The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-02 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, APRIL 28.
A few days ago a deputation of three out of the
four " Superintendencies" of the Hungarian Cal-
vinists had an audience of the Emperor during
which M. von Lonyai. read an address in the Hun-
garian language. The fourth " Superintendency,'
which has the management of the Calvinist com-
munities on this side of the Theiss, intends to
present a separate address to.his Majesty, M, votl
listened
t buto
illm the
with p
greatapers
stoanteyatihawt atisieerxtmrepmerely.
patience.

DENMARK.
The question between Denmark and Germany,
respecting the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg,
is creating some stir in Germany. A telegraphic
despatch from Berlin, dated the evening of the 29th
April, states that, after an eloquent speech by AL
Stahl the Prussian Chamber of Notables adopted,
by 83 votes against three (two members abstained
from voting), the motion of MM Below and Stahl,
tending to invite the Government to continue its
efforts, in concert with its confederates, to uphold
the rights of the Du hies of Holstein and of Lauen-
burg which were guaranteed by the Confederation.
A telegraphic despatch from Hamburg an-
nounces the departure of Prince Christian, of Den'
mark, heir presumptive to the crown, on a special
mission to the King of Prussia.

A ITALY.
telegraphic despatch from Turin, dated the
30th ult., says
" Yesterday, during the discussion on the bill for
transferring the Royal Marine establishmente
from Genoa to La Spezzia, M. de Cavour delivered
a speech, which was received with great applause'
He said that the policy of the Sardinian Cabinet
was liberal, but by no mean revolutionary as to the
Italian question. He again repeated his respect
for existing treaties, and, while manifesting hid
firm intention to defend the interests of Italy, and
to improve its condition by all legal measures, b°
loudly stigmatised every species of provocation Of
imprudent manifestation.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

[By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.]

HOUSE OF LORDS.--FRIDAY.
Their Lordships met shortly after two o'clock, when
the following royal commissioners took their seats itn-
tnediatt-ly before the throne, viz : the Lord Chancellor.
the Duke of Argyll, Earl Spencer, Earl aranville, and
the Earl of Harrowby. Viscount Eversley took the oaths
and his seat. The nobleJord was introduced by Viscounts
Combertnere and.Torrington.

P OP THR.
In obelieace R
to thelESENTATION
summonsE ofSPEA
theMl Usher of the
Mack Rod. several members of the lower house appeared
at, the bar soon after the Royal Commissioners had taken
Their seals.,

Mr, Evelyn
Denison said:—My lords, I have to ac-
tin:lint your lordships that, in obedience to,her Majesty's
t)nunands, and in he excercise of theirsitivionbted pri-
vileges, 'her Majesty's faithful Commona hare proceeded
to the election of a speaker, and that their choice has
fallen upon me. Deeply impressed with my own unwor•
submit myself for her Majesty's appro-
bation.T

-Chancellor: Mr. John Evelyn Denison, we
are commanded by her Majesty to assure you of her sense
of yout ample sufficiency to discharge the implrtant duty
which herfsithful Gammons have imposed upon you. Her
Majesty falls approves of and gives her sanction. to their
Cuotee.
Tire
Speaker.--I bow in all humility to her Majesty's
will and loleasure, and it now becomes my duty to lay
theelainl by humble petition on. behalf of the Commons of
: United Kingdom. to all their ancient'' and undoubted
t'glus and privileges—more especially to freedom of
debate freedom from arrest of themselves and their
servants, free access to her Majesty whenever occasion
'hay require, and that her blajesty will be pleased•to put
t moat favourable construction on all their acts and
'Woth.
iu The Lord Chancellor.—Mr. Speaker, we have it further
OMUtnand to say that her Majesty most readily confirms
all the rights and privileges-•which have been hitherto
geituted,'to r faithfat Commons, either by her Majesty or
yan of h heer 'royal' pradecessors.
The Commons then withdrew, after which some of their
lordships took the ustria oaths, and the house adj,,urned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY.
The members began to assemble some time before two
n'ehick.. At that hour the. Speaker Elect was announced
by one of the officials, and the house immediately rose to
receive the right hon. gentleman, who had not yet assumed
his official costume, but wore' merely a court suit and a
wig.: He to/k his seat in the ehair, Soon afterwards the
house vras.sumnioned to attend the Lords, and the Speaker
Elect quitted the house to do so, followed by the minis'ry
and most of the naembeii present. After a few minutes'
absence they returned, and
The Speaker having taken the chair, acquainted the
house with what had passed in the House of
11-vin; made this communication, he again
nifel'ed tho House his sincere and grateful acknow-
ledgements for the very honourable distinction they bad
Conferred upon him. He invited them to aid and
asst him with their countenance and support in main-
taioing the authority of the chair, and/at the same time
be assured them that as far as lay in his power that
authority 'should be exercised with the most perfect
itnpartialliy and in the manner most conducive to the
"serest and the honour and dignity of' the • house.
,
(Ulcers.) •
Hi he ban. gentleman having intimate] that the only
business that could then be transacted was that they should
take the oaths prescribed by law, proceeded to do so
hiMself,,after which the oaths *ere administered to many
other members in attendance.
siFhe Cletkitcalled over the names in the order of the
Pltless they-refire-Sent, coismencing with the counties in
2.lo:tabetieal order, and taking the cities and boroughs in
'wilt county.' Amongst the members sworn were Mr.
Disra Mr. It: T. Gilpin, Mr. Robert Paltnir, Mr.
eeating, Q.C., Mr. C. P. Greufell, Sir E. W, Egerton,
• r., Kershaw, Mr. J. B. Smith, Mr. Mr. INPre,
Mr. Cavendish, Mr. Kenneth Macaulay, and Lora
Grosvenor.
The house rote at 4 o'clock.

