The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-26 00:00:00

RUSSIA,

A despatch from St. Petersburg, dated the 24th
instant, confirms the announcement previously
made, that the Czar has definitively appointed
Prince Gortschakoff, at present Russian Ambassa-
dor at Vienna, to be Minister of Foreign Affairs.

THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING

At the close of business on the Bourse to-day,
the quotations of the Funds stood at the subjoined
rates :—Four and a Half Der Cents, 03f. 90c. ;
Three per Cents, 74f. 20c.

THE FRENCH ENYoT TO ST. PETERSBURG.—A Paris
journal states positively that General de la Rue will be
the new Ambassador to St. Petersburg, M. de Morny's
mission having reference to the coronation of the
Emperor Alexander.
In consequence of a memorial from the army paymaster,
Lord Panmure has cousented to the honorary rank of
Major being conferred upon nose paymasters who may
retire upon half-pay after a service of thirty years ; but his
lordship can see no grounds for granting honorary rank to
to this class of officers while on full pay, nor for increasing
the rate of retirement allowed to them by the warrant of
the 6th of October, 1854.
ADULTERATION OF FOOD.—A testimonial is about to
be presented by the members of the medical profession
and other gentlemen of rank and influence, to Dr.
Hassan, in acknowledgment of his great and meritorious
services to the public as detector of adulterations in
various articles of food. This testimonial was to have
been presented on Wednesday evening, at the Free-
masons' Tavern, but the ceremony was postponed in
consequence of the naval review at Spithead.
NEATII HARBOUR IMPROVEMENT. —Considerable im-
provements in the entrance and navigation of the river
and harbour at Neat! are to be carried out. The Neath
harbour commissioners have taken Mr. Brunei's advice,
and that eminent engineer has given his opinion that by
care the entrance may be deepened to the extent of four
feet ; and he. has b:,en commissioned to carry out his plan,
which is gradually to form banks, continuous or detached,
carefully watching the effect of each advance, and syste-
matically surveying the whole, so that the guiding walls
of the channel can be varied as required.

THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—Afiibill has been brought
in by Mr. Wilson and the Chancellor of the Exchequer to
extend the powers of the trustees and directors of the
National Gallery, and to authorise the sale of the works
of art belonging to the public. It authorises the said
trustees and directors to order the sale, from time to time,
of any pictures and works of art under their care " which
they may adjudge to be unfit to be preserved as part of the
national collection." Pictures and works of art given or
bequeathed to the nation will (unless the donor or testator
mike other provision) be vested in the trustees of the
National Gallery.
THE LATE MR. JOHN SADLEIR AND THE ROYAL SWEDISH
RAILWAY.—The report of the committee of investigation
has been published. It appears that no forged obligations
had been discovered, and only one parcel of forged shares,
amounting to £20,000, which will, of course, be withheld
from circulation. The shares wronfzfully issued in dupli-
cate, however, are stated at -el9,7oo,:whilst the over-issued
obligations amount to £12,263, but of these latter a large
proportion is held inadeposit merely. The nominal value
of the shares, original and duplicate, over-issued by Mr.
Sadieir, is £275,345, and of the obligations £43,477. In
addition, he has:given acceptances of the company to the
extent of £27,591, for which the company did not receive
any consideration. The gross total of Mr. John Sadleir's
liabilities to the company, are estimated at the enormous
sum of .e 346,413.
ADULTERATION OF FOOD.—Before the Select Committee
which sat on Thursday, Mr. Scholefield in the chair, Mr.
John Jackson, a miller at Wakefield, was examined, and
gave a very interesting account of the manner in which
alum and composite matter was ground up by small millers
with wheat, thereby adulterating the flour, for the pur-
pose of giving it a better colour. • lie thought that recent
exposures had done much good, and that millers in exten-
sive business would not attempt to commit, similar frauds.
knowing that their whole stock would be liable to seizure
at any time. He would recommend a wholesale inspection
of all flour mills, that is, the appointment of a person who
really understood what he was inspecting. Many of
the persons who inspected flour did not know ground
alum from flour, and knew not the difference between
Egyptian and English wheat. The rule for appointing
inspectors ought to be men who understood what they
were examining, instead of which incompetent persons
were appointed, thereby leaving the door open for fraud.
CAMBRIDGE ASYLUM FOR SOLDIERI' WIDOWS.—OD
Thursday a meeting of the friends and supporters of this
charity took place at the London Tavern, the Houourable
Colonel Liddell in the chair, when eight widows were
elected from a list of thirty-eight candidates, and a
statement was circulated that Lieutenant-General Thorn,
of the Buffs, bad undertaken to erect, furnish, and endow
in perpetuity, with allowances for the inmates, eight
rooms of the propo:ed addition to the building for widows
of non-commissioned officers and privates of his regiment.
He had also generously offered, at his own cost, to erect
a chapel attached to the asylum, capable of holding one
hundred persons. As the committee thought it desirable
that the portion about to be erected should contain, at
least, twenty•eight rooms, and as the cost was estimated
at about £4,550, they appealed to the public to assist
them in carrying out this proposition, whereby a perma-
nent home and allowances would be afforded to sixty-
eight soldiers widows.
THE EXPENSES OF COUNTY SHERIFFS.—The proceed-
ings at the recent Suffolk Assizes with reference to the
High Sheriff of the county have led to much discussion
in the district, and it is said that the fine of £lOO im-
posed by Chief Justice Jervis will be resisted. The
expenses attending the office of sheriff in Suffolk are
estimated at £l,OOO, but £2OO of this sum is generally
repaid by the government under a " bill of craving."
The following are some of the items charged to a High
Sheriff in a recent bill :—Rubes for chaplain, £3l 10s;
tavern expenses at assizes, £63 18s od ; hire of horses
and carriage, harness, &c., £238 ; coachman and servants'
liveries, trumpets, banners, silk scarfs, shoe-buckles,
whips, &c., £45; javelin men's liveries, £lB6 8s; pay;
ments to javelin men and trumpeters at assizes, £B6 10s..
judges' officers, £l9 19s; ringers, £6 6s ; clergymen for
the use of pulpit, £2 2s ; clerk and sexton, £1 is ;
marshal, £2l is 6d ; judges' beer (rather a mysterious
item,) £l7 83; bailiffs, .£-10 19s ; messengers, £l5 15s ;
jailers, £8 Ss ; under-sheriff for attening assizes,
£42 ; under-sheriff's expenses, £l2 9s 6d ; advertise-
ments £l6 lOs ; miscellaneous (about) £55 ; bill for
passing sheriff's account at treasury, £l3 10s. At th
sessions there are further expenses—for javelin men,
£25 4s ; under. sheriff, for striking juries' precepts, &c.,
£33 12s; seven officers for summoning juries, £l4 14s;
clerk of the peace, £4 4s.
THE DESPERATE BURGLARY.—At the Eclington court-
house on Wednesday, Thomas Jarvis, of Siaveley, miner,
was brought before Messrs. H. Bowden and W. L. Bag-
shawe, on a charge of being concerned. along with seven
other men, in a desperate burglary perpetrated at the house
of Mr. Samuel Hodgkinson, farmer, of Beighton Fields' on
the morning of Taesday week. Jarvis was anprehended on
the morning of the robbery, having been spoken
to by one of Mr. llodgkinson's grandsons, as
the man who first entered his room. Seven other
men, named John Haigh, Joshua Haigh, William Pol-
lard, Samuel Shaw, John Rodgers, John Berresford,
and John Shaw, were subsequently apprehended, snd taken
before the magistrates on Monday along with Jarvis ; but
the whole of the men, with the exception of Jarvis, were
remanded at large, as none of them could be identified, the
burglars having worn masks and veils over their faces.
Jarvis, however, was po-itively identified by George
Needham, grandson of Mr. Hodgkinson, who stated
that the wind blew Jarvis's veil on one side Os be entered
the bedroom, and afforded witness a full view of his face.
Mr. Patteson, solicitor, appeared for the prisoner, and called
several witnesses, who stated that Jarvis was taken home
and put to bed in a helpless state of intoxication at twelve
o'clock on the night of the robbery, which was perpetrated
at three o'clock in the morning, and therefore could not
possibly have taken part in it. A mask and veil were
found in prisoner's house when he was apprehended, and
Needham speaks most positively to him. The bench on
Wednesday committed him to take big trial at the next
assizes at Derby. The prisoner was admitted to bail on his
own recognizances to the amount of £5O, with two sureties
in £25 each,