Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-20 00:00:00

FIRES AND LOSS OF LIFE.

Yesterday morning, between the hours of tWo and three
o'clock, the inhabitants of ()Such-street, Soho, in London,
were aroused from their slumbers by the springing of rattle
and loud cries of " fire." In the course of a few minutes
it was found that the premises of Mr. Carlisle, chair and
couch-maker, wbre on fire. The discovery was made by one
of the inmates goinc, down stairs and observing smoke
issuing from the bmk'room'. He immediately aroused the
other inmates, why were soundly sleeping, the house
being let out to several families. The police de7
spatched messengers for the royal fire escapes and
the London Brigade' engines, which promptly arrived
from Crown-street, Cl:lt...lidos-street, and Holborn, fol-
lowed by the parish engines. A plentiful supply-of
water being obtained, the Crown-street engine got to work
in an admirable manner under Engineer Wilkinson, when
the fire was speedily extinguished. Mrs. Emma arlisle,
aged 35 years, was found on the ground, with one of her
arms and legs burnt off her body, by Engineer Wilkinson.
A shell being procured, the bogy was conveyed to thedcad
house of Soho. Information has been forwarded to Mr.
Bedford, the coroner, but no day is yet fixed for the inquirv.
The premises are not insured.—A, second fire broke out on
the premises of Mrs. Mary Pimsa, broker, Brill-place,
Somer's Town, which was not subdued until considerable
damage was done. Cause unknown,

Morgmer and Marshall, who were lately brought up at
Bow-street,. charged with conspiring to nervciate the sale
of an ensigney, were on Monday committed for trial. The
Duke of Cambridge was examined.

The New Orleans Delta maintains that there is as great
a depth of water on the bar at the Mouth• of the Mississippi
now as there• was a century or fifty years-no. It says the
reason that vessels stick fast now, is that they are built
larger than formerly. So the case is el-cute—any vessel can
easily cross the bar„ provided she does net draw too much
water.•

BUYING STorxx• S4IINEP. —A correspondent- writes as on a
point of Scottish law. If a man purchases stolen sheep,
though entirely ignorant of the theft, the transaction is
invalid, and the owner of the sheep is entitkd:to recover the
animals or their value• from the buyer. Our ,Correspondent
thinks this absurd, as•the principles of honesty cannot be
discovered in a man'S• face, when he offers sheep for sale.
How is a
,stranger to knows that he is dealing with, a rogue?
We are assured, however, by our legal friends here,. that the
law is to the effect stated, and that there are -various deci-
sions affirming it. The• only security is, that intending
purchasers should be careful from whom they buy sheep.—
Inverness Courier.

Active steps are being taken in order to have the Great
Eastern ready for sea by the latter end of the month of July
or the beginning of August. The unrestricted freedom of
access which was given some weeks since by the-company,
is now followed, by a system of the most rigid exclusion.
The directors (the Observer says) found that the privilege
accorded to the public was grossly abused; had it been
extended to a much longer period there would not have
been a moveable or portable article left in the hull of the
great vessel. Whetever there was a piece of moulding or
metal which could be wrenched off the vsitors appeared
to think it a fair trophy. The knobs and handles of the
cabin doors rapidly disappeared, and Captaiii Harrison's
cabin was literally stripped of everything beyond the bare
boards and partitions!
DINNER or THE THEATRICAL FUND.---The anniversary
dinner of this charity took place on Monday evening, at the
Freemasons"favern, under the presidency of Mr. harles
Mathews, Lord Eliot, Sir W. Fraser, Mr. Buckstone, and
Mr. Toni Taylor, being among the guests, who in all num-
bered about '2OO. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts hav-
ing been disposed of with an unwonted display of enthusiasm,
the chairman gave the toast of the evening. liiispeech
was entirely of that versatile and humorous kind which
those who have once heard Mr. Mathews speak do not
easily forget, and mixed up with. professional jokes and
laughable allusions to the colleagues by whom he. was
surrounded: The funded stock, he said, now amounted to
upwards of £ll,OOO, and the payments out of the yearly
income included annuities of £3O, £6O, and £9O per annum,
the large majority of the recipients of which were ladies.
The rules of the fund permitted singers, dancers, and panto-
mimists to belong to it, and any member whose period of
subscription reached seven years, became entitled to an
annuity from the fund. The report of the fund for last year
showed that the total income amounted to £1,320,. while
the expenditure fell short of that sum by £460, which
balance had been transferred to the funded property of
the association. Towards the close of the evening the
secretary announced a list of subscriptions of upwards of
£soo'. The musical arrangements, as might have been
expected from the nature of the festival, were of the very
best kind, and included some of the most eminent vocalists
of the day, all of whom gave their services gratuitously.
Miss Ransford, Miss Poole, Mr. Donald King, and Mr. Chip
(instrumentalist), were most warmly encored and applauded.
PROPOSED RECEPTION FOR Srn JOHN LAWILENCL••••—
An influential meeting was held at Willis's Rooms, on
Monday, for the purpose of considering how hest_ to organ-
ise a public reception of Sir John Lawrence, G.C:13;,-/ate
Governor of the Puujaub, on his arrival in this country.
Sir F. Currie, Bart., occupied the chair; and amongst
those present were Sir George Pollock, G.C.8., and Sir
R. Vivian, G.C.8., Sir A. 'Wilson, G.C.8., do. The
chairman said that to many then present Sir' John
was no doubt personally known, and all who had
served in India would warmly respond to any. feeling
whereby it was proposed to do honour to so able and
zealous an officer as Sir John Lawrence. (Loud
applause.) For himself, he (the chairman) might
say that be had great pleasure in being called
upon to preside on such an occasion as the present, and he
was anxious to give all the co-operation lie could to such a
movement. (Hear, hear.) The question had arisen as to
what kind of a reception should be given to the (reliant officer
whose public services they now intended to honour, and it
had been. considered best to carry out such a demonstration
in the form of a public banquet. (Loud applause.) He
would at once, therefore, put to the meeting whether
such be the proceeding adopted, by moving " That Sir
John L. M. Lawrence, Bart., be invited to a banquet."
(Applause.) Several gentlemen at once rose to second
,
the proposition, and the motion was carried amidst
enthusiastic applause. Captain Eastrick, member of the
Indian. Council, moved, "That the banquet be given by
officers of the civil, military, and naval services, and by
gentlemen connected with the official administration of
India," Mr. Kaye seconded the motion, :which, after a
further brief discussion, was carried nem. con. A com-
mittee having been appointed to carry outthe objects of
the meeting, the proceedings were closed with a vote of
thanks to the chairman.

