The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

APPALLING MURDER OF 4. CHILD.

(Abridged from the Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday.)
Dr. M`Carthy, one of the county coroners, held an inquest
yesterday, at Fleming's public-house, Upper Baggot-street,
on view of the body of a fine boy, about "ten years of age,
who was found brutally murdered on Monday evening in a
stable-lane, at the rear of Pembroke-road. When it was
known that the dreadful deed had been perpetrated, the
greatest excitement and horror pervaded the neighbourhood.
The excitement continued yesterday during the inquest.
Great crowds visited the spot where the barbarous murder
was committed, and remained in the jury-room and about
the house in which the inquest was held during the entire
day. The person who was deemed the principal witness in
the case was a lad of about twenty years of age, named John
Delahunt. It will be recollected that this boy was the chief
evidence brought forward by the crown
Cooney and his wife, who were tried for the t
minico Garlibardo, the Italian organ-player
ham, some months since. Our readers a'
contradictory and scandalous manner it
gave his evidence at that trial, which cc
siding to tell Delahunt that he thought
dock in place of on the table as a witness,
murdered child lay in the lane wheie the
perpetrated. It presented a ghastly spec
of the unfortunate victim was cut from ear
also a gash over the right eye, seeming'
angular instrument. A cap and a str
blood, were found at a short distance
boy.

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After some evidence had been received as t,
the body, Constable Barrett deposed as follow.
to Colonel Browne, police commissioner, at the
Yard ; John Delahunt called on me last evenin
ence to a child that was murdered ; this was soot
o'clock ; he called to me to apprise me of it ,
saw a woman beating the child repeatedly in a
near Pembroke-road, and that he looked on for r
able time until he supposed the child was dead ;
he considered the child's throat was cut ; be said t
had a knife in her hand; said he could identify tl-
I then went with him to Lad-lane, and from that
the lane with Inspector Carmody; when we got (
to it we found the child's cap near the place where
lay; the child was lying on its hack ; its throat
Delahunt told me he had a sore foot.

; he told me he

John Delahunt, after being told by the coror
picion was attached to him, entered into a len
with a considerable degree of circumstantial detr
amounted to lfttle more than an arnpliticatic
given to the constable. After several witness(
evidence, tending to implicate Delahunt as the
the child.

Thomas Delabunt was exhamined.-11
brother of John Delahunt ; 'is brothet
betwen seven and eight o'clocn the ever
room in Britain-street; he had a 1 !e boy v

strange child, between nine and ten ye
brother als6 at about half-past twe:ve o'
said he was going down to the Castle-var
in the evening when he came in he sai
man with him, and then called the litt
he said to the child " come in ;
wife asked him his name, and
she asked him where he lived

he saki

know; the child was then brou2
had a bib on ; I cannot say what
cap on ; he was in his bare feet

part of his dress; his (witne

child did not remain more than a

t thirtE

.s between seven and eight, or be
;lock ; he then took the child a

(he said) in Buckingham-street ; tl
lying dead in the stable lane, Pembr
to be the same child that was with

his room last night ; he (witness) felt Ile cold(
the same child ; his (witness's) brother Jobs
about twenty minutes after going out with
said he had left it in Cumberland-street, and
said he knew his way home from that; he d
than about twenty mint

tated I:

Margaret Delahunt (wife of the last witness) wa
to be examined. She appeared to he deeply a
could not give her testimony for some time. It v
as that of her husband. She fully identified to
saw dead in the stable lane as the child she sal
Delahunt on the evening previous in her hush
The witness fainted after giving her testimony, a
insensible for a considerable time.

Evidence was then adduced to prove the child to be the
son of Thomas Maguire, a biscuit baker, and John Delahunt
was brought into the room, and acquainted with the testimony
of the witnesses. He said, as soon as the law had gone
through its force, he would be able to lay his hand upon the
murderers, though, in his statement before, he said be did
not know the person whom he saw maltreating the child.
The jury, after a little consideration, brought in a verdict of
" wilful murder against John Delahunt," and the prisoner
was committed to Kilmainhatn, to stand his trial.

