The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

MISCELL S.

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A man, when he,is:"hgcl up," ,is mostly down in the
world

THE GREATEST VIRTUE INI4I SEA-CAPTAIN.--Wreek-
-Z,
leis-nesS. r
Odd—that rivers should be so full just where they
empty themselves.
When a gill htints ahusband, the engagement ring,
to be in keeping, should be chased. _
" My inkstand is stationery," as the schoolmaster said
when he found it nailed to the-desk.
The Army and Ararat Gazette states that. Lord Seaton
is to receive the dignity of 'Field-Marshal.
If you wish to collect together all the pretty girls in
town, advertise a. "lecture to ytfilly men."
The Duke of SoMerset: lield his third levee of ,the
season' at the-Admiralty on•Thursdarafternom
Her Majesty will hold a Drawing-room in June, in
addition to the Drawing-rooms already aunouneed.
The 78th Highlanders are to he entertained to a grand
banquet by the citizens of Edinburgh on the 24th inst.
On Wednesday last a school, called the West. Central
Day Industrial School, was opened iniTielOornersitreet,
Holborn. " '
If a woman could talk nut. of the two corners'-o ' her
mouth at the same time there would be a good deal said
on both sides. •
The matron of the Clifton Union Workhouse, near
Bristol, has been killed by a female lunatic, an inmate
of the house.

"Got any ice at your end of the table, Bill No
but I have got the next thing to 4."—" What's that
—" A severe cold."

Mr. Gladstone is to be installed Rector of Edinburgh
University, on, the 16th instant. He is to deliver an
addresi to the on,

A soldier being asked if he had met with much hospi-
tality in Ireland replied that he vi 74 the hospitalnearly all the time he was there.
A proposal for amalgamation is under consideration
by the Boards of the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction,
and the Inverness und Nairn I.ailway Companies.
METHODIST LAVE-HOLDERS.—It, 18 said that the
Methodist Church in the -United States 4as 15,000
slave-holding members, who own 100,000 slaves.

The. Earl of Elgin will take his departure on Wednes-
. day next, on his mission to China. A special steamer
will wait at Sues to convey his lordship-to Hong Kong.
A PITHY REPI.Y.—." Harr did you ask Hicks for
'that money?"—" Yes." "What did he say ?"—" He
just kicked me into the road. That's. all he said.
His Royal Highness the Duke of qambridge,
General Cori-madding-in-:Chief, held a levee on'Tlinrti-
day afternoon :at the Horse Guards, which, was fully
attended.
Goon THlNoB.—Hearin a " Good mornin'," an'
meetin' wi' it. Hearin' a Good neet," an' not bein'
kept wackan in it,, wi' a aeoldin'' wife an' cross bairn.—
Pornoor Olnienack.

A NEW WORD.—A !London, correspondent writing to
us s4sH",T send'you s paragrenn or short letter. This,
is the new word, much approved of, in. the higher
'circles.—/nrerness Cfrurier.
A person was repeating before Martainville the old
maxim, " Who pays his debts . enriches himself."—
" Bah !" replied Maitainville, " "that is an idle rumour
which creditors are endeavouring to circulate !"
Count Tascher de 14,,Pagerie, -First Chiaiberlain to
the Empress, has bertii.isstiiiik invitations for a fancy
;ball, which ier Majesty will give on the 1411 April, at
!the hotel of the !Duchess d'Alhe.
' It has been welt observed that advice is not disliked
because it is advice, but because so few people know how
to give it., Yet there are people vain enough to hate it
in proportion to its very agreeableness.

At the Guildhall, on Satiirday„lllr. Stapley, a farmer,
and Mr. CheSterfield, a butcher, both :living in Lincoln-
shire,-were •cominittedl6r trialurin-charke of sending a
large-quantity of. putrid meat to the London market. ,
STRANGE PHYSICAL- FACT...---Tne Skin of a person
named Francis -Lti 'Simla, who- died lately at the
Hospital, in Jersey, where he had been many• years,
become forty-eight hours after his death, "perfectly
black !, .- .
An orator holding' forth in favour of s" woman, dear
divine, woman," concluded thus—" Oh, my hearers, de-
pend upon it , nothing beats a good wife."--" I beg your,
pardon," replied one of-the-auditors, "a bad husband
does:"'
, Lieutenant Pi- Jenkins;
,R.N., has heef - appointed
Admiralty agent on the Southampton station. This
Otticer, yels :first lieutenant. of her Maiest‘y74.-ship Cor-
morant,, which was sank by the. eh ikm,e during the
attack on,the Peih6 forts

