Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald and North and South Wales Independent

Spirit of the Public Press. CLERICAL INTOLERANCE —As a specimen of the mode in which the recent acts of clerical persecution are looked upon by the English provincial press, we subjoin the following pithv remarks from the 'Staffordshire Examiner':—The imprison- ment of a.Dissenter who had served the office of church warden, by a Welsh Tory parson, the Rev, Ebenezer Morris, has filled the countrj with disgust from one end to the other. We have seen an e^mplification of the persecutions to which men would be subjected ifraany of the Tory clergy had their way-if they possessed the power and had the means of freely exercising it. There is -Yo doubt but the burning of the excellent and learned Dr. Maltby in effigy the other day was prompted by those who should have been the last individuals in the country to sanctioa such,art act. Now to what do all these things tend but to weokfea the church much more than its. enemies could do by furnishing justifiable reasons for dislike to those who administer within*its walls. Men naturally ask themselves whether such vindictive actions are according to the divine precepts clergymen are bound to inculcate, and if they find that they are not, there •can be no question of the effect the conclusion produces. V'irily, without a reform in the church, the churoh will of her- •elT very soon tumble to pieces^ and the Rev. Mr. Gathercole, th' Rev. E. Morris, the Rev. Mr. Breeks, and many others a-vm as if they were determined to quic ken such a consumma- • •on. The vengeance of this persecuting Tory parson, who, u ider the name of a Christian, compels the members of other sects to do his bidding or go to a dungeon, proceeds in this reckless course. He has now let loose his spleen upon a second- Dissenter. Here we have in an empire, in which about one third of twenty-four millions of people, only prefer the esta- blished creed-here we have in this boasted land of freedom in 1838, the doings of the Stuart star chamber, for which the 'Ecclesiastical Court is but another name. What would'be said if this precious reverend were in Naples, and being told to go Æ his knees in the street to St. Januarius, and refusing he were put into gaol and fined forty pounds? The tongue of the reVerend persecutor would wag fast enough, and the Govern- ment at home be appealed to, and persecution be talked enough about. Now what difference is there in the two cases. We can find none. The insult offered to the Welsh population is overlooked, perhaps enjoyed by the Reverend Ebenezer jSorris. Out of 805,000 persons in Wales, four fifths are Dissenters. Those of the three denominations have 550 con- gregttUfms. The Calvinistic Methodists, 572, and the Wesleyan Methodists, 220. The people are poor, but the church exacts the uttermost farthing from a population so situated. No less than four bishops, chapters, and dignitaries, with full revenues, are maintained upon a people, not one fifth of whom belong to the establishment, and that people are to be a persecuted people, it seems, into the bargian. Is this the mode to make the church stable and its name revered PRIESTLY TYRANNY.—The following circumstance took place a few Sundays ago (Novell), in a parish church in the county of Leicester, not more than 200 miles from Earl Shilton. A poor woman of the village took her baby to the font to be christened. What do you wish to have thiscalled ?" inquired the Rev. Gent. Mary Ann, Sir," was the reply, accompanied by the usual curtsey, when speaking to the parson. «• Mary- Ann I woudar what such poor folks as yuil,do with such fine names What was its grandmother's name ?" Rachael, Sir." "Very well, I shall call this child Raehael," which he did. [We hear much from the Episcopalian Protestants of the "bondage" in which the" degraded Irish" are kept by the Romish priesthood. What do our readers think ofa Leicester- shire parson dictating to one of his hearers what name she should give to her child? Not satisfied with exclusive wealth, power, and privilege, this dark coloured section of the aristo- cracy would also establish a monopoly of fiue names. If inci- dents like these do not arouse the priestridden population of this country to cultivate religion under better and benigner auspices, we must say that they richly deserve the contemptu- ous treatment which they receive from established pastors."] -Leirestei-shire Mercury. POLITICS OF THE DAY.