The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-02 00:00:00

SPAIN,

A despatch, dated St. Sebastian, July 31,
mentions that news had been received vice
Prepiguan and Yrun, to the effect that the whole
of Catalonia had acknowledged the authority of the
government of the Queen.
The most perfect tranquility was reported to
prevail in Navarre and the other lower provinces.

THE FRENCH FUNDS.

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING

The business to-day on the Bourse closed with
the Funds at the subjoined quotations :—Four
and a Half per Cents., 93f. 50c.; Three per
Cents., 70f. 20c.

ACCIDENT.—Last evening a labourer, employed in the
Trafalgar docks, met with a severe accident by falling into
the hold of a ship in which he was at work. The injuries
he sustained are o f such a severe nature, that but little hopes
are entertained of his recovery.
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SUICIDE BY A FEMALE.—Yesterday morning a female
named Rachel Nathan, residing at No. 53, Russell-street,
destroyed herself by cutting her throat. A medical gentle-
man was called in at once, but life was extinct. He forth-
with informed the coroner, and as an inquest will be held
on the body this day, we do not give any of the rumours
about the transaction.

COLLEGIATE EVENING CLASSES.—In the examination
lately held in London by the Society of Arts, of young men
from various evening classes throughout the kingdom, W.
J. Alderson has obtained certificates of proficiency, or, in
other words, second class honour, in geography and English
history. It is remarkable that no other youth from Lanca-
shire appears in the list. There were 62 candidates.
Upper Collegiate School : Mr. T. Widdowson, who was
educated at this school, and lately obtained a high place in
the first class at St. John's, Cambridge, has been placed on
the foundation of his college as proper sizar.
MUSIC IN BIRKENHEAD PARE.—An arrangement has
been made by the Band Committee in conjunction with the
committee of the Victoria Cricket Club, by which there
will be an additional performance this afternoon and a
cricket match. By the kind permission of the manager of
the Bromborough Pool Works, the excellent brass band
connected with that establishment, consisting of upwards
of twenty instrumentalists, will play from half past four to
eight o'clock. As the band have volunteered their services
for this occasion, it is to be hoped that the public will, by
a large attendance, show appreciation of their efforts to
please.—Correspondent.
A NEW PROPELLER.—Yesterday, Messrs. Cramm,
Powell, and Co., as the agents of Mr. Hyde, of Bristol, the
patentee, exhibited a model of a screw steamer (at the
Exchange newsrooms), with a single blade propeller, which
is stated to be an improvement of much value, as an
auxiliary to steam vessels. Theoretically it looks well
enough, but we have not seen any one who has yet
practically tried it. It has the advantage of being worked
easily at a small cost ; and, as stated, it will not at all
interfere with the ship's propulsion with sails, but, on the
contrary, add to her speed. It is not necessary to have the
blade unshipped, as it can instantly be fastened up with
great facility. The invention, considering the state of
science in the particular point referred to, is well worthy the
attention of shipbuilders and owners.

A GREMENS OP INDIAN LIFE.—A large boa con.
strietor is said to have taken up its residence for the pre-
sent in a remote corner of the garden house of Mr. G. H.
Blacquire, in. Intally. A missing calf belonging to that
gentleman being searched for led to the discovery of the
reptile in a state of coma, owing to the fact of his having
breakfasted on the calf. A general invitatiou is given
by our informer to all those possessing guns, staves, blun-
derbusses, &c., for the destruction of the monster.—Calcutta
Citizen.

SUSPECTED MURDER AT WooLwlcir.—An inquiry termi.
nated on Thursday, before C. J. Carter, Esq., coroner
for West Kent, touching the death of John Woolway, a
carpenter, who resided at Chancery-lane, and who was
found dead on the river bank at North Woolwich. under
circumstances which leads to the suspicion that a foul deed
has been committed. It appears that the skull of the
deceased was fractured, his eyes blackened, one of his
thumbs dislocated, and his coat torn in such a manner
which indicated that a struggle had taken place. The
medical evidence was to the effect that the injuries were
received prior to death. The jury returned an open
verdict, coupled with an opinion that death was caused
by violence at the hands of some person or persons
unknown.

Mtranau IN IRELAND.—At the Cork assizes on Wednes-
day, a private of the 68th regiment, named Charles
M'Creedy, was convicted on a charge of murder, for hav-
ing fired at and killed Owen Guinsey, a sergeant of the
same regiment, in Fermoy barracks, on the 6th of May
last. It appeared that the deceased, on the sth of
May, made a charge against the prisoner, for which
he was ordered on the following day to be con-
fined to barracks for ten taps, and in less than two
hours afterwards, the sergeant having come into the room
where the.prisoner was sitting on his bed, and gone over to
a window to comb his hair, the prisoner deliberately took
his rifle from its proper place in the gun rack, aimed at and
shot the deceased before any one of those present could
seize him ; and upon being seized, he exclaimed, " Sergeant
Guinsey put me in for three days again," and " that is the
way to treat tyrants." It appeared that the prisoner was
seized by his comrades the moment after the shot was
fired, and that the sergeant did not survive his wound,
which was through the back, more than ten or fifteen
minutes.

MR. SMITH O'BRIEN.—In a letter to Mr. J. F. Maguire,
M.P., Mr: Smith O'Brien expresses his acknowledgment to
all who have been instrumental in setting aside the sen-
tence of banishment against him for his part in the pro-
ceedings of 1848. " Having done what I considered to be
my duty, I could not express contrition. It therefore
seemed to me becoming to remain entirely passive, and to
submit without repining to the consequence of an attempt
which may have been ill-judged, but which was
prompted by the purest motives. At the same
time, I have not felt myself bound to deprecate on the
part of others the expression of sympathy which seemed to
me to be highly honourable to those who entertained it—even
though that sympathy was evinced in the form of solicita-
tion." The sympathy for him has not been confined to
Ireland ; for in Van Diemen's Land he experienced the
greatest kindness from
.English and Scotch, as well as Irish,
colonists ; whilst in Victoria and New South Wales his
liberation was greeted with the greatest enthusiasm. To
his sympathisers in the -United States and Canada, and to
the 140 members of parliament who memorialised Lord
Palmerston on his behalf, he willingly tenders his heartfelt
thanks. The letter is dated from Dromoland.