The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-21 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.

DEFORM MR. COMMISSIONER STEVENSON.
In re M'LARTY AND Co.—Yesterday was fixed for the
certificate meeting. Mr. Fletcher appeared to oppose on
behalf of the assignees, and Mr. Danson, instructed by
Messrs. Duncan and Squarey, to oppose on behalf of Mr.
Alexander Denny, of Dumbarton, and Messrs. Ami, Bost,
and Co.; of Glasgow, creditors ; Mr. Aipinall, instructed
by Air. E. Banner, appeared for Mr. Lamont ; Mr.
Almond, for Mr. M‘Larty ; and Mr. John Yates, jun., for
Mr. M'Kean. The sitting was spent in the examination
of Mr M Kean, Mr. Lamont, and Mr. Bost, by Mr. Danson,
and the meeting stands adjourned to twelve o'clock this day
(Thursday).

Perrenoud, a Swiss banker, who has just died at
La• Sagne, in the Canton of NeVchatel, at the age of
eighty-two, has left 100,000 f. for the construction of an
hospital, and 47,500 f, to other charitable establiehments in
that town.
BELGIAN CUSTOMS 11111FORN.—It is announced that the
Belgian government contemplate a revisement of the lava
and regulations bearing on the importation of foreign
goods into Belgian. The object is to assimulate their sys-
tem as nearly as possible to that now in operation in this
country, under the Customs Consolidation Act.
We read in a letter from Calcutta News has been
received of a most successful expedition on the frontier.
The Bozdars, a tribe of Belooches occupying the hills near
Peshawur, have been giving trouble. A force of 1,500
men was sent against them. In three days it entered
their fastness, threaded a pass deemed impregnable,
ascended the first range of the Suleimans, stormed all the
hill stockades, and reduced a tribe some 15,000 strong to
absolute submiss-on. The loss in killed and wounded
on our side was about sixty."
Tile ISTHMUS OP SUEZ CANAL.—The following letter
has been addressed to M, de Lesseps.—" Chamber of Com-
merce Dublin, May 11, 1857. Sir,—l am directed by the
council of this chamber to express to you their acknow-
ledgement for the interesting exposition of your views,
with which you favoured them this morning, on the sub-
ject of the projected ship canal through the Isthmus of
Suez. The council are deeply sensible of the important
advantages to the interests of commerce and civilisation
which that project presents ; and they consider that, pro-
vided means can be adopted to secure the perfect neutrality
of the canal, and to insure a moierate rate of charges on
vessels passing through, and a perfect impartiality in its
management, it will be eminently entitled to commercial
support.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient
servant, Francis Codd, hon. sec."

MURDZROUS ASSAULT UPON A POLICEMAN, NUR BRAD-
ponn.—On Saturday, three Irishmen, named Patrick
Mahon, Thomas Kelly, and Patrick Dearney, were
charged with having brutally assaulted Police Sergeant
Slingsby, of Windhill, near Bradford, and then throwing
him into the canal. The three men, with another not yet
in custody, were tipsy, and seen .by Slingsby cruelly beat-
ing a boat horse, at the canal side, and when he remon-
strated with them he was at once knocked doWn by Kelly,
and then thrust into thecanal, and had not the boatman come
to his assistance with a bar of iron for a weapon, the men
would have prevented him from getting out. He, how-
ever, struggled from the water, and with the assistance
which then came to him, he was enabled at the moment to
apprehend Kelly, and the other two were captured in the
course of the day (Friday). They were each committed
for two months for the assault on the constable, and two
months for their cruelty to the horse—in all foar months.
THE TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.—on Saturday, the
United States steam-ship, the Niagara, dropped down the
river to the moorings at East Greenwich, and shortly ber
Majesty's ship Agamemnon, 91 guns, will coma round
from Portsmouth, and take her moorings there, to ship the
submarine telegraph to be laid down in the Atlantic Ocean
to connect the continents of America and Europa. The
length of cable to be put on board each veaael exceeds
1,300 miles ; it will take upwards of six weeks to depcsit
the cable in the ship's holds. According to presant arrange.
ments, her Majesty's ship Agamemnon and the United
States frigate Niagara will icave the Thames about the
first week in July, in company with her Majesty's ship
Cyclops, and will proceed to the latitude midway between
the west coast of Ireland and Newfoundland. here the
ends of the cable on board each ship will be joined, the
Agamemnon wi I then return towards the coast of Ireland,
and the Niagara will bold on her course to the shores
of Newfoundland, both ships paying out the submarine
cable as they increase the distance between them, and
maintaining constant telegraphic communication with each
other to prove that the cables remain intact ; and within
six days after the ships separate, should no accident occur,
telegraphic communication will be open betweeen the two
twtinents.