The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The continental journals of yesterday contained little
beyond the Imperial speech.
The appearance of a decree, raising the authorised issue
of French Treasury Bonds to 14,000,00 J sterling, has
revived the idea that the Bank of France will be permitted
to increase its capital, investing the new funds in the
::nal wifunded debt. It does not appear, from the
Emperor.
..Napo!eon's speech, whether or not there is
for the present year to be made up.
a financial dente- .
nations are requisite for forming an
Some further expil:
of the general finance of France.
idea of the exact
nry, died yay for hesterdayis seat in
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Dr. Syell, Dean of Canter-Lord Brougham will leave t 0..,
the t° d
the South of France.

d have
Ihe working men out of employment in Le:. non
prayed the government to make some provision It;r their
emigration to Australia, Isliw Zealand, and Canada:
The French Government will, it is said, defray the whets
of the expense of the sojourn of the Persian Ambassador if;
France, so that if Feruk Khan does not take away with him
a high idea of the hospitality of the vuntry it will not be
the fault of the Emperor.
BREACH OF CONTRACT.—Yesterday an action was tried
in the Court of Exchequer to recover damages against a
lady, named begard, for a breach of contract, She had
ordered the plaintiff to construct an iron church, but in
consequence of some differences amongst the parties et
Filey, the plan of the intended erection of the church was'
not pat up. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff.
FORGERY OF TERRIER HONOURS.—A Constantinople

letter contains the following : " The Turkish police were
lately on the alert to arrest a M. FtfillCOiS, a Frenchman,
who bad established a manufactory of diplomas according
to the order of Medjidie. The documents were well exe—
cuted, and it was believed that about a score of persons
tad paid 200 f. each for that easy mode of getting them—
selves decorated. A search having been instituted at M.
Francois's residence, full proofs of his culpability were
discovered. At the same place were fabricated diplomas of
the Greek order of the Saviour. The arrest of Francois
was effected, and the papa and articles likely to impli'
rata him have been deposited at the Chancellery of
France."
ALLEGED NEGLECT AND CRUELTY Or A MEDICAL
OFFICER,.--Yesterday Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the
Constitution, Great James.street, Lisson Grove, on
body of Sarah Baleen, whose death was attributed to
neglect by the medical officer of the parish. After a
prolonged investigation the jury returned the following
verdict :—'cThe jury is of opinion that the deceased
Sarah Baleen died from natural causes; and the jury are
further of opinion that the evidence, as given by the
witnesses, justifies them in declaring that there was gross
neglect on the part of Mr. Parnell, a want of feeling, and
an unjustifiable refusal to attend the deceased in his
capacity of medical officer ; also, that his conduct has
displayed gross ignorance and inhumanity, and a want of
judgment and discretion, more especially in reference to
stating in the medical certificate that the cause of the poor
woman's disease was laziness, and this at a time when 51141
was actually deed."
THE PARIS CONCERT SEASON.—The season of concerts it
beginning iu Paris. Awful period The large many
coloured bills warn one of violin solos lasting nearly half
an hour, and long dreaiy variations on the pianoforte, so
difficult, but, alas ! not impossible. In Paris the vocal and
instrumental concert artistes have a little world of their
own, which is gathered together once a year, under circum-
stances which demand the clever diplomacy of a Nesselrode.
The comme it fiat world at tnis season of the year receive
little packets of concert tickets, with pretty little notes
written by the givers of these refined entertainments, in
which their kind offices are solicited for the disposal of er
certain number of pink and green passes to the Temple of
Apollo, which the Musagetes of the musical evening expect
the' receiver to pay for. Madame la Baronne frowns
a little as she opens the heavy letter, but her pretty face ere
long assumes its wonted good nature. She remembers
Signor a short time ago played his celebrated sonato
in her own salon, when she gave her grand musical•
entertainment, which was honoured by a Garman prince of
royal blood, and half the fashionable world of Paris. That
never failing kind and generous feeling peculiar to the
female heart is at once all alive; the baroness jumps into
her carriage, and sells as many tickets as she can to her
friends, and is very glad when her morning's work is over E
This process reps tied in various quarters, you find 'the
tsoncerx room on the appointed evening pretty well filled.
But many ladies, 1 am sorry to say, in Paris, give their
tickets to their maids, which, however, does not detract
always from the number of smart toilettes.—Correspondent
of Post.

IMPIVWED TYPOORAPR Colt THil BLIND:-At the
cmversazione of the President of the• Royal Irish Aettiemy,
on Wednesday evening, a machine was-exhibited by Mr.
Kerman of Fihamble street, which must add considerably
to the limited enjoyments of the blind. By the use o
raised characters of a peculiar form, the invention of Mr
Moon, blind persons, who have been taught to spell
cm, with a very little practice, read from embossed books
with considerable flu. ncy ; and the typograph ma-
chine, as impr wed by .Ir. Kennan, enables those who
have been taught this mode of reading by the touch to
farther express their thoughts in writing. The typograph
consists of a mahogany frame like a portable writing desk,
on which is mounted a/circular plate of brass, having
around it in alphabet of 'raised letters,
.a set of numerals,
some stops, and a few simple abbreviations ; the
characters being those invented'by Mr., Moon. The plate
also carries a set of printing type, fixed so as to correspond
with the raised characters. The-types are hung in springs,
and, when pressed down by a small lever, Make an
impression, by means of charcoal paper, . upon a • white
sheet below. In order to use the inacjune, a blind
and moves round the circular plate until the type
person feels for the raised character he requires,
comes under the lever, whiCh he then presses down upon it.
The lever in rising gives a right line movement to the wheel,
which spaces the letters,correetly and uniformly until a line
is completed, upon which the plate is brought back to the
left hand side of the desk, and the paper is moved *ward
by a simple contrivance. The machine can be tutet.with
rapidity. His. Exgelleacy the Lord pentenantnruly
remarked, when he examined it, " that it
'Would enable the
blind to write more legibly than many who had eight
could do.