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

THE SEPARATION O 1 THE UNION.

On the motion of Mr. Harrison, the Clerk was requested
to communicate with the General Board, for the purpose of
soliciting the assistance of an Inspector to make pr -
liminary arrangements for the establishment of the Toxteth
Park Board, prior to its separating from the West Derby
Union.

Some routine business having bean. transacted, the
board separated.

LOST UPON FLINTS.

"An honest tale speeds best being plainly told."

Mr. G'adstone, during the elections, went to Plintsbire
to fight with his tongue the battle of his brother in law,
Sir Stephen 4lynn, and for domestic purposes, if possible,
to strike fire out of Flint, with the razor edge of his elo•
quence. A blunter tool would have bt.en better to the
purpose. Mr. Gladstone cat his fingers, and the public
has been laughing at him ever since. Sir Stephen might
have moved the heart of Flint by his own cries, but could
be cry being unborn ? He was only to be brought to the
birth as a statesman, hope of the Gladstonian flock, by a
Gladstonian labour. Now, however, may the statesman
mourn over his s-id mishap, for, like the goat of Melibmis,

" Spem gregi!, ah SIIECE in atria conlifixa reliquit."
—lnquirer.

RAILWAYS.—The Irish Midland G.-eat Western Com-
pany will be opposed in their application to parliament fn•
a bill to enable them to extend their line to Sligo.—Sligo
Journal.,
FERMI KIIAN AND LORD STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE.—
The Journal de Teheran, received by the last Levant mail,
contains a note from Ferukh Khan to -Lord Stratford de
Redcliffe, from which it appears that during his stay at
Constantinople the Persian diplomatist evinced the most
conciliatory spirit, and the most pacific disposition, in all
his negotiations with the British Ambassador. But being
at last out of patience with Lord Stratford's obstinacy, he
told him that in consequence of his systematic refusal to
give any answer to the successive propositions made, he
should withdraw the concessions which he had offered to
make for the sake of peace, and should proceed at once to
France. This document proves clearly that Lord Palmer-
ston wilfully distorted facts when he told the House of
Commons that Lord de Radcliffe was in no way respon-
sible for the rupture of the negotiations.—Assenablee Na-
tioneile.
REFORM IN SPELLING.—TWO prizes of £lOO and £4O
respectively are offered for the two best and approved
essays on a reform in the spelling of the English
language, by the iittroduction of a phonetic, instead of
the present unpbonetic system. The essays should include
an historical account of the origin and growth of the
present imperfect system of spelling; an analysis of the
system of articulate sounds; and au exposition of thuse
occurring in oir language—with a notice of the various
modes in which it has been attempted to express those
sounds graphically, and a suggestion for doing so, in
which care should be taken that no letter should express
more than one' sound, and that no sound should be
expressed by 'mere than one letter, an that as few new
types as possible should be admitted. The adj,idic itots
are—Mr. A. J. Ellis, 8.A., Edinburgh; R. Gordon
Latham, M.D., Grenford, Middlesex; Max Muller, M.A.,
Professor of Modern European Languages, &c., Oxford ;
Mr. Isaac Pitman, Phonetic Institution, Bath; Sir W.
C. Trevylian, Bart", M.A., (Oxford), Wallington,
N,sv castle on Tyne. The prizes are open to Great.
Britain and Ireland, Britisq' North America, and the
United States. The essays, written in English must be
sent to Sir W. C. Trevyliao, But., as above, on or before
the 31st of NUrch, 1858.
CURIOSITY.—In the interior of the Eastern Peniten-
tiary, between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets,' there
are two cells, the walls of which are painted in water
colours in a manner so elabarately beautiful as to cause an
involuntary wish on the part of each visitor that the cham-
ber of his or her residence could be similarly adorned.
The work was performed by a convict at odd intervals
of leisure: The only tools at his command were a ruler,
lead peach!, and a small brush, which, we are informed,
he made from his own hair. The pattern is kaleidoscopic,
interspersed with rich medallions ; the effect of the whole
beirig, with the exception of transparency, very similar to
that of stainei glass. The four sides of the cell, and the
arched roof, are alike covered. Over the brass water
fawcet, which, by the way, is burnished like almirror,
there is painted a water cooler, and at the place where his
cot touches the wall is represented the head of a fashion-
