The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-17 00:00:00

THE EAST

MARSEILLES, SATURDAY.
r, The Carmel has arrived, and brings news from
kdo_nstantinople to the 6th inst.
The Sultan had received the Hospador Ghika,
Five hundred Bashi-Bazouks have been brought
back from Adrianople.
h The state of the hospitals has improved, but we
have to lament the death of two French surgeons.
The dealers at Kamieseit are hoping to sell to
the Russians during the armistice.
General Mitchell ha 3 replaced General Vivian,
,
is still sick.
New Russian troops had arrived at Bessarabia.
17 Tartars at Eupatoria fear the consequences of
Peace. A great number of them will follow the
Allies when they retire.
some bandits have been killed at Larissa.
431 Anglo-Swiss battalion has arrived.

lIIE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVER-
SITY BOAT RACE.

The TT
aßki wolversities of Oxford and Cambridge pulled
championships'llst other on Saturday for the University
v of the Thames.
.„Te.IY little betting took place, the chances being so
at..l, that the friends of either crew were afraid of back-
--sAl,,against its opponent at any odds.
r.” 'our minutes past eleven the start took place—and a
In brilliant start it was. The crews pulled together,
f.hont the difference of an inch between them, until they
'Zed under the railway bridge at Barnes. At that
b:ellt Cambridge was about half a boat's length a-head,
v._
InOxford—cheered by their friends on board the
..ers
tileed strength, and
followed immediately behind—put forth
;
and the two crews were again side by side,
eye °lug at a speed and with a skill which astonished
Atnc the experienced watermen of the Thames.
pro °rneY Reach the Oxford crew was impeded in its
411410.e5s by a barge, which stubbornly stood out in the
ie , the river, the rowers rounded her as well
frie hey Could, and were soon up with their Cambridge
bible
On reaching Hammersmith Bridge at 21 minutes
81b; ". Oxford had a slight advantage; but it is imp05,,,..•0
,,,..•0 to say with any degree of accuracy—for Cambridge
214 through the middle arch, while Oxford took the
ffall arch on the Surrey side, hiding them for a moment
Qlllthe view of each other and of the public. Midway
bore, Hammersmith and Putney, Oxford hugged the
gajn-althile Cambridge struck out into the middle, and
a clear advantage. At Craven Point, the tor-
t 01 Bishop's walk, nearest Hammersmith, both crews
'2BE4 the river, but Cambridge kept the lead until the
t'nvl of the winning boat off the Star and Garter at
ktneY• Cambridge won by half a boat's length. The
tuole distance, 41 miles, was accomplished in 24 minutes.
0,111111 g the race immense numbers of persons congregated
ti; e shore, many of them on horseback. The scene
v_roughout was most exciting, and well it might be, for
ge Particulars of a more brilliant boat race were_nover
reeorded.

THE AUSTRALIAN DIRECT STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY.

$
At a meeting held on Friday of the Australian Direct
J'eara Navigation, via Panama, J. C. Morris, Esq., in
.e chair, that gentleman stated that the negotinegotiationsweleh had been entered into since they last met with the
Ileo4ttitoerrs of another company, for the purchase of the
of the Australian Direct Company, had ended in
disappointment.
n.' he Chairman expressed his regret at the result of the
and'[elations for the purchase of the company's charter,
moved a resolution, which was an echo of the
fr• clrt, declaring the dissolution of the company as and
hironl that
heath seconded the resolution, and, in strong terms,
by t• eherneed the course of conduct which had been pursued
. Parties with whom they had entered into these
-Keetation
..I;rhehe resolution was carried nom con.
to Chairman announced that the directors proposed
s_ make a return of 18s per share; and he suggested that
• models and plans which the company possessed should
aleresented to Captain Hoseason, R.N., as a souvenir
teatimony of regard for his great exertions to pro-
motelulu;the interests of the shareholders. Agreed to
any'
small sum of money is reserved to pay any claimant,
pa.,28 speedily as possible, the balance remaining after
"tug debts will be handed over to the shareholders.

DESTRUCTION OF THE AQUEDUCT OF

SEBASTOPOL

We read in the Moniteur de la Flotte:—The aqueduct
o
beeSebastopol has ceased to exist. That fine work has
biown
Pby our engineers. The canal or grand
Virthdile‘
cof Sebastopol was about 12 versts in length. Its
baii- Was six feet, and its mean depth seven feet and a
4. It six
above the bridge at Traktir, skirted
Zo
rtat straight line that celebrated plain, and passed at tphe
pa of the hills occupied :by our army. It traversed
atom et. Careening -gave on a succession of small
Ito arches, whic it the appearance of a
Nverlll,„alk aueduct. At its entrance into Sebastopol
blown
several extensive: works. The latter only were
usere uP, the destruction of the remainder being perfectly
,co„ ess. The aqueduct of Sebastopol was intended to
wefeY the water of the Tchernaya to the docks, which
sei3o_ destroyed a few days previously. The Port of
or IlstePoi, properly speaking, also called Southern Port,
aY Of the Arsenal, is situate at the distance of 1,550
baba ds from the entrance of the roads, and on the southern
th,,k. It is upwards of 2,000 yards in length. On
it; eastern side of the port, about 200 yards from
entrance, opens the bay, at the extremity of which
wwere Six wet docks for ships of the line, constructed
za•lttar:' stone or granite, on the plan of those of the
portesof England and France. They comirnuni-
:-„`"U with the sea by means of two magnificent sluice
which were opened to admit war vessels requiring
the ain- The ship being once placed on the graving dock
„ gates were closed, the basin was drained by means of
.0 'engine, and the carpenters and others could then set to
Work. This operation was effected in the most regular
Manner. The canal of the Tchernaya afterwards served
to fill the dock and float the ships once the repairs were
completed. The six west docks were placed on one
line, two by two, parallel with each other. The
last two, situate nearest the wall separating the
town from the suburb of Karabelnaia, were, ac-
cording to a plan proposed by Admiral Istomine,
who was killed during the siege, to be lengthened, and
appropriated to screw ships. Those basins and the
Tetternaya canal had been constructed by a French engi-
neer, M. de Riancourt. There was another hydraulic
work which was destroyed during the siege, namely, the
subterranean aqueduct, suyplying the great reservoir and
the fountains of Sebastopol with water, issuing from a
'B2ring about five versts from the city. This aqueduct
-,aB constructed by an English engineer, Mr. Upton, to
whom it does great honour, and whose family still inhabit
the Crimea.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.—AIthough we cannot refer this
week to any important discoveries, our home mines, taken
tungenerally are looking as well, if not better, than for some
e past. Metals are at good remunerative prices, and.
...lyithout any prospect of immediate decline ; yet there is a
4"'„tal want of activity in the market, and shares are flatter
'",.an they usually are, even in the dullest of times. This
leLers, almost without exception, to the dividend stocks,
the Market gives way immediately after they have pur-
V,sed, they naturally withhold orders, until they think
"area have reached their lowest point--,alining Journal
of Saturday.
__DitEADFUL""DEATH.—OG Saturday, a most painful
Tlsation was created at the Shoreditch station of the
astern Counties Railway, where William Stanford, who
hadbeen 11 years in the company's service, was killed under
very shocking circumstances. It appears that
upon the arrival of the Cambridge train at the terminus,
and while it was in motion, the deceased incautiously
anlereid uon the narrow irosteof the carriages,
bet s foopt slipping, he fell into the one
veryof narrow space
we the train and the platform, and was killed almost
icut nstantaneously—the head being crushed, one of the legs
off, and the
.body, in fact, almost literally cut to pieces
.r-befors the tram could be stopped.