The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-21 00:00:00

THE CASE OF MISS CUNNINGHAME,

The Turin correspondent of the Times, writing on the
12th instant, says :—" My letters from Florence say that
when it was notified to Miss Cunninghame, at Lucca, on
Monday morning last, that the Grand Duke had given an
order for her release, she positively refused to leave the
prison on an act of grace, as she said she had been impri-
soned a month without being brought to trial, and her ad-
vocate had told her that no verdict could be obtained against
her, as she had not transgressed the law, and therefore she
would not go out until she had seen him. In the evening it
was announced to her very civilly that go she must. She

still refused, and then she was told that if she did not go
freely, she would be carried out by force, upon which she
replied, " Give me that in writing, and I will go." They
did so, and accordingly out she went. Report says, the
tracts for the distribution of which she was imprisoned were
not of a character to implicate her in any attempt to prose-
lytize, or even bring the Roman Catholic Religion into
?ontempt ; and moreover, that an ecclesiastical council had
examined them at Lucca, and could find no evidence in them
against her. I hear also that her advocate told her she
could make no resistance to the royal will, and must accept
her release ; but that he was very sorry for it, as he felt
that he had a good case. It is difficult now to arrive at the
whole truth, which will most likely be made public when
parliament meets.

IRELAND

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, THURSDAY
SUFFERERS BY THE LATE COLLISION.-

inquest was held yesterday, at Stevens's Hotel, on the body
of Miss Pack. The evidence was merely confined to identi-
fication, and to the nature of the wounds which caused death.
The deceased was about 35 years of age, and sister-in-law of
the Rev. W. Woods, of Prospect, King's County. The
resident surgeon deposed that death ensued from "effusion
into the air-cells and bronchical tubes," subsequent to erysi-
pelas and dysentery. The following was the verdict :
"We find that Miss Emma Pack came by her death from
the effects of injuries which she received in a collision of
trains on the Great Southern and Western Railway, on the
sth inst., at Clownings, in the County of Kildare." Miss
Farrell, another sufferer in the hospital, is progressing favor-
ably; but it is feared that Esther Coffey will never completely
recover. Mrs. Blacker is still hovering between life and
death.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE KINGSTON
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Michael Staunton, who was killed on the previous eveiiin
at Kingstown. It appeared from the evidence that on th
arrival of the six o'clock train, the deceased, who was a
passenger, got out at the wrong side, and whilst crossing the
adjoining rails was overtaken by the engine, which, having
been turned on the turn-table, was coming back. The fol-
lowing verdict was agreed to :—" We find that the said
Michael Staunton, on the 18th inst., was accidently killed
at the Kingstown terminus of the Dublin and Kingstown
Railway, by the 'Burgoyne' engine passing over his legs,
and also that there is no blame to be attached to either
the driver or the stoker."
UNrvEnsiTy Apponsrminsrr.—Dr. W. T. C. Thomson, of
Aberdeen, has heen appointed Professor of Natural History
to the Queen's College, Cork, instead of William Hincks,
Esq., F. L S., who has accepted a professorship at Toronto.
The appointment will no doubt be an unpopular one, as
this is the second vacancy in the Queen's University which
has been filled up by a Scotch importation. It is besides
doubtful whether those Government appointments are legal,
as it was originally understood that all the professorships,
after the first, should be filled by an examination of can-
didates. _ .

