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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-08-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—AUGUST 18. to be free, is not to do nothing, but to be the sole arbiter  of what we do, ar  so great  was placed at the bar, before Mr Bullock, to plead to an are quiet and peacebly we get on, indictment charging him with the wilful murder of David for ourselves, the better for our Lynar Fawcett.  ighbou  He pleided not  Erle, &Toff  Lnied by the  3 take care  Lord Mayor, took his seat on the be was then again placed at the bar.  (lent charged the prisoner t of July, 1843, at the parish of St. Fam  The in d the ls  with having, on Mary, Islington,  made an assault et A;‘,-1  .ed a pistOl at I ther-'  1, loaded with powd  wound, of which n died  Happy the  Clark appeared for the  The Attornc  h is I b  ionally  ator, to state to them tt  J and I  ier he I  cussion in the put  ce that would I by that evidence, an 4  he decision they  ,tices of the c  1 le d  1 iutant in the regi  lea, or I rank of Lieutennt These ge  took pla  ,loved them to d  papers. 1. All f}  read or I  sist on reading would appear that there had be occasions their between them, to which he she bring about a because they did not at all affect the present inquiry last ever to be could not offer any extenuation of the act imputed to the Johnson prisoner. It appeared that on the Friday before the Ist of bore, of July there had been a dispute between the deceased a literary and the prisoner, and the result was that a hostile meeting ,icing a took place between them in a field near the Brecknock  Id not any fu-rther allud  obtained by ti  must have when, on  ,uICI call "  !ft, met  r peril  No ; to read I facts of the  chair to I the evidence to see if there was an] apters," I a charge of murder, and he knew t  .e of escape from jury as gentle ydo the same ; but mild not admit of any doubt  urged men and men of honour would anx 3 I've he feared that the evidence " Yes upon the point. He should E.. you were actually present at 14  Duld also compel him to call as a Ns  to it. I tlemer  ho actec  d. Fawcett, who would adly conflict, and that yern rnent  PFisoner 1  1 the deadly weapon, d  prisone tion.  ke charge it, and observed the tatai result. tue jaw was, 3f unhappily, equally clear upon the point. It made an all. lowance for an act of violence committed in the excitement of passion ; but where there was time for , reason to •  HE SCrlpuun truguu nut, iv llaY V Ull, vy vAS a.. s to attempt esti- They had no right whatever to speculate as moralists Iff firmaments. on what the law ought to be. The present law might, ist probably, have hitherto been found insufficient to repress deficiency, and offences of this description, and some alteration might possibly be advisable ; but it appeared to him that the degra..  a is it tor  RICH IS  Wehave 1  GUI 111 luuul G. The evidence has been presented to the public on a for Mr. Adderley, of Doctors' Commons and Upper Clapton, who died on the 2nd of August, has left a legacy to Sir Peter Laurie of £5OO, as a mark of esteem and respect for his important public services as a magistrate.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-05-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ALLEGED CHILD MURDER IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE. —On Wednesday last, a man, named L. Cosgrove, was brought up at the Marylebone Police-station, London, 'urged with having occasioned the death of his female '4, aged three years. The prisoner had arrived the before by rail— -  d at Eusto  ay from Liverpool. When the train ,-square, he was found seated on some with a dead child concealed under a cloak. He ,e policeman who apprehended him that he had fed from Liverpool at seven in the morning, and that . nen within seventeen miles from London he found that the child was dead, and that it was a great blessing for him that it was dead, as its mother had died a few days before, in Liverpool, of fever. He asserted that he was great distress, and had written to his sister in West'ter, imploring that she would pay his expenses up to She promised to do so, he said, and on Sunday ~ht the child away, a woman belonging to .mving told him that it would not live long. Aion of the body of the child, there was found mark round the left side of the neck, and on the 1.1 was a quantity of blood. The prisoner was subsequently conveyed to the station-house, when upwards of -Ca was found upon him. The prisoner was remanded to wait the result of a coroner's inquest, which 1,-^ • turned a verdict, to the effect, that the dece`ural death.  