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The Daily Times. — 1860-04-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRENCH CREW SAVED BY AN 'ENGLISH SHIP.---The "John. Masterman, government emigrant ship, just reports that when in the Channel, let. 49 deg. 17 seo., tong,A 'deg. 8 sec. W., in a gale, she sighted the Frencles schooner Frederick Gustave, from aardeAux, in a sinking condition; her lialwarli-s, boats, and port staunchions having been washed away. The Captain writes, "That in conseivence of the heavy sea he dare not for some time lowbr a boat, but at last he risked it, and his lifeboat was safely lowered by Clifford's patent gear,- mid was clear in one roll of the ship, and thus saved Capt. Title, four men, and a boy, from perishing." This case affords another proof' of the good that must follow all ships having a ready means 0,1 safely lowering the boats on board. The proyincial papers continue to report the departure. c,f Dirge numbers of the Irish peasanti7 for America. A Sliga journal, for instance, says :—"Emigluits are leaving this port by the steamers for Liverpool us great numbers. The public conveyances arriving in ' Sligo from the surrounding districts are bringing them in crowds. We learn that the deramid tbr passages on board the Galway steamer Ia so great that the agents here---the Messrs. D.usllecen of Knox's-street—liaye refused SQ nian.y. as 9 applications for berths on board the Cireetwasn The severity of the winter and spring, withe enosmaies price to which hay and other provender and provisions have in consequence risen, Ese, no doubt, the causes of the panic which has weed among the peasantry in the districts where this visitation has fallen most severely." THE Cosvicrt (G ills Ariltots.—The capital sen/ tence pasad upon, Charles Annois, a Brazilian sailor, at the. Oeutral Criminal Court, in October, 1859, for %kg' murder of the master of the barque Margaret, on the Tome from Lisbon to England, has been reapited during her Majesty's pleasure, . Shortly after his conviction it was represented to the _Seeretaxy of State that he had at various times been subject to attacks of frenzy, or insanity, wl*la bad rendered it necessary to place him un and as the absence of all apparent t restraint.; nlotive or his crime favoured the supposition, that It might, bare been committed under the inftuence of an attack of that kind, the execution of the sentence was respited- unttl, the 20th instant in. order that inquiry, rnight be made at Rio de Janeiro, of which place he is a native, as to his antecede*. The result of that inquiry, which has beP made throuf,,,li his Excellency the Count Laeradisi, Portuguese minister at this court, is such as to confirm the statements which gave rise to it ; and as there is thus good reason to believe that the prisoner was in a state of insanity when he committed the murder, the Queen has been advisee} to remit the capital punishment, and he will be doult with in such manner as his condition and the circumstances of his case may, upon further consideration, seem to require.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-05-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE SPERNALL MURDER.—It is now s , pon the hful Ne t f . g dam-Fait , ' w on, or Stett 1 8 - 1 g Samuel Scarlett, Stafford. licensed victualler. eond°l4 when, at our morning , t, for the the total for the week must be above 500,000. The receipts in-Flying Fish, Edwards, for Memel:middlin we expec agreeable) than the author of discord. The high respect I entertain for th 't f a man au or) y o ufacturing house at Redditch, who have Marseilles-Joseph Christall, Broad, for Constantinople-Cicel g I 8 - Stephen's, St. George's-circus, Sout close. Dressing cases will, " rather for passengers on 44 railways, £70,766 13s. 2d. ; ditto for y, Riga,red 1 9 Sls 6d If Id. tobacconist. h e whim se • Its your Lords p, hi induces me thus publicly to come forward- cox, for Pernambuco-Pliceni " recently reeeived a communication from their agent in Arne- x, Kilmer, for Antwerp-Pactolus - 2 2 this grateful leaf (the odour o ater's skin. goods on 39 railways, £24,289 3s. 7d. ; total, £95,055 16s. Harding, for Portsmouth-John Sr 1 . --- d gold-be direction of a commum •cation from any inferior uarter should have rica, that Crowley, charged vvith shooting his tether's man- me lay, Fallenstein, for Buenos -- Jane Ar • q 9d. This is an average of X6Ol per mile er week. T 1 Ayres-Geor e Lord An^ . mitage, Batley, Yorkshire, cloth dresser. g , t and Elizabeth, Stone, for Ancona- ;7,1 a.'-i X side by side with court plaisters an der the missed unnoticed. I trust you will believe that I earnestly P le . servant upon his farm of Spernall, near Redditch, has been Petrel, Gorbell, for R • ' W =Ca= tel a•..• t••. Luke G ' • to be un about out- traffic therefore is certainl • at the rate of about fo r disclaim the slightest intention of stating anything in the . s , ) - u mil- otterdam and St. Petersburg-George 11. Liar- 0 ; Mrs e 0 ce-- """ CI -m C. ". ".. reigen, Batley, Yorkshire, spinner. internal use will always require bit a rehended han En lish ,' - •n the United 't pp y g 1 olice officer i a ates, -ee e 0 ets F. 5 F.e er, tee 4' F-• el. 0, es We^o2 ; lions and a half a year, and carrying twenty millions of pas- rison, Reed, for Para-and Emilia & Ferdinand Hart •• B John Fearnley, Bradford, Yorkshire, beer seller. ibbed the eedings, most remote degree disrespectful to your Lordship, from and is now on his passage to this country. Narva. . wig, for Z' 'al'aii-a•Faac.C.a--aa--0 a a '-' the doctors themselves :we only cr A 0.0. proc sengers. .e. o ,-,-.