ACTION FOR GRIM. CON.

DAMAGES, £3,000:

BEFORE MR. SECONDARY POTTER.
S'XITR Y. DLIFLRFRE.—This was a writ of enquiry brought
before the Secondaries. gotirt, yesterday, to assess the
datuag <s in en action brought in one 'of the superlor courts
against the defendant for; having had criminal conversatio
'with the wife of the plaintiff. The damages were laid at
' ,i 3,90.0. The defendant had suffered '-judgment to go by
tlerault, and did not now appear. Mr. Wilde, Q. 0.,
with whom was Mr. Holland, stated the case at great
I,ngth; The plaintiff was the son• of a .gent'eman of
property. who lived at Banktkid, near Viverstotie, and
111 1833 -he was married to Julia, the daughter of a gen-
tleman named Hill, they both being then about 21 years
Of age, and their union was entirely. one of aff ction.
They passed a considerableportion of their time in visiting on.
Ote continent, and their friends in England, and lip terms
upon which they lived were of the htpiest kind. The
learred counsel traced their career, month by month.
down to December, 1856, at which time the plaintiff was
V, "at Liverpool, transacting matters relating to a trust created
ra;t2under his father's; will, he being then deceased. 0 i the
Jlnt 4h Of ttat month he was astounded at receiving a tele'-
*.11,/-,Riatillie message from Weymouth, to the effect that his wife
had left the residence of her sister, the wile of a clergyman
there, where she had been staying during his absence, on the
to exeu,e that she was about,to meet. Mr. Smith at Liverpool.
The telegraph.messsgewas, "Julia left here on Thursday
"; ter3Litatitreaal.; has she.atT;ved ?" and as he had not 'arranged
for her to come to him, nor had heard anything of her, he
instant), startek9Vp Wcytuputh; but, hot the least trace
hr, instantly
found: cq Ak.—Ftibglquently it was ascertaino
gli !tat ,bad.. taken the train to Southampton, where she
!etlittrOvd,*(tire:,ftlii w:s met there by the defendant,
kissed the Moment she stepped out of the car-
riage,l'lThey went tri 'Radley's flotel,•where theyremaided
some hours, and their started off to Folkestone, crossed over
~to/Citla% and procee led at once to Paris, where they were
ntkii.liviegi at No. 37, Rue Luxemhonrg. The plaintiff had,
'While at. Dinan; in France, in one' of his tours with
.his
Wife made the aequaintanee of M. Theodore Dutertre, the
father of LaoPold Dutertre,' the defendant in this action.
Vetween plaintiff and defendant there bad 'existed an
acquaintance, and they fietriently went • out, fishing,
Yachting, &c., together, and in August, 1856, there
Could be no doubt that he planned • the scheme by
which he eventually succeeded in seducing his friend's
Wife, and that her subsequent- elopement was then
agreed upon and arranged. Defendant arrived at
S9ttharnoton on the Ist December, and h i regularly went
to the station, watching the trains if he expected
some ono; and on the 4th'Mrs; Smith arrived there as
before stated. The plaintiff was qualifying for the bar
whets this matter was discovered, and up to the last me-
milt. -of their living together, there was not apparently the
leaSt'relax-ttion of that affection and happiness which it
had been the pride and, pleasure of their friends to see
subsist between them from the time of their marriage.
The learned counsel then cAled witnesses, who proved the
• case as above stated. The jury, after the lea-ned secondary
had summed up, assessed the damages at £3,000.

ACCIDENT ON Tim: CRYBTAL PALACE
RAILWAY.

