The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-20 00:00:00

FIRE AT THE BANK OF IRELAND.

A fire of the most alarming character broke out in the
bookkeepers' offices in the Bank of Ireland on Monday
morning, at four o'clock. The entire office, and all the
furniture in it, was consumed, but fortunately all the
books and other valuables were in the strong-rooms.
With the assistance of 300 soldiers and a number of fire-
engines, the fire, at nine o'clock, was quite got under.

THE COURT, ,S-c.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY, Jan. le —The Queen and Prince,
Prince of Wales, Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and
Princess Helena, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court,
and the Domestic Household, attended Divine Service
this morning in the private chapel. Visitors staying in
the castle were also at the service. The Hon. and Very
Rev. the Dean of Windsor read the prayers, and the Rev.
Dr. Philpott preached the sermon. The Count of Flanders
wcnt.to the Catholic Chapel at Claremont.

THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The government has dec7ded
on appointing Admiralty agents to take charge of the
Australian mails under the new contract. These agents
will be lieutenants in the royal navy, and will be under the
supervision of the captain superintendent of mail packets
at Southampton. The staff of Admiralty agents connected
with the Southampton station will shortly ccnsist of up-
wards of forty naval lieutenants.

CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOP OF BIPoN.—On Sunday
morning the consecration of Dr. Robert Bickersteth, of
Queen's College, Cambridge, late rector of St. Giles's-in-
the-Fields, who has been appointed to the bishopric of
Ripon, took place at Bishopthorpe. After a sermon by
the Hon. and Rev. J. T. Pelham, N.A , rector of Maryle-
bone, the bishop elect was presented to the Archbishop
of York by the Bishops of Durham and Carlisle, and he
then assumed the full episcopal habit. The Archbishop
and the assisting bishops then laid their hands upon the
head of the bishop elect, the archbishop using the pre-
scribed form.

THE RIGHT REV. DR. GRANT, R. 0., BISHOP OF
SourHwARK.—A paragraph appears in' the Times this
morning announcing with much circumstantiality the
death of this right rev. prelate, as having taken place on
the 15th inst. We are able to state on the best authority,
to wit, that of Dr. Grant himself, that there is no truth
whatever in the Times announcement. His lordship is
alive and in excellent health. Only these poor credulous
people, wh.) swallow all that our "great cotemporary "
itself says about its own infallibility, will be surprised at
its publication of this stupid or malicious hoax, which the
very obvious precaution of previous inquiry at the
bishop's residence would have prevented.—Evening paper.

THE Loss OF THE TYNE.—Comparatively little of the
bulky portion of the cargo of the mail steamer Tyne,
stranded on the Isle of Purbeck, and which cargo consists
of cochineal and tapioca, will be saved undamaged. As
fast as it is taken out, it is despatched to Southampton in
small sloops. A large proportion of the bales of the
above named articles are completely soaked through.
Some idea of the force of the surf at the wreck may be
formed from the fact that on Friday night a lifeboat was
driven by what is called a roller, or wave of the surf,
against the stranded steamer with immense force, and one
of the men of the boat came in contact with the sponson
of the Tyne, and nearly had his back broken.
He was sent to Southampton in a tug, to be
placed in the South Hants Infirmary in that
town. He was in a very precarious condition. The
wreck is nearly .50 miles from Southampton, and from
Portsmouth daily communication takes place between the
wreck and the two towns for assistance and provisions
for the men ,at work on the wreck. Some hundreds of
men are now assisting in making preparations for getting
the ship off; many of them are from Her Majesty's Dock-
yard at Portsmouth. Divers are also there, and numerous
steamers and barges, with empty casks, gigantic cables,
chains, and anchors, together with various kinds of tackle
and machinery. , When the ship went ashore she went
over a ledge into a bed as it were. She wore completely
round by means of her canvas, but she hung on by her
stern to the rock, and all attempts to move her proved a
failure; her head, therefore, points at sea. Divers have
been all round and examined her hull and bottom, and they
declare that she is only damaged near her stern. About 30
pumps will shortly be set going by scores of men to pump
her out. Men are taking her paddle wheels from her to
render her lighter, because the floats of these wheels are
most valuable, and will, therefore, be saved in case the
ship is eventually lost. She will be floated by means
of barges and empty casks. When this is done,
enormous chains, warps, and steam power from tugs
and other ships, will be in requisition to drag her
into deep water. The gigantic and interesting experiment
of trying to save the magnificent steamer will,
it is expected, be made about Wednesday next.
g, The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have much
satisfaction in making known the handsome and generous
manner in which Mr. Edouard Pecher, Consul-General of
his Majesty the King of the Belgians at Rio Janeiro, has
conferred a donation of £5OO on Henry Bath, chief boat-
man in the coast-guard service, and iu charge of the St.
Alban's station, for his good and brave conduct in proceed.
ing to the assistance of the royal mail steamer Tyne. The
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have also had much
satisfaction in promoting Henry Bath to be a chief officer
in the coast-guard service, as a mark of their appreciation
of his excellent conduct. Admiralty, Jaa. 17."

