Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-29 00:00:00

FIRE AT CONSTANTINOPLE.—Constantinople
journals of the 14th state that a dreadful fire had
destroyed upwards of 1,000 houses in the Turkish
nnrtifal Tt lyrnlce (nit in the nuarter of Hass-Kepi, built

like an amphitheatre, on the side of a hill, and inhabited
by 30,000 Jews, and from the houses being of wood, the
flames spread with the most frightful rapidity, and in a
very shorttime upwards of 60 habitations were destroyed.
The fire was then, most persons thought, got under, but
on the next day it again burst out afresh, and very
nearly 1,000 houses more were reduced to ashes. The
inhabitants were seen running half naked through the
streets, seeking shelter, and more than 600 families,
who lost all they possessed, are encamped on the hill.
The Sultan ordered a number of military tents to be
swplied to afford them temporary shelter.
A CASE FOR THE COURT OF DIVORCE.—David
Wheatley, dyer, of Brindle Heath, Pendleton, was •on
Monday charged at the Town-hall, &Mord, with assault-
ing his wife on Saturday last. Mrs. Wheatley said, that
on Saturday she, in company with her sister, was following
the remains of her father to the grave. As they were re-
turning, her husband came up, beastly drunk, and threw
brickbats at her. They then went home, and he followed,
and broke the pots and other things in the house. He
never worked more than a fortnight at onc3, and then spent
all the money he earned in drink. He had pledged her
father's Bible and other things to obtain drink. The
prisoner made an attempt to show that, although the
complainant had lived with him twenty-six years as his
wife, they had not been legally married. Mr. Trafford
said that he should consider her as his wife, and taking
into consideration the fact that he had only come out of
prison last Christmas from a three months' imprisonment
for assaulting her, and that this was one of the most
cruel, he irtlesi cases that bad ever come before him, he
should seed him to prison for six months.
SIR W. G. ARMSTRONG'S HYDRAULIC MACHINERY
AT SWANSEA.—New docks were opened at Swansea on
Friday, the whole extent of which, as well as the river
float, is furnished with • Sir William Armstrong's
hydraulic apparatus, which opens the gates, swings
the bridges, works the sluices, lifts the hoists, and goes
through all manner of operations within the compass
of a two-year old baby and a dozen Heuuleses., The
extent of pipes is a mile and a half, and the pressure
upon them is 7001 b. to the spare inch. The hydraulic
power is available for any purpose for which it may be
required at any point throughout the entire length of the
pipes. Tae dock gates were opened by Miss Talbot,
the daughter of the Lord-Lieutenant, not, figuratively,
as is usu illy the case with ceremonial " op ‘nings" of this
kind, but, thanks to the invention of Sir Armstrong,
literally opened by the delicately-gloved ha id of a young
lady of eighteen. As she stood on a slightly raised
platform, and grasping the ca stain boasting for the
nonce a silver handle, bent it away film her with little
more effort than she would have put into the opening of
the door of her boudoir, the giant pulleys flew round,
the chains rattled, and presently the massive gates
swung slowly back on their hinges, obedient to the
force which the light touch a dozen yards off had loosed
upon them. A more strikinroof of the marvellous
power of Sir W. Armstrong's apparatus could scarcely
ba furnished,