The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-21 00:00:00

ANOTHER BANK DEFAULTER.

Mr. Henry Salmon, agent fte the nnmercial Bank of
Scotland at Falkirk, has so ) ~ .1. •ged with having
plundered the bank to avert' largi aelettne It is said that
the sum in waich he is deficient amounts to not less than
fr0m.f23,000 to £26,000. Without giving currency to the
various rumours circulated on this subject, it may be stated
that, as the inspection by the Scotch banks is known to
be of the most searching kind, it is alleged that Mr.
Salmon, in indebting himself to the bank—to use the
mildest term—followed a system by which he intercepted
certain monies lodged on deposit, and the transaction,
therefore, did not appear in the bank books at all, thus
setting ordinary scrutiny rt defiance. Mr. Salmon for a
long series of years moved in the very best society in the
district in which he lived : he was an efficient justice of
the peace, an acting elder of the church, and a prominent
political leerier amongst his party. He is sixty-two years
of age, and for f arty years of that period had been in the
service and enjoyed the confidence of the Commercial
Bank, of Rhi ch we are informed he was the oldest official.
Yet it is believed that for eeventeen years this man had
supported a sumptuous style of living by taking pos session,
in the manner described, of funds placed in his ha nds for
deposit, and for payment of which the bank is liable, al-
though it did not receive them. It has been ascertained
that Mr. Salmon left Falkirk on Wednesday last, and was
seen in Edinburgh that afternoon, since which all trace of
him has been lost. 'Warrants have been issued for his appre-
hension, and although no clue has yet been got to his
whereabouts, it is unlikely he can lung escape detectio n.—
Glasgow Mail.

The Orinoco, which has just arrived home with the
West India mail, is to be overhauled, and have new boilers
put into her.
APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN Mon LIFE.—A marriage is
on the tapes between Captain the Hon. James Ashley
Ponsonby, second son of the late, and brother of the
present Lord de Manley, and the Hon. Louisa Gordon,
Maid of Honour to the Queen, second daughter of the late
Lord Henry Gordon, and sister to Lady Augustus Fitz-
clarence, widow of the youngest son of the late King
William IV.
SHAKESPEARE IN FRANCE.—A six-act play, entitled
"Shakspeare," has been produced at the Porte St. Martin,
and has afforded the critics attached to the Paris Press,
Jules Janin at the head, an excellent opportunity for pay-
ing homage to the "Divine Williams," as Ponsard has it.
They one and all protest against this desecration of a
great name, and cut up the play, which is a pitiful com-
pound of stupidity and ignorance, with a zeal and
unanimity highly gratifying under the circumstAnces.—
Globe's Paris Correspondent.
GEOLOGICAL CURIOSITY IN AD'STRALIA.—WO WE re
shown last week a very singular specimen of geological
formation picked up from the road coating at the foot of
the jetty. It was the heel of a blucher boot to which
had firmly adhered as if fused on it, a mass of combined
ironstone, sea shells, and sandstone. The leather of the
boot, half of the sole of which had beea cut away, was
in good preservation, and the appearance of the heel was
as if it had been bedded into the rocky material in a state
of fusion, and the mass of rock with the shells imbedded
had firmly adhered to it.—Portland Guardian.
A return, moved for by Lord Uotham, of the expense
incurred by the visit of both houses of parliament to the
reviews at Spithead and Aldershott last year, was printed
on Friday. The breakfasts, luncheons, and dinners, in-
cluding wine and hire of plate, &c., in both the vessels,
Transit and Perseverance, in which the Lords and Com-
mons were to witness the naval review, was £9lO 153
Bd, and the total number of tickets issued was P5B, or
458 for the upper, and 500 for the lower house. The
review at Aldershott in July cost £257 12s, of which
£ll6 12s was for special trains to Farnborough, £36 for
omnibuses from Farnborough to the camp, and £lO5 for
luncheon.

