The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-20 00:00:00

me in at
VL'a.a

:ommissioner for the Halifax
the children begin to work in
_ ages, In one case a child
..aicen into the pit by his father at three years
das made to follow him to the workings, there to
Andle, and when exiiathted with fatigue was cradled
.:. coals until his return at night." It is added that
)f thirty children at present at work in six pits in this
t, seventeen are between five and nine years of age."
3., at Mr. Roscoe's, Rochdale, states that " He is
years old ; that he has been six years in the pits, and
a began to go when he was little more than four years

the sub-

s at the same early

Esq., sub-commissioner for Lancashire
—" Of the adult mining population of
convinced that a very large proportion
k as early'as the sixth or seventh year
" Some are so young they go in their

cided—'

e extracts will, we think, suffice under this head, but
)ot leave it without drawing attention to the infamous
so common in some parts of the district, of appren-
super infants to this most degrading servitude. The
of the practice may be gathered from the following

S. Scriven, sub-commissioner for Halifax district, says
great number of hurriers are apprenticed by the Board of
Lrdians from the age of eight years upwards until twenty-
, paying with them a sovereign, to be expended, at the
:retion of the master, for clothes, who likewise receives
their hard earnings, as a compensation for board, lodg-

and instruction in'the art mid mystery of hurrying and

_
~.u.
thrsting. Many of the colliers take two or three at a time,
supporting themselves and families out of their labour ; as
soon as either of them is old enough he is made a getter,
and is then worth from 10s. to 15s. a week.
Thomas Moorhouse, collier boy, says " I don't know how

old I am ; father is dead ; I am a chance child ; mother is
dead also ; I don't know how long she has been dead; 'tis
better nor three years; I began to hurry when I was nine
years old for Mr. Greenwood ; I was apprenticed to him till
I should be twenty-one ; my mother apprenticed me ; I
lived with Greenwood; I don t know how long it was, but it

was a goodish while ; he was bound to find me in victuals
and drink and clothes; I never had enough; he gave me
some old clothes to wear, which he bought at the rag shop;

the overseers gave him a sovereign to buy clothes with,
but he never laid it out ; I ran away from him, because
he toe, my indentures, for he served me very bad ; he stuck
a pick into me twice in my bottom: [Here (says the sub-
commissioner) I made the boy strip, and found a large cica-
trix likely to have been occasioned by such an instrument,
which must have passed through the gluter murcles, and
have stopped only short of the hip joint ; there were twenty
other wounds, occasioned by hurrying in low workings, upon
and around the spinous processes of the vertebrae from the
sacrum upwards.] He used to hit me with the belt, and
maul or sledge, and fling coals at me ; he served me so bad
that I left him, and went about to see if I could get a job; I
used to sleep in the cabins upon the pit's bank, and in the
old pits that had done working; I laid upon the shale all
night ; I used to get what I could to eat; I ate for a long
time the candles that I found in the pits that the colliers left
over night ; I had nothing else to eat ; the rest of the hurriers
did not know where I was; when I got out in the morning I
looked about for work and begged of the people a bit ; I got
to Bradford after a while, and had a job there for a month
while a collier's lad was poorly ; when he came back I was
obliged to leave."
Joseph Ellison, Esq., Birkenshaw, says that the fact is
notorious that when the colliers are in need of hurriers they
apply to the poor law guardians for pauper children. " I
have been," he says, " a guardian myself, and know it to be
a fact. They cannot get them elsewhere, on account of the
severity of the labour and treatment hurriers experience,
and which makes parents prefer any other sort of exployment
for their children."

Thomas Rayner, Esq., surgeon, Birstall, says " I am a
Union.
for the township of Gomersal, in the Dewsbury
Union. When I first attended the board meetings I was sur-
prised to find so many applications from miners for appren-
tices from the union workhouse. The answer was 'Go
to the house and select for yourself, and we will bind
you the one you select.' In some cases children- have
been selected at seven and eight years, because they were
strong and healthy. Upon inquiry I found no questions had
been asked as to the age; atid if in a few months the man
found the boy was net strong enough (without reference to
his age) he brings him back. One instance occurred only on
the 24th of December, last Thursday, and the boy is again
in the union workhouse, only seven yens of age."

_ -
J. C. Symons, Esq., sub-commissioner, also refers to "a
very gross case of the unduly early employment of a work-
house child, named Thomas Townend, who was apprenticed
to a collier at Thornhill, working in a thin pit before he was
quite five years old."

HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE PRINCIPAL
BUILDINGS DESTROYED AT HAMBURGH.

CHURC

)F ST. MICHAEL.—The Church of St.
a destroyed, was' a noble and stately
1751, and after five years' labour
h the exception of the spire, which
It was built by the celebrated
regarded by all travellers as the
capaole of accommodating 2,000
steeple was said to be 456 feet,
han that of St. Paul's in London;
Lutheran persuasion, and was
liarly adapted, for astronomi-

lin, and

I moreove

S, OR HOUSE OF CORRECTION.—This
by a senator, of the name of Peter
atended for criminals of the worst de-

ADMIRALTY.—The public Admiralty was built in
ci the code of excellent maritime rules established in
t was erected by the Burgeose of the town to regu-
,lommerce, which was then beginning to grow es-
nd to prevent the damages occasioned to merchants
nen, who then infested the ports and seas there-

MACH OF ST. NICROLAS.—The inhabitants in the
the 16th century, augmented greatly in the guar-
!en the gate of the Schaarthorn to the Guase-
Up to this period they had only small chapels
caselves ; but in 1602, the church of St. Nicholas
and, subsequently, in 1605, the smaller chapel of

Michael, on the site of the old Ziegel-feld, or Tilefiild.
'HE HOUSE OF CORRECTION, OR WERE-ONO ZUCll-
us.—This building was principally for the reception of
lor criminals, bankrupts, and beggars. It was constructed
611, but it was burnt in 1666. In 1670 it was again re-
Lt-1842 again finds it in ashes.
'HE POST-OFFICE.—This building is also among those
troyed. The Portuguese Jews who came to the city in
B were the first who improved this part of the government
iinistration, and were the first who caused the establish-
it of the imperial post at Hamburgh.

