The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-20 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY COURT.—Frilay.


(BEFORE DR. LtSHINGTON.)
THE BEE—COLLISI 'N. —T,iis was a suit promoted 11
the flat Swan against
.the ship Bee, to revver the 104'
arising from a collision bet*een them in the river Meroir
opposite the small landing stage at Lieerpo,.l, on the 2ettl'_,
of November last, at nine a.m. The flit was conveyll/‘
coals to a steamer in the river ; the Bee, in tow of a stet,
:
tug, was proceeding from the 4 ieen's dock basin to
Sandon dock. The weather h.d been foggy, bit, spew"-
ing to'the Swan, it livi cleared for a few minutes at tb:t
time of the collision. Tho Bee, -on the contrary, contendS,
that it was very foggy, the fog having come ou very sell,
denly. The Swan alleged that observing a 1 irgi eve,
steamer, the Anglo Saxon, at anchor in the way of heL
course, she let go her anchor. In about twenty reinolr,
sherdescried the Bee and the steam tug, and on their firrici-
ving abreast the Anglo Saxon they suddenly starboarie t
then. helms, and struck the Swanfso vblent a blew dist
she sank in deep water, but had since beer: raised with gel!,
d;fficulty and expense. The Bee attributed the collisioe
the Swan improperly dropping her anchor, and therebi
bringing np under her hawse. Dr. Bayford and !Pf;
Twiss appeared for the Swan ;• Dr Deane and Dr Vironbe„
)'"tfor the Bee. The learned Judge said that the Bee he'rt'"ii
starboarded her helm, the onus rested amen her to ji
that act; lie therefore called itpie tli. lea-nerd advooei,
for the lice to open the case. D. awe and D... Wellbotat
withj
leaving ad tressed the own, the learn Judge, 11
hearing counsel on the other side, 'said that th'l3.
Brethren and himself were clearly of opi,"tion
blame attached entirely to the 8e,.3 and pronoun
accordingly. that

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY ClETßT.—Szturdafr

BEFORE 31E. C,3I3II9SIONER STEVENSON..
IN RE hi'LARTY AND O).—Tile adjourned I.st ettlnli°
naiion meeting was resumed on Satur,;•ny.. Mr. 111'1.arilf
and Mr. M•lisart were examined as to the character
their transactions wit Mildle%on, Blald, and Co-, "4
but their exarninAtion had chiefly reference to condoe•
A's the court does not sit beyond two o'clock on SaturdaYs'
the case was further adjourned to Tuesday.

