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than barbarism ; I would invite yoUr attention to the only
specimen which history supplies on a large scale, of civiliza-
tion systematically divested of all reference to religious prin-
ciple ; and remind you of the atheistical philosophers of the
French Revolution, in comparison with whose gigantic atro-
cities, the worst and most degrading-cruelties of savage tribes
dwindle into mere child's play. And, on an individual scale,
I would ask, can any ignorant barbarians do a thousandth
part of the mischief to his fellow creatures, that we have seen
done by an educated infidel ? The naked chief of even a can-
nibal tribe, brandishing his tomakawk in thirst for human
blood ! Compare him, bad as he is, with Voltaire ; and his
mischief with Voltaire's mischief. Civilization without
religion, is worse than barbarism, even for this world.

Be determined, therefore, Gentlemen, to maintain your
present Scriptural system unimpaired. Manifest this deter-
mination, at once, in a way not to be mistaken. Let Mr.
Blackburn, and all who think as he does, see plainly : and
let any of your own party, who may still have a secret han-
kering after some compromise, see plainly, that to press the
subject upon you is nothing better than waste of time.

Thus let us have peace at last, from this otherwise inter-

minable agitation.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
With much respect,
Your watchful and trusty friend,
FIDUS ACHATES
Liverpool, lst December, 1842.

COLLISION OF TWO STEAMERS IN THE RIVER,
AND LAMENTABLE LOSS OF LIFE.

