The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-18 00:00:00

A GENTLEMAN WIFE BEATER.

There are some characters in this world who although
passing for and moving in the society of gentlemen, are
nothing but monsters in human form. An instance of
this kind has just been before one of the London police
courts, on Tuesday. Mr. Frederick Ashley Thompson,
a sharebroker, residing in Thorp.cottages, Richmond
road, Dalston, was brought up in custody before Mr.
D'Eyncourt, charged with having cruelly maltreated his
wife. The complainant, a prepossessing and ladylike
young person, stated that she had been married five years
to the defendant, who had been in the frequent habit of
subjecting her to personal violence without the slightest
provocation. On the previous evening, he returned home
in a state of extreme excitement, and having elicited
from her that she had been out shopping with her
landlady, he assailed her with the foulest epithets
for presuming to leave the house without his sanc-
tion. Feeling greatly alarmed at his menacing language
and demeanour, she hurried out of the room, but was
overtaken by the defendant, who commenced an unmer-
ciful attack upon her, and struck her several violent
blows about the face and head. She ultimately succeeded
in escaping into the s reet ; but finding that she was
followed by the defendant, she made the best of her
way to the station house, and placed herself under the
protection of the police. In answer to the charge, the
defendant said that he had acted under feelings of strong
exasperation at the time, and that he greatly regretted
what had occurred. Mr. D'Eyncourt expressed his
surprise that a gentleman in the plaintiff's position
should have been guilty of an outrage which was gene-
rally eonfined to persons in the lowest class of society ;
but as the fault was not of an aggravated character, he
should order him to pay a penalty of £5, or two months'
imprisonment; in addition to which be must find sub-
stantial bail for the further term of three months.

PUBLIC RECEPTION OF DR. LIVINGSTON, THE

AFRICAN TRAVELLER.

On Tuesday a public reception was given by the friends and
admirers of Dr. Livingston, to that gentleman, at the Free-
mason's Tavern, Great Queen street. The Earl of Shaftes-
bury presided, and after several complimentary speeches had
been delivered, it was moved by the Rev. Dr. Vaughan,
seconded by tho Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P. : "That this
meeting presents its most cordi:d congratulations to the Rev.
David Livingston, LL.D., on his safe arrival in his native
country, after an absence of sixteen years, occupied in Mis-
sionary labours and travels in South Africa. It entertains the
highest admiration of that Christian benevolence, courage, and
perseverance, by which he was animated and sustained
throughout his extended and perilous journies in those hitherto
unexplored regions; and the meeting hereby devoutly acknow-
ledges the merciful Providence of God, by which Dr.
Livingston was befriended and preserved amidst the manifold
dangers and gigantic difficulties of his noble enterprise, and by
which his self denying and indefatigable efforts to open a
channel for the introduction of Christianity, with its unnum-
bered blessings, to the unenlightened millions of South Africa,
have been crowned with the happiest success." The rev.
doctor, in the course of a long and eloquent speech, returned
thanks, and the meeting separated.

PBNNY RECEIPT STAMPS.—TiC.re has been an increase
from receipt stamps in the year ending Ziarch of the sum of
£257,631.

FIRE INSURANCE DUIT.—The amount realised Lt.'s,' the
fire insurance duty in the year ending March last was
£1,280,441.
INCREASED CONSUMPTION OF TOBA.CCO.—From an official
paper, just published, it appears that in the year ended the
31st March last the duty on tobacco and snuff was
£5,006,699. In the• preceding year the duty was
£4,773,555.

ANOTHER ARCTIC EXPEDITION.-110 Montreal Herald
states that the Arctic expedition fitted out by the Hudson
Bay Company , was to have started from Great Slave
Lake some time since. The object of this expedition is to
visit the locality where, according to information furnished
by Dr. Rae, Sir John Franklin and his unfortunate com-
panions perished, and to ascertain more fully, if possible.
respecting their sad fate.

COTTOX IN ALGEBIA.—We read in the Akhbar: "Ex-
periments of great importance in the cultivation of cotton
are to be made in the next twelvemonths in the southern
provinces. It is said that is the environs of Batna and
Lvhonat, in particular, extensive plantations will be made
by the Arabs, under the direction of the military authorities.
The introduction of this species of cultivation amongst the
natives will be highly profitable to them."

