Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-02 00:00:00

WEST DERBY ROAD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.
Sir,—l trust the authorities of the above town•
ship will be more regular in the lighting of the
lamps on the West Derby-2oad, during the ensuing
winter, than they were last. I have often passed
that way at night, without a single light after
Boundary-road. The females in connection
with my family have been stopped and
insulted by iAler3, wh 3 have tnt§ taken
ttolvantag of the darkness. It raily also be
worthy of remark, that during the whole of last
winter I did not meet a single officer on that road
after nine at night.—Apologising, & yours,
Georgo.2-roa.d, Ist Sept., 1857. H. S.

OOLOGICAL GARDENS, LIVE'RPOOI.

ROYAL OAK S.COND GRAND GALA !

THIS DAY (W .::NE ,DAY), THE 2ND SEPIT‘IBEII.

C-ff" THE BALLODN IS NOW INFLATIN3,
A-d will ASCEND from the Gardens THIS EVENING,

(We,ner permitt!ng.)

Francis Dnke of Luxemburg was a celebrated French
general and much deformed. Hii uniform success, when
contending with King William, rendered him an object of
jealousy to that pinee, who once, in the bitterness of his
heart, ca'led him "a hump-back."—" What does he know
of my back 2' said the marshal, "he never saw it."
Tne LATE COLONEL J. FiNrus.—[t is with great satis-
faction we announce that the ehairna in of the East India
Company has, unsolieited, forvvareed to the I,,rd Mayor,
in tie name of the Court of Director., a cadetship for his
nephew, John Finnis, son of the late Colonel Finuis, who
was murdered at Meerut at the commencement of the
present outbreak iu India.—Allen's Indian .lfail.
A FATAL Juror.—An irquest wc.s held on Friday
evenir g, at the village of Herbury, near Wakefield, on
the bid', of a lad named Edwin Brook, scn of Geoefee
Book. joiner, of Horbury. On the previous afternoon,
Brook a ,d four other lads went to glean in a newly-reaped
field near Dutifieet Mill. While there, a man who was in
the field set a doe at them, and they left that field, and
went in'o one adjoining the river Calder. Brook went on
to the river bank, which is about seven cr eight feet above
the water, and editing out ti his c,:mpanions "See me
jump," he sprang from the bank on to a small is'and a
few feet from it. The force of the jump caused him to
rebound, and, before he could save himself, he went head-
first into the river. His c ampanioes got a stick, which
they held out to him, anti which be attempted to grasp,
bat could not reach. After coming to the surface twice,
he sink to rise no mole. His body was recovered some
licurs afterwar.l9.—Verdict, " Aceident&lly drowned."

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A CHILD BY
ITS MOTHER.

At the Westminster Police-court on Monday, Rachel
Downs, a female of short stature, about 25 years of age,
was charged with attempting to murder her female child,
eight months old, by strangling it with a cord. Anne
Grady, of No. 3, Lisle Symp.:ad-street, Chelsea, said that
the prisoner lodged in her house about twelve months.
Witness thought she was married till last Saturday night,
as she was living with a man who passed as her husband,
and he has left her with a female child. Mr. Arnold :
When did he leave the prisoner ? Witness : Last week,
sir. He has left her much in debt, and sines that took place
she has appeared much excited is her mind. Mr. Arnold:
When was this at'empt made on the life of the child by
the prisoner ? Witness: Between eight and nine o'clock
on Saturday night I had occasion to go out on an errand.
I shortly after returned, when I was alarmed by hearing
a violent screaming of a chili in my house. I went to-
wards the room occupied by the prisoner, when on opening
the door I obsorved the child in ins mother's lap. I saw
b'ood flowing from its nose, and there was a piece of cord
round its neck. The child was screaming dreadfully. The
mother had been drinking. Mr. Arnoid: What did you
do? Witness : I told her she was a bad wicked woman,
and while I said so I loosened the cord, one end of which
was attached to the bed post. This she was pulling hard,
and the cord was bound close to its throat. Mr. Arnold :
Did the prisoner say anything? Witness: Yes, sir; she
remarked that she meant to do away with herself after
she destroyed her child, as she did no: wish to live. She
was always very kind to her child, and loved it, I have no
doub', but she has had a deal of trouble on her mind since
she has been deserted. I think, sir,. she is not right in
her paled. Police constable ~.`inaLh, 200 B, stated that
upon heating what had occurred at the house where the
priso.:er lodged he went there. lle took her into custody.
( the witness produced a long piece of cord, which he
stated was removed from the be.'-post by Mr. Inspector
Farmer, of the B division). Mr. Farmer stated that when
he saw the child it had a deep mark round the neck, and
it was bleeding at the nose from the effec's of the pressure.
Mr. Amold.—flas any medical gen'tmian seen the child ?
Me. Farmer.—lt was taken to the hospital, and was after-
wards remove Ito the workhouse. The prisoner, who
during tho proceedings cried continuously and held her
head down upon the bar, was re=anled.