The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-19 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA. MAILS

A.The Royal West India Mal packet Parana, Captain
g Wilson, from the West Indies, &c., arrived at
o"thltbDton on Sunday, and landed her mails under the
The
of Lieut. T. Tickell, R.N., Admiralty Agent.
11-I.e Parana brought 146 passengers, among whom were
.-'..210nel Berm, R.A., and family, from Jamaca : Dr.
from
Jn, n Deputy Medical Inspector of Nival Hospitals,
amaic4; Captain Grey, R.E.. from St. Lucia;
R.M invalided from her Majesty's ship
• 11-* Wise, paymaster, invalided from her
-""s--- Mr. Jolley, appointed
ilustrious ; Mr.
'rom D-merara ;
tikes; Rev. P.
Tood and family,
;uatemala; Mr.
Er. Connet and
m Carthagena ;
Mr De la Costa
>Wit on hoard,
630,000 dollars,
to the Yllne

value £4,884
the value c

ri July the 21st, 1
as at Greytovv-A.
.eported for Crey-
.e departu.-e of the
27th, the packet left lying at
Jamaica her Majesty's ships Euryalus. Amphion, and
tiermes ; and on the 29th, at Antiss]da, her Majesty's IthitiP 'Vestal. Commodore H. Kir,et, C. 13.,, was absent
„.°)11.1 Jamaica with her Majesty", ship Termagant, sou-
Cases
to have proceeded to I.3sv•rmuda, from the numerous
oases of fever in the vessel_ Her Majesty's ship Mariner
was at Havana. Her 111-tjestv's ship Falcon was at Port-
,,WPrince The P arac-na. left at St. Thomas the La
s-1 - - •
vessels
ara, tree, Derwent anti Wye, repairing on the slip.
N arse,
on the different routes, viz. :—On the
3•1340i5h Al.s'iii Clyde, Dee ; Havana line, Conway .
traril'''s La' Plata on the Islands, Derwent and Teviot,
And'aras Eagle. On Aug. 1, seven hours after quittin.Q;
St Th„ ~
-Inas, observed the smoke of a steamer, hull
11°Is- vri, standing Westward—supposed to have been the
-°lent, oi t 't.d packet. The Parana experienced
Moderate iWindsw an fine weather. Westerly winds,
,except the last three days, then from eastward. The
`"v° of Belize (British Honduras) has suffered from a
lonst calamitous fire, more extensive than the one which
iltoccurred two years ago. It was suppressed, but not
hiegnshed, when the packet Eagle left Belize on the
-.."
'4.'1145- Full Particulars could not he known, but
same eighty houses were destroyed on the north side,
nu 9 one on the south bank. Property to the amount of
the:rilly half a million of dollars has probably been lost to
JAMAICA nfote inhabitants.
Our files from the above island are
e
destitutebirll of general interest. The portion of horn
~.eigence by last mail regarding the state of the
..yearodee
Markets had proved highly acceptable to the
Innists The steady position maintained by colonial
produce' and the almost entire absence of all unnatural
1-Dectilation, in the face of a prospective short supply,
",,,,”treineli „
'withers 4 likely to elevate prices, were all regarded
f vourable aspect. With an improved enquiry
tor all descriptions in the home markets, the annual
dithi.„l.
owti-t.-"Y increasing in the United States to supply their
itealndperor of
,an the favourable
- -ants dviews expressed by the
the French regarding the sugar duties, all
alth to brighter prospects, which it may be hoped—
The °in° "Ming late—may have the effect of reviving
Iseatiat'.°lost waning enemies of the planter. Some very
ero, iful samples of ore have been sent sip from Charing
The sans the property of title Wheal Jamaica Company
the body °f
coining from at least a depth of 400 feet in
I,_,n 'Jody of-
i the hia, disprove the assertion of the ore
tuielei Limet'Y suPericial. The regularity and continuity of
alile en g 0; fr'-ond to keep much improving. Ceinsid.er-
tteurioc.R.ries for shares have taken place, which in a
TR:4`l‘l,nq country would soon be at a high premium.
liod („.„.IbAll—The statement of the half-year's revenue
•of j,sPendillu'e, published in the Port of Spain Gazette
trstui7l6, is satisfactory. The total receip's for the
for tl- Months of the year 185.5 were £61.059 8s 60 ;
payittee2.ix months of 1836, £73,687 Ils 6.0. The total
~e6037,i2ts for the first six months in 1855. were
470 3' Gd. and for the first six months of this year
1,1432 16s 3.1 d•
the."PICRARA.••---The weather since the departure of
