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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-30 00:00:00

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FATAL AFFRAY IN SIR THOMAS'S BUILDINGS.

A Coroner's jury was on Tuesday afternoon sworn before
Philip Finch Currie, Esq., to inquire into the circumstance,
touching the death of Thomas Molyneux. John hlolyneux,
eon of the deceased, stated that his father was a pipe-maker,
and worked for Mrs. Morgan, in Sir Tbomas's-buittllngs. Ocs;
Sunday morning last, at about two o'clock, his father was at
work there. He (witness,) was standing at the end of an entry
which led to the kiln, smoking his pipe and waiting for hie father
to go home with him. The prisoner Michael Grant, with whom
was the prisoner Moreland and another man, came up to him
and asked him if he was one of Steel's men. He said "No,'"
he knew nothing about Steel and had never worked for him.—
The prisoner had at this time placed his hand in his (witness's)
pocket, and was taking his tobacco box from him. 'Witness
raised his hand and threw away the prisoner's arm, upon which
the latter immediately knocked him down. He got up again,
they had a short struggle, and both fell. His father hearing the
noise came out. The prisoner, the moment the father appeared,
knocked him down also. The prisoner did not again touch the
deceased, nor did his companion Moreland strike at all. The
latter helped him to pick up his father and to carry him into the
kiln. His (witness's) father was a little in liquor, but not
much. Witness went home to his mother and sister, and sent
them to his father. He did not himselfgo back, because he was
afraid. He did not think the blow was struck maliciously, but
through intoxication. Elizabeth Molyneux deposed, that c'
Sunday tnorning her brother came home and told her and her
mother to go to the kiln to their father as he was lying dead
there. They went to him and found him lying there nearly in-
sensible. Witness raised him up. He requested her to tak*
off his shoes. He then became quite insensible, and never
spoke more. Ile died at a quaiter before one o'clock on Mon-
day. The prisoners were at the kiln when she got there. She
asked the prison-7 Grant if he had struck her father. He said
he would not tell, but if he had, it was not with the intention or
doing him any injury. The prisoner Moreland was questioned
by the Coroner as to his share in the transaction. He said he
was not with Grant in the first instance. He came out of an
adjacent public house and saw the first witness and Grant fight-
ing. Grant had his coat off, hut he did know whether the
tiyeu or not. Tney were, however, engaged in a regu-
lar combat. The old man came out of the entry and advanced
towards Grant who struck him a blow which caused him to fall
heavily on the parapet. The Coroner expressed his regret that
be was not in a situation in which he could make the evidence
of Moreland available, as he could not discharge him till he
had received the verdict of the jury. (It had become pretty
evident that Moreland had no share Mahe matter.) William
Owens, an Officer of Excise, stated that he was on duty at Mr.
Steel's soapery, on Sunday morning last. At about two
he heard a noise in the street, which induced him to go enii
open the wicket gate to see what was the matter. He saw seve-
ral persons in the street. He had known both the prisoners by
sight from attending the places where they worked. He saw
Grant and the first witness squaring at each other and engaged
in a regular combat. The son of the deceased knocked Grant
down. The latter immediately pulled off his coat and waist-
coat, and the combat was renewed as before. Both parties
entered upon the contest willingly. Grant knocked his oppo-
nent down twice. The deceased came out of the entry. Wit-
ness thought he appeared as though he wanted to }mails' them.
Grant asked him what business it was of his, and struck him.
He (the deceased,) fell heavily to the ground. It was a dread-
ful fall. One of the jurors, who appeared to have sacrified too
freely at the shrine of Bacchus, had for some time annoyed the ; witness with a number of irrelevant questions.
