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concerned, that in his person the question between the

It is fortunate, GO far as the indi6dual Hogan is

two gic

tration of blood. It is impossible to notice the feeling

which exists along the Amerit

n frontier of Canada,

anti which the capture of Hogan and the report of the
gallant M` Nab having passed through the state of New

ork have recently elicited, without arriving at the

conclusion that the life of tl

former would inevitabl

have been sacrificed but for the circumstance of his
timely escape. By this accident the immediate collision
of two powerful nations, which must have been the
result of the murder of Hogan by the authorities or
the populace of the state of New York, has been averted ;
but we much question whether it has been more than
postponed. We doubt also whether the permanent
peace of the two countries and the liberty of our Bri-
tish subjects in Canada to visit with safety the border
states of the republic will ever be established until

use states, and the government which neglects or is

finable to restrain their turbulent outbreaks, are
:aught, by some more powerful lesson than mere di-
?lomacy can teach, to respect the power and the sub-
lects of the British crown.

We have most assuredly no desire to see any save
friendly relations existing between the people of this
country and the United States. We contemplate with
horror the prospect of two nations speaking the same
language, sprung from a common stock and from a
common fatherland, being hurried into a sanguinary
struggle upon any question, and, least of all, upon one
so susceptible of amicable arrangement as this. The
present state of things, however, cannot be permitted
to continue. If the American,republic will not or can-
not restrain the bad- passions and the violence of its
disorderly population, Great Britain must, in justice to
her own station amongst nations and to her loyal co-

make the attempt ; and the issue of
er much of disaster and pain it

iial subjects,
it attempt, bown

may incol re,

it is not difficult to foreset-

1E RAILWAY

TIMES & ITS CORRESPONDENTS

We had occasion some weeks ago to comment upon the ex-
tremely unfair and injurious course pursued by the Railway
Times, in giving insertion to the effusions of every moon-
struck or splenetic person who imagines himself to be ag-
grieved by, or capable of inflicting, a blow upon, any railway
undertaking. We reminded our contemporary at that time
of the peculiar sensitiveness of capital invested in these un-
dertakings to every expression of public opinion—that the
slander of the designing or the misrepresentation of the
foolish possessed far more power to wound, than truth, how-
ever strongly tasked, to heal ; and we did hope that our con-
temporary, acknowledging, a' he then did, its impropriety,
would have ceased to open his columns to this masked war
carried on by the officials, or the interested tools of this or
that company, against rival companies, unless lie was sure of
the correctness of the facts put forward, and was prepared to
give the same currency to any rejoinder which might be made
that he had already given to the original lia.
We are sorry, however, that we cannot accord to the Rail-
way Times that credit for fairness, in this respect, which, on
many recent occasions, he has assumed for himself. From a
correspondence, which has been brought before our attention,
in the Sheffield Independent, it is very obvious that whilst our
contemporary has been willing to lend himself to the inflic-
tion of a wound upon a struggling undertaking, he has de-
clined repeatedly to afford space for any explanation of the
perversions of facts and inferences which his columns have
been the vehicle of conveying to the world. The interested
libeller and the merely stupid scribbler are permitted to
creep under our contemporary's shadow and discharge their
venomed darts at random ; but the advocate of truth can
neither tell the source from which these missiles come, nor
proclaim through:the same channels, the falsehoods which
:hey bear abroad.
We should scarcely, however, have been induced to recur
o this subject, had we not felt compelled, by our position
'alists, and by the opinions which we have previously
'Ton the subject to:which it refers, to call the at-
ention of our readers to an anonymous lettef, dated Feb.
:Ist, in the last number of the Railway Times, addressed
` to the shareholders in the Manchester and Leeds Rail-
way." In that letter the statements are so extraordinary,
that we should almost think our contemporary must have
omitted reading it before giving it insertion, did not the
date—nearly five weeks old—fully warrant the' supposition
that it is an advised and deliberate publication, for the ma-
terial truth of which,(upon the principle which it is acknow-
ledged ought to govern the editor of a publication like the
Railway Times, in whose pages a whispered rumour may
.involve the security of property to an incalculable extent)
FIE ought to bra held, at least, morally responsible.
The object of the writer of this letter is evidently to create
a feeling in favour of the Manchester and Leeds line and its
direction; and to prejudice the public against the Liverpool
and Manchester and other lines interested in the southern
junction in Manchester. In the course of this laudable en-
deavour, he proceeds to inform us with respect to the past
proceedings, not of the Liverpool and Manchester board,
but of the Grand Junction, North Union, and others, which
we really imagine have little to do with the matter before us.
These gentlemen, he says, have been guilty of all these enor-
mities in past time ; and they are now striving to " puff the
Sheffield line into notice, that they may stifle the project of
a junction at Hunt's Bank, and ultimately prevent any
junction line whatever from being made through the town
of Manchester."
What an unhappy monomania, we may remark, these
gentlemen of the Manchester and Leeds Railway are afflicted
with, upon the subject of the Sheffield Railway ! Macbeth
certainly never " murdered sleep " as the distant sound of
the cutlery of Sheffield, the woollens of Yorkshire, the cot-
tons of Lancashire, and the produce from the Humber,
booming along the valleys of the Don and the Etherow,
seems to fright away sweet visions from the pillows of these
bewildered gentlemen!
But to proceed. The letter writer (in himself NOBODY ;
but, so far as his statements are adopted by the Railway
Times, entitled to some notice) contends that the Liverpool
board are so prejudiced by their interest in the Grand Junc-
tion and other lines that they cannot act honestly in this
question of a Junction through Manchester.
" Are they sincere," he asks, " in bepraising the Sheffield
line, and will they take it up in earnest and carry it through ?
No such thing ; they are too good judges in railway matter s ;
they know very well that the population spread along the
Sheffield line is extremely thin ; and that from Staly Bridge
(seven miles from Manchester) there is not a single town all
the way to Sheffield; they know, too, that the works are
heavy, and that the tunnel is upwards of three miles long, or
nearly twice the length of the Leeds Summit tunnel, which
has cost £250,000."
The whole of this paragraph our contemporary must have
known to be a tissue of senseless and determined lying. But
we pass that over, reminding our readers that it comes from
Leeds.
" They know full well," proceeds the letter writer, " that
if the completion of the Sheffield line proves injurious to us,
it would prove fatal to the Grand Junction Line : that it
would deprive them of the Manchester traffic to London, or
of half of it at least, as the distance from Manchester to
London, via Sheffield and Derby, would be no greater than
via Crewe and Birmingham."
Indeed! is this so ? Is the " distance from Manchester to
London, via Sheffield and Derby, no greater than via Crewe
and Birmingham ?" IT Is SO! The alarmist of the Leeds
line is perfectly correct in this assertion, at least ; and it may
possibly throw some light on the grounds upon which the
Manchester and Birminghdni Company are not a little in-
clined to submit to their portion of the injury which must
result from the adoption of the Hunt's Bank junction, in pre-
ference to the southern line—a line, by the bye, which they
themaelessrar,partiea la intimate connection with them, were
but afew gears ago eagerly advocating. But that the Grand
Junction Company have any reason to fear such competition
we utterly deny, although it is sufficiently apparent that the
Manchester and Birmingham, equally with the Leeds, FEAR
this Sheffield line, and are willing to join in the attempt to

