The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-29 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir,—The authorities have decidedly taken a step
in the right direction in putting a stop to the
gambling affairs in Lime street, the Chris,mus
Lorteries, &c., &c., but Ibis is a minor evil compared
with a vast numter of the singing rooms and dancing
saloons which infest all pats of the town. Our civic
authorities, in a manner closed the Sa•urday Evening
Concerts, in St. George's Hall, by the high rent
eharged for it, and my humble opinion of the matter
is, that the sooner they reduce the rent and enable
some spirited individual to re open it again the
better, and, at the same time, declare a crusade
against the numerous nuisances_ which infest the
town under the names of Balls and Concerts
Yours, &c , ALPHA AND OMEGA.

110 W PATIENTS ARE CURED AT THE
SOUTHERN HOSPITAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES

Sir.—l am sorry to trespass on your columns but
the subject on which I write being one in which the
public is concerned, is the only excuse I can offer.
My wi'*e has been suffering for some time from
extreme debility, consequent upon protracted
diarrhoea, and as I am only a poor mm, and could
but ill afford to pay for medical attendance, I
exerted myself to procure her admi.sion into the
Southern Hospital, as indoor patient. She was
admitted, in consequence, about two mon hs ago,
and all appeared to be progressing favourably unlil
about a week since when the blowing events
occurred :—I had been in the habit of visiting my
wife as often as the regulations of the ins itution
,permitted me, and the I,st occasion on which I was
there I accidently discovered that one of the nurses
had been in the cinstant habit of wearing my wife's
clothing. I thought that this course of things ought
not to be tolerated and on my return home I wrote
to the house surgeon acquainting him with the facts
I had learned. I received* no answer from him
however, and, in consequence, I wrote to Dr
Cameron, the physician of the instituton, who, in
answer to my letter, statal that, on inquiry, he
found that the nurse in question had deen dismissed
from her office. I shall say nothing now—nor did
I at the time I learned of the circumstances of
which I complain—abont restitution of stolen goods,
although no individual has a right to suff-r any loss,
however slight, from the drunken,' idle, disso'ute
habits of careless and filching servants. But it is
not of this I principally complain—there is a far
more serious evil During the time my wife was in
the hospital. she was deprived of the full allowance
of wine and nu'ri ive diet which was allowed her by
tha, visiting physician. This is a most. serinng
circumstance. It cannot but have a most injurious
effect on all patients, if universally carried out; and
it is an evil which demands the most prompt and
decisive efforts to remedy.
I have been in Liverpool scarcely three years, and
have expended in that time between one and two
hundred pounds in doc'ors' bills And yet, in my
last interview with one of the surgeons, I was told
that the hospital was no place for my wire, as I
could affoid to keep her out. Another matter of
complaint is, the short time allowed for the friends
of the inmates to visit them I believe an hour a
week is the full time they allow, and yet this short
period is sadly curtailed by the laziness of the
officials in opening the doors to the visitors, and their
eagerness to close them when gone.—l remain,
yours truly, CHARLES ANLEY.
134, Hopwood-street, Scotland road.

Emcra of PEACE.—We learn by accounts from the Sea
of Azoff, that since peace was concluded, between that date
and the month of October last, at least a million and a half
chetverta grain (100 chetverts are equal to about 70 imperial
quarters), have been conveyed in above one.othousand vessels
from the port of Taganrog alone. -The prices which began
after the peace, in the month of May, at 23 rubles (as 'g-
nats) per chetvert, have now risen to 61 roubles 60 kopecks
per chetvert ; so that many of the speculators have-bad
to sacrifice immense sums of money in order to fulfil theii
contracts.

DREADFUL TRAGEDY.—On the 15th inst. a master baker
of Casale (Piedmont) having discharged one of his jour-
neymen for misconduct, the latter swore that before he left
the place he would create a sensation. Accordingly, on
the day he was to leave he seized a knife and stabbed
three of his comrades, whom he suspected of having ih.
formed against him, in the abdomen, in each case ripping
it open by a turn with the knife, so as to cause the bowels
to protrude. The cries of the sufferers having brought
together the other journeymen, they attempted to, seize
the culprit, who retreated, pursued by them to the third
storey, where he threw himself out of the window, and was
killed on the spot.
Letters written by some officers of the army of the
Caucasus, and dated' from Grosnaja and Kislev, state that
in those places a campaign in Persia is regarded as ex-
ceedingly likely. Ole of these letters says :—" GroSnaja
is very agitated. Troops are constantly arriving and
starting, and there is a constant movement of generals,
couriers, and ammunition waggons. The best troops the
regiments of Grenadiers of the Caucasus and the Dragoons
—are being sent towards the Persian frontier. Schamyl
keeps quiet: Since his son was restored to him he makes
no move. Besides, he would find it' difficult to cross the
triple cordon of our lines of Tohernomorie, the Centre,
Wiadikankas, and the left wing."
ALDERSROTT COOKERY.—After all the pains that were
taken by Alexis Soyer and the French in the Crimea to
improve the cuisine of the British army, we still follow
the jog-trot system, and boil the beef of our soldiers.
Toujours perdrix is very irksome, but toujours bouille is
worse. Is there any extraordinary virtue in this eternal
beef ? What a mockery it is to drum the men into
dinner to the tune of " Oh, the roast beef of Old England."
and never to let it be roasted! We have complaints on this
score—legitimate complaints—from Aldershott. The men
have learnt fifty ways from " Bono Frenchy," of cooking
their food, but the obstinate cooks who were sent by Satanas
to spoil the "meat that gods provide us," spare the jack
and the oven, aud spoil the pot. Let us reform this
altogether.— United Service Gazette.
ONE OF 'MR USES of CRINOLINE —At the barrieres of
Paris, there is, es every one knows, an octroi, or toll &elector,
on most article's brought for sale within the precincts of the
city. It follows, of course, that provisions, wines, &3., ars
purchaseable at, a much cheaper rate on one side than on
the other, and hence there is perpetual smuggling going on.
The octroi men at the Barriere de Clichy observed, a few
days ago, a handsome young lady most elegantly dressed,
and wearing a tremendous crinoline, pass through the barriere
and walk towards the' Bstignolles. After a while she
returned, and as she walked with less grace th'n previously,
the octroi men respectfully requested her to step into the
office' and there they caused her crinoline' to be examined
by a female. It then turned out that she had a gigantic
turkey secreted beneath the vast garment, the bird being
fasteped by the neck to the lady's stays. The turkey was
confiscated, and the lady was detained until the name and
address were ascertained. ,She turned out to be Madame
C—, wife of a very respectable man in the Rue d'Ame
sterdam. On Fridsy she was tried by the Tribunal of
Correctional Police, for the attempted fraud on the octroi
and fined 100 f,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.