The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-21 00:00:00

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY.

The poll upon Mr. Henderson's amendment(against the
extension of the line between Dorsetshire and Exeter) sub-
mitted to the meeting held on Tuesday last, which closed on
Thursday, was officially declared on Saturday and is as
follows:

FOR THE AMENDMENT.

Voters. Capital. Votes.
Proxies .... 929 £1,750,674 12,089
Personal .. 111 299,895 1,825

Total .. 1040 £2,050,569
AGAINST THE AMENDMENT.
Capital. Votes.
710 £2,187,352 11,933
86 486, 477 1,978

13,914

Voters.

Proxies

Personal

Total.

796 £2,673,829 13,911

DR. BOWRING AT THE CONCERT HALL,

On Saturday evening, immediately after the performances
of Mr. Ellis, the celebrated Welsh harpist, Dr. Bowring,
delivered a lecture on Decimal Currency, to a large audience,
which, as usual, was assembled in the Concert-hall. The
learned lecturer pointed out in forcible terms, the benefits
which would result from the adoption of the decimal system,
and strongly urged its adoption. At the conclusion of the
lecture, Mr. THORNELY, M.P., came forward to propose a
vote of thanks to Dr. Bowring. He said he was quite sure
they would agree with him, that a most agreeable evening
had been spent. The music wso everything they could
desire ; and the beautiful harp music of Mr. Ellis, surpassed
everything h. neard. But his object in rising to address
was, to beg they might offer their thanks to Dr. Bow-
ring for doing them the honour of giving them the results
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suaded that it required only the public mind to be properly
awakened, for the legislature to pass an act which might
occasion some difficulties perhaps, and might not be done
just yet, but it certainly would be—of decimal coinage.
The advantages of a decimal system in calculating, were
very great compared with their present embarrassing system.
He begged to move that the thanks of this assembly be given
to Dr. Bowring for his very able lecture.
Mr. Wit. BROWN, M.P., in seconding the motion, re-
marked that Dr. Bowring attended there at considerable
inconvenience to give them his experience in countries which
he had visited, of the advantages of the decimal system over
the barbarous system of pounds, shillings and pence. He
luwe're weuaea 1,0 I,.llits. (Hear hear
was sure there were many enlightened men in the House of
Commons who took the same view of the subject that Dr.
did • but they were desirous of having an epression
„&r that they might not bee repulsed
boTfyhthoseerising public owphn
generation
get through the world better, with more good to themseras,
were better informea,
more advantage to their children, and more prosperity to
their country, under a decimal system. (Hear, hear.) That
was what Dr. Bowring had in view, and he had great
pleasure in seconding the motion of Mr. Thornely. (Cheers.)
The motion was carried by acclamation.
Mr. Wu. RATIrRONE moved a vote of thanks to Mr.
Thornely who presided over the proceedings of the evening,
which was also carried by acclamation, and the proceedings
terminated.

Despatches were received at the Colonial-office en Satur-
day morning from the Governors of the West India Is-
lands.

The British and North American steam-ship Europa
sailed from this port for New York on Saturday, with usual
mail, a fair cargo, and 84 passengers.
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An inquest was held on Saturday upon a child, named
John Joseph Higgins, whose death, under suspicious cir-
cumstances, we mentioned in our last issue. Upon the evi-
dence of Mr. Kemp, surgeon, the jury returned a verdict of
death from natural causes.
DEATH FROM BURNING.—Mary Hanratty, living at
Mersey-view Bootle, a child, four years of age, died on
Saturday from extensive burns which she had accidentally
received on the day before.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN GREGORY, ROYAL ENGINEERS.
—Captain William Gregory, who was for the last ten years
almost entirely helpless, owing to infirmities contracted
during his military services in the colonies, died on Friday
morning at Woolwich. The deceased was a brother of the
late Hon. John Gregory, who died a few months ago, while
Governor of the Bahamas.

Mr. John H. Hay chief clerk at the Admiralty,
died at Woolwich at four o'clock p.m. on Friday, after a
short illness, having been at the admiralty, in the perform-
ance of his official duties, on Tuesday morning last.
DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT.-HiS Grace
the Duke of Beaufort died at Badminton Park, on Thursday
afternoon last, in the 62nd year of his age, The late duke
will be succeeded in his titles and estates by his son, the
Marquis of Worcester, one of the members for East
Gloucestershire.