We deeply regret to state that a collision took place on the
river, between two of our finest coasting steam-ships, on
Wednesday night, and that the accident (for so we must as
yet term it) was attended with loss of life, at the instant, to
one individual, and of serious injury to several other parties,
two of whom arc still in a precarious state.
We have taken considerable trouble to ascertain the parti-
culars ; and from all we can learn, both from interested and
disinterested parties who witnessed the occurrence, as well
as from the observations of our reporter, who visited both
vessels after their getting (luckily) into dock, the following
are, we believe, the facts :
The steamer, Prince of Wales, a fine iron boat, belonging
to the Cork and Liverpool Company, left the Clarence-dock
to proceed on her voyage to the south of Ireland, about half-
past eight o'clock in the _evening. She crossed the river,
and got pretty close to the Cheshire shore shortly before
nine. A Dublin steamer was, it is stated, close in her wake.
When close to Egremont, and between that point and the
Magazines—within about three-quarters of a mile southward
of the Rock, and at, or nearly, nine o'clock; the weather
hazy—she came in contact with the steamer. Royal Victoria,
at the time inward bound from Carlisle. Capt. 141'Neilage,
of the Prince of Wales, seeing an approaching vessel, imme-
diately ordered the helm to be put hard a-port, which is, we
believe, the general " rule of the road" in these waters, and
which was observed. The other vessel (which was inward
bound from Carlisle), it appears, from the statement of the
officers and men of the Prince, did not observe the same re-
gulation ; and though under easy steam, in the hurry and
confusion of the moment, and with a view, no doubt, to
escape, starboarded her helm ; and before measures of pre-
vention could be employed by either vessel, the Victoria fell
athwart the hawse of the Prince, and the collision was as
frightful and lamentable, as it was unexpected, on the part of
both. A terrific crash took place; and on board of each
vessel the general apprehension was a sinking. It is stated,
on the part of the Victoria, that she was steaming up at
slackened speed; that the captain (as was the commander of
the other ship) was stationed at the top of the paddle-house ;
that a number of lights, from vessels along the Cheshire
shore, as well as those of others making downwards, were
seen; and that on the approaching light of the other steamer
coming into view, and rapidly approximating, the most im-
mediate means:of preservation were resorted to, the " rule
of the road" not being available in all cases for that purpose.
There are, as may be expected, sayings and surmises for
and against the management of each vessel; but from what
our reporter has heard and seen, we are strongly inclined to
the belief that the casualty, when duly investigated, will re-
solve itself into one of those accidents, which it is scarcely
possible to foresee, and in which, if blame is to be attached,
it is equally attributable to both parties. It is not for us,
however, to prejudge the matter. It must, on the inquest on
the body of the deceased individual, become a subject of
public enquiry and discussion, and to the forth-coming evi-
dence alone can we look to a satisfactory solution of the
question. Meantime we give the facts, as stated to us, on
board the respective vessels—both of which were fortunate
in not encountering a sea-way after they were struck, and in
_ reaching the dock, immediately after the concussion, the
tide being still nearly at the full.
The mate of the Royal Victoria stated to our reporter,—
We were bound to the port from Carlisle. In running up
the Cheshire shore from the Rock, we saw a great number of
lights from vessels at anchor, and the engine was slowed.
We saw the lights of a vessel nearing us. and called out,
but they seemed to take no notice, and in a short time
struck us on the starboard side. After the damage she re-
versed from us, and the recoil sent her off. Our engine,
which had been going slow for some time, was stopped. I
believe they did not see us until they came on board of us,
and from the violence of the concussion she must have been
going at great speed. She made a wreck of us on the star-
board side—as you see. The moment the concussion took
place I went on the starboard paddle-box where the captain
was standing, and asked him if he was hurt; and he replied
no, but that he had a narrow escape. I then, by his directions,
went down on deck, and heard some persons groaning under
the wreck (pieces of wood).. I first saw a woman (Mrs.
Dixon), and, on procuring a light, got her out. Meantime,
search was made for more and a man (Savage) was found
under the rubbish, who was severally hurt in his back. He
was carried to the opposite deck-house. Soon after, another
man (John Brown) was found under the rubbish. A cabin
passenger, I believe, a doctor, came up and requested to feel
his pulse. He did so, and said, he is gone, and that as
nothing was laying on the top of him, we might leave him
and look after the others who were hurt, and who might yet
be under the ruins. We found a female (Mrs. Savage), and
afterwards a man (Mr. Savage), both hurt: (Mrs. have in par-
ticular. Also, another female (Mrs. Dixon), very much
injured. A young man had also his shoulder put out, but
was able to walk. The weather at the time was merate,
and the sea smooth, but there was a considerable haze.od
On visiting the Victoria we found that she had been
struck just before the paddle-box on the starboard side. The
concussion must have been tremendous, judging from its ef-
fect. Her side was regularly cut into, even to the water's
edge, the breach being five or six feet wide at the top, and
tapering down in conformity with the shape of the stem of
the iron steamer. The front part, the rim (or rather plat-
form) of the paddle house was first struck, and operates as a
fender, otherwise the vessel would probably have been cut in
twain, or so much injured as immediately to sink. The
outer beam of the rim, which was of great dimensions, and
of African oak, as well as a stringer under the water ways,
of the same material, and of at least 16 inches in width, and
the timber and planks were smashed through. The deck-
house, for passengers, erected in front of the paddle-box,
and extending 18 or 20 feet, was completely crushed into
what may be called match-wood, and in this were the unfor-
tunate parties who were injured, at the time. It was filled
with seats and other accommodations, and all of them were
enjoying themselves, unconscious of their impending fate.
This was all thrown upon the upper deck. The front of the
paddle-house was also destroyed ; and the quantity of timber
broken up, and of strong iron bolts twisted and curved by
the concussion is truly astonishing. The fore rigging on the
starboard side was also carried away, and the bulwarks to an
extent of about 20 feet. The figure head of the Prince, or
rather the figure of Britannia, in whose arms had rested the
Prince, was left on the deck. The Prince had disappeared
in the concussion, as well as the heads of the lions, (one on
each side,) on which Britannia rested. It was this figure-
head, we learn, that, in demolishing the deck-house, killed
poor Brown.
We also visited the Prince of Wales, iron ship, on which
the shock, if we except the loss of life, was scarcely less de-
structive. Her cut-water, figure-head, &c., were completely
carried away, and her bows on both sides broken, or rather
crushed and torn inwards—the breadth of two plates—a little
above water-mark, making a clear opening on each side, of
eight to ten feet long, and four to five feet in depth. Some
remarks were made, and much talk was yesterday put afloat
with reference to this vessel, to the effect that the casualty
had put iron to the test, and that it was found wanting. We
do not agree with such premature opinionists. No ship, be
she of what materials she may, can withstand a concussion
such as that under review, without serious injury, and we do
not see, in this case, that a wooden vessel would, under
similar circumstances, have come off better. The probability,
indeed, is that she would have fared worse, by being, in ad-
dition to being broken in, shivered and shaken from bow to
stern. The wooden ship was smashed up to a great extent :
the iron ship was equally damaged. But no ship of either
material can abide such a shock without incurring imminent
danger of sinking, and had either of them named been in a
sea-way, distant from the land, it is quite clear that they
must both have gone down before they could have availed
themselves of the means of repair. A number of men are
now employed on each of them, and in the course of a fort-
night or so they will be again " fit for sea." The repairs of
the iron vessel will, we learn, be more readily accomplished
than those of the other.
On board of the Prince of Wales, happily, only one indi-
vidual was injured—the steward, who, while standing in the
cabin, was thrown from his balance by the force of the con-
cussion against the stove, and had two ribs broken. The
Victoria was thrown by the shock nearly on her beamehds.
The passengers and crew were nearly all on deck at the time.
The sufferers in the Royal Victoria were, immediately on
the arrival of the vessel in the Clarence Dock, conveyed to
the Northern Hospital, where they were attended to with the
greatest kindness and assiduity by Mr. Stubbs and the house-
surgeon of that excellent establishment, and his assistants.
To the latter gentleman we are indebted for most of the
following particulars, relative to the unfortunate parties who
were on board the Royal Victoria :
John Brown, who was killed, was a seaman, He had been
paid off a few days ago, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, after a
foreign voyage. He has left a wife and four children in this
town—two of them daughters—fine looking young women.
William Savage, and Ellen Savage, his wife. They were
formerly, we learn, connected with the Sanspareil Theatre,
in this town, and were on their way from Penrith to Lime-
rick, in the west of Ireland. William Savage has sustained
a fracture of the spine, and his recovery is doubtful, if not
hopeless. His wife suffers under severe contusions in vari-
ous parts, but is considered out of danger.
Robert Unsworth, a young man, a draper's assistant, from
Newcastle, on his way to Dublin. Several contusions, but
not dangerous.
Margaret Dixon, a married woman, from Newcastle, in-
tending to go by the England packet-ship to join her husband
in the United States. The husband is by trade a dyer. She
is severely and dangerously injured in the lower part of the

taken out, having been in the centre of the fire three hours.
As soon as possible it was opened, and the contents ex-
amined, when they were found to be precisely in the same
state as when put in—neither discoloured or parched—and
the gunpowder was proved to be unchanged, by igniting a
small portion of it. The contents of the box were then put
back again, and it was replaced in the centre of the fire, and
covered up as before, where it remained until half-past nine,
when the coal, having become converted into a mass of coke
and clinker, the crust was broken into, and the box taken
out, and examined again. The outer case was perfectly red
hot, but, on opening -it, the inner box presented, to the
astonished gaze of numerous spectators, as bright andfresh
an appearance as when first turned out of the workman's
hands., and its contents were equally free from injury or
change (except so far as being slightly damp), while the
temperature of the interior chamber was scarcely more than
18 degrees!
The foregoing are the simple facts of this extrordinary ex-
periment, and witnessed by me throughout; and I cannot
close this statement without observing, that so satisfied am
I, from what I saw, of the perfect safety of these boxes, that
I should assist in extinguishing a powder magazine on fire,
in which they were exclusively used as depositories for the
powder, with as much freedom from fear as if it were an
ordinary dwelling-house.
I remain, sir, respectfully yours,
E. WELLER.
Mr. Weller's Report to C. W. Williams, Esq.,
of the trial i❑ Liverpool of Aug. 31, 1842.

