The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-21 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL PENIALE ORPHAN" ASYLUM

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And therefore we do earnestly and affectionately insist upon
regularity and order : but if we be asked is the same order
necessary for our brethren in other countries—is the same
order indispensable towards the Christianity of our brethren
in France, in Switzerland, or Germany, or Scotland—we
unhesitatingly answer " No," and we sustain our answer by
the " words of truth and soberness "

On Friday afternoon the first stone of the Female Orphsa
Asylum was laid by the Mayor of the borough, Robertson
Gladstone, Esquire, in the presence of a numerous and highly
respectable assembly. The site of the intended erection was
given by the Town-council : it is part of tie old Botanic
Gardens, and the front of it will

-street

" It is not necessary that traditions and ceremonies be in all
places one and utterly like; for at all times they have been divers,
and may be changed according to the diversities of countries,
times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained against
God's word. Every particular or national church-"
" Every particular or national church "—I pray you to give

designs for the building,:which will be most commodious,

have been furnished by Mr. Cunnipghatn, architect. Tue

cost of it is estimated at ;CG,OOO,

A procession had been formed from the Deaf and Dumb
Institution at two o'clock, composed of the Mayor, the com-
mittee and friends of the charity, and the female orphans al-
ready belonging to the charity. When the proceedings com-
menced we noticed among those present—James Aspinall,
Esq., Joshua Edwards, Esq., John Baron, Esq., H. T.
Browne, Esq., Harmood Banner. Esq., James Buchanan,
Esq., G. W. Ewing, Esq., Wm. M'Cracken, Esq., Edmund
?dolyneux, Esq., Win. Watson, ESQ., Henry Winch, Esq.,
James Aikin, Esq., Thomas Brancker, jun., Esq., P. Hun-
ter, Esq., T. C. Fairclough, Esq., C. Horsfall, Esq., Major
Axford, &c., &c. Amongst the clergy present were—the
Rev. J. Brooks, Rev. M. ilesketh, Wolf, H. M'Neile,
J. Hassail, T. Nolan, J. N. Peill, F. Parry, Gardner, J.
Jones, J. B. Monk, Thos. Moss, J. North, Thomas Bold,
W. Butler, Cleminson, Townsend, &c.
The Orphans having sang the Old Hundredth Psalm,
The Rev. HUGH M'NEILE, having received the silver
trowel, for the use of the Mayor in laying the stone, addressed
his worship as follows :—" Sir, it becomes now my pleasing
duty, as President for this year of the Gentlemen's Com-
mittee of the Female Orphan Asylum, to present to you this
trowel, and to request that you will lay the foundation stone
of this interesting institution. Interesting beyond all ques-
tion it is to the very best, the most tender, and the most ge-
nerous feelings of the human heart. All things are compa-
rative with creatures like us. Distress is interesting—expo-
sure is interesting ; and in comparison as any of our fellow-

attention to this concluding portion of the article—

" Every particular or national church bath authority to ordain,
change, and abolish ceremonies or rites of the church ordained
only by man's authority, so that all things be done to edifying."
In determining what shall be done and what shall not be
done most unto edifying, sincere Christians may sincerely
differ. One man esteems a written form of prayer before
extemporaneous prayer, as more correct, more chaste, less lia-
ble to deviation into unworthiness, to say the least of it ; an°-
, titer an extemporaneous prayer above the liturgy, as more
free, more fervent, more easily applicable to the ever varying
exigencies of the worshippers. What, then, is the apostolic
rule ? " Let not him that rejects a liturgy despise him that
uses it; and let not him that uses a liturgy judge him that
rejects it, for God bath received him." This rule ought to
apply to everything that is not of absolute divine inspiration.
Let us persuade one another in love ; but let us no longer
judge one another, but rather judge this, that no man place
a stumbling block on any occasion to fall in his brother's way.
How far this rule is violated by those who would impose
ecclesiastical ceremonies as if they were a part of divine reve-
lation ; how far the affections, and eventually the support of
the people of this country, would be alienated from the
church, ;or, rather, to speak more correctly, how far the
church of this country would be alienated from the clergy, if
such clerical tyranny became prominent and prevailed, are
questions which can no longer be kept from public—l
fear, from 'practical discussion. Already symptoms have
shown themselves of resistance, and I feel at liberty to call it
Scriptural resistance, to the unscriptural usurpation of au-
thority by their pastors among some of the lay members of the
church. My dear brethren, let it be our privilege to cement
and not to divide—to love that church with increased affec-
tion as our own sanctuary, and to enlarge her boundaries, so
that she may embrace as a mother all our teeming population,
to pray that her rulers may be guided into all wisdom and
power and light, by the teaching and indwelling energy of
the Holy Spirit—to multiply such scenes as it is our happi-
ness this day to see brought to consecrating perfection—to
build church after church, to locate pastor after pastor, to
open school after school, that all the people and all their
children may at the least hear of the name which is above
every name, whereby he may be saved. His hands have laid
the foundations of the temple of the Lord; and his hands
shall finish it. The day of the great consecration is at the
door, when all the believing worshippers shall be manifested
in the beauty of the holiness and unity, and all the rest of
mankind compelled to admit and to admire what it will then
he too late for them to seek to enjoy : the temple will be
filled, but the door will be shut. Every tongue will resound
with the praises of Him who shall be the light of the temple,
praises derived from the word, the written word, which in
every part was the testimony of Jesus Christ, the eternal
word.