—The late decided refusal of Lord Durham to be made use of" as a tool in the hands of certain persons exercising some degree of influence over the Westmin- ster Reform association, has called forth from the pen of the 'Examiner,' some very apposite remarks, which, with the ex- ception of such passages as would seem to be merely an echo of our own previously expressed opinions, we transcribe for the consideration of our readers. After giving a historical outline of the case, interspersed with judicious comments, the editor trulv says;—In this letter to the Honorary Secretary of the w "stminster Reform Association, Lord Durham's adherence I iii.'ip1'" ':bj ts u .}'.1.. lest, strongly pronounced than his determined opposition to designs which he regards as dangerous to the peace and very existence of society and the ground which we thus see him intrepidly occupying in the van of progressive reform, and at the same time in foremost opposition to the enfranchisement, and with it, the wild sway of ignorance, bears out the views have always taken of his character; for repeatedly have we observed that it is not so much for the lengths to which Lord Durham carries his opin- ions, as for the spirit, the firmness, and the consistency with which he supports them to their extent, that we have prized him as a statesman; and we have instanced, as his merit of tjumscendent importance in our times, his high courage and promptitude in confronting and correcting popular violence, as well as in urging on the slow and timid in the harness of the state. Lord Durham is not the man to commit the- folly of relaxing his exertions.for what he deems right, because he has to perform the duty of resisting what is wrong. The two tasks so far from being incompatible, as some appear to think, are in fact concurrent and auxiliary. The agitation for Universal Suffrage, carried on by a combination formidable even its in- fancy, is a fresh reason for protecting the freedom of election in the present limited constituency and as to the franchise, upon the principle that it is only denied to the unqualifyod, justice and consistency demand that it should be extended to all who may be presumed competent to the exercise of it: but this is not all; it new distribution and a new purification are even more wanting than enlargement, and it is grossly partial' and unfair to continue the corrupt freemen in the coustituencv, while the more honest bulk of the same class are excluded on the ground of incapacity. The great object should be, as ex- pressed in Lord Durham's letter to Mr. Bowlby, "to rally as large a portion of the British people as possible around the existing institutions of the country and, for this end, to throw them open to all who have the ability to comprehend and the vigour to protect them." To defend the beleaguered elec- toral pale, the garrison must be reinforced; and, moreover, its just causes of complaint must be removed, and protection famished against the foul powers by which voters are either de- terred from the performance of their duty, or grievously suffer for the execution of it. The argument against the Ballot that electors should not be withdrawn from responsibility to the non- electoral masses will, we conceive, hardly be repeated when the subject comes under discussion in the next Session of Parlia- ment for it is a doctrine which the Chartists are quite readr to enforce with their powers of organization and menaces of physical force, and it would be a curious example of the wisdom of Whig hostility to secret voting, to see it ending in the extor- tion of votes for Universal Suffrage by mob intimidation. The body of Liberal voters are now placed between two fires on the one flank they are exposed to the old Tory influences, on the other they are menaced with the new intimidation of the or- ganized and inflamed working men, under the denomination of Chartists. The Tories have done all they could to promote the Universal Suffrage agitations in leaving the stage open for it. They could indeed, not join in it, but they could and did care- fully forbear from anything discountenancing it, or dividing the public attention, that was fixed on it. They gave it a clear stage, and all the favour consisting with a sham neutrality, where principle would have demanded the most strenuous hos- tility. The brunt of the contest with the many-headed and strong-handed Chartists will be borne by the Liberal press and, on the one hand, with the intimidation of the organized masses dictating the vote for the candidate pledged to Universal Suffrage; and on the other, the old Tory influences making ruin the penalty of an honest vote; and thus, between the menaced abuses of combination, or physical force, and the menaced abuses of the powers of property, whnt will be the prospect of freedom at election, and what the condition of the Liberal portion of the constituency, without the safeguard of the Ballot? For the suspension of