luggag told tt  evening lie br(  the infirm/ On examii  COUNT  nt of  OF MORNINGTON  yesterday before Mr  sed died a  —The Earl of MorBingham, at Marlto show cause why  ntain his wife, Helena, Countess of iereby she had become chargeable to the orge, Hanover-square. From the statelordship's professional adviser, it appeared veek's ago, a sum of £BOO a year was ofwhich she de fered. to Lady  dined ; possibly because she conceived that by certain instruments now under investigation in a superior court, she Was entitled to more. The professional adviser of his lordship also intimated that he was not permitted by Lord  Mornington to show that the party on whose behalf the application was made, had been reduced to her present position by her own misconduct and extravagance, and he  Id, that his lordship was prepared to submit to any order which the court under the circumstances might think proper to make. Mr. Bingham said he could only deal with this case as the case of a pauper receiving relief in the Workhouse, and he could make no distinction between this and any other in the workhouse. He had no power to sanction more than ordinary assistance, and if his lordship undertook to reimburse the parish of St. George for the outlay, it was all that he could require. With this understanding the parties left the court. The Countess has since written to say that, during the fourteen years of separation from her husband, she has only received £1,300, and that the £BOO per year was offered on mer(  had only to  __ _ly the personal security of his lordship. ._MAN WITH Two
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-11-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TALE OF HORROR.—Mr. Stafford O'Brien shocked the house on Tuesday night with the following narration of the circumstances connected with the recent attempt to assassinate Mr. Bayly, near Nenagh :—" With respect to one crime," remarked the hon. gentleman, "being connected with the district where it happened, I will state the facts to the house. and they will skew—for it is not, I regret to say, a solitary crime—the state of feeling which exists in Ireland respecting that species of crime. I allude to the attempt upon Mr. Bayly. Mr. Bayly is a man so well known that any eulogy I could pass upon him would be idle indeed. There may be cases of persons accused of hard dealing, but hard dealing is no excuse for assassination. Mr. Bayly, however, needs no eulogy which I can bestow ; and Mr. Bayly—l say it with grief, I am obliged to say it, and in the face of parliament I say it—is one of those men whose character deepens the shame which belongs to a state of society that could suffor an attempt at his assassination. He was going in his gig to Nenagh to witness the result of an experiment for lighting the town with gas. My informant tells me, that he remarked two men watching behind a wall, and a young country girl on the other side of the road. Upon his return from the town Mr. Bayly was driving home with his brother-in-law, when his murderers aimed at him from behind the wall. The shot entered his jaw, and forced out some of his teeth, splitting his tongue in half. His brother-in-law (Mr. Head) after the shot, heard the country girl, who had been set to watch and give the signal to the murderers, say loudly ' Well done boys ; now make off as fast as you can.' Mr. Head took his wounded brother-in-law, who exhibited a horrible spectacle, into the house of a tenant of my father ; and he said, ' For God's sake go for a surgeon to Nenagh.' Nenagh was about a mile distant. I blush for the Irish people—l blush Tor human nature—not one single soul would go for a soldier, and his brother-in-law was obliged to leave Mr. Bayly in the torment and agony of his wounds, and himself go for a surgeon. We have heard that in Ireland there is a feeling of fear at giving assistance and protection against violence; and, if 11fr. Head had asked them to assist in pursuing the murderers, and they had refused. even this we should deeply deplore. But when the victim lay bleeding in the house, how to reconcile such a refusal, on the part of men and Christians, with thefeelings which exist in other countries, I know not, or what must be the consequencesif such a state of things shall continn.e. The vengeance was not considered complete; the victim was not dead ; he hail only his tongue split and his teeth knocked out."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-11-30 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TALE OF HORROR.