The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-22 00:00:00

movements of-post Mahomed, who, at the instance
•of the_English, had,tgone„;,itaJpersen to 'Candi:her:-
All the efforts made to stir np_the natives of the
country failed Letole the measures of the-rer-
sian commander; one of. the-most ne4ll-in-fliiary
chieftains, the Sultan Ali•E'ran, was induced even
to quit Candahar with his family, and to come and
claim at Herat the protection of the General
Sultan Murad-Mirzs, who.. alloted to him an,
asylum adequate to his rank in the province of
KhoraSsati, whilst-. he -sent one of his vassals; the
chief of the tribe of the Aletchefzais, to present
his homage to the,Shali, at Teheran.. As soon as
the result of these operations had been ascertained;
the besiegers established three streng posts to the.
eastward, at Bihreod IPifin, at the. sources of the.
river Heriroud, ,which flows past, Herat, and at,
other places. This service was performed by the
cavalry; and ,towards the end at the month of
August the siege batteries were in a condition to
open fire, and =the attack was• comment3ed against
Fort Nettcliki..— The artillery was well served, and
the trenches were advanced regttlarly until they
approached in some places within 'ten metres Of.
the'difeh Which surrounds the town. 'the defen-
sive works of Herat consisted of a bastioned wall;
which was raised during. the siege of 1838, aid
which had forced the father of the •reigning Shah,,
"after many useless efforts, to raise the siege-.
Afterwards some English officers of the East
'lndia Company's service, added exterior works,
the key of which was the fort just mentioned,
Nouchki, and certain fortifications 'of no very
great strength, in front of the Gate Pilehkane, the
whole surrounded by a rather-deep, foSse. Whilst l
the Persians. were steadily making 'their advances,
the Affghansi by their frequent sorties more than
once succeeded in partially destroying the works.
In these skirmishes the word of command was.fre-
queutly _heard given in the English language;
ith:ieed, there was not the slightest doubt that
English officers were present in the place. One
olthe most curious incidents of the siege was an
attempted attlelt made by a company of Persians
at an advanced station, Who, without the knowledge
or consent of their lead,erS,,listened to the repeated
invitations given. them by serne'fraitors within the
city, and one dark night surprised- a tower, from
which, however„ the
.Persians, 'overwhelmed by
superior numbers, were obliged to retreat, with
the loss of two.thirds of their number. If this
movement had been better arranged and supported,
Herat would probably have fallen into the power
of the Shah that very night. At the beginning of
October the trenches were 'So far advanced that •
Colonel Buhler pledged himself in -a deSpatch to
the, Shah that the place would be taken Within
a given time, and so convinced was the. ruler of
Persia that the French °Meer would make goad
his promise, that he raised him .to the rank of
general. The exterior works were destroyed by
mining, and several breaches- were effected in the
wall Everything was ready far the assault, and
the Persians had made all their preparations for
the final attack, when•the besieged. reduced to the
greatest extremities, by famine, and wishing to
prevent the terrible consequences of the forced
capture of .the'towa by an army irritated by a long
resistance, despatched Mir-Abdol-Azim to the
Persians, to declare the t ova.was willing to sur-
render. This overture being well received Yssa
Khan, who commandoi the garrison, issued from
the town, aCcompa,,i,3d by all the chief personage's
belonging to it, civil aod Military, and prcce.eled
to the Persian camp, lo make, his submission
to Murad.Mirza.- The-prince received_ him with
great kindneSs, and with .an assurance of good
treatment. Immodiatelyafter the gates of the town
were throN'rn open, and the Persian troops made.
their entrance in such 'perfect Order as to do great
honour to the discipline acquired in the Shah's
army. It is woithV of remark that not a single
act Of violence was. commit‘ed. Murad-Mirsa
eatahlished himself in the ,•itadel with four of his
regiments. The gates were guarded by Persian
sentries, and the most perfect order established in
the, All .the country around Herat for a.dis-
twice of forty leagw•s is militarily- occupied by the
Persians, and the chiefs of the Affghan tribes are
hurrying in from all sides to the Commander-in
Chief."

The number of-delegates at the Seuthera Commercial
Convention, now in
.e.eesion in Savannah, ie. very large.
