The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-26 00:00:00

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ever imperativ

genuine Cognac brandy
hancement of its value. We have

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not disguise

fcom ourselves the great difficulties we shall have to-con-
tend with, to find that high quality of brandy which alone
can justify our placing our brand upon it. We have,
therefore, determined to reduce our sales until more abun-
dant vintages may enatle us to extend them.

MURDER OF TWO SOLDIERS AT MALTA

On the night of Thursday. last,
soldier of the 28th regiment, n

half-past nine o'clock, a

found lying in the street, near the Carmelite church in Strada
Teatro, Valetta, with a knife wound in the abdomen, from
which the bowels protruded. He was at once conveyed to
the principal police station, whence, after receiving medical
assistance, he was carried to the Military Hospital in Strada
Mercanti. On his way to the station the wounded man informed'
Inspector Psaila that he was stabbed in Strada Ponente,
near Strada Santa Lucia; that he observed at the time two
women at a balcony near, and that the man who stabbed him
was of the middle size and stout. The women were found

and questioned, but they at first denied all knowled

crime. They, however, at length, with considerable relth:-
tance, admitted having seen a man give a blow to
a soldier, who fell at the stroke, hut regained his
legs immediately, and then followed the person who
had struck him a few yards down the street, where
he fell a second time, but getting up again, turned
and ran up the street, calling " Police, police !" The man
who bad struck the soldier was also obsirved to return, and
enter a lodginghouse close by, and was heard to say something
to the keeper of the lodginghouse, who was standing at the
door. Upon this information, the latter part of which was
confirmed by the lodginghouse keeper, a man named Spiridione
Zimmit, residing in the above mentioned lodginghouse, was
arrested, he being the only man who had entered the house
after the crime was committed ; and upon his being brought
into the presence of the wounded soldier he was at once recog-
nised by him as the person who had inflicted the wound. The
accused is a native of the lonian Islands, born of Maltese
parents. The knife has not been discovered. Nothing certain has
yet transpired to explain the motives which led to the perpetra-
tion of this horrid crime. Scarcely had the public mind recovered
from the excitement caused by the discovery of this murderous
act, than another soldier named Charles Souch, also of the
28th Regiment, was found lying dead on the bastions near
Queen' Adelaide's Church. As the body presented no sign of
violence it was at first supposed that the unfortunate man had
laid down in a fit of intoxication and had perished from ex-
posure, and, in fact, the first medical report was to that effect.
But upon a post mortem examination of the body, held at the
Military Hospital, in the presence of the the magistrate, Dr.
Ceci, a knife wound in the back was discovered, penetrating
the aorta and other vital parts, which must have produced
almost instant death. At present there seems little hope that the
perpetrator of this foul deed will be brought to justice. It has
been ascertained that the dead soldier had been thinking on the
fatal night in company with the wounded man Schofield and a
third soldier of the same regiment. According to this man's
statement, he had left Schofield and Souch, rather the worse
for liquor, at about a quarter to 9 that evening, when he
returned to barracks, they refusing to accompany him. Spi-
ridione Zammit is under examination before the magistrate,
Dr. Schembri. The government has issued the following
notification :—" Whereas Richard Bench, private in Her
Majesty's 28th Regiment, was, during the night of the
4th instant, barbarously murdered, a reward of £lOO
sterling is hereby offered to any person or persons,
not being the perpetrator or perpetrators of the deed,
who shall discover the offender or offenders, and give
such information to the executive police as shall lead
to the apprehension and conviction of such offender or
offenders, the aforesaid reward to be paid by the cashier of tho
Treasury on such conviction. And in the event of the person
giving such information having been an accomplice in that
crime, his Excellency the Governor is pleased to promise her
Majesty's most gracious pardon to him so far as he was

concerned in the murder of the said R. Souch. By command
of his Excellency the Governor, Victor Houlton, Chief
Secretary to Government.—Eilace, Valetta, Nov. 25."
Malta Times.

CENTRAL ASIA.—BERLIN, DEC., 21.—Alexander von
Humboldt has just received a letter front Robert. Sehla-
gintweit, dated from Leh, in Ladak, 26-h of Septetnber
last, announcing that he and his brother had succeeded
in crossing the chain of. the Kuenlun mountains. and
reaching Eltshi, the capital of Khotan, where no European
had set his foot since the time of the Benedictine monk
Goes, in 1604. (Leh, the town from whence the letter is
dated, is situated in 34 deg. 10 min. north latitude, in
Little Thibet, close to the sources of the Indus, in the
angle formed by the eastern spurs of the Himalaya and the
Kuenlun, to the northward of which lies LLiotan, in the
so-called High Tartary.

THE ARCTIC SHIP RESOLUTE AND TV

AMERICAN OFFICE.RS.