A LUCKY ANGLER.—On Monday last, while Mr. Tho-
mas Palings, of Nottingham, was trolling for pike in that
part of the Soar known as "Thackholm Deeps" he caught
with a three-thread silk line a salmon, which measured
three feet seven inches in length, and weighed 231b.—Not-
tingham Journal.
DEPUTATION TO LORD PALMERSTON ON THE TURKISH
QUESTION.—On Saturday a deputation, consisting of Lord
Dudley Stuart, M.P., Messrs. J. A. Nicholay, Professor
Newman, John Wilson, Prout, and Hickson, waited upon
Lord Palmerston, at his residence in Carlton-gardens, for
the purpose of presenting an address to the Queen, which
had been agreed to at the recent great meeting at the Lon-
don Tavern, protesting against Russian encroachments on
Turkey. Lord Dudley Stuart introduced and explained
the objects of the deputation to his lordship, and the ad-
dress was then read, the last paragraph of which expressed
a want of confidence in her Majesty's government as at
present constituted, in reference to its foreign policy, and
Lord D. Stuart explained that such was the general, al-
though not quite the unanimous opinion of the great meet-
ing over which he had the honour to preside. Lord Pal-
merston, who listened with great courtesy and attention to
the observations directed by the deputation to his notice,
expressed his convictitm that it was the determination of
her Majesty's government, at all hazards, to preserve the
intregity of the Ottoman empire, and promised to lay the
address
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earliest opportunity. The deputation then retired.-01,-
server. _ _

LAMENTABLE DEATH FROM DRINKING VITRIOL IN Ms-
TAKE FOR "POP."—On Tuesday last, a fine bov, six years
of age, named John Lawson, who resided with his uncle,
Mr. John Lawson, broker, at Wigan, came to his death from
drinking vitriol. About eight o'clock in the morning, the
boy had got up, and, no one being present, he had climbed
from a chair on to a table, and got a ginger-beer bottle con-
taining a small quantity of vitriol out of the cupboard,
pulled out the cork, and drank the contents. He was
heard to scream, when Mr. Lawson, who was up-stairs
dressing at the time, immediately ran to his assistance, and,
on discovering what had happened, he gave him a dose of
oil, and filled his mouth full of butter, and forced him to
swallow it. The symptoms at first were not considered
very alarming, but, as he continued to get worse during the
forenoon, Dr. Heaton was called in, but his services were
unavailing, and the child expired about two o'clock in the
afternoon. An inquest was held on the body on Wednesday,
when the jury returned a verdict of "accidental death."

CRAYON SKETCHES.
BY THE COUNT DE GABALIS.

Drawn expressly for " The Northern Daily Times'

NO. T.
BE it so Stop the press by all means, and let
the NORTHERN DAILY TruEs enjoy something like
a holiday, while these snatches of modern romance
are thrown off like gleams of sunligh',, on the bleak
desert of every-day life. The TIMES ought to
desiderata some little rest—some occasional re-
pose—as, since the first dawn of its existence,
some seven or eight weeks ago, it has never ceased
working for the advantage of the northern empo-
rium of commerce—of this admittedly primary
port of the universe for shipping, traffic and enter-
prise—and its paces are now become the practical
telegraph of South John Street.
A letter from Bendigo turns up a deep train of
thought, and awakens sweet and strange and
curious recollections. , coroner for

