The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-01 00:00:00

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high enough to operate as a prohibition. The
Mexican alterations extend over a great number
of goods, including cotton, linen, silk and woollen
manufactures, as well as ironmongery, cutlery,
saddlery, arms, timber, wines, provisions, glass, and
a large quantity of miscellaneous articles. With
few exceptions they involve considerable reduc-
tions, although in each case they still leave the
duties exceedingly high. In Peru, also, the changes
have been numerous, and in a majority of instances
they have consisted of a substitution of specific
for ad valorem rates. On sheet iron and salted fish
there has been an increase of 233 per cent, but
several articles have been set free, including many
that are used in shipbuilding.

THE WEATHER.—Again we have to record fine weather,
which has continued now for some days past, and there is
every indication of its continuance; and, " weatherwise
people" say the month of September will be peculiarly fine
and favourable for late harvest operations.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Friday evening, Mrs.
Catherine Scott, aged 64 years, the wife of a gentleman
residing at Ossett, near Wakefield, was coming, with her
son, from on board the Isle of Man boat, she fell into the
gut between the George's and Prince's Basins, and was so
much injured that she died in the Northern Hospital on
Saturday. The poor lady was near-sighted, and the
melancholy affair was purely aecidental.
THE CONVICT BRACKEN.—The sentence of death passed
upon Andrew Bracken, at the last Liverpool Assizes, for the
murder of a man named Bates, has been commuted to tran-
sportation for life. The prisoner, who was in a state of
frenzy from intoxication, attacked the deceased, whom he
casually encountered, in a violent but unpremeditated man-
ner. and inflicted upon him, by kicking him upon the head,
I injuries ot• so serious a character as to result in death.
LIST OF PASSENGERS PER Dixon and servant,
Mr. and Mrs. Schronder, child and nurse, Mrs. Bryer
and two children, Miss Hardisty, Miss Ryle, Miss Weir,
Mr. H. C. Du Bois, Mr. Sehwarty, Mr. Passavant, Mr.
Sutton, Mr. McLeod, Mr. Hodges, Rev. T. S. Reynolds,
Mr. Wyes, Mr. Fuidmann, Mr. A. Smith, Mr. Rosenthal,
Mr. Dawson, Mr. C. Cetes, Mr. B. Curtis, Mr. Arnold,
Mr. J. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Copper and infant,
Mr. T. G. W. Tincke, Mr. Mailly, Mr. C. Feltman, Mr.
A. Petrie, Mr. R. W. Standly, Mr. Lancaster, Mr. Dowling,
Mr. Betts, Mrs. Clowes and child, Miss M. Smirat, Mr.
C. S. Whisler, Mr. P. F. Lelr, Mr. Ruge, Mr. H.
Deane, Mr. Lawrence.
Ar.a.sor's WAX-WORK EXHIBITION, TEUTONIC-HALL,
LIME-STREET, LIVERPOOL.—DOVE, THE MURDERER.—The
only correct likeness of this criminal is to be seen at the
above exhibition, and is placed by the side of Palmer. Both
these poisoners are fall-length, and are acknowledged by all
to be perfect likenesses. They are surrounded by upwards
of 100 wax figures, large as life; together with 500 statues,
busts, casts of heads, &c.. &c. ; also a great [number of
Stereoscopic and other views. The proprietor begs to state
that the likeness of Dove and Palmer are most positively
the only true ones taken. Palmer was modelled by Mr.
George Ewing, of London, during his trial at the Old
Bailey; and a sketch of Dove was taken by Mr. John
Storey, of York, and afterwards modelled expressly for Mr.
Allsop, by Mr. William Leland, of Liverpool. Open from
ten, a.m., till ten, p.m. Admission, Sixpence. A quadrille
band in attendance. Observe the name of Allsop's Wax-
work on the two lamps over the entrance.
FREEMASONRY.—A few of the brethren residing in Lither-
land and its neighbourhood, desirous that the mystic tie
should be more widely distributed, deemed it advisable to
form a lodge in that rural village. An application was
accordingly made to the Grand Lodge, who immediately
granted their warrant for a lodge to be held in Litherland,
under the title of the Sefton Lodge, No. 980, and therein
appointed Brother P.M. Samuel P. Brabner to be the first
master, Brother Charles Turmeau to be the first senior
warden, and Brother J. A. Grealy to be first junior warden.
In pursuance of this warrant, the first meeting was held at
the Litherland Hotel, on Tuesday, the 19th ult. The lodge
was opened by the Provincial Grand Secretary, when the
W.M. was duly installed by the P.G. Treasurer, in the
absence (through indisposition) of the D.P.G.M. The
W.M. then appointed his officers, and the brethren elected
Brother Henry Lyon to be treasurer for the ensuing year.
After initiating an unusual number of members, the brethren
retired to a banquet supplied by Brother Morrish, of the
Merchants' Dining-rooms, Tithebarn• street, Liverpool.
After the usual loyal and masonic toasts the lodge was
closed, and the brethren separated at an early hour.
Amongst the visitors present we noticed the following grand
officers :—Brother Jos. Walmsley, P.P,G.J.W., Brother
Wylie, P G.S., Brother Kilpin, P.G D.W., Brother Jeffery,
P.G.5.8., Brother Samuel Hess, P.G.J.D., and Brother
Horatio Gambell, P.G.P. Brothers Armstrong, Hother-
ington, Ludlow, and Haswell, considerably added to the
pleasures of the evening by their harmony.

