The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-03-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER.-At the York assizes, on Thursday, George Calvert, 38, Thomas Hodgson, 28, and James Mellor, 22, were charged with the wilful murder of William Wood, at Farweather, near Bradford, on the 18th of December last; they were also charged with committing a burglary in the dwelling-house of the said William Wood. Calvert and Mellor were found guilty, and Baron Rolfe, in passing sentence, said :—You have been convicted, on the clarest testimony, of a most barbarous murder. Every murder must, necessarily, bq a case of great atrocity, but it has rarely indeed happened to me to be present at an investigation which disclosed such long-continued and persevering barbarity as was inflicted by you on that fatal night. I have seen cases where deadly weapons have been used, and where the victim has fallen under the sudden infliction of some deadly wound ; but rare indeed is it that four men in the prime of life at least, have been proved to have broken into the lone house of s poor but apparently industrious and respectable cottager, to have driven him, absolutely naked, from his house, in the dead of the night—to have beaten him first with sticks, and then with another deadly weapon, and not being satisfied with one attack, to have renewed it, more than once—to have left him prostrate on his own floor, absolutely without a rag upon his body, while you deliberately plundered the house, and thought to escape with impunity. _ _  LECTURES ON MAN CULTURE, by theßer . T. D. Gregg. —We cannot allow these lectures to terminate without expressing our very high sense of the importance of the subject, and our admiration of the superior manner in which it was treated by the Rev. T. D. Gregg ; in this respect indeed the expectations which we, were led to entertain at the commencement of the course were more than realised. It is gratifying to know that those who did attend were especially qualified to judge of the soundness of the views brought forward, and that their approbation was most decided. We are aware that some have been hitherto disposed to regard Mr. Gregg merely as a distinguished politician of ultra-protestant principles ; these lectures will certainly convince them that, whether they concur with him in that respect or not, his opinions on the question of education, that is on man culture, on the developement and due exercise of our intellectual powers on the formation of character upon a true Christian and philosophical basis, are deserving of the most serious consideration, being both sound in principle and practical in character. Whilst his various readings from the oriental languages, the ancient and modern classics, combined with his own critical remarks, evinced to those acquainted with such matters, the extensive research and refined taste of the scholar ; lie also succeeded in equally instructing and entertaining the English portion of the audience, so that the interest first awakened increased irom night to night. Mr. Gregg concluded by reading an address to the Queen praying for inquiry into the present system of public education. It is evident that his vigorous and eloquent style of address would recommend any subject to a popular audience.—Cheltnhm Jour.