Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-11 00:00:00

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The!Prince Consort yesterday visited the Graad Duke
Constantine at the Pier Hotel, Ryde. '
There is no fresh circumstance of importance to record
in connection with the builders' strike.
Sir Baldwin Leighton is a candidate for South Shrop-
shire in the LiberaLinterests. The eldest son of Viscount

Boyne will prof
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ld a dividend

£2 9s Gd per whole or £s'o Share, and
ie same proportion on the half and quarter Shares, less

nment intends t,

employ the Royal Engineers
to carry on the construction of the new factory at Wool-

arsenal, for the manufacture of Sir H. Armstrong's

rifled ord

The Committee of the Lancashire Master Spinners'
Defence Society have addressed a letter to the Times, de-
scribing for the benefit of the Metropolitan Master Buil-
ders, the practices resorted to during strikes in Lancashire.

•
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—YESTERDAY.
The House met for formal business. Several bills were

Lord WODE6USE, in moving the second reading of the
Poor-law Payment of Debts Bill, said, that its object was to
provide against the recurrence of the difficulties which had
occurred lately through the frauds and defalcations in the
unions of the City of London. •

Lord REDESDA7LE objected to the bill, and the Lord Chan-
cellor supported it. The Bill was read. a second time, and
the House shortly afterwards adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-YESTERDAY,

THE PONTEFRACT ELECTION

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE BANK ROBBERY IN WALES.-At the Chester assizes
'Miami Robert Mauricoi who vas found guilty of robbing

ank at Portmadoc, las

eek, has been
and labour.

aced to lg

mths' imprisonment .with

On Thursday last, Mr. John Boyd, of the Caledonian
Soho°ls, Liverpool, was elected to the mastership of Kil-
barchan parish. Mr. Boyd is a young man of great promise,
and is highly recommended as a teacher in the several
situations which he formerly held. Mr. Boyd was seleCted
out of a list of twenty-seven applicants for the situation.—
Glasgow Herald. . . .

FATAT STREET ACCIDENT.—Last evening, about five
o'clock, a young boy about six years of age, named Thomas
Buchanan, was amusing.himself in Park-lane when a coach
passed, and he got behind it. He soon let go, aid was
making his way to the parapet, when, a hearse coming up,
knocked him down, and running over his chest, killed him
on the spot.

A FALL FROM A WAREHOUSE.—Yesterday, a man named
Jilhn Couthie, a labourer, employed at a warehouse in Gil-
bert-street, was engaged in unloading some carts, when he
fell from the third storey, and received such injuries that
his life is despaired of. He is in the Southern Hospital.

THY: ORMSRIRK AND SOUTHPORT 'AGRICULTURAL AND
POULTRY SHOW took place yesterday at Ormskirk, in a
large mid commodious field adjoining the East Lancashire
Railway-station. There was an exceeding choice display
of cattle, horses, and produce. In the evening, the dinner
took place at the Town-hall, Sir Thomas Ilesketli, Bart., of
Rufford we are prevented by a pressure
of other matter from giving an extended report of the pro-

TRH WARRINGTON FORGERIF..-At the Chester. Assi-
zes, James 13-ntley; ironmonger, 'Warrington, and Annie
Bentley, his daughter, were indicted for forgery. The bill
of indictment against • the' male prisoner contained five
Counts, and charged him with forging and uttering bills of
exchange to the amount of £l,OOO, with intent to defraud
John Naylor, of Grappenhall, on the'the Ist of June,'.lBs4.
The female prisoner was indicted for havinc, forged • and
uttered bills of exchange, amounting to £B5O, alSo with
intent to defraud John Naylor, at Grappenhall; on Ist of
December, 1857. The, male prisoner pleaded guilty, and
witnesses to eharactei were called. The female prisoner
pleaded not guilty. The defence in b„---

