The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-28 00:00:00

At the Lincoln assizes, John Nicholson, post-master of
Alford, was convicted of stealing bank notes trove letters,
and sentenced to transportation for life.
William Richardson has been sentenced to fifteen yeaas
transportation, at the Newcastle•on-Tyne assizes, for cutting
and wounding Janata M'Queen, at Tweedmouth, with latent
to do him some grievous bodily harm.
THE HOWCIDES AT SEIDDISREEN.—The grand :Jury this
day unanimously ignored the bills of indictment sent before
them against the policemen, charged with homicides at
Skibbereen, in the late affray near that town, connected with
the
the poor laws.--Cork Reporter.
accusing
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—FeIia Bontli, whom, eatraoralinary
him of a horrible crime, has been reported in our
Ported
attempt to extort money
from Sir Felix Booth, by a threat of
sentenced on Thursday last to be transported
for
last week, George Hind
baugh Was found g,
iilty of killing Wi tam Weathe -
.:;Nhourinsebsetealing 7 h
rston with
to seven
a knife. He was sentenced _ Years' transportation
At the Newcastle-on-TPe.B.ssizes.li.
The particulars bare already appeared in our paper. He had
received great provocation.
r of Prisoners for
trial, a.
the Castle of hester, st of April :—For arso ler
1 burglary, 21; CODSpiraCy,
CHESIII as
,S,rakiN:
bigamy, 2 ; Afosms iezrEysl,
5 cattle t r ll' - ;
s ea ing, 2 ;
concealing the uirt., ;
slaughter, 2 ; murder, 6. , ; ouse-
breaking, 11; wall from the ' , poaching, 22 •
rape, 6 ; sacrilege, 4; stealing. . Person, 9•; stabb' '
lug
nd wounding, 16 ; unna_tusararl crim2es, 6 ; uttering base
3 3;
sheapstealing, s*; and• ions, . Total, 132. Of these,..'
fourteen are admitted to bail.
TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF A
NEPHEW FOR SHOOTING
AT AN 1.134,erz.—0n Friday last, at the Cambridge
John F. Mortlock was arraigned for having assizes,
attem
shoot his uncle, the Rev. E. Mort lock, at Cambridge.edto
prisoner, in his defence, solemnly declared that in The
H firing the piste!. merely intended to frighte 13• d'
n is uncle
He was found golidtii a"I Judge sentenced hint to .
transported beyon . the seas for the term of 21 years. Tbe
Prisoner bowed and remarked, "My lord, you ha be
Lave saved
me from starvation. The sentence was heard with great
sensation by
a densely crowded court.
CHARTIST TRIALS 'AT STAFFORD.—The trial of Cooper,
the Leicester Chartist, and three others, for conspiracy
excite the people of the Potteries to commit the o to
the 15th and'l6th August last, began on Monday, utrges of
o'clock; and when the court rose on Saturday at nine
case for the prosecution had not closed. This evening, the
is owing to the tedious cross-examination of aow progress
defendant Cooper, whether they every witness
by the .
sPeak to facts P .
eating him or not. In one or two instance im- 11"
were under cross-examination between fu, s the witnesses
There was a report on Thursday that
this r and five hours.
determined 'mon to prevent the case corn• course had been
Friday, when, being the commission day -
Ing to a close before
was thought the Judeg must adjourn the
at Shrewsbury, it
if so, i
't did not gain its object. ....r proceedings ; but
Thursday' sent up his nephew, who act
•al • Justice Erskine on
circuit, for Instructions from the aas marshall on the
governm
return it Staffordd that his lo government, and on his
sitting at until this case was (1'
rdship would continue
business of Shrewsbury has, in consequence,isposed of. The civil
until alter the Gloucester Assizes, an been adjourned
Mme thing must be done at Hereford,it is expected that the
for that city being to-day. the commission day

Kgrom LAME>ntss."—This disorder, which is preva-
lent at times more or less in nearly every kennel throughout
the kingdom, has prevailed for a long time past, and to a
considerable extent, in the royal kennel at Ascot. It ap-
pears that the water which supplies the kennel passes through
a long extent of leaden pipe, and on examination by a
chemist it was found that the water contained so great a
quantity of lead as to be sufficient to have produced paralysis.
LOUD BROUGHAM AND MR. CODDEN.—Lord Brougham
in a recent letter to Mr. Hamer Stansfeld, of Leeds, thus
writes of the crack orator of the Anti-Corn-Law League:—
"I say nothing of the downfall of poor Mr. Cobden—the
sole work of his own folly, and which be might have avoided
had his head not been turned by the provincial applause. I
am sorry for it; hut only because I bad believed him honest
and able, and now find him mixing himself up with the very

,est of our sPe&s."
