The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-28 00:00:00

sengers of death, sent from these hot-beds of
mortality, must inevitably swell the numbers
who are cut off in other parts of the town.
What must be the sufferings, privations, and
filth of the great masses who inhabit that death-
stricken neighbourhood ? If human charity and
wisdom have abandoned their holy pursuits in
Vauxhall Ward, the higher authorities of the
land ought to see that the Corporate officials do
their duty to the community committed to their
care, as it is quite impossible to believe that such
a state of things could exist in a Borough pos-
sessing an ample staff of sanitary officials to
attend to the wants of poor and densely crowded
districts, as well as to those inhabited by the
rich.

FUNERAL OF THE EARL OF ELLESMERE.—The
mortal remains of the late Earl of Ellesmere, were
on Thursday interred in the family vault at Worsley
Hall. Most of the members of the family and the
mourners arrived at the hall, yesterday. The
procession left the hall, where the deceased had
been laying in state, at twelve o'clock, in the
following order :—The three sons of the deceased ;
the Hon. Mr, Byng, son-in-law ; his Grace the
Duke of Sutherland ; the Marquis of Westminster,
brother in-law to the deceased ; the Hon. Mr.
Greville, brother-in.law; the Marquis of Stafford,
the Earl Grosvenor, Lord Edward Howard, Lord
Enfield, Lord Robert Grosvenor, MT., the House-
hold of the deceased Earl, the Private Chaplain
and the Clergy, the Physician to the family ; one
hundred of the tenants, two abreast ; seventy
Bridgewater Canal Agents, two abreast—making
in all about 250 persons. The coffin was of
polished oak, with brass nails, and massive gilt
handles, with coronets. The arms of the Earl
surmounted the plate, with the following inscrip-
tion :—" Francis Egerton, Earl Ellesmere, K.G.,
Born January 1, 1800. Died February 18, 1857,
aged 57 years."

EAST INDIAN SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH VIA THE
RED SEA.—We understand there is a project, sup-
ported by. very influential names, under the above
title, for establishing a telegraph to India in con-
tinuation of the system of telegraphs decided upon
by the English Government for the Mediterranean,
and which is to terminate at Alexandria. The
proposal is to lay a number of wires across
Egypt and down the Red Sea to Aden, whence
they will run parallel to the south coast
of Arabia, and terminate at Kurrachee, to
which the Indian telegraphs extend. Complete
powers have been very lately obtained from the
Ottoman and Egyptian governments for the above
purpose, and the conditions secure completely
independent action on the part of the company, of
the governments through whose territory the
line is to pass, and are in every respect most
favourable. The stations are so chosen that
490 statute miles is to be the greatest
distance between any two of them, and
they will be at places where there is a
military force, such as Kosseer and Jiddah, or on
British territory, as Aden and the Kooria Mooria
Islands lately ceded to us, or on the territory of
the Imaum of Muscat, who is our close ally, at
Rasil Hadd. The Red Sea is the regular commercial
route, is free from any danger of interruption, and
our influence on it has been so completely estab
lished that, irrespective of the security afforded
by the stations themselves, no possible danger
of interruption can arise. Our steamers will
be able to receive and seni instantaneous news
at Aden and Suez. Complete charts and sound-
ings, taken under the orders of the East India
Company, exist all the way from Suez to Kurra-
chee, and across Egypt a railway and highway
exist, so that the only thing to beldone, is to manu-
facture the cable in England and to lay it in
latitudes where the winds are temperate and
steady ten months of the year, taking as a guide
the existing soundings. The proposed line will
excite no political jealousies, and the cost of pro-
tection may be said to be nil. The cOmmnnication
from Kurrachee to Alexandria sill, by means of
relay batteries, be instantaneous.