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Her voic

MRS. ABDY

g loved this present world
2 Tim. iv. 11.).

depart

1 sadness of heart ;

thee away,
ill to obey :

ianner for thee is unfurl'd;

❑ts of the world,
n lov'd tellow,hip trod,

ing thy God

'ordly we dwelt

rials our faith could appal,
Lord was our solace through all

y our warnings and prayers,
eir revels, we turn'd from their snares
:le changes, its frown or its nod,

of God

communion has ceas'd

t the richly-spread feast ;
of the thoughtless and vain,

p and the singer's soft strain ;
conscience shall silently sleep—

_
Of the ways where thy footsteps once happily trod,
Of the days when thy heart was devoted to God.
-nd,

Ere long shall I c

time of

My peril

Deriving my stre

1 bave

1 feel is at hand ;

hed my course,

ti from an infinite source

The world's soft endearments I never have known,
But I griev'd not—the world ever clings to its own ;
And 1 fear not death's terrors, nor shrink from his rod,
For my spirit would fain be at rest with my God.
Yet the world has still power my sad bosom to rend,
Since it holds thee in thraldom, my brother and friend ,
Oh ! place in the Lord thy dependence and trust,
And pleasure's vain idols shall crumble to dust;
Return to the peace of the Christian's calm track,
Return, and thy brethren shall welcome thee back ;
And angels shall look from their blessed abode,
And joy to behold thee forgiven of God.

GOSSIP OF THE GLOBE-THE CORN-LAWS

The Globe has been recently indulging in sundry specula-
tions, given to the public as rumours, regarding the conser-
vative government and its intended measures. First, we had
the astounding intelligence, communicated through this pa-
per, that the Dike of Buckingham was about to leave the
ministry ! This, of course, met with a flat denial, and the
Globe was left to swallow the leek as philosophically as it

Not content with this, however, our whig-radical
as given to the world the following morceau,
m in the present corn-laws, which

contemporar

as the pretetided at(

Sir Robert Peel contemplates:
"The plan of the ministry for the future regulation of the
Import of foreign corn has at length been suffered to transpire;
and, as it is supposed to have received the sanction of the
leaders of the agricultural party, we may presume it will be
adopted by them when parliament assembles. The sliding-
scale is retained, but under a modified form, the duty fluctu-
ating only to the extent of 145., the maximum being 18s. per
quarter, and the minimum 4s. per quarter, rising or falling
ls. for every fall or rise of ]s. in the average price of wheat ;
the pivot being 545. per quarter, or under, for the highest
rate of duty, and CBs., or over, for the lowest rate. The
plan also embraces some wholesome regulations for taking
the weekly averages, with a view to remedy the trickery
which is now practised by interested parties, in making their
returns of sales and prices. We need not say that we think
a fixed duty would have been preferable to a sliding scale ;
but, after the violent hostility displayed against this proposal
by the dominant party in parliament, we despair of seeing it
carried at present. Therefore, we gladly accept of this
modification of the sliding-scale as an instalment of what we

reat improvement upon the old system

it will insu
average du
and ISs. ; i

.
. ...
are a certain amount of revenue from corn, the
ity being lls. per quarter, the mean between 4s.
it will reduce the temptation for forestalling, and
king false returns ; it will insure a more steady
ie article, regular supplies and less fluctuation in

) questionable a shape, that we
redit. It may or may not be the
ernment intend to introduce ; but
at the Globe has no authority for

The effect of such a plan would obviously
,e introduction of grain into this country.

iity about it of affording a protection to the
Mr. Huskisson's opinion, that 565. or 60s.
aunerating price to the grower. There
should grain ever get beyond 685., the
whereas, with the present law, when
falls to Is. Granting that this plan
t the same amount of grain is im-
ars as has been during the last ten
v the above scale, would be about

