Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-30 00:00:00

TellAnrr, Thetford, Thirsk, Tiyerbn, Tower4Tam"(etc
Tyntrrroutli, Warrington, Warwick, Whitehaven, West-
bury; Whitby, Woiterhampton, Wroth".pck, Worcester.

CLOSE OF THE POLLS. —YESTERDAY.
CAMBRIDGZ. —Macauley, 748; Stewart, 744; Twisleton,
675 ; Mowatt, 660.
NOTTINGHAV. —Paget, 2,416; Mellor, 2,151 ; Bromley,
1,808 ; Jones, 154.
CARLISLE.—Grajiam, 538'; Lawson, 516 ; Hodgson, 475.
BnvEnLEY.--,Walters, _695 ; Edwards 539 ; 'Walker, 435 ;
Glover, 54. ,
PoxrErnA'ur.—Mitnes, 496 ;'Overend, 300 ; Childers, 296.
WtNnSow—iransittart, 352 ; :Hope, 269; Grenfell, 246.
• LElTH.—Miller,, 9042'• Maefie, 740. •
ITlRMlNGll4.3l.—.3cholefield, 4,623; kright, 4,492; Arland,
1,569.
Y&RMOUTH.—Lacon, G 98.; Strawy, 657; Watkin, 537;
'Young, 509.
Btthor..--Berkeley, 4,449; Langton, 4,253; Slade, 4,211.
SAVDWICR. —Hugesson, 497 ; Paget, ~.148 ; Ferguson,
'404 ; Lewis, 328;
Poirrsmorru.—Elphinstorre, 1,640 ; Baring, 1,581 ;
Truce, 1-4-39 ; Cappel, 1,33 N
DuimuY.;— Sheridan, 432 ; Monek, 361.
Non Ampros.—Gi*in, 1,149 ; Smith, I,l43';.Maekenzie,
-835 ; Hart, 30.
BEnronn,--Whitbread, 455:; Stuart, 449 ; Tuirner, 427 ;
Barnard, 427. •

WiNosoR.C...sTLE., `ll:llllaErsdeay°."—TThe Queen, acectopanie
by Princess Alice and Princess Helena, drove out in,an open
carriage yesterday afternoen.. Colonel the Hon. A. N.
Hood Was in. attendance.
Hi 4 Royal Highness; the Prince Glrysrt, with the Duke
of OportO and the Duke of Saxe Cif&trg, rode out on horse-
back-, attended' by Captain du Plat.,
Ilbr Majestn dinner party in the- evening included' her
Royal, Higrhness Princess Alice. his- Royal Higline3s the
Duke. of Oporto, his. Royal Highness the Doke of Saxe
Coburg, M-ajOr-General the Hon. 0: and
.Mrs. Grey, Sir
James Clark, Lieutenant-General Vicomte de Carnpanha,
Captain Ser,TiO; Le Barnn do 111eyern, Le Capitaine de
Reuter, A.D C:, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C.B.
The Piiiieeqs Augustly, of Saxe Cobilre;, attended by her
and Count de Larradio, the Portuvrese
Minister,- arriVed in the afternOon on a visit; and also dined
with her Majesty.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards played during
dinner.

The Qneen'S private band afterwardsz performed in the
drawing-roont.
Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Princess Alice,
the Duke of Qporto, and Princess Augnstirs of Saxe Coburg,
walked in the Time Park, this morning, and visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Dent, atrfogmore.
His ROyal highness. the :Prinea Consort went to the
Wellington College, attended by Sir James Clark and Cap-
tain du Plat.
PrincesS- Helena' rode in the Riding-house.
Lady Churchiehas succeeded the Countess•of Gainsborough
as Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen.

