperate characters.

DISCOVERY OF AN EXTENSIVE BURGLARY.—It will be
remembered that at the beginning of last month the house of
J. M. Yeeless, Esq. of Bathford, was burglariously entered,
and a quantity of valuable property taken away therefrom,
consisting of jewellery, a double-barreled gun, clothes, &c.,
to the amount of nearly £lOO. Mr. Yeeless having been very
kind in rendering pecuniary and other assistance to the poor
in the parish, a universal feeling of sympathy was aroused,
and there was a general anxiety manifested to discover the
perpetrator of the robbery. Until Sunday last, however,
the affair remained a mystery, notwithstanding the vigilance
and activity of Mr. Hall, the chief officer of Bath. Many
circumstances had come to his knowledge which threw a
shade of suspicion round several parties, but until the day
mentioned, nothing had transpired that would enable him to
fix the charge on any individual. From information which
he had received of the burglar whom we are about to name
offering for sale a portion of the property, it was discovered
to be one of Mr. Yeeles's own servants, named James Mizen,
who had been engaged as an assistant in his garden. Mizen
occasionally slept in the house, but he had lodgings at a Mrs.
Crow's, in the same village. Great confidence had been
placed in the man, and he had been treated with much kind-
ness by Mr. Yeeles, which renders the act one of greater
atrocity. As a proof of this, Mizen, some time ago, told his
master, that on his return from Chalfield, where he had been
visiting, he had been stopped and robbed of his watch and
three sovereigns ; and Mr. Yeeles thereupon not only gave
him money towards making good his loss, but Mrs. Yeeles
also got up a penny subscription amongst his fellow-servants
and others of his acquaintance for the same purpose. What
makes the matter still worse is, that since the discovery of the
robbery, this story turns out to have been a vile fabrication, a
duplicate of the watch having been found upon him, he having
pledged it for 10s. at Mr. Archard's, in Bath. From having
been in the house of Mr. Yeeles a great deal, Mizen had an
opportunity of seeing the disposition of the property therein,
and finding that some of the more valuable portions were in
Mr. Yeeles's dressing-room, it appears that he selected that
as the scene of his unprincipled conduct. It seems that
Mizen came over the fields from his lodgings, and gained
access into the grounds of Mr. Yeeles through an out-house
leading into the green-house, and it was through this window
that Mizen effected an entrance. He bored a small hole
with a gimlet in the woodwork, and by that means starred
the centre pane of glass, so as to enable him to get his hand
in and unfasten the hatch. He then had easy access to the
dressing-room, which is on the ground, a passage only sepa-
rating it from the dining-room. The more vauable of the
stolen property, such as a diamond ring, gold pencil-case,
gold studs, pins, &c., were on the tables in the room, where
they had been left without the slightest suspicion. On
Mizen's apprehension, by Mr. Hall, early on Monday morn-
ing, the pencil-case was found upon him, and he told Mr.
Hall that he would save him any further trouble about the
property, for he would find it in a box at his lodgings. These
were searched in the course of the day, and in a large box
was found nearly the whole of what had been stolen. A va-
luable pin, set with hair, a present from Mrs. Yeeles to Mr.
Yeeles, was, however, still missing, and exertions were made
to recover it. It turned out that Mizen's "ladye love
lived as servant at Mr. Spencer's, at Chalfield, near Brad-
ford, and it struck Mr. Hall that it was probable she might
know something about this pin. He accordingly
went over
on Monday, and saw the young woman to whomMizen was
paying his addresses, who, on hearing that her lover was
under the watchful care of Mr. Pike, the gaoler of Bath,
identical
pin, the course usual under such circumstances and
fainted away. On her recovery, she gave up the
pin which she said Mizen had given her as one which had
his hair in it as a proof of his untiring affection. Thus has
this extensive robbery been unravelled, and the thief cap-
tured, much to the satisfaction not only of Mr. Yeeles him-
self, but of his neighbours, who warmly congratulate him on
the discovery. Mizen has been committed to the assizes.—
Beth Chroxiele.

DESTIWCTION' OF THE

AUSTRALIA

The following are extracts from a letter received in Edin-
burgh, from a cabin passenger of the brig Australia, in which
the dreadful hardships to which the unfortunate crew and
passengers were exposed, after the destruction of the vessel,
are detailed with but too faithful accuracy. The picture
drawn is most vividly pourtrayed ; and although the chief
incidents in the dreadful story are mentioned, the most har-
rowing details are avoided. The delivery of the great ma-
jority of these on board is truly remarkable ; and few indeed
will peruse the following, without participating in the feeling
of thankfulness to the Almighty for their deliverance, so elo-
quently expressed by the writer. We have not as yet heard
of the receipt of Captain Yule's first letter :
" I shall endeaiour to give you an account of this awful
calamity, and the miseries we have endured since ; for pre-
serving me to be able to do so, I trust I shall ever be grate-
ful to Almighty God who heard our cry, and has wonderfully
guided us_and brought. us to this land.

"The 25th of Decetnber being Christmas day, we were
becalmed, and from many associations, that day was spent
very happily. In the morning we killed a shark : and I pre-
vailed on the captain to lower the, stern boat to get a few
hours shooting. at the sea which surrr - 'he `

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In great numbers, which he was kind enough to allow. We
had an excellent day's sport. I shot four of those latge birds
the Albatross, they measured from the tip of one wing to the
tip of the other, ten feet ; we bad them dressed, intending to
eat them for our New Year's dinner, but, alas ! our expec-
tations were miserably frustrated, and instead of the happi-
ness we expected, we were on that day a crew of half-starved
miserable creatures, our New Year's dinner consisting of a
quarter of a biscuit soaked with sea water, about two inches
of raw ham, and a table spoonful of water.

" From the 25th to the 29th we had very rough weather,
the ship rolling tremendously. We had supped at seven
o'clock, and went upon deck after, as was our usual custom.
On going below to the cabin, a smell of smoke was perceptible.
which was thought might proceed from the steward's pantry,
or some of the ladies' berths. We soon found on removing
the goods from the after-cabin and passengers' berths, that
the smoke proceeded from the hold, and was now increasing
rapidly. We now hove the ship to, being off the Cape of
Good Hope, in lat. 35 30, and long. 8, the Cape being 34 30,
and long. 18, so that we were upwards of 500 miles in a direct
line from land, and sailing with every sail set the ship could
carry. The order was now given to throw the cattle over-
board, break in the bulkhead to endeavour to get at the fire
with water, and to open the main hatches. The confusion
on board was now awful. One of the bulls got loose in en-
deavouring to get him overboard ; the deck was covered with
spars and sails, and the smoke had now increased to such a
degree, that no person could work or remain below for any
time, and was bursting through every crevice of the ship fore
and aft ; it was impossible to get off the hatches to get at the
fire with water. We now saw it was impossible to save the
ship, and our exertions were therefore directed to get the
boats launched and save our lives from fire ; the sea was