creatures become distressed and exposed, they become ob-
jects of increasing interest to every feeling mind. Let chil-
dren be under the paternal roof—subject to maternal care—
supplied with every necessary for their physical wants, and
instructed in all that shall prepare them for the exigencies of
their future life, although they are then, in common with
all our fellow creatures, objects of our general benevolence,
they are not then objects of our especial sympathy ; but let
bereavement fall upon them, and in proportion as they be.
come bereaved they become objects of anxiety to us. Let
them he deprived of one parent,—immediately tender anxiety
is excited, that we may supply something of those cultivating
and cherishing tendencies of which they have been deprived.
Let them be deprived of property, let the providential shield
supplied in this world be removed, and let them be exposed
to all the necessities and hardships inseparable from poverty,
immediately an increase of anxiety on their behalf possesses
our minds, and we desire to approach them as almoners as
well as friends, to divide with them the abundance with which
God has supplied us. But, sir, let them be deprived of both
parents, and need I say the interest is increased still more.
Then the Christian Church is called to her highest office, to
be not only an almoner and a friend, but to be a nursing fa.
ther and a mother to them. The Institution, sir, the foun-
dation stone of which you are invited to lay this morning, is
an outstretched arm from that Christian Church to receive
within her cherishing bosom these fatherless and motherless
little ones ; and if I might add one feature more to heighten
their bereavement, and to deepen our sympathy, I would re-
mind you, sir, that the objects for whom this Institution is
designed are not only poor, that they are not only fatherless,
are not only motherless, but, in addition to all this, they are
females. This heightens the danger of exposure to the high-
est pitch that man can imagine upon earth, and therefore it
deepens the sympathy every Christian man must feel for their
welfare. I congratulate you, Mr. Mayor, on the fact that so
early in the year of your honourable office an institution
should be opened at one side of the town for the moral and
religious culture of our youth, and that now an institution
should be prepared on this side of the town to embrace in the
arms of Christian sympathy, the bereaved, the destitute, the
fatherless female orphan. I will not prolong this address,
but present you with this trowel, and I trust in God his bles-
sing may rest on this work, begun and continued in prayer,
and that it may be ended to the praise and glory of film to
whom all praise is due.

