The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-28 00:00:00

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Admiral H. M. Ommanney (on the reserved half-pay
list, under order in Council 25th June, 1851), died at his
residence, Durnford street, Stonehouse, on the 22nd inst.,
in the 82nd year of his age.
Accounts from St. Thomas's of the let instant mention
the arrival in that port of Admiral Gueydon from Hayti,
where he had arranged a suspension of hostilities for two
years between the Emperor Soulouque and the Dominican
Republic.
POPULAR SUPERSTITION.—An occurrence which took
plzce a few days ago in this city forcibly exemplifies the
astonishing amount of credulity and superstition which
pervades the minds of the lower classes of Romanists. A
family who although poor are not in the very humblest
ranks of life, who reside in the heart of the city, missed
one evening last week their only child, a fine little fellow
of about five years of age, and it appearing, on inquiry,
that the last of him that had been seen was on one of the
quays, it was concluded that he had fallen into the river,
and, of course, that he had met a watery grave. The grief
which this idea created in the minds of his parents was
partially surmounted by a desire to recover his body,
which they had no doubt was concealed under the waves
of the river which had put so untimely a termination to
his life. To discover the locality in which the body lay,
the following device was resorted to :—A. truss of straw,
which, from some religious ceremony, it is to be presumed,
having been performed over it, was dignified
with the appellation of a " blessed " truss, was
procured, and a 1 ghted candle was fastened to its
the flame being protected by one of those paper covering,
wherewith elderly fruit women are wont to screen
the rushlights which shed a sickly radiance overltheir
commodities. The "blessed" truss, with its luminous
appendage, was taken to the slip and launched into
the river, not without many an earnest prayer and wish
that the object of its mission might be fulfilled. The
novel sight attracted increased crowds of idlers to the
spot, and soon the quays at both sides of the river,
as well as the bridge, were occupied with a large num-
ber of eager gazers. whoso eyes intently followed the
wayward course indicated by the light. The truss floated
down with the stream for a considerable distance, and
expectation was on tip-toe that every instant that by a
sudden termination of its course it would indicate the
spot at which the remains of the little fellow lay.
Expectation, however, was doomed to be disappointed.
The candle which at every fresh gust waved and flickered
in its paper case, at length set it on fire ; the flame
speedily communicated to the truss, and the entire
was consumed. Disappointment was nevertheless
succeeded by delight when the sorrowing parents returned
home, as on arrival they discovered that the child whom
they had fancied lost to them for ever, had in the interval
been found straying by a neighbour. This curious super.
I stition is common in many parts of Ireland.—Cork Conti.
tzition.