A ewe belonging to :.Daniel Skinner, Broomhill
Drutubbdt, 4 the English:breed, three years bld, gtre
birth the other week Ito four fine ,larnba,:which are
thriVing Vieltriind all suclaingtheir mother.,..T.,ast season
she had two,-and the previous year two.
•_
Some surprise has been occasioned at Laybach by the
appearance there of a Prussian officer of the line in full
uniform, who enlisti recruits for the service 'of the Poi)
id ohe of the public hotels, and it is stated that his
iaccess has been far beyond his expectations.
THOSE PRINTERS !—A popular periodiCal, describing
Que. 4 our most eminent public inen,. comes at last to
his nose, and is made by the printer to speak of it as—
A nose, that can snuff the bottle 46t.,44,11ta witb:
slated-nostrils hreAthe hall a zlOry that ii-sometiines
rrible." ' •

MV:IMCAL I NTF LLIGEN
. cr .—A young lady, residing
not .0 'hundld miles' from )iii,daledittsti, and whose
brother Was...Walkitig," Guy's, kindly wrote to say, she
would millingly semi up to him her left-off skeleton
petticoat, if the study of its anatomy would be of any
use-to-blin.-_:-44/4/hch.
We (Athenaaio underistand that towards the end of
the year we may look for a memoir of Sir Charles Bell,
selected by a member of the family from his correspon-
dence with his brother, George Joseph Bell. This work
being derived from private sources, will assume the
character of an authentic biography
General delamoriciere, in politics, is an Orleanist ;
was banished, and lived: in Belgium, whence the late
Lord Holland procured his return to France about
eighteen months ago, through the instrumentality of
Prince Jerome. The general has already arrived at
'i.ome.--Letter froni'Pdris; •

It
Owing-to-the faet of-there-being no tide, the-Univer,
city boat raceton Saturday was a Moto/ tone it. 'point, of
time, as it occupied twenty-tire minutes Arid thirty
seconds, whereas at. their last trial the. Cambridge Men
rowed the entire course, about four miles and a quarter,
in twenty-one minutes and fifty seconds.
" We are reliably informed," says the journal de
Charleroi, ,‘ that.a treaty of commerce between Prance
and Belgium will-be signed in a few days.
We hear .
that the duty on Belgian cast iron will be fixed
at 2f.
the 100 kilos., undthat the system of reciprocity is to be
admitted for the plate-plass manufactures of the two
countries." . • .
BOOK POST TO GOTTEN/ PIRG (SWEDEN).—On and
after to-day, the 2nd of April, book packets addressed
to Qottenburg may be forwarded by the Swedish snail
packets from Hull, at the following rates of postage ;
Not exceeding 4 ozs., 3d.; not exceeding 8 ozs, 6d ; not
exceeding 1 lb., ls; not exceeding l lb., is 6d • every
additional half a'polind or fraetion of'hall a gonad, 6d:
CALLING OUT THE MILITIA.—We have received
information from a usuallY,well-inf&med -quarter—but
we give it with all reserve-,-that within the last four-
and-twenty-hours, it has been determined not only to
Stop the disembodithent of those militia regiments now
under orders for disbandiment, hut alio to call out the
whole militia fordo of •h ompi,.,. :,t2j.,...,
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Oazette,
1 INFANTICIDE NO MIYRDER.—The last assizes have
been not lesS fruitful than usual in acquittals of females
Charged with infanticide upon the clearest , evidence.
The severity of the law which enacts capital punishment
for the crime of child-murder, under all circumstances
of aggravated misery and provocation, has produced a
lax practice and a free interpretation of the law, which
render convictions for thislterrible and far-spreading-
-
Crime altogether exceptional.
-TUE PRObTORIAI STSTEM IN CA:MBRIDGE.—On
Wednesday evening, between nine and ten o'clock, three
females-,-one of them a respectable married woman—
were'quietly proceeding along St, Andrew's-street, Cam-
bridge, when 'they were stopped by the Itev. Barnard
Smith, M.A., one of the proctors, and his- attendant
"bull-dogs," on suspicion of being lewd characters.
Notwithstanding their asseverations of innocence, they'
were forthwith dragged otf to the Spinning House, not
Without a strong resistance on *the part of the married
female, who was very roughly handled. The proctor,
however, ultimately deemed her replies satisfactory, and,
after a short confinement, she was set at liberty. The
other females were detained until yesterday morning.
It is stated that legal proceedings have already been
taken against theproctor.
Early rising is one of the most essential qualities
which enter.into good household management, as it is
not only the parent of health, but of innumerable other
advantages. Indeed, when a mistress is an' karly riser,
it is almost. certain that her house will be . orderly and
well-managed. On the contrary, if she rennin in , bed
till a late hour, then the_domestics, who invariably par-.
take somewhat. of their mistress' character, will surely
lroome sluggards. To self-indulgence all are '-tniire or
less disposed ; and it is not to be expeeted that servants
arefreer from this fault than the heads of houses. The
great. Lord Chatham thus gaVe his advice in 'reference
to this subject :—" I wouldhave inscribed on the cur-
tains of your bed, and the walls of your chamber, klf
you do not rise early, you can make progress *in
nothing.' "

