Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-28 00:00:00

MAINE LAW LIQUOR BILL FOR ENGLAND.

SuggeStions have been printed or a bill to prevent the
traffic in intoxicating liquors, as agreed upon by general
council of the United Kingdom Alliance. In this proposed
Act of Parliament we read :
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Be it elacted: —To be lawful at any time from and after
the passing of this Act for ratepsyers residing in any
-municipal or borough town, or in any parish or town-
ship, or part of pari,h or township, not within the
municipal boundary, to require, by notice, under their
hands , the Esayor, provost, or other public officer, to take
the votes of the ratepayers of such borough, parish, or
township, or part of parish or township, as to the
propriety of bringing into operation the provisions of
this Act.

If the ratepayers decide against the adoption of the Act,
or tsars maj rity be insufficient as aforesaid, one year to
elapse before it shall be lawful again to take vets in
such borough, parish, or township, or part of parish or
township.
Not to be lawful, from and after the time limitel for the
commencement of this Act, for any person or persons,
(within any borough, parish, or township, or part of parish
or township adopting this Act as aforesaid) to res,nufacture
within the said borough, parish, or township, or part of
parish or township, for Pale, or directly or indirectly to sell,
barter, exchange or eispose of'except for such purposes
as may be hereafter pnvidei, any alcoholic or intoxicating
liquor.
Any person not being an agent duly authorise 1, who
shall, within the said district, by himself or his agent,
directly or indirectly sell or furnish under any pretence,
any alcoholic or intoxicating liquor, except according to
the provisions of this Act, to be liable to fine.

It any ratepayers of said district make oath or
affirmation before any Justice of the Peace acting for or
within said district, that they believe nlcoholic or intoxi-
cating liquors to be kept or deposited for the purposes of
sale in any conveyance, shop, warehouse, or other place
or building, within such district, the said justice t) issue
search warrant, and any alcoholic liquor found in pursu-
ance thereof to be sei2ed. No dwelling-house, however,
to be searched which is not a hotbe of public entertain-
ment, or in which, or part of which, a shop is not kept,
nless of the said complainants testify on oath or
affirmation to some act of sale of alcoholic liquors therein.
If the owner of the liquor be unknown, days,
notice to be given of the seizure, and if lawfully
claimed the liquor to be given up.
Any person on whose premises, or in whose building, or
house, or place, any offences against this act may be com-
mitted, to be held responsible, and liable to the pains
and penalties of the Act
The justices acting for the said district to appoint an
agent or agents to sell within same district, at same con-
venient and suitable place, alcoholic liquors far purposes
such as may be hereafter provided.

At LEWI3 & 0 3IPANY'S, Ranelagh-street.
BOYS are CLOTEIED from the Ages of Six to TweatyYeani.

A. MAN'S ESTIMA.TE OF THE VALUE OF HIS OWN LIFE.—
(-)n Thursday, the I2th inst., a person connected, we are
informed. with the commercial world, in or near Norwich,
happened by some means to fall into Lowestoft harbour, at
the north of the inner old pier. Two men succeeded in
ia-ev rieating him from his perilous position, minus his
cap, which was afterwards obtained by a boat-hook. The
rescuers took him to an inn, close by, where his clothes
were dried, and a little brandy taken, and subsequently
accompanied by them, he went to a house in High-strut
where he took from his pocket a quantity of cash in notes,
gold, and silver, amounting, as he hiin ;elf stated, to £2OO.
Ile then, as our• correspondent was informed, gave to each
of the young me❑ cne shilling. On their remarking that
it was a very small zual the saved one observed :—" I will
give you a certi-ficate, which if you take to the Humane
Society, they wilt give you Ll a-piece." The following is
a copy of the document November 12, 1857. This is
to certify that Win. litrab e and John Gilder have saved
me from a watery grave, on the above date, in the
Lowestoft harbour. (Signed) JAMES MACDONOLEY." Our
correspondent was infurmed that his name is Macdonald.
This is about the coolest p opositiou we ever heard—a man ,
with £2OO in his peke` valuing his life at 2s. to himself,
but thinking it worth £2 to the Humane Society:l—Norfolk
Chronicle

