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Northern Times. — 1859-03-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE MURDER AT RYE.  It appears that since the prisoner John White, who .was tried at Lewis for the murder of his wife in a very cruel manner, by drowning her in a ditch, and convicted of manslaughter, 'has been sent back to prison, he has made a full statement upon the circumstances connected with the dreadful affair. He states that when he left his home on the morning of the murder, he had not the slightest intention of committing any act of violence towards his wife ; but, being fearful that if she went to the foreman of the works and made a complaint against him he might lose his employment, he followed her with the intention of inducing her to return home, and not to take a step which might be attended, with such serious results to him and his f.amily. . He came up with her close. to a ditch where the body was found, and he says that he earnestly entreated her to go home, but that she persisted in her determination to proceed to the works and ask Mr. Druce the foreman, to send her :and her children back to Dover, and at length she became very violent and abused him and struck him. Roused by this, he stated that he returned the blow, .and a violent struggle ensued between him and the deceased, who was a very strong, powerful woman, and in the course of it, they both fell into the ditch, which, it appeared, had not more than from eight or ten inches of water, the bottom being composed of more than three feet of soft sticky mud. He had great difficulty in getting out himself ; and he states that, when he had done so, the Aleceased appeared to be quite dead. He was immediately seized with the . utmost agony at what had occurred, and he says that he kissed the dead body of his wife, and, then started off towards Camber Castle, where he was seen by the boys shortly. after the murder WPS committed, and on the way he hardly kneW what he was about, and fell into another ditch and was nearly drowned. The prisoner, it appears, made a similar statement to Mr. Lamb, the solicitor, who defended him ; and he asserts positively that the act was not committed through jealousy, but that it occurred in the. manner above stated. . It appears that the prisoner was quite astounded at the result of the trial, as lie had anticipated that his conviction for wilful murder was almost certain ; and, indeed, it is said that he at  one time expressed an intention to plead guilty to the charge There is very little doubt that a capital conviction would have taken place bid for the fact that has since been ascertained, that three of the jury who tried the case were determined opponents of the punishment of death; and the moment they had retired they expressed their intention not to return a verdict that would have the effect of forfeiting the life of the prisoner ; and after a long discussion, the other nine jurymen gave way, and consented to a verdict of manslaughter.  HELLEWELL'S TNDIAJIIMBER PEN HOLDERS, 2 & 3, QUADRANT, PENCIL CASES and
Northern Times. — 1859-02-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

XII. Tables was, that insolvent debtors were seized and bound into slavery till they worked out their debt ; and C. Pollio threw the slaves that gave him offence into his fish-pond, to fatten his lamphreys ; and this only forty-two years before _Christ ! Twelve years before that, Coreitiug left 4,116 slaves, in his will, to his heir. This was in the days of the Romans—the barbarous, yet history-exaggerated civilised Romans ! But let us not trust to profane historians : take sacred writers. Read the Bible, and • observe the bondsmen—the laws that regulated their sale and purchase. Notice the numbers 'owned by Abraham, by Isaac, by Jacob. Moses, too, had so Many, he made laws to guide the slaVekiWner. What were the bondsmen and bon dsmaids of the ancients but slaves ? Dr. Wayland says that the Hebrews held slaves since the conquest of Canaan. Abraham owned one thousand. Even Whitefield did not call it a sin. Read 25th Levitieus—:read 21st Exodus —where the slave is called money—"where 'his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and 1w shall own him for ever." Polygamy, divorce, murder, incest, the Bible-precepts forbade, but placed no ban on slavery. .1 find riti law againSt it in the Scriptures. Even Moses delivered up a fugitive slave ; but it does not follow that I advocate it. The. fact is, men in our day would. be hung for what then hardly occasioned a rebuke. " Servants- obey your masters," was the Divine Law, and St. Paul endorsed it.  