as journ,

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injure it.
We have bestowed, perhaps, too much attention upon this
small insect—the correspondent of the Railway 'limes—
whose inclination to wound is certainly much greater than
his capacity. We wish, however, to point a moral to our re-
spected contemporary. It must be evident that, at the root
of a irreat portion of the objurgation levelled against our
fellow-townsmen for the course which they have pursued with
respect to this junction question, is a hitter hostility against,
and fear of the successful completion of, the Sheffield line.
Upon the showing of our contemporary's correspondent, that
line is one of great public utility. It shortens materially
the route to Leeds and the Humber. Ris the shortest
route from Manchester to the important towns of DERBY,
‘l orrIGH AM, LEICESTER, &c., and the adjacent districts;
and it is " a competing line" from Manchester to the me-
tropolis itself! Is it then, we ask, worthy of our contena-
porary—is it consistent with his 'character as an advocate of
its evident claims to support
railway inierests—is ' • it, we ask, hotnhees t
ground
uwisein him,
public
con-
venience t
uponh
even, to lend himself to efforts, thus systemati-
cally and perseveringly made, to crush an undertaking of
such importance as this find be? 'We leave the questthebe?leave question
to his consideration.

a . B. A. Marshall
Associa-
tion CHURCEI MISSIONARY SOCIETY. —A
in aid .of the above society, in St. Mark's School-room, was held,
-room, on
Tuesday evening, the 29th ultimo, the Rev.
in the chair, for the purpose of forming
for that Church and District. The meetin:lw Juvenilewo j
asnume-
rously attended, and at the conclusion twenty
collectors offered their services. Addresses were deliveredenil
e
by the Rev. B. A. Marshal, A.M., and the Rev. J. E. White
X.M. It is hoped th:Atnimy more Juvenile Branches of this
most important association wiU be formed in this town and
neighbourhood, as a means of interesting the young in the
cause of missions, and of increasing the funds of the parent
society. The Church Missionary Society have prepared col-
lecting cards, boxes, and a monthly periodical, specially in-
tended forthe young.

