Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-19 00:00:00

SPAIN.

1,411 d'ecount was given some time ago of the son of a
at,s't by gentleman of Malaga, of the name of
of 3138, having been carried off by one of the bands
ien-te hnds which infest the provinces of that name,
bee of a sum of 12,000 piastres (63,000 francs) having
bug paid,
extorted for his ransom. On the day the ransom
but ,Po.id, the son, who is a mere boy, returned home,
im.nite could not give respecting the robbers' retreat any
Pnation calculated to cause their arrest. A few days
ap‘Z`linpos received two strange anonymous letters ; one,
Whring to come from the chief of the brigands, declared
went P, within a given time. he should not publish a state
rector the newspapers to the effect that his son had been
the 0 L. to him without ransom, he should be put to death;
batlituer, appearing to come from a simple member of the
pia; di,claring that if he did not at once pay the 12,000
eaert:es he
had promised, he and all his family should be
h ti," off and murdered. These letters cause it to be
he7sed that the chief of the brigands had appropriated
oftenpaid him for the boy's ransom. The authorities
.
u_gkting the most active efforts to discover the retreat
he robbers.

THE BELFAST RIOTS.

47XIINMENT COMMISSION.-FIFTH DAY.

BELFAST, FRIDAY NIGHT.
&111 Commissioners 'resumed the inquiry into the riots
:'daY at eleven o'clock. The witnesses examined were—
Mr'-- Greene, chief constable of local night police ; the
,45y. Mr. Mcllwaine, incumbent of St.. George's ; and the
Eicaverwoth, gentlemen connected with the
`Parochial mission, by which body the3street-preaching
Itas entered upon. The evidence showed that they had
=Yielded to the remonstrance of the Magistrates, and had
desisted from street preaching when it was apprehended
Its likely to cause a breach of the peace. A Roman
Catholic constable of the local police was examined.
This day, at the police court, 4 out of 5 constables of
the local police, charged with taking part with the mob
and throwing stones, were returned for trial at the quar-
t" sessions. They were admitted, to bail on their own
re"gnixances of £lO each, and two securities of e 5 each.

tallrk°Rl TROOPS FM; INDIA.—A number of t-oeaf.s m-
att_ ed on Wednesday m)rning from Tilbury Fo t an the
loZsPe t for conveyance to Bombay. Th ) number of me t
is" e Markel was 360. They c ,mprised the Company's
gatPtiriers and 11I'ners. and runners of the Company's
e 9 • several of the Cempany's Engineer officrs ale)
eraleeke;4.
" PRE;'S or AUSTMLIA —The total' number of
toriapars now issued in the Australian colonies amounts
b. °I. Victoria has six daily and thirty-eight weekly and
aw,
; New South Wales, two daily and eiehteen
and bi-week'y ; Tasmania, five daily and three
tilf"lY afid tri-veeekly ; South Australia, two daily and
wreeei. weekly; and in Western Australia there arc four
journals.—Australian and New Zealand Gazette.
; "4, LENGTH FAINTING PREVENTED. —The new
aF'erlion of steel frames for ladies' jupons to rest upon, is
"eh enormoes weight that it is hardly likely to become
Rtn 1,
tap, Yet for those who are liable to faint it has a
The advan'aee. There is no possibility of falling!
ea so'id dome of metal which surrounds the lady so
ettialle sustains her that she can only faint from the
te4ist epw,rds—or, at I.ast, the consciousness of the
e:eindee is ano particular consequent.'. At one of the
St elegant balls of the season, in the Rae St. Honore,
here wee a great alarm among the guests occasioned by
ex falling of a chandelier in the reception room. An
aid drew all eyes ti a corner of the apartment,
bmn there stood the stout Baroness de —, her head fallen
4 and her arms hanging nerveless at her sides, but
tme..',Ale apparently on her feet. The steel petticoat
j 8 'lee I her. She had fainted—but only in bust.—Court
ozo.na,.
•
1e have
Or A PRIEST.—A letter from Italy says :
14
bo heve eal for many years in Piedmont the well-known
°2l,4enor Carlo Gazol ), a Boman ex-prelate, who, after
petitr'ei entered ilte,cor filet with the pontificate, cams into
he melt here. . touched by the race of Go d,
iris repented ofhecentl his de3yda3 he has be:akegn himself to
MtYlavi, to the house of the brathree attic mission, where
er Settle months of retirement and prayer, he made the
ant
A boa retraentien of his errors, and sent it to the Gazette
ta,t,na, that it might be firet printed in the city where
a"ltst Father was sojurning. Mnusignor Gezola con-
-2-I:`,eg his retnctatiou, which bears date from Mondovi,
reihu ,lane, with the following words :—" I promise to
%Olt myself to all those provisions which his Holiness
ele:rualse in reference to me." It is impoasib'e to
v 4141103 the abuse and blackguardiams which the liber-
tie,4 Prict agai st the convert, which abase is the
test glory he (mild have as a reward for his nob'e act.
,13.1.0enoar AND WEST OF IRELAND FISHING COMPANY.—
Pin Wednesday a numercun meeting of the shareholders
titls held at the offices, Geashatn-hoase, Old Broad-street,
1e,r../‘Thrt Burgoyne in the chair, to consider the present
tented
of the companv, consequent en he petition pre-
tog‘ed to have the company wound up nub nakruptcy. A
tii.a4Pcluairatltsvora: read from Mr. W. C. Wryehte,. the official
which shmed that a sum of £24 475
bogs been lost in the course of seven months' opera-
elE2 This was attributable to the ou'lay at court-
eee
dim tnent, upoa shipping and being on a seale
apht:r?Portioned to the capital and returns. The shipping,
aeol?u coat £17,470, w s now (rely worth. £7,165,
tapo„1113 a loss of £10,359. Tee enterprise had proved
alto''lts working hitherto a failure, exclusive of salaries to
14.1 e rents of eunereas stations on the west coast of Ire-
Am') and the curing of fish. The eatire s des of fi h caught
for t11)?11.glit [moon ed to £2,633, but it is statad, to motet
pas ", that the whale period of the company's operations
ohue for the purpose. It was stated that the
l,i'd Part of the debts had already baen defrayed by the
reaficil(, liquidator—that the petition to the Court of Bank.
eeiLlei win presentel by one shnreholder only, sad it wee
11,..aied that the further presecution of it iu the Cou.yt 01
"K up:ey should be opposed.