The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-06 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

John Frederick Goodered, Piccadilly, wine-merchant
and shell-fishmonger.
James Riggings, Strand, and Strand-lane, auctioneer and
tobacconist.
Samuel Grottick, Blackfriars-road, hatter.
Charles Shaw, Southover, Sussex, grocer.

Prince Gortchakoff, governor of the kingdom of Poland,
returned to Warsaw on the 28th ult., and will open in a
few days an industrial exhibition at that city.
A Malaga journal announces that " Queen Isabella, in
consideration of the intimate ties which unite her to
Queen Victoria, and of the conduct of that sovereign in
the affair of Colonel Correa Boleno, has exercised her
royal prerogative to pardon some English sailors who were
arrested some time ago at Malaga far having committed
acts of violence in the streets."
" Ry recent accounts from St. Petersburg," says a letter
from Berlin, " we learn that the Emperor and Empress of
Russia will arrive at Keil on the 2nd of July. Their
Majesties will afterwards proceed by Hamburg, Hmever,
Gcettingen, and Frankfort to Darmstadt, where they will
remain from the 6th to the 12th. Thenee the Emperor
will visit the Empress-Mothor at Wildbad, and afterwards
conduct the reigning Empress to Kissiugen or to Bruckenata
His Majesty will probably pass through Berlin about the
20th on his way to Warsaw. Count de Nesselrode has left
Berlin to-day for Kissingen."
When the members of the Architectural Societies of
Lincoln, Northampton, Notts, Worcester, &c., visited
Doddington Hall, near Lincoln, a few days ago, the owner
of that Elizabethan mansion (G. K. Jarvis, Esq., High
Sheriff of Lincolnshire) invited the company to inspect a
magnificent holly tree, believed tojie the largest in the
world, and its age coeval with the house. It is reported of
this tree that it was the means of saving both the honour
and the life of a young lady, who, to escape from the im-
portunities of a lover, threw herself from the top of the
house into this tree, and was thus preservAl.
The Turkish screw steam frigate Given Bahri, Captain
Mnstapha Bey, arrived at Gibraltar from Plymouth, in
charge of Mr. Williams (Liverpool channel pilot), on the
30th ult., after a passege of eight days. She met with a
strong gale in the Bay from S.E. to N.W., and was hove
to for a couple of days, as the Turkish crew preferred going
to prayers to making sail, which all the persuasions of Mr
Williams could not prevail on them to do do, they saying
" too much wind," "no bozo," &c. The engines, by
Napier, worked well, and the vessel steamed at the rate of
eight to nine knots, making good weather. She would
leave for Constantinople in a few days.
A SUIT DECIDED OUT OF Dooßs,—A scandalous scene,
which has terminated fatally, occurred here two days ago.
A lawsuit was brought against a person named N., with
Lee vr eueneisaailen or the
property of his children. N. was greatly irritated at this
suit, and on leaving the conrt he broke out'into violent
abuse against the father-in-law of a lawyer named D., who
happened to overhear him. D. requested N. to be silent,
bat the latter giving way to an excess of fury, rushed at the
lawyer with a key. clenched in his hand, and with a violent
blow split open his nose. D., enraged at this attack, seized
an umbrella which N. had let drop, and struck him in the
face. Unfortunately the point pierced one of his eyes, and
inflicted an injury from which he expired a few hours
later.--esrantes Paper.
CATCHING FISH BY TELEGRAPH,—At leieesrs. Glasse
and Elliot's yard, a fine submarine cable is being made for
the Norwegian government. This is probably the first
electric telegraph which has ever been used for fishing
purposes. During the fishing season the shoals of herrings
enter the fiords of Norwayat most unexpected intervals and,
at places where often not more than one or two fishing-
boats are to be found. Before the boats from the sot.-
rounding bays and fords can be summoned to the spoil,
the herrings have generally spawned, and are away
to sea again. To prevent these repeated disappoint-
ments and losses to the fishermen, the Nor-
wegian government is about to lay a submarine
cable along some 50 mile, of the coast most frequented by
the shoals, with land stations at short distances conarnuni-
' eating with the fishing villages. The instant the shoal is
seen in the offiing, therefore (and it can always be known at
a distance by the whales which surround it), a message will
be sent along the coast telling each village the herd or
bay which' it has entered. Alas for the poor herrings!
They will splash heedlessly over the qneer looking rope on
the bottom without thinking that it is telling their num-
bers and the way they have taken, and guiding their
pursuers to the destruction of them all.
TOLL REFORM.—The Toll Reform Committee have
transmitted to Viscount Palmerston, at his own request, a
statement of their :proposals. They say the commit-
tee seek an abolition of all toll gates and bars within a
radius of six miles from Charing Cross, particularly on
those roads north of the Thames, which are now out of
debt. In 1855 the Dublin toll gates were ahslished by
Act of Parliament, although the roads were then in.debt.
The operation of the system of toll-gates is in every way
most injurious. particularly in the depreciation of property
outside the toll-gates. The contrast between the value of
houses within the bars, as compered with those outside, is
obvious, and entails serious loss. Toll-gites have the in-
jurious effect of causing the erection of stables, cow-houses,
cattle-sheds, and slangnter-..houses, within the gates, to save
the expense of tolls, thus causing great injury to the health
of the inhabitants inside the Yates. One of the greatest
objections to the system of turnpikes is, that it is a waste-
ful and offensive mode of collecting a tar, entailing a loss
or deduction on the gross receipts, difficult to estimate, but
of large ameunt, as the number of men and boys employed
is great, and the profits of the coatraetors or farmers of the
tax necessarily very conside,able. It is also an impost
pressing heavily and unequally on those whose calling re-
quire them to use horses and carts, such as the dealers is
coals, timber, and provisions, The toll gates also act most
prejudicially to residens bey end the bars, as they dies
courage the public conveyances traveling beyond the turn-
pikes, and thus, while imp.eding the development of the
omnibus and cab trade, depriving the neighbourhoods
nutside the gates of advantages which those dwelling
within them now enjoy.
THE COLLIERY Exer.osinti IN MONMOUTHSHIRE.
—h
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at
the W
Brewer, Esq , deputy coroner, on the bodies of the twelve
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Bridge-codEs Y WEDNESDAY.—The
Inn,
e adjourned inquest was
(iwwtilley, before W. H.
eollier who were killed by an explosion in the Tyr Nicholas
Colliery on Weineseay last. The inquest was formally
opened on Friday, when the jury we!e sworn, and imme-
dly ProeLedud to view: the bodies previous to interment.
Those must injured it was necessary to bury without delay,
and as soon atter the identification as possible. The others
wee, buried on Sunday, and a large crawd of people followed
the unfortuate sufferers to the grave, Among the deceased
are four single men, the rest being married,and have left in
some cases seven children. The facts, as before set forth in
this journal, wasdescribed most graphically by the witnesses,
who es it were escaped front the jaws of death, after which
the government inspector of mines for the district deposed
to the result of his examination of the colliery, finding fault
with the rules for the euidance of the colliers, and also with
the system of ventillation, He gave it as his decided opinion
that the caiamity would not have occurred had the use of
safety lamps been rigidly enforced and adopted, and that all
mines would he safe from explosions of gas were the
" Davy" always in requisition. The jury consulted nearly
half an hour. and then returned as their verdict that the
whole of the deceased came by their deaths from fire and
choke damp, in consequence of the negligence and reek-
. lessness of Samuel Merryfield. They also recommended
the adoption of the rules sanctioned by the Secretary of
' State, as welt a, an imprDverneat in the ventilatixtQf the
pit.

