The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-16 00:00:00

NORTHERN CIRCUIT-YORK.

THE ARMY.—The 62nd ordered at the Mediterranean,
will embark at Cork about the Ist of January,
HIGH FARMING.—Mr. Alechi has produced his long called
for " balance sheet," showing, upon an outlay of £4975 6s.
9d., a profit of £343 16s. 3d.
CHRISTMAS.—The Great Western railway has determined
upon granting return tickets on the 24th, out of London,
available on the 27th.
Mr. IL M'Calmont Cairns, M.P. for Belfast, and a depu-
tation, had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen, yester-
day, at his official residence in Downing-street.
HORSE GUARDS AFFAIR. —lt is said that Major-General
Wetherall refused the post of Adjutant-General because he
agreed upon the grounds his predecessor took, and which
caused him to resign. Lord Hardinge it is said is anxious
to bring in his relation Colonel Cunningham.
A HINT TO FAMILIES.—A correspondent says : " Whilst
currants are so dear in price, now ls. per lb. Turkey black
raisins are being much used in families, mixed with currants.
They are wholesome, and can be bought at fourpence to
fivepence per lb. They should be stoned. Buy each sepa-
rately, two-thirds raisins and one-third currants, and it will
be a saving."
SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.—The submarine cable across
the Firth to Forth and Tay is being laid clown, so as to
complete the chain of telegraphic communication between
the far north of Scotland and the south.
CHEVENING.— Woodcocksin considerable numbers are now
to be met with in the springy shaws skirting our parish, and
from their early arrival, a hard winter is prognosticated.—
Maidstone Journql.
A singular poaching affray occurred near Dartford some
days since. The gamekeeper of Mrs. Minet hearing shots
fired, went towards the place, and, seizing one of the poach-
ers, found his own brother ! A second brother, who accom-
panied the poacher, attacked the gamekeeper, and " gave it
him" with the barrel of the gun, until he was obliged to let
go, and both brothers got off.
AUSTRALIAN POSTAGE.—The South Australian Postage
Reform Bill. with the exception of one clause in it, has
passed the legislature of that colony. Its main provisions
are an uniform charge of 2d. on all intra-provincial letters
and 6d. on all extra-provincial letters. A single letter must
not weigh above half an ounce. Newspapers are to pass free
through the post• except when they are directed to be left at
the post office or to the town where they are posted, when a
penny each is to be charged.
An Edinburgh correspondent of the _Dumfries Courior
says—" It is said that a new edition of Dugald Stewart's
works is in the press, embracing a series of his leotures on
political economy not hitlerto published--large portions of
which, I believe, are in the handwriting of Lord Palmerston,
who was an inmate of the illustrious professor's house when
he was engaged in the composition of those lectures, and
relieved the sage of a large share of the drudgery of tran-
scription."
. DIOCESE or MANCHESTER.—The Lord Bishop of Man-
chester has licenced the Rev. Lewis Stanhope Benny, M.A.
to the curacy of the parish church of Lancaster. His lord-
ship has presented the Rev. John Winstanley Hull, 8.A., in-
cumbent of Grimsargle near Preston to the vicarage of
North IViuskham in the county of Nottingham and diocese
of Lincoln, vacant by the death of the Rev. Joseph Markham
Parry.

