The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-07 00:00:00

THE COURT.

WINDSOR, FEB. s.—There was no addition to the royal
dinner party yesterday. The Queen and Prince walked in
the Home-park this morning. The younger Princesses
took a carriage drive. Her Majesty and Prince Albert and
the Royal family pawed this evening at Frogmore-house,
where the Duchess of Kent gave a children's ball.

The usual notification has been published in the Gazette,
announcing that her M.ajes'y will hold levees at St. James's
Palace on the following days, at two o'clock :—Wednesday,
the 20th inst. ; Wednesday, the 27th inst. ; "Wednesday,
the 12th of March next.

THE Towx DUES.--It will be seen, on reference to our
report of the proceedings of the Town Council yesterday,
it was resolved that the Mayor should be requested to
convene a public meeting of the inhabitants of our town,
to organise measures for resisting the bill affecting the
town-dues of this and other boroughs, introduced into the
House of Commons by the Right Hon. the Vice-President
of the Board of Trade.
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HE MURDER IN THE MlNORlES.—Yesterday, at the
Central Criminal Court, William Thomas Corrigan was
tried before Mr. Justice Wightman and Mr. Justice
Willes, for the wilful murder of his wife on the day after
Christmas-day last. The circumstances will be fresh in
the reco;:ection of our readers. The prisoner's counsel
urged a plea of insanity ; but the jury, after twenty
minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict of
foGuilty,''
and sentence of death was immediately passed. The
prisoner appears fully to expect his awful doom.

SOUTHERN AND TOXTETH HOSPITAL.—WEEKLY REPORT,
FEB. 6, 1856.--In patients :—Discharged : cured, 9 ;
relieved, 0; at own request, J ; irregular, 2. Dead, 3 ;
entered, 15; under treatment, 69. Out patients : cured,
30 ; entered, 43 ; under treatment, 53. Treasurer, James
Houghton, Esq. Visitors, Mr. J. Ingram, and Mr.
J. Rogers. Honorary chaplain, Rev. D. T. Barry,
B.A. Physicians and surgeons for the week, Dr. Cameron,
and Mr. Minshull. House surgeons, Mr. Charles Royston
and Mr. E. C. Garland.

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THE LATE ACCIDENT IN lIIGH-STREET.—DEATH OF
JoisEs.—Yesterday, the coroner held an inquest on the
bodies of John Williams and Thomas Jones. The deceased
persons fell from the buildings now being taken down in
lligh-street. An account of the accident appeared in our
paper of Tuesday. 'Williams was killed on the spot,
Jones had his leg broken, and the limb was amputated at the
Royal Infirmary, where he died on Wednesday morning.
The only addition to the details already published was the
evidence of a man engaged at the works, who said he did
not consider the guide rope sufficient for the work ; but it
appeared that was the fault of the deceased man Jones, who
had been employed to take down a portion of the buildings
with his own materials. The coroner, in summing up the
e via',;:lee, pointe€l out the law to the jury, who found a
verdict 0, " Accidental death."—The coroner also held an
inquest on the kl.?dv of a poor cripple, apparently about 60
`mound dead in a cart at Wellington-
road.was The name of the dect,.:
t-:_n. it appeared that
the evidence of Mr. ICempt,. su.rg
~ ' natural causes.
deceased died from disease of he lungs, until,
The jury returned a verdict accordingly.