The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-13 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY OF £3lO.

I On Friday week, a man named Mark Hough, ware-
houseman to Mr. Walwork, cotton-spinner, Chorley (who
has been in his employment many years, and in whose
honesty the utmost reliance was placed), was sent by his
master to the Bank of Bolton, for £5lO, to pay the wages
of his workpeople. He received at the Bank £2OO in
silver, which was sealed up in a leather letter bag, and
300 sovereigns and 20 half-sovereigns, which were in a
leather bag of smaller dimensions, so that the man could
put it in his pocket. He arrived at the railway station
about eleven o'clock. And asked if he might be allowed to
leave the letter bag with the silver, as he wanted to follow
two men who had robbed him. In about two hours from
this time Hough went back to the bank, and stated that
he had been knocked down near the railway station, by
two navigators, and robbed of the £3lO in gold. He had
then a black eye, and had been bleeding at the nose. He
also stated that he followed the men as far as Halshaw
Moor, but could not find them. Information was then
given to the police, and Hough was taken to Manchester,
but all search of the navigators was found in vain. He
was brought back to Bolton by Brown the same night,
and it having been ascertained that no alarm was given by
him at the time he stated that he was robbed, he was
locked up at the police-office on suspicion of having stolen
the money. The police were thoroughly satisfied that
the man's tale was a fabrication, yet there appeared no
probability of recovering the money except by stratagem.
Sergeant Beech, an old and experienced officer, under-
took this duty, and by his dexterous and judicious man-
oeuvres, the money was fortunately recovered. He dres-
sed himselfin plain clothes, and was taken to the same
cell as Hough, about twelve o'clock at night. He remon-
strated against being put with another prisoner, but he
was unceremoniously turned in. The new corner ap-
peared much distressed at his situation, and in a short
time Hough asked him what he was locked up for. Beech
replied that he was a collector of rates, and had embezzled
money belonging to the overseers, and that his case was so
hopeless that he determined to escape from the lock-up.
if possible. He invited Hough to assist, and tried various
schemes to get out, but he lay still on his mattrass, and
appeared jealous of his companion. To account for his
anxiety to escape, Beech told him various robberies he
had been concerned in, and at length Hough became
communicative. He said that two navigators had
knocked him down, and stolen £3lO frcm his pocket.
He solemnly declared he was innocent, and said he would
not attempt to escape. Beech said he might please him-
self, but out he would be, if possible. He then commenced
pulling off the flags from over the flue, but this appeared
hopeless. After this, he put his head through the hole of
the cell door, to listen what the officers were doing in the
office, and drew back with an exclamation of delight, say-
ing that the man who locked them in had left the key
outside. The prisoner said, but there are two or three
other doors, and you are sure to be stopped. Beech,
however, unlocked the door, and went up the lobby to
listen, but came back to tell Hough that there was only
one police Man in, and he was fast asleep. Hough now

appeared to think his companion in earnest,''
out of bed, he followed Beech out of the ofam,.,,T
made the best of their way together into :st,
Beech took the prisoner to the summer-11°„d tbetil
Robin Hood bowling-green, Bolton-Maori fi"Tber,
mained there in conversation about an how'. 10,
ner wanted to go to Chorley, but a bell 030`iid,
ringing, and Beech said it was to call out the Ph the,:
they would be on all the roads directly. Houg-titgiv
that if he' could get word to his wife, she would
money to go away with. Beech offered to fie);' tG
where they could stop a day or two ; and Hon!! 0,
assure himself that his companion was a true
a number of questions to try ifdhe would
statements. Sergeant Beech repeated all that bele;‘,
him before, and then Hough said, " Well, 1134,JY
now ; but you were so like a policeman at
could not open my mind. You are a dece,.,-).
chap, and so let us go on towards Dean Cburen•„bff,
took him over hedge and ditch, and through tusibet
and when they got about two miles out of to ce:001
soner said he was glad to find that his comPse!ittbi
decent chap ; that he believed it to be God's //I'd;
was locked up, to effect his (the prisoner's) °e?
he had been praying to God all night, and that tbeo
have many a laugh about their escape when theY
ni
the briny ocean. He then pretended to open bisde,
Becch, and told him that he had agreed last SO 01.
two navigators, that they should come to Bolton di
tY
him ; that they did so ; and that they afterwardlier‘
the money, his share being hid in a wood fur.Ffe.:
When they got to a plantation near Lady Drtik
prisoner wanted Beech to remain at the top ?' 014
till he went down into the plantation for WO;
This, however, Beech would not do, and the
searched for two hours, and said he could n°',
ts'
place. They then agreed to return to Boltoni
Place mentioned by Beech. When they got ba'ert
Robin Hood. the nri,nof, ,-,rpten,i,,d to co to

