The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-27 00:00:00

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

News has arrived to February 13. Robbery and
violence increase in British KaTtraria.

The Times says that Mr. Phinn, assistant-secretary to
the Admiralty, has resigned his office, and intends to return
to his practice at the bar.
Tux BROTHERTON MEMORIAL.—It has been determined
that the intended memorial to the late Jos. Brotherton,
Esq , M.P. for Salford shall consist of a monument
over his tomb,- in the Salford cemetery, at New Dim,
and of a bronze statuary, in the Peel park, Salford
The commission for the statue has been given to Mr.
Matthew Noble, and its cost will be 1,000 gaineas, The
pedestal will be of granite.
The British Archoelogical Association have determined
upon holding their annual congress this year at Norwich,
commencing on the 24th and c.osing on the 29th of August
next. It is anticipated that excursions to Ely, Thetford,
and other pleats of interest within convenient distance of
Norwich, will be included in the society's programme. The
Earl of Albemarle has just been elected president of the
association.

Government have agreed to propose to parliament a
vote for the North-West American Explor;ng Expediticn,
which, it is expected, will proceed in about a fortnights
under Mr. Palliser, to its starting point to the west of
Lake Superior. Tiae expedition will be accompanied by
Dr. Hector, as naturalist and surge-.n, and by a gentleman
specially as a botanist, and Lieut. Blakiston, R.A., will be
appointed to take magnetical observations.
Cut LIVE IN FRANCE. —A. man named Riviere, bat
calling himself Baron de Riviere, was lately tried by
default by the tribunal of Correctional Police for swindling.
He occupied, it appeared, a magnificently furnished apart-
ment in the Rue Taitbout, bad servants in scarlet liveries,
and was seen in possession of large sums of money ; having
got jewellery, shaels,,and other goods, either on credit, or
on paying a small amount down, and giving, bills for the
remainder, he disappeared. Among his victims was a
jeweller, who had sold him a set of diamonds for 23,000 fr.
It was added that, on the very day on which the sti-iistant
baron bought the diamonds he sold them to a jeweller for
11,000 fr , and that Or days af'er this jeweller sold them
to a brother tradesman for 14 060 fr, T••e tribunal con-
demned the pretended barn o fi e yeas imprisonment
and 200fi. fine. A young womae named Brunean who
lived iTh him, and had received some shawls which be
fraudulently obtained, was tried as his accomplice in some
of his selodlings, and was sentenced to a year's imprison-
ment and 50fr. fine.
HIGIi PRICED JOURNALISIII.—The. New York Tribune
says : after seventy-four years of varied foitunre, the
Morning Herald, once one of the most popular of the daily
papers of Lt;nilon, has all but fallen. It continues' to b
published, bet Mr. E. Baldwin, ita proprietor, is in the
London Gazette, officially rmhlished to the world as a
bitArole. of coen,e ; '‘,ll be sold to the best
onrehaser ; bat the question whether it is worth publishing
is for the grave consideration of capitalists and politicians.
For the Morning Herald, albeit its circulation was small,
has enjoyed a comparative influence since 1845 as a slrt of
semi-official organ of the Ultra Tory party. If not the de-
clared organ, it has been the thick and thin champion of
the,Derby-Disraeli clique. In 1844, when Mr. Baldwin
bought it, the Morning Herald had a circulation, with a
good advertising,connection,of some 5,000 a-day. Ten years
after, according to the undeniable authority of stamp-office
returns, the circulation was 0n1.13,859. At present it can be
scarcely 1,000 while the expenses—all but paper and press-
work,are as high as if the journal bad a large sale. The proxi-
mate cause of its proprietor's insolvency, no doubt, was
the. keeping up a high price, after the cheap newspapers
came in, on the abolition of the newspaper stamp duty.