Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-09 00:00:00

morrow evening at the soonest, althougu it is understood
that no witnesses will be called on the part of the prisoner,
but that the speech of Mr. Serjea:it Parry will be solely
relied upon.
The Court rose at half past six o'clock.

The mail steam-packet communication between Fn-
kong and the Philippine Islands will commence in Mardi

next.
THE SIKIIS AND THE KILT.--An officer in the 93
Regiment, on his march from Calcutta to Benareq, writine
to his parents in this city, under date lehanabad, October
16A, says, among other things—" A capital story, whicis
ought to be published, is told of a Sikh Regiment at
Dehree. Burrough's detachment paraded in full dress tee
hurt' a piper, and the Sikhs were so delighted with the
Highland costume, that after parade they petitioned their
cap sins to procure a like dress for them."
.51ASTER OF A VESSEL WASIIMD OVERBOARD. —D aoa-
'ILIA, SATURDAY, DEC 5.—A. geasral feeling of regret
pnzvaded our town this morning, upon learning that M.
Denis Dunne, master of the Agnes, of Preston, the pro-
perty of J. and F Chadwick, Esqrs , of DrOgheda, was
washed overboard in the gale last night, while the vessei•
was on her way from Preston to this town, tabu with

coals Mr. Dunne was a remarkably steaiy pan, exit
always gave general satisfaction to his employers. He kw
left; a wifa anl a number of small childrea.
MELaNcnoLY OCCUREZNCS.—It is with regrat we en- •
nounee the death of Mr. Nl•Niece, of Tullyallon, .at.
Dungannon, who was accidentally drowned ou his way
hitne oa the night of Wednesday, the 26:h ult. liehal
been out on profession al business, which detained him to
late hoar, aul coming home had to cross by a' foot sick
over a large stream, which w e g,,reatly swoileu by the late
rains It seemed he had missed his cooing in crossing., mid
fell into the water. Y, was not diaeover,d till the follow-
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ini'morning. His loss will be datTly felt.—Tyrone Coltsti—

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PIIIPERISM.—A return to the HOll5O of Conning ab.ews

that there were 56,892 paupers in the opzichonses of than
Irish unions on L%dy day last, and that the amount of
"establishment charges" for the year terminating on that;
day was £171,000. Besides the above paupers, 828 were
in receipt of out relief on Lady-day last. There is work-
house room in Ireland for 197,839 ptuperEt. The grow
total number of paupers relieved in England on the 25th
of ;*larch last was 897115, which number refers to &
population of 17:630,030, and excludes lunatic pair:sm
and Yagran's relieved on-, of doors. The total 11,1,1113er of
paupers relieved in Scotland on Lady-day last amennteil
to 92,218.
FATAL ACCIDENT—LOSS OF Tunes LIVES.—KILKEE,