the, house ; and when 1d eau tu,•;:La roundtoige',
him, he had jumped over a flag fence and a hed
was off as hard as his heels could carry him.
Beech instantly pursued the prisoner, and Ord,
sprang into a hedge together. Being again securio
officer determined to run no further risk of the Po
escape ; and, therefore, he told him he was a P 4 gi
and that anything he might say would be brought
him. The prisoner was now utterly confoanpil
finding that he bad so committed himself as not
acknowledge his guilt, but to point out the hicapl
he had concealed the money, he voluntarily tos
with Sergeant Beech in the morning, and poin
ple.ce where he had deposited the bag of soverelgt,
officer accordingly sent for a cab ; and at day'-,0

pruceeuea to tee plantation war Lady brius-,:acip
prisoner at once pointed out the place where be ere,
the money. Sergeant Beech, therefore, recoici
£3lO by his own ingenuity and exertion. 080,
Boner escaped he might have fallen under serion,s,d
sibility ; and we are very glad to hear that it ist'eo
tion of the party interested to reward him for tlefol
worthy conduct.—The prisoner was brought be
magistrates on Sal urday, and committed for trial

STATE OF THE PUBLIC-HEALTH IN 410
QUARTER OF 1848.

The quarterly returns of the mortality ill
tricts of England have been published, and leo
in'eresting and, on the whole, satisfactory coil'
36 districts are in the metropolis, and the ret°,4lo
comprise, with some agricultural districts, the 0
towns and cities of England. The pepulatil,el
6,612,958 in 1841. It is gratifying to find that
tality of the quarter has been below the average;
46,124 deaths have been registered. The deat'oo
corresponding quarters of 1846 and 1847 were 5314 ?
57,925 ; so that notwithstanding some increase"o
lation, the decrease of deaths on 1847 is 11,801;i• 01
1846, 6,931. Taking the increase of population oi
count, the deaths are 2,571 below the averloo
deaths in nine preceding years. The general dot
of the country was comparatively low in the fi'ie
1841-5 ; in the middle of 1846 epidemics sets 4,
proved fatal through the rest of 1846, through 1 0
the winter of 1848. A manifest improvement too
in the spring of the year 1848 ; the summer vif
average degree of health ; and although cases!) rin;
have occurred in London and several districts dab i 4
• has b
quarter, the returns prove that the epidemic
produced no sensible effect on the mortality. tbel
On a comparative view of the mortality in 4!
towns, as contrasted with the rural districts Poi
towns of England, during the nine last quartet
to
of the last nine years, it appears from the retuo
after every allow- -‘ has he- as 1000

_ ,een mane ep
have taken place which must be chiefly referrals,
want of pure air and water, house room, and,,
which good laws and institutions might supplY•
reference to cholera the Registrar-General ref°
when it appeared in England in 1831 it was at thets'it
the year, and that it caused nearly all the n'wrot;
1832. Its advances were slow, but sanitary Pre4,
advanced still more slowly. " A Health of Tovor,
however," he observes, " exists • a map of Lon I>t
progress, on which the fatality epidemics rnigo'l
ced, and which will facilitate the drainage; a
mission of Sewers has been issued ; a Board of lI
been constituted ; innumerable reports have bee° PO
and if no time is lost much may yet be done bet?
great epidemic is in a condition to put forth itsid
in summer. The est.blishoient at
how cholera is made fatal ; it is still easier to 941.
it may be made comparatively innoxious. And t". 01
will probably not be so soon forgotten as it wasbiO
The mortality of Stockport and Macclesfield p
Liverpool, and West Derby ; Blackburn, Prestoad
dale, Bury, Bolton, Wigan, and Prescot ; Chorlto ty
chester, Salford, Ashton, and Oldham, was lower oe
the autumn quarter of 1846 ; in some districtsrei
duction in the mortality was 50 per cent. In ocll,
968, 636, and 424 ; in Manchester, 2.318, 2,210,
deaths were registered in the autumn quarters Icri,l.
in the same quarters the total deaths registered 14.,
cashire and Cheshire were 20,302, 18,696, andd,
The births were 21,245 and 19,425 in the auturnin,
',ref
of 1846 and 1848. The births and deaths de
The decrease of mortality is ascribed to improve
trade ; and by some to the removal of the PlrA
The commercial depression began in 1846; the ni,,;
stopped and were only partially opened in 184'igl
persons therefore removed to towns where wilco,"
nufactures offered employment, and have not boa'
to return now that trade has been restored, e
The deaths in Liverpool in the quarter 'Ora
against 3,725 in the corresponding quarter of t,01;
ding year, 2,735 in the quarter of 1846, and I,9B`re'
The deaths in West Derby during the quarter n'e„,
against 1,122 in the corresponding quarter of the
year, 1,111 in 1846, and 673 in 1845.