About one fourth are from Virginia. The following list
of the, "titles" of the delegat:s has been given : —Gover-
wars, 69 ; Generals 110; (Jolene's. 415 ; Doctors, 320 ;
llonourables, 500; Majors, 23a; Captains, 250; ,not
mentioned, 104. Teta!, 1989.
FATHER MATHEW AND THE IRON DIME —ln 1847, the
leader of one of the temperance bands in Cork enlisted in
the army. He was the chief support of an aged mother,
his wife and six children. The amiable Father Mathew
applied to the colonel of the regiment in vain for his dis-
charge. Being disappointed, he wrote, contrary to the
advice of his friends, to the commander of the forces,
who, by return of post, sent an autograph as follows :
" Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington presents his com-
pliments to the -Very Rev. Mr. Mathew—he mid not
refuse his. application, and has directed the discharge of the
soldier he desired."
INTIRESTING GUNNERY EXPERIMENT.—With a view of
obtaining more positive confirmation of the resistance
afforded by the plates of iron which form the outer casing
of our newly constructed floating batteries, a bulkhead, 14
feet by 12, has been erected in Woolwich Arsenal marsh's,
for the purpose of currying out some experiments connected
therewith. The bulkhead was composed of solid timber,
similar to those of a ship's hull, firmly .Bolted together, so
as to consolidate a depth of 1 foot 8 inches, and faced with
four sheets of tolled and hammered iron, full four inches
thick: The butt' so *Constructed was well secured by a
number of strong spurs, and fixed at 'an angle of eight
degrees in the most appropriate locality, set cted for
the purpose, in the practising range in the vicinity of
the arsenal. . Twenty four rounds were successively fired
from one of the heaviest guns, a 68 pounder, weighing
95 cwt, and charg d with 16 lbs of powder and an 8 inch
shot. The experiment at the commencement was tested
over a range of 600 yards, which was subsequently reduced -
to 400 yards. Fifteen shot were of cast and nine of wrought
iron. The effect produced by the former on the iron coating
was scarcely perceptible, except when it struck the rolled
sheets, and then no further than sightly skini.ing the sur-
face in the immediate spot struck. The nine wrought iron
shots were each flattened by the force of the anted-, and
fell to the ground without making any.visible impression-
on the eurface of the target. The cast iron shots, h!ing
broken int ) fragment,, also fell harmlessly to the ground ;
the last; however, penetrated the iron Owing, and remained
partially embedded in the woodwork. The . re'nit conse-
quently rests thus :=--Out, of the 24 experimental discharges,
21 effected no damage, two fell wide of the mark, and 'one
pierced
the target. •
1.."-,T OF PASSENGERS ne— THE ROYAL MAIL STEAMER
PERSIA FROM New if onie.—Mr Raymond, Mr. Herring
and lady, Mr C H Clarke and lady, Mr Hedge and lady,
Mrs Deveepott, two children, and servant, Mrs Stratton,
TOm Thumb and servant, Mrs Joseph Bell, Miss.
Sarah . Grayson, •Mr F Vandenstracten, Mr John
Whittaker, Captain A Williams, Mr Benjamin Jackson;
Mr Yaines M'Coy, Mr Ayles, Mr B. Hewitt, Mr L W Bunn,
Mr Q Smith, Mr Letchworth, Pr Riesfries, Mr Deek-
worth, Mr J S Playfair, Mr Corrie, Mr. S P Bidder, "Mr S
S Osgood and Lady, Mr Robert Wade and lady, Mr J
Deago, Right Rev 0 Connor, Bishop of Pittsbure, Mr
Pedro 111 Diage, Mr 'Archibald B Triple, Mr B. H Hayes,
Mr Ralph Daly, Mr Joseph Gilkison, Mr John Zealeaf, Mr
Burnham, 111 i James fal‘Heury,. Mr. H. Smith Catlett),
Mr Simpson, Mr More ice, Mi C Ridley, Mr J II Marett,
Mr Desilos, Mr. Demian, Mr Jules Gnichard, Mr W Qun-
hinghami Mr Geo Warren, Mr J S Walker, Mr Kleiman,
Mr Welts, Mr Wilson, Mr Russell, Mr W Dickson, Mr.
