The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1845-12-09 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THOMAS BERRY HORSFALL., Esq , next rose, and years, and had bad two children. The deceased Agnes after saying that, though he had no immediate connexion was very low spirited, but never was heard to express with the district of Toxteth-park, he could not have jug- anything that would lead her husband to suppose that tified a refusal to the request to attend and address the she would commit suicide. Verdict, temporary insanity meeting convened for such an object, proposed the following resolution : " That it is the duty of the friends of the church, `every man according to his ability,' to co-operate in a plan which, by multiplying places of worship, increasing the amount of free accommodation, subdividing the districts of over-burdened clergymen, and adding to the number of visiting pastors, will extend the influence of recognised means of grace, promote the glory of God, and the best interests of the labouring classes." Mr. Horsfall then proceeded to say, that on the two classes into which the assembly might be divided—that and was i class which considered it incumbent upon their rulers to man being in a state of provide for the wants now under consideration, and that class which believed the, onus to rest upon the community—there was in the present instance; an equal responsibility and an equal claim ; on the one, because experi°` ence had proved the demand for church extension to be beyond the power of their rulers to satisfy : and on the seaman named Reason. other, because it was to opinions like those entertained It appears that the captain having rendered himself perfectly frantic from drink, and in a state of induced inby it that the conveners of the meeting then appealed (hear, hear.) The resolution which he now moved ap- sanity, imagined that the crew were conspiring against him, and proceeded to cut at several of them with a cutlas, pealed to every one to contribute according to his ability ; which, with loaded pistols, he kept constantly by him. and in such a community, in so flourishing a town, where ,l he mates at first affected to aid him in chasing the men daily and hourly exertions were being made for facilitathrough the ship, but when the captain declared his intenting the operations of commerce, for the adding to the tion to murder them all, they called the men together splendour of the streets, for the advancerrient of science, sp around them with belaying pins and capstan bars, and and for the heaping of luxuries upon luxuries, such an aphatgged of them to secure the captain in the cabin.' For peal could not but meet with a response as gratifying to out three .quarters of an hour they consented to stand the promoters of the objects of the meeting, as creditable on the defensive, but his not appearing, and being under to the principles and morals of the inhabitants. The rethe dread of the mutiny law, they threw down their weasolution professed that what was proposed to be done would be for the benefit of the labouring classes; but he I pans' and refused to stand by the mates. The conse uences were fatal—horrible. would go a little further than the resolution and say. that ' q The following evidence is sufficient to show the utter the advantages intended to be conferred would not be helplessness of men who have no leader, and want conficonferred on the labouring classes alone—for he had deuce in one another. found that blessing conferred upon one class of society, William Dunn, the cook, was called and sworn. He were blessings conferred upon all, and that society was so deposed as follows :-1 was in the cabin when Reason was interwoven, and in its varied relations so closely allied, called down, about. half-past twelve o'clock one day, and that the good enjoyed by one portion of it was a good saw the captain, with a bayonet in his hand, standing over participated in throughout (cheers.) He was convinced Reason. 1 heard a noise, as if the captain was sticking a that all they desired would be carried out, and that by the bayonet -into Reason's head, and he was calling out for liberality of a Christian public, they would be enabled, mercy, to which the captain said he would show him none with Christian exultation, to point to the churches they at an. The boy Glover then came into the pantry where purposed to erect, and say, ' , I was kept, and told me the captain had killed Reason. "These temples of our God, how beautiful they stand, • Julian Cordivisllo said the captain repeatedly called The glories of our native plains, the bulwarks of our land!" Mars " Brute, brute, brute," and cut him with a sword. The