Imploring you, then, to manifest your abiding sympathy
with us by making a liberal collection in behalf of this house,
wherein multitudes that are yet unborn may hear and believe
upon that precious name, I will conclude with the Scriptural
praise of that name. Jesus Christ, in the fellowship of his suf-
ferings, and in the power of his resurrection, is the great load-
stone whereby the heartis drawn from the world and the things
of the world, arid sweetly attracted unto God. There is no
knowledge of God, there is no peace with God, there is no true
knowledge of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, ❑o true sorrow
for sin, no pardon for sin but by Jesus Christ. Whatever,
therefore, attracts your attention to Jesus Christ, whatever
tends to promote and prolong your meditations concerning
Jesus Christ, is, indeed, a blessing to you. Various and numer-
ous are the methods in which our gracious Father is pleased to
waylay the thoughts of his Saints, and carry them captive to
his dear Son. The day speaks of Him, lie is " the light of
the world ;" the night recalls him, he is the star of Jacob,
the bright and the morning star; seed time tells of him—he
is the sower that went forth to sow ; harvest tells of him—he
is the reaper upon the cloud, putting in:his sickle to reap the
earth ; the trees of the field speak of him—he is the tree of
life; the flocks bear testimony of him—he is the lamb of
God ; our houses speak of him—he is the door and the shel-
ter, moreover, from storms and tempests when they rage
around; our garments—he is the white raiment to put on
that the shame of our nakednesss may not be seen ; our
tables—he is the bread of life, the living water, wine, milk,
marrow, and fatness, honey and the honey-comb. His name
is, indeed, the key-note of all creation, and of all Holy Scrip-
ture! Whatever form the letter of the passage may take,
whether to announce the victory of the seed of the roman,
to proclaim blessings:to all nations by the seed of Abraham,
the gathering of the people to Shiloh, whether to detail the
types of the Mosaic tabernacle, to enlarge upon the victories
of David, or the peaceful triumphs of Solomon, whether
to describe the fruits from the tree of Jesse celebrated by
Isaiah, or to diffuse the fragrance of Jeremiah's righteous
branch, or to open new channels for the vivyfying waters
of Ezekiel's vision; whether to proclaim with Haggai
the desire "of all nations," or with Malachi the
" rising of the Sun of Righteousness"—whatever the
letter of the passage may be, the meaning, the true spiritual,
saving meaning still is JESUS CHRIST! And then an angel
comes from heaven and tells Joseph concerning the child,
" Tbou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people
from their sins;" and from that time the sound, as well as
the meaning, is Jesus Christ—Jesus Christ circumcised,
Jesus Christ baptised, Jesus Christ anointed by the Holy
Spirit, Jesus Christ led into the wilderness and tempted of the
devil, Jesus Christ victorious over Satan, Jesus Christ work-
ing miracles, Jesus Christ as suffering , betrayed, deserted,
tormented, crucified, dead, risen again, ascended, receiving
and sending the Holy Spirit, waiting in long-suffering pa-
tience, coming again in glory ; and at that word " coming
again" the last chorus " salvation." Hallelujah ! creation
is delivered from toil and trouble; and the kingdoms of
this world are become the kingdoms of the Lord and
his Christ, and are singing "blessing and honour and
power unto Him that sitteth upon the throne !" Still the
chorus swells, and still the praises cf Jehovah roll along until
every creature that is in heaven and that is in earth, and that
is under the earth, and that is in the sea, and all that is in
them join in that great consecration hymn of everlasting
triumph, " Blessing and honour and glory and power unto
Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for
over." Amen, amen.

The reverend gentleman than handed the silver trowel to
his worship, which bore the following inscription sura.ounted
by the crest of Mr. Gladstone :

Presented to Robertson Gladstone, Esquire, Mayor o
Liverpool, on the occasion of his laying the first stone o.
the Liverpool Female Orphan Asylum, February XVII.
MDCCCXLIII."

The MAYOR replied as follows—ln accepting this trowel
which you have just placed in my hands, I beg to make my
heartfelt acknowledgments to those gentlemen of the com-
mittee who have been good enough to request that I should
officiate upon this most interesting occasion. That the Fe-
male Orphan Asylum should have excited the sympathy, and
attracted the benevolence of the community, is no matter of
surprise to those at all acquainted with the number and in-
trinsic value of the public institutions already in existence in
this town. Here the houseless are to find a home—the friend-
less, those deprived of their first and natural guardians their
parents, are to meet with protection ; and not only are those
important advantages offered, but moreover, as I understand,
a sound education is to be afforded, and principles inculcated,
the best of all qualified to enable them to conduct themselves
creditably in after life, and to do honour to this institution.
(Cheers.) Sir, I enter most warmly into the views which
you have so feelingly and so forcibly expressed, and I can only
say that my sincere desire and wish is, that this institution
may realise the most sanguine expectations of its benefactors.
(Great applause.)