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LETTERS AND NEWSPAPERS TO CALCUTTA.—GENERAL
POST-OFFICE DEC., 1853.—The postmaster-general has
been informed that the government express from Bombay to
Calcutta has been discontinued; and that, consequently,
letters and newspapers will be addressed to Calcutta, when
sent via Bombay, can only be forwarded in future by the
ordinary daily mail. It is necessary to make this altera-
tion known to the public in the United Kingdom, as a
notice was issued in May, 1847, announcing the arrange-
ments under which letters might be conveyed to Calcutta
by the government express, if specially so addressed.
A deputation, consisting of William Carver and John
Peacock, from the merchants and inhabitants of Gibraltar,
introduced by Mr. John Bright, M.P., and accompanied by
Mr. J. B. Smith, M.P. ; Mr. G. B. Carr ; Mr. J. Aspinall
Turner, president of the Commercial Association, Man-
chester ; Mr. Henry Ashworth, vice-president of the Cham-
ber of Commerce ; Mr. Mosley ; Mr. Frederick Jackson ;
Mr. David E. Power ; Mr. John Ingram Travers, and Mr.
Charles Blake, had an interview with the Duke of New-
castle, yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN Nor GIVENFUP —We an con-
tradict the statement which appeared in last Monday's Times,
and which furnishes the material of a leading article
in the same paper of yesterday's date. The admiralty have
not ordered Sir John Franklin's name to be struck off their
books. Such a measure could only be taken in the event of
death being reported or all search proving fruitless ; for, so
long as older captains are retained on the books, his age (67)
cannot be considered a disqualification. But no such report
has been made ; and even the searches now making by Bel-
cher to the east and Collinson to the west are not yet con-
cluded. Indeed the latter, as' we learn from the Amphitrite,
had not been heard of by any of the ships sent to deposit
provisions, &c., last autumn in his supposed homeward track.
It is not the attention to abandon Collinson thus prema-
turely without further search, and in seeking him we may
hope also to discover some survivors of Franklin's com-
pany.--Daily News. •
THE COAL TRADE.—To such an extent has our coal in-
dustry been developed that at the present time not less than
37,000,000 of tons afe annually raised, the value of which
at the pit's mouth is little less than £10,000,000, at the
places of consumption, including expenses of transport and
other charges, probably not less than £20,000,000.. The
capital employed in the trade exceeds ,t 10,000,000. About
400 iron furnaces of Great Britain consume annually 10,000,
000 tons of coals and 7,000,000 tons of ironstone, -in order
to produce 2,500,000 tons of pig-iron, of the value of up-
wards of £8,000,000. For the supply of the metropolis
alone 3,600,000 tons of coals are required for manufactur,
ing and domestic purposes.; our coa3ting vessels conveyed
in 1850 upwards of 9,360,000 tons to various ports in the
United Kingdom, and 3,350,000 tons were exported
to foreign countries and the British possessions. Add to
this that about 120,000 persons are constantly employed in
extracting the coal from the mines, and that in some of the
northern counties there are more persons at work under the
ground than upon the surface, and some approximate idea
will be formed of the importance and extent of this branch
of our industry. The extent of the coal areas in the
British Islands is 12,000 square miles, and the annual pro-
duce 37,000,000 tons ; of Belgium, 250 miles, annual pro-
duce 5,000,000 tons; of France, 2,000 miles, annual produce,
4,150,000 tons ; of the United States, 113,000 miles, annual
produce, 4,000,000 tons; of Prussia, 2,200 miles, annual
produce, 3,500,000 tons; of Spain, 4,000 miles, annual
produce, 550,000 tons of British North America, 180,000
miles, annual produce not known. Taking the British Is-
lands alone, and dividing them into districts, we find the
supposed workable acres are as follows : —Northumberland
and Durham, 5,00,000; Cumberland, Westmoreland, and
West Riding, 99,500 ; Lancashire, Flintshire, and North
Staffordshire, 550,000 ; Shropshire and orcestershire,
79,250; South Staffordshire, 65,000:; Warwickshire and
Leicestershire, 80,000 ; Sornersetshire and Gloucestershire,
167,500 ; South Wales 600,000; Scottish coal fields,
1,045,000. Irish coal Wales,
500,000; Connaught,'
.200,000; Leinster, 150,000 ; Minister, 1,000,000. Our
exports, which in 1840 amounted to 1,606,000 tons, valued
at £576,000, had increased in 1850 to 3,631,000 tons, of the
value of £1,284,000. In 1841 our exports to France were
451,300 tons ; to Holland, 173,378 tons ; to. Prussia,
116,296 tons; and to Russia, 77,152 tons. In 1860 they
were to France 612,545 tons ; to Holland, 159,953 tons ;
to Prussia, 186,528 tons; and to Russia, 235,188 tons.
Durham Chronicle.

SINGULAR CASE OF BIGAMY.
_Edward Drane Hannebell, 32, was charged with bigamy.
The circumstances of this case were of a peculiar charac-
ter. The prisoner is a coach-builder, well educated, and a
good looking man. At the early part of last year he was
working with his father at Ipswich, and a young. woman,
named Helen Cufley, belonging to Manchester, being on a
visit to the former place, the prisoner became acquainted
with her, and eventually they agreed to be married.
Shortly after Miss Cutley returned to Manchester, the
prisoner followed her, and the marriage was solemnised at
the cathedral, on the 6th of June in last year. The prisoner
lived with his wife for some time, and at the early part of
this year he obtained work at Hull as a coach builder. In
March last he addressed a letter to a Miss Crackles, who
was a pious person, and possessed of some property. In
this communloatton he declared his affection for Miss
Crackles, stating that besides herself he had never soon a
young woman whom he could fancy for a wife. As it had
been ordained by God that man should make the first
advance, he hoped Miss Crackles would pardon him for
addressing her and trusted that she would grant him an
interview, adding that he belonged, to the same religious
denomination as herself. He should, however, leave the
matter in the hands of the Lord. Miss Crackles declined
to see the prisoner, when he addressed a second letter to
her, and eventually she consented to accept his suit. In
the same week that he was writing these letters to Miss
Crackles, the prisoner wrote to his wife, who was then at
Ipswich, informing her, that being unable to obtain em-
ployment in Hull, he was about to sail for America, where
he had no doubt of getting a good living. He advised his
wife to remain at Ipswich, and concluded his epistle in
terms of the warmest afiection for her. The prisoner mar-
ried Miss Crackles at Sculcoates church on the third of
June last. His marriage was discovered. and he was ap-
prehended on the charge of bigamy and lodged in Hull
gaol. Whilst in prison he wrote two letters, one to his
wife and the other to Miss Crackles, and prevailed on a
person who was working in the gaol to take charge of
these communications. In the letter to his wife he asked
her to get some person to write to him stating that she was
dead, and to date the letter previous to the second marriage.
If any inquiry were subsequently made about it, she could
state that the individual who wrote the letter had gone to
Australia. He begged his wife to do this, as it would sage
him from transportation. In the letter to Miss Crackles
he stated that he had every hope of being acquitted of the
charge against him, and that they could then lire happily
together.
The jury found him guilty, expressing their opinion that
the offence was aggravated by being committed under the
garb of religion.
Sentenced to five years' penal servitude.