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MAYNOOTH COMMISSION.—The commissioners have al-
ready spent upwards of one month continuously in inquiring
into the several matters within the scope of their com-
mission. They have not, we understand confined their ex-
amination to witnesses who, from their present and past con-
nexion with St. Patrick's College, might be supposed to be
prejudiced in favour, of its system, but have sought for in-
formation and suggestions from several independent sources.
We understand that after a few more meetings the commis-
sioners will adjourn for the purpose of considering and di-
gesting the mass of evidence which they have accumulated
on the several heads of their inquiry, and that in December
they will meet again to investigate further, if necessary,
and canvass their report.
A VICEREGAL VlSlTOR.—Yesterday, at Capel-street police-
office, Captain Winter, of the 17th Lancers, and some other
officers of the Lord Lieutenant's household, attended at this
court this morning, and stated that on the previous evening,
between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, the Lord
Lieutenant and the Countess of St. Germains were sitting
in the drawing-room of the Viceregal Lodge, when a man
walked in and sat down quite deliberately. The Lord
Lieutenant and Lady St. Germains being rather surprised,
his Excellency addressed the intruder, and asked how he
came there, and what his business was ; to Which be replied
that he came in at the front door, and that he wanted to
have an interview with his Excellency. After some inter-
rogateries, it appeared that he was the Rev. Henry Stannard,
who evidently was in a state of unsound mind, but ap-
parently not dangerous. The police having been called, he
was removed to the station house at Bridewell-lane' where
he remained all night; but strange to say he effected his
escape front the police station about eight o'clock this
morning. Captain Winter stated that his Excellency did
not desire to take any harsh proceedings, but merely
wished that steps should be taken that might prevent a re-
currence of a visit of a similar kind to the Viceregal Lodge.
A warrant was then issued for the apprehension of the
gentleman.
THE INCOME TAX.—The .Evening Mail of last night has
the following complaint :—"As if for the purpose of marking,
in the minutest detail, the dishonest nature of this odious
impost, a plan has been devised which, if not successfully
resisted, will make the tax highly productive. A notice
containing a copy of schedule D, was served at our office
YESTERDAY, bearing date the first of October, and requiring
the schedule to be filled and returned within twenty-one
days from the date. If this be not done, a penalty of 201.
will be incurred, and the tax will be trebled. That is, in
fact, the notice has been withheld by' the surveyor, who
signs himself John Gilbert, for eighteen days after it ought
to have been served, and the twenty-one days professed to be
allowed for the difficult operation of filling a complicated
and novel return is diminished in our own particular case to
three days." I may mention that a large number of people
have even, as yet, received no returns to fill up at all, so
that the new office bids fair to be characterised by the same
blundering and mismanagement, which affects every public
establishment in Dublin, from. the drainage commissioners
to the post-office.
CORN AND YOUGHAL RAILWAY.—A meeting of the
landed proprietors and rate-payers of the baronies of Kin-
natalloon, Imokilly, Fermoy, Condons, Congibibbons, and
Barrymore, was held at the Court-house of Diddleton on
Saturday. The object of the meeting, asstated in the requi-
sition by which it was convened, was to consider the pro-
priety of granting a baronial guarantee in aid of the con-
struction of a railway from the city of Cork to the towns of
Middleton and Youghal, with branches of such railway to
Queenstown and Fermoy. The meeting after a prolonged
discussion, decided against the guarantee.
HomiciDE.—The Silkehny Moderator of last night con-
tains the following : Yesterday morning the buffoon of a
penny theatre at present pitched on the Parade in this city,
and whose name was Henry Rowan, was found dead in his
bed at his lodgings in Walkin-steeet. The man had gone
through his usual performance at the theatre on the previous
night, without making any complaint, but he had been suf-
fering much for the last three weeks from the effects of a
blow received in a row in a public-house at New Ross. al-
leged to have been inflicted by the belt of a soldier of the 624
Regiment, named Reilly, then on detatchment in Ross, but at
present in this garrison. It is supposedthat Rowan's skull
had been fractured by the blow.

moved the following r
opinion that it is highly prejudicial to the interests of th
company that it should be confined in the selection of its
directors to the limited number of shareholders who have
held the requisite number of shares for six consecutive
months befere the time of election; and that the directors
be requested to hand a copy of this resolution to the right
honourable the President of the Board of Trade, and to
make an immediate and urgent application to him for
his consent to the application of the company for a reduction
of such required period of tenure to ten days, and to an
alteration of the existing provisions of the deed of settlement
to that extent ; and that, if such consent be given, a further
meeting of shareholders be convened with all possible expe-
dition, for the purpose of reducing the prescribed period of
tenure of the election of director from six months to ten
days next preceding his election, and IC
altering the deed of sett'
Mr. SHEPHERD seco.

[ement nec

The CHAIRMAN said the next r

submit to the meeting v

the company be reduced from twelve to a number now to be
determined upon." That number the directors had not
thought it desirable to name; bid if the opinion of the
board should be asked, he might state that the number of
directors they would recommend would be seven ; and he
proposed to introduce that number into the resolution, un-
less there should be a manifest declaration to the contrary
on the part of the shareholders (hear, hear).
Several amendments were proposed, but ultimately the

Chairman's resolution was carried.
Mr. VANCE then proposed a resolution to the effect that
the directors be entrusted, in the future conduct of the
affairs of the company, to act with a view to the eventual
realisation of its assets, at such places and times, and in
such manner, as the directors may think best calculated to
prevent the sacrifice of the property of the company.
_._.

(Hear, hear.)
Captain COFFIN seconded the resolution

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which was supported by the chairman and some of the di-
rectors, but was opposed by several shareholderr as super-
fluous, and ultimately withdrawn.
A motion proposed by Mr. HAIVES, to alter the mode of
voting in accordance with the Lands Clauses Consolidation,
was also withdrawn, after a warm and acrimonious discus-
sion, and after a vote of thanks to the chairman the proceed-
ina's terminated.