the Appropriation Prin- ciple Lord John Russell pleaded new circumstances, and with far more reason he may see in new circumstances urgent causes for conversion to the adoption of the Ballot. The refusal of it now is an obviously direct advantage given to the organised claimants of Universal Suffrage. Let Ministers act as they may, however, on this and the other questions of Parliamentary Reform, the Radicals will steadily and strenuously apply them- selves to the attainment of the objects they deem just in them- selves. promotive of the blessings of good government, and avertive of violent changes for which the suitable and safe ele- ments are wanting In holding this course, and advancing their principles by discussion, thev will carefully abstain from any act ofhostility to men to whom they owe many services, and whom, or many of whom, they may yet hope to convert to their views of necessary reform. They will bear in mind the advice given in one of Lord Durham's popular speeches in Scotland, and repeated by him afterwards on other occasions, to trust to the virtue of experience and the progress of reason und not to break with men with whom there are any useful points of agreement, because of differences on questions w hich must be advanced by discussion, and decided and carry by the gorowing force of opinion in their favour. Never yet was ar- I is gument advanced by a quarrel with dissenting brethren. FROM IN ENGTISH TRAVELLER IN LOWER CANADA.—This insurrection, contemptible as it has been, proves the alien- ation of the French Canadian people to an extent which I did not cre(lit-to bave the fullest extent of-'s opinion and your own. They hate us so, that in order to terrify and slightly injure us, they will rise apparently with the very purpose of exposing their property to destruction and their persons to massacre. The outbreak has been con. ducted with singular concert, and as singular want of pur- pose-witi) great passive, and as much absence of ordinary active courage. Even when they succeeded they made nothing of their success but in general they were foiled with ludicrous facility. Sixty of them, marching with Cardinal late M.P.P. for Beauharnois, at their head, into the village of Caughnnwaga, were disarmed and captured by half their number Indians, and carried prisoners into Montreal by twelve of the old men, who made them row them across the St. Lawrence. The leaders displayed the most shameful want of courage. Nelson was the first to run away and Cote, whilst his followers were at Napier. ville, literally went every night across the frontier in order to sleep in security in the States. The only merit of these pour habitaris is that the few whom they have killed appear all to have been resisting; that they have not hurt one of the many prisoners who fell into their hands and that they have shown no cruelty. Not so the conquerors. Having been in Canada through this insurrection, I can now com- prehend the extraordinary degree of terror which first agitates the British, and then produces the most terrible vindicti veness. What is there so cruel as fear ? From the first news of tb« outbreak, the minds of men were constantly kept on the stretch by every tale of terror that could be in- vented. All the country was represented as in insurrection; the island of Montreal was said to be attacked by large bo- dies of rebels; and great apprehensions rrere entertained for the security of Quebec. The ir,surrection was puffed out as suddenly as it had been kindled and the British have been thinking of nothing ever since but avenging imagined cruelties, and guarding against apprehended dangers. The Montreal volunteers remained in town but the country volunteers, the troops of the line, the guards, the Glengar- ries, and the Indians, have vied with each other in taking vengeance on the race whom they hate, and who hate them as cordially. The countv of L'Acadie has been laid waste with fire and sword. From Montreal we siw every night the fires by which the Glengarries were destroying the vil- lages of the county of Beauharnois. In some places everv Canadian house has been burnt in others gutted or robbed. I had no idea of the horrors of war- still less of civil war- and less again of civil war between two mutually hating races, whose animosity has been for a long series of years nursed, and fostered, and aggravated by the folly or wicked- ness of their cemmon government. Such ignorance of the real state of things hare, as has long disgraced the author- ities at home, amounts to wickedness. Some knowledge and a little vigourroight have prevented all this: it has been caused by the ignorance and timidity of a distant power. The second rebellion was inevitable; it strongly confirms all our previous opinions us to the past. and views for the future.—Spectator.