FOREIGN

INTELLIGENCE

FRANCE.

.eY PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
A passage in an article on the elections in the
constitutioned, signed by M. Granier de Cassagnac,
would seem to show that the government feels
the necessity of availing itself to the full extent of
the decision of the Court of Cassation, which holds
it to be unlawful for third parties to circulate
electoral bulletins without the authorisation
of the prefect. He says distinctly that only
two interests can raise their ♦oices at this
moment—" the government, in the name of
society, and the candidates in the names of their
doctrines and services," and that existing
institutions have wisely suppressed "agitators,
agents, and electioneering brokers." Every man
may vote as he likes but no man will be permitted
to mislead others "by means of falsehood or
intrigue." All this while the prefects are to
" enlighten the electors as to their choice
of a candidate." Monsieur de Cassagnac attri-
butes entirely to the ignorance of foreigners of the
working of universal suffrage in France the notion
that the " public and solemn intervention of the
government in support of certain candidates"
can be any restriction on the free choice of the
electors. As a proof to the contrary he instances the
enormous majority obtained by Louis Napoleon
in 1848, in spite of all the influence of General
Cavaignac, who then wielded a dictatorship.
He chooses to forget, however, that though
General Cavaignac certainly did the best he could
for himself, he did nothing unfair against Louis
Napoleon's friends and supporters. He left the
press free to support his cause, Bonapartist com-
mittees were free to meet and organise canvassing
all over the country, and the terrors of summary
justice were not invoked against " agitators, agents,
and electioneering brokers," on the pretence that
they were misleading the people
The Courrier du Bas Rhin (not edited by an
ignorant foreigner) complains that the present
position of the press, with regard to elections, is
full of peril and uncertainty. " Supposing," it
asks, " that a journal wishes to oppose a govern-
ment candidate, can it do so without being likely
to draw down upon itself a warning? If names
may be canvassed, within what limits must the
discussion be confined ? It is very desirable, for
the sake of the departmental press, that some
certain rule should be laid down to guide our
course over this slippery ground."
The official notice given to the press of certain
departments, to abstain from discussing the electo►
ral question, has, according to the Phare de la Loire,
been withdrawn. That journal says :—"The Presse
will no longer doubt the correctness of our asser-
tions in reference to the notice addressed to the
provincial press. The notice, as we had been led to
expect by the circular of the Minister of the In-
terior, has now been officially withdrawn."
The first electoral address, profession de foi, as it
is called, has just come to light. It is issued by
M. Debrotonne, the sitting member for the Vervins
in the Aisne, who claims a renewal of the confi-
dence of the electors. The substance of his
circular is said by the Courrier de Paris to be
simply this, " I have little to say to you, we have
known each other a long time."
The Ami del' Ordre of Amiens puts forward as an
opposition candidate for the Somme, M. Creton,
famous in the history of the last Legislative
Assembly for the frequent renewal of the motion
known as "La proposition Creton," for recaliing
the Orleans princes from exile.
The Union Franc Comtoise pronounces in favour
of M. de Montalembert, who comes forwardsas an
opposition candidate in the Doubs.
A letter from Bordeaux states that the elections
will be disputed in each of the five circumscrip-
tions of the Gironde.
A quarrel of long standing among the share-
holders of the Univers. has ended in the concen-
tration of all the shares in the hands of M. Louis
Venillot, the editor, who triumphantly announces
this morning that nothing will be changed in the
attitude or doctrines of the journal. The Univers
will therefore continue to be the organ of the
Jesuits arid the extreme Ulttamontano church
party, aibit has been ever since 1842.