The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-01 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS CASE OF STABBING,

On Friday Mr. Alderman Wright was engaged at the private
room in the Sessions-hoese, in the investigation of the follow-
ing extraordinary case, which had been postponed in conse-
quence of the inability of Mr. Walker, one of the parties in the
case, to attend from the injuries he had received. Mr. Crewe
attended on behalf of Mr. Hegne, and Mr. Snowball, appear-
ed for Mr. Walker. After a brief preliminary conversation it
was agreed between the two solicitors that the first charge
should come from Mr. Crewe, Mr. Snowball remarking, that it
was his belief that his client would he cleared, in which case
the charge would he made by him in his turn Mr. Crewe then
stated the nature of the charge to the following effect:—'That
on Saturday night, the 7th of October, Mr. Walker was passing
along Dawson-street, when he was accosted by a girl, who bo e
the name of Bridget Tierney, and who resided with Mr. Hague,
to whoie house both ultimately adjourned. After he had been
'there some time, Mrs. Hague heard a cry of murder proceeding
from the front parlour, where Mr. Walker and the girt were.
On her entrance Mr. Walker rushed at her with a knife and at-
tempted to stab her. Upon this Mr. Hague entered the apart-
ment, and placed himself between. Mrs. Hague and the assail-
ant, when the latter rushed at hint and made a thrust at his
bowels, which, however, did not take effect. The defendant
then made several cuts at Mr. Walker's face which he gashed
in a most severe manner. Mr. Hague then seized him and
threw him down and held him till a policeeacer was sent for,
to whom he was given in charge. Mr. Crewe then called
Bridget Tierney, who sworn to the of Mr, Walker having
met her in the street. and gone Into Hague's house with her.
She stated that when there he had promised to make her a pre-
sent of seven•shilliegs and sixpence, which she afterwards re-
quested him to pay. Instead of complying, he drew forth a
knife from his pocket and advanced towards tier. Alderman
Wright asked her if be had struck or stabbed her with the knife.
She replied, " No." " Then," said the Magistrate, "how did
you dare to tell me on your former examination that he had
Made a violent stab at you, and that he cut your clothes, and,
but for the hone of your stays, the knife would have entered
Your bowels ?" The witness equivocated, blundered, was con-
tused, and ultimately contradicted herself three or four times.
Indeed the whole of her evidence, especially upon minute
points was a series of contradictions, and from the set phrases
which she copiously used, it is pretty evident that site bad been
well drilled, on particular points. her intention seemed to be
to prove that Mr. Walker had refused to pay her deiitand,—that
he had taken 'a knife from his pocket. and had threatened her
with it.—that Mrs. Hague came in first, and that Mr. Walker
had endeavoured to stab her,—that Mr. Hague hart interfered,
and that Mr. Walker had made a stab at his stomach, and had
afterwards cut him on the face. In the course of her cross-ex-
amination by Alderman Wright, several glaring cemtlictions
were elicited. Mr. Isindney, surgeon, was called to prove the
nature- of Mr. blague's wounds, which it appears were pretty
deep (legit wounds of the cheeks and lips.
• Mary Beattie, who resides in Dawson-street, stated that ehe
had entered Mr. Hague's house in consequence olthe shrieks
' which she had hoard in the inside.- She had seen Mr. Walker
' on the floor on his bands and knees, and Mr. Hague upon hint
holding him down. Mr. Ilagee's face was bleeding copiously,
and his blood was flowing on Mr. Walker. At the request of
Mrs. Hague, she went for. a police-otlicer, and brought Shelley.
The latter stated that when he arrived at Hague's house, tie
found Mr.Welker' lying on the floor of the passage covered
with blond. Hague was kneeling upon him, Mrs. Hague stood
near with the bloody knife in her hand. When he p.,ot. Mr.
Walker up, he Was uedrly insensible. Ile, however, slowly re-
covered, but his ejaculations were all of a nature expressive of
the strongest alarm. When he got nut he continued to call
upon the officer to save hint, and frequently called him the pre-
server of his life... When he got him to Brulewell he sent for a
surgeon. His (Mr. Walker's) head was contused and wounded
•in a frightful manner. The surgeon declared that Mr. Walker
Was its considerable danger. Hague, the keeper of the dis-
orderly-house, gave testimony of a similar tendency to that of
the girl Bridget Tierney. He, however, swore that lie accom-
panied his wife into the parlour in the rst instance, while the
former had said that he did not enter till afterwards. He de-
nied ever having before seen the knife which Shelley produced.
.Mr. Snowball suggested that 111 r Walker should make his de-
fenee; by giving his own version of the transaction. • Mr.
Walker simply stated that he had been to see souse friends, and
was; at about half-past seven o'clock passing along Dawson-
street, When he was accosted by several disorderly girls, who
dragged him into Hague's house against his own inclination:
He was thrust into a parlour where two of the girls remained
with him, and insistedupon his paying for some wine. He re
fused, and was about to take his departure, when one of the girls
called oiit, " lock the frontdoor." With this request he heard
some one comply. He then went to the parlour door and found
that it was fastened outside He insisted upon being let out
upon which Hague entered and asked him if he did not intend.
to pay forsome wine. He replied in the negative, when Hague
felt upon him, and as he endeavoured to escape into the passage,
he was knocked down and beaten about the head in a most
violent manner. Hague seated himself upon his body and re-
peatedly knocked his head against the floor. He had no further
recollection of any occurrence, save, that as he was coming to
himself, he heard Hague whisper to a servant that they had
better remove him to the back part of the house. He denied
that he had made use of a knife or any other weapon. He did
not usually carry a knife.
A witness named Richard Case was called, who testified tha•
he bad been in the service of Hague, and had been accustomed
to use the knife which was produced, to clean the horses bits,
It came out in this part of the evidence that Hague kept a.
horse, a mule, a gig, and one male and three female servants.
This witness knew the knife well; it was a common hack about
Hague's 'souse.
Alderman Wright was of opinion that with such evidence he
could not entertain the charge against Mr. Walker, and it was
accordingly dismissed. Ile was in the same -dilemma with re-
spect to the contra-charge. Mr. Walker seemed anxious that
his attorney should proceed against Hague. Some conversation.
ensued on this subject between the solicitors, but we were un-
able to learn the result. "

TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE LIVERPOOL AND

PIiESTON TURNPIKE 110 AD.

QENTLEMEN,—I observe that you meet to-morrow, to take
.into consideration a motion to be made, that an additional toll-
gate be erected across the road, between the second and third
mile-stone from Liverpool to Ormskirk.
The object of this attempt to have a gate so near Liverpool
manifestly is, not so much (though this may be pretended) to
make the farmers and inhabitants of Walton pay toll, as it is to
get as much as you can from the inhabitants of Liverpool who
may wish to take a ride for pleasure or otherwise. If, therefore,
you carry- your object into effect, the levying of a toll so near the
lawn of Liverpool will, although justifiable by law, (because I
believe you can, by your act of Parliament, erect gates any
where on the road, provided you do not touch the extreme
boundary of the town,) be an additional impost upon the in-
habitants of. Liverpool.
Now, gentlemen, will you he pleased to consider that all tolls
are, per se, nuisances, and can only be sanctioned by the neces-
sity of the case. Do you and that the money you now receive
is ins,Sicierit to keep your road in yeod repair, atter paying all
cliaq.es and expenses? I trove not. On the contrary; lam
credibly informed that you have a yearly surplus, and that
your trust is in a most flourishing condition. if so, permit me
to ask, what should induce you, by placing a tollgate nearer to
Liverpool, to create a greater inconvenience than the neces-
sity of the case requires?
t shall say no more, except that these are not times when
tolls will cheerfully be submitted to, when ni and purpose can
be discerned.—l Ste. I- ,STIGA l'O
November 30, PM.

110 I I
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(A DTERTISEITE _
LISCARD POWDER AGAZINES.
L 'PPOOL STANDXRD.
veral weeks since published
A Requisitionist," being re-
h had appeared therein, under

TO THE EDITOR OF TIT
Ste,—Under the above head
in your paper two letters, signe,
plies to two previous letters sv!
the signature " Conservator."
I have this day been written to by a gentleman residing near
the Magazines, who infoums me that the letters signed " A Re-
tplit,itioni-t" have been considered as personally applied to him,
and be assures me that he dues not knots who is. the writer
of the letters signed " Conservator,"
Permit me, then, through the same medium as my replies ap-
peared in to state that they were intended to the writer "Con-
servator," and that such application of them
_by any. person to
that gentleman whose residence is near the Magazines is in-
correct, and that I disclaim any intention of encouragnig so erro.;
ncous an impression.—Yours, A REQUISITIONIST.
Liward, 30th Novent'vr, 1835.

TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL!
AND TO THE PROTESTANTS OP GREAT lIRITAIN AND IRELAND.

"That the state has nothing to do with one religion snore than

another."

Such is the cant or jesuitical phrase adopted by the advocates
of dissent., and the ministerial organs of the press, Who are ini-
tiated in repudiating the principles upon which is built the
established church. Men as often confuse their own minds as
. mistily those of others. by the use of certain cabalistic terms,
the import of which is, for the time, not apprehended. But we
would ea rnestlycall upon all who have not cast off the fear of offend-
ing the living God, their" Ahnighty Creator, that what we 411 ac-
knowledge to be the only revelation of God to man, is come to
us! In it we read—" Be wise now, Uye kings; be instructed,
ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice
with trembling. Kiss the Son."
The organs of dissent, unhappily for themselves, assert that
the state, as a nation, must equally protect or neglect protes-
tantistn, popery, judaism, mahomedism, hindooism, paganism !
It is such a proposition as this, reduced to practice, by renegade
nations, which calls for denunciation from the throne of the
Eternal 4 "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou
shalt dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel." "The Lord
from Ileaven did not become man to make known a salvation
to be rejected by men, in whatever capacity they act, as they
list, to be put on a level, in practice, with the foul imposture of
Mahomet. or the bloody rites of paganism. We assert it, as
really a fundamental truth, that it is the .first duty of man, in
his individual, domestic, national, and every other conceivable
capacity, to do every thing in his power to establish and per-
petuate the pure worship of the only true Jehovah; and that
• if natiims, whether in their individual or collective capacity,
swerve from this, their primary duty, under any conceivable
pretence or:excuse, they bring themselves, as responsible
beimis, under the displeasure and judgments of the Almighty.
And shall it be annunciated as "a first principle" by a man
professing to be a christian, that a nation, or any nation, "has
nothing to do with one religion more than another?" That a
nation, consistently with the fundamental cimstitution of things,
cannot nationally serve,: please, or offend God. Out upon the
ridiculous, the impious, the ineffable, the atheistical absurdity!
"Blessed be God," says an able and pious writer on the subject
of the church, (side an article in the Record newspaper, of the
12th instant,) "Our fathers knsw nothing of the ineffable ab-
surdity and infamous impiety of the first principle,' that 'the
state has nothing to do with one religion inure than another.'
They embraced the christian religion—they endowed it; that
endowment, with the exception of some unjust and infamous,
spoliathms by unprincipled and despotic, kings for iiie reward of

their minions, has come down to us of this day. When the
Christian faith became so encruqied with error as to be nearly

lost, throdgh the corruptions and heresies of popery,' -(of those
iniquitous-errors we will give ample proofs at our leisure,) our
-forellitherstbrew offthe apotaciy, justly a lid ig reserving.
the endowments, (according to the deliberate judgment of
churchmen and non-conformists,) to the christian church, now
cleansed from its heresy and defilement. Here we are then, at
this day, with the established churches voluntarily endowed.
And here :ire dissenters, professing evangelical truth, demand-
ing that, the churches shall be deprived of their property, thus
voluntarily appropriated to them. And to what .purpose? Is
is to extend the interests of evangelical truth ? No! but to be
desecrated to purely secular purposes, in order that the ciertzy
may not Ire richer, nor more honoured, nor moved in a higher
circle of society than they. This, we asert, is the grand rea-
son avowed, recognized, and approved of by the great leaders
and organs of the dissenting bodies. Of the decency, conclu-
siveness, and christian fitness of the established church, we
leave the country to judge.

We now proceed topoint out what the essence of " rotes-
tantism" is. A striking peculiarity of protestantism is, "that
it ever appeals front all that professes to be spiritual authority
to the word of God," instead of appealing to " private con-
science." Protestaatimi teaches (rain the word of God, that
the conscience of fallen man has lost its original power of just
discernment and accurate judgment. Protestantism, therelore,
appeals not to ahuman authority," neither to "private con-
science," but to "the dec!aied will of God," as revealed in the
infallible directory given in the bible. The leaders of the "re-
formation," making this appeal, the "Itomish church," under
the judgment of the bible, was found wanting by this ptoteptaut
people, (churchmen and non-conformi,ts,) and. was cast out,
as no longer " hoiding forth the word of h;e" to a lost world,
which is the duty and object of the "christian church," and fur
which purpose she had been originally endowed.
In establishing the present churches, the nation did not rest
on " public authority," but on the sacred scriptures, and, in re-
sisting the , present impious attempts to destroy them—made
jointly by papists and renegade non-conforingts, the nation
does not " appeal bark again b 'lnman authority," neither does