—Mr. Stafford O'Brien shocked the house on Tuesday night with the following narration of the circumstances connected with the recent attempt to assassinate Mr. Bayly, near Nenagh :—" With respect to one crime," remarked the bon. gentleman, "being connected with the district where it happened, I will state the facts to the house, and they will shew—for it is not, I regret to say, a solitary crime—the state of feeling which exists in Ireland respecting that species of crime. I allude to the attempt upon Mr. Bayly. Mr. Bayly is a man so well known that any eulogy I could pass upon him would be idle indeed. There may be cases of persons accused of hard dealing, but hard dealing is no excuse for assassination. Mr. Bayly, however, needs no eulogy which I can bestow ; and Mr. Bayly—l say it with grief, I am obliged to say it, and in the face of parliament I say it—is one of those men whose character deepens the shame which belongs to a state of society that could suffor an attempt at his assassination. He was going in his gig to Nenagh to witness the result of an experiment for lighting the town with gas. My informant tells me, that he remarked two men watching behind a wall, and a young country girl on the other side of the road. Upon his return from the town Mr. Bayly was driving home with his brother-in-law, when his murderers aimed at him from behind the wall. The shot entered his jaw, and forced out some of his teeth, splitting his tongue in half. His brother-in-law (Mr. Head) after the shot, heard the country girl, who had been set to watch and give the signal to the murderers, say loudly ' Well done boys ; now make off as fast as you can.' Mr. Head took his wounded brother-in-law, who exhibited a horrible spectacle, into the house of a tenant of my father ; and he said, ' For God's sake go for a surgeon to Nenagh.' Nenagh was about a mile distant. I blush for the Irish people—l blush for human nature—not one single soul would go for a soldier, and his brother-in-law was obliged to leave Mr. Bayly in the torment and agony of his wounds, and himself go for a surgeon. We have heard that in Ireland -. there is a feeling of fear at giving assistance and protection against violence ; and, if Mr. Head had asked them to assist in pursuing the murderers, and they had refused. even this we should deeply deplore. But when the victim lay bleeding in the house, how to reconcile such a refusal, on the part of men and Christians, with the feelings which exist in other countries, I know not, or what must be the consequences if such a state of things shall continue. The vengeance was not considered complete; the victim was not dead ; he hail only his tongkte split and his teeth kmcked out."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-04-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

OOO. The illness of the Duke of Portland, father of Lord George Bentinck, is believed to be a fatal one—no very  improbable surprise, seeing that his Grace is in his 79th year. His death would make no change in the political position or title of the protectionist leader, the heir to the Dukedom being the Marquis of Titchfield, now fortyseven years old, but quite unknown to fame as a party man. Gossip assigns Lord George the inheritance of most of the unentailed Ayrshire property of his father consequent on his relinquishment of the turf and his devotion to politics.  It is said that the Bank of France has already made 'arrangements for the repayment to Messrs. Baring and Co. of the loan of £BOO,OOO, due at the end of the present month, by credits upon St. Petersburg, and it is anticipqted in some quarters that some of the gold then may find its way back to England through that operation. It is stated that the ministers were to assemble in town, yesterday, for the purpose of considering the proposition made by the Irish landlords, for an extensive scheme of emigration. Some of the ministers, it is said, are very favourably disposed towards it; but it is not expected to be adopted. A trotting-match, for one thousand guineas, was decided on Friday near Maidenhead. A Manchester horse had set the time for ten miles at thirty-five minutes four seconds. A mare, called The Wonder, performed the distance in thirty-four minutes ten seconds, thus beating the Manchester time by fifty-five seconds. The Poet Laureate, William Wordsworth, Esq., has just been on a short visit to Bristol and Bath. During his brief sojourn, he daily perambulated the most attractive localities ; the poet also inspected the remains of " Cannynge's chapel," on the premises of Mr. iefferies, Redcliff-street.  A man has been killed, in a strange manner, at'Cherry Willingham, in Lincolnshire. He was walking behind a cart, which a boy was driving; in the vehicle the man had placed a loaded gun, the muzzle pointing backwards ; the jolting of the cart discharged the gun, and the contents lodged in the man's body. It is rernarkabli,that of the many women just tried on assize circuits for the murder of their infant children:, not one was declared guilty. Perhaps there never wariod when, owing to accidents by fire and the carelessness, or something worse, of mothers, so much destrUction of infant life took place as at present. The opponents of the Government education scheme at Bristol held a large meeting in the (late) Sbcialist Hall, Broadmead, on Thursday evening. They are in a sad plight, for their organ, the radical Bristol Mercury, has completely deserted them on this question, and given in its unqualified adhesion to the Cabinet. At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, Dennis Cronin was acquitted of the charge of manslaughter, in having caused the death of a female by administering a certain noxious compound. The defendant is a physician in good practice in London, and his trial caused much excitement among the faculty.