Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-29 00:00:00

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The Times says the government proposition to elect Mr.
Massey as Chairman of Ways and Means, will not be
assented to without opposition.
A correspondent of the Siecle says, that one of the best
shots in Garibaldi's service is an Englishman of fifty years
old, who carries a capital Lancaster rifle, and aided by a
pair of spectacles of which he stands in need, brings down
every Tyrolean chasseur that he takes aim at. .t omebody
lately asked him whether he had been attracted to join the
volunteer corps by a strong feeling for the Italian cause, or
by a love of sport. Ile answered- very-.coolly, " I have a
great respect for Italian independence, but I am also, very
fond of shooting." . .

HINT. TO ADVERTISER
71Tpin York

'he New.Orlean.3 correspondent
s :—" The Merchants of /few

ibune sa

Orleans are far more liberal in ad;rertising than those of
, and it is they alone which support most of our
One firm in this city, in the drug business, expends

your city

__Jars a year in job printing and 30,000 dollars in
advertising. A clothing firm has expended 50,000 dollars in
advertising in six months. Both establishments are now
enjoying the liou's share of the pats onage, and are determined
to continue such profits and investments. A corn doctor is
advertiaing at over 10,000 dollars a month, and the proprietor
of a corner grocery' on the outskirts of the city has found
it advantageous to advertise to the extent of 7,000 dollars

0,000 dol

during the past winter. "
LONDON CHILDREN.-Dirty in their appearance and
slatternly in their attire, they congregate together wherever
a few inches of 'space is left to -them, and engage in the
pursuit of enjoyment under extreme difficulties. Their
behaviour is occasionally of the roughest, and their games
are, for the most part, of a nature which seriously imperil
the safety, or, at least, the comfort of the chance passengers ;
and in so far they afford a complete justification to the police
for banishing them from the more frequented thoroughfares.
But, in spite ,of all this, they have their good points. Who
that has seen them has not been touched with the care be-
stowed by. urchins of six or seven 'years of age, upon their
baby brothers and sisters, under whose weight they can hardly

[nd whom yet they nurse with the greatest tender-

stagger

What a tale is thus told of the straitness and incon-
venience of the homes of the poor, when mothers are glad to
trust their infants out of their sight, and in the hands of such
young and, as it might be fancied, such careless nurses! And
who that has seen these groups, but must have wished that

