Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-20 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES

Sia,—lt cannot be too generally known that loss of
life and damage to property may occur during prevalence
of frosty weather from mismanagement of the boiler, or
cisterns placed in most houses at the back of the kitchen
fire-grate, for conveying hot water to baths, &c. Only
yesterday, an instance occurred in my house, near Wal-
ton, where, with a loud explosion, the boiler. burst, car-
rying with it all the ranges, ovens, grates, &c., with ter-
rific force, and in broken fragments, setting the kitchen
furniture on fire, and doing much damage. Most pro-
videntially the servants were not about at the precise
moment, or they would have been killed on the spot.
The cause of such accidents most likely arises from the
steam not having egress, the pipe through which it is
intended to escape being full of ice. Better discontinue
(until a thaw comes) using the kitchen, with grate and
boiler so attached. Housekeepers and owners cannot at
present be too cautious on this head.—Yours, &c.,

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ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The archdeaconry of Ely, which became vacant by
the death of the Venerable C. Hardwick, M.A., has
been conferred upon the Rev. Francis France, 8.D.,
fellow and tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge.
The new archdeacon graduated in 1840.
On Sunday morning the Bishop of London held a
general ordination in St. Paul's Cathedral, being
assisted in the ceremony by the Very Rev. Henry Hart
Milman, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's ; the Very Rev.
William Hale, M.A., Archdeacon of London ; the Rev.
J. H. Coward, M.A , rector of St. Benet's, Paul's
Wharf ; the Rev. W. H. Milman, M.A., rector of
St. Augustine and St. Faith; and the Rev. Edward
Parry, M.A , rector of- Acton, his lordship's chaplain.
Full choral service was performed, the prayers being
beautifully rendered by the Rev. J. H. Coward,
and the lessons read by the Rev. W. H. Milman, M.A.
The Rev. Dr. Goulbum, prebendary of St. Paul's, and
incumbent of St. John's, Paddington, late head master
of Rugby School, was he preacher, and made a most
eloquent discourse. He selected for his text the Ist
chapter of St. Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians,
6th verse—" And whether we be afflicted it is for
your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in
the enduring of the same sufferings which we also
suffer ; or whether we be comforted it is for your con-
solation and salvation." The sermon concluded, and the
Bishop having taken his seat in front of the communion
table, the candidates were presented to him by one of his
lordship's examining chaplains, the Rev. Edward Parry,
M.A., rector of Acton, in the absence of his lordship's
other examining chaplain, the Rev. Professor Stanley,
canon of Christ Church, Oxford. Twenty-one deacons
and twenty priests were admitted into holy orders.
After the ordination, the bishop licensed thirteen newly
ordained deacons to euracies in his diocese. The bishop
was attended by Mr. J. B. Lee and Mr. liassard, his
secretaries. The service throughout was extremely
solemn and impressive, the arrangements made being of
the most judicious character.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT SOUTHWARK.—On Saturday
morning, between the hours of three and four o'clock, a
destructive fire broke out on the premises of Mr. C.
Skinner, wheelwright and cab-master, Surrey-row,
Blackfriars-road. Owing to the nature of the stock, the
flames spread with amazing rapidity ; and notwithstand-
ing the good supply of water, they were not extinguished
until the premises were destroyed.
We (.1: thenceum) understand that the contributions
to the Scientific Relief Fund, organised by the Royal
Society, already exceed £3,000, and that the amount
has been invested in the public securities in such a
manner as to form a separate account from that of the
society's other funded property. With her usual liber-
ality, and desire to make her great wealth useful, Miss
Coutts has subscribed £lOO to this excellent fund.
LOSS OF A. SHIP AND FIFTEEN HANDS.—SHIELDS,
Saturday.—Mr. A. Strong, of North Shields, has re-
ceived a telegram from Constantinople to-day, informing
him of the loss of the barque. Arthur Wellesley, in the
entrance of the Bosphorus. The Arthur Wellesley was
on her passage to England from the Black Sea, and we
regret to state that the master, Mr. Graham, the chief
officers and all the crew but one, a seaman, have
perished with the vessel. These are the only particulars
that have arrived, but the vessel would have at least a
crew of sixteen hands.
Hou.owAr's OINTMENT AND PILLS.—With these
marvellous remedies always at- hand, no sick person
need despair of being perfectly cured ; they act, iu
unison, on the absorbent system ; giving tone and vigour
to all the functions of life. Their surprising sale is
proof that their virtues have not been overrated. In
bad legs, scrofula, and diseases of the skin, they are
wonderfully efficacious. Thousands, of persons who
suffered from these dreadful maladies have been .com-
pletely cured after every other means had failed. There
is no case, however obstinate, or of however long dura-
tion that can ultimately resist the united action of these
medicaments.
PROFESSOR LIEBE° AND THE SEWAGE QUESTION.—
Baron Liebeg has, in a series of letters, called public
attention to the system of sewerage in large cities. He
directs attention to what Babylon. and. Assyria once
were, and to what they are now, and urges upon us to
learn in time, from their melancholy fate, which he is
of opinion we certainly shall share one day if we do not
provide against it, and which, in the case of those
ancient seats of civilisation, he seems altogether to
ascribe to the gradual exhaustion of the soil by a
system of agriculture in which care was not taken to
replace every atom of fructifying material taken from
the field in the harvest.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BIRMINGHA.M.—Between three
and four o'clock on Saturday morning, the premises of
Messrs. T. Upfill and Sons, iron bedstead manufacturers
and general merchants, in SheeßCote-street, were dis-
cOvered in flames. The fire originated ina warehouse
on the middle floor, and spread with such rapiditT,that
in a short, time the whole of the Warehouses and store-
rooms, occupying a, length of abont twenty-five yards,
awgeeretothe
were a mass of flames. The engines were quickly on
stock'Tanhcle
the spot, and succeeded in confining. the flames to ,the
part of the building in which it originated. The fire
was not subdued till about ten o'clock. The whole of
'uninjured:
building is estimated at about £4,000.
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VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN
THE CIVIL SERVICE.--War Office.—Mr. George Alfred
Jolly has been appointed a temporary, clerk ,in the
Military Store Department, and received ,his certifi-
cate of successful examination ; Mr. D., F, F. Richard-
son has been appointed a temporary clerk, and passed
his examination. The Admiralty.—Mr. Francis Lam-
bert Perceval Todd has been appointed to a temporary
clerkship, and passed his examination. General
Register Office.—Mr. Frederick Ecstein, has been ap-
pointed a clerk in London, and, passed his examination.
Customs.—Mr. Albert Walker, clerk in the Examiner's
Office, has been appointed a supernumerary clerk in the
Controller General's. Office, London; 'Mr. John Chal-
mers has been appointed a landing-waiter at Grange-
mouth ; Mr. John J. Makenzie has been appointed a
clerk at Hartlepool ; Mr. Henry S. Worsfold has been
promoted from second to first-class clerk in the Legal
Quays Department, London ; Mr. William Scott from
third to second-class clerk in ditto • Mr. John N.
m;
Fermiu from fourth to third-class derk iu ditto; Mr.
George Still from fifth to fourth-class clerk in ditto ;
and Mr. George E. Skinner from sixth to fifth-class
clerk in ditto.--Civil Senior* Gazette,