the county of ! The same young gen-
tleman who was nearly obliged to wear his Macin-
tosh for life, summer and winter, for better for
worse. The very same. There was no great need
of ingenuity to work up a tale of the days of the
Hatchpools and the Geraldines, amidst the wreck
of princes and chieftains, and the erratic but bril-
liant careers of the military and high -blooded
adventurers which the folly and the flimsiness, and
the bigotry, of the second James had sent all over
the continent. But think, after all, that our own
days, chained down as they are to the regular rou-
tine of more ordinary habits, should be so richly
strewn with the Australian spices and odours • of
romance ! It is truly wonderful !
The story of the coroner for been
• in. general circulation since the occurrence took
place, a few years ago, so that there can be no
breach of delicacy whatever by recapitulating its
principal features. Indeed, for that matter, one of
the Limerick papers of the day contained the
entire particulars of the untoward affair—and
something more—one of which was sent by post,
even to a member of his family, in the capital of
south Munster, ere the final adjudication of the
ease in the Ecclesiastical court had been made.
The
was little more than an overgrown effeminate boy
when the lucky—or unlucky—circumstances turned
up which we are now about to narrate. He is a
native of Cork, and the eldest son of Mr.
of facetious --memory, one of the best
raconteurs in the parish of the Holy Trinity in
the beautiful city, who had only to begin weaving
his web of narrative when he drew it forth as
freely and as fluently as the conjurer draws his
mystical ribbon, and as interminably. The father
had been some years dead; but his mother, a pru-
dent and respectable woman, conducted the estab-
lishment—that of hairdressing and perfumery—by
means of a foreman. So notable and industrious
was she, that the children, several boys, never felt
the want of the deceased parent, and the subject
of our present notice was, at the proper age, bound
apprentice to an apothecary and surgeon. He was
a kind, docile, and well-tempered young gentleman ;
but his manners were so gentle and bland, that
the world, always censorious, seemed to consider
them effeminate, and the estimate was no way
lessened by the more than ordinary degree of
attention which he bestowed upon his outfit. His
neck-tie was put on to a nicety; his shirt pins
were ornamentally neat; and his vest was cut with
all the precision that characterised the fashionable
establishment of Murphy and O'Connor. The hat
boasted a Parisian nap as sleek and as glossy as
velvet, and his handkerchief was redolent of Eau
de Cologne. Altogether, in manners, habits, and
appearance, he was a model for the profession as a
surgical student. Unknown to the world, for who
could suspect one so young, so gentle, and, withal,
so lady-like ?he had been for some months in the
habit of paying the most assidious attentions to a
lady, who, of course, must be presumed to bane
been youthful, though, if we mistake not, she wore
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highly literate, and recherche in her reading and
pursuits, she was captivated by the bland suavity
of the young student's manners—and this would
be no wonder. Their places of residence were not
very remote, and, besides, there were, at the time,
many literary institutions in the city where they
were enabled to meet each other weekly. How-
ever, they did not want for opportunities of coming
together, and their attachment appears to have
acquired additional strength from its secrecy. At
length, in the completion of his professional
studies, he found it necessary to visit the Metropo-
lis ; and, whether the neglect was intentional, or
otherwise cannot be satisfactorily ascertained :
left, at all events, without ou...‘,,i..fopriate leave-
taking which accompanies mutual affec-
t;‘,.. up to this period, however, there seems to
have been no clear explicit understanding between
the parties, neither in the shape of a proposition
of marriage, nor promise of any kind solicited or
given, as customary in such engagements of the
heart. • We have reason to believe, though of
course we cannot be certain, that no correspondence
occurred between them during his absence in
Dublin, and the rumour of the day, amongst his
friends, went so far as to say that Sackville-street
saw no indication of the disconsolate lover in
—. But months rolled by—as they
will ever roll, despite of the various entanglements
of the heart—until, after the lapse of nearly a year,
the young student, ripe and ready for the exercise
of his lancet, and for his grand entrée into his pro-
fessional career, returned to his native city. The
star of his destiny here culminated, when days
passed by without having paid a visit, either by
way of courtesy or the renewal of love, to the fair
object of his former flame. There were no indica
tions whatever of any intention on his part to renew
their acquaintance, and it had been so quietly
carried on during its transitory existence, that it
excited neither comment nor suspicion. The idol
had fallen from its pedestal, and the shrine was
desolate. However, matters were not suffered to
lie dormant after this fashion, particularly as he
„had become more than ever an object of attraction
and solicitude, even in a wordly point of view. He
was now a professional gentleman, about to step
out on a career of utility and profit, where wealth
and fame, perhaps both, would await his acqui
sition.

