Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-12 00:00:00

THE COURT,

THE PRINCE OF; WALES AT,SHORNCLIFFE.—On Mon-
day, • his' Royal' Highness- the Prince of Wales com-
menced his military career by presenting colours to
the 100th (the Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) Regi-
ment_ of ydot, at Shorncliffe Camp. The Prince was
accompanied by his Royal Highness -the Duke of Cam-
bridge, and attended by Colonel Bruce, Captain Grey,
and a distinguished staff. After the regiment had been
duly paraded, and the usual formalities ;had been gone
through, his Royal Highness, on presenting the col
said :—" Lord Melville, Colonel de Rettenbcrg
officers and Soldiers of the 100th Regiment,

ind
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most gratifying to me that, by the • Geen's 'gracious
permission, my first public act since I have had the
honour of holding: a commission, in: the 'British army
shbuld be the presentation of colours to a regiment
which •is the spontaneous offering of .the loyal
and spirited Canadian people, and with which, at
their desire, my name has been specially associated.
The ceremonial in which we are now engaged
possesses a peculiar significance and solemnity,
because in confiding to you for the first time this
emblem of military fidelity and inlonr, I not only
recognise emphatically your enrolment into our national
• force, but celebrate an act whichproclaims and strengthens
the unity of the various parts of this vast empire under
the sway of our common Sovereign. Although, owing to
my youth and inexperience, I can but imperfectly give
expression to the sentiments which this occasion
is caleulated to awaken with reference to yourselves
and to the great and flourishing province of
Canada, you may rest assured that I shall ever watch the
progress and achievements of your gallant corps with
deep interest, and that I heartily *wish you all. honour and
• success in the prosecution of the noble career on which
you have entered." After the ceremony the Prince of
Wales left for Dover, where he arrived at half-past five
o'clock, to embark for Ostend, on his visit to .Rome.
QUEEN VICTORIA'S ANTICIPATED VISIT TO BERLIN.—
The Court Journal says : —lt is expected, should the
Princess Frederick William's first-born be • a son, that
the Queen will visit Berlin at Easter, to stand as
sponsor. Her Majesty, it is expected, will not be absent
more than a fortnight, and the visit of the Court will
therefore have no material effect on the London season.
The Yord of yesterday, contains a letter from Berlin,
dated Friday last, in which we read : —" We are expect-
ing the accouchement of the Princess Fredeiick William
from day to day. The aecoucheur of Queen Victoria
and an English nurse are on their way. Another nurse
of the Rhenish province will be at the disposal of the
Princess, who, I should add, remains marvellously well.
On the occasion of her delivery some of the political pri-
soners and refugees look for an amnesty. May the hope
be fulfilled." It is mentioned in another letter that the
nurse now in the royal household is the wife of a hus-
bandman in Westphalia.
TILE !" WRITE LADY" OF BERLIN: Singular reports
are in circulation here (states a correspondent from
Berlin). ' which we relate as signs of the public feel-
ing. it is rumoured that the White Lady 'has appeared
in the Palace. According to traditiOn, the White Lady
is an ancestor of the house of Hohenzollern, who is never
seen except when the Royal Family is menaced with
some grave and disastrous event. It is said . that
her appearance generally announces the death of the
reigning Prince, but on this occasion another signification
is given to it. The present rumour is, moreover, founded
ou a very singular circumstance. There is living in this city
a Man, named John, who enjoys great popUlarity among
the lower classes, and who occupies himself very much
with prophecies and predictions. He has been several
times punished by the Correctional Police, for his false-

hoods. Whenever anyiinportant occurrence takes place,
the general cry is "John predicted it." He is now in
prison for having, it is said, foretold the birth of a
prince, accompanied by a disastrous event. In popular
opinion, the prediction of John and the appearance
of the White Lady are connected with each other, and
there are many who feel uneasy as to what may happen.
A lady of honour of the Princess Frederick Charles, and
Mdlle. de Galtz, sister of the former, are said to have
been the first who saw the apparition. An inquiry has
been set on foot to discover the person who, for a stupid
joke, must have given rise to the report, by assuming
the costume of the White Ladi.
THE IMPERIAL VISIT TO ENGLAND
that the Empress Dowazer o

—lt is believed

from her serious illnes-s, will accompany the Emperor
Alexander on his proposed visit to London and Paris
this year.—Court Journal.

