The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-21 00:00:00

THE COURT

The Queen visited the Duchess of Gloucester on
Thursday afternoon, at Gloucester House. The Prince
Consort, with the Prince of Wales and the Regent of
Baden and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, hon-
oured the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland with a visit
at Stafford-house on Thursday morning. Prince Albert
afterwards went to the Industrial Exhibition of Articles
made in the various Reformatories and Refuges of the
United Kingdom, at Willis's Rooms, King-street. His
Royal Highness left Buckingham Palace soon after three
o'clock in the afternoon, to preside at the annual meeting
of the Windsor Royal Association in the Home Park
and to distribute the prizes. The Prince travelled by the
South Western Railway.
The Regent of Baden paid visits to take leave to the
Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess
of Cambridge, and the Duke of Cambridge, at their
respective residences.

Prince Frederick William of Prussia visited the British
Institution in Pall-mall, and also inspected the Gallery
of the New Society of Painters in Water-colours.

The Queen had a dinner party in the evening. The
company included the Princess Royal, the Regent of
Baden, the Prince Frederick William of Prussia, the
Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Marquis and Blar-
chioness of Abercorn, Major-General Sir William Fen'
wick Williams, General Sir Hew Ross, and General Sir
George Brown.

THE RAILWAY FORGERIES IN IRELAND.—At the Com-
mission Court in Dublin yesterday, the trial of Knighting,
charged with the Railway forgeries which have attracted so
much attention, was postponed until Monday, on the
ground that the two presiding Judges (Mr. Justice Moore
and Mr. Barorf Greene) were shareholders in the Great
Southern and Western Railway Company.

THE TIPPERARY BANK.-Yesterday the Master of the
Rolls in Ireland, gave his judgment in the case of the
English shareholders in the Tipperary Bank. His
Honour's judgment occupied two hours in its delivery.
and the result is that by his decision he has freed all
the English shareholders from liability, and their names
are consequently all struck out from the list of con-
tributors.

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NEW LINE OF STEAMERS TO AMERICA.—We are happy
to perceive that the enterprise of our fellow townsmen has
in no respect abated; but, on the contrary, exhibits all the
indications of reaction and renewed vigour. Thus we
observe th4t a new scam line of communication with the
American continent, which will confer a great advantage to
the commercial community on both sides of the Atlantic.
has just been inaugurated. We allude to the line estab-
lished by the Liverpool, Newfoundland, and Halifax Steam
Navigation Company, which opens by the despatch, on the
20th August next, to be fullowed on the 20th of
each succeeding month, of one of their powerful
screw steamers

The new line will not be in
opposition to any of the existing fleet which has already
won '° golden opinions from all sorts of men," but will
afford to St. John's, for instance, that which she has never
yet enjoyed, a distinct communication belonging, we might
say, to herself. Reaching Nova-Scotia at Halifax, the
transit of merchandise will be accomplished in a few hours
to St. John, New Brunswick, by the railway which the
Government of Nova-Scotia have undertaken to complete
in the course of the ensuing spring. Arrangements are
also in progress, with every prospect of success, by which
the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada will grant tickets
to passengers between Canada and Liverpool, and vice
versa, The rate of freight by this new line has been
calculated so as to include that which is now carried by
sailing vessels. We can only congratulate our commercial
friends upon the advantages thus opened by the new line,
and again felicitate our port on this additional instance of
the enterprise which is indigenous to it.

AMERICAN MAILS. —The Royal Mail steamer Canada will
sail this day for Halifax and Boston, with the American
mails, &c. Letters at the General Post-office will be in
time, in the ordinary course, up to nine o'clock, and, with
late fees, to ten o'clock in the morning. The receiving box
at the Larding-stage will be open for letters up to eleven
o'clock forenoon, but late fees must be paid of is on letters
at this box.

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, a man, named
William Swift, a carter, was killed in Great Howard-street,
under the following circumstances :—The deceased was in
the employment of Mr. B. Idesketh, cartowner, of Mary-
bone, and had been to the Wellington-dock, where he loaded
a lorry with cotton, and was proceeding along Great
Howard-street, sitting on the shaft of the vehicle. when he
fell off, and, one of the wheels passing over, killed him. An
inquest will be held on the body this day.
FIRE.-0a Thursday morning, about twenty minutes to
eleven o'clock, a fire was discovered in the loft over a stable,
occupied by Mr. Cowan, flour dealer, and situate in Heath-
street, in which a large quantity of hay and straw was de-
posited. The information being first conveyed to the West
of England fire station, Bold-street, the engine was at once
despatched with the brigade. By this aid, in conjunction
with the reel froth Crown-street, the fire -was extinguished
in the course of an hour. The damage is estimated at about
£6O, which, we regret to say, is not covered by insurance.
CHEMISTS' AssocrATloN.--The last pharmaceutical meet •
ing of this society Wlt S held in the R.)) al Institution, on
Thursday evening, the president, Mr. Abraham, in the
chair. Dr. Ed wards delivered a lecture on " Strychnine
and its dectection ;" a subject which has recently excited
considerable attention, and which attracted such a large
attendance, that the meeting was obliged to be adjourned
from the small to the large lecture room. He first gave a
general sketch of the origin, composition, and mode
of extraction of Strychnin', and then, at

s'deraLlo length, dwelt upon Lnd exhibited the diff.n.eLt
tests by which it can be detected. The evidence
--A Palmer's trial was also criticised, and the lecturer
gave it as his conviction, that in the present state of our
knowledge, the question involving the life or ignominious
death of a fellow-creature ought not to be decided from the
colour tests alone, but ought to be supported by some phy-
siological evidence as well,•and the strychnine reproduced
in some form recognizable under the microscope. The
lecture was illustrated with a considerable number Of
experiments, both chemical and physiolojcal—the effects Of
strychnine on a rabbit, mouse, and frog, being very satis_
factorily shown. After the lecture a brief discussion took
pl,ce, and a vote of thanks to Dr. Edwards for his very
impo. tont lecture, was proposed by Mr. Clay, and carried
by acclamation. The president, in vacating the chair,
announced this to be the last meeting, and expressed his
gratification at the satisfactory conclusion of a very
successful session.

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