Captain Hartstein has returned to the Resolute, fr°°
visit to Viscount Palmerston, where he states he was entertaiee
with the utmost cordiality.
On Tuesday morning, the deputation from the Shipeo'ner
Association of Liverpool, comprising Mr.'S. R. Graves, cha':,
man, Mr. J.. Smith, and Mr.' F. A. Clint, arrived et r'r;
mouth, and inspected, the Victory and Clarence yard, whe,°,.
they were embarked -hi Mr. J. Davies, -master attendavl,; ;
that establishment, accompanied by Mr. J. Garratt, of the 'e
of Garrett, Gibbon, and Sons, agents to Lloyd's for the se•.lute. They were rec lved at the gangway by Capt.. 00,-1
and officers, and conducted below. After an introduction
deputation were invited to the quarter deck, where the owci
and crew were assembled, together with Chevalier Pegalar
the vice-consul, and Mr. Davies.
M Graves then addressed Captain Harsteir as follorto
:e of tbe Shipowners' Association of Liverpool
be
co
here to day to offer you the congratulations of its memr,sicl
-4e arrival on our shores. The circumstances o',o
'-‘e auspicious erect indicate that in the e7‘erci,)
-epidity, and sympathy our countries Op
:and it is impossible to foresee the ber'et'
alt to mankind from a:rivalry between 10 gi '
J interchange of those ennobling sentiments ceo
has not, leased Preividence to bless with s'ic
red bold efforts of your country to restore °et
~ountrymen, yet oh" 0
met with a high rower froo
human skill had failed to extricate her, fo,
the apparent destruction which awaited her, has been oraiv
lOusly preserved, that she might iift the means of affordi4,bell
people of America a further opporttoity for evincing.:p
strong sympathy, and drawing in'o closer union the fr'dilipe
relations of both countries. If in after years Sl' .
ov, ght ro•
G
ences of opinion should arise between our reapective bet
manta, we have but to remember the Resolute an i,et
priceless cargo of goodwill—freely sent, and as freely' I`.'ce,it?
—to feel assured that the threatening clouds must i 3
be dispelle I and pass away. We have learned with oltrio
satisfaction that her Majesty,with that thoughtfulness for 5c,461
Rile is so distinguished, has placed at your disposal the "nre 01
'ing to your homes in a manner befitting the natußis
Yet we cannot help saying regret is mingled of
for we are deprived of offering to you ~100
_ptian more in accordance wit', to
t,.,. The trading community of Liverpool is hoe9voi
, ours with more than common ties of interest, intercoul
friendship; we watch with deep interest every act
disturb or strengthen those ties, and we receive with o,e' ca,l
this munificent gift of the President and people of Atuelni er!
an additional pledge of unity. These feelings the shird"ot
of Liverpool have recorded, with the simplicity of troth ru
address we have now.the honour to presept_to you 'llO4
" To CAPTAIN IiZiiTATEIN, OP THE triiTTED STATZS
AND To HIS BROTHER. OFFICERS AND CHEW of
*RESOLUTE. ji
" We, the Liverpool Shipowners' Association, desire t.AP
arri"-

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officers, and crew, a re,
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to you our sincere congratulations on your safe art.,
England, having navigated to these shores the discover?.
Resolute, as an offering of friendship and goodwill o°'
'United Statei of America to this country.
4 Weiecognise in this act of the United States a ge„ LOP
testimony of the kindly feelings of its Government and r
to the. British nation, and of an earnest wish to foster
sentiments of mutual regard and esteem which conetitfitd
„,t1
real basis of cordial amity and enduring peace. tov•I
"The circumstances of a common ancestry and a Soot
language, a similarity of laws, and in many; respects ae 1 id
of interes.s, to say nothing of private friendships and P°oill
ties, unite your country to ours by bonds which canne'o",tiei
be severed, but-spontaneous acts of friendship by themeoll
to the other, such as that which it has been your plain tV
to accomplish, are the best evidence to mankind at large °OOl
indissoluble character of those bonds, and engender the not)
confidence in the nations themselves that the peace ~to#
has so long happily subsisted between them will e°- t
undisturbed. •
.‘This association," representing the shipping intere°ll' 01
art

this port, has witnessed this graceful act on the IA•
United Stites with. the greatest iileastire fled satisfactiee;„
tbt
fl.igs and those of your country are •blend d together
rely
harbours ot commerce throughout the world ; and eire 004,
upon every occasion when the good feelings which the f
community of each country bear towards each 00001
encouraged by • more than ordinary acts of frienclabir °
part of either of their Governments.
and
''"d
We have now only to express our earnest hope otforti
that the same protecting Providence which enabledLltt
bring the_ Resoluteln _safety_ta--England,through---zw Oa
culties and perils of unusually tempestuous weal°, tbr
conduct you in safety to your homes, and that you ay
individually long enjoy health,"hippiness and prosrrito,,
" S. R. GrtAvEg, Chair
In pursuance of a special general meeting of the °-
floc], held the 201 day of Dec., ,1456."
Ilr
To this Captain" Ilaits:ein made -tl4 following reieo,
Gentlemen, to say that I feel honoured by, this unln. i't6ee°:
mark of your cedsideration *Pular but-ft;obly expitss Joe',
of the compliment which you have thus paid througnoo3
the government whose representative I now have.tbe '
of
to be. Meeting you as diilegstei 'from the shipoWners t
Ib
great commercial city of the United Kingdom, I rejoice -01
kindly feeling thus manifested for a nation with whe°,reseti'
eats you- are so -intimately connected:— 'ri:
mission to your government you can read the
ArnericanS towards the people of this country, and cat' ofi;o;
believe that your happy allusion .to the, mutual bond' ° coJ
and a community of feeling between us will meet with ao 011
response., The advanc,ementof science add the arts, t greg;,
both nations have, in a spirit of generous rivalry, '°ositioiio;
contributed,, have changed our ancient geographiell P
Miles and seconds have become almost synonymous o'srbuttki
now the iron messengers of our commerce 41y like 5te50,,,,,,,
weaving between us a fabric of mutual interest. w.pitic4
spirit of friendly emulation, enterprise, and enlighteee.bejr;!
which has given to our shipping interests the distinguispr 1
they occupy throughout the universe ever continue. 011.,,54
eipression of. friendly: interest and congratulation, 'to ,r
and officers of the Resolute, be pleased, gentlemen,
our hearty thanks.

