The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-23 00:00:00

FRIDAY, FEB. 27.

Order of the day : Norfolk Island (Ecclesiastical
Government) Bill ; second reading.
Notices of Motions : Mr. Attorney General : Breaches
of Trust : Bill to make fraudulent breaches of trust
and duty by trustees, directors, and agents criminally
punishable.
Mr. Adderley : On motio❑ for second reading of Nor-
folk Island (Ecclesiastical Government) Bill, to move,
That it be read a second time upon this day six months.

A WEALTHY DARKir...—There is a negro in Memphis who
is said to possess an estate worth 50,000 dollars. This negro
belongs to his wife, a free coloured woman, in whose name
the property is held.
MARRYING FAMILY,-A mother and four daughters, all
of whom reside in Northampton, have, collectively,
approached the altar of Hymen seventeen times ! The
mother has had four husbands, one of her daughters four,
and the others three each.—Boston Courier.

We (HerapatA) understand that tho frauds by Redpath
and Co. ou the Great Northern Company will turn out to
be about £200,000. The directors are in a fix what course
to take. They can do nothing without an application to
parliament, as the capital on the books, we hear, exceeds
their parliamentary powers to raise. Ono curious conse-
quence of the frauds is, that the two A and B halves of the
dividend shares are rendered unequal. In other words,
Redpath has actually made two and two more than four, or
two halves more than a whole one.
SCURRILOUS PUBLICITION9.—At the Judge's Chambers
on Friday, in the case of the Queen v. William Strange the
younger, mu application was made to move the indictment from
the Central Criminal Court to the Court of Q ieen's Bench ~
The indictment was for a libel in a publication called Pau l
Pry, and the society for the suporession of sice had similar
indictments in the Court of Queen's Bench. Mr. Howe
read an affidavit, showing that the defendant, William
Strange, the younger, w_ s apprehended on Friday last in
the name of Robert Martin, and was now in the Queen's
Bench prison, on the indictments preferred by the Society
for the Suppression of Vise, in which court the indictment
in question it wils prayed might be tried. Mr. Justice
Wightinan, af,er hearing the atli lavir, was of ooinion that
it would further the ends of justice to try the several
indictments in one emu t, and in order that the writ of
certiorari to remove the indictment should be available,
he should order the prosecutor to enter into his recognisance
to proceed to trial in tha Court of Queen's Bench. The

indictment was accordingly removed on the terms suggested
by his lordship.
WHERE DOES THE DAY BEGIN ?—At whatever period use
may have determined the moment of a days commencement,
whether from sunset or sunrise, from twelve at midnight or
twelve at noon, the week day (Sunday, Monday, &c.) com-
mences earliest in the east, where the sun rises, and latest
iu tie west, in the direction of his setting. Sunday at
London begins, in any such conventional mode of reckoning,
always one hour earlier than, for instance, on the east coast
of Iceland, on a meridian fifteen degreeslwest of London ;
whereas Sunday begins at Bornholm, in the Baltic, fifteen
degrees east of London, one hour earlier than at London.
So, also, when it is noon in London, it is six o'clock in the
evening at Calcutta, and six in the morning of the same day
at New Orleans, because these places are 180 degs. apart;
and London is intermediate, being ninety degrees distant
from both. The result then is that Monday al Bornholm
begins whilst it is still Sunday at London, and this discre-
pancy lasts one hour. At Calcutta Monday begins six hours
earlier than in London, and has already advanced twelve
hours at Calcutta befora that day has commenced at New
Orleans. The commencement of the day is therefore, on no
fixed spot, like the zero of longitude or latitude, but varies
with every meridian. Were the diurnal motion of the earth
suspended, indefinitely, the day would be of indefinite dura-
tion, and would be assignable to fixed points of the earth's
surface, as would the night also.