Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-28 00:00:00

RESICLPAL ELECTION.-NORTH AND SOUTH
TOXTETH WARDS.

VD WM ellAtimAN cF TIIE COMMITTEE FOR CONDUCTING
MESSRS. STEMS ART AND VERNON'S ELECTION. - •
,the Daily Post of this morning, I am
strys:2zed by you to be the secretary of Mr. Avison's
atnnsamittee ; such is not the fact. I attended 3 our
rung as an elector of the ward, and went there,
arommon with others, open to conviction, to vote
Ifor your party, if Mr. Vernon's views on the water
lineation agreed nigh those of many of the electors,
end rain° own in particular; but you ruled that I
arnnicl not be heard, unless I first announced my-
att.i in favour of your candidates. I shall not
atchlress you again, under any circumstancec, and
sow- conclude by asserting that the meeting was
spOe willing to hear me, and by complaining of
Tsar conduct, in after inviting•me to the platform
to speak, you then prevented my so doing, by in--
itg upon me unwarrantable and degrading con-
ditions when I got there. Let the public judge of
Tow conduct and motives—as for myself, it is quite
*rovintgh for me to know tliat your candidates were
2.61 rrepared to render an unreserved aocaunt of
Actisselves and their opinions.—Yours, &o.
G. N. TURNER.
Maglf—terrace. 113, Upper Hill-street,
27th Oct. 1857.

li.±STIE, M.P.—We (North British Hail) utrier-
shin/ that Provost Brown has received a letter this week
boss the hon. member for Paisley, apologising for his being
znals/e to visit his con .tituents in his usual way this year.
Me health of Mr. Hasle has for a con iderable time been
precarious, and great cautiin on his put is enjoined by his
xrediral adviier. In the letter to which we have alluded,
Mat llastie comments upon the Sc, tea business brought
Ihsiere Pirliament last se.sion, and particularly alluder, in
tieranatory terms, to the new Lunacy Act.
31VAIL(WING A W 4 OLLICN STOCKING.— Some time ago in
tlts mvighbuuring 'own of Slarborn, a fine large ox was
salen sick, refuspe to cat, and in spite of all remedies
esr:ed to, soon died. At a post mertem exam'. aim
dt.artl+ smooth ball of tl]e size of a large apple. and men' b-
Srx inconsistence, as sell as in colour, a piece of granite
3741, was tak-n from his s'ornach ; and on breaking it, with
a hammer—for cut it you could not—it pr• ved to be a
wooasn strcking which the animal had swallowed, and in
;its tiAsperate sffurt to d'gfst, had riled ever and over, and
Benaßy cc mpressed into that rack-/ille ball. Nothing could
Aire a better idea of the tram( ndons power of muscular
Atoka in an animal of that siz L—Doe,crn Traveler.
SHIPS AT SRA.— A cirou'ar has been
3.43lrraFird by Lord Clarendon to the British Ministers at
maritime Courts, directing them to call the attention of
Vet governments to which they are accredited to the
Jaciiities afforded for merchant ships of all nations to make
awn their identity when meeting Brit'sa vessels at sea,
yr passing signal stations on the ciasts of the United
Tiegdorn. To effect this, application must be mad > to
It!in Registrar-General of Seamen, who, on receiving_
laniieulars of name, tot:nage, post of re, islry, and natior al'
lac, and horse power of a steam;r, will appropriate a
4ntizet signal fir each vessel, comprising four of the flags
alsed in the Commercial Code auth rised by the foird of
Tia4e.

OrzNiso OP THZ CORPORATION PARR AT BLACXBCRN
tlatTbarsdoy the pubic park, at Blackburn, was f,rmally
aldriled by the mayor and c )rporation. The day was
sittse•Ted as a holid,y ; and besides the inhabitants of
Illarkbnin, there was a vast concourse of strangers taking
1;23t in the ceremony. The wea'her was beaulful, and
lien were figs in all dine inns, and guns were fired off
Ptpf atedly dnring the day. The mayo-, a-ter addressing
die assembl, d multitudes, declared the plrk open to the
edit for ever. In the evening a large p4rty, under the
pzeslderey cf the mayor, partook o a cold collation in the
acsembry-room. Fireworks concluded the proceedings of
Mr lky to, be long remembered by the inhabitants of
111724:1; Burn

F.1754T11 AR FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon,
e Itatman nattel John Sar.Cer,on, about fifry
„Tears of
gr. rime up to the vegetable stall of a woman named
Ann Hayes, at Bat fishy. He gemmenced a conversation
-with hsr, rnd afterwares became very abusive, using very
rel?setut langir ge. Peeling insulted, she took up a turnip
:am the stall snd threw it at him. Being apparently the
-verse for liquor, the blow was sufficient to completely
averlalance him, Then he fell, the back part of his head
erzoirg first to the ground. He was taken up irrensible,
3111 !removed to the Crw,s Keys Inn, where medical aid was
Faceted ; but after lingerirg for a couple of hours he died,
at-ger buying spoken after the occurrence. Mrs. Hayes
i once apprehended.