STATF. OF TRADE IN THE :MANUFACTURING DISTR 'erg
-,The-trtule reports show that a large and increasing business
'S nQW. doing, especially in the cotton districts. Our private
information confirms tbe.public intelligence of
have marked
revival of manufacturing industry. The spinners seldom
been busier than they are at the present moment. Buying
the raw material at an unprecedented low price, they arc ob-
taining comparatively high prices for their goods and yarns.
And nut only is the business now transacting extensive; it is
likewise safe, the bulk of the transactions berng based, not on
continue, and render
Credit, but on capital, and the result of actual demand, and
not of speculation. This altered and gratifying state of things
ins cVecerlineede; a striking orntrast to
the 1813,
too many of its predecessors.
resoisfae
ry every
trreaadseo
ExEctrrioN a r LINCOLN.—On Friday last, at noon
Thomas Johnson, alias Upton, aged 28 years, underwent the
last penalty of sheupon the drop of Lincoln Castle, for
the wilful murder of Elizabeth Evinsoa, at Croft. The un-
happy culprit lalade a full confession to Capt. Nicholson,
governor of the castle. lie said that lie had no confederate
in the commission of the burglary, having parted with his
associate " Yorkey,". the day before; lie said that lie entered
the window about ten o'clock on the Sunday night, and struc
a light with a Lucifer match, with which he lighted a candlek
He first tried Mrs. Fairweather, and afterwards Mrs. Evin .
son, and cuvcred them over with the bed-clothes: but he did-
not intend to smother either of them ;.lie remained searching
about the house for 311 hour arid a halt or two hours.
roteßs ides
the spoons and other articles traced to him, he '
about thirty shillings in money. The prisoner, in h' only,
sone/ appearance, was notch reduced since his condemns per-,
;.
and during two or three da) s before his executio '
to take much food. litt sat up later their the u
181 was
the la: last evening of his life, and was attended early'ual hoer ote
ing morniog by sho rev. and venerable chaplain, the follow-
panic •cl him to the foot of the scaffold.
About two --
before twelve, the governor of the prison ntinutes
arm, ,attencled by the culprit, and the h ascended the plat-
,e last preparatiols were speedily made, hangman of Newgate ;
niy till all was arranged, holding he malefactor stood
d; on the first stroke of the , a prayer.book in 1 •
'wit was drawn, and the wretchedl'reat bell of the Cathedral,'la
sty. The vast multitude behaved man
waslaunched
.
effect of a Public execution very orderly; h into
labia of the culprit is doubtful. _ but the
were buried On Saturday,
It has already within the
tit was Upton,
been stated that th walls of the
be was 28 years of a e real name of
age.—Arolfingham

r_t..
thiPitman, who h
VI,
I.,tith!,:itti:t
I.i ktlipotoowMlteil
charges had re.
recommended tiecurve and he i a(
quenee addressed a n conse,
he had referred. Th. ..t belt was blow
to
b.eie ady to whore
that were made, and sh, . hatl such an opinionieovfe the charges
of the plaintiff that she t. ,turned the letter to tlllier•character
It appeared teat the charges were renewed against Pitwa"
tiff, and lie then took every ne ems in his power to the
Plain-
investigation into them, and he e '"ked that a full ande se all
inquiry should take piece before I. he Bishop of Chiel Public
who was the proper judge to inqui. 'e into such a m'aester.
The plaintiff was anxious that the charge ss against him shouldtter.
?Hiss knowledge
ndfb le- 1r
be investigated, net secretly and behind against
back, but p
licly in his presence, where he might have . 'ti opportunity pub_
rebutting them. Instead, hewever, of ti, 'll proceeding,
another course was adopted. The Venerable Areihdeaco-:
Hare, instead of Foinoting the office of the b. "%hop, hadl
instituted an itiqu;ry into the charges brought me •inst the
plaintiff, lied thole:l,' fit to write a letter to Miss Mlles "t, the
object of which v clearly to deprive the plaintiff of. the
stipend he receiver from that lady, and to drive him frt. -‘
the parish wieb, his wife and family. The latter was 'ell
calculated to effect tee object the writer bad in view, and was
filled with arguments likely to affect the mind of a delicate--- '
lady, and induce her to withdraw her countenance from the
plaintiff, and yet, at the same time, it was written guardedly,
in order that the writer might not, as he suppoaed, run anyP
risk from being the author of it. In consequence of these
proceedings the plaintiff, on November sth, 1842, was re_
moved by the Bishop of Chichester from hi's curacy. He
was a ruined man; 'or although the immediate effect of his
dismissal by the bishop only removed him from that diocese,
yet there could be no doubt that it would entirely prevent
him from assuming any other offias in the church. What
course, then, was left for him to pursue? He was anxious
to learn what the charges were against him, and he applied
to the Archbishop of Canterbury to institute an inquiry, but
in consequence of his not having been regularly licensed as
the curate of Eastdean, that reverend prelate found himself
precluded from interfering in the matter. Here, then, was
his unfortunate client driven from his ministry without any
appeal. What was he to do? He had no other alternative
but to bring this action, and he had brought it. He came
before a jury of his countrymen, who would do equal justice
between them, and by that action he challenged the defendant
to make out any charge of misconduct against him. The
defendant had accepted the challenge, and he had put pleas
upon the record which imputed the most shameful crimes to
the plaintiff, whom those pleas accused not only of public
misconduct, but also of having committed the crime of wilful
and deliberate perjury.