One morning, shortly after his return from the
Metropolis, he was startled by the announcement
of a visitor at his dwelling-house, in George-street,
in the city of Cork, who was stated to be under
some unusual excitement and who was unknown
to the other members of the family. On going
down to the shop parlour, he discovered that it
was Mr. , the brother of the young
lady who had been formerly the object of his de-
votion, such as it was, but which had evidently
ceased to rule or guide him. What could have
occasioned the visit? He thought he had acted
with consummate prudence when he privately
availed himself of a casual opportunity of explain-
ing to her that their intimacy, on its former footing,
could not continue, and in which determination
she appeared for the moment to agree, passively
at least. However there was the brother, and after
some customary salutations, though of a very frigid
character, had taken place between them, Mr.
---- abruptly referred to his sister and
required to know his intentions respecting her,
and whether he proposed to make her matrimonial
reparation. Young peremptorily denied
having ever said or done anything in connexion
with Miss --- which could render him
liable to such a requisition, repeating over and
over again, that his attentions to the lady had
never exceeded the gentlemanly limits of good
breeding and courtesy. Any real injury, personal,
Or otherwise, he had never done her even in
thought. But his disclamations were of no use,
and his earnest disavowals went for nothing. The
result was, that he was requested to make the
same, or similar statements, in presence of Miss
s family and her own. The young
gentleman consented to do so, glad to get rid of
the matter, as he thought, so easily. But he was
greatly mistaken. When they reached the private
domicile of the -
.s, the entire affair
began to wear a. very different aspect. Only
imagine his astonishment, When he saw himself
surrounded by all the appearances of a marriage
ceremonial which had been ostensibly some time
in preparation. The marriage license stared him
on the table ! The parties were of different
_ religions. The lady belonged to a branch. of the
protestant community, the Unitarian, which has
won golden opinions for itself with the people of
Cork, and is deservedly ranked high in public es-
timation. The young student, or surgeon, as we
should now learn to call him, as he had completed
his studies, was of the Roman Catholic persuasion,
arid a sincere and .respectful observer of its.,ordi-
nances. He now saw arrayed before him his

intended wife per fas aut nefas, her father, her
mother, her sister, her brother, and—an Unitarian
clergyman. But his sharp, yet, bewildered eye,
caught sight of some objects on the side table, far
more bewildering than all these, formidable as they
were—a pair of pistols ! The clergyman stood
robed for the performance of a ceremony. Could
it be his marriage ? Nothing more nor less. The
nervous sensibility of this, young surgeon, led him
to apprehend the pistols were loaded—and so they.
were ! There was no sort of disguise upon the
point. The brother once more became the prin-
cipal actor, and soon removed 'his doubts ; he
declared that his sister's peace of mind had been
irreparably lost, and her reputation injured, per-
haps gone. Mr. must at once afford her the
only reparation in his power, by marrying her ,
otherwise, and he laid his hand on one of the
pistols—he must take the consequences. The
skeletons in the ancient Egyptian festivals never
did such execution as those pistols. The young
surgeon shook inwardly, not like one, but like a
bundle of aspen leaves that had no room to flutter
as they liked ; he trembled all over. His remon-
strances and explanations were treated as chaff,
and passid as the idle wind. The marriage knot
or the pistol bullet. The gentleman surrended at
discretion. He had no liking whatever for lead in
any shape. To escape the fatal alternative he per-
mitted the performance of the ceremony. Miss
and became man and

wife. The drawing rooni, where the rites and the
scene occurred, was now thrown open, for the door
was unlocked which had been previously secured
by the brother, and the key ostentatiously placed
in his pocket, and the Rev. Mr. the Unita-
rian clergymen walked off. But the --'l4
were no fools, but were wise in their generation,
and knowing that the surgeon's family were Ro
man Catholics, they had provided a clergyman of
that religion to complete the union of the parties.
He was now ushered up stairs, and he was called
upon by old
crowning validity to the new Hymeneal contract.
This ceremony, too, is over. The young surgeon,
poor fellow ! lady-like and effeminate as he was, up
to this moment sustained himself uncommonly well
through these strange and sudden and peremp-
tory movements, but now that the alliance appeared
to be complete, and that the parties around seemed
appeased in the relaxation of their rigidity, his
spirits quailed, he sank on . a chair and fainted.
Poor fellow ! He soon recovered, and as if he had
drawn fresh energy from his insensibility, he im
mediately appealed to the clergyman who still re-
mained, for protection, and demanded to be let go
at large and return home. No impediments were
offered on the part of the
parture. Proceedings were immediately com-
menced in the ecclesiastical court of the Cork and
Ross diocese, and the proctors were soon up to
their chins in business. The story became the
table talk of the South of Ireland for some time,
and, strange to say, through the medium of a Lime-
rick paper. But that is of no great consequence,
one way or the other, The young surgeon soon
mustered spirit enough to show himself in his
customary promenades, and the fact is that natu-
rally he appears to have had spirit enough, or, to
speak even more intelligibly, pluck enough to bear
up against anything of the kind, but for the sud-
denness and novelty of the combination. He was
extremely young, not at all of age, and had been
almost entirely reared tip by a most affectionate
and doting mother, and it was no great wonder
that on being abruptly called upon in this violent
manner he did not display all the firmness of one
conversant with the ways of the world. However,
he had the satisfaction to learn that the Ilishop's
Court soon decreed the forced marriage an illegal
one. The public Of Cork, although they commisse-
rated the young lady under the circumstances, felt
that the ecclesiastical authorities had done their
duty.

