Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-20 00:00:00

TO THE ELECTORS OF VAUXHALL WARD

GENTLEMEN,
AVING been requested by a Deputation, repre-
senting a numerous and influential portion of the
onstituency of your Ward, to offer myself as a CANDIDATE
at the ensuing Election, I have consented to place my services
at your disposal.
Actively engaged as I have been for thirty-six years in
earryLug on a business which has necessarily brought me ery
much into connection with many of the electors resident in
your ward, I feel that I do not come before you wholly
unknown.

I have no hesitation in avowing myself friendly to those
political principles which, while avoiding rash and hasty
changes, would carefully reform every proved abuse in the
State; and if elected to a seat in the Municipal Council of my
native town, I should endeavour faithfully to carry out the
same views in relation to our Idbal affairs, while I would do so
in no party spirit, acting to the best of my judgment for the
good of the whale community.'
I would advocate a strict economy in the management and
disposal of the finances-of the CorporatiOn.
I would support the formation of public parks accessible to
the population of the several wards, and am favourable to
every measure conducive to the health and well-being of the
people.
Should you do me the honour to elect me as one of your
representatives in the Town Council, I would endeavour to
the best of my ability to discharge the important duties which
would in that event devolve upon me.—l am, gentlemen,
your faithful servant, SAMUEL CEARNS.
Chapel-street, Liverpool, Sept. 30, 1859.

TO THE ELECTORS OF PITT-STREET WARD.
GENTLEMEN,
r HAVE been honcured with a Requisition, most
numerously and respectably signed, by persons holding
di erent religious and political opinions, requesting that I
would allow myself to be again put in nomination at the ensuing
Municipal Election, on the Ist of November, to represent you
in the Town Council.
To that request I most cheerfully comply. It is nearly nine
years since you first elected me, during which period I have
endeavoured to promote aid support such measures as to the
best of my judgment would conduce to the welfare of your im-
portant Ward, and the Town in general,
Should I have the honour of being re-elected as one of your
RepreSentatives, my utmost exertions shall be used, not only
in endeavouring to have the Improvenients that have been
commenced in this Ward brought to a satisfactory completion,
but also to carry out other improvements that are much
needed.
Thanking you for the confidence so long reposed in me,
I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant,
WALTER P. JEFFREYS.
St. James's-terrace, St. James's-road, October 12, 1859.

JOHN RIGBY, Chairman.
JOHN RIMMER, Vice Chairman.
WILLIAM GARDNER, 1 Hon. sees,
RICHARD LEE,

