Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-20 00:00:00

Increase, .. 9,444 3,272 2,635 1,563
General estimate of Grand Trunk when completed :
900 miles, at £25 per mile per week, £1,170,000
Deduct working expenses, 50 per cent.,

£585,000
75,000

Rental St. Lawrence,

£510,000
240,000

Six per cent. interest on four millions bonds, .

Equal to 9 peE cent. on share capital of three
millions,
—Montreal Correspondence.

£270,000

THE INCREASE OP TIIE ARMY.—The Times says it is cer-
tainly impolitic if not dangerons to denude the United
Kingdom of troons when the ashes of the last European
eruption have liardly ceased to flow. It is better that
fitting preparE ion should be made at once than Parliament
should be srammoned in a panic some time before Christ-
mas to vot,a the money for troops which ought already to
be on, the high seas.
Yaiaow FEVRR IN ruse ORINOCO.--hen the
Orir.oco arrived in S )uthampton Water, ou Thursday
night, a death had recently taken place, and there were a
.f.siw persons lying ill on board. The disease had been
gradually yielding to the colder climate of Europe, and
was dying out.- No one was allowed to approach the mail
packet, or even the little steamer that went alongside for
the mails. The eagernss of the passengers to get on
shoe and to send letters to their friends was very great •
but no one that did not belong to the Orinoco was allowed
to tonch any one that did.

The English Churchman denounces Sunday parties :
"We much regret to see symptoms of an intention to
make Sunday figure in the ` fashionable arrangements.'
Hitherto those who have had so little regard for the
religious welfare of their domestics, to say nothing of
their own, as to give dinner parties on a Sunday, have,
at all events, bad the decency to keep them out of the
court newsman's gossip. This deference to decency has,
however, ceased to exist in some quarters. For instance,
the fashionable announcements' inform us that ' the
Earl of Westmoreland entertained at dinner, on Sunday
last, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and a
brilliant party.' This, of course, involves the employment
of a large culinary staff the whole day."
DARING CASE OF SHEEP STEALING. —On Tuesday
evening, a flesher in Calton came to the Eastern Police-
office, and reported that five sheep of his had been stolen
from a flock of 70 in a park on the farm of Larchgrove,
near Shettlestone. The supposed thief was a person
named George Douglas, who had been some time in his
employment, but who was such a plausible fellow that he
had hesitated to inform upon him sooner, the sheep
having been amissing since Friday. Detectives Campbell
and I`,l‘l•Tanght, with characteristic activity, at once
proceeded to make minute and skilful inquiries into
the circumstances of the case, and steps were taken
to apprehend Douglas, who was shortly afterwards
lodged in the Police-office. It appeared that the theft
had been committed on the Wednesday previous, and the
the sheep driven into Glasgow, and left penned np in a
field opposite the Cattle Market, in Duke-street. In this
field the officers found four of the sheep, the other, as they
learned, having been killed and sold to the owner for 26s ,
the depredator having represented it as a sheep which had
been injured on the railray, and which he had bought at
a bargain, and the master being desirous of encouraging
him by the purchase. The officers were accompanied by
the owner, and a careful examination was made of the four
sheep, which he • had some difficulty in identifying on
account of their having been keeled anew on the shoulder
and near the tail. The owner, however, recognised his
peculiar "lug-mark," which the officers subsequently found
to correspond with the mark on the rest of the flock. Douglas
denied having been at Larchgi•Ove on the day in question,
and stated that be had bought ten sheep from a party on
Glasgow Green, five of which he had sold to a person in
Airdrie, whose name he did not know. On the officers
proceeding to Shettlestone, however, and making diligent
inquiry as they went, they found parties who stteed they
had seen Douglas on the road on the Wednesday, within_ u
quarter of a mile of the park at Larchgrove, and save him
driving the five sheep before him all the way until he
arrived in Duke-street. Douglas was remitted to the shee:iff
for examination. It is stated that previews to COD,o-g to
Glasgow he had been three months in prison at Tinverary,f
for breach of trust or embezzlement, while the service of
an extensive sheep farmer 5t4 th";;nlauds.—Glasgew
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