City of Dublin Steam Packet Company's Office,
24, Water-street, Liverpool, Sep. 21, 1842.
My Dear Sir.—The bearer, Mr. Milner, is the Inventor
and Patentee of the Fire proof Boxes, and is about to visit
Dublin in the course of his business, and as introduction to
the influential portion of its inhabitants. he proposes to give
a demonstration of the fire-proof qualities of his Boxes and
Safes. I witnessed such a demonstration here, by his placing
one of his boxes in the centre of an immense mass of fife,
and which box contained not only Paper but even Gunpow-
der : after several hours in the heat of this great furnace the
box was taken out, and the papers found to be all safe, and
even the Gunpowder dry and as perfect as ever. Should
Mr. Milner give his proposed demonstration, the subject is
well worthy the patronage of the Dublin Society, and which
they might extend to him by allowing the demonstration to
be carried on in their premises for a few hours under the eye
of such gentlemen as would take an interest in watching so
interesting an experiment. Mr. Milner will explain the non-
conducting power of the material which protects the interior
of the box from the intensity of the action of the fire. I
have given Mr. Milner this note tinder the conviction of the
subject being one of considerable importance.
I am, faithfully yours,
CHARLES W. 'WILLIAMS.
Isaac Weld, Esq., Honorary Secretary to the
Royal Dublin Society, Leinster-street.

SAINT ANDREW'S DAY

Wednesday being the anniversary of Scotland's patron
saint, about 140 of his disciples, together with a slight
mixture of English and Welsh, graced the large room of Mr.
Halliday, Everton-brow. Mr. Ilasting filled the chair,
and Mr. Gibson ably acted as croupier. The dinner, which
was served in excellent style, and of the best quality, gave
full satisfaction ; the cloth being drawn, the worthy chairman
rose to propose the first toast. He should this time depart
from a regular and well-ordered custom, and at once give
the memory of him whom they had met to celebrate, " Saint
Andrew ;" which was received with the usual honors.
The CHAIRMAN next gave the " Queen ;" may she live
long, and be as healthy and happy as he could wish her.
" Prince Albert," was the next toast given ; after which,
the " Prince of Wales, and all the members of the Royal
Family," were proposed.
Mr. JEFFREY sang the " Land o' Cakes" in excellent
style.
The VICE-CHAIRMAN proposed the health of all who hai e
met this day for a similar purpose elsewhere
Mr. HAYDOCK, kith, in good glee, sang '
want a bottle or a friend."
Mr. FORMBY'S health being given and responded to, Mr.
Kirkman volunteered to sing " The lass I love so well,"
which he completed admirably.
Mr. HASTINGS gave the " Memory of Sir NY
drunk in solemn silence.
The Vic E-CH AIRMAN gave the " Town and trade of Liver-
pool ;" with three times three.
The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of Mr. M`George,
Everton, and fully detailed the strong attachment which has,
for nearly a period of thirty years, bound the worthy
" father" of this homely gathering to the cause which it was
meant to celebrate, and to the locality in which it was held.
Mr. WGEoßGEreturned thanks, and " May nae waur be
amang us." Mr. Armstrong was next called upon, when be
gave an original parody, entitled—" The nice old gentleman."

" May we never

'alter Scott,"

Arise, my Muse! and sing a song
Of one that 's not so old ;
For kindness and goodnature too,
Is worth his weight in gold.
He cheers his neighbour's fireside,
And helps him from his store ;
He lives in peace with all around,
Gives freely to the poor.
0, he's a nice old gentleman,
And worth his weight in gold !

Domingo's Loch has known him long,
Where he with merry glee
Gazed on the curlers' eager game,
Swept with the grand cockee ;
While beef and greens, at close of day,
Gave zest to mountain dew ;
He played the game twice o'er again
Amongst the jovial crew.
0, he's a nice old gentleman, &c

In summer days the bowling-green
Found him with bowl in hand,
To play match or game he ne'er
Would with a:neighbour stand ;
And once, upon St. George's Green,
He bore away the prize,
While mighty players stood around,
And stared with all their eyes.
0, he's a nice old gentleman, &c,

Saint Andrew's night at Halliday's
Would soon be but a name,
Its spirit and its soul be lost
To pleasure and to fame,
Should our M`George be called away
From us, and did not share
The merry song and cheering glass,
Nor fill his happy chair.
For he's a nice old gentleman, &C

Then long may health and peace be his,
And may he never know
The pains and sorrows that await
Us mortals here below ;
But may his gentle soul take flight
From earth unto the skies ;
And take its everlasting place
With Him that never dies.
0, he's a nice old gentleman, Scc

The CHAIRMAN then introduced the Ayrshire bard, Hr.
Ramsey, and highly eulogised the living merit which had
that night honoured them with its company.
Mr. RAMSEY returned his sincere thanks.
Dr. DILLON sang in good style "The thistle and shamrock
so green," and called upon Mr. Dalziel, by whom Tanna-
hill's beautiful song, " 0, are ye sleeping, Maggie ?" was
sung in masterly style, and elicited the highest enconiums.
Mr. Dalziel then neatly proposed " The press of Liverpool."
Mr. WALKER returned thanks amidst some little disorder,
which the chairman appeared unable to repress; and after a
few more toasts and songs the meeting separated, gratified
with the evening's entertainment, but regretting that the
want of order should have somewhat clouded its termination.