able bedstead ; all this is executed in a highly artistic
manner, and will bear close examination. The convict
who performed this beautiful "work has already served four
terms in this same prison ; and, strange to say, is now in
Moyatnensing awaiting trial upon a tiftli serious charge.
He is by birth a German, and has a mania for appropriating
other people's goods, -which is believed- to be wholly
uneonquerab:e.—Phila. N. American.
Tan IRISH ELECTIONS.—The Freeman's Journal and
the Nation candidly admit that the conservative cause bas
been considerably strengthened in Ireland by the general
election all but terminated. Leitrim, which still remains
to return two representatives, is likely to add another sup-
porter to the winning party. The Freeman blames the
result on the disunion in the ranks of the tenant leaguers.
" Of the 103 men already returned, 56 are liberals and 47
conservatives, showing a majority of nine Irish members
in favour of progress. The number of changes in the Irish
representatives was quite equal to the general proportion
in the whole empire. No less than 26 men have been
returned to the new who had not seats in the old parlia-
ment." The Nation says that the returns " carry to Lord
Derby the 60 staunchest votes in all his party." How this
unhappy result has been produced you may learn from the
oracle of Young Irelandism:—" Whatever the results from
England and Scotland may be, the returns from Ireland
'are by no means so gratifying to Mr. Hayter. Already
the English papers are mournfully wondering what want
of organisation or abuse of influence can have caused so
extraordinary a defeat of the liberal cause. It is very
easily explained. The Irish people do not appear to be
partisans of the liberal cause, and they particularly want
confidence in the domestic and foreign policy of Lord
Palmerston. They have become thoroughly convinced of
the worthlessness of the Wh?gs, and of the especial and
mischievous worthlessness of their principal leaders, Lord
Palmerston and Lord John Russell.
Dg•PIIRATE HIGHWAY ROBBCRY BY TIMER Soebrees --
At the Surrey Sessions on Tuesday, James Diarie.nd,, 23,
James H-annagan, 23, and John Jordan, 19, priv.te sol-
diers in the-second battalion of the Rifle -Brigade, stationed
at Aldershot Camp, were indiete 1- for- assauitiog J eieph
Ottewey, at Farnham, and rabbing him of half a
. sovereign, find 16&6.1. The prosecutor, art ellerirman,-
whase head was bandaged up, stated that he was a brick-
maker, and worked for Mr. John Andrews, of Farnham,
who hal a brickyard cn the highwey leading from Way—
borne to where he lived. On Friday evening, the 3d inst.,
witness left Farnham, in company with William Larby,
Charles Larby, and his wife, to go home. It was then
about ten o'clock. They got as tar as his master's brick-
yard , where there was a heap of straw. Witness saw
several soldiers about the Straw, when he said—" My lads,
don't tear the straw about any more than you can help,
because• I have to use it." Immediately after that
the prisoner Hermann came .up to him, and knocked
him down. He fell on the top of Diamond,
who was lying in a ditch. Hannagan then
lumped over him into . the hop
_ground, and
he came back with' a hop—pole. Witness had then got up,
anal was standing near the road. Hannagan again came
up to him as he was looking out for his friends, and
knocked him down, when he struck him on the h ad with
the hop pole. While lying on the ground, newly stunned,
he caught Diamond's hand in his trowsers pocket-, where
he had a purse containing a half sovereign, and sixteen
shillings and sixpence. As soon as he recovered, he got
up and washed the blood off his head in the ditch, and
on putting his hand into his pocket he missed his purse
and contents. He called out for assistance, when Hannagan.
again cam, up and knocked him down with the hop pole.
111 also s ruck him on the head until he was stunned,
• being assisted by Jordan. The next thing be recollected
was Charles Larby conveying him home. On the next-,
morning at seven o'clock, while he w,:s going to his work,
he saw all the prisoners in the lane leading to Aldershott
Camp, and he heard them say to some labourers that they
had knocked an old man down on the previous night and
served him out. Witness then went up to them and at
once eccused them of the assault and robbery, when they
all ran away. Ater that witness went to Aldershot
Camp with the police officer, and in the guard house of
the 2nd battalion of the Rifle Brigade he pointed out the
prisoners among several others, and they were taken into
custody, The jury at once found them all. guilty, and
the court sentenced each of. them to four years' penal
servitude,