some cenyenient play-places might be found for them, e _
these victims Of circumstances might at least have a chance of name I
seeing a blade of grass, and feeling the blessed air blow about was g
them in something of its original freshness ? Hitherto ;nd wa
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London, and indeed all large towns, have grossly neglected cl • al
, their duty in this respect ; and we see the consequence in the tiring
stunted and shrivelled appearance, the. pale faces,. and the felti
narrow chests of the children of the town poor: The Society serior
for Providing Play-grounds. for Children has resolved to vho NI
grapple with the evil. We think their object is deserving of. the fl
cordiasupport, and we very heartily wish them all success. a Cl
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—Lady's- Newspaper. ne
DISGRACEFUL STATE OF THE SERPENTINE.—The Serpen- lenbr
tine is a most positive nuisance. We entreat any one who fectie
may doubt the truth of our assertion to satisfy himself by ell 1
personal investigation of the real state of the ease. Within sorrel
the last few: days the miAasmata which it emits have as t
men
become so offensive that speedy action must be-taken in the
matter or evil will surely follow, which we shall all deplore Ling
when it is too late. In the earlier part of- the- season some row
rho
feeble attempts were made to abate the virulence of the
stench by casting into the metrupelitan lake certain modi- t see
cams of lime. There are traces of the presence of this pal- the;
liative on the. batiks,,_ as though to mark how the nymph and
Serpentine had spurned the purifying agent from her dirty floe
You might administered. as well have ministered. a seidlitz pro
powder to a dead body in the hope of staying the proerees of e
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corruption. There is but one thing to do, which is Co drain
A letter from Turin in the Nord says-e---
the lake thoroughly, as was done with- the sheet of orna-
mental water in the gardens of St. James's-park. No half Ressuth arrived inour city from Genoa. He was received
measures: will be- of the slightest avail We do not, of lat the station by. the Deputy Valerio an&some others, ultra
course; mean to say that this can -be done just now, when `democrats, of the- city. The celebrated Magyar agitator
things are at their worst. To expose the coagulated filth of i was accompanied by two of his former officers. It is. said
the. Serpentine to the action of a July. sun would probably that he will shortly leave for Acquie where a Hungarian
be to send tha inhabitants'of Knightsbridge, Kensington,, legion is being organised under the- command of General
and Mayfair out of the world, or out of town, before the 12th Klanka."
of August. rill the colder weather returns such palliative,* A LONG 'loam:ie.—Among, the-obituary notices-in the
as are possible must be aPplied, and when the summer. Leeds Intelligences is the following-: -7-" On the 2.0t1e inst.,
has passed' away let- the only real and effective remedy aged 45. Mr. Peter Matterson, of Low Dansford, near
be applied. The Serpentine must be drained ; what Boronghbridge. He and his ancestry have been the owners
'pollutions are Owed- into it, or 'percolate into it, must be and occupiers on the farm on which he died for more than
diverted into another channel; the bottom must be: left 800 years. The farm was not entailed, and the owner has
exposed - fora certain and sufficient period to the purifying always been a Matterson, without adoption.
influences:of the air, ' and finally- be dealt with as wes,the DEPoirwrlox or VENETIAN, NORLES TO BIRFAIIA.—On
botteneof theornamental water in St. James's Park. This the 22ndinst. ten or twelve nobles arrived at Vienna from
is no idle speculation. .We haVe present before our eyes,- or, Venice,aseprisaners. In. the.avereing they were escorted by
what is perhaps more important; our noses, the results of soldiers to the terminus of the' Northern Rai toad, and it
.an, operation of this 'kind. Why should not that which has is believed they ' are to he confined in the fortress of The-
me° succeeded so admirably succeed again? The purifica- resienstedt, in Bohemia. Almost all the prisoners were
tionof SteJaines's viaters has proved one of the most grati- young then of gentlemanly appearance. One-of the unfor-_
.fying iinprovemente of the metropoliSin oar time., We are tunate party, who was advanced in years, was believed to be
therefore most anxious to see the results of our-experience theexepoclesta of Venice. .
brought to bear upon a. nuisance similar in kind, bat far Execterimes or Fraxeeee. SOLDIERS.—During last week
more intense in degrea.—Times, and the week before there were so many desertions from the'
SPIRIT RAPPING.---A SCENE —For some days.past it has Austrian regiment " Alemann," which recruits at Bergamo,
been announced ;that a lecture would be delivered at the ill Lombardy, and from " Aivoldi," whiclie raised at Lodi,
Library Hall of the Athenaeum, by Mr. S. Owen, on the that drum-head law was proclaimed in- both regiments.
subject of " spirit rapping." At eight eolock, the time Four deserters fruit the first-mentioned- regiment, which is
appointed for the commencement of the lecture, Mr. Owen in garrison in Vienne were brought in and, as two of them
made his appearance on the platforM in a somewhat excited; were taken after drum-head law had been instituted, they
state, and announced that he was placed ill a dilemma. He. were tried and shot within the next twenty four hours.
said he had seen the secretary (Mr. Schofield) in the course A CENTENARIAN.—Sarah Wattort Hughes died last
of the day, and had told him that a gentleman residingln Saturday, in Sedgeley, near Dudley, at the age of 113
Lever-streete bad promised to pay the.fee demanded for the years. For a number of years she had been an inmate of
use of the room if he would apply to.him The secretary Sedgeley Workhouse, and on the removal, a few days ago.
had prornieed that he would do so, but had not seen the gen- of the paupers to. the new union at Dudley, she performed 1
tleman, and as the room was not paid for, he was told that he the journey comfortably, and without fatigue. She is
couldnot proceed withthe lecture., He thought this was unfair without femily, never having. been 'married. She has'
treatment, and he was sorry to say abet in the other towns outlived all her brothers and sisters, notwithstanding that
similar-tricks had been played upon, him. He thought such one was born more than forty years subsequent to her
conduct on the part Of the authorities of the Athenaeum birth. During the whole of the time she was in the
was mean in the extreme, mune recommended the audience workhouse at Sedgeley, although entirely blind, she knitted
tee express their opinion to that effect. At this stage of the all the stockings for the paupers, consisting of nearly 200.
proceedings, he retired intr.+ the ante-room to confer with . THE AUSTRIANS AND THEIR WOUNDED.—The leaving
some of the directors, and shortly afterwards returned, and behind all their more severely wounded men after
stated that the money hail been paid, and that he should evacuating a place is a practice which has been generally
proceed with the lecture. Before 'he had an opportunity adopted by the Austrians during this campaign. In Milan,
of doing so, however, the hon. secretary stepped upon the Como, Leno, Bergamo, Brescia—everywhere, in fact, where
platform, and explained to the audience that it was a stand- they have had garrisons -esick and wounded were left
ing rule. that on all occasions when the hall was let the rent behind. The calculation is not so foolish either, Only
of the room should be paid in advance. This had not been those are left who, it at all, would net be able to, do duty
done by 'Mr, Owen, and hence the circumstances which for some time to came, so leaving them behind is getting
had arisen. For what had occurred the directors were rid of troublesoMe encumbrance. There is no surgeon or
in no way responsible. Mr. Owen reiterated that Mr. any other medical officer left with them, nor is there the
Schofield had promised to see that gentleman whose name usual recommendation of the disabled to the magnanimity
he had given, but had not done so, and said he was prepared of the enemy —a courtesy which has been adopteeelsewhere
to make oath to that effect. Mr. Schofield then made his as an invariable practice of civilised warfare.—Letter from
• appearance, and denied the truth of the statement made by Castelnedolo.
Mr. Owen, and both gentlemen endeavoured to make' their TF.STIMONIAL TO MR. C. KEAN.—On Wednesday, July
statements emphatic by violently striking the table at the 20th, a testimonial is to be presented to Mr. Charles
the same time. Mr. Schofield, however, shortly retired Kean, the eminent actor, who is about to retire from the
from the platform, and the lecturer proceeded. He management of the Princess's Theatre. The presentation is
said it was customary for him to harmonise the feel- to be made the occasion of a grand banquet, which will be
ings of his audience by playing to them some music, . spread at St. James's Hall, and we observe that the Right
but as lie was not sufficiently composed for that he Honourable the Earl of Carlisle is to occupy the chair. The
' would recite a piece of poetry which would perhaps have committee announces itselfasself-constituted, and is composed
the same effect. He then recited a composition of his own on of noblemen and gentlemen who were nearly all cotemporary
"The New Era," in blank verse. After proceeding with with Mr. C, Kean at Eton. It comprises two dukes, one
his discourse for some time, he said he would not ask his marquis, seven earls, two viscounts, five lords, and nearly a '
audience to believe what he said, but to suspend their score of right honourables, honourables, and men of mark
judgment, and hot tn. denounce until they were qualified to and distinguished position, who state their object is "to
give an intelligent opinion upon the subject. At the con- mark their sense of the distinguished talent of their old
elusion of the lecture, air, John Plant asked the lecturer schoolfellow." At the same time, as they believe that the
says : - if he really believed what he had stated. Mr. Owen right of acknowledging the services Mr. Kean has rendered,
" The new - King of the Two Sicilies inaugurates his replied that he did, and he was willing to make oath to to the drama "belongs to the nation at large," they invite
Government by continuing the system of the late King. that effect. He miasmic/lily answered several questions the public to "unite with them in testifeinee their itiln,'"ra:
Arrests are every day made in order to intimidate and which were put to him, but he refused to gratify the wishes ;tin for one who has so long. and so sneees3fully lal)os'lred to
prevent any public manifestation of sympathy for the war of 1 of some of the audience who asked eek be furnished with i provide for their intellectual etpilent, and who
Italian independent°. To form part of any demonstration;
- ; ; ocular demonstration in the way of morigont,-- Iso much towards upholding the -dignity and IWcharacter
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to re* a bat Ykien the new Vietlinellteee Envoy paeeee itn • Manchester Examiner. - of the national steel." •
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'has done

