The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-09 00:00:00

311777Ny AND MURDER AT SEA.

Ake;:e following outline of a mutiny on board the
liTpcati brig. General Pierce, is from the .St. Thomas
"fhntle," of Feb, 18, which has just come to hand
NA'? General Pierce is belonging to Baltimore, and
tIC from New York on the 21st January last, bound
WV coast of Africa. On the 10th February, at noonday,
erl4, in latitude about 38 degrees and longitude about
ttge captain had some altercation with the men,
trlgls.,°Bed of Spanish, French, Portuguese, and twoh
444-, ail naturalised Americana.
4,4 owed ' the two English remainingtf nour
eutral,
tha most mutinous conduc , anl after
414 th excited conversation with the captain,
‘°,llt ofat.,lho mate should take command of the vessel, whilst
llea "'ern struck him (the ' captain) on the head with a
to thtver
the. cook, who had endeavoured to make his way
tlPthit, e4bin for the purpose, it is thought, of providing the
Vtt'land mates with arms, was met by one of the seamen.
abbed him, from which he fell dead. The captain,
fiti being made senseless by the blows, was next stabbed,
bnwn;ch they ordered that all hands should throw him.
l'kaPnl'd• A doubt, it is said, exists whether the captain
!ve,,l`t,',3, dead when thrown over. The cook was next thrown
104. he first mate was then forced to promise that he would
,1:412;e the facts, in consideration of which his life would
!ilted him ; id, in order the more to conceal
htttTe, he was made to note on the log book certain days
(1110.,"°th the captain and cook appeared as having fallen sick,
'iktil.,°Btate of their healths daily noted to the fourth, fifth, or
I,llc 4'43's, when it was further made to appear that they had
Ca'cttl'i, bed to to the maladies of which they were suffering.
11gi " Mate) was also told to navigate the vessel to the port
1041'Thomas and has arrived here, when the first mate
"toz'slia.telY informed the American Consul of the facts, when
p~L'ent police force went on boird and arrested the
"I') who are now confined in the fort."

JESUITS AND THE CEIrSESE AnTretem.t.—The
t\''ti'th'esi' de l'Arinee says A very curious. discovery
:.44t bY the English during the late attack upon
• an one which will serve to illustrate the history
,7,httrells,. of "aettliery, The landing party. which was sent
bay+ora ',el' the EtteliGh vessels opened their fire, found in
7,tlthe forts upon. the river, from which the garrison
1?-41 expelled, a battery of six bronze pieces of artillery,
,„9e4;,ealibre of 161 b, the peculiar shape of which attracted
l'he,:klition of the officer in command of the detachment.
..(ttip,`",;eaonon were stamped near the touchhole with the
4101,,' 'a Cipher, surrounded with Chinese characters,
• Within a serifs of arabesques very gracefully
In the middle of these ornaments was a cross,
'ol4;lef, and below the cross was the date of 1679 in
Iklki`n letters. Oae of the cannon was past on board the
II 'ke,l4l's flag shin, to be sent to England ; the others were
ohe 4;• Investigations which were afterwards made show
e 0 yin of them,g The cipher which they bear is that of
one of the most eminent of the Chinese sovereigns,
"tq :43 born in 1653, and died in 1723. This monarch,
11Letel;48 the author of several treatises upon the arts and
,q,0e,..4, admitted the Jesuits to his court, and employed
''ete lu different branches of his administration. One of
t
k ile Pere 13euin, was charged with the superintend
see the, cannon foundry at Nankin, and this is probably
it ttlik7,, _ ,Art of his workmanship."
"'8 the TIPS."—New Year's Day is the Russian (as
'eQclee French) boxing day. Apart from the genteel
le.t Pt'eted bons-bons, gloves, and jewellery, which you are
sae
(under pain of banishment frem soirees
.and
;''N 'to troemorning calls) to make to genteel acquaint-
;ll4 ?ell have your servants to tip ; your dvornick to tip ;
1-,llOPReh-Peoially, your police to tip. If you are fortunate
'4ll to be a private individual, you get off with a visit di . the .
.2116 J-ladzlratelle of the Quartet, or quartier—a sub-
t''rets'llx, of the arrondissement—who, with many bows,
Obl Au his felicitations, and to whom you give ten
but, if you are a nobleman or an hotel keeper, your
Nihi,i4r harder. By a compliment of 60 (many give 100 )
,2at f YOU may purchase impunity during the ensuing
i'lliChc/r almost every act or deed, legal or illegal, over
T eel kettee police exercise any amount of. control. The
Vat 44_ PerS give and tremble ; the nobles give and despise.
e newly fledged cornet I told you of, who had the
,m'ee „e to himself, assured me that he never allowed an
‘"lr.t the judicial police to cross the threshold of his
ah,
)0 leap-"" The secret police come in without being asked,
e their marks behind them. " When New Year's
l;`to•
e-wrlte," my young friend would say, " and the pigs
&tit ft. their salutations, I send them out the money,
Lo entering toy house—never !" Horror, hatred,
.
• sre• nteropt for Bogney are, I believe, the only definite
`gek,'eere feelings of which Nous Autres are capable.—
'l4B household Words.
I:ct
onßly of
Mobile Register, of March
On board the Mexican steamer is a barometer
ts coC.'eat simple construction, but the greatest accuracy;
of a long strip of cedar, very thin, about
kbe 4'l a halt feet in length, about an inch wide, cut with
.
,4044, and set in a black, or foot. This cedar strip is
tf, or lined with one of white pine, cut across the grain,
,_l4"(3e two are tightly glued
buttogether. To bend these
iite';pry is to snap them, on the approadh of bad
`„l,, the cedar curls over until the top at times touches
j"itirelncl• This simple instrument is the invention of a
hb.,dieat4enUttar maker,. and such is its accuracy that it will
tueeß b Loe Coming on of a 'norther' full twenty four
1,414. eerfere any other kind of barometer known on the
114 elad this been theproduction of Yankee tri,,tl been
patented long ago,d and a fortune madeingenuit by is