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it rest on " iii.uividual conscience, but it appeals as before to the
volume of inspiration, lying spread open before it, and it finds,
in consequence of that appeal, that their fmefathers performed
a pious and Godly act, no doubt; but still nothing more than
their bounden duty in appropriating a certain pact of their pro-
perty for the maintenance of His worship and service; and, by
another appeal to the same infallible authority, they also find
that they who would deprive the established church of this pro-
perty, voluntarily appropriated and firmly secured to them, to
desecrate it to secular purposes, are perpetrating au act to
which the names of robbery and sacrilege may with the utmost
propriety he applied.
" Expediency" is no excuse for spoliating the property of the
established copreh. Whether it had been a fifth, a tenth, or a
twentieth, it'was originally a pure, voluntary act. The "gift"
was as voluntarily made as Lady Hewiey's endowment, or the
endowment of dheshunt CbliF•ge by Lady Huntingdon, or of
Highbury College, by Thomas NA, dson and others,. or that of any
dissenting college, or chapel, oi-library,'in.past or present time.
Does this voluntary endowment of the christian church lose its
voluntary character because it was made centuries ago? Be-
cause it was voluntary, may it be resumed ? Then, also, may
Lady Hewley's, Lady Huntingdon's, Mr. Thomas Wilson's,
or auv other voluntaries.

Let it, then, once for all, be noted down and borne in mind
by all our readers, that the established churehetin these islands
stand on the voluntary principle, and that the state, or rather
the lato, does no more for it than it does for Lady Hewley's
Charity, t c., &c.
To conclude, I shall merely remark, that any one convex-
- snot with -the historr-of'rhe deilverauce country from
popery, and the establishment of the Church of England, to-
gether with the fiery trials through which " the Zion .of our
fathers" had to pass, and the pious principles and christian for-
titude of her earls' supporters, will not hesitate iu the course he
ought to adopt Tr lien assailed by the designing machinations of
unprincipled and selfish demagogues who are themselves the
unconscious tools of O'Connell, who, in his turn, is the active
agent and tool of the Roman Catholic priests, who are the de-
positaries of Deus's Theology—the conference book of the popi4lt
church in Ireland. " The flagitious and abominable principles
of this bad book are now sufficiently understood to render an
enlarged exposition of its character unnecessary."
Ignorant men, or benevolent, unsuspecting christians are
often deluded by the jesuist sophistry of designing demagogues,
who talk of popery as " something very harmless;" olid-they
even speak slightingly of those who purchased with their blood
the privileges which we now enjoy; but, assuredly, no christion
man, acquainted with the history of his country, can do other
than venerate their Memory, zealously- &tend the privileges
which they left us in trust, and be ready on every proper ()eel.
sion to call to remembrance the great gelidness of Gal, mani-
fested in the deliverance of their country front the persecutions
and slavish bondage of a popish yoke. O'Connell, in an 'un-
guarded hour, let nut " the secret of the Vatican !" " Let us
first," said he, at a meeting in Ireland,• get the dissenters' aid
in upsetting the established church, and, after that, we caa
soon and easily manage the dissenteis • Such, fellow protes-
tants, is the sound truth &aced before you. Rouse up ! Re-
member Wickliffe, Mclancthon, and Luther, &c., who, through
fiery troubles, brought the inspired volume of truth, and
righteousness, which bringeth to salvation, to the light! It is
the cause of God. A. R.
November 19/4, 1835.

SEA LS IN THE wErt TwEr.D.--4t is generally supposed that
the seal lives in salt water only; but for some weeks past,!seve-
ral of these occasionlly have been seen playing their gambols
in the Tweed, much to the astonishment of most people. About
a fortnight ago they were observed at Upsetlington, in the shal-
low stream that runs below The ford, and where their bodies were
but half covered by the water. Soon afterwards, two seals were
seen in the deep water below Milne Graden House about four
miles below Upsetlington. The fishermen think they had come
up the river in pursuit of saltuon.—Beruick and Ktho Warder.