THE OR EXCHANGE.—The present bourse, as
We find in the " Histoire de Hambourg," was began to be
built in the same year that a comet appeared to the inhabi-
tants of the town—according to an old Hamburgh chroni-
ler. It was constructed in a spot contiguous to the Senate-

house ;the merchants had theretofore met in the street, and
'n an uncovered place, but in 1577 the community of cloth
merchants thought fit to construct another, better fitted for
their transactions. This, in 1669, was again enlarged, and
existed as it was to be seen till within the last week.
THE BANic.—The Bank of Harnburgh, long regarded as
one of the safest in Europe, is also rmong the buildings de-
stroYed. The merchants of the city have long derived great
h,tiefit from this specie bank, which was founded in 1619.
t
Whether any bullion has been destroyed, we cannot, as yet,
for daily use was alwa deposited in the cellars of the bank,
i;tictil"d with it ys
on bars. Nothin in its tansactions was paid
cuutttedbu.lik", Or Pure silver and gold,r and it never dis-

_ .
..
A mong other
space more partiular'. t
_Public buildings of note, which we have not
d
the House for
in Artillery-street.
orphalisoannoice, ia St.,Peter's Church, an
The Borsensaal, or auction-roaormmouwrays over the Exchange,
and goods quarter the ere daily brought there to be sold
from every ofworld. The hotels were rich fur-
shed, and fitted up for
every fashionable and luxuriouly s pur-

been destroyed, .Je old town, which has thus
are
but
sected with canals as to reiez—buise a Dre._,
e is so inter-
sected
by
; these canals
were chiefly filled by the
almost all the warehouses
forms on the north side of the town t° thymhe Alster, and
for parties of pleasure. On the snoa fine basin. chiefly The Alster
vhich the firs appears to have madeuvteh aide
of
this basin,
used
he spacious walk planted. with trees, ria'riere ravages,
in
.-..g, or Young Ladies' Walk. sibeeti red the juwnas
ourite promenade. has been continued along the this fa_
the basin, so as to join the ramparts, the whole e west aide of
laid out as a public garden and promenade,. theuef which were
being broad enough for three carriages all round raal!e-way
The house in which the fire is supposed to have originated4l'•
was, as our readers are aware, that of a Jew cigar
manufac-
turer, a branch of business which in Hamburgh has aiayears increased to an astonishing extent. A recent travellteer
observes, that this habit of tobacco-smoking was universal.
The whole of the male population, boys of eight and ten
years, as well as men, are constantly armed with either a pipe
or a cigar; and even handsome, well-dressed girls., are seen
luxuriating with a genuine Havanna. This practice, it has
been. said by the doctors of the town, has produFed, even
within the memory of man, changes in the constitution of
theiinbabitants ; and these, the descendants of the strong
ancient
Germans, have greatly degenerated by the use of this

fernsti

enervating weed.
The number of Jews, of which fraternity the supposec.;
tihne-
cendiary Cohen is one, who were resident in this part o
town and tlamburgh in general, are estimated at 14,000, but
this is supposed to be double the real number. In 1824 the
bills of mortality estimated them at 4,000.
As the steam-boats from the mouth of the Thames make
their passage to flamburgh in between forty and fifty hours,
and several of these have been delayed only by contrary
winds, we may speedily expect arrivals and fuller accounts
from Cuxhaven, and the city itself.

INCREASE or ODD FELLOWS.—At a meeting of the Man-
•er Unity of Odd Fellows, held in that town last week,
Amond stated that the accession to their numbers
,he last ten months had been about 28,000, and that
)ciety now possessed between 230,000 and 240,000