EMIGRATION.—We learn from many quarters of the
kingdom that, notwithstanding the present prosperous
state of Ireland, emigration on an extensive scale is going
on—an emigration that embraces some of the very best of
the working classes, particulaily in the rural districts,
Already have four large vessels sailed from Tralee for
Transatlantic ports with emigrants, chiefly young farm
servants of both sexes ; and two others are announced to
leave before the close of the current month. Besides this
emigration direct from the county town, people are (very
week leaving different parts of Kerry for America, via
Liverpool. Nor must we omit to notice, in counectioa
with this subject, that a different class of emigrants are
leaving our country for Australia in no small numbe-s—
-we refer new to the younger sons of the more comfortable
farmers, healthy young fellows, who prefer to try their
luck at the diggings, rather than wait the weak chance of
getting a farm at home during the present fierce earnpeti.
tion for land. These men are likely to turn out a superior
class of emigrants for the gold colonies, and to be the
pioneers of an extensive emigration from the class to
which they belong—the class that is, it' we are to judge
from the competition that exists for tha occupation of land
in this county, the most in excess of any in the south of
Ireland.—Kerry Post.
A NEFARIOUS Acr.—Some evil-disposed person or
persons contrived, o i Saturday morning, a little before
eleven o'clock, to set on fire the letters in the pillar
receiver on the Mall, in Waterford.. Nothing particular
was observable about the receiver up to the time of the
fire being discovered, save that many persons as they'
passed, stopped to examine it. The reporter, who' was at
the other side of the street, with the sergeant-at-mace,
observed two or three chaps, known as members of the
class called " tippers," close to the receiver, and looking
into it. In a few minutes afterwards the attentic nof the
reporter and the municipal officer was again directed to
the receiver, when they saw smoke issuing out of where
the letters are put in. A crowd soon gathered, and the
policeman who was on duty was hurrying off to the Post
Office, in George's-street, to give the alarm, when one of
the letter-carriers came up with the keys, being on his
way to take out what might have been placed in it to bring
to the head-office. He immediately op sued the door, and
found the post-bag inside in flames, one side being burned.
There were about a dozen letters inside, one of which was
completely burned, as shown by the corner of the envelope
which remained ; some four or six of the others were more
or less scorched. This was certainly one of the most
wanton acts of destruction on record, and it would be a
most satisfactory result, indeed, if the delinquents could be
discovered and punished as severely as the law would allow.
—lVato ford Mail.
SPALING THE PLAY.—The Paris corresnoudenee of the
Court Journal tells a story of a charming Countess, who,
after much persuasion, was allowed by her husband to
take a part in an amateur performance. During one of
the rehearsals he went to look on. " His voice was the
wily one not heard in the concert of praise which greeted
the pretty little Countess as she stepped forth—smart, pert,
and lively, in all the glory of patches, wig, and powder--
from her tiring room." He thought " she was m Acing a
fool of herself," and told her so, to the great indignation
of the Martinis de M—, who was to play Frontin, her
lover, and who declared she had never looked so well. The
troupe had assembled early ; there was time for one more
rehearsal of one or two of the most difficult EC ineeq—that
between Frontin and Lisette was amongst the number,
and they set about the tender agaceries of their roles with
the most serious attention, Presently the sound of a loud
kiss upon Lisette's cheek shot like a cannon-ball through
the brain of the Count ; he rose, livid with rage. " Stop !
this mast not go on I—it is impossible L-it is indecent 1"
Pooh, pooh ! it is always done ha plays." " Then in this
case it must be left out." " Impossible !it would spoil
the scene; besides, what need to make a fuss now ? There
are three such kisses in the piece, and we have already
rehearsed it fourteen times !" " Good heavens ! two-ande
forty kisses ! Madame, this is too much ; folocie me
instantly, I will have none of this improper foel.ng."
" Bat the play--', " Never mind the play ; it must go
on without my wife, or not at all." Thereupon the rgre
seised his victim, and bore her off, lealf.faicing to her
carriage.

A HANDSOME COMPLIMENT.—The Grand Duke Constan-
tine, during a visit to the manufactory of Sevres
hevreelsvecnhtinsae,vtoeroalk
such a fancy to the superb and peculiar " bonheur du jour,"
which has been fifty years in making, that
times again to examine it, and murmured to himself that it
WAS the only thing he had seen in Paris he should like to
present to his mother. Again he visited the manufactory,
but the treasure was gone. " Where is the bonheur du
jour' I saw here on my last visit?" said he; "I should
like it to accompany the things I have just ordered."
" Alas! your Imperial Highness," returned the director,
in a piteous tone, the bonheur du jour,' our glory and
our pride, is gone." The Grand Duke was viiibly vexed.
4, What—gone! Who has bought ?" I cannot tell your
Imperial Highness, I only know it was packed for Russia."
This information was, of course, doubly annoying, and so
occupied the Grand Duke's mind, that he mentioned the
subject several times, and even told the story to the
Empress of how great had been his admiration for this
wondrous piece of workmanship, and how curious he hid
been to ascertain who had forestalled him in his purchase,
at which her Majesty laughed most heartily, although con-
doling with his disappointment; and the Grand Duke
grew more than ever anxious to learn wit.) it was that had
thus " cut the grass from under his feet," according to the
Russian proverb, and carried off the treasure he had so
much coveted. It was not until a day or two ago thar,
entering the boudoir of the Empress with an open letter iu
his hand, he exclaimed gaily, " Henceforth
your Majesty
must excuse me if I find nothing beautiful in Paris,
nothing to admire but the public buildings, for these your
Majesty, with all your grace and generosity, cannot send •
to Russia in my name—Paris Corres.pondent of the Court
Journal