uprooted. A youth, whose As since been ascertained
to be George Michael Field, was going along the Kenning-
ton-road towards the gate, and was struck by the lightning,
and fell heavily to the ground; and, on being raised, was
perfectly insensible, as if suffering from asphyxia. On beimg
brought to, he stated that he felt as if his head was suddenly
encircled by fire. Another serious accident happened to a
man in Westminster-road,' who was on horseback, and the
animal being infuriated by the flashes of lightning, threw
his rider, who received' a concussion of the brain.
For a considerable - time after the storm broke
forth, the sky over Sydenham and its surrounding
neighbourhood was perfectly clear, and the sun
shining; while Camberwell and Walworth and the
vicinity was deluged with torrents of rain, and the flashes
of lightning were so vivid as to cast a strange glare upon
all around. Three Young men were passing along the Old
Kent-road when the lightning struck two of them, named
Edward Perry, and James Summers, who fell to the groun
and were conveyed to their homes in an insensible condi—
tion., Perry being stillin a serious state from the effects of
thfkshoelc; In nlmost,all the suburban districts south of
the -Thames the storm•of Sunday will be long remembered;
destroying as it did emus, flowers, greenhouses, conserva-
tories, and other valaahle property, whit-4 will cost a
amionnt of money tarestore.

breast

." On the 231,4

" It is quiteieertain that the petty states which demanded
the most loudly that Prussia should adopt military measures,
have suddenly thrown difficulties in the way of the move-
ment of,our troops. In addition to Bavaria, Electoral Hesse
is now doing so. The ordinary trains have been suspended.
on the Frederick William -Railway to allow the military
trains of Prussia, to pass, but theso latter have been counter-
manded. From the positions which the six corps of the
Prussian army are to take,_ it appears that Prussia will not
participate in any military measures decided on on the
Upper Rhine. The Prussian troops will not ero beyond
Coblentz and Frankfort in the south, and will' allow the
petty states to di,pose of their troops themselves."

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TUSCANY.

The Monitore . Toseano of the 24th announces that the
Neapolitan consul-general at Leghorn having announced
his intention of recognising the authenticity of the acts

emanating from the Tuscan Government, has been reinstated
in the exercise of his functions. The same paper publishes

the following officio

a note

" The despatch addressed by the British Minster Plenipo-
tentiary at Florence to the Earl of Malmesbury, dated June 2,
gives an account of a conversation between the diplomatist and
the undersigned. The undersigned regrets that in the
account of this conversation, addressed to his government,
Mr. Scarlett, no doubt led into error by an imperfect recol-
lection of what had passed, should have attributed to him
opinions which he does not entertain, and expressions
which he never uttered ; the undersigned having simply
declared that to the causes which render a restoration of the
dynasty of Lorraine in Tuscany impossible, there must also
be added its having taken refuge in Austria, and remained
there permanently, (Signed) " C. Riporsi,"