during i

members

TRATIMONIAL To MX DUKE or BUCKINGHAM

puckhighatashire festival was held an `'tied es

day, at Aylesbury, bi the farmers of that county and other
friends connected with agriculture, for the purpose of pre-
senting to his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, as a testi-
monial of their admiration of his public principles, and as a
tribute of respect and gratitude for his services whilst Marquis
of Chandos, as one of the representatives of his native county,
a superb piece of plate. This costly and exquisitely executed
record of respect and gratitude was on Tuesday afternoon
conveyed from Messrs. Green and Ward's, the silversmiths, of
Cockspur-street, to the George Inn, Aylesbury, where it was
exhibited, in an ante-room, to a large number of the in-
habitants of the town and surrounding districts, from whom
it elicited many strong expressions of respect and gratitude
for his grace's private virtues and valuable public services.
The stye in which the testimonial has been executed was
very generally admired.
It consists of a piece of plate, executed in silver-gilt, be-
ing of the value of £2OOO, and upwards. It is in height four
feet seven inches, and weighs about 1800 ounces. Agricultu-
ral figures and emblems compose the devices ; the mottoes
are " Chandos, Church and State," " Chandos and the
Corn Laws," " Chandos and the £5O clause."
The festival took place in a temporary building, erected in
the rear of the George Inn, and contiguous to that hotel.
The building was very tastefully fitted up with hangings of
various-coloured cloth, festoons of laurel, and a rich variety
of natural and artificial flowers ; the whole having a very
pleasing effect. The table at which the chairman, his grace
the Duke of Buckingham, and several of the principal guests
sat, was a slightly raised dais, in the centre of one of the lon-
gitudinal sides of the building. Opposite the chairman was
placed the testimonial, on a pedestal of about six feet in
height. The following is the inscription which it bears :
" The Chandos testimonial : presented by a very numerous
body of farmers of Buckinghamshire, and other friends con-
nected with agriculture, to Richard Plantagenet, Duke of
Buckingham and Chandos, K.G., G.C.H., on the 18th May,
1842, to record their admiration of public principles steadily
maintained in unsettled times, and as a tribute of respect and
gratitude for his services whilst Marquis of Chandos, as one
of the representatives of his native county in parliament,
where, for upwards of 20 years, he was the energetic, consis-
tent, and successful champion of the agricultural interest of
the United Kingdom."
A gallery to the left of the chairman was fitted up for the
reception of ladies, a brilliant assemblage of whom entered
the building shortly after the removal of the cloth.
The Duke of Buckingham arrived at the Aylesbury station
by a special train, which left the Euston-square terminus at
one o'clock. A large concourse of the farmers and towns-
people had assembled to greet the duke upon his arrival, and
as his grace stepped out of the carriage he was most enthu-
siastically cheered.
The Earl of ORKNEY took his seat as chairman about
half-past three o'clock. On his right were the Duke of
Buckingham, Mr. R. Clayton, M.P., Colonel Boldero, M.P.,
I Mr. P. Williams, M.P., Colonel Hall, Colonel Vyse ; and
on the left Lord De Lisle, Sir T. Fremantle, M.P., Mr.
Joseph Neeld, M.P., Mr. John Neeld, M.P., Mr. Ferrand,
M.P., &c. About 600 of the first gentlemen in the country
sat down to dinner, and after the usual loyal toasts, the noble
Chairman then rose, amidst loud cheering, to present the
testimonial to the Duke of Buckingham. He said "My
dear lord (addressing the Duke of Buckingham), I cannot
say with what feelings of peculiar delight and satisfaction I
have been permitted by the committee of the farmers and
others of your grace's friends in this county this day to pre-
sent to you the piece of plate you now see before you.
(Cheers.) Handsome as I trust you think it, it is, I assure
you, far below our estimate of your past services. At the
same time, we do trust that the list of subscribers by whom
it is presented will be satisfactory. (Cheers.) Fortunately
for me, it has not been left to my feeble powers to convey to
your grace our idea of your public services and public cha-
racter ; that is contained in an address, drawn up with
far greater powers of language than I can pretend to, and
which I shall now have the pleasure of calling upon the ho-
norary secretary to read." (Cheers.)
The address having been read by the Secretary, the noble
CHAIRMAN then gave " Our guest the Duke of Buckingham
and Chandos," which was drunk amidst tremendous and
prolonged cheering.
The noble DUKE then rose to return thanks, and was re-
ceived with enthusiastic plaudits. Upon the cheering sub-
siding, he addressed the company as follows :—My lord and
gentlemen, if upon former occasions in this county, when
surrounded by large assemblages of my friends, I have felt
any difficulty in returning them thanks for the kindness they
have at those time's evinced towards me, what must I now
feel, my lord, when I look around this vast assemblage and
see in this room the wealth, the power, the influence of the
county; when I see around these tables some who in early
days were the first to cheer me on in my cause of political
life—(loud cheering) ;—when I see around these tables
also those who have ever been consistent, firm, and active
friends ; when I look back to the time, 24 years ago within
four days of the time, when I first started as candidate for
this county,-1 feel difficulty indeed in expressing all that my
heart feels on this occasion. (Cheers.) Often as I have
addressed you, often as I have received acts of kindness from
you, I have not the power on this occasion to speak the sen-
timents of my heart. (Cheers.) The manner in which you
have drunk my health, the kindness with which you have
received the expressions of the eloquent address which has
been read to me, that splendid and magnificent tribute of
affectionate regard which I now see before me—(cheers)—all
this, coupled together, forms in my mind a mass of grati-
tude I cannot reply to ; and with those feelings which ani-
mate my heart, and with an anxious desire to put on record
the feelings which I entertain for this county, and those
friends who have ever stood by me, I will, with your permis-
sion, my lord, place in your hands a reply in answer to the
address, that, when I am gone, those sentiments may be in
your lordship's recollection. His grace then read his reply.

WHIG-RADICAL BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION

(From the Scottish Standard.)

