The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-25 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Tar PREWIN ORKNEY.—We learn from the ,:i".o.i-
otizo. that the first number of a weekly newspaper.
named the Orkney Herald, make its appearance last
week at Kirkwall. It is well written, well arranged,
and very handsomely printed; and altogether we may
congratulate oar young hyperborean brother on the
premising circumstances of ins start.
KEE,Ik"- ON THE F2olll.—The Rev. P. Y. Turquancl
preached a stthnon at York-street Chapel, Walworth-
road, on the peat Orkte fight. He went into detail
upon the subject of the past week, and although he
condemned the practice, he said it was far more honour-
able in the two men than for onie statesmen to spend
millions of the public money for the /impost .of sending
thousands of our countrymen to the field of tratti.% to be
slain by sword, famine, and disease. After emit
dating the fbilowing opinion, that. there was nothin
brave in a man going forward because.he was compellec
et the point of the bayonet, he concluded. by inveighing
against the volunteer movement.
AttLifffEri SEICIDE ET A SENTRY.—At Chatham,
a private of the lard Regiment named Huxley, at-
tempted to commit suicide while on guard in the dock-
yard. The man was posted as sentry at the lower
gin?, when the re/fort of a rifle was heard. On the
sergeant
.proceeding to to the spot it was discovered
that Hurled' lad discharged his rifle at his head, but the
ball had parsed neatly perpendicularly across his fore-
head. which it had only slightly injured. He was im-
mediately conveyed on a stfe:Aber to the garrison hospi-
tal, and as soon as he has recovned will be tried by
court-martial for mutilating himself. l't is stated that
Hurley on a previous occasion attempted to commit
suicide by drowning himself.
CAPTURE OF PO4I.CHERS ON THE Ness.—It has been
known for some time that poaching has been systemati-
ealtv poetised by night at the mouth of the river Nesz
andthat sea-front and foul salmon—evidently the produce
of a net and cal:re-:fishing—were freely offered for salo
in the town and neighboUrheed, This was a state of
matters which the tenants of the water, the Ness
Angling Club. determined not to ptft nia with, so they
laid their plans for a capture, and were rewarded by
complete success. A few spirited members of the club,
aided by Sergeant Macbean of the pollee, and Some of
his men, secretly watched both sides of the river, and
captlited two men in a boat in the act of fishing with a
net from 40 to 45 yards in length.—baverstcss Courier.
Tai Fit-ArDs ON THE 'UNION BANK OF LONDON.
—lt is said that the public will be startled by the mag-
nitude of the frauds committed by W. G. Puhinger, late
chief cashier 6f the -Union Bank of London. These
frauds have extended, it is said, over a series of years,
and the success of the offender to so' lon,, evading detec-
tion is stated to have been accomplisheeby an ingenious
system of false entries. Unsuccessful speculations in the
Stock Exchange, carried on extensively for years past,
have been the gulf into which the proceeds have been
thrown. The delinquent will be brought up again
ttfofe the Lord Mayor on Friday. The committee of
the Sio4l Eachan e will institute an investigation into
the agency *bete the enormous speculations of the
unhappy man have ~en carried on.
11.
A boy's sheepishness is by no means a sign of over-
mastering reverence ; and while you• are making encou-
raging advances to him, under the idea that he is over-
whelmed by a sense of your age and wisdom:, ten to one
he is thinking you extremely queer. The onl7' consola-
Um/ I can suggest to you is, that the Greek bays pro-
baijf' rho' glit the same of Aristotle. It is only when
you have Mastered a restive horse, thrashed a drayman,
or have got n gtri in your hand, that these shy juniors
feel you to be a truly admirable and enviable character.
At least, I am quite sure of Tom Tulliver's sentiments
on these points. He indicated very early that desire
for mastery over the inferior animals, wild and domestic,
including cockchafers, neighbours' dogs, and small sis-
ters, which in all ages has been an attribute of so much
promise for the fortunes of our race.—The Mill o'n
the _Fiefs#.