Rinnoalsm.—lnfornstion has reached us that on v".
nesday night last, a party-of men, numbering forty or nil.:
called at the house of Theo s pioughtna-, ,(
Joseph Robinson, El., Doerr:field, and warned him
tI St
he attempted to r'o airy work for Mr. 'William G idder, of
Tireragh,"he " might rml mark the sequence." 9„184
visited the houses of .wo other men, named Thady
Martin Clerkiu, and made a similar "proclamation!' tcui,
entire party were in disguise and fired shots on I, acing
house. There can be no doubt but that the above proceed n
are connected with that horrid Ribbon system which has pr'"
a etmte country IA a terror to society.-81iyo
THE PEOPLE FURTHER. IMPOSED ON, (PCPONEP
Sagana---Faieified, by Copperas so
a sample left at our office of a good appearance of En 27
marked 5d per lb., but the very taste tells it is saturate..
with the flavour of copperas—arising from a sopiatsticatil
or boiling in copper pans,—in either case it is a poison',
ingredient, sand,we are told teat a boiling of ten or tor',
tons.of.sular is so affected, that one third or so is said a',o
reduCtion of 5s to lOs per cwt., according to the satoretl
of- the poisonous matter. The poor Talc, Greek, sOg
Black, hays refined white lump and crushed lump, et:',,e
half the price that Englishmen pay for sugar, and
had it for twenty or thirty years or more, from Mainblv
Antwerp, &c. ; and according to Messrs Litleds bo
Circular, in' our paper of Monday last, 9th instal'', .I„,'
Bull has only the refuse—this is literally fu`filled—thud
throughout Englan !; but like Dead Water" j h` g
the people are forced to it, we will see if Young Lige:try
or Y
oun
Englandg
anon.—Feb. 185
inll, h7e.r M.P.'s have any spirit. le
more
TRH SOUND DUES last ship that paid the IPri,„
Dues on passing the Sound was the British stelat7le
Shamrock, and the first strip'th it visaed inward hoe t
Sound free was the British steatn=n. Gcrtrud., 78„ we
here the practical cessation of an impost against w("'tif 1113
have unceasingly protested, and the commencement ° • II
immunity which eve hive for years advocated: The -,-1r
Saund Dues, after ha,- peen lerioti for nearly 2Tiff if„-Oe
have virtually teams t' exist, and the shins of all 11447,0;
or rather of such natio.is as have subscribed to the utt
Treaty, may now enter into or sail from the Baltic wit" ;
paying any toll to Danmark' for that privilege. Wei:g
the levy of the Dues has virtually ceased, notwith7"."l of
that the treaty has nut yet received the ratificatwn,bis
Parliament, inazmuch as it is quite impusssble that 8
country will permit a re-im oosittin of the Dues in any ,„0
or form. The trea'y Cm their purchase may nit "'lir
the best terms for Great Britain that could have /Penoo,
sited upon, and the policy of purchasing an exeutilti,sat
V 0
which we could claim as a right, may be open to cavil ,
the expediency of the abolition of the Dues adelts °jos
doubt, and the convicticri of such expediency will go ,be
way towards reconci'ing the Bitish Parliament td
treaty in question.—Shipping Gazetut,
A PREVENTIVE OF RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. -rreirtn%
into the causes of railway disasters, the Philadelpil
North A-nericen comes to the conclusion that " ther!
something fatally wrong either in our system of cenee„4
i,
ton or our management of railroads," ' and argues in facia„
of the general adoption of an educational system, hall!'",„
an especial reference to the early Training of civil engineetolli
It says the scientific education • f engineers is indeed
mach more c,nsequenee than that of military engineer.
This fact has long since be, n fully r, c,,guied on the coo'
tinent-of Europe ia the err ction of P.,lytechnic Cancel'.
n a plan simihr to that of L'Ecole Polytechnicrefer,cou
Paris, or the West Po nt Academy, with this dp. sis
only, th.,t the con se of instruction relates to oPer'„L":fier,l
civil, ins ead of mtlitiry engineurin4% Tod b"
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results of these establ,htnents ore ce-rtainlY digeettnhose
in the relativestatistics of roilrOa I aecidelts to
iio,o
countries and our 'own. Among' the rower we
there. is not a sing'e i-s'ance of the tutu Bog
any important strue ure. We areccurvinced that a t", ';;;,t
s i,entific'educition of civil n;i•teers and he anP°';',4 by- t
of persons so prepared by practice an-I recamtnen°"
years of experience, no' aon for th? building of reilrea
hut also for their mechanical management avoid Prls
one of the surest and most df.ctual means to diminis
the causes of accirtents.
THE DRUNKEN TRAVELLER —At the WOlVer.a
Borough Police Court, on Monday, John 01riald,1
shipg'er, from Westbromwich, was charged by the G
theea
West,rn ation master with attemptinE to defi
con:aany., and,also wich endatigerin:g tits life by getting nut
of (The of the carriages When in, motion. It appeared tl
on Sunday evening the defendant had taken a third cl g:
ticket at Birmingham for Westbrqnwhich ; be was drun,t
and instead of getting into a third class carriage, he tt,-t
into a first, and fell asleep. He did not leave the train t„
We•tbromwich, as he should have done, ana, on c,liectinb
the tickets at Priestfields, the guard found him still asiteP
in the carriage. The guard had great difficulty in sweg'lj,
r,
him, and getting his ticket from him, and, having at lengtie
managed to do so, he locked him in the Carriage fur eaie
custody to Wolverhampton. When the train arrived the
t
he was astonished to find the carriage empty, and, a
inquiry, it turned ont that the defendant, although Brun,
had got out at the window of the carriage, and who
attempting to pass along the steps of the coaches, when
was perceived, and forcibly pulled in, by the occnitent%l
the next compartment. There were several bridges °t is
tunnel between Priestfilds and Wolverhampton, and intim
almost miraculous the man was not killed. The leF'
trates ordered him to pay 40s. and costs, mid,' not hovilig
the mesas of doing so, he was removed in custody