The deputation and officers (who had stood uncoverlo;
the whole of the interesting ceremony) then went be
el 5
partook of a splendid dejeuner in the gunroom, Pre'll.ce;cliso
by Captain EL.rtstein, Lieutenant Wells filling the lit of)
Here the toasts of " The Queen," " The Preside/4,14,4;
United States," " The United S rvices of Great 13r1,:$th
America," " The Deputation from the Liverpool Asst°ll-014
.to , were given and responded to with generous e11,i.j)9
and on the deputation leaving the ship in the gig of
001
of the Clarence yard, the crow of the Resolute ralAlb
rigging and gave them three hearty cheers,
heartily returned by all in the gig. The deputation by 0
pleased with their visit to the ship and their host"
tainment on board. •

re
CHILD MURDER.—This fearful crime has hoopla "0
of late in Liverpool, as there is no week withouVor4J•4
the sort coming before the-coroners court. On "ill rid
the coroner held an inquest on the body of o,` rVIS
male child that was found in the midden at 12 tiflifrooy,
heim-streot by one of Mr. Ross's night men, ann,o6o;ll
evidence of surgeon Kemp, it appeared thatthe cb'
alive, and that death was the result of 10
haying been exposed to the cold. Verdict, wiToolc of,
against some one unknown. (Do the police overuollf
such cases as this ? their usual vigilance, if exere7i 011
cases, could not fail to detect the offenders, all:0011if
example is made, this sort of crime, will, too. 10" P
tinue, but increase). The coroner held another
the body of W. H. Bell. aged nineteen. who duineildll9
sequenca of accidental injuries received at a "71;0
Wood Btreet Park, and a verdict of accidental -
re'urned. 401;t1
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GIFTS AND TIONOURS TO THE PRINCE O. -„t
Writing on this subject, a Berlin cdrresponue;peel
us that he has learned that Sir Colin Ca'7llo
shortly leave England as the bearer of the ins Z:)
Order of the Garter to the Prince of Pruss,:tioSill,i'
presume that it is intented that their preset:olo;Y
take place here on the Ist of January, 1857, tiws tele)
the Prussian army intends to celebrate irlhe ref
pressive manner as the 50th anniversary of t'it 104
entering, its ranks. The regular army, or, at;1011
here, the standing army, will present his R,?„,Thisilto:jjlll
with a splendid shield, the artistic merits 01
take a later opportunity of describing. forC'el,
produce of the subscription of all ranks in the.,tea; 041
contributions of the offisers having been lit:1141On ifd
each. The landwehr has embodied its contri" egg
helmet of gold, surmounted with a Ge°fgey
Dragon, the symbol chosen some years since -yoliPe)
to commemorate the suppression of the rewereoki
Baden, on which occasion the Prussian forces toio
the supreme command of his Royal Highaeltiosllile
of every man of the landwehr having the gra., feraiiiicy
contributing his mite, even the amount of 011„,epPj
tenth of our penny) has been wiliingly rece,",:ated'pli
fully registered. The King, who lately CElL„,,—ith
50th anniversary, will present his brother " witicretY
decorated.sword. The garrison of Memel,: lilt 130 el
the Prince, then only nine years old, firth:
Irtny, will send up a deputation to present te
lit ions of the extreme north-east poirt of dOeof,,J,
where the Court took refuge in the clar;
succeeded Jena,- and where it was living at tilthe AaePi
yotzu,g Prince's entering. The Russian and eta
regiments of which the Prince is chief Wilitsoley?
tions to congratulate ; the Houses of No 0400
Deputies resolved unanimously, at a recent seloo9, $ll
with closed doors, to offer their congratulatan 910iet
occasion, and the commercial classes. 11„,e OVACti,e/
exerting themselves, though somewhat In;
their sympathy with the general sentimella cowity
popular entertainments will also be got up
organised for the purpose, to which the K'liters 1
invited to come and gratify his numerous o°3
preseuce, j,