SHEEP &It 01.trzt iN FRANCE.--The efforts being
now made to restore the breeding of sheep and oxen—
so utterly neglected sinee the division of property, -that
butchers' meat is becoming a luxury unknown to the
poorer classes of the peasantuy—ure bein met in the
provinces with the greatest energy, and tc researches
made by M. de Chavanues upon the subject are occupy-
ing a great degree of the public attention. The Nor•
man breed seems to be the only one qualified to serve ae
- food and to the breeding and improvement of this one
M. de Chatannes urges that the greatest attention be
hint: alias* paid, or it will become of too much expetsc
to be kept tt in numbers sufficient for the population.
I Already is the come taint raised in the Pans markets,
i that the meat is all first-rate in quality and insufficient
in quantity and that, unless speculation upon a large
scale be induced to come to the resew, the Face will be
absorbed, and the taste of beef become ae-rare amongst
the middle classes of the population as that of venison
is already.
SHAKING IN RAILWAY CARRIAGES. Mr.
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W. White, of No. 13, Old Jewry, and Mr. Richard
Mimi Walker, of Montague Villas, Richmond-hill,
appeared at Wandsworth Police-court, to -answer
sitailiroirs charging them with unlawfully smoking foblieto while travellers in a second-elass carn-
age on the Mcmfh 117 estm Railway. Mr. bayntan,
reviewing the evidences said he thought the case was
not made out against Mr. Whitey but that the other. wes
fully proved. It was the duty of the company te4l.-0-
test the public, as the practice was becoutiog a niiiiance;
and it, was his duty to enforce the law by ineliefehe
fines. The defendant Walker would hare to pay
fine of 40e. and costs, and the other summons n-oulclibe
dismissed. Mr. White said, as the case was over, he
should like to sae- that there was really no smoking
;tlr. Papuan told him that he had admitted the c
iage.
was fell of smoke. One thing was quite clear, that
in
the rage for smoking it made the smokers regardless of
any person's comfort but their own. The smell of
tobacco made the carriages very uncomfirrtable to the
travellers who did not like the smoke. He was no
smoker himself, but he rather liked the smell of tobacco
in the open air, though not in close railway carriages.
The fine was then paid.
Tut Su
is an er•ocieeroit Coetrass. The self-detcctor
I .
compass nge:wrote instrument which has received
the commendation of nautical men who have tested its • utility. In appearance it is verge similar to the ordinare._
boi compass, and differs chiefly. in the following parti-
culars, Upon the compass card, and attached to it by
pins, and two small needles, called satellites, to the
centre of each a brass indicator being fixed ; on the fa'ee .
of the card are engraved two semicircular scales, or ares: of circles, so placed that their centres are in the centre
of the Compass card, and in a line joining the centres of
the satellites, both of these scales being graduated to
degrees, the numbering of the graduation loroceedinet on
either side from the antral point of each scale.
The
satellites are balanced npou pins, mole freely, and thus
permit, the brass indicators to move easily over the
graduated arcs, according to the amount of disturbance.
The satellites and the main needle being equally mag-
netised, remain stationary when there es no cause of
disturbance in the magnetic meridian, and the brass
indicators point to their respective centres. But, elsoufd
there be any cause of disturbance, the indicators more
simultaneouely in opposite directions, thus indicating its
amount; and if the cause of the disturbance be local,
the indicator attached to that needle—the nearest to the
seat of disturbance—will pass through the greater angle,
and thus the direction of the disturbing cause is shown.
Tire 'Cesspools OF PARIs : NOT A SAVOURY SUBJECT.
—The fixed cesspools (says Mr. R. Rawlinson) are
masonryconstructions, water-tight and air-tight. The
cesspoels vary considerably in foulness, evolving sulphn-
retted. hydrogen gas ; soap-suds are said to add mate-
rially to their offensiveness ; ammoniacal vapours are
given off,--sometimes produce temporary blindness in
the men employed to empty them. All these coespools
are connected with closets, and the closets with the
houses ; the gases force a way into court, closet, corri-
dors, and rooms, as most strangers find out when they
visit Paris. The grand sanitary secret and sanitary
blunder rest here, in these vast pseudo-hermetically
scaled cesspools. An open cesspool may be dangerous
to health; or, it may be merely a nuisance, because
there cannot be concentration of the injurious gases;
but the breath of a closed cesspool is most certainly
death. There is, probably, something , more in it than
mere stink,—something electric. Who has not suffered
from the terrible sensation in a Parisian hotel ? The
suffocating odour, which open windows and doors do
not drive out, nor even perceptibly diminish ; and., at
sonic points, there is an invisible stream or ray of smell,
which cuts the nostril, as it were, like a knife. 'Woe
to the unfortunate individuals doomed to breathe in
such an atmosphere : the year 1760 had nothing so per-
nicious.—Buik/er.
ACCIDENT ON , THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
—A serious accident occurred at Hatfield, on Monday
morning, to the ten o'clock. down express train from
London. The official account says that the train, on
passing through the station, broke and displaced some
of the material of the road, and although the engine
and three first carriages remained on the line, the
hinder portion of the train diverged, and one of the
carriages was overturned. M. Francis Pym, of Brighton,
who was riding in this carriage, was so seriously injured
that he died shortly after the accident. Another pas-
senger was hurt, but he was enabled to return home.
The remainder went forward to their respective destini-
done, none of whom, it is believed, are injured. A plate-
layer near the spot was struck by a portion of the metal
and he is since dead. The newspaper accounts state
that Mr. Francis Pym was a son of a late director of
the company. The train comprised ten carriages,
mostly first class, and the number of passengers was
about SO. There is some reason to believe that the
accident arose from a rail breaking at the spot where
platelayers were at work. The fifth carriage was first
thrown-off' the line, dragging with it the remainder of
the train. Some of the caniages came in contact with
the loaded trucks of a coal train which was passing, and
then mounted the platform of the down station; and
after traversing near the whole length of the platform,
and carrying away some of the roof, the coupling of
the sixth carriage broke, and the under portion of
the train was thrown over on the line, the carriages
being shattered. The foremost part of the train
still dashed on at little reduced speed. The wheels
and axles of the fifth carriage. were carri
sdd.ame-ay, and
the body of the carriage was hurled on its
yards,
and in
in
t
that state dragged a distance of more h
The engine, tender, break, and the carriages kept the
distance altogether from where the carriages first left
the metals, 703 yards. The permanent way leaseeloughed
up nearly the whole distance,
rails wereges tweetedvfere
strewnand
bent, and the wrecks of shattered car7a
over the line in all directions.