" When rogues fall out," the proverb says, " honest men
come by their own." In like manner, the cause of truth and
justice is often much promoted by the disclosures of the par-
ties engaged in the commission of offences, be these disclo-
sures selfish or involuntary, unconscious or unpremeditated.
Mr. Roebuck's movement has thrown a new light upon the
history and practice of bribery. At first, it was supposed
that the honourable member's principal object was to drag
forth Sir John Cam Hobhouse and some other persons ,
al-
leged to have obtained seats in the present parliament by
corrupt means—but the result has proved of a much more
general and comprehensive character. Mr. Roebuck, in
fact, has been indirectly instrumental in establishing the
truth of what the conservatives have often asserted, that the
whig-radical members have always practised bribery to an ex-
tent not less than that which they, with matchless hypocrisy,
charged against their political opponents.
We leave the cases of Sir John Hobhouse and others to
the committee appointed under the auspices of Mr. Roe-
buck. There were certain confessions, however, which came
out in the course of the discussion on Friday evening, which
deserve to be noticed as peculiarly characteristic. We allude
to the statements of Mr. Warburton, ex-M.P. for Bridport,
who addressed a petition to the house, and of Mr. Dun-
combe, who made a speech—both of them splendidly illustra-
tive of whig purity and morality.
Mr. Warburton is well known. While in the House of
Commons, he was, or appeared to be, one of the most imma-
culate and incorruptible supporters of purity of election.
No man was louder in his denunciations of corruption, or
affected a higher tone in regard to the necessity of keeping
the house free from such contaminating influences. It so
happened, however, that when his conservative opponent at
the last election petitioned the house against Mr. Warbur-
ton's return, on the ground of bribery and corruption, the
hon. gentleman saw it prudent to retire from the seat before
the committee could examine the truth of these disgraceful
charges. It was universally understood that Mr. Warbur-
ton gave up his seat for Bridport because he knew the alle-
gations would be proved against him—an exposure from
which any man would naturally shrink—in his case it would
have been something like suicide to have braved the inquiry,
Such being the facts, the transaction properly became the
subject of comment; and, of course, as Mr. Warburton had
never himself spared any man in the like situation, his case
was animadverted on with little ceremony. This seems to
have given mortal offence to the tender feelings of the whig-
radical briber. He cannot endure that the epithets which
he and his party so liberally bestowed upon others, should,
under the same circumstances, be thrown back upon himself.
But let a whig alone for attempting to outface his assailants;
to prove black white is, to him, almost as easy as to prove
that two and two make four. We are not greatly surprised,
therefore, that Mr. Warburton, assuming the airs of an ill-
used man, a most calumniated whig, has memorialised the
House of Commons, denying strongly that he was at all guilty
of bribery. Still Mr. Warburton must grapple with the facts,
and what does he admit ? He states that in 1826 he expended
£2,000 in carrying his election for Bridport—on which occa-
sion he acknowledges that £lO a-head was given to each
of his voters, as he says, according to the " custom " of
the place. In 1830, he spent £2,600 in the same way—his
colleague having expended a still larger sum. Mr. Warbur-
ton admits that he knew how a considerable portion of these
sums was disposed of—for instance, £BOO in dinners, £2OO
in processions, and £1,600 for breakfasts and legal expenses,
the whole of which latter could not exceed £3OO. With
these admissions on record, still Mr. Warburton declares he
was totally innocent of any improper conduct—knew
nothing of bribery, or any other form of corruption. The
naivete- of such a confession, with such a conclusion, must
have greatly astonished the house. But here it is plain that
Mr. Warburton repeatedly bribed his way into the House of
Commons ; this liberal and patriot did so by his own ac-
knowledgment. We cannot suppose—nobody will believe—
that he was not perfectly aware of the real nature of the
" head money" which he paid, and, therefore, Mr. Warbur-
ton stands self-convicted of the charge, which he seeks to
escape.
As for Mr. Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, as anything may
be looked for at his hands, nothing need be said, except as it
may affect the character of the house, of which he is so con-
spicuous a member. This gentleman, who rejoices in the
most liberal principles, thought it necessary to disburden his
mind in a fashion somewhat of the strangest. We find his
statement condensed in the Times :

" Unfortunately for me," he tells the house, " I was once
a candidate for the pure and immaculate borough of Ponte-
fract. (Great laughter.) I spent £4,000 in Pontefract."
(Half as much again as Mr. Warbu.ton at Bridport.) " I
have no hesitation in saying that the money was expended in
gross bribery, treating, and corruption
Unfortunately, also, I stood five contested elections at Hert-
ford. . . And I may state, as lam now impugning the
conduct of members of this house individually and collectively,
that I left behind me at Hertford considerably above £30,000.
(Great laughter.)
went in protecting tenants from the landlords power, a great
deal of it went in treating (laughter), and a great deal in
bribery." ((treat laughter.) And now hark to the chuckle
which the retrospect excites in Mr. Duncombe's mind. To
hear Mr. Duncombe speak, one would think that he had no
character to lose, or that he was glad to get rid of what he
had—with such self-complacency does he seem to regard his
own very complete and unsparing avowals. " I think, at all
ewvectrollticbsa,int:aoyfshe, " I have proved that I cannot take this
declaration, and I only want to see those nine Simon Pures
And these are your immaculate patriots, your boasted re-
formers!i We know not whether the house was more edified
greatly
by the Spartan
lations by three
an pretensions of Mr. Warburton or the Helot
ready enough
tive.—WithMr. Duncombe : both are sufficiently instruc-
marl, these examples before them, we shall be, indeed,
ponents—but her eaP
ed to find hereafter any further self-congratu-
are confessed to
Whigso on the purity of their party. They are
radicals.—lndeed, we thes grossest imputations on their op:.
lieved—and with much
t'ethe crimes charged against''" the tories"
at least equally common to whigs and
accusations from uspect it will be now generally be-
people must now feel in a
saying,
that of their own guilt, verify-
truth—that the whigs indulge in such
the cons •
at evil doers are evil dreaders. The
ing the homely
and the acts of these meriti°
useful lesson as to their realrn to compare the professions
to draw from the contrast a
nefited by the recent exposure:%cter. So far they have be-
ever injurious these may
to the reputation of the persons ?rawmedia
to the general respectability of the house tely implicated, or
members. of which they are

bill upon
"the Kentucky
The Louisville Advertiser says that
House of Rrepresentatives have added to a
..._e,i.,,txcarriages and gold watches, a propositinnAo
ries, such as whisky, tobacco, and hemp."'Atser han-
ky and
tobacco luxuries ! One is an " unmitigated curse," and
other "an intolerable nuisance." Hemp a luxury ! ,Whythle
is an article of indispensible necessity as long as whiskyl
tobacco are used.

