The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-16 00:00:00

DOMESTIC.

A brutal manslaughter occurred at Gloucester on Sa-
turday week. George Pricker, a waterman, while in a
state of inebriation, entered a beer-shop, and challenged
among others one Richard Cole, aged about IS, to fight.taole was knocked down by a violent blow on the ear, and
afterwards kicked ; he died in a few minutes. The land
lord, in his attempt to separate the parties, was nearly
strangled by the ferocious wretch, Frickcr. At the in-
quest a verdict of " manslaughter" was returned.
.... PEDESTRIANISM. —B. Riding, alias " the Morning
Star," who has undertaken to walk 1500 miles in 1500
ataccesive hours last (Friday) night, at twelve o'clock,
completed the unparalleled number of 1120 miles, a feat
hitherto unheard of; but strange as it may seem, it is be-
yond contradiction, and there is not the least doubt (ac-
cidents and sickness excepted) that be will complete his
arduous undertaking, for which he has, as yet, been poorly
rewarded. He is walking from the Grey Hound Inn,
York-road, to the Crow Trees and back. It is the pedes-
trian's intention, for the last 100 miles, to start at the
commencement of every hour.—Leeds hilelligencer.
_ POACHING AT WORKSOF.—About two o'clock on
Thursday morning last, no less than eight desperate fel-
lows from Mansfield were found poaching on the estate
of his grace the Duke of Portland, at Carburton. The
tenters, only being five in number, on coming in contact
with them, were driven from the field where they had
Stationed themselves to apprehend the villains ; but, in
consequence of the poachers being more powerful in
numaers, they were driven back. However, the tenters
despatched one of their party to Carburton for assistance,
while the others watched the movements of the poachers,
and in a short period four other men came to their assis-
tance, when they were enabled to capture six of the
gang, not far from the small village of Millthorpe. On
the same morning they were conveyed before the Rev.
George Mason, who committed them to Nottingham, to
take their trial at the next assizes.—Doncaster Gazette.
AFFECTING OCCURRENCE.—WE regret to record the
death of a youth named Maplestone, under circumstances
of a peculiarly afflicting nature. The unfortunate lad
formed one of the crew of the African Queen of this city.
The Queen arrived in the roads on Tuesday, after a long
voyage on the coast of Africa, and young Maplestone went
aloft for the purpose of taking down the Union Jack. He
came down the shrouds with the flag on his arm, and when
be had nearly gained the deck he said to one of the sailors,
"There's old England at last; let us give three cheers
for home 1" That home, however, he was never to find,
for as he cheered, the wind, which was fresh, caught the
folds of the flag, and in endeavouring to secure it he was
thrown overboard. Every effort was made by the captain
and crew to rescue the lad, but, alas! in vain ; he buffeted
the billows for a little time, and at last sank, entangled in
the flag.—Bristol Times.
On Saturday morning, Lord Grantley's keeper was
found in the canal close to his Lordship's preserves, near
Guildford, murdered. It appears he was at the public-
house at Bromley, between eight and nine o'clock on Sat-
urday evening, where there was a raffle for a fat hog, and
said to the landlord he must go round his Lordship's pre-
serves, to look after the pheasants, and would return in an
hour or so to take supper, since which he never was seen
alive. Guns were heard about that hour in the direction
the body was found, and it is supposed that he came upon
the poachers instantly, who not being able to get away,
and most likely being recognised by the keeper, shot him
through the head, and, from the mangled appearance,
must have brutally heat him about the head, then dragged
him about twenty yards, and thrown him into the canal,
which is close to the spot. The marks of a severe strug-
gle between the parties is very evident, and the ground is
covered with blood. On Tuesday, after two days' inves-
tigation, the coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful
murder against a man called James Elsley, who has since
confessed his guilt.
SERIOUS AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Thursday
night last a very desperate encounter took place between
a notorious gang of poachers, who have long infested the
neighbourhood, and the gamekeepers of Mr. Edwin
James, of Herongate, near Brentwood, in Essex. The
keepers, three in number, and the constable of the parish,
hastened to a wood where they had heard a gun fired, and
lay secreted until the poachers came over the hedge. which
they had no sooner done than the latter commenced a
Most ferocious attack upon the keepers, who were in the
act of taking off their coats and preparing for action. The
keeper who first went up to them was struck by the leader
of the gang with the butt end of the gun, and fell sense-
less upon the ground. The force of the blow, which it is
feared has fractured the poor man's skull, was such as to
shiver the stock from the barrel. The second keeper then
rushed up, and struck down the man who had thus used
the gun, who in his turn fell senseless upon the man in the
ditch. 'A
desperate conflict took place, and the keepers
were in the result able to secure the ringleader, but not
Until the most severe injuries had been committed upon
each party. The poachers, besides their guns, were armed
with bludgeons, and evinced a determination to kill the
gamekeepers rather than be captured. Having captured
the ringleader they brought him to the cottage of Mr.
James, who, having sent for a surgeon to dress the
wounded men, commenced a search for the men who had
escaped. The keepers had in the scuffle secured the hats
of the poachers, and this afforded the means of identify-
ing the parties. The learned gentleman went with the
constable into the cottages where it was known that men
of this character lodged, and discovered that three men of
known bad character had been from home all night, and
upon questioning the old woman who kept the house, she
admitted that all three men had gone out with guns that
night, and that the fourth man (who was captured) had
joined them. Hope is entertained of the apprehension of
the three, for they are most severely injured by the blows
from the keepers, and must be much marked about the
Lead. They are railroad men of the most desperate cha-
racter, and the man who is taken is also suspected of
highway robbery. Very serious apprehensions are enter-
tained._ as to the recovery of one of Mr. James's keepers.