Nlr. Rushton and oti,

magistrates were emiAoyed during:

the greater part of Tuesday afternoon in the investigation of
a transaction concerning which there has reoenfly been much
enrious aossip in this town, but which

cated, has now assumed a very serious aspec
The names of the parties in custody are J

ohn Orr Al`Gill

John Osbore Quirk, Thomas Wormaml Rogerson, Richard
Jones, Margaret Jones, and Jane Clayton. The above pri-
I at the bar. The charge was, that the
Arm Crellin, of this town, a lady who
a very large propertN

son(srs vier

parties had taken Miss
was reputed to- posses!
rumours which have been rife, no
or £G0,000,) away to Gretna Gret
her consent, and while under the

ording to

ome potion

..... .. , ... .. .. ..
which had been administered to her, been married in the
prisoner, John Orr M`Gill. Th, individual last named is a
handsome and gentlemanly-leing young man, about thirty
years old. Quick and Roge:.e„..-o are also highly respectable

looking persons. Jones lo
and Mrs. Jones, his wile,

ike a decent working man,
Mrs. Clayton, are both re-

spectable-looking women.
Mr. Snowball solicitor, appeared on behalf of Miss Crel-
lin ; Mr. Gracott, solicitor, attended for M`Gill, Quick, and
Rogerson ; and Mr. Davenport, solicitor, was retained for

Jones, Mrs. Jones, and Mrs: Clayton.
Mr. Snowball stated the circumstances of the case, but
they were subsequently detailed in the evidence of Miss
Crellin, which we subjoin. He said he should be able to
prove the object of the prisoners by a letter which had been
sent to the Liverpool Standard, with an announcement of
th

Le marriage.
Miss Crellin was called.—She appeared to be about forty
, jars of age ; is short and rather stout in person, with strong
features, which have once been handsome. She was sworn.
She stated that she was possessed of property. She resided
last year in Seymour-street. The prisoner Mrs. Jones,
used to act as charwoman at her house. She recollected
Martin being introduced to her. He came with a lady
named Miss Shoane, with a view of taking her house. He
said he would take her house. because he was going to be
married to Miss Shoane. Miss Shoane called upon her
(Miss C.), and showed her her wedding dress, and asked her
to be her bridemaid. Mr. Martin called afterwards, and