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FAMILIES OF SOLDIERS SERVING IN INDIA.—Th. 3
Euxine, of 1,082 tons, Captain William Malcolmson,
belonging to Messrs. L. H. Maeintyre and Co., of
Liverpool, chartered by her Majesty's Emigration
Commissioners, under directions from the Horse Guards,
sailed from Southampton on the 14th inst. for Madras,
with five married couples, 205 married women, four
single -men, five single women, 133 boys between the
ages of one and twelve, 102 girls between the same
ages, and three male infants—making a total of 462
souls, equal to 3411 statute adults, under charge of
surgeon superintendent Clarence Chapman, aided by
the services of a suitable matron and a few married
soldiers, who will act as constables during the voyage.
The passengers consisted of the wives and children of
the soldiers belonging to the 12th Lancers, the Ist and
3rd battalions, and the Ist, 60th, 66th, and 68th Regi-
ments now servin€, in India, from whom they have been
separated since the breaking out of the mutiny.
CONVICTION OF A LEEDS StIRGEON FOR HORSE-
STEALING.—At Hasting's Quarter Sessions, on the 14th
instant, one of the cases for trial was that of John
D. Hepworth, sixty-two years of age, a surgeon
of Pudsey, and formerly of Hunslet-lane, Leeds,
who was charged with feloniously taking away and
stealing a gelding, of the value of £3O, the pro-
perty of Mr. F. Toad, of St. Leonard's. The pri-
soner pleaded guilty ; and, on being asked by the
Recorder (W. W. Attree, Esq.) if he had anything
to say, read a statement which set forth that it
was with shame and confusion of face that he
stood in -so degrading a position; that he had been a
graduate of Cambridge ; had practised as a surgeon ;
had suffered from congestion of the brain ; had become
an habitual opium eater in consequence of his
malady; had lost practice in his profession; was at
times in a state of mind not knowing what he did ;
had a, sister six years in an asylum ; had had a family
of more than twenty children ; was 62 years of age,
and 300 miles from home ; had come to Hastings to
improve his health; had delivered a lecture in Mr.
Barks's school-room, which was attended by only a few
persons ; and was in needy circumstances.—The prisoner
again admitted his guilt, and in the most abject and
piteous manner, by which several persons were moved
to tears of compassion, beseeched the Recorder to con-
sider his age and infirmity, and to have mercy upon
him.—The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to be con-
fined in her Majesty's House of Correction at Lewes,
and kept to hard labour, for the space of eight calendar
months.
DEATH OF SIR THOMAS GRANT.—We have to record
the death of Sir Thomas Tassell Grant, K.C.8., and
F.R.S., late Controller of the Victualling and Transport
Service in the Admiralty. He entered the public ser-
vice at the Admiralty 47 years ago, and after passing
through several grades was, in 1828, appointed store-
keeper at the Clarence Victualling-yard, Gosport. In
1829 he devised the well-known steam machinery for the
manufacture of biscuit, which effects a saving to the
country amounting annually to £30,000. Afterwards
he constructed a new lifebuoy, a feathering paddle-
wheel, so contrived as to get rid of the action of the
back water on the floats, and about the year 1839
the patent fuel which bore his name, and which is
largely used in the steam marine. Lastly, he applied
his mind to achieving the long-desired object of
distilling fresh water from the sea. By the invention
which he made the sanitary and moral condition of
the navy has been greatly advanced. The papers
laid before parliament on the subject of the distilling
apparatus contain a report from the Commander-in-
Chief of the Baltic fleet, stating that in "three months
eleven ships distilled upwards of 4,700 tons of
water, and that it was impossible to speak too highly
of so useful an invention;" and the Wye was expressly
fitted up with the distilling apparatus, and sent to the
Crimea to assist in supplying fresh water to our tran-
sports and troops. This vessel alone was capable of
producing upwards of 10,000 gallons of fresh water
daily. It was under the unexampled pressure then cast
upon this department that his health gave way, and
early last year he was obliged to relinquish his post. He
expired at Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, at the com-
cl:,iioatlpeatro-
paratively early age of 64.
nt
POOR RATES AND PAUFBRISM.-011C of the numerous
parliamentary returns relating to this subject was pub-
ishes in England ernent/ntaPirnern
maintain, their own poor ; returns of pauperism are re-
ceived weekly in respect of 14,421 of that number ; 288
parishes, incorporated under Gilbert's Act, oi still under
lished. onusday.andThrweraelews
the provisions of the 43rd Elizabeth, make uo return of
the number of paupers which they relieve.

OCTOBER 20, 1859

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Mn.MR. STErHENSON AND RAILWAYS—In conversali
with a gentleman hi- Newcastle (says the— ITeieeastle
Chronicle) a short time before ,his death, Mr. Robert
Stephenson said that the 'cost :of the railway lines io
-whose construction he had been officially engaged was
about £800,000,000 sterling •
.
A CAUTIOUS WITNESS.—One of the witnesses at the
certain man was married, cautiously answered,
Glasgow Circuit Court on Thursday, *hen: asked if 8
him to. be living with a woman whom they call his wife;
wife or
but for Myself, I don't know whether she is his
not, as I never saw them married.--Ahercleen Herald.'
th t
A NEW DRILL.—The Allgemeine Zeitung saYs
a new drill has been introduced among the Austria
ni
riflemen; founded on great activity and rapiditY °
movement, and results in a closer formation of the hoe:
On firing, each man springs forward with a roogiliff
step, but in a stooping attitude, and throws hiolti,
down on the ground to load, the man. behind
hiui
lowing his example.
7 .111
THE CHOLERA AT Wicn.—The John 0' Groat d.orn.i.
states that since *Wednesday last there have bee
deaths, all of them occurring on the Wick side of tr
river. The deaths bear a large proportion to the
number of people who have been ill. At present there.
are two serious cases of illness in Pulteney-tel,
The total number of deaths since the appearance ef
disease is now twenty-one, eighteen of which 113
occurred in the town.
FOUR CR.OPS OF CHERRIES IN ONE SIIHME%---
111/'
tc knovt
Morelia cherry tree, in the garden of George Fun' ea
husbandman, at Wardsbrook, has bloomed and produc.o
fruit four times this year, as follows :--First blossoic.oalst
April, and first crop 2nd July; second crop in -81110
from blossoms in June; third crop in October lot
blossoms in August; and the warm days lately reslve
have produced blossoms, and cherries are farmed. n,
third crop were "butter ripe" and exhibited last .1°
day.—Brighton Observer.
It is expected that the bridge over the Rhine at Sr;
burg will be shortly opened to the public ; and, Paris
that great work is accomplished, the-journey from
to Vienna will be made in thirty-four hours. Tle,„.r've
which leaves Paris at seven in the morning, will ;rely
at Munich at five the following morning ; and the;":1, at
ing mail, which quits Paris at eight, will on-ro'
• Munich at six the following afternoon. The Pifttee°
from Paris to. Stuttgart will be performed in