The Old Testament approved of it—the New gives no word or sign against it—but , laws regulating it are recorde in both. St. Paul had time to give directions about the cut of a coat, or to say polite words to King Agrippa, but nowhere records, anything against slavery. One would suppose that slavery is purely of American origin, if trained by the modern philanthropists, but it seems to be a plant of very ancient growth. But pass by the barbarous days : come back to Christian England. `Saxon Alfred made laws as to sale of slaves ; and it is well known that in Saxon. and Norman times the children of the English peasantry were sold in  the Bristol market like cattle for exportation ! Some went to Ireland, some to Scotland. Wat Tyler's rebellion, in 1381, arose from serfdom. Edward VI. branded V on the breast of any one who lived idle for three days, and. the buyer owned him for two years as his slave. He could oblige him to work by beating and chaining him ; let him absent himself for a fortnight, and, with a brand upon his cheeks ,he• was made a slave for ever ! His neck, his leg,ur his arm could be circled with rings of iron; and these were SaxenEngland's laws! Even in 1547 a runaway apprentice became by _statute a slave. have jotted down these facts for the benefit of the rising generation, to show them: that Americans, bad asthey are Tepresented, did mo:i;, at least, originate slavery.. In scontinued,)
Northern Times. — 1859-01-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CRAMPTON. -An address was .delivered by Judge Crampton to the grand juries of the County and City of Dublin, that may, perhaps, be looked upon as his retiring speech. It concluded with a hope that a bill would shortly be ,passed, by which towns and districts should at any rate be allowed to exclude alcohol, if' they were desirous of doing so. " Slavery," the learned judge said, "had been abolished, within the British dominions after a long struggle, and at the expense of twenty millions of money. And in like manner, some of those wbo now hear me, may live to see the day when the permissive bill shall become a statute, and slavery to the despotism of strong drink shall be abolished by law."  We have heard of the philanthropy of John Howard, " guaging misery, and taking the measure of sorrow, plodding, a lifetime through prisons and lazarets, and dying at last in the cause of beneficence at Cherson. Ralph Allen, of Bath, was a good man ; so was John Kyle, the " Man of Ross," so was M. Edme Champion, the " petit Manteau bleu" of Paris. But for genuine philanthrophy, for unexampled beneficence, for inexhaustible benevolence, commend us to Mrs. Ellis, who [we are still quoting Miss Newell] is Miss Hobb's lady friend. This Dorcas, this Lady Bountiful, this most eleemosynary Mrs. Ellis, is to be heard of in Somerset-terrace. She lives there, in fact ; and we only withhold the number of her charitable dwelling-house through fear of giving vent to the epistolary eaeoethes of half the begging-letter writers in London. Mrs. Ellis's establishment is modestly—oh so " modestly" —yet handsomely conducted. She has a tender pledge of affection, a little boy, has Mrs. Ellis,even as had Mrs. Bardell in " Pickwick ;" her roof affords shelter to a Miss Stanley, who follows the picturesque and convenient calling of a dressmaker; she has two female servants and a footman. Yes ; a footman. All is vanitas vanitatum ; and Mrs. Ellis is not exempt from human failing. There seems a tender, almost conventual, tranquillity pervading the retreat of Mrs. Ellis, and mingled with her active benevolence, that reminds us equally of the Reverend Mother Abbess Heloisa at the Paracelete, and of "good Mrs." Brown" in London.  A WOMAN KILLED BY 888 HUSBAND, AT WOLTERNAmPTorr.=At the borough police-court, on Tuesday, William Thompson, a cabinet lock-maker, in Brickilnstreet, Wolverhampton, was ;charged with culpable homicide. It seems that his wife is of dissipated habits, and that on the latter part of Sunday last, and all the following night, she had been pursuing a course of reckless drinking—her husband seeking her in vain among the low haunts to which she was in the habit of resorting. On Monday morning the wretched woman returned home of herown accord, and several unpleasant scenes occurred between them. Between one and two o'clock, while their son and daughter were present, another quarrel took place, in the course of which Mrs. Thompson, as was positively sworn by one of the witnesses, received a blow from her husband. She sank on a chair in a state of insensibility, and died almost immediately afterwards.