Miss Gilbert was then called, and proved the statements
of Mr. Platt illative to herself. The letter written by the
defendant was pet in. It never mentioned the plaintiff by
name, but referred to the letters written by Mr. Pittman,
and assured the partyio whom it was addressed, (Miss Gif-
bert) that Mr. Pittman was fully justified in what he had
done. The defendant also in it advised Miss Gilbert to let
the matter rest with those who had authority in the matter,
and implied that she was stepping out of her proper sphere in
becoming the protectress of a man publicly, referring to the
return of Mr. Pittrean's letter by Miss Gilbert.
The Bishop of Chichester was examined, and stated that
he had eetoe to theeonelusion that Mr. Holloway was not a
proper person'to "officiate within his diocese, and that his
rdsh
rbipe
plaintiff said the
opinion was foinded on the short-hand notes of a trial in
cwolm'iembutnliceatPlibri plaintiff
tan twhietnceh"a.rgeislis against lo
had been made to him byelie defendant.
Mr. Thesiger then addressed the jury for the defendant.
Mr. .1.-. Darns examined by Sergeant Channel.—l am a
schoolmaster, and reside at Brancaster, in Norfolk. 1 first
became acquaioted with the plaintiff in 1828, on his being ap-
pointed curate of the parish. The Rev. Mr. Bolton was the
rector of the parish. The plaintiff told me that he had an
interest in the tithes of that parish, and I assisted him in
keeping the accounts relating to his tithes. I remember at-
tending a trial et the Norwich assizes in 1832, when I was
subpeenaed by Mr. Rankin, Mr. Holloway's attorney. After
the trial was over "received a book from a person named
Rogers, which book I handed to Mr. Holloway, and I saw it
in his custody frequently afterwards. I last saw that book
in the spring of 1839, when Mr. Holloway left Brancaster. I
attended several meetings of the tithe commissioners in
1839, and the first in August. The plaintiff was present.
Mr. Holloway was examined as a witness at that assize, and
gave evidence on oath. The book was handed to me, and
was produced before the tithecommissioners, and I have no
doubt Mr. Holloway sitiv it, as he was examined respecting
it by the commissioners, who asked him whether that was
posses_
lion original account of the' tithe, and he replied that it was
not: He was then asked whether he had the original ac-
counts, and he said he had not, but that Mr. Rankin, his
had. taken them away with him from England. He
attorney,
wt,haienhd
hteoleclaidhim he had
some
uother
eodr
seenigina It
haccounts,said was ahsek
haded respectingn got
t h
es omm;
had been engaged in'exaMining b After. M u
t em. r. Holloway
or myself gven it to
sion the same morning, and both myself and Mr. Holloway
made a mistake respecting the boo
1 had his attor-
had been examined I called him oku
e she left Brancaster. He wade
Mrs. Holloway the day befor
•answer, and did not take any further notice of
some evasive
ney had taken away _ with hint,
doubt that the plaintiff made an entry
what I said. I have no the 28th of An ust
g ~ and he
in this other book (produced) on
asked me before he did so. I recollected d how_ certain pieces
of land in his possession had been croppeinformation in my
power, and he made the entries are
di y
d them at.the ' entries
inn. Mr
were upon two pages, and
be
Inbi!e beunder '
was exami-
Holloway referred to this book w
and be refused to answer
commissioner,
nation by the tithe .
he looked •
put to him until into it. He
the question that was
referred to the entries he bad just made, and said in answer
to a question put to
him, that those entries were made at the
time they bore date.
Several more witnesses were examined and proved some
the character of the pl
other circumstances prejudicial to
PI •which 1
from Mr. att, in lie argued
tiff, and after gn address
that the defendant had failed to make a justification,. the
jury found a verdict for the defendant, upon the issues justi-
fying the defendant ia sending the letter.