Mr. 14A127400D BANNER, treasurer to the charity, whilst
preparations for laying the stone were making, said, it might
interest those present to know what was on the plate, which
was to be placed beneath the stone; he would, therefore,
take the liberty of reading it to them. The inscription,
which was neatly engraved on a plate of zinc, by Mr. Leather-
barrow, of South John-street, and which covered a cavity in
the lower stone, which contained a bottle, in which were
some of the current coins, was as follows :
"LIVERPOOL FEMALE. ORPHAN ASYLUM.
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" This institution, for the maintenance and education of
female orphans, born within seven miles of Liverpool. and
for qualifying them for domestic service, was erected by
public subscription.
" The foundation stone was laid on the 17th of February,
1843, by the Worshipful the Mayor of Liverpool, Robertson
Gladstone, Esq.
" PATRON—The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester.
VICE-PATRONS—Rev. Jonathan Brooks, and Rev.
Augustus Campbell, Rectors of Liverpoul ; the Worshipful
the Mayor of Liverpool.
" PATRONESSES—The Right Hon. the Countess of Sefton,
the Right Hon. the Lady Stanley, the Right Hon. the Lady
Frances Sandon, the Hon. Mrs. Bootle Wilbraham."
Then follows a list of the officers of the institution, and
the names of the Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff of the
County.

The Cambridge Advertiser cautions clergymen against
persons advertising in the public journals, professing to be
able to give a curacy with title, and who, on being applied
to, pretend to offer a nomination, not only on payment of a
sum down, but on condition that the nomination shall be
accepted without stipend, or perhaps on payment of some
trifling sum during the first year.
PLATE MISSING FROM WINDSOR CASTLE.—A quantity
of the royal plate is missing at the Castle. It appears that
this plate had not been used since the return of the court to
Windsor, but on packing up the plate required for Bucking.
ham Palace, the articles were missed. A messenger was on
Thursday afternoon despatched to town for the purpose of
making inquiries into the affair, and intelligence was after-
wards received at the Castle that the package was sent from
town to 'Windsor by waggon ; but whether it ever reached its
destination or not is yet to be ascertained.
At Marlborough-street Police-office, London, on Thurs-
day, Joshua Jones Ashley, member of the Junior United Ser-
vice, and several other clubs, and formerly one of the mem-
bers of the firm of Ashley and Son. the bankers and army
agents, of Regent.street, was placed at the bar, charged with
stealing plate belonging to the Junior United Service Club.
A number of witnesses were examined, and the prisoner was
remanded until Thursday next. It was stated that the pri-
soner is a member of five or six of the clubs at the west end
of London, and that most of them have lost plate, but could
never fix suspicion upon any one individual. The butler of
the Reform Club lost £7O worth of spoons and forks in one
year.

John Cunningham, F.G.S., AI.C.G.S., Architect, and
John Mackrell and Son, Contractors.

The foundation stone was then laid by his worship in the
usual manner.

The Rev. JONATHAN BROOKS then offered up the follow-
ing prayer in a most solemn manner :

1.`.0 Eternal God, the Creator and Governor of the uni-
verse, who by Thy power and wisdom guidest and orderest
all things, we acknowledge that we are not worthy to offer
unto Thee any sacrifice : yet encouraged by Thy gracious
promise to hear the petitions of them that ask in Thy Son's
name, we humbly pray that Thou would'st vouchsafe to be
present with us on the occasion which has this day assem-
bled us together. Thy beloved Son has said, " Suffer the
little children to come unto me, and forbid them not :" re-
gard, we implore Thee, with Thy especial favour, the chari-
table care of Thy church for her youthful members, and grant
that the Institution of which we are this day laying the foun-
dation, to provide for the maintenance and religious educa-
tion of the orphan daughters of our poorer bretren, may be
the happy instrument, under Thy grace, of bringing many
unto Thee; grant that the instruction to be given within
tbese walls may be based upon the Gospel of Thy blessed
Son, and that they who are hereafter to superintend it, may
be deeply impressed with the saving truth that other founda-
tion can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Grant that they who are here to be taught may be enlightened
by Thy word and strengthened by Thy spirit : that being
trained in the nurture and admonition of their God : being
established in true faith : being rooted and built up in Christ,
and abounding more and snore in thanksgiving, they may
walk in the knowledge and obedience of thy commandments,
and become not forgetful hearers, but doers of the word.
And whilst we thank Thee that Thou bast put it into the hearts
of Thy people to engage in this labour of love, we pray the
influences of Thy holy spirit to open both their hearts and
hands to a liberal supply of the means for carrying its lau-
dable designs into effect. Guide them, 0 Lord, by Thy
grace, and send an abundant blessing upon their endea-
vours. Lastly : for ourselves we pray that Thou would'st
prevent us in all our doings, with Thy most gracious fa-
vour, and further us with Thy continued help, that in this
and all other works begun, continued, and ended in Thee,
we may glorify Thy holy name, may promote the present
and eternal welfare of our fellow-creatures, and finally by
Thy mercy obtain everlasting life through the atoning merits
of Him who died for us, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
—Amen."