A DANISU THIEF.---At the Leeds Towrrifall, on Satur-
day, Luis Peter Nicolai Ernst, a native of 'Elsinore, John
Page, Daniel Rowbottom, and James Mitcgremor, were
placed in the dock, on remand, charged with being con-
cerned in the recent burglary at. the Hadingley Parsonage.
During the night of the 30th ult., the parsonage-house, at
Headingley, near Leeds, the residence of the Rev. W.
Williamson, incumbent, was burglariously entered and
robbed of a gold watch, a quantity of silver plate, and
other articles. Page, Rowbottoisi, and Macgregor were
subsdquently found dealing with portions of the goods
so stolen, and when they were taken, into custody they
implicated Ernst, who was subsequently arrested,
on their information, in Liverpool. On his way to
Leeds with the police officer, Ernest acknowledged the
burglary, saying that he broke ope:t the drawing-room
window with a large stick he found in the yard ; and that
he then forced the closets and other places where the plate
was locked up, took some wine from an escritoire (?) in the
dining-room, and then got rid of his. plunder in Leeds and
Manchester. He also confessed to the burglary at Manor
Heath, Halifax (the residence of John Crossley, Esq.), for
which he now stands committed,. to York assizes. The
history of Ernst, as developed by the industry of the Leeds
police, reminds one of the wildest creations of Har-
rison Ainsworth. His " Jack Sheppard" and " Jonathan.
Wild" were notorious in their way; bat, everything con,
sidered, Ernst, as a foreigner, eclipses their most wonderful
achievements. He was convicted of burglary at Gloucester
in 1853 ; at Worcestershire assizes be was ordered to be
imprisoned for two years ; be, was convicted at the Glouces-
tershire assizts still more recently; and since his release
has been scouring the country. He is " wanted " at
Birkenhead for a desperate burglary ; he broke into a
blacksmith's house at Brambam cross-roads, on the 14ta
inst., and some of that property was found upon him when
apprehended in Liverpool; on 22nd March he assisted
in a burglary at Blackmoor, near Shadwell, in the house of
Mr. Thomas Shires, farmer ; on the day previous he was at
Manor Heath, near Halifax, inspecting the plate basket
of Mr. John Crossley.; lie was at Sealby, near Scarborough,
, on the 11th Mareb, and. will he prosecuted for his robbery
there upon his trial; and on. the 30th ult. he was at the
Headingly Parsonage, near Leeds, where he obtained a
gold watch, som,e spoons, and other property, to the value
of £3O or £4O. Such is the web which has at present been
unravelled by the Leeds police, and it is not known how far
the catalogue may extend. Ernst appeHarse
to
is hate a spice
of romance in his composition.
years of ago, of sallow eomplexio •_ _
n about 38
, middle height,
wears gold ear-rings in his ears,
scars about his body • the right l and has manyow
in blue ink with the fetters 44 AN lower arm is marked
A-LPNE," and a ship
with three masts; the left arm is marked in blue ink with
the figures of a woman, a mermaid, and the letter " M "
in the centre of a heart;
and a tree, a man, underneath, the letters " M M,"
a woman
and he has many other
grotesque marks about
is person. Ernst was committed
for trial at the
next York assizes and the other three
prisoners yfl), be go '
—llll te • evidence against him,