Yesterday morning an accident occurred, by which
several persons travelling by one of the up-Crystal
Palace trains were injured, and it is leered that two
individuals are so badly hurt that they cannot long survive.
It' 4ppears that a train consisting only of nine car-
riages had arrived within a short distanca of the
London-bridge terminus, when in passing over the
points facing St. Thomas's
-street, the break jumped
and fell over the metals on to the permanent way,
dragging with it a third class carriage, containing
fortunately only five persons. The weight, of the truck
Paled the earr age on its side, throwing the passengers
about in sal confulion, and the carriage, and also the
break, were smashed into several pieces, and the passen-
gers hurled across the line. Refole they could be extri-
cat dor the momentum of the train stopped, the wheels
of one of the hindermost carriages passed over two gontle-
men, inflicting serious, and, it is feared, fatal injuries.
Several oflicia.,
s of the company, as well. as Mr. Inspector
Reid, were promptly
a praiseworthy.in attendance;and exerted themsel yes in
eaanner in removing the wounded.
was then found that the five passengers were all injured
more or less—two, named respectively Alfred Williams,
Corkhurn-terrace, Pkckbam and Jcsep
it was found
h Gann, of No.
2, Wood's-row, Peckham, so badly, that
necessary to remove them
one to St. Thomas's and the
other to Guy's HosPLtal. The latter gentleman, who
was the managing clerk to Beech,Croft, and Co.,
has received, besides other injuries,
blade bone of the shoulder is splintereda broken arm, the
and his left side
lacerated. The other gentlemen, it is feared, has received
serious injury to the spine. Both sufferers were placed in
beds in the hospitals, but their injuries cannot be reduced
• until they have somewhat rallied from the shock to their
systems. The other three sufferers were able to be
removed to their homes. The line was cleared so quickly
that the traffic was not delayed more than five minutes,

THE COURT, &c.

Her Majesty the Queen received, at seven o'cl ck on
Thursday morning, the mournful intelligence of the death
of the Duchess of Gloucester, which event took place with-
out suffering at a quarter past five o'clock, and was com_
municated to her Majesty and the Prince by the Duke of
Cambridge. The Duke of Cambridge afterwardi went to
Clarence house, St. James's, to notify t sad went to the
Duchess of Kent. Prince Albert p4id sits in the fore-
noon to the Duchess of Kent at Clarence house, and to the
Duke of Cambridge in Sr. James's Palate-. The Prince
afterwards went to Gloucester house. The Duke of Cam-
bridge visited her Majesty in the afternoon. We ha' e
authority to State that, in 'consequence of the death of
the Duchess of Gloucester, the state apartments at Windsor
Castle will be ebsed until further 'orders. 'The theatres
were closed on Torirsday evening, 'and will be closed on
the evening of the funeral of her royal highness. There
were present at the last moments of the Duchess, the
Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prin-
cess Mary, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklen-
burgh Strelirz, who had rema'ned at Gloucester house
during the n;ght. . Two of the medical advisers of the
Duchess wore also in attendance on het royal highne IS
until the time of her death. The Duchess of Cambridge,
the Princess Mary, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of
Meekleuburgh Streli z quitted Gloucester house in the
morning for Kew.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS Puncos ALPRED.—Princa Alfred,
who left Geneva, where ho has passed the winter, on the
18th of April, arrived at G ,tha on the 26th, on a visit to
hit unele and aunt, the reigning Duke and Duchess of
of Saxe Coburg, and to his grandmother the Dowager
Duchess. After a st4y of a fortnight at Gotha and
Coburg, his rcyal highness will continue his journey to
England, where he is expected to arrive about the 20,h
instant.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESB PRINCE ALBERT AND
THE .3IA.NCHESTER EXH[BITIoN.

The following has been hened by the cha'rman of the
Executive Committee of the Manchester Fine Arts Ex-
hibition :

Sir,—l am permitted to.make the following announce
went :—" In consideration of the importance of the
occasion, and in order not to disappoint the vast numbers
who must have made their arrangements, his Royal
Highness Prince Albert has consented to perform the public
dories allotted to him upon the sth and 6th of May." It
will be understood that with those exceptions, his Reval
Hiefriess must remain in strict privacy.— I am, air, your
obedient servant, THOMAS FAIRBAHN, Chairman of the
Eiecutive Committee.

In addition to.the programme already published for the
opening day (Tuesday next), we have been favoured with
the following
• William Atkinson, Esq., high sheriff of Cheshire, has
intimated his intention of joining those deputed to meet
his royal bigliiiess at the Cheadle station, =where h% royal
highness is expected 'to irrive•soon after eleven o'clock,
by a special train, which will leave London at twenty
minutes after six on Tuesday morning. The station (a.
small one) will be decorated as tastefully as possible.
From 'Cheadle, his royal highness (for. whose use thzee
of the royal carriages, and nine horses are to arrive on
Monday) - will drive to Abney Hall, the seat of James
Watts, Esq., distant about two , When the pro_
cession (as before arranged) arrives at the junction of
'Orford-road and Cavendish•street, the 7th Drazoons,
under the command of Colonel Bentinck, will fall in
advance, and so, proceed to the Palice, the approaches to
which they will keep, while his royal highness, his suite,
&c., enter. Already the representatives of societies of
Druids,. Foresters, o.ldLllows, &c., have applied to the
coipo,ation to be permitted to line the road from All
Saints' Corner, and permission has been granted. Public
experience dnrine; the memorable visit of her Majesty in
1851, strikingly showed that the people of Manchester
nefd no other arrangement than such as this, and that
there could be no better, to keep the line for the proces-
sion.