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ries she

tons. The jury acquitted her, the verdict being received
with applause. Mr. Baron Channell, after dwelling upon
the enormity of the crime committed by the male prisoner,

sentenced him to six years' penal servitude. -
WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—The. weekly
meeting of this board was held yesterday, Mr. Pitts, in the
chair. The other members present were—Messrs. H.
Edwards, Wareham. Garrett, Ledger; Parkins, Morris,
Pilling, Bolshaw, E. Hayes, A. Edwards, Smith, Medealf,
and Shaw. The minutes'of last meeting having been read,
it was stated that the number in the house last week was
597 ; 20 were admitted; 33 discharged, and 3 died, The
number this week was 582, of whom 319 belonged to the
Toxteth-park district ; corresponding week of last year, 614.
In the workhouse hospital last week there were 71 patients.
Admitted, 12 ; discharged, 8 ; died, 2. In hospital this
week, 73 ; corresponding week of last year, 84. Cheques
for out-door relief were granted as follows :—Mr. Potts,
£ll5 ; Mr. Olney, £36 ; and Mr. Lythgoe, £22. The
chairman (Mr. Pitts) then-vacated the chair, stating that
the business was very easily gone through, when Mr.-Smith
demanded an examination of the books. The chairman said
he ha.d left the chair, and the business was finished. Mr.
Smith: It is not half finished yet. .(Laughter and con-
fusion.) After which the meeting broke up.

COURT AND FASHION.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort,
accompanied by the Princess Alice and other youthful mem-
bers of the royal family, intend to remain at Osborne until
Monday, the 29th instant, on which or .the following day,
unless any unforseen circumstances arise, the Queen and
Court depart for Balmoral, to pass three weeks or a month
in the Highlands.
Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie of
Russia,. accompanied by her daughter, the Princess Marie,
and her sous, the Princes
.Nicholas and Eugene, arrived at
Chesham-house, the residence of the Russian Legation, in
London, on Monday evening, from Torquay.
His Royal Highness the Prince Consort paid a visit, 'on
.Monday evening, to, his.lmperial Highness the Grand Duke
Constantine, at the Pier Hotel, Ryde. Courteous civilities
are of daily occurrence between the naval and military au-
thorities at Portsmouth and the admiral and officers belong-
ing to the Russian squadron at Spithead.

Mr. Daniel Owen Madd'yn, the author of "Chiefs of
Parties," died in Dublin. on Saturday last.
TSB ,TRIAL OF Dn. SumniunsT.--It,has been arranged
that the trial of Dr. SinetliurSt for the murder of Isabella
Bankes, at Richmond, ,shall be 'resumed at, they. Central
Criminal CoUrt, on Monday next. It will be remembered
-that the proceedings on. the , former. occasion came to a
preinature close in consequence of the illness of a juror.
It is not certain that the. Lord Chief 'Baron will again pre-
side ; on the contrary, it is generally thought that the trial
will be presided over by the Lord Chief Justice of the Court
•of Queen's Bench (Sir, Alexander Coekburn.) During the
interval which has elapsed since the last trial, the solicitors
for the prisoner have been untiring in their exertions to got
.up medical evidence in opposition to that of Dr. Taylor, and
they express themselves confident that they shall be able to
demonstrate the fallacy of Dr. Taylor's theory on which
Smethurst: was committed. The prisoner is not by any
means communicative to the prison authorities, and never
, -alludes to the awful charge upon which he is detabie(l,

which they proposed to raise it such small sums as to bring
them within the reach of every class in the community,7 and
to extend the public interest in the company over a larger
space and larger numbers. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He
felt that he was bound to make some apology to
them for presenting himself before such an important com-
mercial body as the merchants of Liverpool. If he felt that
this was purely a commercial undertaking, he knew he
should be out of his place in addressing such an audience on
the subject under consideration. He felt that, under such.
.circumstances, he should have no authority to speak ; but it
was because he regarded it not only as a commercial enter-
prise, but because he regarded it—as he believed all would
regard it a great national work, which interested not
only this community-but every community in all parts of
the world, that he ventured to come before them. Without
having devoted himself to commerce he had connected him-
self, with this undertaking, and now ventured to be the
spokesman on behalf of it. -He knew of no place where he
might so appropriately introduce the subject, as in the
borough of Liverpool, where he now stood. • His honourable
friend, the. chairman, with all his experience and knowledge of
Liverpool, had said there was no place which was more deeply
interested in the carrying out of this great undertaking than
Liverpool was. Liverpool, indeed, had ever been celebrated for
its enterprise and public spirit. It was Liverpool which was
• the cradle of the great railway system. It_ was Liverpool,
.along with her great sister town, Manchester, who fostered

and -encouraged that wonderful man, who was held by an
incredulou# public to be almost insane, because he enter-
tained the belief, and endeavoured to encourage the hope,
that a locomotive engine would, at no distant day, travel on
the railway between Liverpool and Manchester at the rate