PARIS GOSSIP.—A. correspondent writing from Paris
on Saturday, says :—By the way, a delicious anecdote is
told of the Emperor of the French. On the day of the
assassination of the Archbishop, he was just sitting down
to an early dinner ( six o'clock), because he was going to
the Gaiete, to see the " False Adultery." A priest came
in all haste with the news, persuaded M. de Hassan() to
let him in, and, with theatrical gestures, delivered his
narrative. It would have been proper on the occasion
for the Emperor to make some pious remark ; but, while
the Empress fainted. his Majesty simply exclaimed: "II
n'y a done plus de police dans mon Empire !" " There are,
then, no police in my Empire !" This exclamation, in the
midst of.: a city where every tenth man is supposed
to be in the pay of the police (some say every fifth
man !) was irresist ble, even in the Tuileries, despite that
solemn occasion. Everybody tittered ; and some slipped
out of the room to laugh. After a little time the Empernr
recovered himself sufficiently to say a few devout things
to the perplexed priest. He afterwards explained that a
warning of Verger's intention had reached him through
Pietri, the Prefect of Police, the day before—that orders
of arrest had been given—but that Pietri said " to-morrow,"
instead of at once. Whilst the assassin, therefore, was
lurking about the aisle of St. Ettienne-du-Mont, these
agents were cooling their heels outside his door at the
Rue Racine, waiting for him to come in.

THE lIIPERIAL PRINCE.—A Paris correspondent of a
new French journal, says—" The Prince Imperial was
yesterday, in spite of the coldness of the weather, taken out
for air and exercise in the garden and court of the Tuileries.
In the afternoon his imperial highness was carried in a
carriage, with a military escort, to the park of Monceaux,
where he remained as hoar and a half. What he may
grow up it is impossible to say, but though a strong healthy
looking child, he is at present far from prepossessing in
appearance ; the mouth is gross, and altogether un.
comely ; the cheek bones are long and prominent ; the

complexion is swarthy. Bat he is as lusty as a young
eagle. Scarcely nine months old, he rolls himself over
and over after any object which attracts him, with surpritirg
agility, and shows all the germs of future despotism in his
determined manner of extrciAng his free will on all
matters within his domain. The fondness of the Imperial
parents is absolutely intense, and the genuine amiability of
both is never more apparent than when the child is in their
presence. As to the Empress, it seems to be the only
thing that was wanting to draw out the great depths of her
character ; and in the duties of maternity she displays a
grave solidity and womanly earnestness of which she was
not always supposed capable.

