The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-22 00:00:00

Royal Charter has nobly sustained the

of her name, and if she should
er homeward run in seventy days, there

the high prest

make h

are many who will be disposed to back her on the
through ocean run against the Royal Mail steamers
via Aden. Liverpool, however, has lost nothing
by the transfer of the Monthly mails to Southamp•

ton, beyond the contract for their conveyance

The passenger traffic is still open to the Panama
route. We can carry passengers and bullion from

forty to fifty per cent. cheaper than the South amp-
. .

and if a regular line of steam ships

'ere started from this port to Australia, the public
'mild insist on a mail being sent by them. The

close connection between the Colony and the
parent State is becoming of more importance daily,
and every opportunity must be taken by the Go-
vernment and the mercantile community to keep up
a rapid intercourse between the two countries.
We may then hope still to see a line of steam-ships
running between Liverpool and Melbourne via
Panama. The merchants of the North will never
be satisfied with the transmission of their Austra-
lian letters and bullion by the Government route.
We speak advisedly when we say as regards time
it will be a pitiful repetition of former failures. It
will not do to have one packet in six or twelve
months keeping up to the contract time The
average must be fifty days out and home, or the
colonists and the English public will cry off in dis-

And if the Government time should be kept

We can'do it in forty five days

), what then

via Panama,

From the Isthmus to Australia we

have everything in our favour for steam for ten
months in the year, and from the Mersey to Cha-
gres we have the best Atlantic and Gulf naviga-
It is all fair ocean sailing, and with these

)bvious advantages on our side, we cannot despair
ing Liverpool the Australian mail packet

)f see

station

rfiE conviction and sentence of the culprit WIL-
F, are now before the country, and there
can scarcely be a doubt of the guilt of the accused,
and all that can be expected is that the recommen-
y who tried him, and who spoke
state of mind on the evidence

IAM Dov

dation of

of his unsound

—I on the trial, will have its legitimate I Bade was presented- to Mrs. Schofield, who has done
much by teaching on the Sabbath, and in otherwise
weight with the Crown. There is no position in furthering the objects of the schools. The presentation
'rich a man can be placed, whether he be a clef- was made by Mr. Lawson.
MORE STABBING BY WOMElC—Stabbing by women now
seems to be the rule in Liverpool. Yesterday, a female
luties named Eliza. M'Donnell, who resides at the north end of
the town, was brought up before Messrs. Cropper and
Benn, at the police court, charged with having stabbed
,et t
another woman named Eliza Evans. It appeared that
the parties were in some sailors' boarding-house at the
0 tgns
north end of the town, when a dispute arose between them
Lo a naturally virtuous mind, or to those eference to " a beauty of a black man," and then a
pugilistic encounter followed, when the prisoner stabbed
r the safety and well-being of society, as the compliinant in several places on the face, particularly
about the nose. In reply to the charge, the prisoner
ng objects of their long-cherished patriot. denied having used a knife, but it was her diamond ring
which she wore on her finger, that had inflicted the
No right-minded man could wounds, and that all was done in " fair fighting." She
use a murderer, There is something positively i was fully committed for trial at the sessions.

yman at the altar, a lawyer at the ba

or a jour-

,t who labours to dischara

the ones

Pon himself, in which he fee!s sc

ted murderer

)e SO I in rE

ism and loyalty