Prince Cathtski, died. MI TticsdaY morning.
A dispatch in The D. P-CteS Sfateg +bet on the 16th
thdie *ere 1,800 soldimc eetteeittrated at Palermo.
yeaterchr, morning, a Pre-
liminary ineftArytook plaee info' the robbery of jewels
at Hunt and RosicelYs, amounting in value to .112 mi•
THE QUEEN er SrAtrf.—A letter from Madrid says
the Queen of Spain proposes fo Visit her newly acquired
African dominions during the surrtuter.. •
.fects of the Commercial Treaty with France,
especiatlt 'ith reference to the zuanufactrrers and
_1
agri6ulttirc of fkrtt 6ornitry, and to the abolition of her
prohibition system;
.afe flfly Onisidered in the first
article of the new number cl the Effinbargh Review,
which is based upon iiifermation net heifore published in
England.
Trintonit' martial for the trial of cases of insub-
ordination o'rt board the Edgar has been opened at
Portsmouth. One 7risoner was found guilty, and send
fenced to two years' imirrisonmEnt, with hard labour,
and to be disgracefully dismissed' from the service. In
two other cases the charges were net ptoved. There are .
thirty-three prisoners belonging to the E4ar still to be
tried.

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Agns-

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*.erting grittiligart.

NEWMIIRKET RAGES.-YESTERDAT.

Traducer

Parmesan
Rope Dancer

Snhurl,an
At trot.,
IVandem

2)900 GUINEAS.

COFFEE-11.00M 'TAXES

RA?iDICAP,

Seven ran.
SWEEPSTAKES,

Keophß-te _
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SWEEPSTAKES.

Marsellaise
Comforter

EE HANDICAP

SWEEPSTAKErN—LittteIy walked tmer.
MATCH.—Blahs Wen.

Tat BETTIN_G.
DZEZiI agst 'Wizard, taken.

LATEST BETTING.
'..!I_4I4;cI7IEsTER.
-mz Titurr: 5 to 1 airst—ilar-Wizare. taker.; t to 1 47st
Tr turptre, offeaken.red; 200 to 5 agst Rap, taken ; 210 to S &Ss'
aducer, t lbrn
CHEITER CVP : 12 to 1 agst Petra. oranted.

RACINS, FIXTURES FOR 15611
MAY.
Chester Spring 'Meeting:.,. 1 Harpenden..,. .. . 11
Doncaster Spring Meeting $ Ensoni Azimrner
_Means:rig .. 22
Selisbni7 TV Manchester .... ........ . 2.'t
York Spring Meeting lt, Hungerford. .................... . M
Bath.. l5