.favoliT mail h 3 been very wet, but on the whole highly
.th able to the Planter. Much sickness prevailed on
• e estat
ti,fliv es bordering' on the east and 'A' 2s.t coast, spe-
'the (s* "I"g' the Portuguese emigrants. His Excellency
the -"errier had issued instructions, in consequence, to
.forthentluilial agent at the Island of Madeira stopping
1 !emigration Ifrom that quarter for the present.,
,eteo directors of the East India Company have put their.
thri_ °Pon private emigration from the company's terrtit:
ei,i"r9aand as the colonists are compelled to restoaritned
thug. tion for a supply of labour, hopes
.are enter
if.,
of th:e.,...rini.Onial Secretary (who has stulied the we are
, "'est Indian colonists), may be induced to per-
numb er', -cni..eration Commissioners to allow a large,
kriin 01 cool:es to be conveyed by each ship in pro-
0tut,,..t1 to tonnage, in accordance with the East Indiad
sz„2l t'''o9's Passengers Act. The Court of Policy ha
h__, on the Ilth July. The attention of - the legislators
,eo7lviti -.4 directed to various bills affecting summary
told let,l°lts, petty offences, limitation of actions at law,
,truli °t•al improvements. By the return of the Comp-
•ente,7,°f Customs, a falling off in the quantities of rum_
Gen'e't for consumption and shipment from the port of
4 erigetown appears to the extent of 333,770 gallon
nurioll.gi ott-hethi,,asptriet2v-lifolYear, as compared with a similar
oCinHILI AND PER3l,earThe Pacific Steam Navigation
reachPeaal,: steamship Bagota, Commander 11. Wyld,
dates front Is'll4 at seven a.m. on the 21st July, bringing
11th July
alsoa paraiso to the Ist, and from Callao to the
d„ is in - ' 24 passengers, the mails, and 405,000
the r Specie. 1-I.luch loss had been sustained throughout
overfletp,ublic from the effects of the late gales. The
raiat,„ W °I the rivulet Vina del Mar had damaged the
stse.„l7' and swept away the iron bridge across this
With The municipality f Sntiago h
pA,;e°lllPany to light theo citya with gasad contracted
.
der v-siiic.—Her Majesty's ship Cockatrice, CoMman-
-0:1
th 1110 n,
Jet 2 days from Manzanilla, reached Panama
tur e 13th They, bringing 860,000 dollars in treasure for
co rope kazrice also brought intelligence that
intr_9i).nfort had resigned the presidency of Mexico. From
wa"."gence furnished by the purser of the Pacific Steam
Thevigation Company's steamer Bogota, we learn that
,-„__ new steamship Panama, belonging to that company,
'as wrecked on a sunken rock in the Staits of Magellan,
,i,,,hirisnit ilea fast of Cape Farmer, on the sth of May last,
'sahatelcin her Passage from England to Valparaiso ; for-
idler - 3', 00 lives perished. The crew encamped on
pirste, where, after remaining some days, they were
. Vidle2lllP by an American brigantine bound to Monted
h '‘). On reaching the latter part the captain and
balancee Pneers procured a passage to Valparaiso, and the
_
, returned to England. This makes the third
aleanler this company has lost in the Straits within the
past
few years. We regret to state that the Pacific
1,"1,111 Navigation Company's vessel Santiago, after
0-,.,"„1ng Callao on 27th June for Valparaiso, run on shore
Ti.roint Santa Maria (shortly after quitting Pisce?.)
29th took place about eight o'clock on the evening of the
to 14-1, from what cause we have not heard. By returning
enables"e4ll the leak she sprung was sufficiently stopped to
her to come titidergoing thorough up to Panama, where she is now
repair:

Tot Tannin ROBBED --Tom Thumb's agent called upon
b 8 at a late hour last night, and informed us that the little
general had been robbed of all the jewels he had received
Ets presents, during the last eight or nine years, and amount-
ng' in value to ab 'ut twenty thousand dollars. They were
deposited on a chair near the piano, in the Melodeon Hall,
'with the intention of exhibiting them to the audience after
the Teneral's levee had closed, as is the usual custom—but
thatsvhenthhey w_ e
te tinse came for displaying them it was discovered
meditated r" missing. It is supposed that it was a Are-
a woman fo r
obbery, with one or more persons, and who had
thPm was betZienaetZnPal'ce. The box which contained
Commercial. nd three feet long.—Cincinnati

