Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-25 00:00:00

CORONER'S COURT.

Yesterday the Borough Coroner held the following
inquests :
On the body of James Hughes, aged 25, a labourer, who
resided in Headley-street, and who fell from a sage at a
ship in the Bramley Moore Dock, and was accidentally
drowned. Verdict accordingly. •
On the body of the child Alice Magee, the details of
whose death app3ars in our police reports, The jury found
a verdict of " Accidental death.'?

On the body of William Parker, aged four years, who
was burnt in his parents• house on the 6th inst., and who
died in consequence of the injuries received. Verdict,
" Accidental death."

Oa the body of David Jones, fifty four years old, who
died in coniepuence of a fall from a wool store in College-
lane, as already reported in our paper. Verdict, " Acci-
dental death."

On the Indies of John Henry Thomas, fourteen years of
age, and Thomas Smith, aged thirteen, both of whom were
drowned on Sunday afternoon, in a pit near the Z.)o-
logical Gardens. One of the boys was bathing, and seemed
to be drowning, when the other jumped in to save him,
and both lost their lives. Verdict, " Accidental death."

On the body of Philip Kelly, thirty-eight years of age,
a shipwright, who fell from the Great Britain steamer, on
Saturday, into the Bandon Deck, and was unfortunately
drowned. Verdict, " Accidental death."
In the case of the boys who lost their lives in a pit near
the Zoological Gardens, it is only, just to say that a young
man named Glover, who resides at 7, Martin-street, exerted
himself in the most praiseworthy manner. He leaped into
the pit and got out both boys, at the risk of his own life,
but, pity, he came too late. Had he been a little sooner,
both lives might have been preserved. His conduct, on
investigation, will be found worthy the attention of the
Hamane Society.

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IRTSH FRENCll.—Prince Napoleon, when in Cork, was
addressed by the Sheriff in bad French. The Prince said,
".I know a little of English, bnt not Irish," conceiving that
the Sheriff was conversing in the Irish language.

FLYING STATIONERS.—It is notorious that Hardman,
, who was condemned to die last Saturday (week), never
spoke a word during his trial, nor evinced the slightest
emotion when the sentence was pass 'd. Within two hours
' afterwards, one of the gentry above alluded to went flying
through the streets of the town with the following bare-
' faced announcement, uttered with the ugliest screams
imaginable :—" Here yon have the terrible confession of
that unfortunate man, condemned to die for the awful
murder of his wife—his sad lamentations, and how he beg-
ged of the judge to spare his life, and all for the low price
of one halfpenny."—Lancasfer Guardian.
The Saturday Review says :—" We are sorry to be
invidiously particular, but surely there is something
mysterious and inscrutable in the dispensation which has
caused Mr. Vernon Smith to be just now at the head of the
India Board. That Mr. Vernon Smith is unfit for any
office we should be loth to assert. At the recent Oxford
election, the unseated member, when introducing Mr.
Triadic-ray to the constituency, remarked on the pretensions
of a certain noble person, who was supposed to be
Intending to coetest the city. This nobleman,' said Mr.
Neate, ' was once a lord of the Admiralty, which is some-
thing. Now he is a lord of the Treasury, which is
nothing.' We do not tax Mr. Vernon Smith with being
capable only of a Treasury lordship, but we cannot
conscientiously say that he is quite up to the mark of the
Admiralty. His talents are, in fact, intermediate between
capacity for a sinecure and fitness for an office. He is a
sort of nondescript, presenting at the same moment the
virile appearances of the Admiralty and the feminine
accomplishments of the Treasury. That it should fall to
his lot to be the hope and stay of a great empire and a
great system is a circumstance which ought to be mentioned
by the bishops as a good text for a sermon on the Bengal
motley. No one can make any use of it, except a clergy-
man on a day of humiliation. The minis'erial journals
appear to us universally to ignore Mr. Smith, Even the
parliamentary reeorters are beaten by him. They excuse
themsdves for compressing his speeches into a line or two
on the novel plea that he addresses the house in so
conversational a tone.' What a notion of infinite dis-
jointedness, of half-assimilated facts pitched out pell-mell
on a despairing audience, is conveyed by this ingenious
formula! But the thing, as we have said, is inscrutable.
Confugimus ad asylum ignorante. It is a mystery. One.
corner of' the veil we can alone lift up. Mr. Vernon
Smith, whatever be the other lessons he conveys, is a
warning to Young India. Ater per'orming all the
processes which are prescribed as panece3a for ilindoo
revolt, there remains Mr. smith. The Tinos forbids us to
leave even the shadow of a shade between ourselves and
our Indian empire. That means, let India be governed
by Mr. Smith. Mr. Disraeli suggests that the bonds are to be
drawn closer between our beloved Queen and her Indian
subjects. That, again, resolves itself into a Smith autocracy
in Hindostan. Lord Ellenborough tells ns that the Queen's
name is a tower of strength. That strong fortress, on
inspection, turns out to be Mr. smith."