The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-13 00:00:00

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„r their departure from the Devil's Island, the other pri-
soners then learned the issue of an enterprise which it
might have been thought utter madness to undertake.

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lives in lik,

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found means to construct a raft, each capThle of holding
twenty twenty men. Saturday, the 13th of September, was
chosen for the departure of the expedition—Saturday
being the day on which a week's provisions were served out
to the prisoners. Thirty-four men in all got away on board
the rafts. On the first raft were MM. Bordaye, de Tours,
Bijon, Chauvin, Attibert, Gueren, Caillet, Davau, Salem,
Carriere, Dime, Boudon, Jeanfrais Pan Herrey, 111ont
falcon, Seronde, P Bivart. Meunier, and Desalle. On
the other were MM. Frouin, Guegnard, Tourmace, Desboie,
Trisson, Aisans, lean, Bouselle, Dunaux, Vivant, Bones-
sieux, Bardigct, Angeliaume, and Mauvian. The weather
was str.rmy for two days ; on the 16th it became fine, but
the night following was frightful. In the morning of the
17th, however, the twenty men on the first raft landed on
.a
Dutch possession, inhabited by natives, who gave them so
bad a reception that they resolved at once to start into the
interior of the country on foot. After a painful march of
several hours, they slept in a wood, where they suffered
greatly from insects, and the next day, finding no place
of rest, they could think of nothing better than making
their way back to their raft, but they found
therefore
natives had taken away the sail, and being,e,
unable to put to sea, they were too glad topass the night
in an empty hut. On the 18th the natives took them to
the commandant of the Dutch Tibron Company, who
received them very kindly, and gave them a boat, with a
letter;to some natives, ordering them to conduct the party
to Paramaribo. They left on the 20th, and on the 27th landed
safely at Paramaribo, the capital of the Dutch Guyana, a
town of 20,000 inhabitants, situated about 400 kilometres
northwest of Cayenne, and nine kilometres from the sea.
There they were kindly treated by the authorities, and
were as surprised as delighted to find their five friends
who were the first to escape from the Devil's Island. The
other fourteen men on the second ra't also arrived at.
Paramaribo on the 29th. The Dutch authorities, not
knowing whether they were ordinary convicts or political
convicts, thought right to keep them in prison, where they
were up to Sept. 30, but they were to be released two
days later.

THE MAIL SERVICE.—The Belgian Royal Mail Trans.
atlantic Steam Navigation Company's screw-ship Constitu
tion, 2,500 tons, and 500 horse power, Captain Pongan.
8.R.N., will sail from Southampton, for New York direct,
on 22nd November. The Constitution will be succeeded on
the following month by the company's new steam-ship
Leopold 1., Captain Michel, B.R.N.
FATAL FirLostozr OF A NAPHTHA. LAMP—A fatal explo4on
of a naphtha lamp is reported in an Rlinburgh paper :—" Mr.
Cranston Waddell, while conversing, with his sister Mary
Ann, in the sitting-room
on 'Wednesday evening, noticed
that the supply of naphtha in the lamp was almost exhausted.
Mr. Waddell, at once, according to his wont, but directly
contrary to printed instruc.ions, proceeded, while the lamp
was burning, to fill the receiver with naphtha. While doing
so, the subtle gas communicated with the flame above,
igniting this most dangerous fluid, and in a moment a ter-
rific explosion took place. The bottle containing the naphtha,
the lamp and everything around was dashed in pieces. The
windows were demolished, the door of the sitting-room
blown into the passage, and Mr. Waddell and hissister
covered with the blazing naphtha. Mr. Waddellgeed
in intense agony until Friday morning., when death termi-
It is hoped that the injuries received
r may not prove fatal, bet up to the last accounts

ufferings

nated
by his siste.
she lay in a most precirious s' ate."
A GENTLEMAN FOUND WITH HIS THROAT CUT.
On Tuesday maning considerable sensation was created in
Wandsworth in c.,nscuence of a wealthy toothier, named
Francis Bisley, aged 41 years, who resided at No. 12,
aged 41 'h his throat cut

Jamaica-row,.l3.2rMondsey, being tonna witi,
in
through the above-
-
Garratt-lane, Wandsworth, under the following
c sn
s tuasbul usual
melancholy circumstanceq. It appears he had left home in
h
Nheoa.lt2h33anyd
wspaisritpsa.
ssiAngt 4 o'clock, as police-
-rently respectable -

mentioned lane, he saw an appal`- J ---, -,e man
lying cn the ground, and hearing a gurgling sound went
towards him, when he discovered a tremendous gash in his
throat, from which blood was issuinz. Ass:stance was
immediately obtained, and the unfortunate man conveyed
to St. George's ilospitA, where he was placed under the
care of the resident house surgeon, but very faint hops are
entertained of his recovery. Every search has been made
for the weapon which was used, but without success, and
the nature of the injuries precludes the possibility of the
sufferer giving any explanation of the circumstance.