STRIKES IN THE 21IANUFA.CTU.RING

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SERIOUS DISTURBANCES AT BLACKBURN.

On Wednesda: evening Blackburn was again the scene of
a disturbance which created great alarm amongst the peace-
ably disposed inhabitants. Throughout the day knots of
men and women (Preston factory operatives) were to be seen
strolling up and down the town, some singing—
" We'll never be content
Till we get the ten per cent."
But they did not attract any particular attention till they
searched the omnibus that met the 12 o'clock train from
Preston, in the hope of finding some "Preston master."
No fear, however. we. cut dusk, when the num-
„t rreston operatives was considerably augmented by
the Blackburn factory hands. Then they savagely asked
and looked for the Preston masters, saying, that they (the
masters had come to Blackburn to induce the manufac-
turers ere to stop their mills, or work short time till the
Preston dispute was settled, so that the Blackburn hands
could not so munificently support the Preston turn-outs as
they had hitherto done. The first person that experienced
the fury of the mob was Mr. Henry Nightingale, foreman
to Mr. Catterall, manufacturer, of Preston. He was
followed from the Bull, up Shorrock-fold, and to Union-
street, where be took refuge in St. John's Tavern. He
rushed into a bed-room, and immediately afterwards fainted,
from the effects of the severe kicking and blows he had expe-
rienced. Mr. Garth, tailor, of Preston, was also attacked,
but he was not much hurt: He escaped from his assailants
into the shop of Mr. Woods, bookseller, from which it was
announced that he was not a manufacturer, but a knight of
the needle. This crowd, much disappointed, left their in-
tended victim, and retraced their steps to the Bull Hotel, in
which they confidently expected there were still several vic-
tims to the ten per cent. movement. [The Bull, we ought
perhaps to state, is the Exchange of Blackburn every Wed-
nesday, and there manufacturers from all parts of Lancashire
meet weekly to transact business.] No other Preston
chaps,' however, came out of the inn, and that so enraged
them that they kept up a volley of hisses, groans, &c., till
between eight and nine o'clock, when Mrs. Sansom, landlady
of the Bull, gave the mob permission to send two, four, or
six of their number to search her house. They immediately
took advantage of the permission, and in a very short space
of time three companies, each headed by a servant, were in
quest of Preston manufacturers, in order, if found, to give
them up to the fury of an enraged mob. Their search, how-
ever, was in vain, but it appeared to satisfy them, and also
the thousands of lawless individuals who were waiting out-
side. One of the inspectors said to a servant, as he was pass,-
ing through the kitchen, "It's very well you've let us look
through, or else there would not have been a whole pane of
glass left in your house to-night."

Every minute after six o'clock it was expected that an
attack would be made on the Bull, and, with the view of
preventing that and a general riot, the watch committee
and the superintendent of police concentrated all the con-
stabulary force of the town (about 19), and the fire brigade,
in the old market-place, in front of and contiguous to the
Bull. Shortly after that step was taken, the borough ma_
gistrates were called together to consider the propriety of
sending for the soldiers. Before the magistrates, however,
met (many of them living at a considerable distance from
each other) the crowd had dispersed, and the town appeared
tranquil. A general opinion was expressed throughout the
evening that as Blackburn is the seat of periodical disturb-
ances, soldiers should be stationed in the town continually.
Between eight and nine there could not have been less than
five thousand operatives in front of the Bull.