said it was an untruth ; he did not intend to marry her
He came a few days after, and said he wished to pay his
addresses to her (Miss C.) He.called nearly every day.
She went to the Isle of Man on the Bth September, Martin
followed her there. She returned from the Isle of Man on
the 10th November. Miss Crellin here gave a ,somewhat
lengthy detail of her movements to various lodging houses,
her stay in each being generally about a 'fortnight. At
length, after, by the advice oft Mrs: Jones, going to live
next door to her, she went to live in Norton-street, which
she was compelled to quit, because Martin and -a person
named Bulkeley visited her, and the lady who kept the
house did not like. their behaviour. Much evidence was
given, apparently, for the purpose. of showing how far Mrs.
Jones had interposed in all Miss Crellin's affairs. At
length, it appeared, Martin would only meet her at Mrs.
Jones's house ; he would not meet her anywhere else. They
went there frequently together. After a time, she (Miss C.)
went to stay a few days with Mrs. Jones. Martin • was
always looking out for lodgings for her at this time, and she
went, at his instigation, to Mrs. Clayton's, where Martin
himself lodged. It was done thus : they were out looking
for lodgings, and after an unsuccessful march, Martin said,
We had better go to Mrs. Clayton's, and look for lodg-
ings to-morrow." They went there. Martin pressed her
to be married. She, and Martin, and Mrs. Jones went to
the office of Mr. Thompson, attorney, Newington-bridge.
She had then accepted the addresses of Martin. Mr.
Thompson had always advised her to have her property
settled upon he"self. When they got to Thompson's, Mar-
tin called Mr. Thompson out, and on his return to the office,
he (Martin) said he had changed his mind, for he wanted
half the property settled upon him. The affair was here-
upon broken off, and she (Miss C.) returned to Mrs. Jones's
house, whither Martin followed her. He said she. had de-
clared before witnesses that she had promised him marriage,
and he was going to take proceedings against her, for a
breach of promise. Mr. Jones, Mrs. Jones, and Mr. Par-
kinson were present. Martin said if I would give him
1250 he would take no more proceedings. She gave Mr.
Martin £250 on the following day.
Mr. Snowball here produced a document, a portion of
which was read by Mr. Rushton. It appeared to be a pro-
mise from Martin to forego any claim for a breach of pro-
mise of marriage from Miss Crellin. Another document
was also produced, the purport of which did not transpire.
Miss Crellin said that both those documents were drawn
out by the prisoner Jones. Martin, having concluded his
negotiation, departed. Jones then said, that he held a paper
in his possession which would render the promise which
Martin had given her nugatory, and by which she would still
be liable to be sued for a breach of promise ; but if she would
give him £2O, he would give that paper up to her. He said
it was a flaw which he had made, the nature of which was,
that she would still be compelled to Mary Martin, but if she
would give him the £2O, ho would destroy that paper and she
would then be safe. She went the next day to Heywood's
bank and drew out £250, which she delivered to Martin,
but she refused to• give the £2O to Jones. When he was
pres Sing her on the subject, she overheard Mrs. Jones
whisper to her husband, " get three pounds from her if you
can !" That night Jones slept out, and she (Miss C.) slept
with Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Jones awoke her in the middle of
the night, about three o'clock, and said, " Ah Miss Crellin
there is another paper still against you which Mr. Parkinson
has got. They got up at that early hour and went to Parkin-
son's, she (Miss C.) being anxious to get the paper that
Martin might not have any hold of her. Parkinson got up
and let them in, and he and Mrs. Jones went out and re-
turned with Jones, Jones said there was still another paper
against her, which would be made use of if she did not give
him and Parkinson £5 each, but if she would do so it would
be destroyed. She consented, though she had not signed any
papers. She paid Parkinson the down, and had to draw
more money from the bank to pay Jones, to whom she gave
£5 in a day or two. She went to the house of a friend,
where Mr. Whitty and an officer of police called. Parkinson
and Jones had given her receipts for the money. Witness
here mentioned that Mr. Whitty spoke to Mrs. Jones with
great severity. When Mr. Whitty had gone Mrs. Jones wept,
and hoped she would not show Mr. Whitty the receipts, or
they • would be transported. She was prevailed upon sub.
sequently to destroy the receipts. Shortly afterwards she
ashertained that Martin was a married men. A. Mr. Duval
called and told her that Martin was a mai-teed man, and that
his name was not Martla ; that he was a Dr. Cope-
land. Had seen the prisoz-i:r M`Gill twice while • stay-
ing at Mrs. Clayton's, and tint was her first acquaintance
with him. Had never seen Mr. Duval till he called and said
Dr. Copeland was a marrie,l man. Duval said he would be
at Mrs. Jones's that night, a: ad be wished to see her there.
She went there, and Mr-Leval brought Mr. M'Gill. Jones
was there, and a Mr. Deyden came in, and they stayed till a
late hour. Mr. Duval said he had gone for the. purpose of
introducing Me. M'Gill to.hersssand on that, Mr. M'Gill in-
vited her to his sister's house, Mr. Rogerson's, iu Boun-
dary-place, to dine. She went thither and dined. The party
were, Dr. Dryden, Mr. Duval, MrS. Jones, Mr. M`Gill and
Rogerson, with herself l(Miss C.) She had had.no previous
acquaintance with arty of the Rogersons. They dined, and
spent the evening very pleasantly ; and she slept there with
Mrs. Jones that night. On the folowing morning, they pro-
posed to cross the water to Egremont. Mr. M'Gill, and wit-
ness, and Mrs. Jones, went over the water, and the Roger-
sons joined them afterwards at Dr. Dunlevie's, where they
had lunch. Mr. M`Gill called out Mrs. Jones, and on wit-
