The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-07 00:00:00

IT IS corrNG,--4t-is CQ3l:g.

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Ddes",it,peear to tell' the story? that the suinhtonjf hoer gime
forth,
For old Winter, gtf,e7 and boait, to return to the north-?
Dona a myriad tiny voTessnot the gladsome tidings bring,
That all' Nature now ftfyhttii in the coining blush of
Spring"?

It is-corning in the plashi•lr of-a'thonsand sp.ilking rills,
As they leap ,with diamotuis flashing; from the ease eternal
leiTt ; .
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It is cof.as ,post, the river, as it calmlyripples by,
When the shaZioWs quiver, quiver, math the ever-changing
sky.

It is coining with the swallow, it is eonaing with the bee,
It is heard on hill and hollow in taw soft wind blowing
free ;
It is come with violets springing, it is come *itls pleasant
showers,
It isit ornewe4with wild birds singing, it is come with perfiltned
It is• COttait With the maiden tripping through the dewy
grove,
Where the boughs ate blossom laden and the air stems
breathing love;
And far o'er the waving Cow iltbely sings the lark on
high, '
As she blushes like the morn'—hark Ur lover's step is
nigh
Thus it is; upon .all Nature': Spring's soft influenet: leiches
deep,
Changing every hue and feature from its cheerless Winter
sleep ;
Why shonld man be lost, to feeling, and his voice in praise be
dumb,
When all Nature is revealing there are better days to come.
' No for tied, s soft emotion stirs the breast and nerves the
hand
4 Of the saifdr en the mean and the soldier on the land,
And he thoughts of happy childhood comes like sound of
diasint leant• -
To the exile of the wild-wood, and the prisoners in their
cells.

And a muttered prayer Id treryerr eorcea from every laden
breast,
That their sins may be forgiven wh.n the, weary are at
rest—
And from out the bosom rushing, sin and sorrow soon de-
• part,
When God's holy Spring comes gushing o'er the Winter of the
heart.

Mr: Cobiteri, m.r.; arriva in Loidon on Tuesday
evening.
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' Sii John owing esbeen applied to to allow him-
self li 'b. '
to be Pht.in,nominatioTh iOT. Expter, his native city.
fn the colonial procluce markets, during the week,
no important chane has occurred, and the transactions
generally have seen Moderate. .
On Thursday the private and joint-stock bankers,
generally adopted the regulation of effacing the stamp
on cheques drawn to self and payable across the counter.
The Melbourne advises announce 'the
,stopension of
Messrs. N. and R. Giitheridge, who were deeply
interested in the. Geelong ..and . Ballarat Government
Railway contracts.
„Tien. Cototrkin BAEZ OF. THE UNITED STATES.—
ii The ietatAiii I ate dices in .1860 will be :—Whites,
27,00d,0400. , *tired (slaves, 4,000,000; free 500,000)
4,500,000. •.
iiikflonte4 race will make 14i per cent.
of the entire population: • _ _