COUNT MORNY'S MARRIAGE.—A Paris letter in the
Independance of Brussels gives some details relative to the
marriage of the Count Morn), with the daughter of tv,e
Princess Troubetskoi :—" The ceremony was celebrated at
St. Petersburg on the llth, in presence of the Emperor and
Empres,, subject to its further regularisation by the
publications required in France. The bride is nineteen
years of age, and is remarkable for her beauty ; but has
little or no fortune. She only quitted the C invent of St.
Catherine two months ago, and was destined to become
lady of honour to the Empress of Russia. The princess,
her mother, has resided a long time in France. Morny, it
is said, presented his bride, on her marriage, with diamonds
to the value of £BO,OOO. Two days before he had requested
and obtained, by telegraph, the consent of Louis Na poleon
to the marriage."

THE ADDRESS TO THE THRONE,—The report, which
names the Marquis of Stanrd and Sir Wil iam Fenwick
Williams, in connection with the address in the lower house,
has been contradicted, and the names of Sir John Ramsden
and Mr. Ridley, M.P. for Newcastle-on-Tyne, have been
mentioned as the mover and seconder of the address. As
yet, however, we may positively state nothing is settled.

BOTTLE PICKED OP AT SEA.—" Wild Pigeon, New York
to Hong Kong, June 23rd, 1856, 44 days out, latitude at
noon 22.59 S., lon. 38.51 W. Passengers and crew a 1
well." The above is a copy of a paper found in a bottle
on the beach outside of Rio Grande Bar, in lat. 32.12 S.,
lon. 52.5 W., "nearly," by a fisherman living near the
south beach, inside Rio Grande Bar, on the Ist Novem-
ber, 1856.

OUR NEW AMERICAN CoNstm.--Lord Napier, who has
just been appointed her Majesty's Minister to the United
States, has arrived in town from Scotland, and will leave
for America in about three weeks.

DEGRADING A ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST.—The case of
Verger naturally calls to mind the ceremony of degredatioe
with which a priest was formerly visited before capital
punishment could be inflicted on him. A French order,-
nance in 1571 was the last which prescribed this terrible
formality. In the 18th century, on the refusal of the Arch-
bishop of Aix to degrade a priest who had been condemned
to death, the Parliament of Aix declared that for the future
secular justice could dispense with the degredation. The
following are the principal incidents of the ceremony,
which, according to ancient authors, never failed to pro-
duce at' immense effect on the spectators :—On the scaf-
fold a bishop took his seat on a throne surmounted by a
canopy, witl. his assistants seated near him, and opposite
to them was a lay officer of justice. Near the prelate was
a table, on which were placed several of the sacred vessels
used in the church service, together with vases of wine and
water, the Gospels, the Epistles, a candelabrum with an
extinguished taper, the book of exorcisms, the book of
lessons, keys, a pair of scissors, a piece of glass, and the
vestments and ornaments which a priest wears at the altar.
The priest to be degraded was brought forward dressed as a
layman, and with his hands bound. His bonds were first of
all removed, and on a sign from the bishop he was decked
with Mle ecclesiastical costume by the attendant priests.
The bishop then rose, and holding his eroz:er in his left
band, explained to the people the cause of the degredation.
The culprit afterwards knelt at the bishop's feet, and all
the persons present bent in prayer. The bishop then
pronounced the sentence of degradation in these terms :
" In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Amen. We, —, having ascertaine 1 that the crime
imputed to thee —, a priest, has been really committed,
and is to be justly punished, and finding that this crime is
great, damnable, and enormous, and has not only offended
Divine Majesty, but agitated the whole country, we declare
that in consequence thou hest rendered thyself unworthy
of ecclesiastical functions and ecclesiastical bene-
fices. Therefore we, by the authority of the Omnipotent
God, and by our own power, deprive thee now and for ever
of thy functions and benefices, and we pronounce thy degra-
dation according to the tradition of the canons." This
sentence being pronounced, the bishop, receiving the
criminal from the hands of the lay officer, scraped the palms
of the criminal's hands with the piece of glass, but without
any effusion of blood, in order to remove from him the
unction received at ordination. The tonsure was also
scraped away in a similar manner. The priests present
then placed in the hands of the culprit water, wine,
the consecrated wafer, &c., but the bishop snatched
them from him, saying : "We take from thee, or
rather we show to the people that we have already
taken from thee, the power of offering the holy
sacrifice to God, and of celebrating mass either for the
living or the dead." Next the bishop scraped with a knife
or piece of glass the thumb and forefingers of each hand of
the culprit, and said, " By this scraping we take from thee
the power of sacrificing and of blessing which thou hadst
received by the unction of thy hands and thumbs." Next
the bishop dragged off the chasuble from behind and said,
" We justly deprive thee of this sacred vestment, which
signifies charity, because thou hast deprived thyself of
innocence." Then the bishop removed the stole, and said,
'• Thou bast disgracefully rejected the sign of God, which is
this stole ; and that is why we take it from thee, and render
it unfit fur any sacerdotal purpose." The ceremony here
concluded, and the bishop and his attendants withdrew with
great pomp and in procession, the spectators bending to the
ground before him as he passed.

