The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-31 00:00:00

lit DISTURBANCES AT NABLOUS.

pair" re Published, a few days ago, the melancholy
Nblenliiilat's of an outbreak which had occurred at
lettercllllh—ds' consequent upon the killing of a deaf and
'ervish, by an English Missionary. From a
that dated from Jerusalem, the Ist May, we learn
fran'tt;he disturbances were the result of a burst of
i
Doi,;;° and unreflecting passion on the part of the
oe aces whi3h no Government could have pre-
arieF:'," and that the high Mohammedan function
the--sooth lay and clerical—of the district exerte
Of unes, and with success, to preserve the life
Ageiselv naissionaiy. The writer adds :
titiZ You will have already heard of the disturb-
folint Nablous (Samaria), I merely subjoin the
tion „,ng very brief outline of the facts in coffee-
Of 1:' Probably erroneous rumours. On the 3rd
resP month, Mr. Lyde, an English missionary,
way wilt at Latakia, was entering Nablous on his
Liat.ilither, when a deaf and dumb dervish seized
bacrrse's reins, and mumbled out an appeal for
ttia„ sheesh• Mr. Lyde endeavoured to push the
anee gently aside out of the way, but his forbear
irttp,,","
onlyO the effect of increasing the other's
ng him to seize the missionary s
kid' and endeavour to wrest it from him. Tn the
ivp,„s‘t °f the slight strugffle that ensued, the gun
Rat'ilt' °IF and shot the beggar dead. A crowd then
of the.recl, and would have torn the unhappy author
s,if, Is melancholy accident to shreds, had he not
in ‘,ceeded!in outstripping tlkem, and taking refuge
(!,,(:ne governor's house. Thither the maddened
swa,d flocked, but finding that their victim hitd
in escaped—he had fled, at the governor's
ggeation, to an asylum in the house of the chief

Mussulman of the town—they made for the
house of our native consular agent, broke in,
and finding there the father of the Prussian
consular agent, butchered him on the spot, as
also a couple of servants belonging to the house.
Fortunately our agent and his wife had that
morning gone out of town, or they would have
shared the same fate ; as it was, the mob tore
down the British flag, and dragged it through the
muddy streets, vowing death to all Christians.
The latter, however, wisely barriacaded themselves
in their houses. In this state of furious excite-
ment the crowd continued till evening, shortly
after which Mr. Lyde was smuggled out of
the town in disguise, and sent off hither,
under an escort. Since then the case has been fully
investigated before the paella, cadi, and medjelis of
Jerusalem, by whom judgment was given two
days ago, acquitting Mr. Lyde of murder, but bring-
ing him in guilty of manslaughter, and condemning
him in the usual blood-money fixed by Moham-
medan law—a sum of about 2501. This judgment
has been forwarded to Constantinople for approval,
where the account will doubtless be greatly
reduced by Lord Stratford ; the sum finally
agreed upon will then be paid over to the dead
man's nearest of kin. These are the whole mate-
rial facts of the case. There have been some other
slight disturbances since in the neighbourhood of
the same town ; but they have had no connexion
with this melancholy affair, and have already been
put down.

THE TIPPERARY BANK

The subjoined is a copy of a petition at present in the
course of signature by the shareholders in the Tipperary
Bank, with a view to the immediate presentation to
parliament :
To the Right Hon. and Hon. the knights and Burgesses
in this present parliament assembled.
The humble petition of the undersigned creditors of the
Tipperary Joint Stock Bank, showeth,
That your petitioners at the time of the stoppage of
payment of the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank upon the
20th of February, 1856, were creditors of the said bank
for the sums below set opposite to their names, and that
the same sums still remain due and unpaid.
That under the Irish Act, 33rd George IL, chapter 14,
upon the same stoppage of payment of the Tipperary
Joint Stock Bank, the whole of the property real and
personal of all the partners in the said bank became
attached to answer the said debts, and liable to your
petitioners' demands in respect thereof.
That the said act of parliament was decided to apply to
joint stock banks constituted like the Tipperary Bank
under the act of 6th George IV., chapter 42, in the case of
" Fawcett v. Hodges," reported in the 3rd volume of the
" Irish Equity Reports," page 232.
That under the provisions of the said act, 33rd Geo. IL.
chap. 14, the general property of all the shareholders can
be distributed rateably amongst the creditors.
That Joint Stock Banks are in Ireland exempt from the
operation of tho bankrupt laws, and exempt from the
operation of the Winding-up Acts, in bankruptcy.
That the proceedings under the Winding-up Act, 1848,
and now in operation in the Court of Chancery, in Ire-
land, in Master Murphy's office, were designed by the
legislature for the winding-up of abortive projects where
the company and contributories were solvent, and for
the purpose of regulating the rights of contributories
inter se.