The witness
being now under examination by the Coroner did not imme-
diately answer the juror. The latter appealed rather vocife-
rously to the Coroner. The Coroner quietly requested,-that at ''r
that moment he 'Digit not he interrupted. The juror, whose
name is Daniel Wells, persisted; upon which the Coro-
ner said, addressing the beadle, " I adjourn this inquest till to. „
morrow, and perhaps by that time you can furnish me with a
sober jury." The inquest was accordingly adjourned till half-
past ten o'clock. Before the. Court broke up, Mrs. Morgan, in
whose employ the deceased had been, was questioned with the
view of ascertaining how far her evidence would bear upon the
case. She stated that when the deceased came out of the entry,
he had exclaimed three or four times to bis son, who was then.
fighting with Grant,—" Strike high, Jack !" The deceased,
and his sbn, she stated, were both intoxicated, and had caused'
her considerable annoNance during the day. These points will
tell considerably in favour of the prisoners, as they give the
affray the aspect of a drunken brawl, though it was supposed at
first to have been of a more serious nature. The prisoners were
remanded.—The inquest was resumed on Wednesday, when,
the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Michael
Grant. Moreland was acquitted.

From the commencement of our comments upon the admira-
ble lectures of Mr. Hemming, we have never wished ourselves
to be understood as chemical Stagyrites, or infallible Popes,
correcting that gentleman in any one of the many important
truths he brought before his enlightened audience at Liverpool.
We are aware that all we have written, by way of corrigenda,
was within the compass of his own mind, and our only aim has
been to nerfores the hunahic,. ~.....t. -r ~iiriot4, ui aiming a
comma here and there; or, where it would have been imprac-
ticable for Mr. H., to give the demonstration ourselves, to take
the opportunity of displaying the profound depth of our scien-
tific learning, by letting our readers know that we can manage
a proposition of Euclid. Speaking of the sulphuret of mercury,
Mr. H. says, that "the sulphur, at a high heat, leaves the mer-
cnrv, and combines with the brae," which, in the sense Mr. H.
intended, is a chemical truth, but, as we are disposed to think a
similar form of expression once gave a practical (though not a
very scientific) chemist a great deal of trouble, and occasioned
some expense, we think it right to draw the attention of our
operative friends to it. It had been said, that the chlorine of
the chloride of sodium, (common salt,' at a considerable heat,
quitted the sodium to unite with lead--and he thought it pos-
sible, that mcee heat itself might expel it, as there seemed, ac-
cording to the phraseology used, to be a state of transit from the
sodium to the lead—his attempts failed, and would never have
been made, had it been stated, that the chlorine, at a high tem-
perature, has a greater affinity only for lead than it has for so-
dium. So here, it is the superior affinity of the lime for the
sulphur, which sets the mercury free. We have, in our pre-
cedin7 comments, noticed the fact, that mercury is not blackened
by a solution of sulphuretted hydrogen—indeed, if we wished
to procure a hydrosulphuret from a hydroguretted sulphuret, it
would only be necessary to agitate the latter with mercury,
whicli wourd take away the excess of sulphur, and leave a co-
lourless hydrosulphuret.
It is a trivial mistake, after stating that "mercury is 14 times
heavier than water," that " one pint of mercury will weigh
nearly as much as a gallon of water "—there are no gallons
that weigh 131 tbs—in fact it weighs more than a gallon and a
half of the old wine measure.
Mercury, Mr. H. states, to "evaporate spontaneously at all '
ordinary temperatures above 32°. If this be true, and Dr. Fa-
raday is quoted as an authority—it is a most remarkable coin-
cidence, for as regards the mercurial scale, there is nothing in
what we call :320 of Fahrenheit which is connected with any
apparent change in the habitudes of mercury. It congeals at .„,
n. Kirkdale Gaol 28 prisoners for
alih at z., 2.3 males and 5 females.