NOVELTY IN PLATE.—We have pleasure in di-
recting attention to a pair of Fruit Stands, designed and
manufactured by Mr. Flower, No. 8, Bold-street, in whose
window they are now exhibited. They are composed of
the legs of a noble Eagle, shot in Ireland by a gentleman
of this town ; each claw rests upon a finely executed rocky
base of silver, and each leg is surmounted by a beautifully
cut

.ass bowl, resting in a silver feathery capital of
exquisite workmanship. We have seen nothing of the
kind in finer taste as to the design, or better performed as
to the workmanship.
NEW ITALIAN CHURCH IN LONDON.—It iS said
that a Roman Catholic church, for the benefit of Italians
and other foreigners in London, will be immediately erected
on a site recently purchased in Hatton-garden. The new
church will be of very large proportions, and in the purest
Italian style, and a body of Priests,
.representing every
Tna-
tion in Europe, will be attached to it.
THE SIIIP-BUILDING TRADES.—Owing to the
launches and completion of a number of vessels on Clyde,
lately, and a paucity of fresh orders, the shipbuilders find
that now
s canget plenty of men. A reduction in the
amongst carpenters, joiners, rivetters, &c.,
etorhfeefiare being looked forward to. This will enable our
irsslaititpehbuilders to compete more effectually with other ports
in the way of contracts.—Glasgow Constitutional.
THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM.—Dr. Grant, of South-
wark, in a pastoral letter which he has recently addressed to
.the:Roman Catholic laity of his district, states that during
the late encampment at Chobham, several of the clergy,
both regular and secular, devoted themselves to the spiri-
tual charge of the Irish soldiers quartered there. "An
altar and a tent," he says, " were furnished by two Ca-
tholics, and even some officers sought the honour of serving
mass."

MUTINY ON BOARD THE QUEEN OF THE
tElGN.—Wednesday being appointed for
.the reading over
and translating the voluminous depositions taken before Mr.
Yardley in this complicated and difficult case, all the accused
were formally arraigned in the dock—Ahalt and Ali, two
Malays, for assaulting and wounding Mr. William Burford
Treatt;the chief-mate of the Queen of the Teign, with in-
tent to murder him • and Captain William Tapley Stoke,
the master of the Queen of the Teign, and William North-
cote and Thomas Goldsworthy, English seamen, for man•
slaughter, in killing and slaying five Lascars, during the
disturbance on board on the 22nd of July last. Mr. Jarman,
of the Treasury Solicitor's-office, attended on the part of the
Crown ; Mr. Humphreys, solicitor, for the European priso-
ners. Mr. Denison again acted as interpreter in the Malay
language ; and Seaman, an ex-police constable of the H
.division, officiated as interpreter in the Hindostanee lan-
guage. Mr. Yardley committed Ahalt and Ali to Newgate
for trial, and bound over the witnesses to prosecute and give
evidence in the usual manner. The Europeans were then
arraigned for manslaughter. Mr. Yardley committed Captain
Stooke, Northcote, and Goldsworthy for trial for manslaugh-
ter, and took bail for their appearance at the sessions, as
before, and they were set at liberty.
GREAT SALE OF ROYAL FARMING STOCK.—On
Tuesday, the annual selection of live stock, the property of
his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, was sold by auction,
at Norfolk Farm, by Messrs. Buckland and Son, and attrac-
ted a large attendance of butchers, graziers, and others.
First in order of sale were the pigs, which realized very
high prices, comparatively small hogs making from £5 to
£6 each. A young boar, of the Windsor breed, was knocked
down for £4 Bs. One or two breeding sows also fetched
£5 17s. 6d. each. The pigs realizead.
nal,t, 2oggu thh7oniLe2-bOrOeod.
The sheep consisted of 420 fat southaw
ewes and lambs, with several rams. The whole were dis-
posed of at good but not exorbit int prices. The cattle con-
sisted of a remarkably fine Hereford ox, intended for the
Smithfiold show, R 1 superior fat oxen and heifers, 10 fine
short-horns, fit for stalling, 19 steers and heifers, six short
horned heifers and cows, and two pure-bred young bulls.
The dairy cows ranged from £l4 15s. to £l6 10s., the fat
cows and heifers from £l5 to £22 10s. The Hereford ox
(fed on cake and meal) was rually a splendid animal, and
realized the large sum of £46. Thu fat short horned oxen
varied from £lB 10s. to £2B each, the flee-year-old Scots
from £l5 to £l7, and the four-year-olds from £lO to £l2
10s. The fat Devons ranged from £l7 to £24 10s.

two-year-old short-horned 1;u11 was knocked down for M 5;
an Alderney bull of the same age fetched about half the
money. The total proceeds of the sale were nearly £4OOO.
We might add that, since last year, great improvements
have been made in the yards and premises attached to Nor-
folk Farm, and the arrangements for the accommodation of
the company were very complete.
We perceive that Mr. W. Williams, the well
known estate agent has opened an additional office in
the New Range, in Hackins-hey, one of the most central
situations in Liverpool. This will be a great convenience to
any one wishing to buy or sell property, as well as to those
I who may be in want of houses to occupy, as Mr. Williams
has always a list for public inspection.