The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-15 00:00:00

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT STROUp.

On Tuesday Colonel Fox, the gentleman who has so
obligingly resigned his seat in parliament, appeared at
Stroud, accompanied by Lord John Russell, for the pur-
pose of introducing that nobleman to his late constituents.

The colonel, in his introductory speech, said that "he
considered his' lordship's defeat a national calamity,' and
wished to show that he was chosen by the people. No-
where was public opinion more -freely expressed than in
the borough of Stroud." The South Devon register con-
tains about 9000 names of voters ; Stroud, at the last
election, 1247; not quite double the majority by which
Lord John was rejected in Devonshire. The colonel
concluded by hoping that it would not be thought that he
was treating the borough disrespectfully, and by saying
that he had offered to resign as soon as he understood
that his noble friend was not likely to be successful in
Devonshire.

Lord John Russell, in the course of his speech, said :

" Knowing the respectability ,of the borough of Stroud—
having had occasion to consider its importance and title to send
representatives to parliament prior to the passing of the reform
bill—l thought it proper to come and ask, aye or no, whether
they would confide in me ? I was met in South Devon by
much calumny and misrepresentation, and had but a short time
to answer'thern."

Resolutions approving the resignation of Colonel Fox,
and-of Lord John as a fit and proper person to be his suc-
cessor, were agreed to.

ORKSHIRE ELECTION.

The following
gether with4he n

[s a list of the votes given at each district, to
'tubers registered :

Total num-
Districts. Morpeth. Wortley. her ofvotes Registered
taken.
Barnsley
Bradford... 1,554 612 2,166 • 2,504
Dent. 59 61 120 126
Doncaster
Halifax
ii udders field ...
Keighlev. 277 171 -44 - t 419
Knaresborough 285 49:3 778 927
Leeds 873 979 1,852 , 2,250
Pateley Bridge 277 261 538 619
Settle. 277 413 ' 690 BU2
Sheffield 723 452 1,175 1,391
Skipton. 417 191 608 738
Snaith.. ,,,, 193 352 545 630
Wakefield 962 681 1,643 2,016

Total

9,080 1 6,238 I 15,318

17,97(

Lord Morpeth. 9.080
Mr. Wortley 6,238

111ajority for Lord Nlorpeth.. 2,842
Total number of votes registered.. 17,976
Voted. 15,318

Unpolled voters 2,658

EMIGRATION.

The following abstract.of the number of persons who
emigrated from the united kingdom in the years 1833
and 1824 is taken from the papers presented to, and
printed by order of the House of Commons, March 27,
1835 :

Emigrants from England in 1833:—T0 the North American
Colonies, 5,785; United States, 22,392; Cape of Good Hope,
516; Australian Colonies, 3,317 ; total, 32,010. In the year
1834 :—To the North American Colonies, 6,520; United States,
25,981 ; Cape of Good Hope, 287 ; Australian Colonies, 2,666;
total, 35,4,54. From Scotland in 1833 :—To the Noah Ameri-
can Colonies, 5,592 ; United States, 1,953; Cape of Good Hope,
1 • Australian Co:onies, 253; total, 7,799. In 1834:—T0 the
North American Colonies, 4,954; United States, 2,880; Cape
of Good Hope, 1; Australian Colonies, 131; total, 7,969. Front
Ireland in 1833:—T0 the North American Colonies, 17,431;
United States, 4,764; Australian Colonies, 523; total, 22,718.
In 183I:—To the North American Colonies, 28,586; United
States, 4,213; total, 32799.
• Total number of emigrants, 1833. 62,527
1834. 76,222

138,749

The number who sailed from the port of Liverpool
were, in the year 1833, for the North American- colonies,
718 ; United States, 13,405 ; Cape of Good Hope, 31;
Australian colonies,. 12` 2; total, 15,386. In the year
1834, North American colonies, 1395 ; United States,
18,440; Cape of Good Hope, 3; Australian colonies,
256; total, 20,094. From this statement it appears that
nearly one-fourth of all the emigrants from the three
kingdoms embarked from this place in 1833, and more.
than that number in the following year. And vet, not-
withstanding the extent of our docks, and the immense
disparity in the business to be transacted here, as com-
pared:with the other places where government agents
have been stationed for the protection of emigrants, not
the slightest difference is made in the remuneration fo
the officers appointed to this crnty. But this;- as con-
cerns the public, is not the worst part of the case. The
government emigrant agent is not invested with any
adequate power, so that frauds are committed daily
under his eve, or to his knowledge, without it being
possible for him to obtain redress for the injured party.
A new act of parliament, however, is, we understand. to
be brought in, the provisions of which, we trust, will
be drawn up with such care that in future it will be in
the power of the government agint to give to all per-
sons emigrating from this country, no matter to what
portion of the world they are destined, the most ample
protection.

MURDF.R. OF DR. WARDELL AT SYDNEY, AND

EXECUTION OF HIS MURDERERS.