about 710 below the freezing point of water, aryl at no step triereLre sillaorwcil'onfivin assizes, confined i
from congelation to vaporization do we see any other abrupt
NEW CHAPEL—In mar ads columns will be found an
assumption of new properties. It also clashes with the analogy announcement of the opening otifin g a new methodist ebapel its:
of water, which in the state of ice and snow (as we frequently Chester-street, Toxteth-park, on Wednesday next, built by thee
experience upon a large scale) rapidly evaporate. natives of the principality, in connection with the Wesleyan,
bod wose nubers have of late been ray increasin g
It is sometime since we looked in Boyle, but we do not for a this town
.n Them services of Wednesday willpidl be in English, and,
three highly-popular ministers are expected to preach. On the,
moment question the accuracy of Mr. tel.'s statement that that
follow
philosopher Sunday sermons will be delivered in the Welsh lan-
philosopher averred, "that he found metallic mercury in the
head of a water gilder." We are perplexed to know where it gu;gITAT, AccilleNT.—Yesterday, an inquest was held before
was lodged, except in some of the sinuses of the brain. This Mr. Curry
"water-gilder" would have proved a puzzling subject to the m, on view of the body of Isaac Eden, a rigger, who
et with his death while engaged in his occupation, at the
disciples of Gall and Spurzheim, for in whatever cavity it was wPerirnecoan's;?noclrfa. CharileseiVeilnestaatreddgeha_t_ nee he d the deceased .
lodged, frontal, parietal, or occipital, he most have been an in- Prince's Don j
ti anck. yie opuotythree o'clock in thelia afternoLin,gthe de-
tellectual, a moral, or a physical Mercury. ceased went tip to the top of the mast-head, and witness, who
on dek, saw him s nld—e fell head-n
We know not of any ease where metallic mercury is taken up
head eck.c
He was carried tohi the Infirmarhy, whereforemest e
he died in
by the absorbents—anti it seems equally incapable of being re- about a minute after his arrival. The jury returned a verdict of
ceived in that state by the lacteal,; if, therefore, it_ be inhaled „Accidental Death."
LONDON lien Considerable in
by the lungs, we may suppose it enters the circulation through yen' jeotzelewesivseseapuerr.ve
i Lied during the latter part of the past
some of the capillaries of the pulmonic artery, but then, most week by the late arrival of the London mail. During severalt
probably, in the state of an oxide, from the circumstance of its nights it did not arrive for four, five, and even six hours after
extreme division in the form of vapour, and its exposure to the the
usual time. s t The
eh reason
ed n t for this
n t ti
gwas, t that a heavy drift oaf •
Chalk-hill io
oxygen of the inspired air. How it becomes disoxygenised is s
pas age had to be cleared by the use of spadee and shovele be-
difficult to explain, and, if any where, it must be in the brain Yore the coach could proceed. On Tnesday night the mail did
itself, for metallic mercury could not continue
suspended in the not. arrive at all. Yesterday morning the guard of the Bir-
blood,
mingham mail brought intelligence that the communication
between Birmingham and London was cut off at Dunchurch,
The experiment of Dr. Priestley with the peroxide of mercu- where four mails and sevheralcoaches were snowed up. Anseingst' '
ry, not only furnishes the chemist with oxygen gas, but also those
it
half-past sr
1 o'clockaed was
oon Liverpool4,nesdarmail from London, due at
over epsoiwidtn,ertiser.
serves to demonstrate the existence of the disoxygenizing rays Witscies.—On Saturdasye. li g, the auperin-
in solar light, although that philosopher did not draw that con- tendent of the Dock Police. went to Cheshire, with art in
elusion from it. There heat would only have driven off one-
lectori,etwenossstefrjrnelannzsowe ,ea Castle to Hoylake. The sand
makes mention afterwards. and twenty men. A guard was placed:
-.
atom of the peroxide—leaving the protoeide, of which Mr. H. ;tia°cnhir tis aground close to shore, between Leasowe Castle and
the Lighthouse. A number of riggers have been employed to
The peroxide of mercury, Mr. 11. observes, is sometimes rheet hernias
cargo,
ash andh jrsreargvi
aulguanlillt, and carts are engaged to discharge
y hard and ast in th.e sand, anl one, upon
stlAelleb:nakit.hSsihaeteisr.st,gke
mixed with " red lead," and that " this we can easily detect b
heating a portion of it, when the peroxide of mercury will be Heyes is deePlY_imbesided in the sand about four miles trent the
dissipated, and the lead, if any, left behind as a yellow oxide.'' I crew.main
West
11_!°Y Ile. Ittedife-boat gol off her passengers and
Plicebe, was knadocaeado tea v.alnahinle irgiek An Iltallitan brig, the
s
We apprehend some little error here ; it is, as we know, from
rd
many experiments, very difficult to obtain the yellow oxide of 1 floating about. During SP2turday and the foelloawmingt neik,csritr,gorniwich
of it was on shore, and placed under a guard. Several other
lead free from the red oxide, and, in the present case, there is 1
no reason why it should pass from the state of red to yellow I vessels were aground in different parts of the river.