NEGRO CHILDREN IN tiliE ITNEEED STATES.—The
Supreme Court of Ohio has decided a case' in, which the
question of right of children of nevus's to be admitted
6 into the common schools of the State was decided. -The
dealt= of the Court was, that. the children of negroes
have not thyrt tight. . • . ,
REMARKABLE Crinroarrr.,—A relic of last century, in
the shape of a bird's hest, has just .been found in the
centre of the trunk of a goodly sized Scotch elm, by the
men employed in sawing it up, br an oval shaped hole
about mid-way between the roots and branches. From
the appearance of the nest, it seemed that the bird had
been hatching, and the remains of an egg allowed that
the pesition which the skeleton of the bird occupied was
veil likely the one in which it died. ' The feathers are
of a bluish or slate colour, which leads to the supposi-
tion that it may have been a blue linnet ; but this
elutatiori we leave to ornithologists. The nest is com-
posed of the usual materittla. Since the Unfortunate
little songttcr was entombed, the length of time elapsed
must be about otie hundred years.—North British Mail.
MANIACAL ATTEMPI4 TO' ENTER THE TUILERIES.—
It was recently stated that three mud persons had been
arrested in one single day, two of them for attempting
to enter thej'isilerres to see the Emperor. The other
day three °MeV lunatics' were taken Into custody, also
for endeavouring to enter the palace:' ' One was a com-
mercial clerk ; he rang fondly' in the night , the bell of
the gate de l'Echelle, and when the concierge presented
himself, he said, "I only want to say good morning to
the Emperor, for whom I left my care/ yesterday, and to
show him a work on the physical cowstitution of the
globe, which I have written !" The cOneierge, seeing
that he was out of his mind,handed'him e-Ter to the
no the poor than was led away without resistance. police,
The secend was a farmer of Acy-en-hfultien, in the Oise,
who wanted to show the Emperor some turnips, in= the
cultivation of which he had, he Eflifi,, made greai•progrees ; '
and the third was a cook-maid, who \pretended that-ite,
had a particn/txr secret for roasting fowk, and that if the
Emperor would only eat her dishes, he weizld assure the
prosperity of &Arica. The three person% have been
places in a ltmatic asylum.
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01.1DDEft DEATH FROM A. SINGII LAR, , .UTTBE.--.The
LowellYitvs glees the following partictlari of a very
singular' case :—" On Saturday last, Miss tErrITN. A.
Btackington, who works on the Merrimack, And boeds
at No. IB,' after sewing all. the' evening, felt a peculiar'
soreness in one of her thumbs, which pained her so much.
through the night that she was •unabie to sleep. On:
Sunday morning she visited Dr. Savory, who examined
it, and prescribed a poultice. At this-time the-thurnb
had upon it a black spot resembling a blood blister.
In the course of the day the doctor was sent for.
again ; . but she had become insensible, and was
removed to the residence of her brother, ! on Franklin-
square, where she died on Tuesday. Dra. •Sirenty,•
Htintington, and Spaulding were called, 'and' they"
prononticed it to be a phlebitis, a case of very rare
occurrence. It is a disease of the blood, and the result
is like that which would follow from the bite of a rattle-
snake or any poisonous animal. Daring her spasms she
bit.the finger of a young lady who attended her quite
severely, but the wound was immediately cauterized by
Dr. Savory, and ne danger is now apprehended from it.
Miss Blaokington was about 22• years of age. Her body
was carried to Cambridge, where she . has friends. We.
understand that a post mortent examination was to be
made in Cambridge." ' ' .
A WpasTry MILL Bnmstrn.—DAttrAci, .£30,000.—
Thursday morning, at a quarter to seven o'clock, the
workmen employed on the ground floor of Messrs.
Leeming and Co.'s worsted mill, in Water-street, Man-
chester, discovered that the room was on fire. The
cause is not known, but the fire broke out in a worsted
drying machine which made about 1,300 revolutions.
per minute. The stench from the smoke and worsted
became so unbearable as to drive the workmen out of
the room almost instantly, and in a quarter of
an hour the whole mill (an old five-storeyed
building used principally for carding and spinning,
and saturated with oil) was enveloped in flames.
The efforts of the firemen to save the new building
adjoining were not futile; but the old mill was com-
pletely gutted, the roof, floors, windows, and a con-
siderable portion of the outer walls having fallen in.
The damage is estimated at from £15,000, to .£20,000,
which it is supposed will be covered by equal insurances
in the Manchester, Lancashire, Atlas, West of England,
Royal, and Imperial offices. As operations cannot be
carried on in the new mill apart from tbe old building,
about 300 hands are thrown out of employment by this
fire.