DREADFUL MURDER AT ST. HELEN'S

A dreadful murder was committed on Sunday evening, in
the neighbourhood of St. Helen's, on the person of a young
married female of respectable connections, the wife of a
painter named Wilmot Buckley.
It appears that on Sunday afternoon, after having been at
church, the deceased and her husband went out together for
a walk. About seven o'clock they called at a public-house
in Eccleston, on the Liverpool highway, where they had each
a glass of rum. This was the last time they were seen toge-
ther. About eight o'clock the husband went to his lodgings,
near St. Helen's, and inquired for his wife, stating that he
had left her for a few minutes when they were at the top of
Comb-shop brow, and when he returned for her she was
gone. He made inquiries for her at other places, where she
had been accustomed to call ; and at last he went to bed,
leaving it to be understood that he imagined she had gone
to Ashton, where her mother lived, and where he would
follow her in the morning. This story did not appear im-
probable, as it was known that her mother had invited her
to Ashton to stay there till after her accouchenzent. The
next morning, (Monday,) Buckley started on his way to
Ashton. The same morning the body of his wife was found
quite dead in a field at the top of Comb-shop brow : there
was a frightful wound in the throat, the arteries of the neck
being completely divided.
Information being forwarded to the police, Mr. Superin-
tendent Storey and several officers pursued Buckley, whom
they met along with his father and mother corning towards
St. Helen's. He was taken into custody, and on examining
his person, his shirt sleeves were found drenched in blood.

CORONER'S INQUEST.
(From our own Correspondent.)
It having become known that John Heyes, Esq., the
coroner for this division, had directed the inquest to be held
on Wednesday morning, at the Eccleston Arms, at nine
o'clock, a vast multitude congregated near the house, and
the inquest room was filled by as many:of the respectable
portion of the inhabitants as it could conveniently hold. The
jury was sworn at about half-past nine o'clock; and soon
after a car arrived, containing the prisoner and Mr. Storey.
Buckley appeared in good spirits, and throughout the
whole of the inquiry conducted himself with apparent listless-
ness, and preserved his equanimity in a most surprising de-
gree. We give the evidence in full. The first witness called

was
Thomas Littler, of Windle, who deposed as follows :—I
am employed in sinking a coal-pit in a field adjoining the
turnpike-road at Combshop-brow, in Eceleston. On Mon-
day morning last, the 28th instant, about twenty minutes
past seven, I left my work to go to George Morton's, who
lives at one of the new houses at the top of Combshop-brow,
to borrow a spade. He came down stairs, and on looking
through his pantry window, in the direction of the place
where I had been working, he said, " Thomas, what lies
yonder ? " and, on looking, I said, " It is either a man or a
woman ; " and I jumped over the hedge, and went to look
at it. I found it was the body of a woman, lying rather on
her left side, with her head turned back over a piece of soil.
On further examination, I found that her throat was cut,
and that she was lying in a lake of blood. There was a cloth
put into the wound in the throat, which I pulled out. It was'
saturated with blood. I turned the body over, and found
under it a thimble and a pair of scissors, with a chain attached
to them. I took those articles with me, and afterwards gave
them to Edward Mercer. I left the body as I found it, and
went to inform Mr. Glover, one of the constables. The body
was lying about forty or fifty yards from the turnpike-road.
There is no proper road over the lipid to go to Green Bank
(the place where deceased and prisoner lived), but people are

in the habit of going that way.
James William Glover examined, said—l examined the
place where deceased lay, to see it I could find a knife or
other instrument with which her throat might have been cut,
but I could not find any. Deceased had on a pair of leather
gloves, which were neither bloody nor soiled. Her bonnet
was on her head and tied under her chin. I caused the body
to be removed to the Eccleston Arms, where it now lies.
of Green Bank, in
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havewife ofse Johnen the Rigby,bodyof a woman lying in a
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stable, at the Eccleston Arms public-hcuse. It is the body
of Elizabeth Buckley, the wife of the prisoner Wilmot
Buckley, now present. They have lodged at my house to-
gether since March last. They had a bed-room and parlour
to themselves. They seemed to live comfortably together.
They used occasionally to walk out on a Sunday. On Sun-
day last deceased was at home all day. In the afternoon the
prisoner went to church. He returned to his tea, and about
half-past five they went out together to take a walk. The
deceased called to me—" Mrs. Rigby, will you please to
leave the key of the back door where you usually leave it, for
Wilmot and I are going out for a walk, and I do not know
what time I shall be back ?" I said " very well," and they
went out together. They did not lock the door of their

