The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-23 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Braganza steamer has arrived with Lisbon
dates of the'l6th instant. The Minister of Public
Works has laid Sir Moreton Peto's railway contract
before the Cortes, with bills to legalise the same ;
and also to authorise the Government to settle the
differences between the contractors and the present
Santarem ,Railway Company, in order that the line,
so far as constructed, may be included in the pro-
jected company.
The Minister's statement was very well received
by the Chambers, and the different bills were
referred for the reports of the Committees of
Finance and Public Works, with a recommendation
of urgency.
Foreign ships of war in port —Her Majesty's
ships ExmouthrPincess Royal. and Colossus; one
Dutch and one Brazilian steamer.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, APRIL 18.

The papers state that the statutes for the pre-
sentation of the different provinces and the muni-
cipal laws will very soon be published, but they are
in error. The statutes for the representation of
Hungary will, perhaps, be made public while the
Emperor is in that country,, but there is every
reason to believe that the finishing touch
has not yet been put to them. As to the proposed
municipal laws, they have been changed at least
half-a dozen times, and it is a positive
fact that they are not yet to the taste -of the
Council of the Empire. As each province or crown
land will have a separate and somewhat different
" statute of representation," so will it have a
separate and .some What different municipal
law. A. feNt days sines a new census law was
published. Formerly the census was taken in
such a way that the authorities knew where
to find the men who were of an age to shoulder
the musket, but nothing more- The census will
now be taken every six years—except in the mili-
tary frontier districts.

Such terrorism prevails in Bucharest that a non-
Unionist cannot venture to give expression to his
opinions. The political fever in Jassy has greatly
subsided, and it is worthy of remark that almost all
the foreigners residing in the Danubian principa-
lities are of opinion that their union would be a
death blow to Moldavia and to the Porte. The
Russian railroads are systematically ‘! puffed " by
some of the German papers, but the publio declines
to have anything to do with them. The Austrian

press still eulogises the Suez Canal project, but no
longer with such a hearty good will as it did a few
months ago, when there was a prospect of the
shares being at a premium. A Vienna correspond.
dent, who is usually Weil informed, writes to the
Frankfort Post Zeitung as follows :--
•' Our papers seem not to understand the merits
of the Montenegro question, but what is going on
is well known to rne. As Russia failed to annihi
late Turkey she will now endeavour to dismember
her. It is the task- of Greece to separate Epirus,
Thessaly, and Macedonia from the Ottoman
Empire. The projected Rouman State (Moldavia
and Wallachia) will endeavour to unite with Bul-
garia, and Montenegro is the point from which
the seeds of discontent were to have been •cast
into those districts in Bosnia, the Heregovina,
and Albania, that are inhabited by Greek
Christians. The off2r of Prince Daniel
to recognize the Sazeraiizete of the
Porte, if the means of living in peace and
quiet are given fa his subjects interferes with the
plans of the Russians, and hence the violent
attacks which arc made on him and his brother
Mirko." . _

There is reason to believe that the Porte would
not be disinclined to give to Ptince Daniel, as
itS vtosal, sixty souare, English miles of grazing
and arable land, an -I to furnish him with the
means of maintaining his princely dignity
without having recourse for pecuniary assistance
to a foreign Power. In a letter addressed to
the Vienna Presse a friend of Omar Pasha
states that he did not, as had been stated,
4 unceremoniously repudiate" his wife. Such things
Were proved against that lady that a court of
justice did not hesitate to pronounce a sentence of
divorce. The report that Madame Enaire, who is
the only daughter of Omar Pasha, and married to
his nephews Omar Boy, has poisoned herself, is
false. Omar Boy, who has been descried as a
" brutal Bashi Bazoult," was educated at the
military school of St Cyr, and lives on excellent
terms with his Wife.

On the 15th, the Archduke Ferdinand Max in-
spected the Novara and Caroline, which aro lying
in the Bay of Muggia. His Imperial Highness
addresAl the members of the expedition, and
begged of them not to lose sight of the fact that the
Austrian Govorntnent had a double object in view
—the improvement of the Imperial navy, and the
furtherance of slience. On the 15th a new sloop of
28 guns was launched at Venice, and it is expected
that four otllA.s will be off the stocks before the
year is at an end. At noon to-morrow, the 19th,
the G3vernor -General of the Lombardo Venetian
kingdom; will make his solemn entry into Mi!an.
The Austrian Lloyd has received a clipper steamer
from England, which moves at the rate of 14 miles
an hour. The vessel, which is the 68th of the Lloyd
steamers, is called the Treb'zonde. The Chevalier
von Wild6chgo, who was the chief of a section in
the finance departments, has been made a Coun-
cillor of the empire instead of Count Zichy.
•