Northern Times. — 1859-07-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE NOII4.TRRN TIMES TUESDAI, JULY 5, 1859  learned counsel engaged, five are members of Parliament.  Samuel Adams was yesterday Morning executed in front of Newgate, for the murder of Mary Ann Page, at Hornsey.  A very .violent thunder storm visited London on Saturday and Sunday, and the lightning set a num'ber of buildings on fire, through various parts of the metropolis. A yacht anchored at. Gravesend broke loose from her anchor on Sunday afternoon, during the fury of the storm, and sunk. Unfortunately, four out of eight persons who were on board,  OUR NEUTRALITY  las now been acknowledged by those who, they were her Majesty's Opposition, omitted no opportunity of speaking disparagingly of the foreign, policy of the late Ministry—and more par.. )olicy with respect to the Italian IVlajesty's Government, that ;. the right one for  of their  War—now the  the path t  y to' follow  id that they mean them ves to adhere to it  questions,'  There are two great o the new Premier has told the House  the country and of Parliament—the one  toe state of our foreig  those important ei-enti fio'  the oti  übject of cor  sideration, and other matters of a minor character, which would render it Utterly impossible to under-take the passing of a Reform ,Bill this session through the other House ; and he was sure it would have been a want of great respect to their lordships' douse if any other course had been pursued. Therefore, with regard to this subject, he,would only state that, while it was one of the subjects which the Government would necessarily consider, they thought it their duty and privilege not to bring it before the House until it met again." On the same evening, in the House of Commons, Lord PALMERSTON observed,—" I think it is needless to say, that considering the time of the year, consider before the prorogation of the House in August, or possibly in September, no questions of great importance should And considering ler public business, I think it would  • ing how short, a period must elap,  be submitted to its oonsideration  the amount of oti  ad important a question as  be trifling with so gre. that of Parliamentary Reh. ere to attempt a bill during the present session of Parliament. It will be our endeavour and determination to avail  ourselves of the earl  ►rm, if we IN  introduce a bill; and I give the assurance of myself and my colleagues that we will  t moment of the next session  of Parliament to  do so. When Tthe next  must depend very much upon the course of events and the course of business. I wish to withhold any opinion on the subject at this moment." Now this, we say, was very plausibly put; and by its having b(  ssion will be  en sub witted to, there is,- of course, a most convenient breathing time gained fi  Ministers,  But it  other day
Northern Times. — 1859-09-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AT SEA..—The Times of Friday gave a brief account of a shocking murder which occurred on board a vessel called the Margaret, which put into Falmouth  a few days ago in consequence of ihe tragical occurrence.. From the evidence adduced at the inquest it appears that the Margaret sailed from Lisbon for Quebec on Thursday, the 11th of August. Early on the mornin6- of tho 29nd, whoa the vonscl was a little distance north of the Western Islands, in lat. 40 44 N., long. 24 51 W., the boatswain, who was acting as second mate and .had"the watch,. was alarmed by one of the seamen, named Cumming, rushing. out of the forecastle, screaming and saying Antonio,- one of the crew, and a Brazilian or Portuguese, had attempted to kill him with a knife as he slept ; that a cut on his face had awoke him, that he seized the hand of the murderer, who struck at him with a knife, and that on Cumming springing up and pursuing him he threatened to shoot him with a revolver. The boatswain hastened to call the captain, Mr. Barker, but found him dead in his berth, his head being nearly severed from his body. The boatswain then proceeded to alarm the mate, but found him locked in the cabin, and the key gone. On the previous:evening, when he retired to rest, the mate had left the door unlocked!, with the key outside. The boatswain then broke open the mate's door, and the two armed themselves with such means as were at hand and