The Warrington Examiner. — 1869-05-22 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

BTIENOTI OF THE CLIPPEE " BLUE JACKET.' '— Intelligence has been received in Liverpool of the burning of the clipper ship Blue Jacket, while on the voyage from Lyttleton, New Zealand, to London. The ship was destroyed on March 9, and seven days afterwards a Hamburg vessel fell in with one of her boats, which contained the captain and two of his officers, all the passengers, and several of the crew-37 in all. The fourth officer, steward, and one of the passengers, died soon after being picked up, probably from the effects of long exposure. Two lifeboats, with 31 Men, are missing. The Blue Jacket, it would appear, had specie on board to the value of £70,000, of which £48,000 was lost in the vessel. The captain's boat carried :C4,000, and each of the two missing boats a like =omit.  CONFESSION OF MURDER AT BIRMINGHAM At the Birmingham Police Court, on Wedßesday an !d man, name William Rogers, was charged on hiQ 17711 confession with being concerned in the murder of i-eorge Tullet who was found dead under mvstoriou ci numst mees in the Pershore-road, Birmingham, in ily last. Tullet was a woodturner, living close to thf :ouse occupied by the prisoner, who was an intimate mnpanion of his. Late on the night of the 14th of July e was found lyingdead near the Pebble Mill, Pershorelad, in a secluded part of the suburbs. There were o marks of violence on the body. but the pockets had ea turned out. After a medical examination, poison -prussic acid—waspronounced tobe the cause of death. logersthe present prisoner gave evidence at the inquest, ~nd a verdict was returned of "Suicide while in a state )f insanity." Bernard Gallagher said that last Sunday -tuning he was taking a walk with prisoner near the it. Helena Gardens, when the conversation turned on .3riegn countries, Rogers asked him if he had not been soldier? Witness said he had, and that he had been in he East Indies. Rogers inquired, "Did you ever put • Lay of these natives out of the road?" Witness replied, No but I have heard of such things." Prisoner rejoined Oh, I have done that myself here. Not so long ago I nit a long fellow out of the road." Rogers was per'eetly sober and collected when he made that statement. lallagher took no further notice of the matter, but the Lme evening he was in the company of the prisoner at the _ease of a Mr. Smith, a relative of theyoung man Tullet Irs. Smith was talking of the mysterious death of her .•)usin, when Rogers nudged her, and said, "That's he fellow I was telling you about that I put ,at of the way." He also added, "I was at the uquest, but I was laughing in my sleeve all the time I was giving evidence." Gallagher then told the company what Rogers had said and Rogers was apprehended. Whenchargedwithmurdering George:Tullet se denied having made any confession. The prisoner ias been a dissipated man, and in very poor circumstances. Alter the death of Tullet he seemed to have obtained a upply of money; and he remarked that he had "just 'lad one of the best sprees he ever had in his life.—Mrs. smith was called, and said that lately the prisoner when at her house, threatened to take her life. He muttered ,omething about having "poisoned two already, and he would soon have her out of the way; he would give it her when she knew nothing about it." He gnashed his teeth at her, and was very violent.—Prisoner was remanded pending further inquiries.  The Irish Church Bill, as amended on consideration, now contains 71 clauses.  The charge of forgery against the late chief constable of Birkenhead was again investigated at the London Guildhall .on Saturday. Eventually, the prisoner was committed for trial.  On Saturday morning another body was recovered from the Oaks Colliery, and although it had been entombed for nearly two years and a half, it was identified as that of William Boothroyd A child, whose parents live at Southampton, was suffocated a day or-two since while eating some shrimps. A post mortem examination showed that portions of a shrimp coverd with shell had become lodged in the air-pipe of the right lung, sufficient, the doctor saw, to cause death,  There was another disturbance at Sefton Church on Sunday. In the morning the greater part of the congregation offered such interruptions at the close of the sermon, that the curate had to dispense with " the administration of the holy sacrament, which usually takes place on Whit-Sunday. The afternoon service passed off quietly.  "