-o s, we-w 0 egreese a-- ce. qP r, William Burnley, Batley, Yorkshire, clothier. ss. whom I have received much of courtesy and kindness, or of - " a i•;;e4E.w es? e ase ei'iees -, 0 Pa , David Brooksbank, Bradford, Yorkshire, out of busine n every`'-' twe At a meeting of the states held in the island of Guernsey c es. ee,...,,,,,,,e,We. a a 0 es 0•00-ward use for the comfort of our osv smiling apar , wounding the feelings of Mr. Henn, whose many good qua- us - 2.,,n 0 0.. _,,,,.- ..,":-.1 aa" ~, o'l 0.--- ac John Astwick, Thornhill, Yorkshire, wheelwright. ho shave' -I fnk Dr. -e lities I esteem and admire.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-12-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHANCELLOR.—SOMe of our contemporaries seem to have made up their minds as to who is, or, rather, who is not, to be the Lord Chancellor; but, as the question belongs more properly to the cabint, we must await the determination of his Majesty's ministers on the subject. It is quite certain, however, that a Lord Chancellor will be appointed, and it is understood that the judicial and political functions of that high office will be separated,  Znst Luau -CLuau Y. J. B. Wil4rumn, Es 4;. at (Iv Canter. bury meeting, on the 11th instant, for the Irish clergy, stated that "he would vouch for the truth of a narrative he was about to give them :—A clergyman of Ireland, possessed of an income Of 1200-per annum, recently went to an office in llublia to in• sure his life in favour of his wife and children. Some hesitation having. been evinced. he.asked if there was any objection to him. The reply was, "We cannot, sir • we dare not run the risk of insuring the lives of clergymen. We cannot make out a policy fot you 'unless you agree to a proviso that the insurance shall be void in the event of your being murdered." ' A thrill of horror followed this antecrote.—Kelitish Gmiette.  Prince CharleS of Hesse was soleindly affianced ea the 11th  inst. to the Princess Elizabeth, dui:4lll4ra Prince- William of Prussia. Prince Charles, the Grand Duke's Second son, Major-General :in the Austrian service, was born on the 2.3 d of April, 1809, and is therefore twenty-six years of are. Princess Elizabeth of Prussia, eldest daughter of Prince'William, was born on the 18th of June, 1815, the day of the battle of Waterlob, and is consequently twenty years old. A-TTEMPTED I3IGuWAY RO.BBRItY,—On Friday (Christmas) evening, about six o'clock, M. de La Claverie, a French teacher of langua.ges, while- proceeding to the house of a friend in Bold-street, was most" audaciously attacked opposite -Greenlane, by some ruffians, who attempted to rob him. M. de La Claverie was walking with his hands in his great coat pockets, the coat being closely buttoned over. A man froth hehiud clasped him in his arms, while another in front placed his gaud upon his mouth, so as to prevent him front calling for assistance. In this situation a third ruffian dealt hint a violent blow on the stomach, which felled him to the ground, and for a Short time deprived him of the power of speech. M. de La Claverie, however, retained the possession of his senses. While on the ground, another man, appearing to commiserate his situation, attempted to unbutton his great coat, for the purpose of getting at his pockets. This M. ere La Claverie had sufficient presence of mind to resist, by folding his arms firmly on his breast, and a boy coining sip the gang instantly left hint. There were hut very few people in any of the streets, and no police officer or watchman was near the spot to assist in capturing the thieves, or to have prevented so gross an outrage.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-09-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

JOHN WAR.E.  (Copy.) We, the undersigned master, officers, 4ind crew of the barque Rossendale, do declare; that on Monday, April 6th, 1835, at two a.m., we were disturbed from our sleep by our seaman John Luse running aft, and calling out tbat he had been stabbed by. the black Malay who had come on board from the Arab ship on the 4th instant. When we came to him, he was on the poop bleeding profusely from three wounds in his tight shoulder. He said that, while lying asleep on the forecastle, he was awakened by a person stabbing him in the arm, and before he could defend himself that he hid received two other stabs in the arm; but he no sooner got on Nis feet than he saw the Malay'run from him, and jump overboard from the larboard cathead. We all commenced a strict search, when we discovered that the Malay had murdered two of our crew, John Mean, ordinary seaman, and Francis Richardson, apprentice. The boy Richardson.was on the starboard side of the quarter-deck, who had no doubt come aft to raise an alarm, but, having had the windpipe cut through and a deep. stab in the left breast, he was not able to call out, and must have died with loss of blood instantaneously. John Mean had his throat cut in a most dreadful state, a piece. apparently being'scooped out of,his neck, so that he must have died as soon as the deed bad been committed. We found on the forecastle on the larboard side, about where John Lax last saw the Malay,- a knife covered with blood belonging to