MEETING OF UNEMPLOYED WORKMEN IN I ONDON.—
Yesterday afternoon, a public meeting, consisting of
between two and three thousand persons, principally
artizans connected with the building profession, was
held in the open air, in the north-east corner of West
Smithfield, for the purpose of adopting measures for giving
effect to resolutions passed at a meeting held on Monday
last. Several workmen addressed the meeting, which was
very orderly, and resolutions in accordance with the objects
of the meeting were agreed to.

M. LEDRU ROLLIN AND THE ELECTORS OF FRANCS.—
The National of Brussels publishes an address from M.
Ledru Rollin, dated London, January 13, to the electors of
France, in which the principle of abstention from voting
is vehemently condemned. " Can it be," he says, " that
by voting you misconceive one of the primary principles,
the preservation of the integrity of which constitutes our
power ? I must confess I cannot perceive the validity of
this objection. What will be its effective operation ? To
carry out the system of universal suffrage, to exercise a
right which owes its birth to the republic, and not to the
empire, and to exercise it with what object ? With
the intent to overthrow that very empire. Then, in making
use of this republican right for a republican object, how are
you guilty of an anti-republican act ? I rope tt that this
objection is beyond my comprehension. Vainly they urge
that, to address the municipal authorities to register you,
and to receive your electoral card, is to unconditionally recog-
nise this odious government, and to make common cause with
it. To which I reply, What has a man in common wish the
adversary whom he holds at the point of the sword, or covered
by his pistol ? Absolutely nothing more than the feeling of
killing him that you may not he killed by him. What !

does a man recognise the empire when he is compelled to
be married by this same municipality, lest he should beget
bastards, or because, when his children may be hereafter
Presented, that they may not be excluded from the attri-
hates of citizens ? In this view a man recognises the
empire when he repairs to the police to obtain his passport.
At this rate how many republicans would have been for-
sworn who have nevertheless remained its most impla-
cable enemies ? Let us hold fast by the truth ; without
being a casuist, or without saying with Machiavel,
that all means are good, even dishonour, to regain
liberty, it is allowable to discriminate between unimportant
and insignificant formalities, imposed under all governments,
and an open, barefaced resignation, which is baseness and
apostacy. The public conscience, a good judge in this
matter, does not deceive itself. It knows that, whether
with or without the stamped paper, the right of locomotion
is not less inherent, and also that, with or without the
formalities of registering, the right to vote remains not less
inalienable. But what thJ public mind feels above all is,
that of all methods of recognising the empire, that which
consists, in submitting so long a time without an attempt+
without a movement, without even a despairing eff)rt, is
the most degrading attitude in the eye, of history."

TILE LATE MR. BROTHERTOrs..7; MP.