THE IVIURDEREIt GOOD

_ lualon of the trial on Friday, Good, whose ex.
Eva-Ordinary explanation of tue discovery of the trunk ausl
fragments of the remains of the victim created so unusual a
sensation in the mind of every individual in court, was re.
moved to the cell in which Greenacre, Courvoisier, and other
deeply-stained criminals of his class, had spent the brief pe-
riod from condemnation to execution. In his progress thither
the culprit walked with a careless gait, exclaiming in the
hearing of the turnkeys who accompanied him, " I have
stated nothing but the truth. I have said all I know." On
arriving in the condemned cell he sat down, apparently un-
nerved, and in a few minutes after the usual supper or prison
allowance, gruel and bread, was taken to him, of which he ate
with a keen appetite. He shortly after retired to rest, and
slept soundly until three on Saturday morning, when he
awoke, and asking some questions, merely as to the state of
the weather, of the night-men or keepers in his cell, relapsed
into a sound sleep, and did not awake until seven. He shortly
afterwards got up, and was attended by the Rev. Mr. Carver,
the ordinary, to whom he paid respectful attention. At a
later period of the morning the cell of Good was visited by
Mr. Cope, the governor, and the culprit, on seeing him,
commenced exclaiming that he was an innocent man ; that
the statement he had made to the court and jury the preced-
ing evening was perfectly correct ; that deceased had cut her
throat, like Castlereagh, as he had mentioned ; and that the
" match-man" had consented to conceal the body for a sove-
reign. This he continued to repeat several times, and, sup-
posing his version of the frightful affair would produce a fa-
vourable feeling towards him, he indulged in it most freely.
The ordinary of the prisoner was unceasing in his atten-
tions, but Good, notwithstanding the exhortations of the
rev. gentleman, declares his innocence of the murder. He
has more than once expressed his regret that he had not
when in court expressed his thanks to his counsel and solici-
tor for the manner in which they defended him.
On Friday morning, before the trial, Mr. Bucknell, Good's
solicitor, feeling the importance of the case he had to defend,
waited on his client in his cell, and entreated him not on any
account to say a word during or after the trial. The object
of Mr. Bucknell was this—that according to the evidence set
forth in the depositions there was not a single case on record
where an individual was executed on circumstantial evidence
so inconclusive as that against the prisoner ; and if, there-
fore, he only held his tongue, it was the intention of Mr.
Bucknell, in the event of the prisoner being found guilty, to
present a memorial to the crown for its clemency on his be-
half, on account, as has been before stated, of the inconclu-
siveness of the evidence as to the identity of the body.
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Magnay had an interview on
Monday with the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, relative to the execution of the criminal. We under-
stand that it was deemed right, in his case, to abridge the
time usually allowed between the sentence and execution,
and Monday next, the 23d instant, is fixed as the period of
his earthly existence, when his life will he sacrificed, as the
penalty of his crime. On leaving the Home-office, the
worthy Sheriff proceeded to Newgate, and, in company with
the Ordinary, visited the convict, to whom he communicated
the intelligence. Good, without appearing moved, affected a
disbelief that the period fixed was so short, and intimated a
suspicion that the Sheriff was practising on his courage by
the representation he had made. Mr. Sheriff Magnay replied,
that it was no part of his wish to make any such experiment,
but that it was a part of his painful duty to communicate to
persons in the criminal's situation the knowledge of the day
on which the sentence of the law would be executed upon
them. Good seemed convinced of the fact, but remained
unmoved. He adheres to the statement made on hisitrial,
notwithstanding the inconsistencies and contradictions with
which it abounds ; and, judging from his present demeanour,
it appears likely that he will pass out of the world with the
same hardened indifference, both to his crime and to its con-
sequences, by which his conduct has been hitherto charac-
terised. On his being asked to state the address of the man
who sold matches, and -vho, according to his statement, took
such an active share in the awfill business, lie says that all he
knows about him is that be lives somewhere near Brompton.
It will be remembered that Greenacre told a similar story
in many respects to this statement of Good's, as to the mode
in which his victim came by her death, and that he subse-
quently gave several different versions of the story, and that
only a few hours before his execution he gave another ac-
count of the alleged mode of death. It is expected, how-
ever, that Good will yet declare what the truth of the case
really is, and as it is said that he has made an intimation to
that effect to the chaplain, and also to Mr. Cope, the gover-
nor of Newgate.

It was at the suggestion of the chief justice that the coun-
sel for the prosecution forbore to examine the prisoner's son
as a witness against him. All that he would have been able
to depose to was the fact that the blue bonnet belonged to the
deceased, and that it was taken by the prisoner to Susannah
Butcher's ; and as this was clearly proved by other testi-
mony, it was thought the painful spectacle of a child being
produced as a witness against his father upon a trial of life
and death might be spared.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Baron PARKE
and a London Jury.)
LAWSON V. MANGLES AND ANOTHER.

This was an action by the assignees of Messrs. Shepherd
and Drew, who were formerly proprietors of the Star Hotel,
at Southampton, to recover £153, the balance of a tavern
bill, amounting to £653 lls. 11d., from Messrs. Mangles and
Hutchings, who were the unsuccessful candidates at the last
election for Southampton. _ _

Mr. Thesiger stated the plaintiff's case. Messrs. Shep-
herd and Drew, the bankrupts, entered into partnership in
the Star Hotel, which had previously been known in South-
ampton as a conservative house, in the spring of last year.
In the month of May it was known that there would be a
general election, and the defendants, Messrs. Mangles and
Hutchings, became candidates on what is called " the liberal
interest." Committee-rooms were engaged at the Star by
Mr. Sharpe, an attorney, the agent of the liberal candidates,
and as the season for families visiting Southampton was then
approaching, and the business of the house would neces-
sarily be interrupted by turning the best apartments
into committee - rooms, Messrs. Shepherd and Drew
thought it desirable to have a distinct understanding
as to the sum to be paid for the committee-rooms, and
£250 was the remuneration agreed upon for the accom-
modation afforded in this particular. The house was
taken possession of by the committee on the 29th of May.
There was a public breakfast at the nomination day, at which
the noble lord who was lately Secretary for the Foreign De-
partment (Lord Palmerston) attended. There was also a
dinner for thirty persons, at which fifty bottles of wine were
drunk. Mr. Hutchings and Mr. Mangles were both occa-
sionally at the entertainments served up to their friends at
the Star. On one occasion—on the day of the polling, one
of the landlords, Mr. Drew, mentioned to Mr. Hutchings
that he thought too much wine was being drunk by the elec-
tors ; to which Mr. Hutchings replied, " Let them want for
nothing," or words to that effect ; but as the day advanced,
and he found he was likely to be a beaten candidate, he de-
sired that no more should be given away. The wines were
drunk, the feast was over, and so was the election.
" So comes the reckoning when the banquet's o'er,—
The dreadful reckoning,—and men smile no more ! "
He asked for his bill, and promised it should be paid in a
month. The bill, however, was not paid, and the refusal to
pay it forced Messrs. Drew and Shepherd into the Gazette.
They had reckoned on this payment to meet some pressing
demands ; their creditors would not be induced to wait any
longer, and in November last, Drew and Shepherd became
bankrupts, mainly, as he was instructed, by reason of the
debt. An action was brought, in the first instance, against
Mr. Hutchins alone ; but he pleaded, in abatement, that the
debt, if any, was incurred by him and Mr. Mangles jointly,
and upon this the present action was brought against both
the defendants.

