Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-18 00:00:00

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

The poor man Heron, who was hurt by the falling of
the houses in Tithebarn-street, is rapidly progressing,
and, it is hoped, in a few' days he will be enabled to
resume his work again.
THE LIVERPOOL POULTRY SHOW.—This great annual
show of poultry, &c., for Liverpool and the surrounding
districts, will be opened to-morrow at Lucas's repository,
Great Charlotte-street. There has been ample prepars-
tions made, and it is anticipated that the show will be
the best seen here for some years past.
The series of games, by telegraph, which the Man-
chester Club had challenged to play against the
Liverpool Club, and which the latter accepted, notwith-
standing that their opponents were considered, in chess
circles, to be the strongest club out of London, has
resulted in a signal triumph for the Liverpool Club, who
won three of the five games, and losing only one, the
other being withdrawn.

Saunders' News Letter is authorised to state There
is no truth whatever in the report which has been put
into circulation, that the Marquis of Sligo was married
to the Marchioness of Sligo at Rome, according to the
rites of the Roman Catholic church. His lordship's
marriage, which was solemnised in this city on the
20th of last July, by special license from the Lord
Primate of Ireland, has been declared valid, ab .
by the canon law of the Roman church, by a retrospect'
tive decree."

EYE AND EAR INFIRNIARY, 126, top of Mount
Pleasant.—Weekly Report.—Eye Deportment : Nevi
patients admitted in the week.. ending January 15,
82 ; patients prescribed for, and who have received
surgical assistance, 369. Ear Department : Nest
patients admitted in the week ending January 15,
33 ; patients prescribed for, and who have received sur-
gical assistance, 134. Consulting Surgeon Hugh
Neill, Esq. Surgeons : John Poole, sq., Dr. R. Hibbert
Taylor, and Dr. Nevins. .Assistant-Surgeon: Thomas
Bickerton, Esq. - Treasurer : J. G. Livingston, Esq.
THE LATE ACCIDENT IN GREAT GEORCIE-STREET.—The
men who were hurt in the melancholy affair in Great
George-street, and who were attended to in the Southern
Hospital, are, we are glad to say, going on favourably,
and it is hoped they will be soon out of danger altogether.
The funeral of poor Mrs. Murray and her daughter took
place, and was attended by a large concourse of the
friends and acquaintances of the family. The lives of
both were insnred in the Royal Liver Burial and In-
surance Society, and the amounts were at once paid on
the proof of their deaths. The society, in this as in
other cases, acted promptly and liberally.

SHIP ON FIRE AT BRISTOL.—At aboivt two o'clock on
Saturday afternoon the Porto Novo, lying alongside a
wharf at Bristol, and containing a valuable cargo of
palm oil, ebony, bar-wood, elephants' teeth, gum, &c.,took fire in consequence of an explosion prouced by
the fall of a lighted candle upon some loose gunpowder.
For two hours the men on board the vessel made even'
exertion to extinguish the fire, but were altogether un-
rhe brigade engines came to their assistance,
but it was not till early next morning, and till the
ship and cargo were almost entirely destroyed, that the
fire was overcome. The ship was insured for £l,OOO,
and the eargo for £9,000.
A RUNAWAY HUSBAND PROM LEEDS.-011 Wednesday,
one of our active detectives, having heard that there was
a person, of gentlemanly appearance, going about the
town spending money in an extravagant manner, sus-
pected all was not right, and he kept an eye on him.
The " free liver " went into a barber's shop to.get shaved,
but, before the operation, he sent the barber's wife out
for a bottle of the best pale sherry, which the barber,
and the barber's wile; and the barber's customer, very
soon despatched " out of that !" The shaving then took
place, and the benevolent customer seamed so pleased
that he sent for another bottle of the same, and this very-
soon went the way that all pale sherry finally goes
to wit, down some throat or other, Now, one.
might suppose that the barber and the barber's wife were
pretty well satisfied, but if they were, not so the barber'S
customer—he was not satisfied. “ A bad pair of boots
you have on," says the customer to the barber. " They
are the best I have," replied poor. Strap. " Send ont and
get a good pair and I'll pay for them,' replied the man,
who was doing the " angel's visit." Strap was not long
complying, and the boots were. duly paid for. A. thought
struck Mr. Strap—he was a greedy fellow this same
Strap,—for he whispered to. his better (or worse) half to
show her toes out of an old pair of slippers, and hint to
the good Fortunatus„ whose purse seemed as fell
of money as his heart did with the milk of
human kindness and his stomach with pale sherry, that
a pair of boots in that quarter would be acceptable. The
hint was at once taken and Mrs. Strap was fitted to a T,
whilst one could say " Jack Robinson." The benevolent
stranger then went away the barber regretting that he
did not cut his throat and take all his money. The
active detective, who, by the way, might bear the name of
the author of " Waverly," had a sharp eye after the math
and subsequently found him committing all sorts of
extravagance—foolish, wild extravagance, —but hav-
ing no account of an absconding debtor, an
embezzler, burglar, or railway cash keeper, being
"wanted," for some trifling thing in the Redpath
way, he contented himself by narrowly watching the
movements of this walking bank. From Wednesday, up
to Friday, the man spent a great deal of money, and on
Friday night ho was seen, in company of a ruby-lipped,
rosy-pheeked, diamond-ey'd girl, taking two places in 3
first class carriage, at a certain railway station. In
about an hour afterwards a telegraph message was re-
ceived from Leeds, describing the "gentleman and the
lady" (of course there must a lady in such case "ever
and always") as having eloped from that town—the lady
from " under the roof of her parents," and the gentleman
from his wife and children. He is described as a cloth
manufacturer from Leeds, and it seems that the money
was his own, and of course he could do as he pleased
with it —the only ehargo against him was for vamaseiny
from his wife and family. So the aff.iir at present, a 5
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