The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-14 00:00:00

trying as it were cases of ejectment on the title."
This is a.lesson- which Irish magistrates should-ber.
taught any time durivg the present century, ---:;--) 1
Mr. Augustus Godby; "who• died • recently iii-.'.. ,1
England had been secretaryto the Irish post-office, . nr,j-,=
and enjoyed a pension of £6130 a year. . . - i 3
THE -IRISH EXHLBITION.—Some time since you
iff
noticed the presentation of a service of plate to . r
Mr. T. D. Jones. the head of the financial depart-•;
ment of the Irish exhibition. The. value of the:v) ,i.iz
plate was £lOO, and was the spontaneous and.- r,,,,y
unanimous offering of the good feelings which Mr .
Jones had elicited towards him, from the various
other officers connected with that great industrial
, .
exposition. - The presentation was formally made
on Friday last, in Dublin, by Sir C. P. Roney, on ,
behalf of the officers, together with an address.
Mr. Jones expressed his acknowledgments for
both. The whole scene was delightful.
The " drapers' assistants" of Dublin, as they.
are termed, have commenced a provident associ-
ation, to which, one house—that of Todd, Burns,
and Go.—bas given £2OO.
Mr. Halpin, inspector of lighthouses to the
Irish ballast board, had a narrow escape from
drowning a few days since, on the coast of Galway.
He had gone out in a light curragh, or canoe, of
canvass, tarred, and extended over light ribs of •
wood, to visit a lighthouse in course of erection ;
and the canoe having been upset, he was, with
difficulty, saved.

SINOPE-THE COAST OF PONTUS IN ASIA

MINOR.

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The following notice of Sinope where the resent
battle was fought between the Turks and Russians,
will at the present moment be read with interest :
"A stroll on shore to see the place and sketch it
from the circling beach agreeably filled by .a long
lovely evening. The sun had veiled his bloodshot
eyes behind a dark bank of clouds, leaving lurid
tints of purple and yellow to pervade earth, air, and
water. The wind hushed ; the bay, as frozen over ;
town silent as sleep or death, not even one twitter--
ing bird, to break the stillness of our walk; fisher-.
inert elrAwing their nets languidly, pendent sails
wooing the breeze in vain, and lazy oars unim
proved along boats' sides ; all Sinope the embodi-
ment of calm repose in its highest ideality,. The
tempt nalaces, and porticoes, erected by a power-.
tfai
line
of
I^ave been levelled with the dust.
Nought remains of so ml,l- magnificence save a
dirty oriental town of a thousand wrt"-',4(1 houses,:
surrounded by crumbling walls, and
towers of Byzantine construction. Almost equally
a wreck is. the enormous hull of an embryo-two-
tovker, which staids unlaunched on the stocks ;
built here where timber and work are cheap ; never,
finished; allowed to rot. Does this fact elucidate,

the subject? Alas for Sinope.
" The ancient capital of Pontus under that great
man Mithridates Eupator, -and the birth-place of
that great beast Diogenes the Cynic, originally a
colony of the Milesians, and deriving its name
from an amphibious young lady who was the un-
natural offspring of a river and a town, the Asopus
and Methone, after she eloped hither with a third
element, Apollo or the Sun, shows, indeed, but
few traces of such illustrious antecedents. Many
fragments of ancient architectural art, however,
such as broken columns, mutilated cornices, and
half-defaced inscriptions on architraves and sepul-
chral stones, have been made use of in raising these
feeble fortifications, and they still attest what
Sinope once was ; while the quarries above the
town,' whence one of the -calcareaith beds in the
trachytic rock overlaid by a black volcanic forma-
tion seems to have furnished its buildina.materials,
tell an eloquent tale of its sudden dOwnfall, for
large blocks he there hewn and ready for removal,
some sculptured, and some_ actually on their way
to the city. We saw also the picturesque rains of
an aqueduct, designed by Pliny tho rounger to
supply the Sinopians with good water from a dis-
tance of sixteen miles ; and the amient moip
ate sea, enclosing a consi-
derable space along the shore, and leaving only a
narrow entrance for galleys, but many of the great
square stones composing it have been worn and
displaced by the action of the waves with the aid
of that universal destroyer, Time."