FATAL MISTAKE.--A. lamentable and distressing mistake
was made in a druggist's Shop in Stalybridge, on °Thursday
night, by the substitution of tincture of laudanum for tine-
tote of rhub which has resulted in the death of a young
girl, about thirteen Nears of ago, named Elizabeth Bram-
hall, d 'tighter of Jesbut! Drarnhalt, a mechanic, residing
at Cocker-hill, Stalybridge,.
and working at Messrs.
Itobert Lees and Sons, Dukinfield. It seems that ihe
young girl had been somewhat unwell, and her mother
sent her slater Mary, a youngert aughter, to Mr. Lees,
druzgist, Ras bottom street, f(2r whoeprennyTwhoirth of tincture
of rhubarb, Mr. Lees supplyinz
Thursday nihtwas dabout
nine o'clock, or half-past,
on;
tare obtained -was ansn°4
after the sister returned the mixture
soon fell asleep. taken Her
the unfortunate girl. She very
' rmed by her breathingfriends
r',
o'clock on
and about half-past one called in. Of
John P
St. lybrifigei wasearson, surgeon, d '
girl had been taking,
course he enquired at once what the
that it had a" " the cup being shown him he found
stomach
con-
tained tincture of laudanum. He at once applied the
her
pump ; ankl during his assiduous attendance upon
Or
(until Friday afternoon)
he applied it some four
her
five times and he had at one time some hopes of ,
an
the
recovery, but unfortunately the hope was not realised, a
the poor girl died on Friday, about three o'clock in
afternoon It seems that the bottles containing the two
Mixtures are placed near together in Mr. Lees' shop, and
the fatal dose must have been taken up in mistake for tinc-
ture of rhubarb, there being no difference in the colour. An
was held on Saturday, in which these facts were
given in evidence, and the jury returned a verdict attribu-
ting' the de an to the mistake of Mr. Lees, who handed S 5
to the family as an acknowledgment of his sorrow under
the circumstances,

ir!(riest

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES

CROWN COURT.

(BEFORE MR. JUSTICE WILMS

His Lordship took his seat on the bench yesterday
morning shortly after nine o'clock. The following
Juveette (Yereebens were then placed at the bar to
receive their sentences, for the undermentioned offences of
which they have been convicted, or had pl, a'led guilty :
John Cummins, aged 15 dyer, charged with house-break-
ing, at Manchester; Edwin Roy, aged 14, meubler,
charged with house-breaking at Manchester ; Luke Con-
lon, aged 15, factory-worker, with the same offence ;
William Jones, aced 16, dyer, with the same offence ;
Richard Jones, aged 14, slogger, with the same offence at
Salford; Robert Wallwoek. aged 14, with the same
offence at Bury; John. Taylor, aged 15, dyer, for the
same offence at Salford; Thomas Fowles, aced 11, a
printer's boy, with the same off 'nee ; Peter Moore, aged
15, reel-maker, for a burglary et Manchester. In passing,
sentence time the prisoners. his lordship said they had all
been foun'', guilty, or had pleaded guilty, to very serious
offencee_seme after having been previously convicted.
The '."eason that they were all placed at the bar together
WP.S because he had the power of dealing with those under
the age of sixteen in a better way than sending them to
prison for a lengthened period. It was more charitable
that they should be placed in a reformatory, and there
learn some good and useful trade, and thus give them a
chance of becoming rood and useful members of society,
than that they should be turned out of prison again to
pursue their vicious course. The court would give them
each a chance of becoming good members of society. and
for that purpose, as there was not room in any of the
Protestant reformatories for any more, he should send
those of that persuasion for a term of imprison-
ment to Parkhurst's Agricultural School in 1 eices-
tershire, and those who belonged to the Roman
Catholic faith, would be sent to the St. Bernard's Refor-
matory. The two prisoners, Roy and Oonlan, who
belong to the Roman Catholic faith, were then ordered to
be imprisoned for three weeks, and at the expiration of
that period, they were to be sent to the reformatory for
the term of five years. All the other prisoners, who
belonged to the established church, would, as all the
reformatories were full, be sent to Parkurst prison for
the term of two years, where they would also hate an
opportunity of learning a trade. Ann Clarke, aged 14, a
Roman Catholic, was also sentenced to 14 days' imprison-
ment, and then to be sent to the reformatory for five
years, for house breaking. Bridget Dolan, aged 16, a
foctory worker, six mouths' imprisonment, for receiving
stolen property at Manchester. William Kelly, a factory
worker, was sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment,
having been convicted of a robbery with violence, with
some other persons older than the prisoner, who Were
at the last assizes, sent for Six years' petal servi-
tude. John Drake, 19, two years' imprisonment, for
passing 'bad coin. John Cooper, aged 20, painter, 18
months' imprisonment, for burglary at Bolton. Edward
Banks, aged 24, a shoemaker, and a ticket-ofeave man,
was sent for six years' penal servitude, for a burglary at
Salford. Hannah Davis, aged 23, a shirtmaker, was sent
for eighteen months' imprisonment, for a burglary at
Manchester. John Lannigan, aged 18, a labourer, for
burglary at Manchester, five months' imprisonment.
Thomas Walworth, aged 48, engine driver, for a burglary
at Manchester, five years' penal servitude. Catheilne
Ruth, aged 21, factory hand, four months' imprisonment,
fora burglary at Salford.

