The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-01 00:00:00

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WEST INDIA MAIL.

(PEON OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY

The Royal West India Mail packet Magdalena•
Captain Abbott, admiralty agent, Lieutenant Jolla
Kempe, R.N., arrived at Southampton this after-
noon with the West India and Mexican mails.

Her dates of sailing were—Vera Cruz, April 11,
Tampico, March 30; Havana, April 9 ; Greytown'
April 5; Panama, April 8; Carthagena, April 10
Jamaica, April 11; Demerara aid Trinidad, April
9 ; St. Kitt's, April 13 ; Barbados, April 11; St-
Lucia, April 12 ; Antigua, April 12 ; St. Vincent,'
April 10 ; Martinique, April 12 ; Guadaloupe, A rii
P
12 ; Grenada, April 10 ; Jacmel, April 12 ; "t°
Rico, April 15 ; Dominica, April 12 ; St. Thonaas,
April 15 ; and Tortola, April 3.
The Magdalena brought 215 passengers. The
freight on board consisted of specie to the amount
of 931,376 dollars, of which 395,420 dollars value
were in silver, and 525,456 dollars value in gold'
There was also 10,560 dollars value in pearls.
Also 259 bales of tobacco, 129 cases of cigars/ 79
barrels of sarsaparilla, and 5 packages of succades.
Jamaica was healthy. The Industrial Exhibition,.
is said to have given an impulse
improvements. Exchange on London 90 darn, ;
per cent premium; 60 days, one per cent pre..n.'lll.--,,s'
30 days, 11 per cent premium. Merchants' W'
agriculturai

par.
The weather in Demarara continued exceedieglY:
dry, and the canes were suffering severely ler

want of water.
Two large fires had been raging in t,ll°
Naparimas, Trinidad. At Les-Efforts and i
adjoining estate of Paradice, several quarree;
of canes were burnt, but it :is hoped t'a
by rapid grinding a large portion of the appre-
hended loss may be averted. At theGlenNir
estates the fire extended over several fields Of
t
canes. Water is getting very scarce, and its 'ant
in many places is most severely felt.

An ultramontane journal of Vienna has been conflosi
cated for abusing the Bureaucracy and accusing it
lukewarmness in religious matters.

THE SIITTEES.—A correspondent of the Bengal ilterkars4
states that a Suttee has occurred in the Sontal Perguonall.s:
The pile was prepared by the wretched woman berseirz
apparently without assistance, and the body was discoverl
only half burnt. The deputy-commissioner has comma"
an investigation

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MARRIAGE IN M w MGR LlFE.—Lady Panmure, wido
William, late Lord Panmure, who died in 1852, was marrlea
on Saturday last to Mr. Power, one of the Queen's fret
service messengers. The marriage, which was solemni,'l
at Fulham church, was quite private. Her ladyshiP soh
Mr. Power left town shortly after the ceremony for Fa'
for a few weeks.

APPELLATE JURISDICTION OF THE LORDS.—It Ivy' I.,te d
ig }
that the committee of the House of Lords on Jod'ear
Appeals will recommend the establishment of a Court
Appeal consisting of the Lord Chancellor and four 1a
oir
peens,who are to be peers for life. There will be no nie
tion of Scotch judges being raised to that dignity, the °3l
stitution of the Court being left an open question.
THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.—The expense of the
establishment of the Board of Examiners from their
nol;
pointment to the end of March last was.
estimated expense for the current year is '4.995'
salaries are as follows :—The secretary has £BOO a Y,et,:,
the registrar, £450 ; three senior clerks, £2OO each ; ty`;,;,.
junior clerks, 'lOO each; one officekeeper, dle); • o;,t,
messenger at £63, and the other at £6O ; one porter
.e6o.—Civil Service Gazette.