The bankrupts, the waiters, the barmaid, and several other
witnesses were called to prove the plaintiff's' case. No direct
authority appeared to have been given, either by Mr. Man-
gles or Mr. Hutchings, to furnish the voters with liquor ;
but it appeared that, shortly before the election, a dinner was
given upon the opening of the hotel by the new partners, and
the defendants severally ordered a dozen of iced cham-
pagne, to be sent up and charged to the general election
account. On the election day, when it was mentioned to
the candidates that persons were calling for wine in their
room who ought not to have been there, they desired the
supply might be stopped. On the other hand, when Mr.
Hutchings was asked to whom refreshments provided for him
and his friends should be set down, he desired it to be put to
the election account, which would be paid by him and Mr.
Mangles. _ _ _

M. M. Hill (with whom was Mr. James) then addressed
the jury for the defendants. He contended that there was
no evidence of any authority to supply liquors and wines to
the extent that was charged for in this bill.
Baron Parke said it was tolerably clear that all the wine
and liquors charged for had been consumed; and the only
question was whether the defendants, or either of them, had
acted in such a manner as to render themselves, or himself,

The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict for the
plaintiffs for the full amount claimed, £153.

Baron Lefroy has instituted legal proceedings against the
Longford railroad shareholders for .i'3,700, which he paid to
Mr. Vignoles for surveying the line, and for which the latter
gentleman recovered a verdict against his lordship at the
Liverpool assizes.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT BAR➢IOUTII._It gives us great pain
to state that, owing to a fatal accident, J. J. Williams, Esq.,
clerk of the peace for the county of Merioneth, has suddenly
been deprived of life. We subjoin the particulars, as we
have received them from our correspondent at Barmouth :
On the evening of last Thursday, the sale of part of a vessel
was to have taken place at Barmouth, and Mr. Williams had
to attend to it. He left Dolgelley, where he resided, about
noon, travelling in his own carriage, accompanied by Mr.
Ellis Rees, of the Star Inn, and Mr. Richard Jones,

auctioneer. On coming down the hill at Borthwen, within a
short distance of Barmouth, the horse started off at a tre-
mendous rate, Mr. Williams vainly pulling at the reins to
hold him in. Baying gone a short distance at this rapid rate,
Mr. Williams and his two companions determined to jump
out. Mr. Rees was the first to do this, and was consider-
ably, though not dangerously, hurt by the concussion. Mr,
Jones had the presence of mind and prudence to get
over the back of the carriage, and, clinging to it for an in-
stant, dropped down easily, without sustaining any injury.
Mr. Williams got out at the side he was sitting at, but fell on
his head against the rock on the side of the road. There he
lay in a most deplorable state, a large quantity of blood
flowing from his left ear, and his left leg having received a
compound fracture a little above the ancle. He showed
some signs of sensation, drank a little water that was given
him, but never spoke a word after the fall. An easy chair
was procured from Aberamffra House, just by the place
where these melancholy circumstances occurred, and Mr.
William Owen, of Barmouth, had Mr. Williams promptly
conveyed to his (Mr. O.'s) house, where three medical gen-
tlemen immediately attended the unfortunate sufferer. He
never once rallied, but continued in a state of insensibility,
gradually sinking, untilthree o'clock the next morning, when
he expired.—Shrewsbury Paper.

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very few years since, when their shares, having £lO pardas up,
were offered for nothing, and a bonus to help them o
the desponding holders' hands, we cannot but admire the
cause of so goodly an effect. That cause was no other
than the simple one of paying interest on calls. At the
time this company first adopted it, at the earnest recom-
mendation of the present zealous secretary, the register was
rotten—the directors were without means -of prosecuting
the works—there was no just ground of hope that they should
open the line to Bridgwater within seven years. Now, they
have so highly respectable a proprietary that, within three
days of the last call becoming due, upwards of £lOO,OOO were
paid in. Their line to Bridgwater is in active traffic. They
are receiving a fixed sum of £30,000 a-year, besides about
£7,000 for their share of toll. In July next (if not before)
they will open to Taunton. Their fixed rent and share of
toll, together, will then amount to at least £56,000 a-year ;
and the directors have at present at their immediate disposal
a cash balance of upwards of £200,000, which will preclude
the necessity of any further call this year, even if their expen-
diture should amount to an average of 25,000 a -month , the
income, under the lease, being more than sufficient to pay
all the interest, both upon paid-up calls and upon debentures.
—.Railway Magazine.

TITS LATE FIRE AT HAMBURG,

(From the ,St and ar d.)

