Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-25 00:00:00

FRANCE,

PARIS, SUND kY.

To-day the Three per Cent. Rentes have under-,
gone a slight improvement, the last quotations
being 67f. • _

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A DETECTIVE OFFICER.

A few days since Charles Thain, a City defective officer,
Proceeded with a warrant to Hanbury,, and apprehended
a man named Christian Bottler, tlit. a charge of stealing at
St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire, five transfer shares and
£234 in money belonging to Mr: Ballantine, a stockbroker,
Carrying on busineis at 4 Austin-friars. He took his
Prisoner on_ board the steanr-ship Caledonia (Stephen
Prost, captain), with the view of bringing him to London,
but on the voyage there, and.when off Lowestoft, at four
o'clock in the afternoon of SundaY, Sattler took from-his
Pocket a pistol and shot the c ffiler in the right breast,
the ball taking an upward direction and lodging in ,the
shoulder. On the arrival of the Caledonia at th 3 Tower,
Thain (whose wound is supposed Co be of a very-dangerous
character) was at once taken to Guy's. Hospital,
,tlettler
Was given into the custody f the City police, and the
double charge of robbery and attempted murder will be
Preferred spinet him.
• .

SUDDEN Dzavrt.i—An old womr.n, named Anne Hogan
was found dead in bed yesterday morning, in a place called
Comfortfield. - •
CORONER'S COURT.—Yesterday an inquest was opened
cn the body of James Wi'ey, the cause of whose death was'
stated in our paper of yesterday.. but the inquiry was
Adjourned, in older to produce evidence
FEVER.—At Li.thon, in the ten days, from the Bch
to the 17th. there were 1,877 new cases of fever-773.
deaths, and 1,275 cures ; comparing this with the previous
ten days, there wits a reduction of 186 in the new cases,,
and an increase of 56 deaths and 110 cares. Bo- few
British subjects had been lately attacked. The Cardinal
patriarch i f Lisbon, who had at last returned to the
capital, had falle n a victim to the fever.
STATE OF TRADE Is BLACKBURIC.—T:e state of trade gets
more gloomy in th's to,n. At present cl wen mills are
entirely closed; the tc.achin -ry ©f four of them has been

s'ld. Fire of the eleven are. on sile; and nut of the *hole
of the mills in town only soar are wcpking,fnll time, and jn
thee') conrithrable pqrti.ins of th 6 machinery are •kerr
g for malrial. 'The'othfr mills are working few
da s'a we, k, bnt'even in•thore a large Lumber of icoms and
ePir dies a-e at a stane. On Thnrsday giv,en'at
the Firookhosse Ali ls,. the largest epinning Weaving
establishmei t in the town, that aftrzr DeeF.nater 4th-they

Would reserve to thernselse3 the right of worltii g shorter
time than four dr,yl er Reek,. ,r close the mills. Sinre
the year r 847 tl er have r ever been mote factory hands out

