The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-19 00:00:00

BEWARE !

Beware of playing Billiards with a man who carries h's
own chalk, and calls the marker JACK.
Beware (if you have corns) of waltzing with young ladies
who prefer the trois temps, and are accustomed to perpetrate
the exploded Caledonians.
Beware at genteel dinner-tables of asking for cabbage
under any other name than greens.
Beware, unless you speak French fluently, of entering a
shop in Paris where you see the notice " Inglis, Spokken.'
Beware of hailing empty omnibuses if time is an object to
you.
Beware of taking Country Cousins shopping, unless you
are prepared to turn light-porter, and carry home their
parcels for them.
Beware of laughing at a joke made by a professed
punster, if you have any wish not to hear another.
And, finally, Beware of bringing home old schoolfellows
on cleaning days, unless you are prepared to pay your wife
for their dinners at SWAN AND EDGAR'S.

MODERN IMP ROVEM ENT.—WO venerate our Saxon
forefathers ; and yet, by their own showing, they were a
sad lot. Verstegan says, that in Jandary wolves were
peculiarly dangerous to his contemporaries, " for that
through the extremity of cold and snow these ravenous
creatures could not find other beasts sufficient to feed
upon." Other beasts! Verstegan, thou wast a satirical
rogue.
IGNORANCE OF THE HIGHER CLASSES.—How few of all
those ladies of rank who attend Her Majesty's Drawing
Rooms know how to clean their own white ostritch feathers !
A WHIM AMONG WOMEN.—Some difficulty has been
experienced in endeavouring to account for the fact that the
less rational portion of ladies who are not very young.
generally make a mystery of their age. One can only suppose
that they wish their age to be regarded as uncertain by
reason of a dislike to be considered of a certain age.

THE TALISMAN OF TEMPERANCE.
I wish I had a ring to wear,
Whose magic energy was such
My finger that 'twould pinch, whene'er
• My next drop would be one too much.
Then should I hit the happy mean

Aimed at by every man of sense,
And evermore walk straight between
The states of Beer and Abstinence.

CAB MEASURE.
THREE furlongs
Two miles
One half-crown fare
(when charged in
this way)

. make One mile.
f One half-
" " 1 crown fare,

„ One swear.

The house duty in the year ended the 31st of March last
was £728,689.
BOROUGH SESSIONS.—The following is a list of the pri-
sone,s tried and sentenced before the Recorder on yesterday
and Wednesday :—Catherine Gray, 4 years penal servitude ;
Mary Ann Rice, 7 months imprisonment ; John Lewis, 14
years transportation ; Jane M‘Donald, 6 months imprison-
ment ; Thomas Starkie, 12 do ; John Rushton, 6 do ;
William Bromley, 15 do ; Elizabeth Harrison, 4 do ,
Elizabeth Mitchell 6, do ; William Calliett, 15 do ; Margaret
Sloune, 8 do ; Mary Kirk, 6 do ; William Nicholson, 15 do ;
Maria Genmain, 3do ; George Hughes, 6do ; Mary Ann
Bayes, 4 years penal servitude; Thomas M'Mahon, 6
months imprisonment ; Eliza M'Mahon, 10 do ; Ellen
Murray, 3 do ; Ellen Comer, 12 do ; James Jackson, 10 do ;
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steamer Circassian, sister ship to the Khersonese, the pioneer
of the new line from Liverpool to St. John's Newfound-
land, Halifax, and Portland. This—the second of the
line—is a fine vessel of 2,300 tons, and 350 horse power,
and, if her performance is to be taken as any criterion, will
prove a very fast ship, she having steamed from Greenock
to .the North West Light Ship in 19 hours, and that
against a strong head wind far a great porticn of the way.
She was built by Messrs. R. Hickson and Co., of Belfast,
under special superintendence. Her engines were con-
structed and fitted by Messrs. Randolph, Elder, and Co.,
of Glasgow, and every improvement that skill or science
could suggest have been brought to bear, so as to render
her second to none of her class. Her dining saloons and
sleeping berths are planned so that the passengers will not
be inconvenienced by the vibratory motion so common to
screw steamers, they being placed amidships. This novel
and ingenious plan is a step in the right direction, and likely
to prove a greet feature in screw steamers. Her cabin
fittings, which are to be put in here, will, it is intended, be
such as to combine taste with comfort. She is owned by
Messrs. James Johnson, James Alexander, and Weir
Cochran and Co., of this town, to whom, and the line, we
wish every success.