EXEMPTION OF VOLUNTEERS FROM TOLLS.—The
question has been raised as to the liability of volunteers
in uniform to pay tolls on the metropolitan bridges.
On Wednesday last toll was demanded of some of the
Inns of Court Volunteers, both at Waterloo and
Vauxhall bridges, which led in one or two instances
to considerable discussion, and very nearly to a breach
of the peace. It. will, therefore, be useful to call
attention to the Vauxhall-bridge Act, 49th Geo. 111.
(local), c. 142, s. 97, which is as follows :
" Provided always, and be it enacted and declared,
that no toll whatsoever shall be demanded or taken
for any horse, beast, cattle, or carriage, of whatever
description employed, or to be employed," on public
service, as therein mentioned, . . . . "or for any
volunteers upon their march, or upon duty, or in
going to or returning from the place appointed for,
and on the days of exercise, or for any horse, mare,
or gelding, furnished by, or for, or belonging to any
corps of yeomanry or volunteer cavalry, and rode
by them in going to or returning from the place
appointed for and on days of exercise, provided
that such persons be dressed in the uniform of
their respective corps, and have their arms, furniture,
and accoutrements, according to the regulations pro-
vided for such corps respectively at the time of claiming
such exemption as aforesaid And if any person
shall claim and take the benefit of any of the exemptions
by this act granted, from the whole or any part of the
several tolls hereby authorised to be taken, .not being
entitled to the same, such person or persons, for every
such offence, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceed-
ing £5, to' be recovered and applied as other penalties
are by this act directed to be recovered and applied.'
A FRENCH STORY OF CRIME.—In January, 1856, an
old landlady, named Chereau, was murdered in her own
house in Rue Jeoffrrry, Saint-Hilaire, Paris. She had
been thrown on her bed, gagged, bound hand and foot,
and strangled ; and a sum of about 4,000 f., together
with several articles of jewellery, were stolen. The
crime had been committed in the open day, and
evidently by more than one person ; but all attempts
of the police to discover the perpetrators were unsuc-
cessful. In December, 1858, one Parang was con-
demned to death for the murder of his niece. A few
days after this condemnation his mother made the
strange revelation that two or three days after the
murder of Madame Chereau, having called on her son,
she had found him feasting with his wife and two
men ; that the son bad then stated it was he and the
men who had murdered and robbed the old lady, and
that his wife bad been privy to the crime; and
lastly, that he bad made her (the mother) take a
solemn oath on the crucifix not to tell to anyone what
he had stated. This oath, she said, she would have
respected had not her sen been condemned to death for
another crime: Parang, on being questioned, would
neither confirm nor contradict what his mother said ;
and in due time he was executed. His wife con-
farmed the statement of the old woman, and declared
that the two men who had been with her and her hus-
band at the feast alluded to were named Henot and
Delaneau, and bad since been condemned to different
periods of hard labour for other crimes. The were both
brought. hack to France, and, having been recognised by
the woman, were some weeks back brought, to trial for the
murder, the woman Parang being accused with them as
an accomplice. But Henot alleged that on the day of the
murder he was in prison in the town of Blanc, in the
department of the Allier. The trial was in conse-
quenct.postpOned to enable an investigation to be made,
and his allegation turned outto be true. He was, there-
fore, left out of the indictment for murder ; but as the
discoveky-was made, that he and Delaneau had, in 1855,
committed•two burglaries, he was ordered for trial far
those offenee. • With regard to Delaneau, as the woman
persisted in swearing that he was the man who had been
at the feast; and as some: persons had, seen a man rese-
Mini; him near the widow. Cherean' rn
s house on the day
of the murder, citevrae determined to maintain the accu-
sation of murdeil against hini, and he was also accused
of the burglaries with "tenet. The trial has just taken
place, the result being that the woman Parang, being
declared guilty of receiving teme of the things' stolen
froat.blad. Chereau,. knowing of the murder, was con-
demned,,to five years' imprciosonrimn Dthetlabritieragular' wasi
imprisonment
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acquitted of the murder, but net
,and_ was -condemned to forty years' hard labour' to be
Confounded with a Sentence of twenty already passed on
him ; and Henot, being also convicted of the burglaries,
was sentenced to thirty years' hard labour.