NEW SAILORS' Hoatn, SUNDERLAND.— The new sailors,
Home, at Sunderland, was opened on Monday, without any
demonstration of a public character. The Home is a fine
building with a Flemish front, erected on the edge of the
Town Moor, contiguous to the docks, and, including the
purchase money of the site, has cost about £4OOO, upwards
of one half of which has already been raised by subscrip-
tions from the inhabitants of the borough and neighbour-
hood. It contains accommodation for 70 seamen, and the
business of the shipping office is transacted in a portion
of the building. Boarders are provided with three meals a
day, at the rate of 14s. per week ; but apprentices are only
charged 10s. 6d:

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN SICILY.—The Official
journal of Palermo, of the let, contains a rescript of the
King, directing the establishment of two lines of electric
telegraph in Sicily, one from Messina to Palermo and
Sciacca, the other from Messina to Girgenti, Messina itself
being placed by means of a submarine cable in communi-
cation with the continent. The two lines will place in
communication with the seat of government almost all the
chief towns of districts, the fortified places, and the prin-
cipal commercial ports. The period fixed for the comple-
tion of the lines is a year and four months, but sections of
the lines are to be brought into use according as they are
terminated. The system of telegraph adopted is to be that
of Morse, with all the latest improvements.
• LORD UOTHAM AND REDPATEI.--HiS lordship writes to
Herapath :—" I have never had, either directly or in-
dFactly, a business transaction of any kind whatsoever with
him. On two or three occasions I have met him, when
paying a morning visit to a friend in London, and if I had
seen him afterwards on one occasion at the station (which,
although it has escaped my recollection, I have no doubt,
from what Mr. Denison tells me, is the case) I should
certainly have spoken to him, as I should have done to any
one under similar circumstances. This being the sum total
of my acquaintance with Mr. Itedpath. it will be evident to
you how little foundation there is for the statement made to
you by your correspondent. It would, indeed, have been
strange if I had described myself as being on terms of
intimate familiarity with one of whom I knew no more than
is 'above detailed, or that I should be guilty of such a
monstrous falsehood as to declare that 1 had dined " many
a time" at the table of an individual with whom, or even in
whose company, I have never dined in the whole course of
my life.—HoT n AM."

WHAT A MILLIARD as.—We find bhe following curious
speculations in the Assembles Nationale :—" People may
not in general have a clear idea of what a milliard
1,000,000,000 fr in silver is. A milliard' weighs five
millions of kilogrammes; it would take 2,000 carts,
drawn by:four horses each, to transport it by land. By
water, it would require a vessel like Noah's ark, namely,
309 cubits by 50, with a depth of 30 cubits. Were
5,000,000 of kilogrammes forged into bars of an inch
square, their total length would be 655,000 metres, or
more than enough to encompass Paris with a railing ten
feet high. Were a milliard of franc pieces arranged side
by side on a breadth of four metres, (the usual breadth of
the paving of the Imperial roads) the length thus covered
would be three leagues more than the distance between
Paris ~and Rouen. A single line formed by a milliard of
franc pieces would be 23 millions of inches in length,
or 750 leagues more than the circumference of the earth.
Lastly, had the milliard, at the time of the birth of Jesus
Christ, been enclosed in a machine so constructed, as to
cast out one franc piece per minute, this machine would
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this all-important subject (whose lectures have afforded
so much interest and instruction), he particularly urged
London,
aonsdeornir of lectures at the
by Mr. Pepper, on
the absolute necessity of the adoption of some stringent
measures in order to'insure, as
far as possible, a wholesome
supply to the pnblic6,•and particularly cautioned persons
predisposed to cholera-infection against the use of water
in its naturally sophisticated state, because all water,
from whatever source received, cannot be free from other
common salt, sulphate of potash, animalculEe,
substances, such as clay, flinty matter, chalk, sulphate of
lime, nitre,
&c., and urged, in conjunction with Professor Faraday,
the absolute necessity of filtration, in order to remove
such mechanical impurities. There can be no doubt,
however, that when the Liverpool water is properly
uttered, it. will be found to be among the best descriptions
of water supplied to the public. It is much to be lamented
that fraudulent venders of feeble and ineffective imitations
of valuable inventions are numerous in large towns and
cities; we would recommend our friends, therefore, to
inspect the warehouses of Messrs. Saunders and 'Co.,
Parker-street, Church-street. It is but justice to their
inventive genius tobronounce their filters far superior to
anything of the kind ever offered to the public, being
unique in structure, judicious in development of power
and action, and reduced to a price with the reaehlof all
classes.