INTEREST ON EXCHEQUER BILLS.—The reduction in the

nterest on Exchequer-bills of the March issue from 21d. to
'd. per diem, of which notice has just been given, is viewed
n the city as a very judicious and proper measure. The mi-
nister might, in the opinion of some, have gone somewhat
urther in his reduction, but it was better to be on tile safe

side, and thus avoid the errors committed by Lord Mont-
eagle, who, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, always ma-
naged to reduce to much, and, as a necessary result, was
afterwards compelled to advance more than would otherwise

ave been requi.re'd, in order to cover his first fault. Nothing
at such mismanagement could have placed Exchequer-bills

a considerable time, as was the case, at a higher rate than

the funded debt. When the bills of the June issue, and
which bear an interest of 2d. per cent. per diem only, fall
due, it Is not at all unlikely, from present appearances, that
a reduction to 11d. may then take place, and the March bills
in the spring of next year to the same rate.—Times.

SHlPWRECKS.—lnformation during the last few days has
been received of several shipwrecks. On the evening of the
3d instant, a brig, with her sails shivered to ribands, was ob-
served to go down off the Donegal coast, and all on board
perished with her.—On the same evening, the Betsey, of
Lynn, was lost, with all her crew. On the 9th instant, the
glary and Isabella, of Wick, went upon a ridge of rocks
within a mile of the shore off the Fein Islands. The mate
and two seamen were saved, but the remainder of the crew
and two female passengers went down with the vessel.—On

The RECTOR then pronounced the benediction, and the
proceedings concluded with three cheers.

Mr. Ware, one of the lay vicars of Exeter Cathedral,
perished in the recent storm, on his way home from a meet-
ing he had been attending ; he had lain some hours on the
road, with his face to the blast, and though he was alive when
found, his trousers and coat were frozen to the ground, and
he died shortly after having been removed into a neighbour-
ing house.
A BOMB-SHELL OF 1775 FOUND.—As the two sons of
Messrs. Daniel Woodman and Daniel Gould were digging for
clams, on Monday, in the Back Cove, near the channel, they
discovered the rim of what they thought was a large iron jug.
After digging round and tugging at it for some time, they
were obliged to get some tackle before it could be taken from
its bed. It proved to be a bomb-shell, with the powder yet
in it,,;which was thrownifrom Mowatt's fleet, on the memo-
rable 15th of October, sixty-seven years ago, the day when
this town was burned by the British. It measures thirty-
eight inches in circumference, and weighs 150 pounds. Capt.
Lemrel Moody and Mr. William Tukey well recollect seeing
it pass over the town, and sink into the waters of the Cove.
It was the only one that passed over during the day. The
others fell among the devoted houses and exploded. It
seems as if there could be no doubt of the identity of this
curiosity.—Boston Atlas.
DEATH-BED CONFESSION.—AS will perhaps be remem-
bered, a most revolting murder was committed in broad day-
light, on the 26th April, 1817, (twenty-six years ago), at the
house of Mr. Littlewood, grocer, Pendleton. The victims
were Mei. Margaret Marsden, the housekeeper, aged 75, and
Hannah Partington, the servant, a very fine young woman,
aged 20. The object of the perpetrators of this foul deed
was robbery, for on the discovery of the murder by Mr. Lit-
tlewood, on returning at night from his shop in Chapel-

the Bth instant, a brig,-supposed to be the Chatty, of New-
castle, was totally lost in the Humber. All on board, con-
sisting of twelve persons, are supposed to have met with a
watery grave.—On the same day, a sloop foundered near
Poole, but the master and crew were saved by a fishing boat.
—The ship Porter, from Sidney for Manilla, has been lost in
the Palawar Passage—crew saved.—The Daphne, from
Exeter, was lost in the Ohevio Bay, near St. Malo. The
latter vessel is said to have exceeded £20,000 in value.