of ten miles an hour. (Hear and cheers.) It was by the
united enterprise of Liverpool and Manchester that that
gigantic railway system, which was now so widely spread,
was first conceived and inaugurated. It was in Liverpool
that was first introduced that magnificent system of steam-
ships, which was now the means of supplying the most
rapid communication between Europe and other parts of
the world, and which had now brought the United
nna country within then,e4is sail of each
other. On this great question, he.' rusbed that
should ace this great city worthy of its antecedents. His
hon. friend had alluded to the fate of the attempt which
had already been made, and to the probability .of the new
shareholders reaping 'the harvest which had .loran

And so it

)y means of these new share;,
now proposed to issue them, a very. trifling advan-
tage was reserved for the old shareholders. The new share-
holders now stand free from the loss which had been incur-
red by the original holders ; and in addition to the 8 per
cent. guaranteed by Government, they were to enjoy any
profits which. might be realised.. Now, it seemed almost a
loss of time to dwell upon the commercial advantages, and
the immense benefits which would arise from
.a telegraphic
communication between, this country and the- continent of
America. Not long ago, in the mouth of February last, he

had an opportunity of stating, at a public meeting, what
had taken place between the Government ^ and the

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not necessary to go at length into those negotiations now,
but What ho was anxious to do was to put on record the
commercial importance of this communication, which they
were about to establish: The chairman had alluded to the
great advantages, which the cotton brokers, and others,
would derive by the establishment of telegraphic commu-
nication with America, but he (Mr. Wortley) apprehended
that there. was no man, in whatever sphere or branch of
commerce he might be engaged, who would Not be satisfied
of thuteaefits that would be derived from such rapid com-

one or two others, might be prcjudioially affected by it,
because, perhaps, it would place them nearly on a level with
other merchants, inasmuch as they might not have such
exansive communication as they had at present ; but to the
general body of merchants, it would be of inestimable
advantage. It had been denied that any messages ever
really passed through the cable between Valentia
and Newfoundland during the three weeks when the
telegraph was in operation, but there was no found-
ation whatever for such a conjecture. He held in 'his
hand a statement of the number of messages which were
sent during those three weeks, from which it appeared that
the number of messages actually sent was 366, consisting
of 3,942 words and 20,21,9 letters. Now in the imperfect
state of the cable they were not able to send more than two
words to the minute, and, speaking of the commercial
character of the enterprise, apart from it not succeeding at
all—although all practical and scientific men were of opinion
that it must and would be achieved—but if it did succeed,
taking an estimate of he number of messages, which they
might reasonably be expected to send, and taking only 300
days in the year, without taking into account nights and
Sundays (although it was well understood that. electric tele-
graph companies did send messages on a Sunday), if they
spent the sum of £600,000, after all expenses were paid,
the number of messages which they would be enabled to
send would amount to a sufficient sum to pay about 10 per
cent. lidr annum on £600,000.

A_lr:SAWArin, secretary, here said; on a million sterling.
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would: Ii e was e
that by aayp appeared
vedr
ve
themrn g t o pt
cent. on
,000000 There was every prospect of this
calcnlation being realised, and if the cable was once laid
down, of its • eing a profitable investment. Now, there had
recently been circumstances occurring which had to some
extent damped public, spirit in reference to this undertaking.
The failure of the cable already laid, and sonic other cir-
cumstances of More recent occurrence, had had a tendency
somewhat to discourage people. Within the last, fortnight
their expectations had been still more damped by a state-
ment imputed to Mr. Robert Stephensu„ the chairman of
the Electric Telegraph Company, in which that gentle-
man was reported to have given it as his firm
opinion that submarine cables could never be made
to stand against the action of immersion. :Now he
(Mr. -Wortley) had every reason to know thatein what Mr.
Stephenson stated he had been much misunderstood, and a
letter in the Times newspaper confirmed such a fact. lie
himself was in a position to contradict Mr. Stephensn
having given utterance to such an opinion; .for, having met
Mr. Stephenson yesterday at a meeting of the joint com-
mittee appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the best
means of laying down the cable, he had that gentleman's
authority for stating that he had been misunderstood, for
1 Mr. Stephenson said to him, " X.911413_4.1 gtate, on my au-
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