A PLEASANT GUEST.—" Lady Janet and Sir ;;{r
M'Farlane—" " Strange style—the ladyfirlii
posed Miss Leicester. " She always is so," sal
1111.0
continuing the perusal, " will reach Tulibermoreerip
day, and have only to request that their apart° of
not have a north aspect, as Lady J. has still a hcod,
hanging over her. Sir A.'s man Flint will ar,r.o,'
rooms himself, and, with Mr. Cashel's permis-1
directions about double doors, it there be none• tisio
has taken the liberty of mentioning to Gordoo
sherry is far too hot and acrid, and hopes Mr. ,
pardon his having ordered some dozens of An'c'citi°'4l
for trial. Lady J. asks, as a favour, that plants on, •
may be banished from the house during her Wei
Dr. Grimes positively forbidding all herbaceous
and if the cook would make the ' cuisine' partiewB„",,)o
ple, it would also oblige her, as Dr. G. says she 0."'?'„,
to be exposed to the irritation of tempting trt
see them at table. Lady J. hopes that the soele_i'ebs
cheerful without dissipation, and gay without utojii
above all, she stipulates for early boars, and tr,to by eleven, at latest, the house will have retire
Lady Janet has no objection to meeting any
Cashel may honour with his invitation, but lei4soet.
Mr. C.'s discretion not to abuse this liberality.
to particularise she would merely suggest that thenyfecks, except perhaps the elder gig, are odiou'oelf,
White, a perfect horror—the Meeks, something toll!),
cious—and that rather than meet the Kilgoffs,6
yU
set, Lady J. would almost prefer to relinquish
much-anticipated pleasure. Mr. Linton can be, VI(
often is, gentlemanlike and amusing, but' Lint°,l3petj
occasionally practised, is intolerable. Lady Jllcoli
ventured on these remarks, far less for her ovl ,es",
ence, than in the discharge of what she feels to 1.75/li*
to a very young and inexperienced man, whose It%
ing nature will inevitably expose him to the verl,l4ol
attacks of selfishness, cunning, and to that speed
tation, that goober or later end in debasing and ufetr
him who peznaits himself to be its subject. Jane"'
lane."—Roland Cashel.
THE CIRCASSIAN SLAVE TRADE.—III a MOTai
view, all slave traffic is of course odious and rePre,eii
but that of Circassia differed from other commeryd
kind, in so far that all parties were benefited by, r"),0
seating to, the contract. The Turks obtained inb
casus handsomer and wealthier wives than tholeb
the harem •, and the Circassian beauties were de'lO
exchange the poverty and toil of their father's „,
huts for the luxurious farniente of the seraglio, °0
wonders and delights their ears were regaled, fr° 0,
hood upwards, with the most glowing descriptilo
trade, although greatly impeded and very bazar fit,
goes on. Small Turkish craft creep up to the cee,'")o,
tiously evading the Russian cruisers, enter etr fog
inlets, and are dragged by the Circassians hiP•ot
upon the beach, there to remain until the negott
their live cargo is con.pleted, an operation that gA),
takes a few weeks. The women sold are the clau?dl
serfs and freedmen : rarely does a work consent t',o
of his sister or daughter, although the case does s°,ll:
occur. But, whilst the sale goes on, the slave% e
anything but secure. It is a small matter to have‘
the Russian frigates and steamers. Each of the led
possesses a little squadron of row-boats, Te3ll,'
Cossacks, who pull along the coast in search 0;0,0
vessels. If they detect one, they land in the
endeavour to set fire to it, before the mountOwlf
come to the assistance of the crew. The Turk,s' re"
in profound terror of these Cossack coast-guaros.'; j
every possible expedient to escape their observat,
, 0
covering their vessels with dry leaves and botteLl;si
ing fir branches to the masts, that the scouts ,he
them for trees. If they are captured at sea bYlo
sers, the crew are sent to hard labour in Siberiiilio
Circassian girls are married to Cossacks, or u.
handmaidens among the Russian staff office"; e 1
thirty to forty slaves compose the usual cargo e 'les
these vessels, which are so small that the poor toe!
are packed almost like herrings in a band. But,t
tiently endure the misery of the voyage, in 8010'
the honeyed existence of the harem. It is calcuojit
one vessel out of six is taken or lost. In the, of
1843-4, eight and-twenty ships left the coast et:'
Minor for that of Caucasia. Twenty-three safelYAo
three were burned by the Russians, and two
the waves.—Blaekwood's Magazine.

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