The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-12 00:00:00

MARITIME EXTRACTS.

Queenstown, Jan. 9.—The Falcon (s.s.), for Liverpool, in comin%
down the river this morning grounded on the north bank, but is ex'
peeled off on the flood without damage.

Lerwic4, Dec. 26.—Arrived —The gee, from Liverpool for Dundee•
with loss of bulwarks and sails, and other damage, and to tons of
salt. ihrown overboard.
Dublin, Jan. 11.—The Sco is (s.). in coming into Kingstown yell"
ter.lay at Ur a.m., ran into the smack Eliza, Blake, of Port Madac,
doing much damage, afterwards towed her into harbour.

FORM IGN PORT
Blake, Rudolph, hence at Ship Island.

BIRTH.
On the 11th inst., at Liscard, the wife of Mr. James Troughtoilt
of a son.

MARRIAGE

On the 15th Sept.. 1855, at St. Stephen's Church, Kidderpnre. bi
tie Rev. J. Bloomfield. 111. A., domestic chaplain to the Lord BishoP
of Calcutta, Edward Whitehead Drury, Esq., formerly of Sheffield,
to Sarah Adams, widow of the late Capt. G. A. Adams, H.E.1.C.8.

% Births, Marriages, and Deaths, are only inserted when sent to

our Office duly cut

Lentkited

LADY ELLENBORODGIL—The reported death of Ladf
Ellonborough has been contradicted, the family having
received letters from her ladyship, dated Damascus,
December 10.

Mr. Balfe has returned to England, after a most sue'
cessful tour in Russia, Germany, and Italy. In the latter
he produced his opera, The Bohemian Girl," under the
title of " Lo Zingaro," with immense success.
JENNY LIND AT CANTERBURY.—Arrangements are iii
progress for securing the services of the Swedish Night..
ingale (Jenny Lind), now Madame', Goldschmidt, for 0'
night in our city, the sum agreed on being 2001.—Canter'
bury Gazette.

The Recorder of the Borough of Plymouth (Williams
Carpenter Rowe, Esq.), has been appointed Lord Chief
Justice of Ceylon, and will, we understand, prior to lean'
ing England, have the honour of knighthood conferred on
him by her Majesty.

The Scotch papers announce the death of Sir Alexander
Mackenzie, Bart., of Coul,_ in his fifty-first year. Sir
Alexander had spent many years in India, and succeeded
to the title"in 1848. He died unmarried, and is succeeded
by his second brother.

It is said' that Marshal Pelissier has officially notified
to the Constantinople papers, that henceforward no men,
tion whatever is to be made of the movements of French
troops ; and even the! list of arrivals of steamers with
troops and ammunition to be discontinued.—Malta Times.
SINGULAR SUICIDE.—On Sunday evening, the 23rd of
December, a man in the prime of life, but whose
appearance betokened poverty and misery, entered the
Grantham-arms, Dyer-street, Leeds, and having called
for a pipe, sat down moodily by the fire. After sitting
thus for ten minutes, the man put a poker into the fire,
and, when it had become red hot, took it out, and
knocked :itecirapruogrsaefoailipnlfnomtsasats:tl he floor to remove any excrescence
on it. He then deliberately put the red hot end of the poker
down his throat. His tongue, throat, and under lip, will
very much burnt, from the effects of which he died 'set
Friday. The only information that can be gained about,
the deceased is, that his name is Thomas Barker, and
that he came from Bolton, in Lancashire. Au inquest
was held on the body, when a verdict was returned—that
Thomas Barker died from the effect of the burns which he
had wilfully caused on himself; but there was no evidence
to satisfy the jury as to the state of his mind.
THIS LADIES' LAW OF LEAP YEAR.--It may, perhaps'
be interesting to all young ladies who are not already
aware of the fact, to know that leap year empowers
them to do something more than " pop the question?' I
am informed by a fair friend, that if, in the course of th 0
proposal, she
es7shuwhegihegeoheo
suggest
shdao:uutenhladiepornbethereupon,
pe year—sheutoweiedvneilmheesanhrnosodeuulglrfdhraonsto:oo,
ebfdanearsec ulhi i forgetnenlego rheaerhae
him the gift of a new silk dress. But to claim this dress
with propriety, she must, at the time of asking, be the
wearer of a scarlet petticoat; which, or the lover of
which, she must exhibit to the gentleman, who, by the
law of leap year, is compelled to present to the lady the
dress that shall cover the petticoat, and assuage her dig:.
pleasure at the rejection of her proposals. This item of
feminine folk-lore may prove exceedingly useful to the
male readers of " Notthe Queries,' in putting then?,
upon their guard during present leap year; for i"
is not, probably, without a determined significancy that
the wearing of scarlet petticoats is made one of the ehie,
novelties in ladies' dresses for this winter season. Indeent
it may reasonably be inferred that the ladies' law of leap
year is about to be inflicted upon the gentlemen in its
most expensive silk.dress form ; and that the assumption
of these scarlet petticoats is merely the initiatory step t 0
a sterner process.—Notes and Queries.

'Tinted and Published by CHARLES WILLMEI2, of 21, OPO2O
street `hie General Printing and Stationery Eatab lane ail
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South John-stre.t, I

ORDAY, JANUARY 12, Mt