The others are doing well.—Times.
NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL AT :LAMBETH.
'This building, which is situated in the W estminster-
rna. d, opposite the Blind Asylum and Bethlehem Hospital,
Is rapidly approaching
was laid in April, 1840 completion. The foundation stone
, on which occasion the Church was
dedicated to St. George, the tutelar saint of England.
It is the largest ecclesiastical edifice devoted to the Ro-
roan Catholic
the Reformation, h
worship that has been constructed since
majoritywor
duced the Henry VIII, destroyed and re-
external dimensio
The height of the 'tensions
the Catholic establishments. Its
are 250 feet long by 84 feet broad.
feet, but when
330 feet abovetower at the west end at present is 60
completed its extreme elevation will be
tecture preser
Gothic. The vedthe ground level. The style of archi-
throughout the building is the florid
atone, its wall towerismost substantially built of Caen
con-
tains a belfr averagingwitil nine feet in thickness. It con-
room for a peal of eight bells. On
each side of ytmhietrtower are double belfry windows, deco-
rated with
the funds shall admit parapets, pinacles, &c., and when
with 100 statues nart it is intended to ornament the walls
height of the hof saints and martyrs. The interior
Toe length of church, from floor to ceiling, is 57 feet.
broad ; the chancel nave in the clear is 160 feet, by 72 feet
chancel window is
is 40 feet long by 26 feet broad. The
feet ; the wis very large esuring 30 feet by 18
terstic mullions are of oak, wither ich f I ee • the in-
-0 td, ,
es will be filled with stained glass of various
Colours, containing
passion emblematical representation of the
the Earl of Shre nof our Lord. It is the gift of
heath will be .and will cost £5OO. Under-
Place"dsbthary'
corated with e principal altar, which will be de-
statues of saintsof the and bishops. The interior
.L. church is not to
'l°lis are the have galleries ; the only projec-
tions
organ-loft and two small galleries for the
over the two side doorways end. N
Pews or closed seats
,will be planedd will be allowed, but open benches
backs, so as to own the aisles, constructed with low
The seat • afford an unobstructed view of the interior.
sons. The yield
ample accommodation for 5,000 per-
-40 00 bare cost of erecting the cathedral will be
, , 0, but it is expected thatof £lOO 000 will
a sum ,
ne necessary to
'tents and • complete all the contemplated embellish-
for . improvemt Ab tt. •
u ins on isconvent
the Sistersof Mercy,
and a school for 300 children.
The convent •is fitted up with kitchens, refectory, dormi-
tories, asm 11 a chapel with a belfry, and will furnish an
abode for 13 Sisters of Mercy. The convent, with its
n.accompanyingnh buildings will cost £7,000. The nunnery
1.7_c1
._ urch together stand upon an acre of land, measur-
-4,42,000 square feet.
tl ORRIBLE CRUELTY—T HE BLACK-HOLE OF CAL-
CUTTA RIVALLED IN SCOTLAND.—A correspondent of
the
Scotsman gives the following account of the atrocious
treatment
of six persons capture by a body of policemen
and
preventive service men, on the charge of having res-
cued from the officers of the law two persons arrested
on account of the riots at Roskeen, in September last.
They were taken at midnight and carried off to the old
bank office, at Invergordon, where they were all thrust
into a safe, which had been used for depositing the bank
books, &c. The whole six individuals were locked into
this place by two o'clock on Thursday morning. It is a
small chamber in the wall, strongly built of stone, and
Paved with stone flags. Its length is nine feet eleven
inches and one quarter; breadth, three feet nine
inches; and its height, six feet eleven inches. There is
11° Window into nor any aperture whatever for air. It opens
121, a door the back room, lined with iron, and so
formed at the top aad sides as to overlap the wall, which
'Ws cut or grooved to receive the door. The lock is cased
Prom the construction of the door, the only place where
anyir could be admitted, is beneath the sole of the door.
whichcomes within a quarter of an inch of the stone floor,
Into
this wretched den five full-grown men and a young
lad of fourteen
them ; and it • were all forced by the officers who captured
is easier to •
conceive than to depict their
sufferings. Entreaties
and remonstrances had no effect.
In about half an hoar one of the men was seized with a fit
of vomiting blood,
reaching the ald
on
the cries of the other men
officers, lie was taken out and placed in the
Outer room ; but
a;no relief was granted to the others.
The door was a
seemed doomed g n closed upon the whole five, who
from ff• • to that most horrible of all deaths—death
Vll nine o'clock
For soven lone 7 - • from two
I tune ' - hours—i. e.,
thatin the morning—were they confined in
pause. Once . ' '
tike door was coped to give one of
them drink
of and
again one of the officers
oPened it to if water;
diatele ' see the men were alive; but it was insole-
-, closed. attall d.
The men could not sit, the place was so
their'
ch.unless they sat with their knees crouched up to
at the in. One of them lay on the floor with his nose
..,. ebottom of the door, trvioa catch
s
.., to a breath of air.
I'he rest stood•
gasping for breath—getting weaker and
'weaker and, h
horrible place fad they
been kept another hour in this
4,live• Fortunatelye‘.'
if any of them, could have come out
county and
Boners, and others came about nine o'clock to see the pri-
the they were then taken out of the safe. One of
__prisoners thus confined was dismissed immediately
_atter examination,
the othe tsas perfectly innocent ; and several of
that they. hawtlilo were committed to gaol, are able to prove
forcement. no concern whatever with the alleged de-