The first direct accounts of the murder of Dr. Wardell, the
barrister, at Sydney, New South Wales, to which we alluded
some time back, on the authority of Van Diemen's Land pa-
pers, were received in Londotron Saturday. The Harmony, by
which former accounts were sent, and which sailed on the 30th
of September, not having yet arrived, fears of her safety are en-
tertained. By the Sydney Gazette of November 10, we see that
the murderers, John Jenkins and Thomas Tattersdale, were
tried on the Friday preceding, and found guilty on clear and
unquestionable testimony, given by an accomplice named Ema-
nuel Brace, -a lad only 18 years of age. They were all prisoners
of the crown. Brace having fled from .his master to the bush,
met with Jenkins, who had escaped from an iron-gang, to which
he was condemned for previous outrages; he was armed with a
musket and cutlass; they agreed to act together, and committed
several robberies for food anti clothing. They afterwards fell in
with Tattersdale, who had been a former shipmate of Jenkins,
and who they persuaded to join them, which he did, after rob-
bing his master to whom he was assigned. They then in con-
cert committed several more robberies, living in bark huts
which they erected, and feeding on their spoil. On the morn-
ing of the murder they were in a hut, which they had erected
in the woods on Dr. Wardell's estate. Dr. Wart ell in riding
over his lands came upon them, and calling upon them to sur-
render, Jenkins seized upon a piece of rock and threatened
him, directing Tattersdale at the same time to fetch the musket;
this Tattersall did, and Jenkins seizing it, went up to Dr. War-
dell, who exclaimed—" Oh, for God's sake don't do that!" To
which Jenkins replied—" By Heaven I will," and going close
to him
fired the piece into his body. The horse immediately
galloped'off with his master on his back. It was supposed the
unhappy gentleman afterwards fell from his horse, which went
home to the paddock, and the next day his body was found
close to an oak tree, to which he had crawled. The pri-
soners were subsequently apprehended, when Brace turned
evidence foe the crown, and detailed all the facts of their
association to the moment of the murder, in which he was fully
confirmed by other witnesses. All the witnesses for the crown
having been examined, the prisoners were found guilty. On
being called on to say what they had to offer why they should
not receive judgment to die, Jenkins vociferated that he had a
good deal to say on the subject; he considered that he had not
had a fair trial; in the first place, that old woman (the bar-
rister) had been shoved in upon them for the purpose of leading
them to their destruction ; he could have conducted his own
case with a better chance of justice; and to show the manner in
which the feeling was against him; the jury were hot out a
second when they brought him in guilty ; but he did not care
.for either judge or jury, or the whole court, whom he would
shoot with the greatest pleasure, if he had his gun there ' - he be-
came very violent, and struck the dock with his hand, quite
infuriated.—The Chief Justice then proceeded to pass the sen-
tence in the most imposing manner, but had ,scarcely finished
the last sentence, when the culprit Jenkins, with a ferocity un-
paralleled, rushed forward towards his unhappy companion, who
stood at some distance froui him in the rlock, and struck him
two violent blows, and in all probability would have added
another victim to his murderous appetite, but for the police, who
rushed into the dock and with much difficulty secured him.
When Jenkins was led Out for execution, he addressed the
felons in the yard to the following effect:—" Well, good bye,
my lads, I have not time to say much to you; I acknowledge I
stint the Doctor, but it was not for gain, it was for the sake of
my fellow. prisoners, because he was a tyrant; and I have one
thing to recommend to you as a friend; it is this, if any.of you
take the bush, shoo; every tyrant you come across, and there are
several now in the yard who ougiit to be served so. I have done
several robberies, and for fear that any innocent man should
suffer on my account, I have made a confession to the gaoler,
and will give such marks and tokens as will prove it was I that
committed the acts. I robbed a man named Mills, at Kissing
Point, and also a man on the Liverpool-road named Farrell, and
man at Liverpool, whom I stabbed : he may be since dead fur
aught 1 know ; I heard that he was missing since thattime, and it
is most probably he has been eaten by the native dogs ; 1 have
told where the property is, in order to show that I have:told the
truth. I have not time to say any snore, lads, but I hope you will
all pray fur me." This address being. ended, the rope was se-
cured round his neck, and the culprits shook hand., but Jen-
kins turned away from Tattersdale with disdain, and said
something like, " let every villain shake hands with himself."
At the solicitation of the Rev. Mr. Mac Encroe he consented to
shake hands with him, and as he approached his unhappy com-
panion in crime, who'appeared to be absorbed in prayer, and
making pious ejaculations, he said "Come, come, my;lad, none
of that crying, its no use crying now; we'll be all right in ten
minutes time;" he then gave ir a hearty shake of the hand,
and took his stand. The clergyman having retired, and the
arrangements being complete,, the platform fell, and the world
closed on one of the most ruthless assassins that ever infested
the colony.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY, MAY 12.—Their Majesties did not ride
out yesterday, in consequence of the excessive cold winds.
This morning the drove cut in his drotschka, and,iu-
spected the Norfolk andrPlemish farms. After luncheon his
Majesty again drove out in the Great Park.
The Queen, attended by a numerous suite, rode on horseback
to Virginia Water.

Yesterday the Landgravine took her departure for town.