PROPOSED ERECTION OF A STATUE,

Yesterday, a large and influential meeting was held it
the Town hall, Manchester, for the purpose of deciding
upon erecting some memorial in honour of the late
Joseph Biotherton, Esq , M.P. for Salford
The Mayor of Salford presided, and addressed the
meeting in terms highly eulogistic of the public and
private character of Mr. Brotherton.

Mr. James Kershaw, M.P., bore testimony to the
labours of Mr. Brotherton in the Flour 3 of Commons,
and remarked that his lots there would be greatly felt.
The various resolutions were proposed and seconded
by the Mayor of Manchester, Sir John Potter, Sir El.,
kanah Armitage,Mr.T. Bazley,chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce, Alexander Henry, Esq., and other gentle-
men, and it was agreed that a statue in honour of the
lamented gentleman, in marble or bronze, shouh3, bif
erected in Peel Park, Salford.

Between £9OO and £l,OOO were subscribed towards
the object at the meeting, the Mayor of Manchester and
several other gentlemen contributing each.

DONATIONS.—At the Police Office, yesterday morning,
Mr. Mansfield received the following, with the amount
stated : " Sir,—l would take it as a favour if you would
be kind enough to appropriate the sum of £2 (being a
forfeit) to some charitable institution, and oblige
yours, &c., Tnomas RILEY, 8. Milton street.'
ALLEGED DEATH FltiM ILL USAGE.—Yesterday, a female
named Mary Edwards, aged 21, died in the workhouse,
where she was admitted on the 9th inst., and it is stated
that she was badly treated before her admission, and that
a warrant is out for the arrest of her husband, whom, it watt
stated, had ill used he,. An inquest will be held on the
body this day.
A RIVAL TO ST. GEORGE'S HALL ORGAN.—We ObSerV:
says the Atheiuewn of Saturday, that the gentlemen O
Leeds, in inviting competitors to send in plans for the
organ which it is their intention to erect, are fixing the-
limit of price at £5,000. For this sum they should be able
to secure an instrument of the first class and the highest'
finish, without that monstrosity of scale which only tend,.
to incompleteness and costliness. It would be well worth
the while of builders, still more of committees and amateurs
seduced (as we saw in the Crystal Palace report) by DO
Daniel dreams, to inquire how many of the huge organs 0
Europe are now—or, ever, indeed, have been—in perfe6
working order throughout.
The annual meeting of the subscribers to the St. Mall!,
Catholic Orphan House took place in the Copperas bil"
Chapel last night.

SintuouATE:—The Rev. G. W. Warr, M.A., 52, UPPer
Parliament street, incumbent of St. Saviour's, has bee"
appointed by the Worshipful Chancellor a surrogate fot
the proving of wills and issuings of marriage licences in the
diocese of Chester.