room. I went out twice, and found the key where I had
left it, when I had returned about half-past eight. About a
quarter before nine the prisoner came into the house. He
called out, a," Mrs. Rigby, has Elizabeth come?" and I said
" No, I have not seen her; I have been out, but I found the
key where 1 left it." lie said "we went to the Bird-in-
lewd for a walk, and as we were coming back I stopped at a
lane end, and she went on. I was not more than eight or
ten minutes there, when I walked on and expected to see her,
but I did not, and I then thought she had gone to my sister
Mary's, and I went there to see, but she had not been there,
and I then thought she was come home." I said
not been at home that I know of." He said he 'a
a tire at all events, and he did so. The husband 01 ins sister
Mary came in with him, and they remained in the room to-
gether about ten minutes, when they both left., the prisoner
sayi to me, " Ails. Rigby, will you listen to this door ;
am out, alftl I will see if I can find her ?" I said
" yes, d they went away. I went to bed about ten
o'cloc I was awakened by the prisoner a little past 11.
who kid, "Mrs. Rigby, I cannot find Elizabeth anywhere."
I answered, " you cannot find her !" and lie said " No, I
have been every where that I thought likely to inquire about
her, but could not find her." After he went into his room
he called out that she had kft the keys of her box in, so that
she could not have thought of going off any where to stop,
and I said " No, how could she think of going off anywhere
to stop, when she told me to leave the key for her." 1 had no
further conversation with him then. I was very uneasy and
got up early in the morning. It was a little before six.
1 lighted a candle and went to the prisoner's room.
I called out at his door but he did not answer at
first; but on calling Wilmot a second time, he said,
" What ;" I said, " Elizabeth is not come ;" and he
said, " No." I said, " Well, get up and go and seek her ;
I never had so miserable a night in all my life." He said,
" Nor I ; I have had no sleep, except a bit since four
o'clock." I said, " I will leave you this candle ; light yours
by it, and come down and have a cup of tea and get off to
Ashton" (the residence of deceased's mother.) I left him
the candle ; and in a short time I said, " Wilmot, have you
lighted your candle ?" and he said, " No, I have none ; I
let mine burn out last night." I said, " Well, keep that,
and I will light another." He did so, and came down about
six o'clock and went into his own apartment. He only re-
mained there about two minutes, and he then came into my
room and had two cups of tea and smoked a pipe. He then
went out to go to Ashton, to the deceased's mother. He
told me he would go and inquire for her there. I said, " I
wish she maybe gone to Ashton, as she told me her mother
wished her to go there to be confined. She was expecting to
be confined next month (December). It was her first child.
She was married to the prisoner last January.
Peter Robinson said—l keep the Bird i'th' Hand, public-
house, in Eccleston. I knew deceased and prisoner. They
came together to my house about six o'clock on Sunday last.
They had each a glass of rum and water, and.remained above
half an hour. They were in a room by themselves. and I
did not hear any words pass between them. They left about
half-past six o'clock.
John Chadwick said—l live in a cottage about two hun-
dred yards from the place where the body was found, between
the latter place and the Bird i'th' Hand. As I was return-
ing home last Sunday night, the bell of St. Helen's Church
was tolling. Before I reached home it ceased, and the little
bell began to ring. This rings immediately before they go in
church, which is at half-past six. When I had been in the
house a few minutes, I heard a strange loud noise, which I
I cannot describe. It lasted but a short time. I heard it
more than once. I desired my wife to lock the door. It
was then about a quarter or 10 minutes to seven. I did not
go out to see what was the matter.
Wm. Storey, superintendent of police, said,—On Monday
morning last, in consequence of information I had received,
I went to apprehend the prisoner. When I got to Haydock,
on my way to Ashton, I met the prisoner coming towards
St. Helen's with his father, and his wife's mother. I got out
of my gig, and asked him what had become of his wife, he
replied, that he had lost her the night before ; that he had
occasion to go into a field, and she walked on. I then got
hold of him, and searched his pockets; I found a large clasp
knife, 21 shillings in silver, and 21d in copper; there are six
halfcrowns, a bunch four keys, and two loose ones, a pencil-
case, two combs, and a purse. I also found a silk pocket
handkerchief with some blood upon it, a watch and guard.
I saw a little blood on the knife. I asked where he got this
blood, and he replied, "it is not blood, it is red paint." I
then desired him to take off his coat, and with my assistance
he did so •, and, I then found both the wrists of his shirt
were bloody. I then told him I charged him with the mur-
der of his wife ; lie made no reply. When I got him to the
station-house, I was examining his trousers, and he said
voluntarily, these are not the trousers 1 had on yesterday, I
had a pair of black ones on, and they are at home. I pro-
ceeded to his lodgings, and in a box in his bed-room. I found
a pair of trousers, a coat, and waistcoat ; there is blood on
the cuffs and other parts of the coat, and on the trousers, but
not on the waistcoat. 1 was also shown the prisoner's sitting
room, and found the candlestick, now produced, with blood
upon it •, from the appearance of the candlestick, it is evident
the candle had burnt out of itself. Three of the halfcrowns
which were in the prisoner's possession were tinged with
blood. Yesterday afternoon, the prisoner knocked at his
cell door, and wished to see Mr. Greenall, the magistrate.
Previously to that, he asked me to allow him to see Mr.
Wood, with whom he had worked. I told him he might see
him, but that I must be present. lat the same time cau-
tioned him not tell me or any other person anything that
might implicate himself; he said he had something to com-
municate to Mr. Wood, who had been a friend to him, which
I might hear if I choose. I went to Mr. 'Wood's house, but
he was from home. I afterwards went to the prisoner's cell
to see that all was right. Mr. Greenall was standing by the
door. Prisoner said he wanted to see Mr. Greenall. I called
to Mr. Greenall, and he went into the cell with me. John
Hampson, a deserter, was in the same cell. The prisoner
began to make a statement, when Mr. Greenall stopped him,
andr said, the prisoner had better not say anything, he did
wish him to hear, and that if he did say anything,it would be
given in evidence against him. The prisoner then turned to
me, and said, " it was me that did the deed, and I hope that
you will be a, friend to me." I said, whatever you say to me,
I shall have to give in evidence against you. I cannot befriend
you, your case will have to go before a higher tribunal. He
then stated, that he went to the Bird-in-hand, and had a
glass of rum, and his wife had another ; h
he ad not had one
than two or three glasses all day ; that he left the Bird-in-
e
hand with his wife, when the bells were ringing a little after
six o'clock ; that his wife had been brow-beating hint on the
road, because lie had spoken to a girl whom he had seen at
Wigan •, that he had occasion to go into a field, and his wife
followed him, and began to brow-beat him again ; upon which
he jumped up, pulled his knife out of his pocket, and stabbed
her; lie said he did not know how he did it, nor how he got
out of the field ; he afterwards told me that after he had done
the deed, he took three half-crowns out of her pocket; he
said the knife which 1 found on him, was the knife he used.
Mr. Greenall and the deserter were present when he made
this confession.
William Henry Scudamore sworn.—l am assistant to Mr.
Garlin, surgeon, of St. Helen's. I was requested, on Mon-
day last, to examine the body of the deceased. I first exa-
mined her clothes, with a view of ascertaining if there had
been anv struggle, but there had not. She was carefully and
nicely dressed ; and had no marks of violence whatever,
except a deep wound in the throat. The wound was about
three inches in length and two in depth. I found the wind-
pipe and larnvx both severed, and also the two external jugular
but
veins : the left carotid artery was very nearly
not quite.; the instrument had entered the substance between
the fourth and fifth vertebre ; the knife now produced would
be likely to inflict such a wound. The death of the deceased
must have been instantaneous. It would be impossible to
cry out after the infliction of the wound. The deceased ap-
peared to be in the last month of pregnancy.
After the above evidence had been adduced, the prisoner
was tnost strictly cautioned and advised not to say anything,
and was particularly told that if he did say anything it would
be given in evidence against him, when he made the following
statement to the coroner and jury :
" I went to church last Sunday afternoon, and afterwards
got a cup of tea ; my wife wished me to take a walk with her,
and I told her to put her bonnet on. She went up stairs and
did so, and a little shawl. She told Mrs. Rigby to leave the
key, saying, we, perhaps, should not be long. We went out
of the front door ; and she said, `We will go this way ;'
and so we went up the hill to the Bird-i'th'-hand. She had
been poorly for two or three days, but felt better in the af-
ternoon, and wished for a walk. We had each a glass of
rum. When. we were coming out we heard the St. Helen's
coach coming, at least I thought it was it, and I asked her if
it were the St. Helen's coach, and she said she did not know.
We stopped till the coach passed us, and found it was the
St. Helen's coach, and we went on after it towards home. I
had been out of work a month last Monday. I belonged to
the Oddfellows, and had got my card and went on tramp.
I went through Manchester, and called at her aunt's where
we were married from. On our way home I was telling her
about an old sweetheart of mine, whom I had met at Wigan.
So it made her jealous, and she began upbraiding me, and
said I would look at anybody rather than her. We were
going past that gate-place leading into that field by the New
Houses, and I went into the field, and she followed me, still
upbraiding me about this woman, and I threatened what I
would do at her if she did not hold her noise about it, as it
was all nonsense ; and I was so mad at her going on so, that
I pulled my knife out of my pocket and stabbed her."
The culprit then signed his name to this statement in a very
collected manner.
The jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against the
prisoner, Wilmot Buckley, and he now lies at Kirkdale wait-
ing his trial at the March Assizes.
It appears that this villain took some pains to endeavour
to hide the foul crime of which he had been guilty, and really
when we consider that, after having butchered a tender
creature in the situation which must have called forth the
sympathetic feelings of any being less hardened than a fiend,
he could be so far collected as to take from the pocket of his
murdered wife, whilst she was struggling in the agonies of
death, the money which he knew she had on her person, in
order that he might suffer no greater pecuniary loss than he
could help ; we might indeed have expected that conscience
had entirely lost its office, and that he would have been able
to persist in his pretended ignorance of the fate of his wife ;
but when he found that his schemes were not laid deep
enough, and that he was taken, in the company of the mother
of his victim, with the instrument which bore the marks of
murder upon it, and with the blood of his wife on his arms,
he was convinced that the evidence of his guilt was too
glaring, and he made the confession which he felt assured it
would avail him nothing to withhold. What must have been
the feelings of the culprit's father, and the victim's mother,
when they saw before their eyes the blood of her they were
in search of matted round those arms which ought to have
been her protection ! Truly, to attempt to describe them
would be vain as to imagine them would be impossible.
Such were the feelings of the women of St. Helen s, that
they strongly desired the jury to save themselves, as well as
the judge and jury who might have to try the murderer, the
trouble of bringing in a verdict and sentencing the prisoner,
as all they had got to do was to turn him outs large,
hi am.
nd
they (the women) would in a summary wayiy ipose at
of
gibbeting him on the spot where he had committed the
aurder, and stone him to death.

