The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-11 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE REV. THEOBALD MATHEW

On Monday passed from among us a man who filled a large
space in the eye, not of Cork only, but of the world. His
reputation was not Irish or English, but European and
American. By multitudes in every land his name was syllabled
and his memory revered, and by tens of thousands will both be
hallowed fur resolutions inspired and for benefits enjoyed. We
speak not of Mr. Mathew as a Friar or as a Priest. Whatever
our objections to his creed, his motives, we believe, were
single, his humanity was genuine and his benevolence was
great. Great, too, beyond precedent was the revolution which
he wrought in the habits of a people given beyond precedent
to the excesses of" strong drink." That it was but temporary
is the fate of revolutions based on better foundations than
that on which his was built, and deeply is it to be
deplored that the self-denial so enthusiastically " pledged"
has in such numerous instances been relinquished for a
return to the embrutement and debasement from which the
victims for a timo were raised. This, however: is no
reflection on him. He laboured honestly and energetically,
sparing neither health nor time, deterred by no difficulty,
declining no fatigue, confronting with cheerfulness opposition
where he ought to have had co-operation, and persevering
humbly but earnestly until obstinacy was -overcome and
incredulity convinced, and until not a parish in the country
could refuse to receive as a benefactor one whom it at first
regarded as a cheat. In his machinery there was much of
which we disapproved, and at the time condemned; but it is
not of the scaffolding —it is of the work we speak, and surf
we are that so little of it is likely to survive him. Dislike as
we may the accessories, it is a peat thing to see drunkenness
giving place to sobriety, slovenliness to cleanliness, sloth to
industry, discord to content, and to see parent and child and
wife and husband going forth in this 1,---

enjoy together the comforts acquired by release from the
brawls, and bondage and beggary:of the public house. It is
for hie agency in this desirable consummation that we bestow
this brief notice on a man whose health was broken, if not his
life shortened, by his efforts to achieve it. For some years
he has been in a state of debility which every one witnessed
with regret; for, apart from his amiability of disposition, his
unassumingness of deportment, and his abstinence from partici-
pation in political or polemical contention, there is something
melancholy in the visible, day-by-day, decay of powers and
faculties which but lately were instinct with life and energy,
and that, possibly
from a consciousness of our own liability to
a similar visitation, disposes us to look with sympathising eye
on any on whom the afflicting hand has thus heavily been laid.
Such, at all events, was the feeling with which professors of all
creeds regarded Mr. Mathew. His death was at Queenstown;
his age we are not informed of, but it was much greater, we
understand, than would from his appearance have been thought.
—Cork Constitution.

FALL FROM A MASTHEAD IN THE LONDON DOCKS.—On
Tuesday morning, whilst a young mariner, named William
Dennis, was engaged in making some repairs to the upper
part of one of the masts of the brig Rob Roy, now lying in
the London Docks, he lost his balance, and fell to the deck.
The unfortunate man was conveyed to the London Hospital,
where it was found he had sustained fractures of both logs
and other external injuries.

At Marlborough street, on Mondiy, a gentleman who
gave his name and address, J. A. Franklinski, of Claremont
House, Bayswater, applied to Mr. Beadou for his assistance
under the following circumstances :—Some person or per-
sons had assumed hii name, and had put advertisements in
the papers offering to tell fortunes, and calculate nativities.
The consequence was that his house was besieged
with personal applications and letters ; and that,
in fact, all privacy and comfort were at an end.
Now he was himself a private gentleman of fortune; his
wife was an English lady, and as neither pretended or
professed to have any knowledge of futurity, they wished
to know whether they could not have some protection
from the annoyance which they now sustained. The
applicant then handed to the magistrate a couple of
advertisements cut from some paper, which were headed
—" Courtship made easy ; or, the way to win a lover, and
the future revealed and nativities calculated.' The first
advertisement was as follows :—" Madame Franklinstein
cation to
will send to any address plain directions to enable ladies
I

or gentlemen to win the affections of as many of the
opposite sex as their hearts may desire. The proposal is
simple, but so captivating and enthralling that all may be
married irrespective of appearance, age, or position,
young and old, peer or peeress, as well as peasant, and it
can be managedso that detection is impossible." The other
was, " Are you in affliction ? Is your loved one absent ?
Are you in doubt as
_to_ your
_future happiness in

life ? In fact, are you desirous of knowing the future
respecting yourself or any one in whom you are inte-
rested ?' Applicants were desired to apply to Aladame
or Professor Franklinstein, at 25, Chapel street, enclosing
for the first 24 stamps ; for the second a fee of 2s fid.
The applicant stated that on application at Chapel-street
no one of the name of Franklinstein waq to be found ; but
applicants were referred to Claremont House, his own
residence. Mr. Beadon was afraid he had no power to
render assistance in this case. He believed, however, that
publicity would effect all that the applicant wished. The
applicant thanked the magistrate and retired.

LIVERPOOL ROYAL INFIRMARY.—Week ending Dec. 6,
1856.—Admitted In-patients, 38; outpatients, 6 ; casuals
during week, 11 Discharged: In-patients cured, 23
relieved, and at own request, 7 ; made out-patients, 4
irrregular, 2 ; dead, 3 ; remain in the house, 170. Hous
Visitor, H. Banner, Esq. Physician and Surgeon
ensuing week, Dr. Vose and Mr. Stubbs. House St
Mr. E. Morris. Junior House Surgeon, Mr. Cecil W
Chaplain, Rev. H. J. Garrod, B.A. Robeit
Treasurer