The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-18 00:00:00

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upon the

iltar of their offended vanity ! They will

sacrifice us on their—counters !

sport indeed !"

top my paper

That will be

hick put us in mind of "

Ominous words

Sir EARL

pi stle, and his unenviable fate—

in Pop.

" Coningsby harangues,
The Court forsakes him, and Sir BAALAM hangs."

THE RIGHT HON. EDWARD CARDWELL, M.P., is at pre-
sent on a visit to Her Majesty at 'Windsor Castle.

THE KNIFE AGAIN.---011 Wednesday evening a man
named Michael Sheridan was stabbed by a female in Milton •
street.

sday night the boots at the Bee Hotel, who had
i entrusted by a commercial traveller with ten sovereigns
to change for a ten pound note, absconded with the money
and has not since been hears of.

On Wedne

FIRE AT Boon,E. —Last night a fire broke out in the corn
mill of,the Messrs. Pollards, Bootle-lane, and before assis-
tance could be rendered the extensive premises were en-
veloped in flames. The fire was subdued only when the
premises were gutted. The loss, which is considerable, is
covered by insurance. Some corn and other property was
saved.

SUICIDE or A SURGEON BY Paussic ACID.—Mr. Francis
Champneys, surgeon, of 112, London-wall, committed
suicide on Monday morning, by taking a strong preparation
of prussic acid.

THANKSGIVING DAY AT NEWCASTLE.—Wednesday was
set apart as one of solemn thanksgiving for deliverance from
cholera. It was very generally observed, services being
held in the various churches and places of worship in the
town.

WOOL SALES.—The colonial wool sales, which com-
menced on the 20th of October last, have approached their
close, and the better description have met a brisk demand
throughout, at prices very little below those current at the
last series in August. Wools of inferior quality and con-
dition have experienced some fluctuations, and shortly after
the commencement, up to the week before last, a large pro-
portion had to be withdrawn.

SUICIDE IN HYDE PARK.—On Saturday afternoon, a man,
whose name is supposed to be George William Cotterill, was
found hanging inside a hollow tree in Hyde Park, quite
dead. At the inquest held on Wednesday, the police con-
stable stated that his attention was called, by two boys, to a
man hanging inside a hollow tree near the receiving house
of the Royal Humane Society. He immediately went to
the spot, and saw the deceased's feet hanging in front of the
hole in the tree by which the deceased must have entered,
but which was some distance from the ground. He then
found that the deceased was hung to an inward projection
by a silk handkerchief. The deceased, when found by the
boys, had been dead some hours. In his pockets a paper
was found, with the following written in pencil :—" I die a
victim, and not a self-murderer."
GERMAN EMIGRANTS AND THEIR BAGGAGE.—The Lord
Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, having had
under their consideration the request of the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, to be per_
mitted to convey the baggage of emigrants arriving from
Germany at the port of Hull, without examination, to
Liverpool for reshipment, their lordships have expressed
themselves prepared to grant the privilege requested, pro-
vided the railway company arrange to have the baggage in
question removed from the ship, as at present, direct into
lock-up vans in Hull, which could be removed across the
Humber, and placed on the railway, and then carried to
Liverpool under existing regulations.

ARRIVAL OP THE VALDAVIA. —The South Pacific Mail
Company's new screw steamer, Valdavia, arrived in the
Mersey (yesterday) from the Clyde. She was built by the
Messrs Caird and Co., of Grfnock, and is a vessel of 760
tons burthen, propelled by engines of 130 horse power.
Her length is 192 feet, breadth of beam 283 feet, and
depth 15 feet. • The Valdavia, on her voyage here, made the
run from the Clock light to the Bell buoy in 10 hours 57
minutes, being an average of about ten knots an hour, a
very respectable performance everything considered, The
Valdavia is intended to sail on her first voyage to the Pacific
about the end of the present month. She is commanded by
Capt. Itolt, and promises to be a favourite on the line. Tier
outward appearance is graceful, her internal fittings com-
bine comfort with elegance. She has cabin accommodation
for about 180 passengers.

MR.' GLADSTONE AND THE NEAPOLITIAN PRISONS.
Every one knows the tremendous effect produced through-
out England by the publication of Mr. Gladstone's pam-
phlet on the prisons of Naples .The subject was so good, and
handled with such vigour, that it made its appearance like
a projectile in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and spread
terror throughout the capital whose dark prison recesses it
revealed. Mr. Gladstone reaped the full benefit of the
effort he had made, and the popularity he attained by it
was more lasting than that of his financial schemes. But
very few people know how near was the public to lose the
fruits of Mr. Gladstone's labours and spirit. On the eve
of a publication which could not but seriously damage the
Neapolitan government in the eyes of the world. Mr. Glad-
stone consulted Lord Aberdeen, expressing his desire to
suspend the publication, if it was likely that the mere threat
of it would induce the King to soften the rigour bf his
treatment against political prisoners. Lord Aberdeen wrote
:o the government at Naples, stating Mr. Gladstone's in-
tention to refrain from publication if the facts revealed were
attended :to in a becoming spirit, and if young Poerio, the
chief of those who were implicated in the affair of the
" Unita Italiana," should be restored to liberty. Lord
Aberdeen's communication went to Naples through the
hands of Prince Castel Cicala, the Neapolitan Minister in
London, and was adiressed directly to the Marquis Fortu-
nato, Minister of Foreign Affairs. However, it came to
pass—whether it seemed to the Marquis Fortunato that to
put such conditions before the King was insulting to his
d►gnity, or whether Ferdinand, acquainted with this fact,
refused to yield—the result was that no answer returned to
London from Naples, and the pamphlet of Mr. Gladstone
was published.--

Two PORTRAITS OF THE CZAR.—In the well-known Letters
from the Baltic, Nicholas is thus drawn in pen and ink :
"His face is strictly Grecian—forehead and nose is one
grand line ; the eyes finely lined, large; open, and blue, with
a calmness, a coldness, a freezing dignity, which can equally
quell an insurrection, daunt au assassin, or paralyse a peti-
tioner : the mouth regular, teeth fine, chin prominent, with
dark moustache and small whisker; but not a sympathy in
his face! His mouth sometimes smiles, his eyes never."
Mr. Punch, having studied the czar in his works, is disposed
to put forth another sketch ;as thus—His face is strictly all
cheek; forehead and nose one grand round-about curve ;
the eyes large, open, round, and expressive as a cannon's
mouth ; cannon that can quell an insurrection, or slaughter
innocence; the mouth curved and sinii:icant as a scimitar
teeth large and prominent as chevaux-de-frise ; the face alto;
gether a national death-warrant. The mouth, like scimitar
steel, sometimes glistens—the eyes never.—Punch,. -