Tha following letter from a pung lady in Hamburg to bap
parents in this country, gives a most vivid picture of the
dreadful scenes that accompanied and followed the late con-
flagration, and will well repay e perusal :

Hamburg. May 9-
" I know not, my dearest mother, whether my few hurried
ill-written lines of Friday last penned in the midst of the
most terrible anguish and trouble, and confided to the care
of a passer-by, who was going to Altona, have ever reached
you. At all events, before you receive this-, you will have
heard of what a dreadful misfortune, and of what a heart-
rending spectacle, this poor city has been the theatre and the
prey. Before continuing, however, or rather commencing,
my sad recital, I must hasten to assure my dear papa. that
his houses, in the Nieuw Jungfraustieg, have remained un-
touched; for, though I know they are insured, this news will
certainly be agreeable to him, after hearing of the disasters
which have reigned here—l may say, which still reign, and
will for a long time. On Thusday morning, Ascension day,
the sth instant, my sister, her husband, and I walked to the
French church. Frederick, on taking away the breakfast,
told us that since eight or nine o'clock a terrible lire had been
raging in the Deutsch-strasse. Papa, who knows the dis-
tance between the Nieuw Jungfraustieg and the Deutsch-
strasse, will agree that we had no cause for alarm. In coming
out of church, the servant said to Madame Parish (who, you
are aware, lives in the country, and had come thence this
morning direct) that she could not go to her town house in
the carriage ; that twenty-two houses had already been to-
tally burnt—that, in fact, hers was in great danger, and that
the fire was becoming more and more formidable. A few
hours afterwards came the news that the house of Mr. Parish
was no more, and that the flames were spreading every in-
stant. Towards four o'clock in the afternoon, from our attic
windows, we witnessed the destruction of St. Nicholas's
Church. It was terrible to see this beautiful building become
the prey of the element, which was becoming more fearful the
more ground it gained. My sister and her husband were to
have gone to the Opera in the evening, but it was announced
that, in consequence of the calamity, there would be no per-
formance. The spectacle became from hour to hour more
shocking. The whole city now began to show the most
lively alarm. The bells, the firing of cannon, the cries and
confusion in the streets, all presaged a night of anguish and
terror. Our apprehensions, alas ! were but too faithfully
realised. It was not, however, till night had spread her sad
wings over the scene that we could perceive the whole extent
of the destruction which menaced the whole city. The hea-
vens became as red as blood—the devouring flames, increased
more and more by an impetuous wind, rose to a gigantic
height. At seven o'clock Madame came to us in a
wretched state. She told us that her sisters at Holzdamm
(who were further from the fire than we, the flames having
taken the direction of Dreckwall and Blieichen) had sent all
their valuables to her, so great was the fear they were in. We
could hardly avoid smiling ; for we thought incredible that
the fire could possibly reach Holzdamm. At ten Madame
went home, and ray sister retired to bed towards eleven, but
afterwards received a visit from some gentlemen, who came
to say that serious measures were about to be taken, by blow-
ing up some houses which were likely to cause the fire to
spread further. At half-past twelve o'clock I went to
bed myself; but the noise of the explosions, the rumbling
of the carriages and carts, the cries, the large flakes of fire
which every instant were driven impetuously by the wind
across my windows, threatening to set fire to our house, the
excessive light of the conflagration, the whistling of the wind,
and, as you will easily think, the idea that the lives of per-
sons in whom we were interested were in continual danger,
not to mention the conviction of the numberless misfortunes
that were happening, prevented all sleep. The windows
trembled with the redoubled concussions of the explosions,
and the whole house seemed as if it would be annihilated.
In such a state I could not close an eye ; visions and dreams,
but, above all, still sadder realities presented themselves to
my imagination continually. Before 3 o'clock had struck,
I found myself again with my sister, who, like me, had been
kept awake by the dreadful noise caused by the blowing up
of the Rathhans. At this moment an order of the police was
announced to us to wet the roof of our house, and to cause
the water to flow in the gutters. Frederick had flown to the
assistance of his brothers. We were therefore alone, and
mounting on the roof, scarcely dressed, were soon throwing
over it pails of water, and our neighbours were doing the same.
We prepared ourselves for the worst, threw on our clothes,
the confusion increased, and we could not remain. We packed
up in sheets and in boxes some of our effects. With the ap-
pearance of day our fears increased. It was a spectacle as
sublime as it was fearful to view the sun, clear and brilliant,
rising in all its splendour over the Lombards'-bridge, and
on the city side to see nothing but a single mass of flames.
It was not, however, a moment for contemplation, but for
action ; for the worst was to come. We called for the
coachman to carry away the things we had packed; but how
ridiculous to think we had any longer servants at our dis-
posal ! The city, or the passengers, had become masters of
the coachmen, of my brother-in-law, and his mother, and
not a man was to be got to carry away our effects for love
or money; our horses were harnessed to the fire-engines,
and the greatest confusion prevailed. Now succeeded hours
which I cannot describe to you. The old Jungfraustieg
began to be endangered. The Alster, before our windows,
was covered with barges full of burning furniture; the old
Jungfraustieg was heaped also with goods on fire. On the
promenade even of the new Jungfraustieg, 1 do not speak
too largely when I say there were thousands of cars full of
furniture, of merchandise, and of people who were saving
themselves. Two carts were burning before our house.
With our own hands we helped to extinguish the flames.
A woman was on fire before our eyes ; fortunately I per-
ceived it in time to save her. The horses became unmanage-
able, and fell down with fright almost into the Alster. A
tremendous shower of ashes and of flakes of fire nearly suffo-
cated us, and obstructed our sight. The wind blew with
great violence, and the dust was frightful. The fire had now
gained St. Peter's. The people thought the Day of Judg-
ment was come. They wept, they screamed, they knew not
what to do at the sight of so much misery. The horses,
without drivers, were dragging the carts about in disorder
over the Esplanade. Soldiers escorted from the city the
dead and the dying, and the prisoners who had been plun-
dering. At last, after the greatest efforts, we obtained carts
and horses to transport our goods, but the exhausted horses
as well as men refused to work. With bread in our hands
we ourselves fed them. Whole families fell down and fainted
before our doors. Along all the walls, and out of the Dam-
thor and other gates, nothing was to be seen but one specta-
cle of misery—a camp of unfortunates in bivouac, groaning,
exhausted, famishing. I saw some who had become de-
ranged ; mothers with infants at breasts which had no nou-
rishment for them. Fautenilles of gold and satin adorned
the ramparts, and the poor exhausted firemen were reposing
on them. An Englishman, Mr. Skinner, who acted as chief
---
engineer, came into Madame 's house, whither we had
retired on Friday evening ; he had eaten nothing for nearly
40 hours, and devoured what we were able to give him, for
provisions were beginning to be scarce, and we knew not
where to procure more. He told us that if the wind should
not (Mange in a few hours, the Jungfraustieg and the Esplan-
ade would be swallowed up by the fire, and that the whole
city was in imminent danger, for that half the people were
intoxicated. The club-house would have been blown up if
the wind had not changed. My brother-in-law would not
quit his house till the last moment. We were on the Es-
planade ; Madame and her sisters had gone to her
country house. Our house was nearly empty ; we had our-
selves stripped it of everything that was most valuable, and
carried whatever we could carry. How we had the strength
to do it I know not. Our women servants worked like
horses ; but since some hours we have not been permitted to
remain at the Jungfraustieg. Although the direction of the
wind having changed, the flames and the gunpowder have
spared the club-houses, they have revenged themselves on
the poor Holzdamm, the fire continuing to rage with ve-
hemence, and the city becoming more and more in revolt.
One family has been hunted in this manner from four
different places. There being no longer any certainty of
safety on the Esplanade, at ten o'clock in the evening we
set off for the country ; but the next morning early we
returned to town. I believe Madame has at least 25
people in her house. She says the siege of Hamburg was
nothing in comparison. The rights of property have ceased.
After raging nearly 100 hours, the fire stopped at the Steine-
thor. Fears were entertained for St. George. The new Ex-
change has been saved, though surrounded by the conflagra-
tion. I cannot describe the confusion that prevails every-
where. All the gentlemen are patrolling like soldiers, for in
no quarter is one in safety. The S—'s were fortunately in
the country. Their house in town was saved by the efforts of
the firemen ; but has been pillaged by the mob. Almost all
the furniture was saved. I have seen Madame Schwartz since
these terrible occurrences, and she has related to me bow
touching it was to see the firemen exert their last efforts to
save her house, saying, that having been built by so worthy
a man, that house at least should not be burnt, for they
knew and loved the good senator, and held his memory
in great respect. Many of our friends' houses are destroyed
—all our tradespeople burnt out. All the old Jungfraustieg
is down. Streit's Hotel was blown up. Poor Mr. Streit
was still in the house when it was done. He was behind a
door, and has been much injured, though still living.
Frederick's sister-in-law, during one of the terrible nights,
gave birth to a child in our travelling carriage, in which she
had taken refuge. Many women were taken the same way
in the open fields. The dying breathed their last sigh in the
streets and highways. Words cannot tell the miseries we
have witnessed. At present we only think of doing all the
good we can—of saving and cherishing. But the lower orders
now think they may do what they like. They take possession
of all the houses that have escaped ; they transport thither
the goods they have saved, and establish their shops in them.
In this manner our house has become the dwelling of a tailor
and his family. But that is not all. The master of an oyster
cellar, finding the situation a favourable one, has brought
thither all his merchandise also. Do not think 1 have ex-
aggerated the miseries I have spoken of; no pen or words
can depict the reality.

