Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

DAY OF HUMILIATION AND PRAYER"

We have reason to believe that, at the Privy
Council held at Balmoral, on Thursiay, a ");‘)
proclamation was issued, setting apart a Lig —r
national humiliation and prayer, in consequeneB °f
the unfortunate events arising from the India
mutinies The day seleeed for this parOef
would, in all probability, be Sunday, the VII°
October.—Globe.

BELFAST RIOTS,

COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY.

BELFAST, Friday Evening'
The Commissioners took their seat to-day at 11 0'n1(34;
Several witnesses who reside in Leeds-street were 011
and examined. They stated that the string of orso4.
lillies called an arch was taken down by the local Pb°es
and not put up, as alleged by the solicitors for the 10°
Catholics.
A man, named Armstrong, stated that he picked
bullets out of the gable of his own house, which was fire
by the mob," on the 19,h Of July. He saw -over teD
or twelve guns with men, behind a ditch, who /Mit
consequently firing into Protestant districts. He saw tbf,et
follows fire at two Gam:tans, who passed near them on tilt
19th.

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The Rev. H. Hanna was examined. He made a very 111—
state nent respecting tha open air service which he condneted.
on Sunday, the 61 September, when the congregation
assailed by a mob. He attributai the entire origin of the
opposition to street preaching to the placard which Oe
posted through Belfast, and to certain articles in t'll6.
Whig and Useerinan papers.
The Rev. Mr. Vance, Wesleyan minister, and the Bey'
William Johnston, Presbyterian minister, were the°
examined, and stated that they had always been in the
habit of holding open ar service, and were never
terrupted. Mr. Vance said he preached last Sunder;'
within the proclaimed districts.

In pector Harvey was examined, and stated that the'
music which was heard banre and since the 12th of Jail
was played by a gentleman's child:en, about their fathers°
place, in the suburbs.

The Commission then adjourned until to.morrow
(Saturday.)

DEATH OF ANOTHER ITALIAN REFUGEE.

Franco Maesgone, Prince of Granatelli, a political folk"
tive from Sicily, died' suddenly of apoplexy, in the 50of
year of his age, on the nigh of the 18th September, ti
Genoa. Suspected as a liberal by the Neapolitan authors"
ties, his house was searched in 1847 by sbirri, which gross
act induced him to leave Sicily. In the revolutionary Year
1848, he was recalled, and elected a member of the Sicilian
parliament, and was deputed by the then government to ;
represent Sicily in London. During his stay here.
published in the English language, a work called " Sic
in England—a sketch of Evens in Sicily in 1812 and 1848,
illustrated by vouchers and state papers." He won t 126
e teem and friendship of Lord Palmerston, and Llrd John
Russell. He had formerly been President of the Acaden2J
at .Palermo, and wrote fluently in verse and prose. ".1.
death," says the Independente, "is one of those joys will.
Prov.den !a. in its inscrutable ways, has accorded Wth
Nea, olitan government. Remarkable for dignity of o".
racte-, and firmness of principle he p')ssessed g+ est autll.li
rity over the liberal party in Sicily, by whom his loss t"
be deeply felt."

THE HUNTINCTONS —A gathering of the Handsel
family was held at Norwich, Ct., on the 4th inst. Sos
four hundred to-tubers were present. Taey emigrated “'
this country in 1640.
NEw &To/tn.—The .New Orleans Bulletin of the Ist °ll
September, announces the receipt, at that port, of the fir 4
hogshead of sugar of the new crop. It w s from t',
parish of Plequemloes.
L /SS OF THE SH:P FUSILEER, AT ST. GOWAN's 1161
—This iron-built ship, 600 tens burden, homeward botni,
from Valparaiso, with a valuable clrgo of copper and wooly
totally lost, on Tuesday night, under St. Gov°
11-ad, the crew having a narrow escape.
The cotton and wool manufacturers of Philadelphia
have agreed to work their mills on half time on and after
the 14 la of the present month, until further notice. The'
complain that they have been for a time losers by coy,
tinning to work their mills et the present very low price'
received for goofs
A traveller in the backwoo.ls met with a settler neat
house, and inquired, '' Whose house ?" " M.tg's." ,
what. built ?" " Logs." "Any n ighbours ?" .6Froge.,
" What is the soil ?" " Bogs." " The climate?" ,
" Fogs'
" Your diet ?" "H0z..,)
The North British Mail reports that a boy abort
eleven years of age, son of Mr. Bowie, farmer, 14°7
Collech, near Stirling, was accidentally killed on Saturdaf'
One of the men was throwing a pitchfork to another, when
the boy wci-tentilly passing, the implement struck hifilr
entering about the region of the heart, and killed him ea
the spot.

NEW DISCoVRRY OF IRON ORE, NEAR ULVERsTOPI•I
correspondent wrivs :—" The very recent discovery
°
iron ore, about half a mile above the town of ITverstOot
at a depth of only from three to six feet, extends tile'
surface area some three miles further north of the eld.
and p-esent workings of centuries. At the close of 0*
weak about 1,000 tons will have reached the canal for shir
meat, including 286 tons already put on board the
traders.—Cumberland Pacquet.
M khRIAGE CLISCUMS IN JAMtS I. TIME._Mr. Greds
catalogue of State papers contains the frllowing extract
from a letter written by S:r Dudley Carleton, in 1604, de-
scribing the marriage of Phi ip [Lib rt; E inl of Mont—
urnery, to Slain Vere :—" She brided and bridled it F°
handsome; and, indeed b:caine herself so well, that the
King ssi.l if he were not married, he would not give herr
but keep her for himself. There sv,s nore of our accus"
tom nd forms omitted—of bride. cake, sops in wine, giving
of gloves, laces ar.d p!iats; and at night there was sewio&
into the sheets, casting of the bride's left hose, and twenty
other petty sorclies. They were married in the chape!',.
feisted in the great chamber, and lodged in the entitle"
cnamber, where the King gave them, in the mornigt
before they were up, a reveille main in his shirt and his
night-zowri.

SUICIDE sY STRYCIINM—On Saturday morning last, •
girl named Wilson, aged 13, a servant to Mr. sampsOr
Tibshelf, committed suicide under the following circa S.
stance.:—ln the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Sampson on ti.l
Thursday previous, she had been guilty'of improper Colli
duct with the servant man, and this enning to the woof,
Mr- Sampson on Friday he charged her with it. Sb
denied it, but as it was clearly proved by her fel° r
servant, Mr. Thompson told her he should send fa her
mother; and on Saturday morning, while washing one °a
the children, she was suddenly seized with twitchings
car traction of the muscles. Mr. Turner, of Alfreton,
tent for immediately; but she was dead before he arrive'
From the state in which he found her he saw at once th t
death had resulted from strychnia. When asked
before she died what she had taken, she pointed to uf;
cupboard, and it was found she had taken a quantity a
" Battle's Vermin Killer" which contains strychnis.
inquest was held on Monday before Mr, Busby. Vag'
" Temporary lanUity."—COrk Reporter, _

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