roused the crew. Antonio took refuge in the cabin, and on the mate breaking a pane in the skylight twice snapped a revolver at him, and struck at him with a knife. He was secured and fastened, and in a sash round his waist were found a knife and a tin box with pistol caps and balls. Antonio confessed that he killed the captain when asleep, and assio'ned no reason except that the captain gave him too mue work, and that the devil was in him. Be begged the mato not to let him be killed till he had seen a priest. The knives were common table carving-knives=one, with which he had killed t'ie captain, was taken from him by Cummings when he attempted to kill him also with it ; a second was found in his sash. The revolver belonged to the captain, and appeared to be out of order. An apprentice had seen Antonio sharpening a carving-knife on the day before. He told the only wanted crew orelil that he had killed the captain, and quarrel. had- beenone from drinking,e man more.. There had been no pmts he said, and had taken a bottle of e s cabin, the day before. All the drawers in the capmtain' and the captain's desk, were broken open. The mate caused the mfortunate captain to be placed in a shell the ballast,- and made for Falmouth as  wnting body of
Northern Times. — 1859-01-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

INDIA.  THE SUBMISSION OF THE REBELS. 18---""ael Khan has surrendered to Brigadier Barker, with 150 Sowars—the first example of any of the cavalry troopers submitting to us. By a subSfquint account, the rebel appears to have become luost useful ally, for he actually went out and themselves in 400 more cavalry, who had thrown on the mercy of the government, and have Claimed the benefit of the amnesty. The s eli°3's are coining in fast in their own country, the Byswarra ; one officer states the average number tobe 30 a day. In other districts they surrender in, smaller numbers, because there are less ()f. them. They are a strange race. Colonel Seaton asked some of the 120 men who appeared before him and Lieutenant Chamier at Derriabad, how it was that they never stood before our troops. %Sahib," said the man, " it has been all the work ,hfate. After what we had done we never could t. No matter whether your troops were not or white, native or European, we could Ba4.,stand against them : our salt choked us !" This tOing, which is significant enough—above all, in ite Mouth. of the perfidious Oriental—seems to Ire Common currency among them 11r, enemies are concentrating into a narrow focus Lilo Buraech district, on which our troops are .412 t gathering from all sides ; and even now the uul) of clemency is not exhausted. When they Bglit lightly fear our inexorable wrath, the guln and her followers are offered more than ap_nardon. The royal lady is promised an asylum u a pension for herself and her son, and her itter, Mummo Khan, is guaranteed his life if the terms of the proclamation be complied with before the lof January. It is believed that st ter Begum, Birjes Kudor, and the miniswere not accessory to the murder of '3llr captives in , Lucknow. Similar conceseess6ls, various in form and degree, have been made to other chiefs, and old Hunwant Singh of BEtllikimker, the bosom freind of Madhoo, has secretly crossed the Gogra and repaired to the 'atop of his Pylades, to intreat him to ask pardon before it be too late. From one district .of Oude iino may judge how rapid is the progress of pacification once the work is bemun ; it is almost as flamelike as insurrection. fn the Mullaon district, aecordin to the report for the week ending the 29thcr of) November, 143,934 guns, matchlocks, Pistols, swords, spears, iron-bound clubs, bows, shields, &c., have been delivered up to the authorities, of which 55,309 were collected in the week alone. The return includes even sword-sticks. The Deputy Commissioner reports that the people evince the same reluctance as heretofore to give up their arms, and that some pergunnahs evince dislike to pay up their revenue. No less than forty-one forts have been demolished in the district, to which are added for the week's work sixteen—great and small—total fifty-seven. The country is described as quiet and free of rebels. Upwards of 6,0001. of revenue was collected within the week, in addition to about 30,000/. already got in of the total yearly revenue of about 90,0001.