Charles Brown, Mr M Leinan, Mr G H itenball,, Mr
Deady, Mr Henderson, Mr A G Harper, Mr Rixas, Mr
Wardle, Mrs Berm., Miss Berm, Mrs Hoare, and two
children ; Mr l'ielang, Mr O'Brien, Baron R9nehasd,
Mr Beck, Mr M Burr, Mr 'W 2 Banton, rear Rehert Eyre,
Mr A. J Reand, Mr James Andereon,.. Mt V Y Mac-
kenzie, Mr Thos Manning. pr W C Anderson, Mr E
PoWer, Mr Murdoch, Mr James Stonebridge, Lieut H D
MacLeod, Mr Geo Owens, Mr J Scholes, Mr.E James, Mr
John Dane, Mr J M Crosaan, Mr Hammel, lady and infant
'Mr Gorden, Mr C Smith, Mr C Batton, Mr E Waitland,
Mr Hutcheson, Mr IP Baby, Mr H Sehmidt, -Mr
Edward Boyle, Mr R Sterling, Mr. G. H. Brenswig,
Mils Cress, Mrs John Jones, Mr James, lady, two children,
',and servant, Mr Conpeux, Mr James Harris, Mr Pierce,
.Mr G J Wallan, Mr Edward Berry, Mr. Sehalter, Mr.
Betle, Mr S L Leopold and boy, Mr Thomas M Quill, Mr
Waterman, Mr. S G. Wright, Mr J Harrison, Rev J
Cross and lady, Mr W Nicholson, Mr Thompson, Captein
James Brown, Rev J 0 Conner, Mr J F Fisher and lady,
Mr II A Hills Mr R Glover, Miss tltewellyn, T J Hutton,
Miss MOonigan, Mr John H Trabain„latiY, and two infant,
Mr S A If trvey, Captain Nugent, Bth regt, Oapt-Boyes, do,
Lieut Boresford, do, Mr Geo Meakin, Mr Jos Stansbury,.
Mr L F Drayo, Mr W E Spencer, Mr C Sanford, Mr Jos
Bell, Mr W Roper, Mr S Rosenbaun, Mr John Booth, lady,
Mr R Seddon, and thiee children,

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ht--PARTgMOUI 11, Dee- Lo.—ller Maj cgs, Erie ce..A liter% and
he court left Osborne this morning at &even o'clock, for
this po'rt. The embarkation_ on beard the Fairy, screw ten-
der to the royal yacht, torik Place a few minutes after that
hour, and the Q.leen was soon on her way On approaching
spithtai the royal standard, iivas ,salute.d iiith 21 guns by
the. Shannon, 51, screw frigate, 'Captain W. Peel, 0.8 ;
Retribution, 23, paddle frigate, Captain B irker; and the
Prussian frigate Thetis, Captain Sindensag. In running
towards Portsmouth harbour the garrison also saluted from
the fortificatibes, and after icards th,s was repeated' by. the
Victory and other Ships in harbour. The whole'of the men of
war were dressed with masthead flags, whilst the Prussian
,
frigate an sloop, ' and the. Arctic ship Resolute, were
dressed in colours: ' All the vessels' crews cheered her
Majesty as she pissed them, and none more so than the
P, ussiari and Araerican crewa.' The Fairy ran up to the
Clarence 3 ard, and her Majesty disembarked-et 12 o'clock,
being received there by the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-
Admiral Sir M. Seymour, K.C.B ; the Lieutenant• Governor
Major-G,?neral Breton; Admiral Superintendant Martin;
C'aptaiu SaperintOidant S. C. nacres ,• the flag and staff
officers of the port and garrison ; ' Messrs. ' D via and
Pinhorn, of Clarence-yard; and a guard of honour from the
Royal Marines; with the bind of that cnrpa.
The royal party proceeded en rotate to Windsor per South
Western Railway:
wisnson, Dee. 19.—The royal party arrived at twenty
minutes past two o'clock at Windsor, where her Majesty
was received by a guard of honour of the -Coldstream
Guards, with the band of the reginient. Lady Macdonald
has succeeded the Duchess ,ol' Athell, as lady in waiting to
her Majesty. The heti. 13eatrice Byng has arrived as
maid of honour in waiting, and Lord Rivers and Major.
General Berkeley Drummond as the lord and the groom in
waiting. The Prince Ernest,of Leiningen, and his brother
Prince Edward, arrived in ,Loudon yesterday. Morning.
Their serene highnesses left town on a visit to the Duc4ess
of Kent at Frogmore, and travelled by the Great Western
railway to Windsor.