IMPROVEMENT IN STEAM NAVIGATION.—Curiosity has been excited at Blackwall and below, towards Gravesend, by the novel spectacle of a large heavy-laden ship proceeding down the river propelled by steam apparatus. Her appear- ance was that of an ordinary vessel, with the exception of a few bars of iron on her sides crossed in different directions, to which the propellers appeared to be attached. No paddle- boxes are visible, nor was the water thrown up as in the case of paddle-wheels — the action seemed to be smooth and equable. This is the first attempt, as far as we know, to adapt the use of steam-power to propel a vessel of the ordinary construction. The ship was the Maria, going to India; her machinery, in- cluding the boilers, occupies comparatively little space. IIIE IRISH TITHE DEMON.—An occurrence of a painful nature, and which might have led to most disastrous conse- quences, happened on Wednesday week at a place called Fields- town, nine miles north of Dublin. The sub-sheriff, attended by a strong force of police and a troop of the 17th Lancers. proceeded in the morning- to levy a distress upon the property of Mr. Ward, an opulent farmer in the parish of Clommethau, at the suit of the Rev. Mr. Shortt, for tithes. The writ was of an old datei and th s is the third or fourth attempt to put it in force. The sheriff on his arrival found the gate locked, and Mr. W ard's two sons, with six stout peasants, standing at the inside. He demanded atinittance, and, on his being refused, attempted to break open the gate. The Wards, however, and their assistants firmly maintained their posts at the gate, offer- ing a passive resistance, by leaning upon it, to the assaults of the sheriff; but a stone from the crowd having struck one of the military officers on the head, the Luneers advanced, and, enraged at this, struck with their sabres at the persons who stood at the gate, which casised tbom at oucc to retire &d 1-e wtty dear. One mail was cut on the arm, and the hat of Mr. Ward was cleft with a sword. This appears to have been an unwarrantable act of violence, and doubtless will be strictly inquired into. A seizure of some corn was then made, and the party returned to town without meeting witn any further op- position. Examiner. MR. O'CONNELL, THE MINISTRY, AND THE PRE- CURSORS.— Mr. O'Connell was entertained at »■ public dinner, in Carlow, on Monday Mr. John Ponsonbv, son of Lord Duncannon, a member of the Cabinet, refused an invitation to be present, "disapproyiug as Ie did of the Precursor Society, and anti-ti'.lie agitation." Mr. O'Connell coniirenea strongly upon the letter which contained these words, and said, I boldly tell him, that the present Ministry cannot stand with- out the Precursors and, if they do not like them, let him write to his father to resign.. Why did 1 form the Precursors ? To strengthen the hands of Ministers, so that they may be enabled to carry out their good intentions towards Irelanl but if I am to be told that the Precursors are to be thrown overboard, I tell him that the Ministry are also to be thrown overboard." On the following day there was a meeting of the Precursor Society in Dublin, when Mr. O'Connell announced that seme further changes would be made in the resolutions containing the constitution of the society. It is plain that the business is not working as well as it was expected, —the original blunders have not yet been got over.:—Belfast Whig. VISITORS TO HER MAJESTY. — On Saturday night, about nine o'c'cck, a rary respectably.diessed young man rang the bell at the tradesman's entrance of the New Palace, and upon being asked the nature of his business, he said he had come for the direction ol his house, as he was tired and wished to go home. Upon being asked to explain himself, he said he had just come from Sydney, and had been desired to call at the Palace by the Queen, who told him he should have a house to live 'in and 150/. per year, for some important spiritual communication he had made to her. The young man, whose every action showed be was a lunatic, was then told the Queen was not in town, when he turned away, observing that he would go immediately to Lord Hill, and lay his case before him. Visits of the preceding kind are very frequent at the Palace, and the tales told by the visitants are manv of them of the strangest nature. It is only, a few weeks since an elderly man, having the appearance of a farmer, called at the Palace, and handing to the porter the certificate of his birth, re- quested him to let her Majesty sign it. Fiom inquiries made concerning this man, it was discovered that be was a respectable farmer in the neighbourhood of Exeter, from which distant place he had wandered on so strange an errand. 