Northern Times. — 1859-06-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE MURDER AT WEST BROMWICH.  The - inquest was held on Monday afternoon at the Stone Cross Inn, before Mr. G. 11. Hinchliffe, coroner. Mr. Watsonrsolicitor, appeared to watch the case on behalf o the murderer, who was present in castody. The first witness was Win. Partoun, the milkman, who lived near the Old House at Homo, at Tame Bridge-cottage. Ho deposed that as he drew near the house, at about 8 o'clock on Saturdaymorning, he heard a noise as of one person beating another with a stick.- At the door he overheard the deceased say, " I would rather do the work myself than she should stay." When be got into. the house he saw the servant girl in the back kitchen, the deceased and  n. lie we  the prisoner being in the kite,— . ,iicering the house when he saw- the deceased running out of it, with a child in her arms, and bleeding profusely from the throat, through which -he saw that a knife had been thrust. I t was a large knife, and was driven into her throat from the left side, and was up to the hilt within about two inches. Did not perc3ive the point at the other side of the throat. Prisoner followed the deceased out., and the ,next thing witness perceived was prisoner carrying her in and laying her upon the settle, and then getting a napkin and attempting to stop the blood. Prisoner seemed much distressed, and delay had been manifested in sending for  alter some  1, said, Will nobody go for a doctor ?" Witwss heard the servant say to the prisoner, •"I told you _t would come to something some day." Prisoner replied either "I did not mean to hurt you," or " I did not mean to do it." Sarah Ann Griffith, the servant., deposed that on the morning in question. the quarrel of the previous day was resumed by deceased telling .prisoner that he must get his breakfast as she had got hers the previous day. Afterwards prisoner flogged her with a whip. Subsequently she said, that this was the first time that he had beaten her, and it should be th'e' last, and seemed, about to leave the house. Deceased pas,ed through the hack kitchen, but returned with the baby in one hand and shaking the fist of her other hand, and went into the kitchen. Witness did not see 1, but saw the prisonertrvinm to stop the  a surg  cries jn  flowing .of the blood. Deceased was, very provoking in her manner on Saturday, as on Friday. Mr. W. Kite, surgeon, .deposed that after a post-mortem examination of the body, he had come to the conclusion that death had arisen, first, from loss of blood, and next from suffocation, whidt had been occasioned by the wound in the throat, s punctured wound, extending from the left to the right side, and meeting in the middle... Such a wound might have been  sultation, the" jury • returned a verdict of laiiist the prisoner, who, during the med t  e investi2:ation,  Itertain a full
Northern Times. — 1859-12-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE FATAL RIOT AT ALDERSHOT.  Since the occurrence -of this most unfoi tunate outbreak at Aldershot a military court of *quiry has been sitting at Camp. Until this inquiry is concluded both the evidence and the decision at which the court may arrive will be kept secret. The inquest on the murdered man took place in the South Camp yesterday. His Royal Highness the Commander-inChief will visit the Camp to inquire personally into the circumstances connected with the ['mode.  The 24th Regiment still remains in its old quarters, ht the West Bloek, when: the riot took place. As with all drunken squabbles of the kind, there are at least fifty different versions of the affair. The account most generally believed is, that it arose from some men of the militia treating two or three of the 24th to beer, which other men of the latter regiment who were not invited to partake of drank up. A fight is stated to have ensued, in which the 24th were beaten, though quickly reinforced by large numbers of their comrades, the militia were soon overpowered and driven to take shelter in their barracks, where the 24th were also quartered. A running fight appears to have taken place, during which the militia-men reached the balcony attached to the storey infront of their portion of the block. On this place of retreat a general attack seems to have been made by the men of the 24th, armed with sticks, brooms, stones, and large lumps of coal,which was of course replied to in kind from above by the militiamen. The row hid only lasted a few minutes, and the militiamen, who were outnumbered in the rate of six to one, and appear to have been getting the worst of it, since they were now many of them running for shelter to their rooms, when a cry was raised among the 24th that their opponents were going for their rifles. Though this statement appears to have been without the least foundation, yet most unfortunately the men of the 24th believed it. The marks of twenty-seven bullets are still to be seen on the doors, walls, and windows. One man, a private to the militia, named James King, who was stivading in one of the rooms warming himself by the tire, was shot through the abdomen by a rifle bullet which came through the room door. He fell at once, and after a few hours of intense suffering, died. Two other men were also wounded with bullets, though not dangerously, and one drummer lad was much hurt by blows from sticks and stones. All these men belong to the Tower Hamlets Militia, not one of the 24th being injured, we believe, in any way. A few of the Tower Hamlets Militia were also locked up, but none remain now under arrest, as there seems mot the least doubt but that they were the parties aggrieved, and that the men of the 24th have committed a cowardly outrage. Of course not the least clue has been obtained to the man who fired the fatal shot. Indeed, most of those who fired at all are said to have been too drunk to tell the direction in which they were levelling, and nothing but this and the darkness of the night. aim account for so few of the Irdlitia having keen Lit during the fuaaait',