Mr. Joseph Ilindson and Mr. J. H. Hayes, from Liver-
pool, hid an interview with Mr. Secretary Labouchere on
Friday at the Colonial Office.
A MAN FOUND DEAD.—On Saturday night the police
on duty in John's lane found a man (name at present un-
known) in a state of apparent insensibiiitv. • He was taken
to the Infirmary, where it was found he was dead. He was
dressed as a mechanic.

ST• ANNEN DISPE/VARY AND EYE AND EAR INSTITUTION,
9, Rose there—New patients' entered on the books last
weeke viz., Dec. 20, 1856 : Relieved at the institution, 13.5;
relieved a' their 'own dwellings, 63; total, 198 Visitors :
Mr. Watts, 'Mr.' Kirk. Hon. Secretary and Treasurer,
Joseph Kitchen, Esq
BURGLARY IN .CHEMIRB.—EarIy on Saturday morning,
the 'house' 61 the 13,.. Joshua King, Wood Church,
Cheshire, was broken into by six or seven armed men, who
stole front' • £6O to £lOO in bank notes and gold, together
with a large quantity of plate and a variety of property. The
'police are on the alert, but up to the present they have not
-succeeded in capturing any one, but there are strong hopes
that they will catch the perpetrators of• this outrage. We
forbear giving more details at present.
LIVERPOOL Ram, INFIRMARY.— Week ending December
20, 185G.—adruitted : iu-patients, 32 ; 'out-patients; 3 ;
casuals dUring week, 7. Discharged : in-patients cured,
16; relieVed, and at own -request; 12; made out-patents,
3 ; irregular, 1; dead, 3 : remain iti the hinise, 166. House
visitors : Lawrence Peel and J. G. Livingston, Esqrs
Physician and surgeon for ensuing week : Dr. Turnbull and
Mr. E. R. Bickersteth: House surgeon : Mr. Morris
Junior house surgeon : Mr. Cecil Webster Chaplain Rev.
H. J. Gairod, B.A. Robert Hutchison,. treasurer.
Sr; AL'eirits's irtal..—Nr. Best, organist of St. George's.
Hall, Liverpool, last night, gave a performance on the new
instrument which has recently been erected by Messrs.
Willis, for the purposes of Mr. Hullah's concerts. The
selection, of which the more important items 'were Handel's
concerti, in C, the andante of M zirt's symphony (No 9)
Weher's overture to 4 Preciosa," B:ich's prelude and fugue
in G, and the larghetto_ from I3ethoven's Symphony in D,
was edruirably executed,
.and displayed to the best advantage
the undoubtedly excellent qualities possessed by the organ.
—Londrn Paper of Saturday.
ARREST OF ,•A ►SUPPOSED BARON ,IN LIVERPOOL —O❑
53.111. 4y, inspector Murphy, of the detective police, arrested
a person calling himself B .ron Brouchow, who ass charged
fur having come by the Persia, royal mail steamer, from
New .York, without paying his f ,re. It appeared that the
" Baron" had by some means managed to conceal himself
on board the boat, and was not discovered until the vessel
was some da}s out,at sea. . He said he was secretary to the
Pruseiau ambassador a', Washington, and that his position
was quite enough for his fare. This
.sort of doctrine was
not credited by the company,,the more so as he had only, is
6d ou his person. He was brought before the magistrates
ou Saturday, and the above facts having transpired, ho was
ren ended.
THE RAILWAY PASS CASE.--MY. Godfrey, solicitor for
Mr. Nash, states that the defendant did not "describe
himself a, a reporter for newspapers," which he is not.
That at first, as at last, it was treated as a case of fare
which defendant refused to pay, and the decision was
based ou that, the defendant having travelled from Crewe
with a genuine, unused; but old and altered (in time, &c.)
free ticket, which he insisted'he was justified in doing by
his correspondence with Euston, but that correspondence
being at that moment ignored, and he unable to go and search
for it, the adjudication to pay the full fare, &e , followed,
but it has since been found and submitted to the authorities,
and legal opinion is, that -it fully confirms his statement,
and justifies ulterior steps.