SECESSION OF A LIVERPOOL CURATE TO THE CHURCH
OF ROME.—The Rev. Arthur G. Marshall, late curate at
St. Matthias's Church, in Liverpool, last week wrote two
letters to his incumbent, the Rev. Philip Heins, one
dated January 3, and the other January 4, in the former
.of which he stated that the views he held were inconsis-
tent with the spirit of the Church of England, and that,
therefore, he could no longer hold the office of a clergy-
man, or receive "wages" which he could not conscien-
tiously earn ; and in the latter informing ➢ir. Rains that
since the preceding day he had become " a Catholic."
Mr. Trains, in reply, after reviewing the various dogmas
of the Church of Rome, adds :—" It is impossible, utterly
impossible, that you could have arrived at the truth of
all these separate doctrines in forty-eight hours - the only
conclusion that I can therefore come to, is, that you have
been in heart for a long time what you are now openly—
a Romish dissenter."

TUE Two SAlLORS.—Captain Jones relates a " good
story" of the conduct of two of the Naval Brigade, on
sentry duty at Allahabad :—" One who was on sentry on
the main works of the fort by moonlight, looking
over the parapet, saw another who was sentry on the
ravelin, or some outwork. Now Jack though he could
tell the head from the stern of a ship, and perhaps of a
harse, had not passed a competitive examination before
his admission into the service, and no doubt h!s educa-
tion in fortification and engineering had been sadly
neglected, and therefore he was not aware that the
outwork was not " part of the fortification which
he was so vigilantly guarding, and seeing a man walk
up and down outside of what he considered the fort, and

ucau. ucing lUll ui bpieb, iurtung oepoys,
&e., &c., challenged him. The sentry on the outer work,
not imagining that it was he who was the subject of his
messmate's anxious inquiries, held his peke, upon which
Jack in the fort let drive at Jack on the outwork. The
outwork Jack, a little taken aback by the musket ball
whizzing near his head, sung out, 1 Hallo ! that's your
game is it, my buck ? Here's let drive at you, then!' and
immediately returned the fire. On their being relieved
and taken to the guard-house, all that passed between them
was, ' Well, I'm blowed, Jack, but we are mortal bad
shots, we are.'"—Literary Gazette.
DIGNITY OF A MEXICAN PRESIDENT.—The Mexican
correspondent of the San Francisco Bulletin relates the
following incident :—A very laughable circumstance
occurred here on Independence Day, which will give you
some idea of the social standing of the present Presi-
dent of Mexico, Don Felix Zuloaga. The procession
had marched into the Alemeda, and the President
and his Ministers had taken seats under a canopy
arranged for their reception, when a person walked
lip and threw a pack of cards in Zuloaga's face !
This circumstance created a titer, great even
among the members of the Cabinet, for many of them,
as well as the spectators, had played at the same table
where Zuloaga had acted as croupier in former times.
Zuloaga tried to laugh himself, but it was "no go."
Different assertions were at once made as to the cause of
this act. Some said the person who threw the cards had
unfairly lost at play while Zuloaga was dealing
the cards ; others, that it was only a joke to
remind him of old timess The best remarks I
have heard on the subject were made by an old
woman, who, when told of the circumstance, expressed
disbelief. Her informant urged veracity; but the old
woman shook her head, and said, " It is quite impossible
any one could have been so impolite." Her informant
then said, " Why, I saw the cards with my own eyes."
" That may be," says the old woman, " I don't doubt
about the cards being there, but the poor man (Zuloaga)
must have dropped them out of his pocket by accident."

LECTURE ON A NEW MODE OF PRINTING —A lecture
was given last night in St. Martin's Hall, by Major
Beniowski, on a new mode of setting up type for printing,
by which means, according to the lecturer, boys can be
taught in a few months to work very much more rapidly
than the regular professional compositors. The type he
uses is composed of a piece of wood or metal, on one of
the six sides of which is the required letter in relief, with
the addition that on the opposite side called the foot of
the type, the letter is placed as found in print.
The lecture had not proceeded very . far without
an interruption, partially quieted by an appeal to the
spirit of fair play in an " English Meeting," and the
Major was again stopped further on by Mr. John Grant,
a compositor m connexion with the Overland Mail, who
denounced the system as "fudge and humbug," obtaining
great applause thereby, in which the lecturer good-
humouredly joined. He looked upon this invention as a
mode of reducing wages. Major Beniowski said, on the
contrary, that he paid the boys in his employment nearly
double what they would get elsewhere, and proceeded, after
having composed several words mentioned by the audience,
to exhibit the powers of his boys. Two of them set up a
paragraph from a newspaper at the rate of 5,000 letters
each per hour, and one of them stated that he had. only
been engaged at the business for five months. This
feat, which brought the lecture to a close, could not be
performed for some time. in consequence of the storm
raging in the hall, some of the audience trying to pre-
vent their introduction, while some applauded, the
major vehemently gestieillating, and the boys delighted
with the fun.