Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-24 00:00:00

Gibraltar Exchange on London, at 90 days date, 51k.

We understand that the steam tag Resolute has beets ,
engaged to tow the Peninsular and Orieatal SteamshiP
Company's steamer Malta, from Gravesend to this port.
It has been stated that the performance of the Resolute
on her recent trips gave such satisfaction, that the above
preference was given to her for this important occasion.
ACCIDENTAL DEATHS —On Saturday morning a man,
name unknown, fell from a ship in the Bramley-Moore
Dock, and, although got out as quickly as possible, life
was extinct. On Friday evening a man, named David
Jones, a wool porter, in the employment of Messrs.
Phillips and Co., was engaged in a warehouse in College-
lane, when he fell out of a window into the street, and
coming on his head, he was dreadfully ijured. Ea was
taken to the Northern Hospital, where ho died on
Saturday from the effecle of the fall.

Among the arrivals from the Groat Britain on Saturday►
not the least interesting and novel is a small collection of
Actioire or sea anemones, brought alive by our townsman
Samuel Archer, Esq, , of Rodney-street, surgeon to the Great
Britain, by whom they were collected at Hobson's Bay and
St. Vincent's, and who has most liberally presented them to
the Free Public Museum, where they will be exhibited in
the aquarium. We beleive this to be the first importation
of the kind, and that the specimens will prove entirely
new to science.

PASSENGERS PER R.M,S. EUROPA FROM BOSTON AND
HALIFAX TO LIVERPOOL.—Mrs. Gray, two children and
nurse, Mr. and Mrs. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. Motley, WOO
Motley and two children, Dr. J. Warren, Mr. Otis Wright,
Mr. E. Pranker, Rev. Miren Winslow and wife. Mr. A.
Robertson, Mr. J. Azurian, Mr. and Mrs. Playlet Mr. and
Mrs. Whitehead, two children and servant, Mr. and WO.
Aitkin, Mr. and Mrs. Wrinch, Mr. E. S. Berquamini,
A. S. Jacobs, Mr. and Mrs. Malley, Mr. J. J. Ms,suarYl
Mr. and Mrs. Porteus, Mr. and Mrs. J. Napier, Mr. J.
Wilson, Col. Gordon, iss Gordon, Messrs. A. Russell,
C. Holland, C. B. acob, G. E. Brain, Charles Brains
J. Weeks, N. Finks, C. Orr, J. Miller, 0. Miller, CresslY,
Symes, Captain Russell, Captain Campbell, Miss Lindell,
MessilP. Crowder, Morreesy, M‘Leod, Burke.
LIST OF PASSENGERS PER SCREW STEAMER CIRCASSIAA
FROM ST. JOHN'S' NEWFOUNDLAND, TO LIVIIRFOOL.—""
Judge Lesßarres, Mrs. Lesßarres, Miss Lesßarres,
Edward Lesßarres, Mrs. and the three Misses Emerson
Mr. Thomas Fleming, Mr. John Callender, Dr. Dalton,
Bishop of Carbonear; Catherine M'Creadf and infant.
—From Portland, Maine : Mrs. and Miss Searewrights-
Messrs. Thomas, and Wm. Garnett, Marcus Mart, Rev. gr.
Hoppin, Mr. Matthews, lady, and child, Mr. Samuel Bateg,
Miss Catherine Welsh, Mrs. Halford, Mrs. Strafford and
child, Miss Gleason, Mrs. Chancey, Miss M. A. Thomas,
the Bishop of Toronto (Dr. Com)n), Mrs. Lefevre, Mrs
Miles, Mr. T. Libby, Mr. Garrett, Mr. J. S.
Clark and daughter, Dr Hodder, Mr. Maeballime,
Messrs. P. H. Webber, E. J. Webber, G. Crawford IVI.
Doyle, Miss G. Brittin, Mr. A. Dunn, Mrs. M. Daley'
Miss M. Shaw, Messrs. Szneaton, T. Hartley, E. Dobson;
W. Mance, G. Dickharrett, W. Daskin, D. Ward and
wife, J. Simpson, D. Fawley and wife, Mrs. M. Wheeler
and child, Mrs. Milk and child, Miss R Philips, 3lessrs.
W. Cunningham, R Balion, J. McEldereney, A. Camp' •
bell and family, M,!ssrs. Ranstcll, P. Kane, J. Frost, S.
Quinn, C. D Jackson, J. Denniscomb, Miss M. A. Denis'
comb, Messrs. J. Buckley, .Macballim, Mitchell, Thos.
Also. —From Halifax, Nova Scotia : Miss Hill, Miss Grace
Hill, Mrs. Archibald, the Misses Archibald, Mr, John'
Cumers, Mrs. M. Cumers, Mr. Patrick Norris, Mice
Esther Kenrahan, Miss M. Kenrahan, iss Bridget Doyle'

CURIOUS FACTS It"LATING TO LACTATION.—Dr. Dela-
fund read an interesting paper to the Academy of Sciences
on the production cf milk in animals, incl,psndently of
those circumst inces under which nature usually prepares
and provides that important nutriment fur the newly born
offspring. Hia.ory records many Eingniur cases of male
animals said to have yielded milk. In the Island of Lent-
Tins, according to AriAotle, there lived a lactiferous ram,
from the milk of which small cheeses used to be made, and
another raw, claiming descent from the former, was quite
as lactiferous as bis sire. But, without diving so far into
antiquity, we may state that in 1845, Arens. Van Coppauel,
presented the Garden of Plants a h a he-goat, which would
furnish per day a litre (1i) pints of very good milk, pos-
sessing all the chemical qualities and ingredients, pertaining.
to that liquid. This he-goat continued to do so for the long
space of five years, during which time M. Goffroy do St.
Hilaire paid particular attention to it. It once suckled a
kid that had lost its dam, and displayed great affection for
it. Margagni was the first to discover, upwards of s
century ego, that a few drops of milk might be pressed
from the nipples of new-born infants, whether male or
female. This lactation, which is now a well-authenticated
fact, occurs on the second day after birth, and lasts
until the thirtieth. Bandelotque relates of a girl eight
years of age, who having accidentally, and only in play,
offered her breast to an infant a few months old, the
latter began to suck, and to the surprise of the
mother, actually drew from her a sufficient quantity of
milk, an experiment which was subsequently repeated
several times. At St. Louis, Senegal, young negro virgins
have often been seen to give the breast to their infant
brothers and sisters. M. de Humbaldt mentions the
case of a man he h ad seen in Ameriea, who suckled his chile,
for the space of five months, during the illness of his wife;
an t D Au zias Terenua speaks of a young Arab`who studied
at P Iris in 1845. and from whose nipples milk could be
( xtracted. This Arab is still alive, and is at the present a
physician in Egypt. M. Delafond,s personal observations
chiefly relate to the canine species, where this faculty 01
lactation, wholly independent of gastation, appears to be
general. M. Delafond exhibited a bitch, which had expe it
bad all the various symptoms of lactation just as if
bad had puppies, and which subsequently suckled one of
another bree I successfully ; the little nurse'ing having to'
creas-d about a kilogramme in weight in 24 days (the saline
increase as may be expected in a child of that age).

WHA.T is COMING to LIVERPOOL on the
31st instant ?—Why,
THE GREATEST NOVELTY IN THE WORLD
WHERE IS IT TO BE SEEN?
THAT'S THE QUESTION.