POSTOFFICB MONEY ORDER OFFICE, DERBY ROAD,
BOOTLE —The inhabitants of Bootle.cum-Linacre ard the
surrounding districts will be glad to learn that the post.
master general, in compliance with an application made to
him in October last, has been pleased to authorise the
establishment of a money order office at the above receiving
office, where orders may be obtained on and after the Ist
of January next. This public accommodation will be found
a great convenience to the neighbourhcod, more particularly
to the large body of men employed at the North Dock
works, the troops located at the fort, and also to the
residents of the lower parts of Kirkdale, who hitherto
have been obliged to go to Liverpool to obtain Postoffice
orders. Mr. John Rirnmer, boottnaker, has been appointed
to the office.
Bonouon Stsszows.—On Saturday the following sen.
tences were passed :—James Clay, 18 months' imprison-
ment ; John O'Brien, 15 months' imprisonment ; Thomas
Smith, 8 months' imprisonment; Mary Jones, 10 months'
imprisonment; Edward Molyneux, 12 months' imprison.
ment Robert Jenkinson, 15 months' imprisonment.; Ann
Welsh, 4 months' imprisonment; Mary Jordan, 9 months'
imprisonment ; William Gillery, 44 days' imprisonment,
and 5 years to a reformatory ; Joseph Sloane, 16 days'
imprisonment, and 5 years to a reformatory; George Kirk,
44 days' imprisonment, and 5 years to a reformatory
Robert Williams, 6 montils' imprisonment, and years to
a reformatory; Peter Burke 4 weeks' hard labour; Wil-
liam Buckley. 5 years' penal servitude; Johu Davjes, 3
weeks' hard labour ; Patrick Daley, 16 days' imprisonment,
and 5 years to a reformatory ; John Smith and Emanuel.
Morie, acquitted ; Michael Berry, 4 calendar months' hard
labour ; John Russell, acquitted ; George BroWn, ac-
quitted; Ellen Amos, 4.months' imprisonment.
Conosina's INouss-rs.---On Saturday, the C ,r,-nor held
the following inquests. On the • body of R Martin,
fifty•two years of age, who resided at Summer Seat. The
deceased, was suffering from disease of tho heart,- for some
time past, and. 01,..S tturday morning he dropped dead in
the street.—Verdiet, died by the visitaticn of Get On .
the body of Joseph, Grace, four years of age, the son of; a
grocer carrying oa business in Aighburth street. About a
fortnight since; the child (with an elder brother) was
playing in the kitchen, when his clothes caught are, and he
was so Setiously injured that he died from the efftots.—
Verdict, accidental death. On the body of Joho
D ivieS, a sailor, who died in the northern hospital. On
Friday week the deceased got a fall
_from a strip, and
fracture'l his skull, from the eff.:cts of which he died in the
hospital.—Verdict, accidental death.

MISS LACY GASKILL'S CONCERT.—On Saturday night
Miss Lacy Gaskill gave her first select concert of vocal and
instrumental music in the Assembly-rooms, Great George-
street. Stie was assisted by Miss Wiatt, who was so
favourably received at the St. George's Hill concerts,Nr.
Miller, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Baetins, and Master .119 deli&.
Mr. Skeaf,. jun., wiF se accompaniments were very excellent,
presided at the pianofotte. The rooms were crowded in
every part, and the audience. testified their appreciation of
the concert by frequent and hearty applause. Of Miss
Gaskill's singing %ve have had en more than one occasion to
speak in these columns in terms of just commendation.
The oftener we hear her the more pleased are we with her
efforts. She is very young, and not long before' theimblic,
and the absence of animation sometimes observable in her
singing, arises not from any want of a just conceprisn of
the spirit of the music, or power to render it effectively,
but front the timidity peculiar to, and pleasing in the young
debutante. We liked her much in the trio "-Tt ),rego;',' in
which Miss Wiatt and Mr: Millar took part, and partihlarly
in " The harp that onge through Tara 's Halls,". wbiah she
song with the simplicity and feeling which constitute the
charm of such melodies. Miss Wiatt, Mr. Armstrong, and
Mr. Millar also creditably sustained their part, while Mr.
Bletin's violin performances were faultless, and eliciied
enthqsiastic encoFeq. Master Radcliffe gives prOlniee of
bacorning'an excellent flentis', but he hag not yet acquired
a sufficient command over the jostrnment to make bur per.
formanoes even or sustained throughout. In the " Carnival
of Venice" he wag well supported by Mr. Skeaf, and we
think it would have been for his advantage in the encore;
,had that gentleman been allowed also to accompany
him.

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