Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-21 00:00:00

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lations of the Convention of Paris. The Unionist
party had concocted a plan, the Constantinople
journals state, for electing M. Nicolas Golesco in
both provinces, but when they found that M.
Couza had been successful in Moldavia, they sub-
stituted, his name. The French steam advice boat
Salamandre had left Constantinople for Alexandria,
.carrying an Imperial firman sanctioning the
execution of thirty of the sanguinary rioters at
Djeddah. The Porte had been also applied to, to
levy an extraordinary contribution of 900,000 f. on
the town as a punishment for the massacre ; but
no order to that effect has been sent out by the
Salamandre. A few months ago the Porte ordered
surveys to be made for the draining of the ex-
tensive plain of Broussa, which, but for the fevers
prevailing there, would be an inexhaustible source
of agricultural wealth. These surveys having
been completed, the Porte has imposed on Broussa
a contribution of two millions of piastres for the
expense of the draining operations, of which that
town will derive the principal advantages.
The steamer Arabia arrived here yesterday from
Boston, with three days later news, which,
however, contains nothing of stiking or, indeed,
of more than ordinary interest. A full summary
will be found in another column.
A somewhat curious trial in connection with
the press took place in the Court of Queen's Bench
on Friday. Mr. Woods, who was formerly one of
the staff of the Morning Herald, made an arrange-
ment with the proprietors of that journal to go on
board the Agamemnon and describe the process of
laying the Atlantic cable. He alleged that they
consented to his making arrangements with several
other journals, and that they promised not to
publish his reports until the day after they were
received. Some of them, however, were published
in the Evening Herald, whereby he alleged that
he sustained considerable loss, as the other papers
would not pay for letters which had been printed
before they had an opportunity of publishing them.
The defendants denied, the existence or any such
contract. The jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff, £244 16s damages. _

The Bombay mail, with dates to the 25th of
January, arrived at Marseilles on Saturday. The
Bombay Times states that the kingdom of Oude
is completely pacified, and public notice has been
given that the provinces of Oude and Rohilcund
are open to European families.

The election for the borough of Enniskillen took
place on Saturday, when Mr. Cole was returned by
a majority of thirty.

The nomination for East Worcestershire took
place on Saturday, the candidates being Mr. Cal-
thorp, (whig), and Mr. Pakington (conservative),
and the sh )w of hands was declared by the high
sheriff to be in favour of Mr. Calthorp. A poll
was demanded and fixed for Tuesday next.

On Saturday, an inquest was held on a poor
fellow named Fish, who hung himself on Friday.
He had been 33 years in the Customs, and was
superannuated in December, and expected £5O or
£6O a year,_ but all he got after his long service
was £25. This had such an effect on his mind
that it drove him mad, and whilst in that state he
destroyed himself. At the Police Court, a young
woman named Anderson was charged • with
having attempted to get rid of her illegitimate
child, which was born in the. Workhouse, by
starving it and pressing on its body.. The child
can hardly live, and in that case she will have to
stand her trial for murder.