Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-17 00:00:00

THE 3.I&NCHESTER EXHIBITION.

The correspondent of a' London paper writes :—" After
reading some articles in the London papers on our exhibi.
bition I had the curiosity to refer to the returns of
the admissions, and I beg to hand you the
_result. In
round numbers the visits from the opening day to Satur;
day last, September the 12th, may be taken at 930,000
of these 217,000 were by season ticket holders, and
713,000 were by cash payments. To reduce these visits
to visitors, the 217,000 may, be represented by 14,000
which exceeds the ;number of season tickets ; and from
the best estimate I can obtain, I think we may take one-
third of the 713,000 as having been once, and the re
maining two-thirds twice ; this will make a total of
490,000 visitors. If the committee in their calculations
assumed that the masses would be attracted by the
Exhibition, they made a great mistake. We have not a
population within a reasonable distance who can be ex-
pected to appreciate it, and although one of our
newspaper editors started the theory that the study
of the ancient masters would interest and elevate
the masses, I think that few will be found to agree mith
him; it is like feeding infants with " strong meats"
To show what the masses can appreciate, I may state
that a firm, in Sheffield I think, sent their workpeople to
the Exhibition, and also made provisions for them having
refreshments there ; yet, notwithstanding this, in a short
time after reac*.g the building, few were to be foiled in
it, the bulk of them having gone to the Bellevue-gardens,
something like your Cremorne. ISTJr can this be wondered
at, the people were true to their instincts. One of our
papers attempt to rebut your making the money result
a test of its usefulness; but if the Exhibition is to have a
occai, auu aanougn it does
not necessarily follow that all are benefitted, yet still the
greater the attendance the greater are the chances of good
resulting, and this attendance can only be proved by the
money result. I should say anything that can only be
seen once should be in that locality where the maximum
of persona could see it in the minimum of time."

MELANCKOLY SUICIDE.—A. very melant,tholy case of
suicide has j occurred at Norwich, the victim being
Miss Cooper, matron of the Norfolk and Norwich Hos-
pital. It appears that on Saturday some little unpleasant-
oess took place between the thcetried and the board of
management. Oa Tuesday morning one of the servants
beard violent screams proceeding from her apartment, and
on going to it found the deceased in convulsions, suffering
great agony. It is thought she took some powerful poison.
This is the second matron of that establishment who has
destroyed herself from similar circumstances. Toe one
prior to the appointment of Allies Cooper drowned htiself
in one of the baths in a very determined manner.
Immix WATER FlLTZRi.—Since the people of Liver-
pool have had the Pike water crushed into their stomachs
several invtntians, in the shape of filters, hare ben intro-
duced to ar,ir notice—all, no doulY, good in their way,
and all claiming excellence. Without offering any opinion
on the merits of the inventors, we may be permitted to
remark that we have eareful'y examined the patent filter of
Mr. Saundev, of Parker-stteA, and the result of our
investigation may be shortly enumerated as 1 llows :—The
" Pike wash," in all its impurity, is put into one of these
filters. The water is dirty and yellow in colonr—thick
with all sorts of impurities at its introduethao. Having
passed through the filter. it is beautifully c'ear, indeed
brilliantly sparkling. We do not know what effect it has
on the quality of the water, but as to purifying it from all
deposit of vegetable and animal matter, and making it
cle,r as crystal, there can be no mistake, and in these
respects the filter cannot be too highly valued. The
vessel is simple in construction, but most tff:!ctive in
operaien, and we should say for domestic use it is of great
value. Clnsideting the advantages it possesses, the cost
is inconsiderable, and few families, if they saw the
improvement made in the water, would be without one of
these useful utensils.

A FACT RELATING TO THE POTATO DISEASE is we'l
known that most of the growing potatoes began to show
signs of disease in the early part of August, and in other
vpars the black spot no sooner appeared than thebl::c''enea
top followed in a day or two. This year, however, we have
had tha spot or blackened leaf for a month or more, and
yet the tops are not quite dean ; but there are several in-
stances where lateial green !hoots ;re making their appear-
ance. This shows that dry wca' her is the most co:geniol
to the potato pat, and that wlain th 3 cycle of dryer
sunamers re urns the potato__4lisease will leave us.

RE MARXABLE RUN OF BAD I. C. —A down-towu
merchant received a remittance from one of his c,rre-
spundent,;, in the share of a draft on the Ohio Life and
Trust Company for $3,000, on the very day on which that
institutiun closed its doors. lie immediately telegraphed
the fact to his debtor, who cent him another draft on
J.din Thompson, which arrived the day after the failure
of that broker. The merchant again telegraphed the
failure, and riceived in a few days another draft on At-
ico"d and Cu., just as that firm suspended.—American
Faper. _ _

DEGLIADAXJON OF AN AFRICAN CHIEF —At Cape C last
Castle, on the 29th June last, a native chief, Aframpon,
captain of Wampon, in Western %Yasuo, was &graded for
ordering a child to be buried alive. Be had been sen-
tenced to death, but at tho last moment was reprievel
The troops were drawn up in front of the Castle, a royal
salute was fired in honour of liar Majesty's accession, and
all the civil and military officers attended in fall state, with
a groat concourse of persons, to whom the gallows was an
appalltog novelty. The aged and trembling culprit was then
brought down born the prison, with a rope round his neck,
and agitated with fear of his impending fate. Tue Colonial
Secretary advanced in front of the fort, and read the
Governor's proclamltion reprieving Afframpon, but con-
demning him to be kep'; a close prisoner for some time, to
lodge a large suns of money for his future goo l conduct, and
to forfeit his honoars as chief or captain of Wampoa. Tao
chief listened to the proelaosa 100 in great agony, His
baton or chieftain's staff was then brokea over his head, his
sword was also broken, his stool and other insignia smashed,
and his dignity as a native ehief thus terminated, with
every mark of ignominy. The scene was painfa