NUMEROUS CASES OF CHILD MURDER.--Information
was reeeived at the various metropolitan police stations,
on T Ifsday, of to fewer than three cases of child murder.
The first was that of a Male ihfant, about five mouths old,
found by police constable 222 R, id the river Ravenshourne,
at Lewisham, dressed in a striped bed-gowd and wrapped
in a flannel marked with the letter " L," and supposed to
form part of the clothing of some workhouse or charitable
institu'ion. At an inquest held on the body, before Mr.
Carlton, coroner fur West Kent, medical evidence was
given showing that previons to immersion sufficient
injuries had been inflicted to cause death, and the enquiry
was adjourned. The second case is that of a newly-barn
male child found under a rock near the river Terny, at
Ludford, Herefordshire, tied up in a black silk apron, and
having the half of a small shawl or woman's neckerchief
bound tightly round the neck. The third case is that
of the body of a female child, about three months old,
found is the Byer, Bolton, and Manchester can il, near
Prestolee Mil s, Pilkiogton, tied up in an old, dark-
coloured barege shawl, and in which, as also in the above
ease, the ceroner's enquiry has resulted in a verdict or
" Wilful Murder" against some person or persons un-
knowd.
Tire Earl/ass EL-Gum. -- The Empress, it is said, by an
unexpected weakness of mind, has gradually lost the hold
she had on the Emperor's affections. Weakness of mind,
perhaps, is too strong a word • (and if it is, I beg the flir
accused's pardon.) But she has at least exhibited lately a
degree of frivolity and of lightness totally unbecoming her
elevated position. Thus her time is spent iu discussing and
getting up fine robes ; she wants to relieve the system of
court pages and other expurgated fooleries of other centu-
ries ; she wants her court to dazzle, but her inventions are
those of the milliner. It appears that Eugenie is one of
those delicate and premature o ganisations which reach
the acme of brilliancy early and then rapidly decline into
ineffective mediocrity. It would be absurd to suppose
that Napoleon, with his practical turn of mind, and a full
knowledge of the difaculties that surrounded him, was going
to unite his fortunes to an unknown woman, merely for
the beauties of her person; for he might have found plenty
of beauties who were known and esteemed in France.
Bathe married Eugenic because te believed her a brilliant
woman in point of intellect, who would be able to lend him
' material nssistance in the management of that part of his
affeirsmore particularly belonging to her sex. But, however
much cleverness she may have had younger, the hopes of
the Emperor appear to be sadly deceived, and it is said
that he cannot even trust the organisation of the Palace
fetes to her Majesty. He is obliged to be a tyrant in his
own house. In fine, Eugenie does not come up to his
standard, and he is rowing tired of her ' - hence the sins
that are laid at his door. This is the substance of the re-
ports in circulation, andalthough, as I said before, I can-
not guarawee their authenticity, there is a multitude of
corroborating evidence which I might give you. —Paris
Correspondent of the New Yotic Times.
COMMITTAL FOR MANSLAUGHTER AT MIDDLETON.—On
Tuesday, Mr. Dearden, coroner, and sixteen jurymen,
held an inquest at the house of Melly Wild, sign of the
Red Lion Inn, Hebers, Mieldleton, on the body of Joseph
Tetlow, silk w: aver, aged sixty years. It appeared by
the evidence of Sarah Tetlow, aged seventeen, Elizabeth
Tetlow, aged twenty two, daughters of deceased, and a
young man, named Theophilus Turner, that on Tuesday,
the 14th instant, the deceased went to the Red Liun
public house, Hebers, where a party of men and women
had a rum and tea drinking meeting. They remained
until half past twelve o'clock, at which time Sarah Tetlow
prevailed upon her father to go home, a distance of not
more than from fifty to a hundred yards. When about
halt way, a young man, named Geerge Lees, attempted
to pull the young woman, upon which her father remon-
strated with him for his conduct. Lees thereupon kicked
him over the belly twice. The old man was removed
home, and Mr. Edward Taylor, surgeon, attended him
until Saturday morning, when death put an end to his
sufferings. Lees was apprehended on Tuesday morning
by county police sergeant Rolston, at Hebere. He was
present during the inquest, but declined saying anything.
Mr. Taylor, who made a post mortem examination of the
body on ondav, gave it as his decided opinion that
death had resulted from the effects of a kick o: kicks.
The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against
Gorge Lees, who was committed fur trial at the next
Liverpool assizes.
ATIIIINJEOM LIFE ASSURANCE SCCIETY.— The enquiry
now being instituted on the part of the shareliellers into
the alleged mutiilation of the deed of settlement of this
society, by the abstraction of a clause in it purporting to
limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of
their shares, was continued on Saturday before Richard
Bloxam, Esq., chief clerk to Vice Chancellor Wood.
Further witnesses were examined on the subject. Mr.
John Pope Cox, superintendent of the company's provin-
cial agencies, examined, stated that when he found that
sheets were missing, and that the clause in question was not
there, he asked fur an explanation of the matter from Mr.
Sutton, the manager, and Mr. Bartlett, the chairman. Mr.
Bartlett, who had been a clergyman, said that when he
I used to preach, and he saw the people were getting tired,
i or when he was getting tired himself, he had his sermons
I so arranged that he could turn over one or two pages and
cut it short without the congregation knowing anything
about it. Again, on calling the attention of Mr. Jopling,
one of the auditors, to the deed, Mr. Jopling asserted that
the clause was in the deed. " Well," said witness, " I'll
bet you a bottle it is not;" and they examined the deed
together, and Jopling said, "I've lost. It's a most mys-
terious thing ;" and he paid the bottle of wine. The
witness made a bet of £lOO to £lO with Mr. Howard the
society's surgeon, on the-same subject, bnt the bet went off.
Witness was dismissed from the society's service in con-
sequence of his assertions as to the deed having been
tampered wish. The engrossers, binders, and others en-
gaged in getting up the deed—a document of large dimen-
sions, clothed iu black Russia leather, with exterior gil-
dings—were also examined as to the possibility of the
alleged mutilation. Their evidence wascontradictory in many
respects. Mr. Burton, of the firm of Chilton and Burton,
solicitors to Mr Harding, the official manager, suggested
that the portion of the deed tampered with should be sub-
, witted to a minute microscopic examination, in order to
complete the evidence. This was understood to be assented
to by the Chief Clerk, and the meeting adjourned.