" Good morning, Smith, you look sleepy."
replied Smith, "I was up all night." . " Up where ?"
" Up stairs in bed."
Baron Brill-mow, the Russian Minister, and Count
Appomfi, the
.Austrian Minister, had interviews with the-
Earl of Malmesbury, at the Foreign-office;- on Thursday. •
RATTIER A.Now,veors. —A captain of a privateer, who bad
been in an engagement, wrote to his owners that he had re-
ceived but littl damage, having only one• of his hands
wounded in the nose.
THE IMPUNITY OP CROWNED CRIMINALS.—We hear a
great deal about the law of nations. There is no such
thing. What is a law without a :judge, or even with a
judge, without a Duck Ketch ? Which of the monarchs who
threaten to disturb the 'pate of Europe need hesitate to
execute-his mm-citrons design for -fear of being hanged in
ti:le(tin:efsoesul:rl;
the event of
.being defeated?---Punch.
CRINOLINE nnLINGUENT3.—The octrOi men on duty at
one of the gates of Toulouse noticed, a few days ago, that
two females, who were about to enter, had on gigantic
dige
thpee
abouttt)i, co ounsaiti
crinolines, though their-general attire was mean. They in
eized,
consequence
rciitleaddw,
daeenrresd, beneath
gallonsofeacfwaelreco alcohol
women arrested.
THE STATE BED FROM STOWE.—This sumptuous state
bed from Stowe•is now on view at Mr. Walesby's Gallery,
London: This noble relic of the princely mansion
of the duke -of Buckingham derives great interest from the
associations suggested by the fact that for 108 years it
formed the resting place of the many royal personages, both
English and continental, who received the hospitality at
Stowe; down to the visit of the Queen and Prince Consort,
which was sospon succeeded by the memorable sale.
POOR ItA.TES.. AND PAUPERISM. —On Thursday, a compara-
tive return of pauperism, exhibiting- the number of paupers
throughout England and Wales, up to the close of the last
the past few months, it is observed tnar -rue
week in January exhibits a decrease of 4,13, as compared
with the last week of the past year, • 1858,• the other weeks
of the months show, as also the two first weeks of February,
a.fluetuatingincrease ; then, in the third -week of the latter
month, these showed again a decrease of 800 ; this in the
next week amounts to 1,074 ; and thus the decrease
goes on rapidly in the font- closing.' weeks of the
quarter, viz., in March, as follows : —First week, 6,355 ;
second. week, 5,957 ; third week, 3,170.; fourth .weeko
1,856: From a comparative table of pauperism, dur-
ing the•thret. Lady-day quarters of 1857,- 1858, and 1859,
the same decrease is conspicuous. k great increase
of pauperism, which the returns of the Pbor Law Board
prove- to have existedin the years 1856-,7; and 1857-8, were
mainly owing to the commercial disasters of -the autumn of
1857, and the divisions. which bore the chief pressure were
found to, contain the great seats of manufacture, but these
diitriets were now recovering from the distress of 1857, and
they Were somewhat better Off than in the corresponding
period' of 18'58. The metropolis for some time past exhibited
a steady diminution in pauperism, the decrease being very
marked, compared with the corresponding period of the two •
preceding years, as the closing week will show, the numbers
being for 1857, 111,253; for 1858 i 106,912; for 1859,
93,281
THE EFFECTS or "A DROP OYER "---A well-
.nown respected " pig dealer " of Long Sutton attended,
as usual, the Yeovil market on the 15th instant, and
doubtless, havinghad a good market, had indulged
somewhat too freely with " King Alchohol." But
lie 'finally arrived 'home safely and 'in season. On.
the following day it was discovered that he had lost
the no small sum of £236 from his pockets, princi-
pally in bank notes, which he had in his possession
after leaving Yeovil. Search was immediately set On foot,
and every inquiry made; every "nook" - and " corner'
thought of on the premises was .thoroughly ransacked. Bat
all to. no purpose. The missing, wealth could nowhere be
found:. Saturday was passedyery perplexingly to the whole
family, and on Sunday it was proposedby one of the relbatitviese
to renew the search on the premises, but was as:radii/bald
unfortunate man that it Wonld 1_)e• einrietec s. I
tioltecev'er seeino, it
given the money up as
-se rch was renewed by
again. However, nothing daunted,.
lasi some sieves hanging against
theproposing* partV. At _
• I cellar were taken down, when, lo !to their
the wall in t
astonishment, the missing purse. and its contents came
tumbling on the floor. With what pleasure the recovery of
the lost treasure wars regarded by. the family may be better
imagined than described. It. appears that in the evening
after the return from market the dealer, having an engage-
ment at a neighbour's house, and in order to provide for the
contingency of thirst by the. way, bethought him to, "wet
the other eye" from his own barrel, arid then took the
precaution of placing the money in the sieve for safe keeping,
and straightway forgot the circumstance.—Poling s.
AN EXCITING CHASE AT-Snx.---On Saturday evening, the
numerous parties promenading between Kempock and
Ashton were startled by the novel sight of a tug. steamer in
pursuit of s. small rowing boat, the hands in which seemed
pulling as if for their lives. It was evident to those on
shore that nothing short of running down the small boat
was contemplated by the parties on board the steamer, and
so, on she came closer and closer, till now. the little craft,
by this Aime nearing.the shore, was all but under the bows of
her pursuer, when the steamer, not daring to venture into-
shalloyer water 'af terbawling o!itsome fearful denunciations),
put about ship and, gave up the
bout containingenl) e.
three individuals, had reach3d the land.
To tumble out one. of these, and put offto. sea again, was
menhe ersou t
the work of a rne h • hastily landed,
p
dripping wet as. a water dog, turned- out to be a sea-
man belonging. to the AMeriCaß ship. G. B. Lamar,
bound for New York, which had: just a little before
this passed Kempock Point in tow of the very tug which
had caused all the alarm, and who• had thrown himself
overboard with the intention of swimming ashore.
After some ten or fifteen minutes in the water, how-
ever, the man was picked up and rowed on shore
t_hy
the yawl of a smack which was beating about at
asked
time, and hence the chase by the steamer. On beinsg, ',tll
what made him do such a rash act, the seaman 4;, and
mate of the Yankee ship had been beating hint cruelly,
hat
he would
that he had told the men in tho slclkb t
tooa
the ship again.
not take a thousand pounds to •go b small
whether, having got
`Whether this story was the tr_iiiee on
k d taken the first oppor-
his monthly pay in adyainx,
without' working for it, remains
tunity of deserting the shithep
attempt to escape was a dming
to be seen ; but certainly
; conducty in ordering the steamer to
one, and the captain'sand
(4,0 in pursuit of the fugitive,
throw off the still' nu
d and energetic.---.Yorth
was no leas deternPue