`she has

Juld make

HiLtsuoitouGra.—The Marquis of Downshire, during the
Last three months, has employed no fewer than 1.200 men in
draining and other public works on his extensive estates.
On Saturday last, two considerable sums of money were
lost by different persons under the following circumstances.
The first loss is that of a gentleman from Dumfermline, tem-
porarily resident in Glasgow, and who had about his person,
a sum amounting to £3OO. :To secure it from all risk of ac-
cident he resolved to deposit it, neither in pocket nor pocket.
book, but between his drawers and skin. the former being
of course, securely fastened at the ancle. Instead of doing
this, however, the gentleman alike accidental) and unfortu-
nately placed the amount between.. his drawers and trousers,
and considered.all safe until his attention was directed by a
boy in Castlemilk Place, Gorbals, to something he had drop-
ped, which he found to be a bundle of his notes that bad slip-
ped down, and fallen out from the mouth of his trousers.
On counting the sum thereafter, he found he was minus £BO,
which
.had no doubt escaped from the larger bundle before the
owner's attention was directed to his loss, as above stated.
As yet the missing money has not been recovered, but the
police have, we believe, got a clue, which_ it is hoped they
may be enabled to follow out succes
ck
sfully.The second case
is tbat of a tradesman, whb had his poet picked about 12
o'clock in the day, in Argyll-street, of £7O, The money, we
believe, had been deposited in his coat-pocket, and we have
not heard that there is any clue to either the thieves or the
property. These losses are no doubt very painful; but still
it is probable they would not have occurred had the money
been placed in an inner-breast, or buttoned-trousers, pocket,
as is usually the case with those who carry large sums about
their person. It is plain that in the first instance
.the loss
was owing to the extreme caution used to guard against loss.
Glasgow Mail.

THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION

By SIGNOR ZANDOTTI, M.A

Ecco! qui sortie una superba Mole
Che Illustre !nano eresse al par d'Atene,
Che spezza d'ignoranza le catene,
E sparge lace al par d'un altro Sole !

Questo e quel Teinpio in cui le antiche sculpt
Risorgeran fra nui per comun bene,
Questo e quel Polite the perenni vene
Offre di Scienze a chi libar ne vuole.

Ma pur, di tauta Mole ov'e it sostegno?
•Ove it Pastore ? e chi n'e mai la guida ?
Chi cura aver ne pub? chi ha tanto ingegno

QtrEGLI*, risponde un Genio, e in lui ti affida
Osserva, it vedi quei sol degno,
Giovane egli e, ma in suo saper confida.

* The Principal

Liverpool, December Ist, 1842,

We have attempted a translation of the above sonnet, but as
it has been hastily made, we should not wish the merit of
the original to be estimated by the faint reflection we have
produced of it.
Behold yon rising pile! 'Tis classic ground !
The School of Athens rising o'er the plains,
To strike from ignorance her dead'ning chains,
And spread the light of Science all around !

This is the Temple where of ancient lore,
The renovated fires once more shall glow !
This is the Fount at whose perennial flow
Who wills may drink of learning's richest store!

Mighty the edifice ! But who sustains ?
Where is the Pastor ? Who our steps shall guide ?
Whose is the care—too great for human pains?

Here is the man*—a Genius quick replied,
Observe him well! Most worthily he reigns.
"Youthful, but wise; in him ye may confide!

*The Rev. J. W. Conybeare, Principal

CORRESPONDENCE.

BEGGING IMPOSTORS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Having this day received an Anti-Corn-Law League
circular, and being threatened with a visit from two laciies
for the purpose of making collections, I beg to give them
notice, that should they call, I will immediately give them in
charge of the police as begging impostors, ‘vliich is the mildest
term that can be used for such abominable humbug
I am, sir, &c

30th Nov., 1842

IL PHIBBS,
17, Falkner-street

THE RADICALS' FRIENDSHIP OF EDUCATION

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

I see no reason why my former letter should be so much
abused by men whom I am disposed to allow a quiet repose
in native obscurity. If they are unwilling to run the risk of
public censure, they should not be over-anxious about public
praise. I beg of them not to affect surprise at the dulness
of my vision. I cannot believe that a copy of Bonnycastle's
Algebra is any proof either that they teach or that they are
competent to teach mathematics, any more than I can be-
lieve that anatomy is taught in every place where I see a
skull. _ _

Their salaries range between £25 and about the double of
that, and I believe, and so do their employers, that that is
ample compensation for all they are required to teach. To
those who sneer at my remarks, I would say, the only proof
I can admit of the sincerity of the friends to " better educe.
ion," is, first, that they place in these schools persons com-
petent to give that education ; and second, that they pay
them " good living salaries."
I shall say no more of these teachers and their owners, if
the latter will not thrust the former in our way, to shew how
insincere is the one class, and how worthless the other.
INVESTIGATOR.

THE LATE BOATS TO WOODSIDE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sir.,—l know not, Mr. Editor, if you have a young family
roaring up to manhood, but, if so, you will, I presume, agree
with me as to the necessity of every father of a family using
all diligence to guard them against not only every direct sys-
tem of immorality, but against all indirect stratagems or prac-
tices leading thereto.
We have at Woodside lately introduced what are called
" late boats," running between us and Liverpool till twelve
o'clock, the consequences of which are dreadful to contem-
plate, not only in their tendency to keep our youth on your
side the water till very untimely hours, but also leadingthem,
or at least giving them great facility; to their being led into
all kinds of gaiety, which hitherto they have been kept from
later than ten o'clock, as after that hour there was not, un-
til lately, any boat plying (unless occasionally a later boat
was specially applied for and additionally paid for).
You cannot conceive, sir, the great anxiety these late boats
have brought upon the heads of families resident here, who
have their sons apprentices or clerks to the merchants of
Liverpool, they being kept almost continually in a state of
alarm, not only respecting their personal safety, but theap-
prehension of the danger of their falling into the temptations
and allurements of the various kinds of vice and dissipation
they are by this arrangement constantly exposed to, to say
nothing about the sort of company they are likely to meet
with on board the boats traversing the Mersey at these un-
seasonable hours. It is a well known fact, sir, that persons
of the very loosest character are occasionally availing them-
selves of the facilities these boats afliird of committing depre-
dations here, and escaping at once to Liverpool, and vice
versa from your side hither.