hours. •
SUICIDE AND GAMBLING.—A melancholy
stance has just happened at Hamburg A Freae'llack
who had been playing for some time with the usn3ilost it
of all gamesters, put down his last napoleon, aa,,dand
like the rest. He drew- a pistol out of his Vae'e-ait It
blew his brains out whilst sitting at the fatal tr:" ot-
quarante table. The people that are generallyldtbe
tendance threw a cloth over his face, and orrieo.oo
wretched man out, life being quite extinct, and the cod.
proceeded as if nothing had occurred !—Court 0.
HINT TO POTATO GROWERS TO REMEDY DPt:ibe
—After selecting the best tubers, expose 0101000 e
air, sheltered from the rays of the sun, till they "
free
thoroughly dry ; then bring them into a roalies of
from frost, and completely cover them with dry
peat or mineral coal. Plant the seed thus Pre,— oil
without being cut, in separate, well-prepare",,,' 011
deeply cultivated ground; properly drained. —jar
which has furnished several crops since last niabolii
will be the best for this purpose, Lind no manure saiicl is
now be applied. Repeat this process annually; ;fleas
a few years a perfect cure may be expected.-----''
A9ArNicouTltHuEraullteNl:CrtENT CONVICT.-.—Besides the late °gl
of the captain of the Senator, from St. Ifeleaa'flanie'
pardon has been granted to a foreign sailor/ '
Tililiton Garai, a Spaniard, who was tried at :011'
Liverpool Assizes for the murder of Mr. l'ir•farDse;
and convicted of manslaughter, for which AU' viniae.
Watson sentenced him to six years' penal ser cocei
The Spanish Consul, still convinced cf his ianc.'tii the
pursued his inquiries with unabated zeal, and o'2ooo.
aid of a local solicitor, Mr. Brady), obtained "iid
proofs that the man was a victim to perjurY, 3_, eV
innocent ; and on appeal to the Home Secretari
free pardon resulted.
have had I.4i[
THE CRACK IN BIG EN.—YOU
letters suggesting the introduction of a saw into taftii,e,
made in Big Ben, and the separation of the lips to'oi t!
wound. Some years ago, the tenor bell of a fa,
eight in the tower of Christ Chinch, Macelesfieti fe::,
binrcohtn.upTthheefrbacetllu.re
The
through the aulln-dertot;e
notion that
,if the jarring could be prevented the,. tbie
would return, caused a piece to be cut out, alh°llp3l;
course of the fracture, a full quart?r of au ine,' toe;
The attempt, however, was a total failure. T'le t fall"
gone, and the bell can only be used for tolling 3 11, tbe
rals, and is inaudible a few hundred yards
tower.—Letter from Macclesfield in The Times. iTbe
AUSTRALIA.— PLYMOUTH, Tuesday EYedi—critr6o
shin Dover Castle, Captain John Adams, beloafoot.
Messrs. Green, of London, 89 days from Meinboeaoe:
the Start, was off this port to-day, with 83,0'..,„ec
of gold dust, 100,000 sovereigns, a cargo of cel4.oagero
black sand, wool, and hides, and 140 eolitlti.er
among whom are. the Baron and Baroness 1)001,
Prussia, and Commander Jessie, R.N. I„elst,th
Castle sailed July 20, rounded-Cape-Horn 50."10,
and crossed the Line September 15. la d soate,!o
Pacific northerly winds were experienced,
_aar,. the Pie,
mense icebergs were-observed. -AfterPas,'ll„Velikesiell
calms prevailed. Spoke—lat. 10-S., the sail' wiiico,lo,
outward bound; 10 N., the ship Yorksllire'eneer''
Melbourne July 30, with some gold and Pastoi7ottbe
the latitude of the Azores, the barque Bea izar ,
Glasgow, and, three degrees south of the u
gof,
it
ship Adept, both outward bound.
THE REFUGEE QUESTION IN JERSEY•'-,1„1 CO,
Court of Jersey, on Saturda, Mr. Bcnjaall"elogg:ile(
brought up from the Police-court on theii.s.ierceici
having returned to the Island without Per'pee"Tlie
having been expelled in 1855, by order of "4 or. 04
Major-General Love, then Lieutenant-Crover 04e
report of Mr. Centenier De La Mare wagira
, AdCoba,
also the decision of the Police-court. •Lur;4l. load
Godfray appeared for M. Colin, and said y 0 001'
aftei having been expelled, remained alr"tGoce 01'
as General Love was here as Lieutenaa
One of the reasons of the order for the esPadi3talsoi,
Colin was, that his presence was likely t° o. 0'
friendly relations between the two crovernme nestf' ad,
aro .$11; t
this reason having been set aside -bby
Cohn thought he might safely return tah.eb titre.
He will, however keep to his first plea, vi lbsfilY'ote
his arrest is Centenier De La Mare he arr
fused to tell him why, and by whose order4ited., ale
him." After a long discussion, the Court r`ti boa,lo', oe
.their return, after about three quarters at. an Coallerder
Greffier read the judgment, which discharp oe
the ground that Centenier De La Mar!, yeruor•
for seizing him from the Lieutenant-lie, aPP oao
reading of this judgment was followed by gr. TV
The Attorney-General demanded an aPPegi Os' at
-aa. C ,
fcroauyrstairdefnasoeacippteoaelnwteasthailnlowtheed ignacesrti.
question
at pres'
Jersey Independent of Monday.

