The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-29 00:00:00

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PRIVY COUNCIL.—Her Majesty will hold a privy council
this day, (Thursday), at Windsor Castle.
Mr. Henry Eliot, son of Lord Minto, is appointed secre-
tary of legation at Vienna.
BANKRUPTCY.—On yesterday, before Commissioner Perry,
Stephen Coute, of this town, slater and plasterer, obtained a
first-class certificate.

Yesterday a lad named Thomas M'Lawland was warming
himself by the fire, when his clothes became ignited, and he
was most seriously burned.

ACCIDENTS. —Yesterday two men named James Ireland,
and Thomas M'Annesly were seriously injured while engaged
in their employment, by heavy bales of goods falling upon
theni.

A young man named Jenkins, employed on the railway at
Stirling, has just been arrested, on a charge of abstracting
certain jewels sent by the rail last year, and which he, in his
capacity as clerk, had an opportunity of abstracting.
Tha annual dinner, to celebrate the foundation of the
Mercantile Travellers' schools, was held in London on Tues-
day evening. The Lord Mayor presided. The total sub-
scription was £2OOO.

The Cape Colonist records the ceremonial of the foundation
of a Roman Catholic church at Fort Beaufort, eastern dis-
trict of Cape Town, on the loth October last. The Right
Rev. Dr. Devereaux was the celebrant bishop.
Mr. Joseph Hume, jun., Mr. Trinon, and Mr. F. Bate-
man, have been named commissioners to inquire into the
causes which may have led to, or aggravated the late out-
break of cholera at Newcastle.
A letter in a Dublin journal complains that Dr. Hincks,
a distinguished Protestant clergyman in Ireland, is about to
abandon his efforts to decipher the Babylonish inscriptions
copied by Layard, in con Sequence of the 'discouragement of
the government, and of the efforts of the Scotch friends of
Colonel Rawlinson.

ACCIDENT LAST NIGHT.—Mrs. Taylor, a married woman,
in endeavouring to get into the Woodside boat from the
Liverpool landing-stage, yesterday evening, fell into the
water, and was, with much difficulty, extricated from her
perilous position, after being several minutes in the river.
The steamers were putting off at the time, and she rushed
inside the chain endeavouring to reach the boat.
• SERIOUS ACClDENT.—Yesterday, a man named George
Holland, while engaged in the Kirkdale works, was assisting
in the process of blasting, he incautiously went too near the
gunpowder, which exploded, and he was most seriously in-
jured. It is expected that his sight will not again be restored,
he being chiefly injured in the face.
We have the best authority for stating that the Russian
High-Admiral having recently inspected the Czar's Baltic
fleet, one-half of the ships were at once condemned as worth.
less, and it was determined to build, on contract, a number
of screw line-of-battle ships one account says no less than
thirty !—Daily News.

THE DIPLOMATIC DUEL—MADRID, DEC. 21.—The medi.
cal report issued last evening, respecting the condition of
M. de Turgot, was more favourable than the preceding one,
and stated that the febrile symptoms had somewhat abated,
The bulletin of to-day says that he continues in the same
state. It is thought that amputation of the leg will be
necessary.

ANOTHER CASE OF STABBlNG.—Yesterday morning a
man named James Meadows was conveyed to the Northern
Hospital, seriously wounded in the right breast. The in-
jured man was on his way home to Kirkdale, when he and
the person with whoM he was in company quarrelled on the
road, and they fought, when the person, who is in custody,
but whose name we have not been able to ascertain, plunged
a knife into his breast. At present he is in a very dangerous
state, and not able to appear against the coward who struck
him.

Diocrse or MArrcnrsTru.—The Worshipful Dr. Hag-
gard, chancellor of the diocese, has on the nomination of the
Lord Bishop of Manchester, appointed the Rev. Alfred Hew-
lett, incumbent of Ashley, near Manchester, to be one of his
surrogates. The Lord Bishop of Manchester, on Tuedsay,
licenced the Rev. Edward Pechie Stock, B. A., to the
curacy of Radcliffe, near Manchester, and the Rev. Henry
Lloyd Bickerstaffe, to the curacy of Saint Andrew's, Man-
chester.

DEsTßucrivE FIRE.---On Sunday forenoor, a fire broke
out in the farm steading of Fernley Law, near Corlinton,
which resulted in the destruction of a considerable portion
of the premises, and the loss of about 15 of the cattle. The
building forms three sides of a square, one side of which is
the dwelling-house,the centre is. occupied.as shedsi,and the
third as a byre and coal shed,--/V: .8,