That in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, in the case
Michael Carroll, plaintiff, and Wilson Kennedy, sued as
one of the public officers of the Tipperary Joint Stock
Bank, defendant, the Lord Chief Baron in his judgment
on the 7th day of May, 1856, said, " This view of the case
rendered it necessary to consider what were the remedies,
which it was alleged the plaintiff could have under the
proceedings now pending in the Court of Chancery (in
the winding-up matter), and after the discussion which
had taken place, and after looking over the act of parlia-
ment under which these proceedings were now pending,
he had come to the conclusion that those remedies were
not provided for creditor,—" The proceedings under the
winding-up acts he feared had been misunderstood—they
were emphatically proceedings directly for the benefit of
those who composed the company; that was the object of
those proceedings to enable the contributories, or those
who composed the company, to wind up its affairs, and
if necessary to dissolve it."
That Baron Pennefather on the same occasion said—
" It might work very well where the company was solvent,
but in the case of an insolvent company, such as the
present unfortunately was, these acts could not be con-
sidered at all as passed for the benefit of creditors, but
altogether for the benefit of shareholders. It. was impor-
tant that any misunderstanding which existed upon the
effects of these acts of Parliament would be speedily
removed, in order that creditors, if they found (as unfor-
tunately he feared they would find) that the proceedings
in the Court of Chancery would not be beneficial to them,
should consider whether they had any other means in
their power to right themselves, and come upon the
property of the shareholders."
That the act introduced by the Right Hon. Lord
Brougham into the House of Lords, and intituled " An
Act to Amend the Joint Stock Companies Wheding-up
Acts " has been promoted, as your petitioners believe,
for the purpose of preventing your petitioners from
resorting to the property of the shareholders of the said
bank to enforce their said debts.
That if said act be passed your petitioners believe that
the proceedings in the Irish Court of Chancery now
pending will be wound up, and a small dividend of about
sixpence in the pound declared. But your petitioners
charge that the property of the shareholders of the
Tipperary Joint Stock Bank is sufficient to pay the bona
fide debts of the bank in

Your petitioners therefore humbly submit to your hon.
ourable house that no retrospective measure should now
be passed for the purpose of exempting the property of
the shareholders of the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank from
the legal liabilities now affecting the property of the
shareholders of the joint stock banking companies in
Ireland. _

..,._........._
Your petitioners therefore pray that your honourable
house may be pleased to reject the bill now introduced to
amend the joint stock companies winding-up acts, and
your petitioners further pray that before said bill is read
a second time, your honourable house will be pleased to
hear your petitioners by their counsel.
And your petitioners will ever pray.

FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE IN THE
METROPOLIS.

Yesterday morning, shortly after twelve o'clock, a fire broke
out in the house of Mr. Mitchner, sen., blind and packing-
case maker, St. Ann's-Court, Soho (running from Dean-
street into Wardour.street), and which was not subdued
until two lives had been sacrificed. The house is in
the joint occupation of five families, namely :—Mr.
Mitchner, sen., Messrs. Mitchner and Son on the first
floor; Mr. Mitchner, jun., and wife on the second floor
front; Willis and wife second floor back ; Mr. and
Mrs. Dobbinson front attic; Mr. and Mrs. Bowler and
three children in the back attic. The smoke was observed
issuing from the back of the premises when the alarm was
raised, and with as little delay as possible the London Fire
Brigade engines from Wells-street, King-street, Regent-street,
and Crown-street, arrived, followed by the Royal Society's
escape from Oxford-street. By this time the room of R. Bowler,
back attic, was in one mass of fire. Mr. Paul Gerrard, the
district foreman, rushed through the smoke, followed by
Stephen Martin, No. 33, fireman of the London brigade,
when they succeeded in entering the room of Mr. Dobbinson,
who is blind, and who was nearly suffocated. With considerable
risk of their own lives they brought him out. Shortly after
the flames burst through the roof. With a good supply of
water the engines got to work in an admirable manner, and
the fire was soon subdued. The moment the ruins were
sufficiently cooled, Martin, the fireman and engineer,
went in search of the persons who were known to have
perished, when the remains of Eliza Bowler, aged five
years, and George Bowler, aged three years, were found.
The cause of the fire is unknown. The remainder of the
inmates of the house were out to see the fireworks.—Another
most extensive fire broke out between twelve and one
o'clock yesterday morning on the premises of Mr. Eli
Sinkins, greengrocer, Mason's-place, Fulham. The inmates
with great difficulty effected their escape. The police started
on horseback for the engines belonging to King-street, Regent-
street, Wells-street, and Stretton-ground, Westminster. It
required the utmost exertion of the police to clear the streets
for the engines to pass through, and by the time they arrived
the premises was in one mass of flame. The firemen,
under the superintendence of Mr. G. Staples, checked
its progress, but not until the premises of Mr. T. B. Garner,
fishmonger and poulterer, Mr. William Ardley, cheesemonger,
and Mr. W. A. Walker, grocer, were nearly destroyed, and
others damaged by water. The loss will fall on the Sun,
County, Unity, General, and other fire offices. The cause ie
at present unknown.

SCOTTISH LITERARY INSTITUTR.— At a meeting of
literary gentlemen, held yesterday in the Cafe Royal,
Register-street, Professor Blackie in the chair, it was unani-
mously agreed to form a national association for the
encouragement of literature and the especial advantage of
its professors and cultivators, to be called the "Scottish
Literary Institute." We are glad that such a society has
been formed. A place of reunion in Edinburgh for literary
men has been long very much wanted. None of the many
other societies in existence provide for the obj,cts contem-
plated by,the Literary Institute, and they are such as must
recommend themselves to the entire approval of every
member of the republic of letters connected with Scotland.
—Glasgow Daily Mail.
The Ottoman Cabinet pursues the policy of reform.
Five "infidels"—that is to say, four Christians and a
Jew—have been appointed members of the Council of
the Empire. These nominations wi l excite the indigna-
tion of the bigotted Mussultnans, which is so natural
that we cannot complain of it. We should rather
admire the courage and independence of the men who,
in a country where popular ideas are so far in arrear of
European intelligence as in Turkey, do not hesitate to
introduce measures founded on large and enlightened
views. What would some journals say—or, at least,
what they would like to say—if the Pope were some day
to nominate a Protestant to a seat in his Council of State?
—lndependance.