SALARIES OF PROVINCIAL POSTMASTERS.—The salaries
of postmasters in Vnsl•srui And W2locz fnr tha ritrront.
year amount to £52,407 ; in Ireland, to £10,000; and in
Scotland, to i'8,160.--Civil Service Gazeve.
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THE NATIONAL GALLERY--Orders have been issued
by the authorities that the National Gallery, and the
English portion of the Gallery at Marlborough House,
will be closed for the annual six weeks' vacation on the
11th instant. The gallery will be re-opened on Monday,
the 27th of October.
LABOUR IN Russla.—A. letter from Odessa of the 10th
ultimo, in the Bourse Gazette, says :—The Tartars of Sim-
pheropol and the neighbourhood refuse to work for land-
owners, or exact such high wages that it is impossible to
grant them. The crops are consequently perishing in the
fields for want of reapers.

INCOME TAX OF £lOO AND UPWARDS.—A. very common
practice exists in London for the collectors or some other
parties, to charge is 4d a pound on such incomes. To all
those acquainted with the subject this will appear at once
to be an imposition, but in consequence of the doubts
expressed upon the subject a letter was addressed to the
Inland Revenue authorities, to which Mr. Keogh, their
legal adviser, has returned the following answer :—" I beg
leave to acquaint you that where the total income of a
person from every source amounts to -elOO, but not to
£l5O a year, the income tax ch irgeable is at the rate ef
11 Id in the pound." The public will, therefore, be upon
their guard and to to care they are not imposed upon. It
ought to be mentioned that collectors have an interestin
overcharges.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—Three fishermen at Asnieres
discovered, the day before yesterday, an ancient canoe buried
beneath a sandbank in the river. From its form it is
supposed that it was used by the Normans in their in-
vasion of Paris. It is an immense trunk of oak, about
eighty feet long, hollowed out, and capable of holding sixty
men. It is well known that the Normans, in addition to
their large wickerwork boats, had other very long ones for
purposes of war, formed of hard wood, and it is supposed
that this is one of them. It has been brought on shore, and
lies on the beach opposite the Beat Club House. There is
a striking resemblance between this bark of the pirates of
the ninth century and the skiffs of the modern river yacht-
men.— Galignani.
DISASTERS AT SEA.—The screw steamer Koh-i-Noor,
Captain Butler, from Liverpool to St. Petersburg, has
been wrecked near Helensborg. Crew saved.—The ship
China, off and bound to London, from Manilla, with sugar,
hemp, and tobacco, was wrecked on a reef two miles from
the most southern of the Thousand Island, near Batavia,
29th June. Crew saved.—The Ben Aron, from London to
Shanghaei, was totally wrecked in a typhoon off Hui-taw
point, about twenty miles from Amoy. She had been
previously struck by lightning, and her compass is said to
have been deranged thereby. Master, officers, and crew

saved ; master's wife and several passengers were drowned ;
the greater part of her cargo washed on shore, and con_
veyed into the interior by the natives.—The Sir Robert
Peel, of Nantes, with 300 piculs of pepper on board, dragged
her anchors during :an earthquake on the west coast of
Sumatra, went on shore, and became a wreck. Crew saved.

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE
CIVIL SERVICE.—The Royal Household—A chaplaincy in
oadinary to the Queen has become vacant by the death of
the Rev. W. Cooper. The Foreign Department—The
consul-generalship of Odessa, and the consul-generalship
of Warsaw, are vacant, as well as several consulships and
vice-consulships in the Russian empire. Coast Guard—
Lieut. C. Hawkey has been appointed to command the
Dingle station. Customs—Mr. A. M. D'Arcy, extra
clerk, has been appointed clerk in the Examiner's office,
London ; Mr. W. Thompson has been promoted from
inspector of gaugers to landing surveyor at Liverpool ; Mr.
F. Wilkinson has been promoted from second to first class
searcher at Liverpool ; Mr. C. Stower has been promoted
from third to second class searcher at Liverpool; Mr. J.
Bennett has been promoted from fourth to third class
searcher at Liverpool ; Mr. R. W. Swayne has been pro-
moted from filth to fourth class searcher at Liverpool;
Mr. W. Findly, clerk, Montrose, has been promoted to be
second clerk at Dundee. Ireland-11r. T. M. H. Jones
has been appointed a cadet in the constabulary after a
competitive examination.—Civil Service Gazette.
SENDING MEDICINE BY RAILWAY —On Saturday, in the
Brompton County Court, Mr. Wells, a surgeon, of Lisson
grove, sued the Great Western Railway Company for the
sum of £2. being the alleged value of two bottles of medicine
and two boxes of pills. It appeared that the plaintiff
had sent a box of medicine, containing the box of pills,
down to Bristol, to a lady who was his patient. The box
was broken, and the plaintiff demanded £2. The railway
company paid into court, and submitted that this was
sufficient to cover the value of the medicine. The plaintiff
was examined as to the contents of the bottles, and stated
that they contained, amongst other things, some extract
of taraxicane, and some nitric nsuriatie acid in a con-
centrated fjrm. Both of these drugs were expensive,
Mr. Bradly, who appeared for the plaintiff, submitted
that the box had been broken wilfully by the railway
porters, and that the consequences of such conduct might
have been most serious to Mr, W6ll's patient. Mr.
Collard, for the railway company, contended that it was
absurd to suppose the railway porters would have wilfully
broken a box of physic, and as for the damage sustained
by the patient, it' j was tht as likely that the patient had
met with a lucky escape in not taking the medicine.
For his own part he would not like to give the amount
claimed for two gallons of the plaintiff's mixture and a ton
weight of his pills. The judge (Mr. A.dOlphus) was of
opinion that the plaintiff was entitled to recover the wholq,
I amount claimed,