The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-01-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

AND ARCH2EOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-used and brutally beat him for the most trivial faults, oc- The fortnightly meeting of this society was held on Wed-The for by his slight knowledge of the English language. nesday at .the Royal Institution, Mr. H. P. Horner in On the 6th November, the complainant had given the the chair.—Verious presentations of hooka, plans, sailors some bread which had been made unfit for the cap- having been made,—Mr. Picton urged the 'desirability Of sailor table, and when the captain heard of it, he rushed at once depositing their library and portfolio at the rooms at the poor Chinaman and struck him with his fists several of the Free Public Library in Duke-street, where he protimes in the face. He then took up a whip and threatened Liaised that special accommodation would be provided for to flog him ;ace when the poor fellow fell down on his them. his Newlands called attention to a gross attack knees and begged him not to do so, the brutal fellow kicked upon his professional character in the report of the Lonhim in the face. Mr. Owen called the first and second don committee of baths and wash-houses, in which he mates, who gave evidence of the ill-usage which the was charged with plagiarising the plans of Mr. Bailey, Chinaman had received at the hands of the captain. On their engineer. He stated that, till long after his design the night in question the sailor threw his arms round the was published, he had never seen Mr. Bailey's plan, and neck of Mr. Wallace, the first mate, and wept for nearly produced the first rough sketches to show that he had hit an hour. Mr. Mansfield fined the defendant £5, and upon the principle in Edinburgh, when designing a typeordered him to pay the complainant's wages, withheld on foundry, so far back as 1842 and 1843. He asked for a the ground of incompetency. committee of inquiry to be appointed, that he might be CONFESSION OF A MURDERER —A named bert set rin the matter.—Chairman and other senear Manchester, has given himself up to the poliman at lice Stalybridge, bersi g ehtxpressed themselvTe shatready satisfied ; but the senear Manchester, on his own confession of being impli- cretary was instructed to write to the London association rated in a murder committed in 1847. He stated that at to know on what ground such charges had been made.— the time he had an improper intimacy with the wife of a Mr. J. A. Forrest called attention to the double windows man named James Brooks, at Godley, near Hyde, and which were being put into Dr. M'Neile's church ; the that he procured her some arsenic, at her request, which plan effectually excluded all draughts and noise, and, she administered to her husband in some pddgs. owing to the cheapness of glass, the cost was of trifling Brooks died suddenly, and an inquest was held onin the amount. Mr. Forrest also exhibited a beautiful specimen body, when the jury decided that he had died from the of the stereoscope, representing a druggist's shop in minieffects of a hurt in the head which he bad received when ature.—Mr. Barry read a paper containing a few facts of working as a collier. On the strength of this statement architectural and archaeological interest, gleaned from a the woman, who married Thornley soon after the murder, cursory visit to the three neighbouring churches—Orrnswas arrested. The remains of Brooks' body were ex- kirk, Aughton, and Sefton. He produced rubbings of burned, and examined by Mr. Alcock, surgeon, but, as lie several of the monumental brasses, and also of a brass was unable to detect the presence of poison, the accused let into the wall of Ormskirk church, containing the folwas discharged. But Mr. Alcock subsequently analyzed lowing quaint inscrion : another portion of the remains that was less decayed ; and "My ancestors have been interred here, above 380 years This to be very ancient appears, he then found arsenic in large quantities. On this disWhich, that all men may know, and offer no wrong covers the woman was again apprehended, and Thornley it is ten perch one foot broad, and 44 yards long. ' and his wife have been committed for trial at the next Chester Assizes. This was signed by one W. Bostock, as the sculptor, and referre, e supposed, to the size of the tomb. There THE Slue Jolter KNoz.—The commander of the ship was a similar one in Aughton church.—The society soon oJohniai from Knox t hhea s passengers received t hoer, boardfollowing th gratifyingat ship, duringt es ti rnhoer- afterwards adjourned.