The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-17 00:00:00

THE MILITARY COURT OF INQUIRY

The Dining-hall at Chelsea Hospital is being fitted up
for the sittings of the Court. Ample accommodation for
the press and the public will be made, about 1,200 of whom
will be admitted. Early this week the court will assemble
formally, and adjourn to about the end of the week, when
the business will be at once entered on. Sir Thomas
McMahon has forwarded a medical certificate of his
inability to be it member of the board. Colonel Wetherall,
Director-general of Transports in the Crimea, son of the
Adjutant-general, has been telegraphed to return to
England, to attend as a witness, and the Field Marshal
Commanding-in-chkf has directed that several of the
officers who are on leave of absence in England, from the
Crimea, shall not return to the East till the breaking up
of the Board. The Earl of Cardigan has sought the
assistance of Mr. Merewether, Q.C., in preparing his
answer. Sir Richard Airey has been for the last three
weeks preparing his answer. He is assisted by Sergeant
Ringlake, Mr. Towers, solicitor, Colonel Steele, and
Major Hackett.

LANCASHIRE

TIRE RAILWAY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMM.

Sir,—After a protracted warfare, the directors of this
railway and the East Lancashire, have entered into a
coalition. Not content with having raised their fares 300
per cent, and putting on the screw to contractors 50 per
per cent, namely, from £l2 to £lB—the directors seem
determined to make their power felt.
Two days since, they issued a new time table, headed
"Important alterations in trains on the Southport rail-
way." In my ignorance, I presumed this notice meant
that some greater facility was to be afforded to contrac-
tors and others. Fool that I was, to suppose that the
" circumlocution office" of this directorate meant any such
thing. No I No ! Good gentle public, we (the circumlo-
cution gentlemen of the coalition lines,) have got you in
a fix, and we will keep you there.
Hitherto we have had an early slow train, leaving
Southport at 7.30, and an express at 9 a.m., due at Liver-
pool at 9.35. This train is used by all business men,
who for the sake of good air, and brushing away the
cobwebs of business from the mind, have chosen South-
port, Kirkdale, &c., as a locale.
Ha! the circumlocution gentry of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway have issued a mandate—" Take off
the 7.30 a.m. train. Then as to the 9 a.m. Ah, hem !
The train shall start as usual—but it shall not be express."
It shall stop at every station, and instead of arriving at
Liverpool at 9.35, it shall arrive there at 9.ss—thus caus-
ing us business men to lose twenty minutes most valuable
time. There is not a contractor among us to whom this
change (if carried out) will not prove a great inconveni-
ence—indeed, to some, it will be more serious.
I cannot believe that the directors have given the sub-
ject that calm consideration which, at the hands of busi-
ness men it deserves. :The directors ought to recollect
that " time is money ; " and if they attempt to kill that
bird, they may realise the fable of the " Goose and the

Golden Egg."
Will it be believed by any rational minl, that parties
residing at Southport are not to have an early express
train to Liverpool ?—more 'particularly paying such high
fares. Whatever alterations the directors may think
proper to make, let them do justice to the contractors,
and land them at Tithebarn-street Station not later than
9.35 a.m. The contractors have a right to an express
morning train—it is an implied part of the contract, and
I feel convinced that the directors will yet do us justice.
But let no delay take place. Bis dat qui cito dat is a good
axiom.—l am, sir, yours &c., BET t.
Birkdale, March 13, 1856.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—Will you do me the favour to insert the following ?
I read yesterday, with some satisfaction, a letter in your
useful, and widely circulated, journal, signed " Civis." re-
markinc, on the impropriety, and, I would add, the injus-
tice, of the two companies controlling the traffic to the
above.named place (Southport), in the alteration of fares.
As to the impropriety,—there can be no doubt that it
must materially injure the traffic by so suddenly raising
their rates from 2s. 6d. per week to 4s. 6d. per diem, and
it is most certainly a great injustice on the part of the
authorities, to deprive those who were by the cheap fares
induced to go and live out there, of the option to take
yearly contracts at the same rate as the original contrac-
tors, or leave them without the means of travelling on
their lines of railway, except at the ruinous rates of 4s.
6d. per diem. I cannot but express my opinion, that the
sudden transition from the low fares, to the high rates
they are now charging, was a dead " trap" upon the suppor-
ters at the cheap rates, taking into consideration their
being unconscious that any movement would take place
affecting their pockets in so prejudicial a manner.
Although I was induced, myself, to become a contractor
at the cheap rates, yet I did not approve the system which
both companies adopted, in carrying passengers at such
marvellously low rates, but I cannot help deprecating the
movements of any set of men, who will lend themselves,
first to beguile, and afterwards to entrap ; for when the
alteration . was made, only one or two days' notice was
given.
Another piece of injustice I may as well mention, which
now exists on the part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Rail way Company. At the present rates, a return ticket
between Liverpool and Southport costs 4s. 6d. ; but, let a
passenger take a return ticket to Waterloo, for which he
will pay Is., he can then alight at Waterloo, and take a
return from that place, and proceed by the same train for
2s. 61 ; total, 3s. 6d., which is a manifest injustice to the
man who goes direct to Southport and back, and books
at the Liverpool station, paying more than the person
' who either alights, or avails himself of the opportunity
of booking at both stations on the line.
' In fairness, a man who buys most, or uses most, of
another man's property, is presumed to receive the largest
share of benefit, but the reverse appears to be the case in
this instance.—Enclosing my card, I am, &e.,
AN OCCASIONAL READER.
Liverpool, 13th March, 1856.

