The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-09 00:00:00

THE COURT

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übmitted to the County Court

s approval, and now that these rules

neetings held for those purposes

the most disgusting bear

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treating the

leniency of the County Court with the utmost
ingratitude and con tempt.We never had much
faith, we must confess, in the course pursued by
Mr. POLLOCK in this matter. The learned gentle-
man's object was to save the society from falling
to pieces; but we are disposed to think that there
was a shorter way open to the Court of attaining
that desirable end, and that course will now be
resorted to, no doubt, tobring the refractory spirits
There must be something
nisly wrong going on, when the members
desirous to know how their affairs stand,
suffered to hear one word about what has
lone, or what remains to be completed.

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re•marri;

Superintendent

The County Court Judge has, assuredly, a
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to the rules that he has approved In
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OSBORNE, Thursday.—The Queen and Prince, the Prince
of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and Princess
Alice, cruised in the Fairy yesterday afternoon. The Earl
and Countess of Clarendon, Lieutenant-General Sir W.
Codrington, Colonel the Hon. George Cadogan, and Col.
the Hon. W. L. Pakenham, accompanied her Majesty.
Prince Alfred, attended by Lieut. Cowell, landed in the
Southampton' Thcks, from Osborne, where the Prince had
been to celebrate his birthday. His Royal Highness left
the Southampton railway station at 5 p.m. en route for the
Royal Lodge, Windsor, to resume his studies. The Duke
and Duchess de Nemours visited the Duchess of Kent cn
Thursday.

Viscount Palmerston left London on Wednesday for
Brocket-house, Herts.

SIR CHARLES NAPIER'S BET.—A letter from St. Peters-
burg, in the Constitutionnel, says :—Various reasons are
agsigned for the visit of Sir Charles Napier; and, curi-
o:linty enough, that which is most absurd is the most
generally credited, namely, that Sir Charles has come
here to wiu a wager which, it is declared, he had formerly
made—that he would breakfast at Cronstadt and dine at
St Petersburg on the same day. It is further said that,
as these two pleasing operations have been effected by
him between sunrise and sunset, he has won his bet,
What I can, however, inform you of with certainty is,
that the Emperor despatched an invitation to him by an
aide-de-camp offering him a suite of rooms in one of the
crown palaces.

THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL CONTRACT. We understand
that three screw steamers, of the first class, have just been
1.7 kLo wna .A.uota align Itv, al Mull
Steam. ship Company, for carrying out the above contract.
Two of them, for the service between Southampton and
Alexandria, will be each of 2,000 tons, and 470 nominal
(600 Admiralty) horse-power, and the other for the Suez
and Australian line, of 2,800 tons, and 650 nominal (800
Admiralty) horse-power. The latter will be built by
Messrs. J. and G. Thomson, of the Clyde Bank Foundry,
Glasgow, and the other by Messrs. Hill and Inglis, also
of the Clyde. They are to be named the Sydney, Mel-
bourne, and Australian, which has given rise to an unfounded
report that the inefficient vessels of the old mail company
had been bought up for the service.

THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAMSHIP, —The Owners of the
Great Britain are about to introduce improvements into
this vessel, for the purpose of applying more effectually to
her the principles on which the Royal Charter is con-
structed. The vessel will be supplied with new sternposts,
projecting beyond the present ones, and a new rudder.
The screw will also be made to lift, by which it is ex-
pected the speed of the ship will be accelerated about
two miles an hour when under sail alone ; and as
these alterations will project the rudder about two
feet further aft than it is at present, and proportionately
lengthen the run of the ship, it follows that she will
steer better. But one of the most important alterations
proposed relates to the removal of the mainmast, which
is to be placed 15 feet forward of its present position,
and by which the ship will obtain increased sailing
capacities. Very material alterations will also be made
in the deck houses and cabin accommodation of the ship,
an almost entire transformation being contempalted in this
department:

MISSING SHlPS.—Notices have been posted at Lloyd's
respecting several vessels which are missing, and are
supposed to be lost with all on board. The ships August
and Julias sailed from Lagos for London on the 11th
of last November, and has not since been heard of. The
City of Montreal sailed from Liverpool for Quebec on the
2nd of last April, was afterwards spoken with on the 24th
of last month in lat. 45, long. 47, since whioh nothing has
been heard of her. The Eclipse, Captain Hughes,
sailed from Sangor on the 2nd Nov. for the Mauritius.
and has not since been heard of. The George and Mary,
of Hartlepool, sailed from the Tyne, for Constantinople, in
December last—not since been heard of. The Nereus
Monte, Captain Rickles, which left Liverpool on the 6th of
March, for Konigsberg; the Venezuelan ship Pauline,
from New York, for Puerto Cabello ; the Progress, Captain
Rabat, sailed from Liverpool on the Bth of January, for
Goree, and the Trione, of Wivenhoe, for Ballyshannon,
have not been heard of since they sailed.

PROTESTANT DISSENTERS.--The ordinary half-yearly
meeting of the Protestant Dissenting Deputies of the
three denominations was held yesterday at the Milton
Club, Ludgate Hill. Apsley Pella.tt,, Esq., M.P., was
e, and proper accounts are to lin the chair. The C

lairman, in his speech, regretted the
withdrawal of the Church Rate Bill, but he had to con-
gratulate the meeting with regard to the success of the
Marriage Bill—the Dissenters' Marriage Bill, as it was at
first called, but the title of which had been altered, and it
was now termed an Act to Amend the Law relating to
Marriage and Registration. He directed attention next
to the question of the burial laws. The Dissenters had
long contended that, whether a burial ground was conse-

crated or not, they had a right that their ministers should
perform a service over the dead. In Ireland that had
long been the custom, and in the last session an act
had passed which gave full libeaty on that point to all
denominations in Ireland. He had pointed that fact

out to Sir. G. Grey, and next session it was a point for
which the Dissenters would contend. The committee
had taken steps with reference to cases in which cler-
ymen of the Church of England had insisted on the
ge of persons who had been married by the
Registrar, and a prosecution had been
instituted against one clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Lush,
which had resulted in that gentleman's sending a letter
acknowledging that he was

and in his paying the expenses of the
prosecution. On the whole, the labours of the past year
were therefore successful. A resolution was proposed
Induct of the government with
tes 1:011, but the general feeling of

the meeting was opposed to it, and it was disposed of by
the moving of the previous question.