The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-27 00:00:00

THE AUSTRALIAN 111A11.

A correspondent, writing to a London cotem-
porary, says—" As regards the Australian postal
service, it would seem that if we have not jumped
out of the frying-pan into the fire, we certainly
have not leaped out of the former up the chimney.
To this date there is no telegraph of the arrival of
the Cambria bringing the mail to Marseilles, and,
even if the arrival were at once announced, the
letters could not by any possibility be delivered
until at least 11 days after they were due in London.
I noticed some days ago a letter from an Austra-
lian Merchant,' asking of the company some infor-
mation respecting the probable detention of the mail,
but, as he betrayed an entire ignorance of the sub-
ject and the route, I presume the secretary thought
the task of enlightening him would be too arduous
to be undertaken. I think, however, it would be
satisfactory to all those who have forwarded their
outward correspondence via Marseilles to know
that the bags have been forwarded from Marseilles
to Malta in time to catch the Jura from Southamp*
ton. As it seems, from the advertisements of the
company, that there is but one steamer (the
Cambria) employed in the services between
Marseilles and Malta, and as she ought to
be waiting at the latter place for the home-
ward mails 'due there on the 12th, it would
seem she could not be at Marseilles to take on the
' outward mails due thence on the 18th. If the
agents of the company have not provided another
steamer to take on the bags, via France, our
correspondence will be necessarily detained at
Marseilles from the 18th inst. to the 18th proximo
—not a very satisfactory result to those who paid

the extra postage rates to secure the advantages of
four days' later intelligence. Perhaps the secretary
may on this occasion consider that some informa-
tion on this subject is due to correspondents `via
Marseilles.'"

An important sale of water colour drawings and oil
pictures will take place at Messrs. Winstanley's rooms, on
Wednesday, April Bth.
" WHERE DID IT COME FROM ?"—We say nothing about
the following case, but simply ask—" Where did it come
from ?" On Wednesday evening a man, named Edward
Houghton, who resides at 6, Kelshaw street, found in the
ashpit of the house No. 57, Guildford street, a human
skull. This place is convenient to the Necropolis, and for
a third time we may be allowed to ask, " "Where did
this skull come from P' Perhaps an investigation may be
able to determine.

Stronerr DEATHS.—Yesterday morning a labourer,
named William Bates, who lodged in Stancliffe street, was
found dead in bed, with his face buried in the pillow. He
had been subject to fits for the last four years, and is
supposed to have died in a visitation of that sort.—Jane
Saunders, aged 67, who resided at 7, Church terrace,
Kirkdale, died yesterday morning, it was supposed, in
consequence of injuries received by a fall down the cellar
stairs. Her head was the part affected.
SUPERANNUATION TACTICS AT LIVERPOOL.—The memo.
rial of the merchants and shipowners of Liverpool to the
House of Commons, in support of the petition of the civil
servants of the Crown, is being signed with great rapidity
by the most influential and extensive firms in the town, and
the most beady sympathy with the sufferers is expressed
upon all sides. It is hoped that a similar movement will
be immediately adopted and vigorously carried out in every
port and important district of the kingdom. There is no
ground for a doubt of the hearty concurrence of the whole
mercantile community, and the amount of moral force
which may thus be brought to bear upon the question,
cannot be too highly estimated.—Civil Service Gazette.

A postal treaty has just been concluded between France
and the United States. By this treaty the French govern-
ment will pay the expenses of transit of the Franco
American mails between France and England and between
England and America by British packets. The American
government will pay the expense of transit of such mails
between France and the United States by American
packets, and between England and the United States by
American packets. The postal offices of exchange between
France and America will be Havre, the railway post office
between Pads and Calais, New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
and San Francisco. The postage on a letter from America
will be 73d per A os., pre-payment to be optional. The
treaty will come into operation on the Ist of next month.
Montfort Lusr.—Mr. David Wilkie, of this city, already
happy in the possession of two better halves, who were
sisters, fell in love with a pretty Scotch girl. This beauty,
however, had an aged mother, whom she refused to leave.
David thereupon, with the consent of Brigham, overcame
the difficulty by marrying both mother and daughter. But
last spring, finding that, with the enormous rates for
provisions and breadstuffs, be could not support four wives
without making large inroads into his pile of the needful,
he gave the two sisters notice that he had supported them
long enough, and that 'they must find accommodation
elsewhere. Accordingly, they had to leave him, and now
support themselves by washing for some of the Gentiles.
Again, you will and at Springville, on Utah Lake, Mr.
Aaron Johnson (its bishop) serving the Irf rd by supporting
as his spirituals five sisters, kis own nieces, and the report is
that he has engaged to marry the sixth as soon as she
reaches her teens.---New York Tribune.
A SIRIOUS Jortn —The following is an extract from
a private letter, dsted Hong Kong, 29th January .—" A
capital tale is told of —'s compradore. On the
morning the bread was poisoned, boy ran into
his room, telling him not to eat any, as it was poisoned.
rang for the compradore, to ask him about it,
and the man promised to investigate the matter. Half an
hour elapsed, and the compradore did not return. His
master walked down stairs, and asked him if he had
discovered any trace of poison ? Yes,' was the reply.
Indeed, and how did you fisci it out ?" Oh, I have
given one half loaf to that small boy, and another half
to that Coolie." And why have you done that ?'
Oh, that small boy has no father, mother, sister, or wife.
If he do die, what matter? Coolie all the same, same.'"
LECTURE ON NATIONAL GREATNESS BY THE REV. Da.
Cutflanso.—ln the course of a lecture on this subject by
this distinguished clergyman, delivered in the All Saints'
National Schoal room, London, on the 19th instant, he
a averted to the fact that if all the ecclesiastical funds of
the ao.called poor Olfurch of Scotland were proportionately
divided among her clergy, they would afford to each an
income of £250 per annum, the highest income being about
£BOO or £9OO per annum, and the lowest not less than
£l5O, with a pars3nage home, and six acres of glebe ;
while the so-called rich Church of England would, if her
revenues were divided in like manner, only give each of her
clergy about £l5O per annum. He also spoke in terins of
warm appreciation of the Liturgy of the English Church,
and of its beautiful simplicity and adaptation to the wants
of both rich and poor, the peer and the peasant, who meet
together in the same house of prayer, to worship the same
God in the same words ; pointing out that the essential
thing was simplicity, not eloquence, both in prayer and
preaching.