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-12-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SIR W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS meet at Half-past Ter: o'clock on Tuesday (this day), at Otelev Park ; ThursdaY: at Dutllutga CLapcl; Friday, at Circsigrd.  Dee. 10....  SOUTH  1' ho trim 'murder of !ecognizan Is in a hop,  Jama Bootle-cur Jump. H labour for  Robert 1 tree, stole' Prisoner w and hard h TAoma.9 Chester, ass fence robb( Portation f  James killed and Victed. Th been much the court b have been siderably a Palliating court was, hard labou  Maddoci Stabbing at to imprisor latter to in Henry I burned Ar Thomas ton, togetl assaulted .1 Stealing fro The jury, s the prisons Sustody.__  Johii M tuilty of pairs of tr each sentei Harriet Worth and receipt for John Hebc tutor, Clemency o tate woma once resj znit the fc His Lords] that he was lest he mi offence to made capit  Thomas Stabbed J. grievous IN &Basalt, an  John Jo Chester, be he having, natural life bient ; and be found n  Arthur found guill Thomas R They were lonment, , John W Ilictment, tdously ma then alive. imErisonm  thomas charging hi Ship, after Pearance it to twelve Thorna. Pearance, ttiously kil Spring-cart returned a discharged  John Lo With havin, and uttere tent to defi Prisoners ! gorged, an( Inwrisonm  John Sn On the 13t1 tent to mu of stabbing able provo toned for  John M Were convi ~___u/vg, of R wartsportic John B 1 entered u with the been prel  years' Irai  The Gil for the ma Lewis under-Lyi William  Witiian of Willia twelve mo  Ann B Liverpool, went.  Michael felt shillir Prisoners  Offenoe  to ten yeE imprisons: Ann W in this boi Anent.  Joseph remanded murdered Manchest4 this grave It appe Lord-stre( children, 1 the unhap sequence Period the neighbour sundry art July the p -21- dock, &t the hot butter, Sicc to nine o'i Wards the rushed ou and ran a( Was found to fetch a —looked I some wonand left tl Station at doing a ra and was c  was so al house, bu children, disturbed,  The uni cut in an Stained wi The jur verdict of His Lo: pressive prisoner,  Robert Murder 'Bolton. bruised I dily ham in a flany, On being one of 7 brosecub ring uP  younger, evidence. Mr. Ci charged ing worm merly ago, and farm in half a mil son's hoi assistant nerally g ner was  he was si  imprison to that d place in in the co went to seen by l his pipe, so. He asked to quently house hi  Dean, ix remain, Servant ICQUiII ill  bee. 21, 1847.  X 47.  the root he teachbe drawn  ripture is authoriti !stions of  _ in carry' O. That the Neal  ,s Regius Board of year, by  niversitY, 311 res  0 unani iniversitY it statue ;  very re easure ink  perfectly t forward  iemselves  .omotero,  ross_ na? ivof Air,  and this  ,es, con3t, how assault  proctors.  iy them re is Mr,  er then  IT he has ieir great through der `the  •ed to nO,  anner of  ,nsure of selected  vocation  vas dons r of the the kind alleged  to the  pden as  lerstaid  in the a legal  to Lord  tnessecl  tir lordt never arapden will not stion of  ;neatest of the our be
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-07-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CALIFORNIA.  The Alta California, a paper published at San Fran. cisco, gives the following as to the population actually engaged in the mines, and the perils to which they are exposed with the Indians : ne most rename accounts state the number of persons actually engaged in fir mines at about 8,000; and probably one-half of these are Americans, and an additional eighth Californians. The feeling is very general among the Americans and Californians that foreigners should not be allowed to dig for gold. They think that they alone should be entitled to all the advantages of the mines, and they believe that such course would secure the permanent prosperity of the country, by preventing the mines from swallowing up its whole productive industry. Public meetings on the subject are talked of, and it is proposed that memorials be sent to Congress, requesting a law granting permits to dig, and authorising such permits to be given to none but American citizens. There has been considerable difficulty in different parts of the mines between the whites and Indians. It is impossible to say who were the aggressors in the first instance ; but it is no doubt true that the whites are becoming