0 THE FRANKXIN FAMILY. — At the time I visited Lincoln- shire, thousands of acres in the fens produced nothing but reeds, peat, geese, and wild-fowl; and I never entered the White Hart at Spilsby, but I dined off a wild-duck; the finest thing, in my estimation, the county produces. I well recollect spend- ing a winter's evening in this comfortable inn, and meeting with a fine young chivalric fellow, whose manners bespoke him no ordinary person. He was the eldest son of a shopkeeper in the place, of the name of Franklin and, though he had no opportunities of seeing the world but by his occsional trips, to Manchester to buy cotton goods, he* had acquired intelli- gence and manners that one would little expect to find in such a corner of the world. He invited me to breakfast, and I was much pleased with his two amiable sisters. In a recess, close to the fire, was a diminutive piano-forte, by which I introduced myself, playing a conzonetta of Hayden's. Amongst the ladies* drawings, I was shown a portrait of a brother then studying in Cambridge. This gentleman afterwards resided in my own town, became eminent at the bar, arrived at the title of Sir illingham Franklin, and died chief judge in India. My heroic friend the shopkeeper, died soon afterwards; but another brother I then noticed serving behind the counter, is now, I believe, the. celebrated Sir John Franklin of the North Pole.— Gai deuir's Music and Friends. A DRUNKARD REFORMED.—A very-^oung man whom he (Matthews) knew, had the unforfunate propensity of daily taking more wine than his brain could bear. Upon one occa- sion, after a Greenwich dinner, this person behaved so obstre- perously in the carriage as the party returned to town, that he exceedingly annoyed his friends, and even gave them blows,. Mr. Matthews, who was present, enlisted the other gentlemen in the coach in a plot to shame, if possible, the youthful offender out of this dreadful habit. It was agreed that he should be told the next morning that he had, during his over-night's pa- roxysm, beaten and injured my husband severely in the couch. Consequently, as soon as he heard this, the young man an- nounced himself before Mr. Matthews was out of bed who upon hearing who his visitor was, got up and prepared himself in a manner that was quite extraordinary- in so short a time, telling me not to seem surprised at what ile w uld explain at leisure, lie entered the room where the abashtd visitor was in waiting to apologise fcr his behaviour, and the injuries he had inflicted. When he beheld my husband he started back, as well he might, and almost groaned, so shocked was he at the dreadful state in which his friend appeared. Mr. Matthews had codourcd his face as if bruised, but the additional expression of sulTeiing which he contrived to throw into it was wonderful, even tome, who was in the secret. Poor -absolutely shed tears, walked about the room in all the agony of shame andremorse. declared Le would never more exceed a reasonable quantity of the ex- BS; er*ting liquor, and retired a perfect peuiteat.—Memoirs of ( 7.<srla Matthews by his Widotc^ It is calculated that if the number of letters sent through, the post office should be increased five times, there would be derived the same revenue as is derived from the present rate of charge, though the charge were reduced to one penny only for a letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight sent to anv part of the United Kingdom. 0 The Reformers of Bradford have lately given a dinner their two Liberal members. The greatest unanimity of senti- ment prevailed. Indeed says the Leeds the union among the Reformers of Bradford is A-ortbv of great commendation. They display a spirit and a practical good sense, which, if it were participated in by Reformers all ever tie kingdom, would soon strengthen the party in Parliament, and enable, or, if necessary, compel ministers to carry all practical and desirable reforms- SALE OF A DAUGHTER OF THOMAS JEFFERSON. —In the 'Emancipator' it is asserted Oil the authority of Mr. Otis Reynolds, of St. Louis, Missouri, that a daughter of Thomas Jefferson, once President of the United States of America, was sold as a slave for 1,000 dollars. Mr. Reynolds' words are, I saw myself "the daughter of Thomas Jefferson sold in New- Orleans for 1,000 dollars!" ANOTHER STEAM-PACKET DISASTER.