7he letters from Paris continue to speak with the utmost
confidence of peace, and the speculative mania increases in
proportion. Cautious persons apprehend that peace and a
revulsion may come together. Some small parcels of gold
still arrive from the Continent.
The admission of Prussia to the Conferences confirms the
statements made in the Independance and Daily News, of
Thursday, that the conclusion of a :peace will be
announced almost immediately. Prussia can only have
been admitted to sign, not to discuss, the terms of peace.
Her admission shows how far the negociators have advanced

t wards a final settlement.
TUE QUEEN'S VIaT TO WOOLWICH.—Her Majesty v" sited
Woolwich on Thursday to witness the arrival of the officers
and men of the Royal Artillery siege train, direct from the
Crimea. At four o'clock the officers and men of the siege
train, in number about 900, marched up from the arsenal,
where they were disembarked, headed by the Royal
Artillery band, and passed by Her Majesty. They were
then formed in line en the common, and the Queen passed
down the ranks for the purpose of minutely inspecting their
appearance. The whole having marched past in quick time
wheeled into line and presented arms. The Queen and the

royal party then returned to London.
EXTRAORDINARY MURDER.—A letter from Potsdam, of
March 7, in the Spener Gazette, says—The news of a

most tragical event has just been circulated. The surgeon-
dentist Jannson, who some time since quitted Koenigsberg
to establish himself in Berlin, arrived yesterday with his
wife and two children, one of seven and the other of eleven
years of age, at an hotel of this city. At two in the after-
noon, the landlord being astonished that none of his newly-
arrived guests made their appearance, broke open the door
in the presence of a police agent. He found Jannson, his
wife, and the two children all dead. The unhappy man
had killed his wife and children with chloroform, and, after
laying them all three out upon the bed, he had sat down on
the sofa and destroyed himself.
THE JOSEPHINE WILLIE.—At the Maidstone assizes on
Wednesday, the case of Richard Bouchier, the chief officer
of the steamer Mangerton, who was charged with the man-
slaughter arising out of the running down of the ship
Josephine Willis, came on for trial before Mr. Justice
Coleridge. After the case for the prosecution had closed,
several witnesses were examined on behalf of the prisoner,
with a view to show that the Mangerton was not to blame,
and among them was Captain Robertson, the government
inspector, who repeated the evidence he gave before the
commissioners, which was to the effect, that according to his
opinion the accident was occasioned by the helm of the
Josephine being ff starboarded " instead of " ported." The
learned judge, when this evidence had been given, inter-
posed, and intimated that it appeared to him that upon the
facts that had been proved in behalf of the defence the charge
of manslaughter could not be maintained. The jury conse-
quently returned a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner
was discharged.
THE IMPERIAL CRADLE—On Wednesday the cradle pre-
sented by the city of Paris to the coming Imperial infant,
was taken to the Tuileries. It had been previously exhibited
privately fur a short time at the Hotel de Ville. The arms
of the city of Paris suggested the design. It. is made in
the form of a ship, with an eagle at the prow, and an alle-
gorical figure representing the city of Paris at the poop.
At the foot of the statue are two marine gods, looking upon
the cradle with the protecting eyes of friendly divinities.
At each corner of the cradle are winged syrens with silver
bodies and golden tails. On the outside are four medallions
representing the cardinal virtues of princes—Strength,
Vigilance, Prudence, and Justice, with the initials N.B.
between each medallion. The cradle is surmounted by an
Imperial crown and a cross. The material is rosewood, gold
enamel, and oxydisation silver. But the oxydisation has
been purposely done so lightly as merely to diminish the
glare of the silver, without changing it to too sombre a
colour. A number of artists have been employed upon the
work. The crown and cross are by Jacquard, the ornaments
by MM. Fremiers and Deurrebergue. The general con-
ception of the work is dae to . Victor Raltar. The
SimarMt, and the putting d
together
statue was exeouted by M.
of the whole was confined to M. 12roment Meurice, son of
the celebrated artist, whose loss the nation has lately had
to deplore.
Tux RAGLAN MEMORIAL.—On Thursday morning, the
committee connected with this undertaking, with several of
the noblemen and gentlemen subscribers, amongst whom
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Grace
the wereDukehi
s of Richmond, Lord Dalhousie, &-c,„ &c,' assembled
in the theatre of the -United Service Institution, Whitehall,
for the purpose of handing to the present Lord Raglan the
estate of the Kefntilla, or Fairfax estate, near Raglan Castle,
which had been purchased for the purpose of presentation,
as a memorial of the esteem and admiration entertained for
the late lamented Field Marshal Lord Raglan. On the
proposition of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
tThheec
nh
oa
bi rl
ewas
chairman, a ken bayftehrisa
eGfwaceititthreodpulcitkoreyofßi
c hm
observations,ond
read a statement drawn us by the committee relative to the
presentation of the title eeds of the estate. This estate,
which comprises 192 a. Or. 26p. in the county of Monmouth,
now commonly known by the name of Kefntilla (but hereto-
fore also known as the Fairfax Farm, in consequence of the
same having been the head quarters of General Wes'
during the siege of Raglan
Castle during the great civil
wars,) was purchased of Crawshay Bailey, Esq., M.P., for
45,500 ; and an estate of twenty acres, in the immediate
neighbourhood of Kefntilla, purchased for £B6B 18s. sd.
Lord Raglan then came forward from the body of the
meeting, and received the deeds from the hands of his grace,
replying to the accompanying remarks of the chairman in a
feeling manner. The proceedings closed with a vote of
thanks to the chairman, proposed by the Duke Of
Cambridge,