The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-24 00:00:00

CAUTION TO SEAMEN

At the Thames police court on Thursday, Mr. Ingham
was occupied for several hours in the investigation of a
charge preferred against William Moran and Michael
White, of unlawfully making and assisting in making a
false certificate or report of the service, qualification,
conduct, and character of a seaman named James Stokes,
which offence is declared by the 176th section of the
Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, to be a misdemeanor. Mr.
E. H. R. Coleman, principal clerk to the registrar of
seamen, conducted the prosecution for the Board of
Trade, and said the attention of that board had been
called to an evil of great magnitude, the forging of
false certificates of service and discharge of seamen,
and the forging of false certificates of character.
lie was afraid the forging of these documents had been
carried on to a great extent, and had been productive of
the most serious consequences. Captains of ships, rely-
ing on certificates of service and written characters, had
engaged men as able seamen, so described on certificates,
who turned out to be incompetent and worthless when
they got to sea. There were other results demoralising to
seamen, and injurious to the commercial interests likely
to follow by,the issue of false certificates, and the Board of
Trade:were determined to check the practice by every
means in their power, and to prosecute in every case that
came to their knowledge. The evidence for the prosecu-
tion being concluded, Mr. Ingham sentenced the prisoners
to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour.

The Rev. Henry Melville, principal of Haileybury
College, has been appointed to the Canonry of St. Paul's
Cathedral, vacant by the elevation of the Rev. Montague
Villiers to the Bishopric of Carlisle.
THE LATE FIRE AT COVENT-GARDEN.—A Subscription
has been opened for the benefit of the Misses Brandon, the
daughters of the well-known box-bookkeeper of former
days, whose property having been invested by their father
in Covent-garden, they have been (by the late fire utterly
deprived of their means of living. It is intended, we hear,
to purchase them an annuity.
THE COMMISSION OF GENERAL OFFICERS.—The Board of
General Officers appointed to inquire into the conduct of
the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Lucan, and other Crimean
officers, has undergone some changes since its first appoint-
ment, and now consists of Lord Seaton, Lord Beauchamp,
General Rowan, Sir John Bell, General Peel, M.P., General
Knollys, and General Sir George Berkeley. It is expected
that the meeting of the commission, which is appointed to
take place at Chelsea Hospital on Tuesday next, will be
merely for the purpose of arranging the course of proceed-
ings, and that at least a week or ten days will elapse before
the board will meet for the reception of evidence.
VALUE OF EDITORIAL TIME IN SYDNEY.—The author
of an article in a late number of Chambers's Journal,
descriptive of life in Australia, thus describ-ss his visit to
an editor in Sydney :—At my first call I came to the
palacelike house, the ground-floor occupied by the printing-
office. On the first floor, among other advertisements' I
found a tablet informing visitors that the editor cannot be
spoken with unless paid for his valuable time; accordingly
everybody, without exception, is advised to buy a ticket of
admission at the door of the waiting-room--one hour cost-
ing 10s, half an hour Bs, fifteen minutes 3s. Such were the
contents of this regular price-current of time.
DISSOLUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIP.—W. and J. Duckett,
Burnley, stonemasons. J• Harwood, J. Ley, and J. Glaze_
brook. Heywood, Lancashire, cotton spinners. H. Whalley
and J, Brindle, Chorley, plasterers. W. Marsh and J. Bovil:e,
Kingston-upon-Hull, spirit merchants. W. Towers, J.
Wilson, and E. Riley, Ripponden, near Halifax, silk waste
dressers. G. C. Dobell and W. Huddles one, Liverpool,
forwarding and commission agents. J. C, Cortis and C
Maples, Kingston-upon-Hull, emigration and forwarding
agents. S.
Newton and J. Scattergood, Stockport,
manufacturers.
andJ w
J. and. \ F.. Fielding,
HFieladrirnisgo,n, Rochdale,sheffialdt,eadealers
T. J.
c
manufac-
turer of electro-plated goods. J. dT F. Sutcliffe,
Skircoat, cotton spinners. G. Thorn an
Thompson and
J. Hilton,
Oldham, cotton spinners. R. Palmer and C. D. Hitchcock,
Liverpool, tea dealers.

E sufferings
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is graduallyreco;;;ing lIR
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from the l
MMES. APisaACCOTJC
ment. It is rumoured thatEcmo npfir eases-
M. Dubois is to receive
600,000 francs, not only for his
services, but to compensate
him for the fearful anxiety of mind he underwent when it
became inevitable that violent
means
about the birth. The poor
nosmust be resorted to, to
Empress for hours
believed that every moment wouleFloor Eo
herm and never
ceased recommending her soul to the mt.'
intercession of the
saints ; and this conviction upon his imperial part,
of course doubled the responsibilities and tli)eatie nervousnessees
of M. Dubois; consequently it is held that 20,00
olthe
relative dearness of the two epochs weal considered, too) is
no more than the equivalent, in 1856, for the 10,0001.
awarded in 1811 to his father, for his attendance upon the
Empress &aria Louise, at the birth of the King of Rome.
Commandant Pave the orderly officer of the Emperor, who
was charged with thei mission of announcing officially to the
Municipal Commission of Paris the birth of the Prince
Imperial, has been gratified with a pension for life of
10,000 fr, a-year, which he is to receive from the funds set
apart for the Civil List.