ECEIIBPR 4 —Yesterday afternoon a canoe, csntaining
two of the Foot Artillery, from Scattery Island Fort, near
the mouth of the Shannon, and a b atman belonging to tic
locality. were titre, by a sudden squall in the channel,
between the Scattery Island and Kilrush, a large town its
the county Clare, on the banks of the Shannon, and distant
about a mile and a half from the island. The body of the
boatman is said to have been found, those of the soldiery
not. These canoes, much used on the west coast of
Ireland, are mode of timber frame work, covered wits
tarred canvas ; they are mead in the bottom, and their
beam being very narrow. they are very to upset if
any of the occupants shift about; still, when judiciously
inanegerl, they bear a heavy sea better than a ship's boat.
though frequently advised to line the upper part on the
inside with cork, to cause them to right in the water, ia
case of their being upset, still the natives will not adapt
this valuable expedient. Proper life-boats are mu&
required along the west coast of Ireland, the most dan-
gerous sea coast in the kingdom, and nearly always fatal
to vessels driven ashore. The coast guard's boats are
quite unfit for a heavy sea.
THE TODMORDENT WILL IMPOSTOR.-John River Burdett
Howcroft, collier, aged 63, who was to have been tried at
the Salford intermediate sessions on Saturday, has had his
bail enlsrged his trial being postponed to the next quarter
sessions. It will be remembered that Howcroft is charged
with obtaining several sums of money at Todmordenaad
Walsden, by means of pretended wills. He stead for trial
at the last quarter sessions • but there was a postponement.,
on the application of Mr Wheeler, who had been suddenly
and imperfectly instructed for the defence, on the evening
of the day preceding the one fixed for the hearing. How-
croft was liberated upon bail. On Saturday morning;,
when he was. called, he did not appear, and his bail was
ordered to be estreated ' • and the only other case to be
disposed of was called But counsel for the defence was
not in court, as Howerof.'n case had been filed to be
taken first. Meanwhile Howcroft appeared, arid, ulna
explanation, his surrender was accepted. Then Mr.
Wheeler asked for a postponement to the next sessions;
on the ground that, having travelled to Liverpool the
previous evening (after consulting the chairman), he ha
only been able to get a promise of an application for a
delay of a few hours in the arraignment of a prisoner at
the South Lancashire assizes, he (Mr. Wheeler) being;
engaged, and most anxious to appear, in the case. tire
Iliggin, into whose hands the brief for the prosecution of
Howcroft had passed (solely in consequence, we belies-es
of Mr. Ovens being engaged in the assize court), did not
object to the postponement, particularly as the solicitor
for the prosecution was not in court. So the chairman.
after a long consultation with the megistrates upon the -
bench, expressed his regret that the sessions and assizes
should clash, and consented to the postponement.
THE PRINCESS ROYAL AT MIL %V ALL.—The
Royal, saeling, good-hutnou•ed, and affable, p ,1d a visit
to the Leviathan en Saturday morning. Her royal high,
ness, accompanied by the Ouch2ss of A hol, made the
difficult navigation of the ship yard, climbed the timbers,
and picked her way through the mud to the cradles, the
hydraulic rams, and the launching ways, all which- objects
were pointed out and their uses explained by the Acialsof
ills company. Her royal highness then expressed a great
wish to go on board. Being told that she would have to
climb the steep and formidable ladders which are reared
against the st:ip's side, the young princess at first recoiled
from so difficult and unprotected an sseent; but as soon as
she was told that Prince Fredir:elt William had a'scended
by this ladder last WeAnesday, her royal highness was
suchisnle seized eith an ardent desire to mount the same
steps and visit the cabins and engine rooms which her royal
adm'rer had inspected. The princess heva g whiseered
her desire to the duche,e, her grace asked Mr. Yates,
the secretary, with some seriousness, Vi hether in his opinion
it would be safe and proper for the Princess Royal to go
op the ship's side. Mr. Yates replied that, since the re-
sponsibility was thrown upon him, he could not ven'ure to
recommend rear royal highness to make the attemea The
ladders are vary slippery, and the lewestiadde', besides being
very steep, is unprotected either by a handrail or rope. Mt.
Yates was, no doubt, apprehensive that her royal highness
might become giddy, and lose her footin;,. Perheps, also,
he feared a contretemps such as occurred the other dew
during the high wind', when the outer garm eats of a lady
ascending the ladder were blown ever her head, and she
remained powerless with te.ror, and unable to replac:-. her
retie for fear of losing la r hold and her balarc e and being
dished to pieces by a tall. This occurrence had so dis-
tracting an effect upon the workmen, an 1 was so full of
danger to the lady, that Mr. Yates determined rot to allow
another petticoat to go up the ship's side. The princess
born her disappointment very good humouredly ; but it was
clear she hid set her heart upon astonishing the prince by
an uneepected relation of her courage and daring. -Corres-
pondsnt of the Manchester Guardian.
A .SERMON PREACHED BEFORE ROYALTY.—By hoc
Majesty's command a sermon !leach. d before the Coutt
in the parish Church of Crathie, on the 11th October, has
just been published. The author is Dr. Robert lee, the
Professor of Biblical Cr.ti&sin in the University of Edin-
burgh ; and the subject is—" What Christianity teaches
respecting the-Body." Dr. Lec shows that the care of the
body is Seenrect in the Bible to be a Christian duty, ant
that the manner in which this care is to be bestowed is
taught by God in the utdformity and constancy of the
laws of N 'cure. 131 violating these laws an enormous
amount of misery :tad premature death are occ tsioned.
" It is a elsoned," says Dr. Lee, that one hunired thousata
persons die annually in Engl,all of preventible diseases.
In the same proportion mere than a million and
quarter must die annually from the same causes is
Europe. . . . Probably not fewer than four hundred
thousand men were kided during the late It.,2siian wan.
But during the same period ten times as many died isa.
Europe alone from preventible diseases. The slaughter
of four millions of persons during three years, in a war
deserving the earaest attenion, not only of governors.
against the laws of health! So appalling a
tihaertouisghsurdeils:
politician', and philanthropists, but of all men who pro-
fess Christianity, and especially of those who are appointed
, are God's
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presented. Reference is made to the increased duratiow
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to depend upon a capriciousness in the ways of Pcovidenee,
but on the community's better acquaintauce with, and
observance o', the laws which ci..t 'mine the preservation
of the body. Allusion is math; to certain features isU.- e
historj of the last visitation of this country by cholera.
Towns and even tenements were exempted in proportion
to their compliance with the requirements of the laws aC
health. One of the arguments by which Dr. Lee supporW
his proposition that the care of the body is a religions
duty, is the fact that a great part of the law which Got
gave, through Moses, to the people of Israel, was in reakity
a sanitary code. The preacher then pursues his argese4
under the Christian dispensation.