ness asking Mrs. Jones where she was going, she replied to
buy a cap for her, (Miss C.) They went out, and were ab-
sent about an hour. On their return, Mrs. Jones said they
had not been able to meet with a cap smart enough for her.
Witness described several excursions which [were projected
and undertaken, and at length they went to the Egremont
Hotel, where. she slept with Mrs. Jones, all of them taking
brandy and water by way of a wind-up to the day's pleasures.
Mr. Rogerson had taken with him a large bottle of brandy—
more than a quart. Next morning, Dr. Dunlevie adasini-
admini-
stered a glass of brandy in their tea to do them good. (Laugh-
ter.) After breakfast Champagne was introduced, and they
each of them took some Champagne. (Laughter.) After
they seemed to be looking out very anxiously for the Dub-
lin packet, and they pressed her very urgently to go to Dub-
lin. She refused, expressing her astonisnment at such an
idea. Mrs. Jones and Mr. M'Gill were very earnest with
her cn the subject, but she still refused, upon which they re-
turned to Liverpool. and drove to Mrs. Rogerson's, in
Boundary-street, where they had lunch. and some more
brands. They then proposed that all the party should go to
the steeplechase, which took place on that day. She had
not paid one farthing of the expenses of the expedition to
Cheshire. Instead of going to the steeple chase they drove
her to St. Paul's Church. She was surprised when she found
herself there,. and asked, in the name of
.wonder, what they
had brought. her there for. They said, to be married. "To
be Married !." exclaimed she, " a pretty thing indeed if I am
to be married .in . this way. I never heard of such a
thing. Nothing. was further from my thoughts. They said
they had a license and the ring all ready ; but I said I would
never be married till all my property was settled on myself.
They had prepared everything beforehand, and all the people
round laughed outright at the ridiculous figure we cut."
.Miss Crellin went on to .state that they drove her to the
steeple chase, and that she slept at Mrs. Rogerson's that
night; that. M'Gill and Dr. Dunlevie called upon her two
or three times a day subsequently, and that she forbade them
to trouble her. At length she went to live with Mrs. Cham-
ley, where, as they still persevered in their visits, she caused
herself to be denied. She was now seeking to recover the
money from 'Martin, and one day Mrs. Jones came to her
and told her that Martin was waiting for her at Mrs. Clay-
ton's, to pay her £l5O of the money. She went with great
reluctance, as she had declared she would never again go to
Mrs. Clayton's house. She was subsequently told to go at
six o'clock. Here the evidence diverged slightly from the
main current, and the witness proceeded to state how she
was led by Jones to go to several places in search of Martin,
without success. At the George and Vulture, in Houghton-
street, where she had gone with Mrs. Charnley, at the desire
of Jones, in the expectation of meeting Martin, she was,
while waiting for Jones, accosted by-Quick, who, on the re-
turn of Jones, invited her to spend the next evening at his
house. She and s. Chamley hesitated on account of Jones
being included in invitation, bittat length they were pre-.
nailed upon. They went, and, in the course of the evening,
it was proposed to send for Mr. Quick particularly
asking her if she were willing. Jones desired that M`Gill
might be sent for, as he was so good a singer, and he made
his appearance in so short a space of time, that she presumed
M`Gill must have been in the house. M`Gill subsequently
called, and pressed her to go to the theatre. She assented,
and took with her Mrs. Chamley, at which M'Gill expressed
himself greatly chagrined. It was on the 16th of March that
Mrs. Jones called and said Martin would be ready to pay the
money at six o'clock that night. She wished her to go alone,
as she said Martin would not speak to her in the presence of
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apisipoentaogrteoadta lone, but took
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to Mdr es
tain them. At length she entered-in a great hurry, and said,
" Oh.! there's Mr. Martin at Mrs. Clayton's, and he's get
the £lso—l saw it myself--he won't come here, and he
won't speak to you, unless you are alone." Miss Crellin
said she went with her, and went to the door of Mrs. Clay-
ton's house, where she was determined not to enter, but Mr.
Jones came out and pushed her in. • When I went in, said
Miss Crellin, Mrs. Clayton asked me to take some refresh-
ment. • •She gave me a tumbler containing a very dark-
looking liquid. It was very dark—it was a drug I'm sure.
As soon as I drank it I became insensible, and 1 never re-
membered anything more till I found myself in bed beside
Mr. M`Gill. Mr. in the middle—myself at one side,
and Mrs. Clayton on the other : Mrs. Clayton with her
arms round Mr. M`Gill's•neck. (Laughter.)
Mr. Rushton.—Where was this?
Miss Crellin.—At Gretna Green ; but .1 did not know it
then, but I found it out afterwards. I was insensible till
then. • I jumped out of bed quite frantic, and I exclaimed
what is -all this ? What have you been doine with use ? Mr.
Mill told Inc that I was married, and then I found a ring
on my finger. " MarricJ7:" said 1, " take this ring off.
How is this ?"
screarnA eat v ery
Madam, loud, and Dr. Quick
". mind and behave
came into the room.
ity is in his
yourself—you are
to take a
nov. urti.l,2;:u.othr
e fortunepower from o
olMry.MuLGsioll ,
mindand
and behave yourself. nothing for you but the work-
house if you do not." ( ieeughter.) I was very sick. I got.
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was married, you may be sure—there's
—or I would not have allowed a woman to be beside me on
the night 1 was married.
Mr. Rushton questioned Miss Crellin touching the ap.
pearance of the place where they were at the time ju4sppken
of.

Mr. Snowball said he had proof enough
Gretna Green. that the plate was