The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-11 00:00:00

INQUIRY AT SEACOMBE LAST NIGHT.

The village of Seac ombe was, on Friday night, thrown
into considerable excitement by the discovery of, happily,
only an attempted crime ; the circumstances of which.
however, were of a character exhibiting either great
heartlessness or an amount of misery and consequent
recklessness on the part of the perpetrator most 'revolting
to the ordinary feelings of humanity. The circumotances
are, briefly, as follows :—At about half-past six o'clock
p.m., a man named Bibby, accompanied by another
party, walked from the Seacombe Ferry. it being then
low water, round the outer side of the New Dock wall
enclosing the North Crown Reserve of the Wallasey Pool.,
Their object was to recover a brush belonging to a sweep,
which had been washed away in the afternoon by the
receding tide. On coming to a place opposite to the
steps on the westward side of the wall they discovered a
child, apparently under a fortnight old, and half naked,
deposited amongst some stones near the steps, about
a toot and-a-half below the then water mark. The
child, a boy, whose scanty clothing was saturated with
water was brought to Messrs. Parry's Hotel, where it
was promptly attended by Dr. Shaw, of Mount-pleasant,
Liverpool, who happened to be on the spot, and by Mr.
Bird, of Seacombe. After the application of warm cloth-
ing, and the administration of food, it was placed under
the care of the wife of one of the engineers connected with
the ferry, with whom it speedily recovered, and is now in
a state of robust infantine health. It was elicited, on
inquiry, that a woman had crossed the ferry in the after-
noon, with a child in her arms, which she had shown to a
female in Seacombe, to whom she detailed also her dis-
tressed situation, stating that she had only recently come
from Dublin. Acting upon this hint, an effort to trace
her was promptly made b;• Mr. Newton, of the county
police, in Liverpool, to which it was believed she had
gone, the local police, in the meantime, making inquiries
in the neighbourhood. The circumstances of the case
were also communicated to the Liverpool police, and on
Saturday evening a woman was arrested in Upper Frede-
rick-street, Liverpool, who, on being brought over to
Seacombe, acknowledged herself as the mother of the
child. The other circumstances will be best gathered
from the evidence given at her examination yesterday, at
the magistrates'-room, Seacombe. _

After Mr. Henry Winch, the magistrate presiding, had
taken his seat, the prisoner, who stated her name to be
Henighan, a single woman, aged 20, was placed at the
bar. Her appearance was not very prepossessing, but that
of a healthy young woman of the lower class of Irish.
She appeared very wretched; and occasionally, during
the examination, betrayed great contrition. _ _

Mary Roach was the first witness examined, and stated
that she kept a hardware standing at the G-oree-piazzas,
George's Dock, and lived in a court in Hurst-street, Li-
verpool. The prisoner had lodged about a month ago in
the court, and she had noticcd her to be pregnant. Her
knowledge of her was confined to the circumstance of
prisoner having come into her house for a light. On
Friday morning prisoner passed her standing in the piazzas
and she beckoned her, and asked her it' she had been con-
fined. Prisoner replied that she had been, at the Work-
house a week previously of a boy and that she had lett
because she was not able to eat the food there. She had
the child with her ; and said that she was going to sell a
nightgown to get them something to eat. Witness gave
her 5d., which was all the money she had, for the bed-
gown, and directed her to a place where she could satisfy
her hunger. Prisoner told her that she was going to the
Clarence Dock, whence she expected to get a free passage
to DOlin.

Thomas Joseph Roach, husband of the last witness,
deposed to meeting the prisoner on Friday night at a
public-house in Frederick-street, where she was drinking
a glass of rum with " two boys." Had been told ay his
wile that she had been confined, and asked about the
child ; but he gave no answer, and he concluded that the
child was in bad. Subsequently found that she had not
returned with her child, and gave her into custody.
Police-officer Connell, 615, of Liverpool, deposed to
apprehending the prisoner. After being in custody she
gave two different accounts of her movements. First,
she stated that she had left her child in a churchyard in
Liverpool, it having died in her arms ;: and subsequently,
on being informed that it had been found, she confessed
that she had placed it with its back to some clay on the
sea shore in Cheshire. _ _ _

Richard Bibby proved having found the child as above-
stated ; and Ann Harrison, wife of Thomas Harrison.
master of the Seacombe boat Thomas Wilson, identified
the prisoner as the person whom she had sp,ken to on
Friday afternoon. She subsequently identified the child.
John Molyneux Bird, apothecary and chemist, Sea-
combe, deposed that he had been sent for on the occasion
of the finding of the child ; and that on prom fitting to the
ferry found that Mr. Richard Parry, accompanied by Dr.
Shaw, had brought the child up to the hotel in a blanket.
Had attended it since, and it was doing well.
_ _ _ _

, . '
The child was produced by Mrs. Leather, who had taken
it to nurse, and fully identified, both by the various wit-
nesses and the unfortunate mother, who exclaimed on see-
ing it, neatly dressed by the kind attentions of Mrs. R.
Parry, as we understood, " Hang me ! Wing me ! that's

n.v baby !" and wept bitterly. The inquiry was then
adjr►urned until Wednesday next, when the- depositions
will be read over and signed. The scene was a very dis-
tressing one.