—On tbe 16th inst.. the steam-packet Pegams, of Leith, for Hull, with 70 pas- sengers, struck upon the Salt Scar Rocks, near Redcar harbour. The greatest consternation prevaile4 dn bWsrrd. the land, tliough at the distance of onlvone mile, not being visible, owing to foggy weather. As the day dawned their situation was discovered from Redear, and assistance was received from the sbore. Tie sea was, fortunately, re- markably smooth, or the most fatal consequences must have ensued. This year 11 vessels have suffered on these dangerous rocks DISSOLUTION AND REORGANIZATION OF THE PRECURSOR SOCIETY.—At the last meeting of the Precursor Society. the tbeu existing society of that name was dissolved and immediately revived again in a new form. The Dublin papers of the 19th contain reports of the proceeding. all the proposition of J\1r. O'Connell a resolution was agreed to, rescinding all the rules, regulations, declarations of objects to be obtained, and modes of proceedings to be adopted, of the late Precursor Society," and declaring that society now to stand dissolved. On moving jts revivul,be proposed a long string of resolutions remodelling its con- stitution, defining its objects, and declaring that the sole aim and end of the Precursor Society is to obtain justice for Ireland ftom the Imperial Pirli-iment. In the course of his speech be avowed his intention to support the pre- sent Ministry, whose continuance in office he considered as the only chance of good government si far as Ireland was concerned. The reorganization is for the purpose of admitting grades of opinion formerly excluded, and is a. very judicious measure. THE NEWCASTLE MYSTERY.—In addition to the im-- portant medical testimony which was brought to bear against Mr. Bolam, upon the inquest on the body of Millie, the fol- lowing, extracted from the second edition of the Tyne Mer- cury', which contains (besides a rude wood-cut of a very grave and saturnine face, purporting to be a portrait of Bolam) some interesting additional facts :—" In the pockets of the deceased was found some money, amounting to upwards of 31., and in the safe, the key of which has not been found, was 801. in notes. The motives which led to the commission of the crime do not appear to have been that of plunder, although some money, amounting to 6/ is stated to have been abstracted Bolam's desk. Indeed, the absence of motive is not the least mysterious part of the business. Mr. Bolam is, we believe, possessed of some property in the neighbourhood of Hexham. His two brothers have been in town during the week watching the proceedings with anxious care. One of them resides at Harbottle, the place where Bolam is said to have been born and the other at or near Hexham. A great many absurd re- ports concerning Bolam have found their way into the public papers, which are equally devoid of truth as of generous and charitable feelings. We perceive one in tbe 'York Herald', which purports to be given on the authority of a gentleman whose "veracity" they can reply upon, and represents this un- fortunate individual thus: I But although his manner secured him respect, yet his countenance partook of gloominess, and betokened deep study and wearing care; it has beeu observed to us, that he rarely looked at any person to whom he spoke and that even his most intimate friends were horror-struck at his appearance when they met him alone in any lonely spot—even in his own garden.' Such a statement of one who has held a responsible and highly c, able situ "icn for he grcturr part of 20 years—who has, up to the moment of his being charged with the murder of the deceased, Millie, been a man without reproach, will not be readily believed even by those who did not know him, and who have never seen him. The public mind needs no impetus in this matter-it has already, and we might, perhaps, say, prematurely come to a conclusion. The ends of justice require no such exaggeration, for the subject will undergo ample investigation when the day of trial arrives, and a charitable and Christian feeling strongly, remon- strates against such unjust assertions. Mr Bolam, as we said before, was a man of reserved habits, dark complexioned, and of a serious cast of countenance, but in every other respect the reverse of what he has unjustly been represented to be. Three ledgers of the mos*. recent dates have been taken from amongst the bank books, and have no doubt been consumed in the fire. They contain the recent entries of the deposits, with the dates of each. It so happens, however, there remains an abstract of the gross sum due to each depositor, consequently the business of the bank is not at all impeded, although it may be difficult to ascertain at present the precise amount of interest due to each. Another fact which has been discovered is this: -On the morn- ing of the fire, one of the officers of police picked up three memorandum-books from amongst the rubbish off the fire, tied together with string, which were partially burnt, and on