ALLEGED FuiSONiNG AND FORGERY BY A MAGISTRATE
AND SURGE a,r.—Mueh excitement WAS created in Preston
on Thursday by a report seriously affecticg the character
of a borough and county magistrate, a member of the
Towo-council, and a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire,
whose name ai yet has not bsen publicly stated. About
two months ago a Mr. Edward Turner, a master reed
maker, died at his residence, near St. Paul's Church,
Preston, and his remainslwere interred at the Reestoa
Cemetery. During his illness he was attended by the
person implicated in the &saw, in his professional capa-
city ; but in eonsevenee of a will being found conveying
to the medical gentleman his personal and cottage pro-
perty to a considerable amoun', icquiry was made by the
nearest representatives &f the deceased, who assert that
the will is a f rgery ; and on Wednesday the coroner, Mr.
Myres, was applied to, to hsve Tamer's b )dy exhumed.
This application was granted, and yesterday the body was
disintered in the presence of the droner, and Messrs.
Wilkinson and Burnford, surgeons of Chorley-street, on
behalf of deceased's friends, and Dr. Stewart and Mr.
Gilbertson, surgeons, on behalf of the accused, for whom
also Mr. Blackhurst, attorney, appeared. The contents of
the stomach and intestines were taken from the corpse,,
and put into sealed jars for examination by the medical
men. The jury sat at the Cemetery Hotel, and after hear-
ing evidence in identification of the body, the
inqury was adjourned to Thursday next. The deceased
held a high position in the town, and a few years ago he
was, mayor c f Preston.
A WITTY Aucrtoxima. —A piing who hal made
" going, going, gone,'' his profession—a great favourite
among the knights of the bu'kin, and all good fellows,
besides being a chosen favourite among the ladies—was
once mounted hammer in hand, selling a piece of furni-
ture. He was well conversant wi h all the best dramatic
productions of the day, and among the rest " the Hunch-
back," th ri the rage of Boston, where ha joke occurred.
Fanny KernAe WE, at that time delighting the town with
Julia, and everybody was well acquainted wi,h the I
celebatel line 4—

"C iflhrd ! wh: don't you speak to me ?
0, Clifford, is it you," &c.
which are rauke ! among the favourite points( of the
play. " Going going—last ea 1, call—fifty-t TO—any
more ? ---fifty-three—thank you, sir—fifcy-three dollars --
last call—cico —ttvict!—lny more ? ?—Who is it ?
There was a pause, and nobody answered. " Who is it ?
who bids fifry-three ? ' " Clifford," cried a voice near the
door ; " 0, Clifford, is is you," exclaimed the auctioneer,
dropping his haturne,, and clasping his hands a la Fanny
Kemble. Toe joke sva; irre7istiblle ; everybody recognised.
it ; and, catching the spirit of the thing. tin audi,n.'e
followed up an ecstaey cf laughter with three rounds of
applause, while the auctioneer drew out an handkerchief
in burlesue imitation of Fanny " Clifford, did
you say, sir ? Clifford," said the auctioneer, when the
merrimeat had subsided, "it it cash, sir?" Clifford, the
purch user, it seems, was a bashful person, unacquainted
wi.h theatrical things, and had been somewhat alarmed at
the .unaccountable good humour of the vowd, so that he
was afraid to open his lips again, lest he should excite
another burst of fun. "Is it cash, sir '?" again inquired
the auctioneer. Al eyes were turned upon Clifford, who
looked very mush as if his methee might be w xious
about him. The w.rey auctioneer a)uld rather lo.e his
custemer then his j ..ka and exe!aimed, still imitating
the fiery-eyed Fanny—
' Clifford, why don't yon speak to me ?"
The assembly now fairly roared with laughter ; and, amid
an uproarious burst of app:ause, Clifford made a preci-
pitate rush for the door and escaped.
THC MAN W.T.H THE IRON MASK AND NAPOLEON.—
Among the many fables which cluster around the " Iron
Ma,k " there is one which I cannot resist giving you It
one only dare..i, one would certainly believe it ; but
pleasant a; it is to fly in the face of vhistory, even I am
obliged to say, " Held, enough !" In the early days of
that dreary captivity—those days in which the prisoner
(whether from fancy or memory) was thus clesceib.al—'l as
of handsome face, middle height, brown skin, clear
complexion, and beautiful voice"—there was a lovely young
lady in the fortress of St. Marguerite ; she was the daughter
of one of the officials, and her name was Julia de Bonpart.
The mysterious prisoner fell in love with this bright
sunbeam, whom he had seen feem his window ; and what
feminine heart could resist a persecuted, royal, and masked
prisoner ? The father gave his consent— they were
married at an altar erected in the dungeon, and the
devoted wife cheered the gloom of the weary lifetime Two
little infant sons could not, hoe ever, be retained near the
unfaatmate parent?, and wem sent secretly to Corsica,
under their paternal name of Bonparte. From them
sprang the Buorapartea who are therefore Bourbons. In
the course of a conversation at St Helena, it was
mentioned to Napoleon by a gentleman present that a
person had come to him to tell the above story, and to
demonstrate from thence that Napoleon was a lineal
descendant of the Iron Mask, and thus the legitimate heir
of Louis XIIr. The gentleman had laughed at the whole
story, which made the narrator very angry; he main-
tained that the marriage could easily be verified by the
registers of a parish of Marseilles which he named. The
Emperor said that he had hearl the same story ; and that
such was the love of the marvellous, that it would have
been easy to have substantiated something of the kind
for the credulous multitule.—Mips Brewster's Letters from
Cameo.