BIGAMY.--john Tempest, aged 0.5, pleaded guilty to
having, at Woolton-on-the.hill, married Martha Bucha-
nan, his former wife being alive. The prisoner, aldress-
ing his lordship, said that five months after he had mar-
ried his first wife she left him and took all his property.
That she had repeatedly sold him up, and inflicted sundry
woun is on his body with knives and other instruments.
That he had done all he could to reform her, but that it
was impossible ; and that she left him three years ago
since which time he had never seen or heard anything of
her, or he should not have married a second woman. The
prisoner was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.

CRIMINAL ASSAULT AT MANCHESTER.—John Green,
aged 20, marine store dealer, was found guilty of having
attempted to commit a criminal assault upon a girl named
Higßinson, the daughter of a canvass manufacturer. The
prisoner denied the charge. He had been repeatedly con-
victed of various offences, His lordship said that it was
absolutely necessary that females should be pro:;ected
against the brutality of such men as the prisoner, and
therefore should punish him to the fullest extent of which
he had the power. Two years' imprisonment with hard
labour.

CHARGES OF RAPE AND CRIMINAL ASSAULTS.—John
Kewley, aged 23, a ship carpenter, was charged with
having, on the 3rd of August, committed a criminal
assault upon Mrs. Isabella Reid. In this case the prose-
cutrix, who represented herself as a dressmaker, but w',o
in reality is one of the abandoned characters wh'i nightly
frequent the streets, charged the prisoner with the above
offence. Her evidence was so exceedingly contradictory,
and so full of falsehood, that his lordship stopped the case,
at the same time observing that it must not be understood
that such characters would not be protected from such
outrages, when clearly established, but in this case he
was very doubtful whether he should not send the prose
cutrix for trial for perjury, as this was purely a trumped
up case against ►he prisoner. The jury acquitted the
prisoner who was instantly discharged. John Green,
aged 20, marine store dealer, was found guilty of an
attempt to violate a girl named Ann Dickenson, at Man-
chester, on the 14th July, and was sentenced to two
years' imprisonment with hard labour.
MANSLAUGHTER AT MANCHESTER.—James Bracken.
24, and Andrew Bracken. 21, labourers, were placed at
the bar charged with having, at Manchester, on the 28th
June, 1856, wilfully killed and murdered William Bates.
They also stood committed on the coroner's warrant for
the murder. Mr. Higgina conducted the prosecution, and
the prisoners were defended by Mr. Tvndal Atkinson
and Mr. M'Donnell. From the statement of the learned
counsel, and the evidence adduced in the case, it appeared
that about nine o'clock on the night of Saturday, the 28th
of June, the deceased, in company with a friend named
Taylor, was coming down George-street, !Jaime. They
had been drinkidg, together during the evening, and were
somewhat in liquor at the time. When near the Brown
Cow beerhouse, they saw the prisoners, who are brothers,
fighting with a man. He succeeded in escaping into the
beerhouse, and the deceased and his friend coming up at
the time, the prisoners turned on them. Taylor ran off
for the police, and left the deceased fighting with the
prisoners, who were also the worse for liquor. By them
he was knocked down, and while down Andrew Bracken
frequently kicked him on the head. When Taylor re-
turned, he found the deceased insensible on the ground.
He was immediately removed to the infirmary, and from
there to the police station, where he died shortly after -
wards. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder
against Andrew Bracken, with a strong recommendation
to mercy, and of manslaughter against James Bracken.
The former was sentenced to be executed, and the latter
to be transported for life.
The court rose at eight o'clock.