one of the seamen, a long sharp-pointed pocket-knife, and that was the instrument that the Malay must have committed the murders with, as the breadth of the blade was exactly the size of the wounds on John Lax's shoulder. We at daylight made another search, but could find no trace of the murderer, nor has he been seen since. John Lax saw him jump overboard, so that he must have drowned himself is our supposition. As there was no boat or vessel of any sort in sight at the time, we cannot form any idea what could have been his motive for so outrageous an act. There had been no quarrel between him and any other person, but, on the contrary, be had always been used with the greatest kindness by everyone since he came on board, which was on the 4th instant in a very singular manner. A large Arab ship that left Sourabaya the same time that we did, and which, we understand, was hound to Batavia, at about half past five p.m. stood across our bows on the starboard tack, we being on the larboard, the wind W.S.W. It came on rather squally, so that we clewed up our topgallant sails, and the Arab, who was now to windward, and under the same sail, hauled her courses up, and let her topsails run down on the cap, although the squall was not heavy, nor had it a threatening-appearance. After the squall bad passed, she wore and set her topsails again, and made alb sail. Being a light ship, and there being little wit 4 stra s,at 4.07 w three miles ahead of 1.1'3 about eleven p.m.,
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-04-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXPRESS.)  fresh I  antity of En  THE TURN OUT OF THE WORKMEN  We have little that is new or precise to report relative to the turn out this we-k. We can only stat men, generally, remain f good or evil to them-elves ever, of principally joiners  D their pu-rpoce.  hat the  e sig  the " declaration" required t the master to work. Bat the stone LA n It is a remarkable fact, which rn thority, that few or none of the latter bod (and they are very numerous) are to be seen in e streets, or in the vicinity of their usual places of employment. They appear in fart, in this respect. to have made up  and returned  -ma Fons yet stand out stronglyvrp learn from good au of operatives  their minds to undergo a silent and occult struggle' 90 long as their resources will avail them. We repeat that we never yet knew, in our experiet ce of years, any good to result to the workmen from these &nerves, but, on the *ontrary, an injury to themselves and families. At; the same time, t-s pu'tlie and private works of mag— nitude are going on (or should be,) tending to the g—neral  miratde an.  will shortly be come to, saiisfactory to both partie At Bradford there is not the least appearance arrangement being come to between the masters and the journeymen. The trnde of the town of Bradford at the present time is such that the masters are benefitted by the absence of the men, and under the circumstances we are reminded of the woolcombers' strike in 1825,—it, as the esent, was unfortunate for the working men. At Manchester the strike still continues; the employers are gradually fill,ng up their shops with applicants  ... . . . who are willing to work. and who sign the declaration. The turn-outs keep up the system of piquoting, and of intercepting the bands whenever it is practicable, and enticing them away.  On Sunday laht tour gentlemen were drowned in the Thames off the new pier at liungerford Bridge, by the displacing of a plank on which they were walking one lighter to another  The subject of Tawell's confession was again before the magistrates, at the Bucks Aess.ions, last week ; a resolution was passed, by a maj rity of six to three, that the chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Cox, should produce the docun3ent. The rev. gentleman, however, said that he bad made a solemn promise to Tawell not to part with the statement, and that no Dower on earth .hntod  him to do so. It remains to be seen what furthcr proceedings will be taken. On Saturday, Samuel Yarham was executed at Norwich for the murder of Mrs. Candler, at Yarmouth. He did not make any confession but maintained a sullen stlenns. 20,000 people were present. This execution stands in one respect almost unparalleled in English history—that of a man being hanged for a murder atter he had been allowed to give evidence against three supposed accom plices in the same offenc.. He is also executed upon statements which be himself made whilst under the impression that, in consequence of giving such evidence, he was free from any ul erior proceedings.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-02-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SHOCKING MIIRDER.