The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-22 00:00:00

IMPORTANT FAILURE ON THE PARIS BOURSE.

Another development in connection with the speculative
mania has taken place—the stoppage.of M. Charles Thur-
nessen, a banker and share dealer, with deb's variously
tated at an amount equal to from £BOO,OOO to £1,000,000,
has just been communicated, and also his departure f.r
America. The chief sufferers, it appears, consist of persons
who had deposited money and securities in his hands.
Some of the principal Polish families, resident in Paris,
having trusted him wi h extraordinary amounts. It is
said that M. Thurnessen left Paris en route to the United
States, on Thursday evening last, an I it is consequently
inferred that he sailed by the Arabia, which left Liverpool
on Saturday. M. Thurnessen is a nephew of the wall
known banker of the same name, who is one of the
moters of the Russian Railway Company. His family is
als.) nearly connected with that of M. Isaac Pereire, and it
was probably from the influence of these circumstances
that he contrived to acquire his credit. It was exactly at
this time last year that the failure of M. Place, one of the
directors of the Credit Mobilier, was announced on the
Bourse, also for £BOO,OOO, and looking at the faces of both
cases the question unavoidably suggested as to h)sv far the
unsoundness at this moment ten-le The cause for surprise
is the magnitude of the liabilities that can thus be con-
tracted without engendering notice or suspicion.

The 82nd regiment, and three companies of the 23rd,
embarked on Wednesday hot for Hong Kong, on
board the screw steamships Adventure and Assistance.
The arrangements were very good, but some 200 or 300
men of the 82ad were rioting all night. In the morning
nearly 300 were reported as absent; as the day went on
many were brought into the dockyard in cabs, &c., more
or less intoxicated, some of them seriously injured
fights, &e.
itu_srA AND ROME.—A letter from Borne says-0 The
Empress of Russia goes every where—ruins,churches, public
monuments, and private studios, are most systematically
visited by her Majesty, whose open carriage, outrider, and
postillions in blue veivet jackets, are. to be seen in every
anticlearian haunt, as well as in every promenade of public
resort. Cardinal Antonelli is in constant attendance upon
the Empress, and the Commissary of Antiquities acts as her
cicerone. At Albano, her Msjesty was informed that the
town was celebrated for handsome women, apon which
she expressed a wish to see some of those seducing beau-
ties Tney made their appearance accordingly—',he be'les
of the place, in all the glories of scarlet jackets, coral neck-
laces, and snemy kerchiefs and head dresses. The Empress
was so well pleased with the exhibition, that she presented
each of the belle ragazze with five Napoleons to buy a new
dress."

MR. HUDSON'S QUALIFICATION.—The Newcastle EX-
press says : —The petition presen'ed to parliament against
the return of Mr. Hudson for the borough of Sunderland,
is on the ground that the honourab'e member is not
qualified according to law. The friends of Mr. Waiters,
the late candidate, deny all participation in this movement
on the part of that gentleman or his agents. The friends
of Mr. liaison are quite indignant about the affair, and
consider it altogether a cowardly thing to strike a fallen
man, who has been one of the greatest benefactors to this
locality ; and several parties have offered to raise a sub-
scription to defray Mr. Hudson's expenses. It is said that
the real cause of this movement is owing to a gentleman in
the neighbourhood of Newcastle having in his possession
a dishonoured bill for £l,OOO ; and, therefore, he is
strongly desirous of knowing Mr. Hudson's qualification.
so that he may be enabled to recover that sum. The liberal
party is already prepared with a candidate in the event of
Mr. Hudson losing his seat,"

TICLZGRAPAS ox rHE CoNrrxworr.—The congress for an
international telegraphic system held its first sitting at
Turin on the 15th. It is composed of the Vicomte de
Vougy, director-general of the French telegraphs; Com-
mander Mazui, director-general of those of Belgium; Gen.
Matte, director of the Spanish ; M. Brunner de Vatteville,
director of the Swiss; and Chevalier Bonelli, director of
the Piedmontese lines. Chevalier Cibrario, late Minister
of Foreign Affairs, presided, and Commander Nigra acted
as secretary. The object of the TelegraphieCongress now
sitting at Turin, is to fix a common tariff, and a more
direct transmission of dewatehes through the territories of
France, Belgium, Switzerland, Piedmont, and Spain. The
Hantu% Gazette mentions certain experiments made at the
telegraph office of that town with a peculiar apparatus,
invented by M. Ferdinando Montesanto, a mechanician of
Mantua, by which the despatches are obtained in black,
and are therefore much easier to be read. 'This system
which is stated to be quite new, is still kept secret, but it
is admitted that the inventor uses printer's ink to produce
the marks.

TWO MEN Be lIIED ALIVE. FATAL RESULT.—On
Monday morning last two colliers, Blnj imin Evans and
Uriah Fellows, received dieectious to drive a beading
through a large pillar in the Cooper's Bank Cat ry. near
Dudley, at a Portion of the mine 160 yards from the
bottom. To this, Uriah Fellows, an experienced miner,
was engaged with the " and Benjamin Evans, was
employed in raking away the slack, a few feet distant. At
half-past eleven a crash was heard, and a "bump" of
coals or earth, it is supposed ten tons in weight; fell upen
the men. Uriah Fellows,who was at work in the "holing"
in the pillar, happened to have part of his body within the
hole at the time ; casequently, his legs only were buried
by the bump which had fallen. He, of course, at once
raised an alarm, and the other men who were at work on
the othe other side of the workings, seventy or e;ghly
yards away, hearing his cri.-s fir assistance, hastened to
the spot. - They at once saw Fellows struggling to get
releesee from the pressure upon his legs, and in a brief
period they succeeded in safely extricating him from his
perilous position. He sustained no icjii7, an l this may
be owing to the earthy nature of the material which came
upon him. In a few seconds after Fellows had been
liberated a second "bump" came in, and this it is esti-
mated consis ed of upwards if fifiy tons. This fell in the
very place where Fellows had b_ea ; and had net timely
aid been rendered him, he must have been ki,lecl. The
()Ater por fellow.(Evani) was nowhere to be seen or heard,
and the colliers at once commenced removing the earth
which buried him, but the body was not got out till
Tuesday afternoon. It was very much mutilated and
disfigured, so that life must have been almost instantane-
ously destroyed. He has left a wife and three young
children.—Bfrminghiam Journal.