The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-21 00:00:00

The arrivals from the United Kinzdom and Foreign

ports were
The departures for ditto

Gain to the colony from British and Foreign

emigration

To this balance in our favour may be added some
five or six hundred Chinese, who Made their way
overland during the month, and therefore escape
enumeration.

Our gain from the neighbouring colonies,
although much checker] by the severe weather
of the month, continues to be large The
following table will shoW our gain from each
colony :

Arrivals Departures
from for
672 511

New Smith Wales
S,uth Australia

Tasmßnia
New Zealand ..

1,725 868
Showing a gain to the colony, from the neighbour.:
ing provineeß, of 857 persons, independent of any
excess of arrivals over departures that may have
taken place overland, with New South Wales and

South Australia

The services of the generous, the philanthropic,
and the Christian Florence Nightingale have not
escaped the attention of the people of Victoria. A
few day.; ago a public meeting was held here to con-
sider and determine upon the best mode of expres,
sing the sympathy and admiration of the colonists
of Victoria for the services of Miss Nightingale
and her associates to the sick, wounded, and dying
in the Crimea, and to take into consideration the
best means of aiding Miss Nightingale in carrying
into active operation her humane plans for provid-
ing hospital nurses and attendants.

Your late fellow-townsman, Sir George Stephen,
has entered upon his professional duties as a
barrister, and, as you will find, he has become one
of our leading advocates in the Insolvent and
Bankruptcy Court. My Ballarat correspondent
furnishes me the following :
Election business is much as it was. I expected to hare
seen it noticed in some of our Ballarat " Court Circulars,"
that Mr. Muir, of the chamber of commerce, has been seen
taking airings of late on our slopes and glades. Sound
opinions, one way or the other, on the vexed question of
education, threaten to form an indispensable article in the
political creed of the sundry candidates for our suffrages. In
this case, I am afraid that one half of ns will vote right by
accident, and the other half wrong with reason. Our local
court elections passed off extremely quietly for Ballarat. The
miners mustered nearly 2,000, the whole of that number
being at! but unanimous in their votes. Of the nine mem-
bers, whose term of office had expired, eight were re elected
for the next six months. The ninth was ri-jetted on account
of certain " official indiscretions" laid to his charge and not
disproven. Tee police have entered on another foray
against sly grog sellers. In the majority of the cases the
charges were proved, end the nsir-1 round fines of £5O
or four months' imprisonment were clapped on the offenders.
The commercial intelligence I herewith send in
the usual circulars, from which you will learn that
business, although great, is steady, and future
prospects good.

" THE NEW SAFETY INKSTAND, we can bear personal
syitness to, secures to all classes one which will keep the ink
always clean and good. will prevent that accumulation of
°,ll'. which spoils the finest writing, and de- troys the
best Pen ; by means of this inkstand, too, the amount of
ink taken up by the pen ean he easily regulate
Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette.—Sold by all Book-
sellers. Puce 44, 3s, and is 6d---Advt.
ROYAL NUP-riALs.---The Princess Maria Elizabeth of
saxonv, wio,bw ot the late Duke of Genoa, brother of
gins Victor
Emmanuel, has just celebrated a morranatic
marriage with the Nlarcois Orapallo, ex-orderly officer of
the) Late duke. Mgr. Moreno, the Bishop of Tyree, and
confessor of t he princesfl,annonneed this
unexpected
intelli-
gence to the King on Sunday last. The guardians ip of
the children of the deceased duke has been given to tha
Prince de Carignan, cousin of the King.-4

INCENDIARISIK NEAR NOTTINGHAM—A few days ago
Mr. John Morton, a mu] possessed of considerable house_
hold property, was brought before the county
m ,q,; =trates
at the Shire-hall, Nottingham, to answer a of
incencliarism. It appears that a short time ego the p-ironer
was remqnstrated with by a surgeon named Davis,n, at the
village of Carlton, near Nottingham, for having silo', a
partridge while the bird was sitting, upon which the prisoner
became incensed, and used very insulting language to the
surgeon ; and in a short time after Mr. Davison's stack was
set on fire. A witness, named James (who lives in one of
the prisoner's houses), stated that about eight o'clock on
the evening of the fire she was out and saw the prisoner
with a gun. She followed him unperceived, and when near
the stack he muttered something about the door being shut
in the face of some of his family when they went to fetch
the newspaper ; he then got a match, and having struck a
light set five to the stack. He then went away as fast as he
could, and witness returned home. Other witnesses depo,ed
to see;ng the prisoner near the stack on the night of the fire.
He was apprehended by the police, and on his way to Not-
tingham said," It's a rum job," and denied having his gun
with him on the night in question ; this, however, he after-
wards admitted. The prisoner was fully committed to take
his trial at the next assizes,