—One of those brawls, resulting in a fatal use of the knife, which have of late disgraced the town and alarmed the community of Liverpool, took place in Denison-street, on Tuesday afternoon. It originated in a quarrel between two sailors, and ended in one of the disputants mortally wounding the other. The victim was a young man, named Michael McDermott, who had sailed in the ship Columbia under the assumed name of William Jones. He was the son of a plasterer residing in Rose-gardens, Rose-place, Scotland-road, and was •only about nineteen years of age. The assassin is a Maltese, named Charles Flower. Between three and four o'clock of the afternoon in question, some sailors were drinking in a public-house in Robert-street, when an altercation took place between them, and they adjourned into Denison-street to settle their disputes by physical force. Shortly afterwards, the deceased was observed coming up the street, and on passing the prisoner, who was standing alongside of some rails, a few angry words passed between them, both placing themselves in a fighting attitude, but no blows were then exchanged. Another seaman, named George Hall,, then advised the prisoner to retire to his boarding-house, to save himself from being maltreated, and getting into trouble ; but, in reply, the infatuated man exclaimed, " No, by ; I have a knife in the house, I will go and fetch it out, and cut the out of the first son of a— I come across." He then went into his lodging-house ; upon which, deceased followed down the street, and upon getting opposite the door of the prisoner's lodging-house the latter rushed out into the street, and struck him with his clenched fist. The two men struggled violently for about two minutes, when the prisoner drew out a dagger, or "bowie" knife, and plunged it into the left groin of the deceased, who instantly fell to the ground, having received a mortal stab. The unfortunate man was speedily conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where he expired in less than an hour after having 'been admitted. After stabbing his victim, the prisoner brandished his knife amongst the crowd, but was prevented from doing any further mischief by the efforts of John Allen and Edward Wallace, two seamen, who endeavoured to take the deadly instrument from him. Hall then came up, and threw the murderer on the ground, when Wallace succeeded in taking the knife from his grasp. Whilst upon the ground the prisoner attempted to stab Hall. In consequence of the crowd that was attracted to the spot, and the confusion that prevailed, the prisoner made his escape into the court, and evaded the police for nearly half an hour. He was, however, apprehended, and on Thursday a coroner's inquest was held on the body, at which Flower was present in custody, and the facts above-stated were elicited in course of the inquiry. The coroner having briefly recapitulated the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder againt the prisoner, and he was committed to the assizes for trial under a coroner's warrant. Docu
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-03-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE MURDER AT SALT-HILL.—The trial of Johd Tawell, for the murder of Sarah Hart, commenced od Wednesday, at Aylesbury. Mr. Sergeant Bytes stated the case for the prosecution. Several witnesses were ex., amined. who proved that the prisoner was at the house 01 the deceased, on the evening of the Ist of January, a fevn minutes before she was found dead. Other witnesses proved his apprehension next day in London. The sir' geon who attended the deceased proved the presence of prussic acid in the stomach of the deceased. The sub' sequent evidence was substantially the same as that Rived on the inquest, with the exception of a long and minutes examination of the medical men respecting the contents of the stomach, and the presence of prussic acid, and its properties as a poison. The prisoner was ably defended by Mr. Kelly. who shed tears more than once in his address to the jury. The points most in favour of the pd., soner were, that although he had overdrawn his accounts his credit with the bank was not impaired, and that he had been in the habit for many months of purchasing prussic acid at the same shop in London, for a disease under which he laboured—varicose veins. A number of witnesses were called. who gave the prisoner an excellent, and at the conclusion of the second day, the court adjourned to Friday, when, after the judge's sumn.ing up, the jury after about halt an hour's consultation returned a verdict of guilty, a sentence which the prisoner heard with remarkable firmness. His lordship then sentenced him to death. 'Notwithstanding the calm demeanour of the unhappy criminal throughout the trial, and even while sentence was being passed upon him, his strength became exhausted when he descended the ladder which leads front the dock to the gaol-yard. He fell upon the ground in a fit, but he was immediately raised by the gaolers who were conducting him to his cell, and he recovered in w minutes. His spirits, which, during the time he vivo in prison previous to his trial, were unusually good, have now sunk to the lowest possible ebb. Up to a late hole of the evening he continued to pace his car, and cry' " Oh dear, oh dear, what will become of my poor wife and my children ! " Dinner was served to him at bit usual hour for eating, but he declined to partake of it. Later in the evening he ate some beef-steak. Whether in seriousness or otherwise, his conduct had hitherto given evidence of a feeling of certainty that he must be acquitted. He not only invited the person who daily served him with his meals to visit him at his house, but anticipating that his trial would terminate on Thursdal night, he actually had a carriage in readiness to convey' him to his home. His son, by the unfortunate woman Hart, was in court during the trial. He is a very fine lad, about five years of age. When the verdict of guiltf, was pronounced by the foreman of the jury, a murmur or applause was heard in court, but it was at once and serf properly suppressed.