CURIOUS DISCOVERY.—An interesting paper was sub-
mitted to the Society of Antiquaries on Thursday last, by
Dr. Allnatt, F.S.A., detailing the account of the opening of
three tumuli on the Downs, near East Ilsley, Berks. Eight
human skeletons were exhumed, of gigantic proportions,
two of which measured respectively six feet four inches, and
six feet two inches, An iron javelin-head was firmly trans-
fixed in the hip-bone of one of the skeletons, and nearly
the whole of the skulls were fractured, thus indicating that
these individuals fell in some fierce encounter o❑ this spot
of the Downs. Unbaked pottery, warlike weapons, rude
articles of military equipments, and the remains of inferior
animals, wers also in the graves, and the teeth (which were
exceedingly perfect) of the human skeletons presented the
characteristic appearances of the aborigines of Britain. It
is supposed that these remains belonged to different epochs,
some anterior, and others subsequent, to the Christian era,
and that the individuals flourished during the century that
elapsed between the arrival of Julius Caesar and the final
subjugation of South Britain about the year 79.

WHOLESALE SHEEP STEALING.—On Sunday week, an street, Salford, where he carried on the business of a gro.cer,
Irishman named O'Neil, and a youth left this town, and it was found that upwards of £l6O, principally in one and
about dusk arrived at a field occupied by a tenant on the two pound notes, a gold watch, and other articles had beer
Hornby Castle Estate. In that field was a flock of fifty- taken from a drawer in the room in which he and Mrs. Lit.
seven sheep, and these the two coolly drove into the road, tlewood slept. The two servants were found dead in the
and thence, by moonlight, onto Skerton, which is a sort of kitchen, the elderly woman sitting in a chair, with her head
suburb to Lancaster. In this place there is a croft, having bowed down upon her breast, and the girl lying on her face
in one corner a small roofed building of four sides, with no on the floor. Both their skulls were dreadfully fractured
opening but a door. Into this place the whole flock of fifty- with a poker and a cleaver, and altogether the murder ap-
seven sheep were driven, and the consequence of their close peared to have been of the most cold-blooded and determined
confinement was that before Morning three Poor things were character. From various circumstances of strong suspicion
suffocated. O'Neil contrived to sell the three dead sheep. five men, named James Ashcroft, the elder, David Ashcroft,
In the course of Monday O'Neill made desperate efforts to James Ashcroft, the younger, William Holden, and John
dispose of his sheep, and hearing that a Mr. Walker was likely Robinson, werevpreliended, and tried at Lancaster, before
to be a custorper the flock was driven through the town from Baron Richards, at the August assizes (Friday, September
north to south for Mr. Walker's inspection. Mr. Walker sth,) 1817. Although not direct, the evidence was strongly
in conversing with O'Neill suspected something was wrong, circumstantial, and the jury found the three Ashcrofts and
especially when the 'attar offered to sell the whole lot at 12s. William Holden guilty, but acquitted Robinson. On the
6d. a head, while the real value was st least 30s,—as the flock following Monday (Sept. Bth) the Ashcrofts and Holden were
consisted of fine ewes all far advanced in lamb. Mr. Walker executed, but every one of them, " calling their God to wit-
contrived to keep O'Neill talking until he sent for the superin- ness," died protesting their innocence and singing a hymn.
tendent of the borough pace, when the man wasgiven intocus- Nevertheless the public were perfectly satisfied of their guilt,
tody, and was afterwards committed to the assizes. It appears about which there never seemed to be a doubt, until Thurs-
likely that O'Neil was deceived by the appearance of the day, the 9th instant, when an old man, aged 74, named John
flock, he himself clearly not knowing anything about farming Holden, (the uncle, we believe, of the man who was hung,)
matters. The whole were in lamb, and no doubt he mistook living at a very disreputable place, called Egypt, on the right
them for fat sheep, A more audacious r9Pbery was never hand side of the road between Leigh arid Chowbent, finding
heard of. It certainly makes good the old adage—" the himself on the point of death, confessed to two women.
more public the more private." If the fellow had contented ~whom he called to the bed-side for the purpose, that he was
himself with two or three out of the flock be knew he the perpetrator of the murder above referred to, but that be
.
should be suspected, but who would think of suspecting a did not commit the robbery. On the following day he died.
man and a boy driving a whole flock before them in the open 'Ms subject is far too painful for comment.—Manchester
roads?--Lancaster Gazette. Courier.
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