ex- amination, marks of blood were found. On a careful exami- nation of their contents, they appear to have belonged to a man named Rigge, once a clerk in the bank, but at his death Mr. Bolam was made sole executor, and received possession of his books and papers. With what may be deducted from these circumstances we have nothing to do, but we think it better to insert them tc prevent the exaggerated report to which they might otherwise give rise." Facts more interesting, however, and, if established, more decisive, are given in the following communication from a Newcastle correspondent, dated Tu -s- day evening, in the Morning Chronicle* of Friday: An investigation has been going on this afternoon before the ma- gistrates, which we understand will clear up some of the mys- tery in which this deed of horror has hitherto been enveloped but as reporters were strictly excluded from being present at the investigation, we cannot give such a detailed account as ot we would otherwise have done. From what we can learn, however, it appears that Mary Walker, the housekeeper of Bolam, who now stands charged with the wilful murder of Joseph Millie, has declared that the statement she made before the coroner on the inquest was unt: ue, and that when she re- turned to her master's house on the evening on which the fatal occurrence took place, she found Hm there, and that he had broken the pane of glass referred to in the evidence she pre- viouslv gave, in order to gain admission into the house. Mr. Glen ton stated in his evidence t' at Bolam and his housekeeper had a private interview for ab ,ut an hour on the morning of the 7th instant, after the fire, and thi circumstance will, doubt- less, when we take into account the peculiar situation in which she was placed, and the tendency wh'ch she would probably at that time have to screen her master, point out the reason why she was induced to make such a garbled statement as she has done. It was the opinion of the police that the housekeepir should be taken into custody on the 7th instant, but that opi- nion was overruled. An officer was stationed at the door of Mr. Glenton's house, but he was not suffered to remain. The circumstances which have been brought to light are, however, important, and, as we are now writing, we have heard some- thing more on the subject which will bring the matter more completely home to the guilty party. The facts are simply these:—The police, who have been assiduous in their endea- vours to gain as much information as they possibly could, and I y with that view, having ascertained that some person living near the house had heard the window broken, on the afternoon of Thursday, the 6th instant, proceeded there this day, in order to make a stricter investigation into the matter. Having stated. to Walker what they had learned, she wrung her hands, and said, "I hope you will forgive me for what I stat«>d before was untrue. When I returned home, after seeing my friends,. I found Mr. Bolam here before the fire, and I cried out, not- knowing who it was; when Mr. Bolam said, "Hush, hush, Mary1, it is only me. I have come home for a key." The police then searched the house, and found twenty-two guineas and some sovereigns, hid behind some books, making, in all, about fifty pounds. Prosecuting their researches farther they discovered the key of the safe which was alleged to be lost, and, which was supposed by many to have been taken away by the perpetrator of the murderous deed, and which Nir. Bolam stated was left by him in his desk in the bank. We believe these discoveries are mainly to be at'ribu'ed to the police under the able direction of Mr. Stephens, who was formerly attached to the London police, but now at the head of the police force of Newcastle." The verdict," savs the Newcastle Journal, "was communicated to Bolam in gaol on Saturday, in the presence of his tWJ brothers, who remain with him at present. He received the awful intelligence in solemn silence, but evi- dently in deep m -ntal agony. Apparently be had anticipat the result. He is not disposed to be communicative. I e is calm, and enjoys his meals and sleep. His health appears to e good. The directors of the savings bank have, with a "llra. e promptitude, taken up>n themselves not only to see t at 1m mediate want shall not be added to the sorrow' an ltterness which have befallen the four young and help ess c. 1 r~ o the unfortunate Millie, but to originate a su scriptioi- ca ^nei behalf, with a view to their being brous'it up an p^a in the world in a creditable manner. 1 e c 11. ren t.v -• number a boy fourteen, and g»rl twe.ve (tho?S t?^ have been examined" on the inquest) t e o hers arc a S*:l brt*eea eight and ninp* and a bov tire 2 o