LEGAL APPOINTMENTS.—The valuable office of DePutt
Keeper of the Rolls having become vacant by the resig‘'
nation of Robert Wogan, Esq., has been conferred 011
John Reilly, Esq., the son-in-law of Lord St. Leonard*
by the Right Hon. the Master of the Rolls ' • and the
vaeant:y created by the promotion of Mr. Reilly, the
late secretary of the learned judge, has been filled by the
appointing to it of Mr. W. R. C. Smith, Esq.
of
THE CRIMEAN ARMY.—The following statement
the destinations of the regiments named on leaving t,"
Crimea is, we believe, quite accurate:—The Ist Bila„,"
2nd Battalion, 14th, 21st, 28th, 31st, 47th, 48th 57t"ci
and 71st, go to Malta ; the 13th, 30th, 55th, 89:11,
92nd to Gibraltar ; the. 3rd, 46th, and 68th, to Corfa
andithe 9th, 17th, 39th, 62nd, and 63rd, toißritish N°rtiz
America. The 51st are on their way home from
and the 54th, 66th, and 94th from Gibraltar. It is pro
will take
able that no reliefs to the East or West Indies
place this year.
THE FRENCH OFFICERS AND THE NAVAL BEVIEW'"'
111.
Her Majesty's ship Porcupine, Lieut. Commander 0. - r
Balfour, was placed by the government at the disposal 4.)_.
the French Admiral during his stay at Potrooo%
Maltba:
After taking the Admiral from the French corvette to !,11v,
relearoyal yacht, she carried during the whole of the
the officers whom the Emperor of the French haddeepie.
to represent him. The Porcupine kept close to th Ives
toria and Albert. Our gallant allies expressed theinse
highly gratified with the grandeur of the
the excellent arrangements on board, which enabled there
so well to appreciate it. ,*ri 010
THE TALBOT DIVORCE CASE.—The arguments I- ._
case commenced again on Monday in the House of Loraisci
The evidence of the petitioner closed on that day,
divorce
yesterday the evidence of the opposers of the .ed
spectable.an_d
commenced. The most important witnesses examinse
were—Dr. Conolly :and Dr. Roscoe, wh
that it was a common delusion amongst to
as_:.
cease-
pose they had been guilty of improper conduct in e 3
where no such thing could possibly have been theers_os
Servants were generally supposed to be the p,
with whom they had been guilty. The hearing 0'
the
case was further adjourned. femmesdeposupd
MORMONS.—The 117-4olverhampton Chronicle
early this week a party of Mormonites, nombeIll; that
wards of 180, arrived at the Queen-street station, in t
town, by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverharocrof
Railway, en route for the Salt Lake. This large bl• of
perverts to the mischevious and evil doctrines o
_t
impostor, Joe Smith, were chiefly from the agriculttlen`re,
districts of Worcestershire. The greater proportion
states tuba!
young people,varying from 16 to 25 years of age, att" it
among the number, were several infirm and deer faiu
old rep
men and women, accompanying their families
grandchildren.

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SPECTATORS OF THE NAVAL REVIEW.--It iS
300,0°L't
that about 500,000 persons witnessed the review.
persons saw it from Portsmouth and Southsea •
51 ”
a /35b6,
number also saw it from the Isle of Wight and from
merchant steamers present, and then there were the cremes't
of the fleet. A grand stand was erected oa the esplanade at
Southsea, to hold 2,000 persons. The Lord May:o °
London, the Duke of Newcastle's family, and other distill'
guished persons, saw the review from this stand. Persna,4
were generally admitted by tickets to this stand,
was taken at the door in money. Many very clever tries
were practised in Southampton to lower and raise the prig
of tickets to hired steamers. The price generally WO
guinea. bit £6ol'
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morning, about Dill:
o'clock, a melancholy accident occurred at the Broad-greert
Station of the London and North Western Rail%ay. :
appears that a woman, with her three children, was Prni-
ceeding with the train, to join her husband, who is a b°!'"d„.,
binder at Warrington, when, as the train was passing Broa
e,
green, one of the children, a boy about three years °f tiad
pushed open the carriage door—which, it would seem, had
not been properly fastened—and the poor little fellovr
out between the train and the edge of the station platfobrn
The train was stopped, when it was found that the cellii!
had sustained such extensive injuries, that it is feared Il_e;
amputation of both legs will be necessary. Them other r*ou
child were sent back as quickly as possible, and conveVe.cl
the Royal Infirmary, where the little sufferer' lies in
dangerous condition.
THE NATIONAL DEBT.—It appears from a return issued
g,
last week that theross amount received of the Comm
lof
sioners for the reduction of the national debt on account Id
banks for savings and friendly societies in Great Britain a
„o• st
Ireland, from their commencement at the 6th of "sound
1817, to the 20th of November, 1355, inclusive, as
including up to and due at the latter date, 1'7,115
L 72,689 404 2s. 5d., while the gross amount of 811,,t13.63
paid in the same period, including interest, was £36,2`"'-
2s. On the 20th of November, 1855, there were standiag
in the names of the commissioners in savings' banks a,a,
friendly societies' accounts £29,741,554 three per een' ;
£31,900 two-and-a-half per cents., £3,121,000 Esceciti„ea
Bills, and X 1,765,000 Exchequer Bonds ; there was,i,
the same date a balance of £112,491 15s. 11d. renlair)lt:
uninvested. The expenditure for the year incidental
rg
the general management of the office of the cornraissiorle
amounted to £5,733. From the 19th September, 184°0
to the sth of January, 1356, the commissioners 11
the
received £216,668 Is. 3d. on account of the fund for
,ti.a
e°
military savings' banks, which they had invested in ILA.
purchase of £242,048 12s. 10d. Three per Cents., Cons°
dated Reduced, and New Btocko.