The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-13 00:00:00

ARAB COURTSHIP IN ALGERIA

The candidate for matrimony makes his enquiries for a
woman who has the particular talent wherein his household is
wanting, and, having obtained the desired information, presents
himself at the tent of the father. After a Thug conversation
upon indifferent matters the lover remarks, " Sidi, I am in-
clined to marry your daughter." '• With all my heart. How
much will you give for her ?" I don't thick, from all I hear,
that she is worth more titan five and twenty douros (£5.)"
"Sidi Ab-Alla! Twenty-five douros ! You must he joking
with me. I refused fifty only yesterday." "I wonder very
much at that, for .I am told that she has been divorced twice,
and they say she has only one eye." " Well, what if that
should be so ? Did not your informants tell you that there is
not a woman in the tribe who is her equal in making the
quobela balks?" "That is true, or you would not have s-en
me here." Twenty-five douros, Sidi Abd-el-fader!" (Not
the warrior, be it observed, but a certain prophet of B igdad.)
" Twenty-five douros for a woman who cooks and works like
Fathma !" It may be little, but I cannot afford any more for
her, and I can have Ayesha for half the money." " Well,
well, give me the twenty-five douros down, and you shall give

me an obligation befora the Kadi for thirty more. (Apart )
With this obligation I'll bold you in hand, my man, and
loaner or later make you pay?' " God be praised ! Between
men like us such small matters are soon settled. The bargain
is made. (Aside.) You old Jew, if ever you see the shadow
of those thirty douros call me a Christian." " When shall
the marriage take place?" "To morrow. My three wives
have prepared everything for the feast, and I have gunpowder
enough for the fantasia." " Agreed " " Agreed—go in
peace." "Rest in prosperity." On the morrow Fathma is
conducted to her happy home, with shouts and frequent dis-
charges of firearms. There she cooks, and izpins, and fetches

water from the distant well, fights with her sister wives, and,
when her lord and master is disturbed in his sublime contem-
plations by the distant sound of strife, receives her share of the
heavy thrashing which he distritwes all round. It' is not
surprising that Fathma plays her husband false when she has
an opportunity, or that her lord has no great faith in her
affection.—Letter from Algiers.

TwE MURDER IN PARLIAMENT-sTuetT.—A few hours
before the unfortunate man, Cope, died he henarne perfectly
eoiscions, and aware that his end was drawing near. He
coaversed as well as he was able with those around his bed.

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fractures branching off from the original wound in different
The injuries have been ascertained to. be of the
most serious nature, causing surprise that he survival the
attack one hour. Mawley has been made acquainted with
the death of his victim, but it has produced no impression
or feeling of remorse. He is still as callous as ever.

directions;

AN EX-ZOIJA.VE IN Lovs.---A. pretty little married
woman, named Bordier, and a younrman, named Robi.
quet, were lately tried by the Tribunal of Correctional
Police for adultery. The husband of the woman, a small
tradesman, stated that she was lazy, gluttonous, and full of
all manner of vice, and that repeated thrashings had had no
effect in reforming her. He therefore had separated from
her, but had generously made over to her all the furniture
they had possessed. Shortly after their separation he
learned that she had formed an adulterous connection with
Robiquet, and he caused a commissary of police to 'olrain
proof of their guilt. In her defence the woman said—" All
he states is true; but why did be leave me without Monet ?
No husband ought to leave his wife without money. If I
had had money I should not have gone to M Robiquet."
The male prisoner, being called on for his defence, said--
6s I am an ex Zonave, •and have served in Africa and the
Crimea. On being discharged I was obliged to do some-
thing to earn my living, and on the recommendation of a
Need I applied for work to M. Bordier, who makes ladies'
collars, and he took me into his service. The friend who
reconimended me said—' Take care, Robiquet, what you
are about. Bordier is old and ugly, his wife is young and
pretty, and he is very jealous.' I resolved to act with
prudence. A few days after the wife told me that her
husband beat her, and I remonstrated with him. A week
later he again beat her, and in my presence, too; this give
me so much pain that I wanted to leave, but he would not
let me. I stayed, and I admit that I then fell in love with
his wife. lam told that I did wrong—it may be 69.
I came from Africa and the Crimea, and am a Z may°, and
do not understand much about what is right and what is
wrong. Well, I fell in love with the woman, and after her
separation from her husband we went to live together. If
th it requires punishment, give me a fortnight's imprison.
ment, and make no more fuss about the matter !" The
Tribunal sentenced the woman to two months' imprisonment,
and the man to a fortnight of the same punishment and
16f. fine.

INSURANCE OF WORKMEN'S TOOLS AGAINST Loss I3Y
FIRE.—The newspapers make us aware that a subscription
was opened for such of Messrs. Broadwood's workmen as
have lost their toils by the late fire ; a measure of relief
that of late has be: n usually adopted after the destruction
by fire of manufactories where the implements of labour are
costly. Why should not the workmen insure their tools ?
A man with seventy pounders worth—it is st ited some of
Messrs. Broadwood's men had that amount—certainly earns
enough to enable him to afford the necessary outlay; to
lack forethought enough for the purpose, is not a little
discreditable to an intelligent artisan; and we see no
reason why the public should pay the price of his heedless-
ness. With misfortune that could not have been foreseen
or provided against, we have the utmost sympathy,, and
would help the sufferers to the extent of our power: But
that which a little thought and a trifling expense might
have prevented, we regard with very different feelings; and
in this latter class we feel compelled to place the, uncom-
pensated, loss of these costly tools. From time to time we
are told of the "dignity of labour;" and the phrase, though
a high-sounding ope, is a very good one in its way. But,
to our apprehension, never does " labour" look more un-
dignified than when calling upon capital to help it out of a
diffleulty,
to obviate which by its own self it had only
l‘ccakpeidtailh,,eextte4r/c/i.se
itner9r'fir this once, let much abused
ordinary practical kindliness towards
distress, without stopping to empire too closely into the
merits of the case. Let the men have their tools bought for
them again. But for the future let it be understood,
that where implements of labour are costly, it is the duty
of the workman to insure them ; and the duty of the ern.
ployer to see that his servant fulfils his duty in this parp-
cular. Let us not bo construed as dealing harshly with
those of whom we have been writing : nothing is further
from our thoughts. Our object is to raise the working-
classes, and beneficially help them, by teaching them to help
themselves. They posses
many virtues. If they would
only add to them something of the habits of forethought
and prudence exercised by those above them in the social
scale, not only would their pecuniary circumstances he
bettered by it, but they would gain alike in self-respect and
the respect of their neighbours,—Chambers's -Edinburgh
Journal,