HOCKING MURDER AT STOKETON-UPOi

TRENT

(From the Staffordshire Gazette.
On Monday evening and Tuesday last, the town of Stoke
was thrown into a state of great excitement, by a report, that
a man named Thomas Morris, a brewer, had laid violent
hands upon his wife, and thereby caused her death, whilst he
was in a state of intoxication. The report proved but too
true. On Tuesday afternoon, an inquest was held on the
body of the deceased, Elizabeth Morris, at the Old Swan
Inn, Stoke, before W. Harding, Esq., coroner, and a re-
spectable jury.
The first witness called was a niece of the prisoner's and
deceased's, named Fanny Hilditch, a little girl ten years of
age, who stated that Morris and the deceased lived at their
house. [Witness afterwards explained that her mother was
fever-nurse at the Infirmary, and consequently generally ab-
sent from home, and allowed Morris and his wife (who was
her sister) to live in her house, and take care of her children.]
Witness remembered Morris coming home on Monday night,
believed it was about nine o'clock ; her aunt (the deceased)
was nursing a baby about ten months old, and eat by the fire,
making a cap and putting flowers in it. There were no other
persons in the house except Morris, the deceased, witness,
and the baby. Morris said he would not have the cap which
deceased was making in his house, and he then pushed her
towards the fire. Deceased then threw the cap up the house
to prevent Morris laying hold of it; he endeavoured to get
the cap from her, and she resisted ; he said he would throw
it on the fire, and she replied that he durst not' ; and he
replied that he durst' ; and some further altercation of a
similar nature took place. He then struck his wife a violent
blow on her brow, upon which she fell with her head upon
his knee ; he pushed her off to the floor, which was of brick.
After she was down, he kicked her twice on the side, and
some time after tried to lift her head from the floor, but it
fell down again,—and he then said that " he could not help
it." Deceased could not get up, the baby then began to cry,
and witness took it from the cradle and went to call a neigh-
bour, named Mary Swettnam, and told her that deceased
was dying; upon which she left and went to Morris's di-
rectly. When witness left the house, Morris was standing
in the same room that his wife was lying; she staid at Mrs.
Swettnams until near one o'clock ; when she went home
again, she saw deceased lying upon the sofa, and thought she
was dead : Morris was quite drunk. _ .

Mary Swettnam was then sworn, and said, in conse-
quence of information received from the previous witness,
she went to Morris's house with her : the baby was asleep
in the cradle, deceased lay across the house floor on her
back, and Morris was kneeling down by the side of her. He
exclaimed, when witness entered the house, " Aye dear, aye
dear, Mrs. Swettnam." He had his left arm under her
head. Witness asked what was the matter, and he replied,
he thought she was dead, as he perceived no breath. Wit-
ness laid hold of deceased's hand and rubbed it, but she was
quite dead. Morris said something must be done,—witness
then went and called Sally Harrison and Betty Minshull,
telling them that Betty Morris was either dead or dying. They
came in soon, and then witness went to her own house, and
sent a man who lodged with her to call Mr. Davies. When
she went back to Morris's deceased was quite dead, and she
was laid on the sofa. Morris did not say anything about
how it had happened to witness : he was drunk. The jury
returned their verdict—" That the deceased came to her
death by violence used towards her by her husband, Thomas
Morris," who was then brought up and committed to take
his trial for the offence at the next assizes.

REFORMATION IN LIVERPOOL,

(From the Dublin Statesman.)

While a very justifiable alarm is abroad amongst the true
members of the church, lest the doctrines of Popery, under
the disguise of Puseyism, should creep in and pave the way
for an extensive relapse to the errors of Rome, the report of
the preceedings which took place in St. Jude's Chapel, Liver-
pool, on Wednesday evening last, must be highly gratifying
to our readers. The current of the times, we are glad to
find, does not carry all away with it ; and while there is on
the surface, we acknowledge, a flow towards the evils out of
which we were delivered by the Reformation, we have every
reason to believe that a deep and powerful direction has been
given to the public mind, which, ere long, will bear away with
irresistible success towards Protestant Christianity. The
word Protestant has latterly become unpalatable with some
professors of theology ; and we have no hesitancy in stating
our belief, that wherever any disgust towards the title is
avowed, there these must be concealed the most decided
aversion to the thing itself ; in fine, to the doctrines and forms
of Christianity, purged of all superstitious novelties, and
accredited by law, as the religion of the state.