oxide. The Rev. Alfred Armstrong Rector of the parish of Men-
liffe in the County Tipperary, • . hi', dto attend the duties of •
Analagous to the case mentioned by Mr. H., of Basil Valen- his 'pa ~ , . is o I,.ze .
rish church with loaded pistols in his pocket having gieea
tine, is that of a patient on his voyage to India, as related by 1 offence to his parishioners by committing one of them to gaol
Dr. Johnson, the erudite e.,;• ..r of the Medico-Chirurg cal i for some trilling misdemeanour. , • ,
Review, •,vho was ordered to take some pills couiaining calomel. , PoPtstt CR um, Trus,,--Lit is stated by President Edwards, that • '
The patient, however, feeling very much disinclined to physic Istilati the reign ,) r Charles IX. of Prance, 70,000 Protestants werei •
the pills every morning 1571,n itiiii
ear fee w
weredays;
in andti thatki o in thedo ()f
Francepersecution which
no
feabaerg n
athan
of any kind, amused himself by throwing
into the chicken coop, which the unsuspecting birds picked u qf
I), -)(),()00 Protestants who fella rasacrifice to Popish cruelty.
mistaking them for peas. In a short time all the feathers came Wi..hin the shorts pa're of thirty
.years, there were martyred in
off thee], to the surprise of every one on board ; but, as there France for the Protestant religion, 39 prim. 03, 148 counts, 231
were preserved from the !f'ahm"' 147,518 gentlemen, and 760,0(X) of thej coin
jillioeurpe,igotce,i.
seemed no disease among them, they
knife. They scion became fatter and finer fowls than had ever Charles esa in eonfitnn,tbiann,tlhoorbsoavyest 2
i. 00 COO I:reoltaelsi (t
ani ts were ma bBa•
been seen at sea, and then, we think, the patient mentioned the ere(' in a few day-s, the Papists, by a secret agreement, haying'
medical treatment they bad undergone. Whether this fact be risen all over rhe kingdom intendieg bf.ene united act of
,licoosr:.
rid cruelty, i 0 fall to deatt:OVCiy gUiViV:II4.: Protestant. 7
worth kae, ing to oar poulliy farityrs, or whether it av 7U'd
ri, h Goa-rdian-

Latvia Freights to E.rellange
date:. England, ere. cn England.
Bombay....l2th Sept £4 tf? ton 2s lld IP' rupee.
Calcutta..... ltit Sept..E6 lOs to £7 if ton for dead weight;
£7 51 to lOs for light freight; to
£9 for silk and indigo.
Produce abundant.
China 4th July__ N o freight offering...4s 94 IP dollar-
Singapore 2sth Ang..E4 lOs to £6 lf'ton..4B 6d to 4s id ty
Very light freight has paid £7 to £7 10s.;
only one vessel loading for England,
Rio Janeiro.2sth 0ct...E2 15s to £3 lOs ton..3s to 3. Ojd
milrea.
Bahia 3d Nov... %d per lb. 28d. Tied 35d.iff'milrea,
N. Orleans 24th Nov ...Ad per lb. 10 4f' cent. prem.
Ships in good demand ; seamen very scarce ; ships are obliged
to give 50 to 60 dollars per month for the
run home.
Mobile 2•4 th Nov...Nd per lb. 10 clp'cent. prem.
Mobile river very low, and the arrivals of cotton light in
consequence.
Savannah 25th N0v...11-16d to %d per l9i. BV' cent. prem.
Charleston 26th Nov... yid per lb. 9i to 911 P cent. prem
American vessels refu.e id. per lb. freight.
New York IstDec...... dto 7-16 d per lb. 91 W cent. prem,
N.B.—A vessel from Mauritius has arrived off Penzance.
which sailed 9th October. We shall endeavour to give parti..
rulers in our next.