5
BIRTH.
East,
tic o'4 ' 0 I •
On the 18th instant, at 60, Oxford-street
V. Lewis, professor of music, of a daughter- „oft,
fie' 1,
• MARRIAGES. V101:.,IPt:,
On the 13th instant, at St. Pancras, I,ond°n' of IP-f P
eldest son of the late William Dentith, Esq",,liter ° ,f,
Manchester, to Isabella Charlotte, eldest da"
,5uf,,,,,
Gibson, Esq., of Baulogne-sur-Mer, France- estall iR.,„,
ch, 17 toWP'llr4
•On the 13th instant, at the parish abut' . 5, ~,i,
Mare, Somerset, by the Rev. Edward Poole, ,13:001010 0'
Marrett, eldest son of Mr. Alderman Webb, 01 late I arS'
Bristol, to Emily, second daughter of the oe to
Bramhall, Esq., of Sneed Park, Westbury', , odoa.kart;:o,
instant,Esrio f
eldOenstthseonl7tohf inssirtanitienaryt th;eßdainvgaraiettAChoacP„oenlsl,b'ourcal'iall" v
Augusta, only child of Edward Clavering, .1) ' 11)Ptie,
t Pe o' •
tie, Northumberland. /yes, ceacedgll
theO nittehve.lBEththvinasrtdannt,oabtertthse
3pia.riAs„h
icnheuurneh„,':at, :elca:a. d (i'vtt,
Henryon
theß olo,steh,
ter of David Evans, Esq., solicitor, of the s. `'iltoiet,a'brfor
f Cre" of reDv
Paris, by the Rev. J. Nadin, incumbent 0 ig.p.„. oe
in-law to the bride, William Stewart, Esq d, '''''
atthisstt:o:finc,htaoeiEllen :.`,,, plaev ~Aer
folk, to Eliza Jane, daughter of Hilton Ilalhea liP
,a_irite" ~,, to..at,
Ldeivnetrpool.
Commissioner of that colony-
DEATHS. Q, .." L.
On the 20th July, at her house in Adelaid, ' )Irhs:%;o4:llbei4V'
aged 90, in steadfast Christian faith and PeAte,:erfOr .0.0
son, mother of Colonel Gawler, fait
- br-to
On the 14th instant, at his residence, Der
Alfret°'
‘..,1,101'
aged 61 years, Gervase Cressy Hall, Esq- wife of '
On the 17th instant, at Ambleside, Mary,
f,
Henry Lutwidge, R. , rio.,Ao
Fro. calroo,,
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