It is understood that a few owners of property at Woodside,
who happen to be influential, have entertained an opinion
their houses will let better to parties who are in the practice
of keeping gay company and late hours, which certainly can-
not, or ought not to be sustained a moment in competition
with the glaring improprieties thosc late heats have given rise
to, the more especially, as the ferry is in the hands of the
commissioners of Birkenhead, and worked for the advantage
of the whole of the inhabitants, the profits arising therefrom
to be placed in reduction of the rates levied upon the town-
ship ; and it being notorious the ferryage received from these
late boats is far beneath the additional expenses of working
them, it is not to be suffered the inhabitants at large should
bear the loss occasioned thereby, merely to gratify the ava-
rice or cupidity of a very few individuals.
An address or petition to the commissioners has been set
on foot, requesting them to discontinue these late boats,
which there is no doubt, if opportunity be afforded, will be
signed by numbers of the regular and well disposed inhabi-
tants of this place ; which it is confidently hoped will meet
their due attention, and cause them to annihilate the direful
effects these late boats occasion.

ith regard to the advantage the few promoters of these
boats promise themselves, it may not be amiss to warn them
it may ultimately be to their loss. Several inhabitants who
have at heart the welfare of their youth are already medi-
tating a removal.—Yours, respectfully,
AN INHABITANT.
Woodside, Nov. 30, 1812.

IS THE FREE-TRADE THEORY PRACTICALLY

SOUND OR ROTTEN ?

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—The folly of men, in seeking the accomplishment of
purposes totally impossible, is frequently evinced; and we
ought, therefore, to be wise enough, first of all, to ask the
question, "Is it possible ? " before we attempt to bring
about any end, however desirable it may be. A proceeding
of this sort would often save a large amount of labour, and
repress many foolish hopes. This would be true of private
matters, and is particularly applicable to public matters ;
and to the League especially, I cannot help thinking that a
few preliminary questions would have been extremely ser-
viceable, and would have saved them a large amount of
pounds, shillings, and pence,—to say nothing of words in
countless myriads, and falsehoods almost equally numerous.
tind while their orators, committees, and directors are busy
shout the main thing 050,000), it will not perhaps be alto-
gether unprofitable to men of purer motives to put the in-
quiry, "Is the thing practicable?" That is, is it possible
that we can have a free trade "all over the world" ? For
this, be assured, dear reader, is the alleged goal to which the
Anti-Monopoly Association professes to be driving ; nothing
less, nothing more than this, is their avowed object.
In the first place, then, what are we to say of our neigh-
bours, France, Germany, and Russia? Will they open their
ports to our manufactures of every description, on condition
that our ports be opened to theirs ? Why, the idea is pre-
posterous in the extreme; for so long as they have labour,
capital, and talent, needing employment, nothing but outright
insanity could induce them to adopt those views by which
their own native labour, capital, and talent, should be with-
drawn for the accommodation of those of Great Britain's
enlightened free-traders. It is a fact that ought never to be
forgotten, when-arguing on this question, that, in the coun-
tries in question, there has been a gradually increasing im-
port duty placed on all British manufactures, in proportion
as those manufactures have become cheap; so that the
cheaper our goods have been, the larger havebeen theirfiscal
exactions and profits. The reason of this is obvious, and
may be given in one word—self-defence.
And then again—would the United States reciprocate the
free-trade policy, and devote her own growing manufacturing
population to starvation and ruin, to accommodate Richard
Cobden ? So far from there being any reasonable expecta-
tion of this, the tariffs of the United States exhibit abundant
proof that an anxious desire pervades all classes that British
manufactures should be entirely excluded. They can manu-
facture as well as grow corn for themselves, and they can
supply us with corn to boot ; and if we would condescend to
consume their corn instead of our own, we should, we guess,
do the very thing which they desire—enrich them and im-
poverish ourselves. If there exist any desire in America to
reciprocate the free-trade theory, let our brainless anti-mo-
nopolists point it out. Are there in America any anti-ma-
nufacture-lave clubs ?—any anti-monopoly clubs, trying to
bring about a repeal of import duties on English manufac-
tures? I trove not. There is, therefore, no probability that
America would reciprocate our policy, should we to-morrow
throw open, not only the ports of this country, but of all our
dependencies, to her corn.
But unless France, Germany, Russia, and America would
consent to repeal their imporeduties, if we repeal ours, what
chance of a "free trade" even with these powers, to say
nothing of
" all the world " ? Each country has its indige-
nous produce, capital, and labour to protect, and must ne-
cessarily impose restraints upon the competition of foreign-
ers, whenever that competition threatens domestic prospe-
rity ; and although Americaconutgn way wish to supply us with
corn and beef, duty free,
she would not, for the accomplish-
ment of this object, to destruction the total of her
and thus destroy a moiety of
manufacturing interests,
resources
the £50,000 w, merely to accomro
the Leagueu. ee-trade visionaries.
Ifwhich care extorting from the
gullible were to be appropriated to the
of British waste lands for the growing of
pockets of the
seeking bybring American corn, or pur-
posefill-
ing of cultivation
corn, it would be a much more rational expenditure of the
it to in
s of such men as honest Acland.
the pocket
money
Since, therefore, we have no reason to suppose that other
than
nuld reciprocate the free-trade theory, we may
powers
fairly conclude that the anti-monopolists are labouring under
strong delusion, and are seeking to bring about an impracti-
cable thing, for such is the theory of " free trade all over the
world "

Yours, respectfully,

DELTA.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday night last, the
24th instant, whilst Wm. Temple Best, Esq., of Stepple
Hall, near Cloebury Mortimer, in the county of Salop, was
returning home from a dinner party at Neen Savage (a mile
from his residence) he was accidentally thrown from his
horse, down a steep place, into the river Rea, and melan-
choly to relate, the unfortunate gentleman was drowned.
Nothing was known of the accident until the family became
alarmed from his not returning home at the time he was ex-
pected ; when immediate search was made, and the marks
where the horse had slipped into the river were discovered.
Three watermen and a boat were immediately sent for from
Bewdley, and every other means used to find the body, but
it was not until Sunday afternoon that it was found.—War-
i eater Journal.