PutrlT OrtAzon.Y.—A certain voluntary preacher, whose
.public exhibitions are generally more amusing than edifying, in
commencing his lecture on a late occasion in his. own church,
took occasion to condemn a practice that is gaining ground
among fashionable preachers, of not dividing their discourses
into heads, according to ancient usage; and expressed his Pel-
ings on the subject, by telling his scanty congregation "that
for his part, he looked upon sermons without heads in the same
light as brose without nott. !"—Edinburgh Evening Foal.

TEMPESTrOUS STATE OF THE WRATH ER.—Nie scarcely eve;
rennonber such tempestuous weather as fur the last few days
has prevailed in our city. The wind was exceedingly high, and
it was extremely dangerous for any.person to pass through the
streets, occasioned by the falling of slates anti missiles Irons the
roofs of the houses. Besides this, the parade, the Dyke, and
Old George's-street were overflowed with water, which was
touch increased by the high tides and,the wind blowing in the
mouth of the harbour, contributing thereby greatly to its in;
crease. About ten o'clock last night the wind ceased in a great'
degree, but the rain. continues all thisatay.with unabated seve-
rity. We fear theAecidents at sea must be many and dange,r-
otos. We have just heard from a gentleman who reached Corks.
a few hours since, that he witnessed on his way from Itosscar-,
bery here seven wrecks on the western coast, some of which
were actually going to pieces. We have also,heardAthat a Por-
tuguese schooner, with her crew, has been lost, in Ballycottoo
Bay.—Cork Herald.
A. FRIGHTFUL AND APPALLING I.? ACT—OFFICIAL.--AR DENT
SPIRITS AND Cnistr..—A young man in Ireland committed. a
murder in March 1633. Ile was afterwards tried at Kilkenny,
and pronounced by the jury to be guilty. " Yes, my Lord,"
said the prisoner, "I am guilty, and pointing to hiS soother, a
woman more titan eighty years of age who stood by, 'She is the
cause of it.''' It appeared-that this aged woman had agreed be-
forehand for the price of the blood of Mr. Leonard, the man
who, according to that agreement, was to he -murdered by her
son. The mother watched for the coming of the unforturale
and unsuspecting man, and when she saw him approaching, she
handed the pistol to her son, but there wits not enough of wick-
edness and hardiness in the young man to commit the deed.
Ile instinctively shrunk back, say tog "how can I murder the
poor gentleman?" The motherhamled him the whisky bottle.
which she had provided for the occasion, 'and site said "take
that." Ile took it—he shot the man—and he was hanged. When
he made the accusation against his mother, she would have been
prosecuted on his testimony had not the son been a convicted
felon.—British Parlianteidarq Report, page 292.
LONDON SOLITUDE.—In London, any thing may be had for
money; and one thing may be had there in .perfection without
it—that one thing is solitude. . Take up your abode, in the deep-
est glen, or on the wildest heath, in the remotest province in the
kingdom, where the din of commerce is not heard. where the
wheels of pleasure make no trace, even there humanity will
find you, anti sympathy, under some of its varied aspects, will
creep beneath the humble roof. Travellers' curiosity will -be
excited to gaze upon the recluse, or the village pastor willeonse
to offer his religious consolations to the heart chilled solitary;
or some kind spinster, who is good to the poor, will proffer her
kindly aid in medicine for sickness, or in some 'shape of relief
for poverty. 1311 t in the mighty metropolis, where myriads of
human hearts are throbbing—where all that is busy in com-
merce, all that is elegant io manners, all that is mighty in
power, all that is dazzling in splendour, all that is brilliant in
genius, all that is benevolent in feeling, is congregated toge-•.
ther—there the penniless solitary may feel the depth of his soli-
tude. Front morn to night he may pensively puce the streets,
envying every equipage that sweeps by him.in its pride, and eo-.
voting the crusts of the unwashed artificer. And there shall
pass hint in his walks, poets that musically sing of human feel-
ing, priests that preach the religion of mercy, the wealthy who
pity the sorrows of the poor, the sentimental whose hearts are
touched by the tale of woe—and none of these-shall heed him;
and he may retire at night to his bedless garret, and sit cold
and hungry by his empty grate; the world may be
.busy, and
cheerful, and noisy mound him, but no sympathy shall reach
him; his heart shall be as dry as Gidenn'l fleece, while the
ititeuing dews of hurl-amity are falling around