The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-06-11 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

PLYMOUTH, Monday Night.—The Royal Stuart,
from Batavia, bound to Amsterdam, and last from
the Cape of Good Hope, which she left April 7,
was off this •port to-day and landed passengers.
She spoke on the 2nd June the ship Lavenin, from
London to Sydney, five days out, in lat. .46.51 N.,
long. 8.40 W. She also spoke tho ship Hastings,
from London to Wellington, in lat. 47.54 N , and
long. 6.4 W. The late news from the Cape is
unimportant

PRIVATE EXECUTIONS.—Thp Government Gazette of
Hobart Town contains what would appear a very strange
announcement, being neither more nor less than the
official declarations and certificates of the persons who
were appointed to witness the execution of two criminals,
named Rushton and Mellor, which took place within the
precincts of the gaol on the 19th of February. They are
published in pursuance of the directions contained in the
Act, whiekis entitled " An Act to regulate the execution of
criminals." The documents are signed by the sheriff, the
under-sheriff, Mr. Capon, the visiting magistrates, D. C.
Hadley, constable Gabriel, and two javelin men. The
certificate of Dr. Benson is also appended, declaring that
he had examined the bodies. of the criminals and ifound
that they were dead.—New Zealand Gazette.
MURDER IN. FitaNcv..—A horrible murder was com-
mitted on the Ist at Turin, on the persons of a butcher
nam-d Beltrami and his assistant, Maine. It appears
that as they were retiring to rest at half past 9 p.m.,
three men, who had concealed themselves in the house,
suddenly fell upon them, despatched Beltratni, and
mortally wounded Maina. They then fled precipitately.
Maine's wife, who came in a few minutes after the
perpetration of the deed, was the first to give the alarm.
Maina was still able to give some information, but
nothing was found belonging to the assassins, except a
very good hat, a stiletto, and a stick. They had carried
off 3,000 f out of 15,000 f, which they had expected to
find. The police are on the search for the murderers.
Aseotr Races.—These races opened yesterday under
extremely favourable auspices. The weather beingbrilliantly
fine, many thousands of persons took advantage of it, and
proceeded by rail to Windsor; the Great Western Railway
was as usual the most favoured route, notwithstanding the
South Western had its full proportion of passengers ; the
parliamentary trains on both the lines drafted nearly .2 000
p raoris from the metropolis, and before nine o'clock, it is
estimated that by railway alone, no fewer than 20,000
-ersons had left town for Windsor. The fineness of the
-littler had the effect of cilling large numbers of vehicles
it,sl"don and the old Bath road was thronged with
carriages of every description, from the landau and
harouche's of the aristocracy, to the humble drag of the

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FATAL STEAM BOILER FxPLOSIO N.—About eight o'clock
on Monday morning the boiler of a stationary engine;
used,to draw coal waggons up an incline at the colliery of
Messrs. Wharton and Sons. 'Whittington, near Chester-
field, exploded with a terrific report. At the time men-
tioned George Holmes, the engine tender, was in the
engine house, letting down a train of waggons ; and
another young man, named Joseph Cooke, was leaning
against the engine-house door smoking a pipe, and asking
for work. Cooke was found dead, and with his skull
severely fractured, twenty yards from the engine house;
and Holmes was discovered submerged in the debris at
about a similar distance. He was sensible, although mach
injured, his face, indeed, being so disfigured that he was
scarcely recognisable. The boiler was blown into a dozen
pieces, three of the largest being found in the fields a dis-
tance of 250 yards. The ends of the boiler were found in
two fields 300 yards, and the sides were blown an equal
distance. The engine was scattered in all directions to a
distance of fifty yards. The rafters of the engine house,
bricks, files, and pants, and other building materials,
were blown into the adjoining field; and altogether it was
admitted by several engineers that a: more complete
destruction of a building never was seen.