The Turin papers record with some satisfaction
the revival of the carnival in that city. On Sunday
last the Corso of Turin was crowded, notwith-
standing the weather was rather unfavourable ;
and several clever masquerades were remarked,
including one of upwards of forty Bedouins on
horseback, who delighted the public with their
agility in casting the lance, recovering lit, and
practising various feats of horssmanship. Upon
ettquiry, it was found that these Bedouins included
many officers of the army, and the sons of some of
the first families in the city. The balls and
theatres were largely attended in the evening.

Al Salles, arquebusier to the Emperor Napoleon,
has invented a postoffice automaton, which takes
up every letter as it is thrown into the box, places
it under the stamp, where it receives the post mark
and date, and throws it out again for delivery to its
destination. The process indicates the number of
letters thus stamped. It is said that no less than
200 letters may be stamped by this machine in one
minute. The General Postoffice has made a trial
of the invention, which has turned out satisfactory,
and it is now in treaty with M. Salles for machines
to be furnished to all the principal postoffices
throughout France. The illegibility of post marks,
so often complained of, will, it is said, be com-
pletely obviated by the use of the automaton.

The highwayman who shot at Mr. Ovenden is believed
to be in Liverpool, and there is every reason to believe
that he will be caught.
The Governor of Latakia has stationed 150 soldiers four
miles along the coast, to protect property from the wreck
of the St. Andrew (as).
ACCIDENT.—Yesterday a shipwright, employed in the
Sandon graving dock, accidentally fell from a vessel, and
received some very severe contusions. He was immediately
taken to his own house, where every assistance was rendered
him.

SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday morning, about 5 o'clock,
Joseph Fatikerly, aged 22, a bar man in the public house
of Mr. Robert Davies, of 2, Stanhope street, Park, was
found dead in bed. He had been taking some medicine.
An inquest will be held on the body this day.
" LEARNED IGNORANCE."—Under this head we inserted a
paragraph in our paper of yesterday, from which our readers
would infer that a lecture on that subject had been delivered
by the Rev. E. Paxton Hood, on Thursday night. Such was
not the ease, however. That gentleman delivers his lecture
at the Liverpool Institute on Tuesday next.
THE BIRKENHEAD STRlKE.—Yesterday morning a de-
taehment of infantry arrive 1 from Manchester, in order to
preserve the pone of the town. The men still continue
out on strike, but behave in a peaceable manner. We did
not hear of any disturbance having taken place, therefore it
is much to he hoped that the presence of the infantry may
act as a check upon those who appeared to be turbulently
disposed.
OPENING OF THE NEW PETTY SESSIONS, AT WOOLTON.
—lt will be remembered that, by a late order of the
Kirkdale Qaarter Sessions, it was resolved to contitute
a new petty sessional district, comprising Much and
Little Woolton, Spoke, Hale and Halewood, Childwall,
Wavertree, Allerton, &c. The magistrates for the dis-
trict assembled yesterday in the Mechanics' hall, at Wool-
ton, and held their first court. J. I. Bleckburne, Esq,
presided ; and the other magistrates present were Major
Bourne, Thomas Edwards Moss, Spencer J. Steers,
Richard Alison. Theodore W. Rathborie, Robert Neilson,
and Robert Rocha, Esqrs. The routine for subsequent
meetings was agreed upon, and it was resolved that a
petty sessions should be held at Weolton on the first
Friday, and at Wavertree on the tt!ird Friday of every
month. Mr. William Cross, solicitor, of Prescot, was
appointed clerk. George Filliogham, a youth about
fifteen years of age, servant to Mr. Hamer, of the Woolton
Hotel, was brought up en a charge of stealing six six-
pences from the till of the hotel, and also stealing a silk
dress belonging to Mrs. Hamer. It appeared that money
having been frequently missed, Mr. Hamer had suspected
some of his servants of dishonesty, and sent for Inspector
placed Green. He marked some sixpences, and them in
the drawer. They were missed on the following morning,
and the officer found three of the sixpences in the pockets
of the prisoner. His box was then searched, and a silk
gown, belonging to Mrs. Hamer, found. The prisoner was
remanded till next court day (Friday next,)