Loss OF THF. SHIF;CONSTANT.--HORRIBLR SUFFER-
'NOS 70n Saturday, at iloyd's,‘vias reported the wreck
-
of the Constant, from .Sydney for the Manillas, on a
sunken reef, in lat. 5, 45 W., long. 153, 58 E. The ship
broke up immediately, and the crew took to the boats,
but had no time to, collect provisions. 'For many days
they were exposed to a scorching sun, 'and suffered
dreadful privations, and to avoid starvation, ultimately
they resolved'on the frightful alternative of killing one
of their number to serve as food for the rest, and the lot
fell upon a poor negro, who was speedily killed and
devoured. A second negro was doomed to the same
fate, but jumped overboard in the vain hope of escaping,
but was fired at and ais body served to keep
the wretched men alive until the 29th September, when
they were picked up and Ituded at Sourabaya in..
shocking state.

A MARRIAGE 4ILENIMA.--Some short time back, a
gentleman was united to a lovely and accomished ladp
at A village near Canibridge i• all passed off pleasantlY
enough--the bride and bridegroom were on their wedding
tour, when, trzirnbile dicta .'- it was discovered that the
marriage had been an illegal one, and tlie.clergyman
probably'liable to severe penalties for performing
the ceremony. ' The bridegroom had never thought
of providing, a license—the clergynian never thought to
inquire for it. So Awre were two persona married with-
Out either banns' or license, and entirely contrary i to
the statute: in • that ease made and Pr°
was a . dilemma. What was to be done.
of three days a.. special messengerviciAedt.the Here
sent after
Was the
tour was arrested, and
back they 'Were brought, when the ceremony .
per Was again
the important little docu-
ment,formedin the presence of , .
. the absence of which
nuch mischief, and the travellers
had been productive of so
resumed their tour,
being lino
their sudden and unexpected return All t o -very'
few. persons. Notwithstanding the false start let us hope
that the journey Through life may be pleasant one.—
a
CaNbrdge Independent.:,
THE SOCIAL EVIL—STARVATION AND DEATH;
On Saturday Ni: Wakely held an inquest at the Ele-

phant and Castle, Camden Town, on Frances Bennet.
aged thirty-six.- The evidence in this case wat
a painful exhibition of the career of an unfor-
tunate. The deceased, who was a native of Derby,
of respectable parents, was found in a dying state in
an unfurnished room in Wilstead-street, Somers Town,
where she had managed to crawl for shelter ; and the
police being informed of it, she was conveyed to St. Pan-
eras Workhouse in a cab, but died in the course of being
lifted out to be taken to the infirmary. Evidence was given
by the police, showing that in her earlier years she was a
very handsome woman, kept, by a baronet, and had a
splendidly furnished house of her own in the vicinity of
' Euston-square. She had, hovieVer, been discarded, and
became gradually reduced to the most abject state.—Mr.
Carter, surgeon, .gave evidence that. he had made a po3t
mortem examination ; and that the cause of death was
disease, .eOupled with starvation and destitUtion.
Deceased, before she died, stated that no food had passed
her lips for three days previously.—The jury returned a
verdict of "Death from exhaustion, produced by disease
and destitution."