impressed with the belief that it would be absolutely necessary to exterminate the savages before they can labour much longer in the mines with security. Two weeks since we published an account of the murder of five Oregonians by the Indians, on the middle Fork, and gave the names of two of the men killed. We have since learned that the names of the other three were Robinson, Thompson, and English. On the receipt of this intelligence at the Saw Mill, a party of twenty-five Oregonians went in pursuit of the Indians, and came upon a large rancheria, on Weber's Creek. A fight occurred, in which some fifteen or twenty Indians were killed, and fifty or sixty taken prisoners. The prisoners were driven down to Culloma, where all but seven were released. About sunbeam the prisoners made a concerted attempt at escape, when five of them were shot, and two succeeded in getting away." An account of the building operations is from the same authority : " Within the last few months, many new towns, or sites for towns, have been presented to the citizens of Califor,,ia for the investment of capital and the town of Benicia, in which the price of lots ran up from fifty to 1,000 dollars each, during the month of March, has now more than one rival in its march of improvement and population. Among the conspicuous of the new towns or cities that are in progress between this and the gold region, is one projected by Cl.:) J. 1). Stevenson, Dr. William C. Parker, George M'Dougal, and Samuel Norris, and if the site selected be worthy the efforts those gentlemen have made to develop its resources, an eligible position for a great city, it will indeed be worthy the name they have given it—New York of the Pacific.'
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1849-08-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CONDUCT OF THE PRISONER SINCE HIS CONVICTION. I On Wednesday night, as the murderer was being removed from the dock to the Bridewell by the subterraneous communication that exists, after sentence of death had been pronounced upon him, he heard the cheering of the mob outside, and appeared very much annoyed and excited by it; " tl—n them," he exclaimed. " I wish I was amongst them !" He kept reiterating to the officers in attendance that he had been innocently condemned, but said be did not care for death. He assumes an apparent levity in prison, but exhibits the most peaceable demeanour. On Thursday evening, he expressed a wish to have his original clothes restored to him. The wish was complied with, and Wright, one of the turnkeys of the gaol, obtained them at the central office, signing a receipt for them in the usual form. The trousers, whichstill bear light stains of blood, are said particularly to please him ; and, he remarked, with grim jocularity, to one of his attendants, that it was a great pity he could not wear out such nice articles. He is kept, of course, in the condemned cell, and a turnkey is present with him day and night. Oa Wednesday night, he took up a prayer-book which was lying in his cell, and then cast it down again, with an exclamation that he "did not care a d—n for life." At his request, a letter, dictated by him, has been written to his father. It acquaints him with the sentence, and protests that he is perfectly innocent of the murders for which he is doomed to suffer. He pleads to the turnkeys, too, his innocence, and says that the authorities have got the wrong man 1 The day of execution is not yet fixed : if the usual course be followed, it will not take place till Saturday fortnight. A rumour was prevalent in town, on Friday, that the prisoner had made an attempt upon his life ; there is no foundation whatever for the statement. Many parties have been to the gaol, very anxiously begging permission to see the prisoner ; but, of course, none of these have been admitted. We have, on a former occasion, given the prisoner's biography, or, at all events, detailed the leading circumstances of his life. His real name is Maurice Gleeson. He is the son of a blacksmith, and was born at a place calla d Brurie, about nine miles from Limerick. David Gleeson, his father, is a drunken, dissipated character, and that vice is said to have characterised all the mem hers of his family. The prisoner was brought up as a blacksmith, with his father, but left home about two years ar.d a half ago, being then charged with a robbery. He was subsequently employed as a striker at a foundry in Plymouth, lived afterwards in London, and reached this town, the sad scene of his atrocities, about fifteen months ago. He was never known to work whilst here, but married a female who kept a lodging-house in Sparling-street. His brutality was such, however, that they were soon separated, through the intervention of her parents. The sad sequel of his history is, unfortunately, but too well known.