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COURT AND OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

OSBORNE, DEC. 17.—Her Majesty's diancr party
yesterday included—her Royal Highness Princess Alice,
the Prince and Princess Leiningen, Baron de Loewenfels,
Lieut.-Colondt the Hon. W. P. Talbot, commanding
Staffordshire Militia, and Captain the Hon. J. Denman,
R.N.

18.—Ifis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
attended by Major-General the Hon. Robert Bruce and
Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, arrived at Osborne yesterday
from Oxford.

Baron de Loewenfels, on the part of his Royal High-
ness the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg, on Saturday
presented his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales with
the. Insignia of the Order of the Ducal Houses of
Saxony.
Her Majesty, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort,
their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Princess
Alice, Princess Helena, Princess Louisa, and Prince
Arthur, attended morning service at Whippingham
Church on Sunday. The Rev. George Prothero per-
formed the service. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting
were also present.
Sir John Bowring had an interview with the Duke
of Newcastle on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left London on
Satruday afternoon for his lordship's seat, Broadlands,
Rants.

DESTRUCTION OF ST. MATTHEW'S CHURCH, BETHNAL
GREEN, BY Frum—Yesterday morning, between twelve
and one o'clock, a fire broke out in St. Matthew's
Church, Bethnal Green. The fire was discovered by
the police, who at once sent for assistance. The incum-
bent, curate, and several parochial officers, were shortly
on the spot. Numerous engines shortly arrived and dot
to work in an admirable manner, but it was not extin-
guished until the church and tower were entirely burnt
out.
ROBBERY OF EMPLOYERS ON AN EXTENSIVE SCALE.
--At the Police-court, Wolverhampton, on Saturday,
William Rous, a porter in the employment of Messrs.
Campion, Jones, and Co., chemists and druggists there,
was, in conjunetion with two accomplices named Cad-
wallader and Lapp, charged with robbing his employers
to a very large amount. It appears that for a long time
Rous has ben in the habit of removing quantities of
goods, such as oil and borax, in which, and in the dis-
posal of the plunder, he has been assisted by the other
prisoners. Inspector Butler, of the detective division,
stated that he had been watching the parties for some
months, but had only recently obtained such informa-
tion as warranted him in taking them into custody.
Cadwallader, on being arrested, admitted his guilt.
Already, a considerable quantity of the booty has been
recovered, and losses to the amount of between £2OO
and £3OO have been ascertained, but it is feared that
the actual loss has been much greater.
DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE.—About six o'clock on Satur-
day evening, a girl, twelve years of age, named Cathe-
rine Long, daughter of Mr. Wm. Long, of Chapeltown,
near Leeds, was met in the high road near the police
station by a dastardly scoundrel, who seized her and
asked her if she had got any money. She said she had
not, upon which he told her she would have to accom-
pany him. She said she would not, and began to cry.
The ruffian then drew a knife from his pocket, and say-
ing if she made a noise he would kill her, he dragged
her across the road, past the police station, to the end of
Back-lane, and there cut off all her hair with a pair of
scissors. He also took her hair pads. The man, who
is described as being of the middle height and of gentle-
manly appearance, with moustache and beard, then made
off in the direction of Leeds. He can be identified.
GIFT To BURNS' NIECES.—The members of com-
mittee of this fund met in Ayr on Thursday, to receive
the report of the secretary, and to take steps for invest-
ing the money subscribed for behoof of the Misses
Begg. Mr. Hugh Cowan, the treasurer, read the se-
cretary's report, from which it appeared that the total
contributions amounted to £1,128 Bs. Id. The total
expenses amounted to about £52. After some consder-
ation, it was agreed that annuities of £2O should be pur-
chased for each of the Misses Begg, which would cost
about £540 ; the remaining balance, £460, to be placed
at their disposal, with the consent of trustees. Of the
£76 overplus, it was agreed to remit £5O to the fund
for behoof of Mrs. Thomson, the poet's daughter ;
while the remaining £26, together with any further
subscriptions which might be received, should be subse-
quently appropriated as the committee might see proper.
—Scotsman.