Tit% WI.XCIC OF THE OItTARIO.—On Saturday evenirg
?cc as, coroner for Norfolk, held an it quest at Caistor,
2ear Great Yarn, uth, on the b_clkos of a seaman washed
'those from tbe unfortunate Ontario, of `zowla Slifelds, and
of Drs. Bal'otr, the wife of the captain of the same vessel,
which was lost with nearly all' hands (23 in al) in the
ter which visited the eas'ern coast on Thursday night and
liiday morning. The bodies, which were much di figured,
we viewed by the jury in tbe life-beat house at Caistor,
And a verdict of " Accidently drowned " wi a returned.
The jury, at the same time, txpressed a erong opinion as
ti.a neglettel state into which the life-boat at Caistor
las teen suffered to f4ll. Mrs. Balfour was washed ashore
Es zn the Ontario in her night drrse, and a porni in of the
new were probably in their ber'hs when the ship struck
wz the sand. The eas'ern coast has not been visited with
4terearful a gale for many years.

FATALISM AND SOMETHING MORE.—For some time
tiepins fever ha' been making ravages in the tillage of
Wade y. A case °centred last week, which is strangely
staracterictic of scmething more than enlpele neglect.
A younk girl tel. raging to the Made ley Church Sunday
linbesol, about fourean years gld, was attacked with the fe-
wer. Assistance was proffered by stem' ladies attached to
Mese/fool, but declined. At length Mr. Collingham called
to see the girl, and finding her in a precariens state he
aemoastraten with the parents on the folly of not calling in
medic-11 assistance before. The reply was, " She is in the
lanci's hands." He sent a little bottle of medicire with in-
atenetior S. Calling on the following day, be found, to his
neteeishment, that the medicine was untouched. EnreT;ed
sneh sttlid neglect, he censured their s'upid folly, and
so ei-ply he received the same answer as before. He then
;plied a mustard plaister. Having some misgivings that
even this might ba tampered with, after making a few calls
he again visited the victim of parental carelessness, and
/band that the plaister had been removed, and one of po-
tatoes applied instead. It is almost needless to add that
&elle more merciful than her parents, had put an end to
her sufferings.— Birmingham Journal.
Loox tall, elder y foreigner, 'with a moustache,
stick, and a very slight halt in his wa!lr, entered an office
lira t,wn on Wednesday las', and finding one person therein,
le asked in a my s'enious way that the eiy r be closed ; and
en this beng done, he opened a story, in a foreign accent,
Jahoet his heng a native of Poland and a literary man, who
*id been engaged in translating for publishers— that be had
'Seen residing some time in Ireland, that he wished to get
eat is Indic, and was raising funds fit this purpcse by
antling on gentlemen in town. He produc-d a small pereel
',drawing balks, such as may be b :eight at a books,llet's
lir two pence each, and sta•ed that be malty got a shilling
foe ewe of these from gentlemen who desired to aid him in
lis obj=et. Finding that the stranger was on a begging
mini° 1, the person in the office refused to invest, when the
arranger with the moustache became c.ff naive, and began
to abuse the Scotch people in no measured terms, calling
teem a low, beggarly pack, &e. We learn that the same
individual visited o'her offices in town. On Friday eight
info:matioe was e mmunicated to the police that a tall
foreigner, answ. ring the above dese iption, bad 1 ft by the
last train for Glasgos, leaving a poor widow, with whom
le had lodged for a week nothing for payment but a pre-
nsiee to remit her the amount in postage stamrs.—G'reenock
arrrespondent.
ATTFMPTED DARING G AIIoTTE POIMERY AT OLDHAM.
—On Sunday tu=ning a Lw minutes before eleven co'cl
a elating attempt was made to-rob a man named Jame-,
Tayler, at the top of Matichester Street, and in the close
witruity of the Market Place, Oldham. Taylor had been
in the Cheshire Cheese public-Louse, in the Market P ace,
vri Is two companior s, sad afe.r leaving he proceeded on
his way home, earctirg ore of his ft iends, named Jelan
Worrnald, to follow h'tn. On passing the entrance to
Water Stteet, at'j oining the 13; ptist Chapel, an Irishman
named Kelley rushed upon him, and getting his atm round
Lis neck in garotte faibien, dragged him into the passage,
wfiiist another man tore his coat open and attempted to
ahstratt his watch from his pocket. Kelly's hold on his
throat was not sufficiently strong to prevent him fro
shoutini, and his cries brought Wormald to his assistance ;
);nt the who was attempting to take his watch, a' tacked
Worm:it', anti succeeded in effecting his escape, Left to
Limsclf, Taylor succeeded in securing Kelly, and detain, el
Aim until the arrival of Police-constable Ne-dham, who
was attracted by the noise to the spot, and be was then
gieen into custody. In the struggle, Taylor had a silk
handkerchief taken from his reek, worth 55., anti Wor
maid liad his shirt front torn off by the man who made
ieeape —The prisoner Kelly, wile plofessed to r collect
nothing of the circumstance, was brought before a magis-
trate at the Town 11111 on Monday, and was remanded
ail Thursday.

31krjus!vely for CLOTHING
.13')Y3 front Six to Twenty Years.

LEWIS & COMPAIN Y, itanelaga-sLiw