ALARMING ACCIDENT AT THE MANCHESTER CATHRDBAD.
—During the celebration of divine service at the Cathedral,
on Sunday afternoon, the congregation being a large one, al
accident eccurred, sufficiently alarming in its nature. whiel"
caused for a few moments a considerable degree of panic
amongst portions of the congregation, but fortunately it g'ag'
unattended is ith personal injury,so far as we have heard. f fn.
preacher, a relative, we believe,of the Rev. CanonWray,ho'
proceeded for about a quarter of an hour with the sermon,
when the cccupants of toe pews in the westerly portion of the
north gallery were startled by hearing a slight crack over'
head. Looking up to the ceiling of the gallery, they almost,
immediately afterwards saw the whole of the ornaments'
plaster moulding,which covered a beam crossing the gallery
from front to hack, suddenly separate from the beam, g3',
fall upon the pews below with a loud crash. Great so°
the alarm, especially amongst the ladies occupying seats j°
this part of the church ; indeed, most of the occupants to
the pews throughout the north gallery left them on the
instant, some gentlemen even climbing over the tops of the
pews, and rapdly made their way towards the two flight°
of stairs at the extremities of the gallery. The preacher,
thus suddenly arrested in his discourse, remained silent,
looking with some anxiety towards that part of the galled
where the crash occurred ; but this state of suspense w°
judiciously terminated by the Rev. Canon Wray rising.i°
the reading desk, and quietly pronouncing the benedictioo
usual at the close of the service, which was thus brought to
a sudden termination. The alarm had, however, to soole
extent, by this time subsided, and many of the congregations
so far from quitting the church, remained to see and inquire
for themselves as to the nature of the accident. We leaf nt
that all the plaster which had covered the oaken beam with
moulding, fell away from it, leaving the beam bare ; sof!,
that it would ba from 15 to 18 feet in length, and weiehin6
probably 12 to 14 cwt. That so large a mass of plaster
should fall from a height of many feet amongst the pew":
without injuring a single individual, is remarkable; but i"
seems that the line of the beam was precisely over the line
of partition which separates the block of pews into WI
sections; having entrances at opposite ends ; and so the
plaster tell in masses upon this partition, thus breaking it°
fall, before it dropped in large fragments into the peals'
One of these pieces is said to have been of the weight of at
least 1 cwt.
Mn. LITTLR'S FAMILY.—A subscription is being got up
Dublin in behalf of Mr. Little's family, who are left to
great destitution by his terrible and untimely death. It i"
almost superfluous for us to recommend their sad case to'
the generous consideration of the public. Were nothing
known of the murdered man, still the position of his rely'
tives would be almost sure to enlist the sympathy of Irish'
men and Englishmen alike in their behalf. But in 016
particular case there is the additional argument that .I,lr'
Little was himself a most amiable, charitable, and warn
hearted man ; that he was the sole support of a mother
and sister ; and the loss of a most affectionate son and bro-
ther is aggravated by distressing circumstances.
simple statement sf the case is, we are sure, all that 0
necessary.— The Press.
TILE ADULTERATION OF FLOUR AND BREAD.—TII6
Lancet has just commenced a new series of reports under
the old title of the " Analytical Sanitary Commission 011
Adulteration of Food and Medicine." That contained itg
the Lancet cf the 17th inst is upon the adulteration of flouf
and bread. It is stated that there is an article in comrno°
snd'daily use by bakers denominated " Cones," or Cono
flour," this, when genuine, consists entirely of the flour,
of a particular kind of wheat, denominated "Rivit wheat
It is used by bakers to dust the boards upon which
the dough is made into bread, as well as the dough itself,
the object being to prevent the dough from adhering to the
boards, or the loaves to each other; but as will appear itui
mediately, it is likewise employed for other purposes. °
twenty-two samples of Cones' flour subjected to examination
five only were genuine, and the other seventeen adulterate
consisting of mixtures of rice, bean, barley, rye flour,
Indian corn meal, together with, in one or two cases, salt no",
alum. Cones' flour is, therefore, subject to an enorraol!
amount of adulteration, the object of the various addition'
made to it being to cheapen the article as well as to adaP
it for adulteration. That Cones' flour is frequently ell,
ployed in the adulteration of bread is shown in some cases b'
the character of some of the adulterations to which it is sub'
ject, as those by admixture with bean flour, alum, and salt
Now bean flour is actually of a more glutinon'
natura than pure wheat flour of good quality, and there'
fore its presence in Cones' flour tends to unfit it 11,
the very purpose for which it is alleged that it is designed
.Some bakers have even acknowledged to the employment 183
Cones' flour for the purpose of adulteration. In the artice
Cones' flour prepared by the millers, "bakers, thei ,
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states the report, "are furnished with a material avowed
wheat flour, but which, consisting of mixtures of differ,en
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ration of bread, and that it is extensively used for Wof
par pose cannot be doubted. The public know nothiugnt
this article, the master bakers themselves are ignorast
of its real composition, while the journeyman, in r0,°,4
cases, when he adds, by his master's directions, a bons
of Cones' to a sack of flour, has no idea that he
adulterating the bread.", •

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