emploYment tly n at 'the present moment. Otbentrades
are in the same state of dPprestien.-211«nekester (I.yardian.
Se rettoe' Poe.cireeee —We `(Berwick_ Advertiser)
heard that -on Monday night lest the superintenr!ent of
the Tweed roEcA seized, at the station of the North
British Railway in this town, a -hamper, containing a
quantity of out-of-at aeon salmon. and trout, which; from •
the address upon it, eves orettytwell: urideritood to be •on
its way to -the Paris fish market. To give' some idea
bow ex`ensivi le the eys..tna of noaeh'ng rnm4 be carried
en, it may be mentioned that, since the net -fishing closed
°ti the Tweed, there have been daily :arriva's of salmon
aril trent in the Paris fish market, and as trouts are net so
c°intrion'in other rivers, there is li!tle doubt that. mew,' if.
hat etf 01(81 fish are from the Tweed. Between the
,111 and 17th cloys of the present month, no fewer than
'irt V boxes an .1 sixty-f ur 'baskets of out.-ef-season fish
l'bad been reeeived at that market, and such
.a wholesale
des ruction of spawning .6 h must be very iajuribut to the
interests of the river proprietors.
SINGULAR Cess OF IiIOWNING --Recently in St. John,
-„,, 4`.8., on a dark night. a men walked off one of the
wharves in that city when the ile was out. He groped
kis way along in mud, but instead of taking a course which
would extriza'e himself from his unpleasant predicament,
he wandered up among tha piles beneeth the wharf where,.'
of Course, he 14cierie more bewildered th n ever. The.
Ti'ing tide made' him- co scions of his danger, and by
shouts and noisele was enabled-to attract the attention of
Persons passing in the vicinity, but too late fir succoer.
As the tide rose. he climbed to the top of the piles, and
through a small aperture in the' wharf sufficient to admit
°,ne of his arms, ho was::enabled to inform them °this
',illation. His position and feelings' can' be imagined;
when the water was every moment.rising arnund hinn•and
be could not be extricated. -He shock hands with his
friendei passed • through s the hole ell the money and
yaluablis he had about his person, and just.ss the . water
as closing over him,' efter giving some directions concern-
ing his family, he bid his - friends gcud bye, and the
gurgling water beneath armounc:d that all, was over. His
body was recovered wt en the ride receded. Could a few .
Carpenters wit their axes net have b en promptly on the
81374 to cut rip a sufficient rrtion of the wharf to let the
Than through P—Canadiiin
FATAL ACCIDENT TO —AN OFFICER —CANTU:II3IMT',
"I 'NDAE —Last Evening, Cornet 'Richard Charles E'en:dee.
°t the 7th Dragoon Guards, while on a pleasure excursion,
received injuries, t f which, at five o'clock this morning, he
died. The deceased,,witle :ere al other officere, had been
'in a visit to Ilereelly, a distance of,eight miles frcro,thna
cite. They mete returMng in the treeing ea hereebatir,.
Zend had reached the &tory-road, abont half a mile from
e Caralry Barracks, when tiny increased the spedvu at
,hieh they had bon. preceedihg. Vero' there is turn-
reite, known as the Vauxh h y attempted to
il,an the gate, in which the first- horse succeeded ; the
econd which the deceased was tiding, caught Ifs fore-leg
With
top bar and turned a complete Sommsatair, falling
th great force upon the unfortnnate young. man. At
this
11,3utnent, it is stated, a chit.] horse dashed on to the
vim▪
teeased, as he lay on the ground, and threw its rider, who
t," very much shaken. As, q t possible; Coreet
Z;seh ilaz was remov.ed to, the barracks, but he was
.then
'ln: V. in a life leis state." One of his arms was broken in
l'everal places, and his internal injuries were dearneel to be
of
1.1 very serious nature. .The pewit :;oung man ling red
e,tlllhsB morning, when he expired, a? above steteet Ilia
rashes are said to ri side in the neighb whood of War-
Viet,
wtore his father is a-clergyrnar. An ihqursr was to
lave been oponed the bedrelds efterneon but:it lies
riese,n po tponed at the suggestion ;if the rnriitary euthe•
ehlee This eccarrenee has thrown a loom over the
garrison.
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ftrx OF ILIAD?. IN Patterns AND VIE NORTH —Our
• ePeets at Preston grow more and more: gloom We
;,7• 4„ tlrtnced, a fortnight ago, that as the millownere worked ,
rtrneir raw material many-of- them would not go into the
im._lltkiit for a fresh supply, but would prefer to stop their
17Alinery, and close their establishments. Already this
hees been acted upen at One if net-more mills ; arid we
e" of two or three which are-likely to cease work. It was
teitchtted on Friday that two large firma were about to ex- '
ee,l'the hours of labour ; but such is not the case, the time
118,„Istrially . fixed, four days or forty hours per week,
411 Z g the: maximum. We have no more • fevoure
The reports from- other towns in this district.
"2. are ; now. only two mills -in the neigh.-
136„er;tuieod of Raw:enstall and Crawehawbooth but whet
e, working short time.. Two at the latter place are
vittorted end ikely to have fresh owners before they resume
stall Two large mills in the neighbourhood of Rawten-
le,esjnave stopped working altogether for a fortni6tht.—
theiens Gnardian.—A fortnight ego we announced that.
nee, ens Dixon an I Messrst Donald, of 'Carlisle, had
ni,Tenleneed to work only four days a week. Since that
tan lt the whole of the mills in the city followed their
we, Pte. Hand loom weaving has also gradually become
le me• Besides the stoppage of the Glasgow work, the
"°n d
thro e production of the kcal manufaetrr era has
hand; 4 many out cf etnployment. 300 or • 400
'hirers are at presmt, without webs. The manufac-
Rill expect the short-time movement
be
Aroeise,
continue co
temporary expecl,ien..!... Luckily,
'win continue to decline in price.--Carltsle Journal—