MONS. JULLIEN'S CONCERT—LAST NIGHT.
Last evening, Mons. Jullien gave his " Grand Concert
Monstre," at the Royal Amphitheatre, on which occasion
the artistes attached to his own orchestral staff were aided
by the splendid band of the 91st regiment, who were per-
mitted to attend by Lieut..• Colonel J. F. Campbell. In
addition the French drummers, under the direction of
M. Barbiere, were also present. The house was positively
crammed, only standing room being left, for those who
arrived some minutes before the commencement of the
Concert. Part first opened with the overture to Rossini's
William Tell, which was very finely played. The
Caledonian Quadrille followed, some of the airs in
which were played with a thorough appreciation of the
Scottish music. The remaining pieces of the first part
most worthy of notice were the andante from Hadyn's
Surprise Symphony. and Karl Buller's Valse a deux temps,
"The Mandolina," both of which were sweetly played.
Mons. Lavigne's solo on the oboe, with melodies and
variations from La Somnambula, was a most effective
effort. Mad'lle. Jetty Trrffz sung an aria, " Voi the
sanete," from Nozze di Figaro, which was encored, upon
which the lady gave " Home, sweet home." We must
say that, however artistically she may sing this song, its
meaning seems not to be fully appreciated by her. The
part closed with the great exhibition quadrille, which
we have noticed on previous occasions. It was splen-
didly played ; but we would suggest to Mons. Jullien,
,f t'-- French drummers and their imposing director

,ie
M. Barhiere. begin to get rather stale. The playing of
Herrs Koenig and Sommers, M. Lavigne, Mr. Pratten,
and Mr. Collinet, in this and the second part, was of a
very first-rate character.

General Tom Thumb was arrested recently in Savannah
for driving his " state carriage" on the sidewalk. The
law:does not overlook the most insignificant individual.
LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.—The usual
fortnightly meeting of this Society was held last night,

_
when an interesting lecture on " induced voltaic currents
considered as therapeutic agents," was delivered by Mr.
J. B. Edwards. Mr. Moss presented some very valuable

fossils found at Whitby

NCASH 1 RE

—A meet-
lorouffh to

A RELIC OF ANCIENT LIVERPOOL,—During the opera- nominate a candidate in the Liberal interest to be put for-
tions of the gas company's men in Lord-street (the pave. werd at the next election. The state of Mr. Walker's health
ment of which, to the great annoyance of the tradesmen has long rendered it a matter of notoriety that a vacancy
residing in the street, and pedestrians generally, is b ing is likely to arise whenever the present Parliament is dis-
t. When torn up), a rather interesting relic, which has been for solved.

many

CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOLS.—We perceive that on
Sunday next the Rev. Fielding Ould, and the Rev. Dr.
M'Neile will advocate the cause of these extensively-
useful institutions, which are situated in a densely crowded
locality. As there is now only one appeal made in the
year for the support of these great schools, having at
present upwards of 800 children on the, books, it is ear-
nestly hoped there will be a numerous attendance on this

the modern street was brought to light. This is no other
than the old bricige which spanned the pool hetween
Paradise-street and Whitechapel. Exactly before the
door of Messrs. Gilham's shop at the corner of White-
chapel, at the depth of a few feet from the surface, may
portion of the coping of the summit of the
. htt,,q, the oldest inha-

now be

arch of this ma uriuge, tauus/LA,OO,
bitant never saw in its pristine state.
PROTESTANT PETITION.-011 Friday, in the House of
Commons, Sir R. Inglis presented a petition from the
bankers, merchants, and inhabitants of Liverpool, to the
number of 13,616, all of whom subscribed their addresses
to their names, against the Papal aggression. The peti-
tioners stated that they were anxious to support the

nee, hitt that the natural repugnance of

ce, yie

...,ilOll of the Roman Catholic Church, and the
duction•of the canon law into this country, and gene-

nodical

intrc
rallv, to t

.cure the Protestant

in Church and State

acter of our inst