It is, perhaps, not generally known that the medallion (or
Queen's head), if cut off the new postage envelopes, and
placed on a letter, will not pass free through the post-office.
We have seen several letters, which had been taxed the un-
paid rate, and which had the envelope medallions pasted on
them. One penny adhesive stamp will not prepay a letter
to any of the British colonies, as many suppose ; for instance,
to Canada, by packet, it would require 14 penny labels.—
Northern Whig.

A journeyman locksmith escaped from the late railway ac-
cident unhurt, but his mind was so affected by the shock,
that, since his return to the workshop, his reason has de-
parted, and he has not uttered a single word. He works on
continually, doing as much in one day as he formerly did in
several.—Galignani's Messenger.
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.—The National Convention
has been dissolved, and the members have returned to their
constituencies, to prepare a memorial to the Queen in behalf
of the charter, and praying her Majesty to cause it to be made
the law of the land.

NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL.—Nearly £50,000
has been subscribed for the purpose of erecting a new Roman
Catholic cathedral, on a most magnificent scale, in York.
The ground and buildings have already been purchased, and
some of the latter have been pulled down. Upon the site
chosen a monastery formerly stood. The ground, which ex-
tends from the Holy Trinity Church to the Bar, is to be laid
out as a crescent, in the centre of which the cathedral is to
be erected. Mr. Pugh has been selected as the architect,
and the works are to be commenced immediately.
OPENING OF THE ASSEMBLY, EDINBURGH.—The cere-
mony of opening the General Assembly, which at all times
ought to be attended with some pomp and display, is this
year, we believe, to be more than usually brilliant. The
Marquis of Bute, her Majesty's Commissioner, with becom-
ing taste and spirit, and to give eclat to the meeting of our Na-
tional Church, has given orders, not only that the ceremony
be conducted in a magnificent style, but that during the
meeting of the Assembly the utmost liberality is to be shown
to all the members. At Holyrood Palace all is bustle and
activity preparatory to the arrival of the noble marquis. His
grace's state carriage and eight beautiful horses arrived at
the royal stables on Thursday last. The procession to-mor-
row, we hear, is to be very splendid. His grace's carriage,
in which will be his grace, his chaplain, and his purse-bearer,
is to be drawn by six horses, to be followed by one with four
horses, in which are to be the pages and mace-bearer, after
one with two horses, containing the ushers, and then his
grace's private chariot. It is understood that the leveeoirstor
be very numerously attended ; and we would suggest, order
to give effect to the procession, to the High Church, that the
noblemen and gentlemen who attend the levee in their car-
riages should form part of the cortege, and that the Lord
Provost and Magistrates should appear at the levee in their
robes, and proceed in the procession with his grace. Some-
thing
of display ought to be adopted on such an occasion •
or, what would be much better, to revive the former pageantry '
of walking from the Merchant': Hall to the Church.--Edin.
Ottrg4 Standard.